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JustJack
09-23-2001, 04:50 PM
I would have posted this sooner, but I was a tad bit busy yesterday...
ANYWAY...

On Yesterday's show on the Ripping Friends, they had a nice, classic, 6 minute short. "The Ripping Friends are your friends too!" Basically, the concept for it was "We want you, the viewers, to mail us, & tell us what ticked you off this week. Then we, The Ripping Friends, will do something about it". Well, the complaint was "My cereal box said there was a free Prize inside, but when I opened it up, all I got was a sticker.

Welp, Rip shows up to the Cereal factory, & threatens the manager to tell him why the "prize" was just a crappy little Sticker...
Manager: "Well, we would like to put prizes in Billy's cereal, but 10 years ago, some kid swallowed a prize, and they never got it out. His mom sued, & we've been afraid to give out prizes ever since"
Rip: "So, just because one stupid kid swallows a toy, the rest of the world must SUFFER?!"

I was sooo suprized that I heard what I heard. I was so happy. this is exactly how I feel on so many subjects. Later in the skit, Rip visits the boy who swallowed the toy. The Man, with a toy obviosuly lodged in his throat, then procedes to swallowing a Telephone, threatening that "no one can use phones anymore, because now my mom will Sue!" HAHA, this is SO true in todays society.

Anyway, I just wanted to put that out there. I am amazed that someone had the guts to finally point that out. Way to Go SPUMCO!

BourgeoisBuffoon
09-23-2001, 09:02 PM
Sounded good! I can't believe I missed that eppy...yep, it's those kinda in-jokes that I and many other people enjoy. Hope they keep these kind of jokes up...or at least till I see an episode! ;)

....death to that toy-swallowing brat! :p Well, swallowing a phone may be the end of him...

James Harvey
09-24-2001, 12:41 PM
The show is hilarious. So far I've seen 6 or 7 episodes (including full versions of episodes that FOX will be trimming up) and it is a hilarious show. A favorite already is the episode where the tapeworm tries to steal the spine sof the Ripping Friends! The stuff is hilarious. I would love to see it last more than one season on FOX KIDS.

DR. BELCH
09-24-2001, 01:55 PM
--on our lawsuit-mad society. I honestly found that second short funnier that the first, about the spine-swiping tapeworm (but then, anything pales in comparison to last week's evil living gumwad). The whistle sound effect was the funniest part of it, though--rather a flatulent-sounding thing. Though I wonder if the puppy-swallowing bit made censors cringe. I just hope some stupid pud doesn't get inspired by RF to try swallowing a whistle to milk a few mil out of the cereal companies....

optimal321
09-24-2001, 04:59 PM
That was the first ep i saw, and i must say, it mad a good impression. I liked that part better than the spine-stealing parasite thing though. Do they usually have something like the "letter write-in" segment?