>Flippin' eck, and here's me having spent half the day ensnared in the
>clutches of that tv.cream thing that Rodddd (a bad influence on _this_
>cartoon nostalgic at the least) posted the URL for, and looking for stuff on
>G-Force (or Gatchaman, as I have learnt the original version was called, or
>Battle of the Planets as _another_ alternate identity) at the very moment
>when this email arrived.
>
Oh...."Battle Of The Planets" was the best thing ever...I remember being
about 8, and this girl, Kelly Mulkey, getting a BOTP lunchbox...I was soooo
jealous I plotted her death....(never did it tho...my mother promised me a
Monkees lunch box if I spared her life...) Anyway...I found a lunchbox way
cooler than hers (about a month ago here in LA)....It just has Mark on the
front...the people at the store didn't even know what it was..they thought
it was Speed Racer. Score!
I've got some original Gatchaman videos as well as the tamed down American
translation that became Battle of The Planets. The new series makes me
ashamed to breathe air. They're all hip hopped out and 90's-fied. Yuk. OH
...speaking of the 70's...not sure if Brits ever had any of this....but
over the weekend I met the creators of HR Pufinstuf, The Land Of the Lost,
The Bugaloos, The Banana Splits....etc.....they complimented me on my Tinky
Winky backpack, and said they wish they would have done something like
that....*sigh* It was cool to meet and converse with the men who made the
monster...
grrrrrrrrr
beth
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My heart skipped a beat when I saw the word Ulysses in an e-mail to the list.
Sadly it was just a less-than-interesting thread about cartoons. sigh. I
have always fantasised that Stuart Murdoch would suddenly tell the world
that Ian Svenonius' shrill screams urged him to become a pop star. Hell,
the Nation of Ulysses had a horn player too.
Still, it was not to be. However I was moved to write because I felt that
the two most important bands of the 1990s deserve union. Hey, if Make-Up
can do a remix of the Pastels, which they have, then maybe Belle and
Sebastian is the next step.
Well, sorry if this made no sense. It's only as irrelevent as conversation
about Count Duckula, which is my only defence.
ULYSSES LOVERS MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!
sorry in advance,
Will
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hi
ok i know the smurfs werent the GREATEST thing (although i did love the one
where smurfettes thumb turned green bcause she had been in the garden too
long) but i have the BEST smurfs tape!! its got them doing 80s songs and if i
remember corretly they do walkin on sunshine, keep me hangin on, i should be
so lucky, a bunch of others and (i swear to buddha) GET OUT OF MY DREAMS GET
INTO MY CAR
it is the BEST thing imaginable
matt (but not that one)
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> well i must have had a really messed up american childhood because i do
>not remember any of those shows. i was raised by macrobiotic
>sharecroppers in the suburbs of NYC, and all i remember watching on
>television as a kid was Romper Room (the use of the word ROMP was
>dedicated to Tag.) oh and i remember the magic garden because i think
>sylvester the squirrell was an old favorite. OOOOOH and ZOOM, i can
>still sing the theme song to this day (zoom zoom zoom zoom ZOOM ZOOM
>ZOOM ZOOM zoom zoom zoom zoom) and i have stripey shirt memories...
>
>on to more modern things though, speaking of Pufinstuff and the Sid and
>Marty Kroft shows of seventies america has anyone seen a show on HBO
>titled appropriately Mr. Show with bob and david? it rules and is
>totally worth staying home on a friday night to watch. anywho...last
>year they did a wickedly funny take off on HR pufinstuf and it was
>*shock shock horror horror* all drug take offs...i remember loads of
>those old shows my favorite being *THE BUGALOOS* because all the bug
>characters had british accents...and they sang and they flew and they
>battled the evil forces of phyllis diller (something which most of
>hollywood did for most of the sixties) and did i mention that they sang
>and flew...at the same time!!!! and the other one i remember is the one
>where the boy fell through the hat and wound up in some strange land
>where all the inhabitants are midgets dressed up as hats? well its all
>true.
>
>seriously though i think my favorite thing about those shows had to be
>the second chance it gave to adolescent former child actors, remember
>poor Jody from *a family affair* when he hit say, 14...the poor dear
>couldn't act with anyone except for a foam octopus with rags for arms.
>if only mrs beasly could have done some more acting. i think that had
>gary coleman and his *Different Strokes* brothers and sisters had gotten
>some jobs on those television shows they would not be in jail right now!
>
>ah well...hope this clears things up.
>
>*I LOVE YOU ALL*
>
>rachel.
The hat one was called Lidsville..the boy was Butch Patrick. :)
beth
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Dear Sinisterians,
I can't thank Rod Begbie enough for the tv cream address, reliving
all my childhood dreams of when Floella Benjamin was (and still is)
my all time heroine.
Gradually learning the ropes of Sinsister's mailing strategy after
getting over the initial shock of subscribing and then not checking
my mail for a few days to be welcomed with 173 new messages ALL from
people I'd never heard of! No, there was one failed delivery
notification....
Charlotte
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OK, so when's someone gonna post the guitar tab for "Dangermouse"?
Love,
Mark S
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Liz wrote:
In the wider animation genre "The Secret of Nimh" has to rank up there pretty
high too.
