A Short Message For Brainatra

[Sharklady]

As you'd expressed interest in seeing the PPG episode 'Meet the Beat-Alls', I thought I should let you know: Cartoon Network has it schedualed for broadcast at 8:30 PM this Friday (July 20.)

It's accompanied by another short, 'Moral Decay', which is an average ep overall. But I can recommend it for one scene which showcases a particularly hilarious example of Roger Jackson's vocal versatility*- you'll know it when you see it (or rather, when you hear it.)


* And that's against some pretty stiff competition! They really ought to give that guy an Annie.

[Anthonynotes]

...I (still) don't have cable. Or know anyone who does around here...thus, I'll have to wait until it comes out on video/I make another trip to my mother's house out-of-town or something to see it...but thanks, anyway!

-B.
Who has seen the PPG pop-tarts commercial (with a nonspeaking Mojo showing up)...

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Brainatra

Who has seen the PPG pop-tarts commercial (with a nonspeaking Mojo showing up)...

I saw the cereal commercial, but not the pop-tarts one.....and, of course, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. :D

[Sharklady]

> (with a nonspeaking Mojo showing up) <

Non-speaking?!?

That's like taking away James Earl Jones' voice!

[Danielle]

I just logged in when suddenly, the pop tarts commercial came on TV! How ironic! Anyway, he isn't exactly mute....he just doesn't speak at all. I give it a D. It's too short!

[Kero]

It comes out on DVD this fall.

Kero

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by Kero
It comes out on DVD this fall.

Kero

And said "Beat-Alls" ep would also come out on VHS as well, I'd assume (since I don't own a DVD player)... :-) Thanks!

-B.

[DR. BELCH]

There's a poll at the Animation/General Topics board about who is the sexiest Girl...Buttercup ran away with nearly 24 percent of the vote--but the scariest thing is that Mojo Jojo grabbed nearly half!
I think a big part of it is the Girls' voices--E.G. Daily (Buttercup) and Tara Strong (Bubbles) are hot little numbers, and if an episode is ever made with adult Girls, the animators would do well to model each one after her respective v.o.a. That oughta hold the little drooling fanboy buggers! :D

[imitating whining computer geek in "Collect Her"]
In "Candy With Dandy" Blossom clearly says that the Girls aren't allowed sweets....but Bubbles is clearly chewing gum in "Just Another Manic Mojo", which puts Blossom's claim at odds...also, after "Mojesha" exposes the Girls to Antidote X before the girls at the slumber party beat him with pillows...but it ends very abruptly with no explanation as to how the Girls get their powers back. Was that just cherry Kool-Aid in the beaker or something? Inquiring minds want to kn--
[FUZZY LUMPKIN sneaks up behind the GEEK and smashes him with a large boulder in mid-rant.]
FUZZY: Shaddap!

[don Jaime]

(A)fter "Mojesha" exposes the Girls to Antidote X before the firls at the slumber party beat him with pillows...but it ends very abruptly with no explanation as to how the Girls get their powers back. Was that just cherry Kool-Aid in the beaker or something?

Who cares? We don't see how Mojo escapes and rebuilds VMO at the end of each episode to set up for his next appearance. The Girls were saved and that's all that mattered in that short, especially since the moral was you don't need superpowers to whomp the bad'un.

(Fanboy answer: it's been pretty well established that exposure to Chemical X gives you powers. The Girls probably have Chemical X Popsicles in the fridge, just in case....)

Brainatra, get a dish. These discussions would be more fun if you could see the show.

[Nftnat]

To Dr. Belch: As to the gum, maybe it was sugarless. I've never considered it candy myself. As to how they recovered, if worse came to worse, the Professor would've come up with something, & failing that there's the all-purpose solution: the pot hole.

To Brainatra: Ditto to what don jaime said. When Super Zeroes aired there was something missing from the discussion without your DC Comics expertise. Did I mention Blossom took on the identity Liberty Belle? And I don't mean from All Star Squadron either.

Post #200 for me btw, guys & gals. When I reached 200 on the old boards I made quite the pretty little speech, but right now I just don't have the time. Maybe when I reach 500. Catch y'all later.

[Sharklady]

> There's a poll at the Animation/General Topics board about who is the sexiest Girl...Buttercup ran away with nearly 24 percent of the vote--but the scariest thing is that Mojo Jojo grabbed nearly half! <

It may be scary, but I'm not surprised. It's probably his Bad Boy appeal, combined with that Voice.

> We don't see how Mojo escapes and rebuilds VMO at the end of each episode to set up for his next appearance. <

What does VMO stand for?

BTW: *I'd* like to know how he turned back into a chimp after the two Annubis Head episodes.

[Nftnat]

Originally posted by Sharklady
What does VMO stand for?

BTW: *I'd* like to know how he turned back into a chimp after the two Annubis Head episodes.

1. Volcano Mountaintop Observatory, I think. Fell free to correct me here, someone, anyone...?

2. More plot holes?

[Anthonynotes]

Can't afford a satellite dish either, even if it wasn't a violation of my apartment building's rules regarding such objects...

Still, I guess it would be nice to be able to participate in such inane superheroic discussions....maybe one of these days I'll be able to spring for cable...

And as long as someone mentioned it:

Liberty Belle in DC Comics was a minor superheroine from the 1940's, who IIRC had super-strength/speed/flight powers(?). Was a member of the "All Star Squadron", a loose collection of every active superhero in the United States during the Second World War, under the orders of FDR; the All-Stars dissolved when the war ended (though since the group also included by default members of the coexisting Justice Society, those that were JSA-ers stuck together...). Enemies of the Squadron included Per Degaton (time-travelling guy from 1947), Baron Blitzkrieg, and the usual 40's-era DC Comics villains (immortal caveman-turned-modern-day-schemer Vandal Savage, the Brain Wave [a short bald guy who wanted to take over the world....and no, Sharklady, he didn't have any dimwitted sidekicks AFAIK, though one of his enemies IIRC was Johnny Thunder, who's pretty close to Pinky in the IQ department...], etc.).

All Star Squadron was published by DC in the early to mid-80's (the team itself wasn't an actual 1940's-era comic, but merely a modern-day creation that took place in that era, and used the actual comics published during the time to set up its plots/background...).

-B.
Still wants to see "Meet the Beat-Alls"...guess there's video to wait for...or play my Beatles CD's to looped footage of Mojo Jojo from that pop-tarts ad or something :-)

[Craig Marinaro]

Still wants to see "Meet the Beat-Alls"...guess there's video to wait for...or play my Beatles CD's to looped footage of Mojo Jojo from that pop-tarts ad or something :-)

Bold, original use of stock footage! That's what I like to see!

-C
Wonders if we couldn't get Wakko pulling his shirt up in there somewhere...

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Nftnat

2. More plot holes?

The answer to all our problems!


Originally posted by Craig

Wonders if we couldn't get Wakko pulling his shirt up in there somewhere...

You sicko!

[Anthonynotes]

Actually, Wakko pulling his shirt up was one of the "favored" pieces of recycled stock footage that KWB used to use for those lame promos all the time...it was right up there with those "Warners singing and dancing in place" (yanked from that "Scooby Doo" parody in "Back in Style") and "Pinky laughing"/"Brain clutching his fist in the air" (yanked from...uh...I guess from any random PatB episode) bits...

-B.

[Danielle]

Ah.




KWB, you're all sickos!



What the...when did I pass post #200?!

[don Jaime]

You know, now that I see "Volcano Mountain Observatory" spelled out, it looks all wrong.

If you like, Brainatra, I can make you a transcript. It'll take a while, as this is a busy episode, but I can do it.

[Anthonynotes]

That's OK....I think I can wait for it to come out on video/to catch it at some vague future point on Cartoon Network the next time I happen to get the chance to actually watch CN...

-B.

[Sharklady]

> If you like, Brainatra, I can make you a transcript.

That's OK....I think I can wait for it to come out on video... <

Anyway, that ep would lose something without the visuals. Particularly, the album-cover takeoffs, and the look on Mojo's face when he first lays eyes on ... no, I'd better not give it away.

[DR. BELCH]

I saw this one for the second time last night (both these shorts bear at least two viewing apiece), and I would have been proud to write something like this. My favorite scene was Buttercup flipping out over her dollar...shades of "Candy is Dandy", but this time with some very dodgy dialogue--if one wasn't looking at the screen or was listening from another room and didn't know it was money she was referring to, very impure thoughts might come to mind. ;) Also, Bubbles' lisp after her tooth got knocked out was adorable--I found myself wondering if Tara Strong had put something in her mouth to achieve that effect. (I've found a wire coat-hanger placed behind the teeth and around the head works wonders, but use caution not to injure the gums/soft palate!)

In "Meet the Beat-Alls"--no spoilers here--I couldn't help but laugh when Fuzzy feels left out and mutters dejectedly while watching Mojo, Him, and Princess quarrel, "I wanna fight too."
"But monkey won't play piano song...play piano song." I'd wondered for years what that line was in "Michelle"--I suppose that's as good an answer as any. :rolleyes:

[don Jaime]

Sont les mots qui van tres bien ensemble, tres bien ensemble - "These are words that go together well, go together well." Macca says this in English, too.

On a vaguely related note, I got the tickets today to see Ringo and the All-Starr Band on the 19th of next month! I am so psyched.

Tara Strong is Bubbles, E.G. Daily is Buttercup.