It took me over a year of working here at the NIH (National Institutes of
Health,
for all you non-science, non-US listees) before I realised that "The Secrect of
NIMH" was actually referring to an institute here, the National Institute of
Mental Health. cool huh....whatever. Just thought I'd pass that on. It was
also
one of my favorite animated films when I was a kid.
But my favorite animated flick of all time has to be "The Last Unicorn." I
even
have it on videotape. It was the only cartoon I knew of that actually had curse
words in it ("damn" and "hell" - not really that harsh now, but to an 8
year old,
they're pretty strong). The guy who wrote the story, Peter S. Beagle, went on
to write a Saturday morning cartoon called "Wildfire" about magical horses or
something - I can no longer remember exactly. It was ok.
Anyone ever see "Aminalympics"? It was, as the title suggests, about the
olympics for animals - pretty cute. The soundtrack was by 10CC. I still have
the album somewhere - not half bad for a kid's movie.
enough for now,
kim
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oh wow! now we're getting to the good stuff...
trap door was always a little on the majestic side. that theme tune! i hope you damn well know i
will not have that tune out of my head all week now.....
but round the bend! now teh adventures of doc croc and his merry bunch of chms. i always thought
it the telly extension of the mighty oink magazine - anybody remember that? better than viz will
ever even dream of being, the first truly intelligent kids comic and possibly written (or so i've
heard) by the boy lard. what a long twisted life he's led...
i find this tell reminscing all very strange because it shows people of different ages. nostalgia
about dangermouse or thundercats or ulysses 31 when all these were going while i was at school,
when i get all dewey eyed about watoo watoo (little owl dude?) and that frog with the orchestra on
bod. i suddenly get all old (yay! last exam today!)
but the oddest thing of them all is whenever you mention these programmes i picture myself in
front of the telly in my school uniform and - well - the moomins (original scarey version) reminds
me of eating ham sandwiches and lemon squash, chorlton and the wheelies bizarrely reminds me of
poached eggs, bad boye reminds me of salt and vinegar crisps, it all goes on. isn't it bizarre how
you remember things in terms of what you were doing at the time?
anyway i'll shut up now. i'm sitting in the omputer lab of wht won't be my department for very
long and the french students are howling with laughter at their equivalent of boyzone whose
homepage they have found on the internet. not that you really wanted to know that...
anyway i'll get me coat
chris
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They say that good things come in threes, and over the past few days I've
found myself with the urge to be irritatingly pedantic on the list. Three
times. So that must be good, yes? No offence to Cory or Chris, and only mild
offence to Tag.
Cory wrote:
> I make all of my own tapes so the recordings are quite good.
>
I have to say that I have had a fair amount of success with tapes bought
from shops, and am not sure that home made ones would be any better. Not
that I'm maligning your craftspersonship, you understand. I'd like to see a
home-made tape though. I'm imagining it made of plywood, and decorated
beautifully.
Tag wrote:
Actually ruling is so passe and now the word on the streets is
"romp".
Je rompe, tu rompe, il/elle rompe, nous rompons, vous rompez,
ils/elles
rompent. The verb takes the avoir form in the perfect tense,
incidentally. As in, "ce weekend, nous avons rompe, et je voudrais
romper avec toi encore, parce que c'etait genial, mon petit gateau
au
pate d'amandes".
You don't know what I'm on about, do you?
And you're asking us to believe that you do?
Furthermore, Chris, while apparently referring to the A-Team, wrote:
Duh duh duh duuuh
Duh duh duuuh
Du du duh duh du duuuh
Duuuh du du duh duuuh
Sorry, Chris, but you've been confusing 'The A-Team' with 'Little House On
The Prairie' there, old son. I understand. It's an easy mistake to make.
Especially in the title sequence when the little girl tries to escape from
her tormentors by impersonating an aeroplane, but gets cut down and sinks
beneath the waves of grain...it's so poignant...
See? Nothing of interest. Don't say I didn't warn you.
tim
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Mick McMick wrote:
> Stranger yet, as a child I used to watch a program on USA called
> Night
> Flight. They showed lots of Avant Garde stuff. The strangest thing I
> ever saw on it was this odd French animation entitled Fantastic Planet.
That is a weird old film. They showed it on Channel 4 a while back in one
of those ungodly-hour-of-the-morning slots they reserve for wacky stuff.
Speaking of which, they showed "The Wings of Honneamise" on BBC2 the other
night, for all those manga/anime fans out there who have any idea what I'm
talking about.
Anyway, "Fantastic Planet": the wee bloke's attempts to escape from his
kindly but mildly bratty alien owner are engrossing. That tracking-device
collar is scary too.
> I still haven't seen it a second time. It's very similar-looking to
> Light Years, which I saw back then as well. Another interesting thing I
> saw on it was my first ever Anime, and probably the best animated movie
> ever done
Nah nah nah, "Battle Angel Alita" is my favourite anime. In the wider
animation genre "The Secret of Nimh" has to rank up there pretty high too.
> (it puts everything Disney has done to shame), Nausicaa.
>>>>>>
> The same director also did a wonderful
> piece called Laputa: Castle in the Sky,
What, Laputa as in "Gulliver's Travels"? Gosh, how literary.
Liz.
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