Learning About Letters (and being terrified of the letter “V”)
I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about this before, but we had this on VHS when I was a kid and it’s still in my head somewhere.
Comments:
- The hair on that lilac Muppet at 1:51 always made me super happy. It looks like such a nice texture.
- “‘C’ is for Cookie” is a banger.
- The deadpan delivery of “Harry the Horse” at 9:05 is great.
- In Bert’s defense, “linoleum” is a pretty awesome word.
- That story for “V” (19:50) terrified me as a kid. I’d leave the room every time, haha.
- That segment from 21:09-22:38 was always one of my favorite parts.
Woo!
DaleRiver
So Nate has decided to subject himself to the utter madness that is post-season-1 Riverdale. I guess we watched through most of season 2 together before he bailed the first time (I, as you know, am a true Riverdale fan through and through and made it through the WHOLE GODDAMN SEVEN SEASONS OF MADNESS), but I guess my not-at-all-exaggerated descriptions of some of the later shenanigans won him over and we’re giving it a second shot.
(Nate, you have no idea what you’re doing. Turn back now.)
Anyway, since we’re diving back in, have some “Riverdale as vines” videos. I know I’ve posted the first one on here before, but there are more.
That Black Hood one at 0:26 is so accurate, hahaha. 3:04, too.
1:40, hahaha.
Havin’ a Bud
Not a single modern commercial has had the cultural impact of this thing. Not a one.
Well, okay, maybe this:
Anyway.
Hahaha, what the hell was this show?
I remember watching Freakazoid as a kid, but I don’t remember it being quite so insane, hahaha.
This is like if they took late 90s internet and made it a show.
Squid
Remember like two months ago when I mentioned that the best scene in SpongeBob SquarePants was that scene in “Band Geeks” where they were all playing at the stadium?
This is a close second.
(Can you tell I don’t have anything interesting to blog about today? I’m nervous about baseball, shut up.)
GeekOut BandPants
The SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Band Geeks” originally aired on September 7, 2001. Since then, there have been 276 more episodes of the show. “Band Geeks” still holds, in my opinion, the title of having the coolest scene in all of SpongeBob history:
Disaster!
Apparently Roku Live TV has a DISASTER CHANNEL and half the time it’s showing episodes from my “Mayday” YouTube channel that I love so much (the one about the airline disasters).
Anyway, today I caught the end of an episode about a 1985 accident involving a British Airways plane. There was a fire on it before it even took off and the big question surrounding the whole thing was that while the fire was major, it was not major enough to cause as many casualties as there were. So why were there so many casualties?
The documentary went into a very interesting discussion about human psychology, human factors, and the effect of panic when trying to exit a plane in an emergency. Helen Muir, basically the expert on airplane and airplane passenger human factors and psychology, talked about how they tried to reenact everyone getting off the plane to try and determine why so many died. This reenactment resulted in some major changes to plane cabins (track lighting to find exits in the dark/smoke, wider entryways to help prevent bottlenecking at exits) to make them safer.
I highly recommend watching this.
Frasier Collab
So as you’ve probably noticed from some of the posts on this blog, I love the idea of animation collabs (examples: this one from the Clock Crew, When I Was Done Dying, the “steamed hams” clip from The Simpsons).
I also love “Frasier.”
So I obviously really enjoyed this:
The voice acting is great, too.
They need to do more episodes, haha.
Badding Break
It’s summer, so for whatever reason, that means I’m back into watching my aviation documentaries.
It’s a tradition, yo.
Anyway, today I watched a video about the 1986 mid-air collision of Aeromexico Flight 498 and a small aircraft over California, and I was immediately reminded of the similarities between its story and the mid-air collision depicted in (*looks it up*) season 2 of Breaking Bad. The one where the air traffic controller is distressed over the loss of his daughter and makes an error, causing two planes to collide and the debris to fall on Walter White’s town.
Like…watch the documentary. If you remember the scenario in Breaking Bad, they are freakishly similar. The actual air traffic controller’s name was Walter White.
Believe it or not, though, it sounds like the creator of Breaking Bad didn’t know about this incident. I don’t know if I completely buy it. I notice in my own life that there are a lot of things I think of or create seemingly out of the blue and then later, upon reflection, realize how many little bits and pieces are actually derivatives of things I’ve seen in the past.
So maybe that’s it. It’s almost too big of a coincidence to NOT be that.
OH JEEBUS, NEW RIVERDALE
The hot mess that is Riverdale has a new season that is, most likely, a hot mess.
Apparently the town gets transported back to the 1950s? I don’t even know.
But I guess if Cheryl can absorb everyone’s superpowers and then use her Phoenix power to BLOW UP A COMET, anything’s possible.
(Yes, that happened.)
Cake
This song was the audio for some random TikTok I stumbled upon today and it immediately released a weird wave of nostalgia from my mid-childhood, back when I’d spend the weekend at my dad’s condo and I’d watch all the weird shit Cartoon Network had on after 9 PM (including Adult Swim, when that became a thing).
Edit:
This show was over my head at the time, but MAN I remember that intro.
Barak Obama is SCAAAAAAAARED of me!
This little rap from the Dean was stuck in my head today, so I’m going to share it with y’all:
That is all.
Another Simpsons Follow-Up
So last month I mentioned a few lines from The Simpsons that I think about fairly frequently, right?
Well, here are two from Futurama.
“Grunka, lunka, dunkity, darmed guards…”
“SHUT THE HELL UP!”
And:
“My only regret is…that I have…boneitis!”
A Simpsons Follow-Up
So remember a few days ago when I posted a Simpsons line that’s frequently in my head? Another one is from that episode where Apu stopped working at the Kwik-E-Mart and he and the Simpsons sang the “Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?” song and Homer screws up the rhyme.
“Apu: Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Marge: Their floors are sticky-mart
Lisa: They made dad sicky-mart
Bart: Let’s hurl a bricky-mart
Homer: The Kwik-E-Mart is real – DOH!”
Homer’s line is another one that is in my head quite often.
Anyway.
What is one Simpsons line that you quote frequently in your head?
Here’s one of mine.
There are others, but this is one of the top ones.
That is all.
I found Lonesome Dove on YouTube and OMG
It’s incredibly true to the book, which means it’s great. The water moccasin scene was terrifying, just like it was in the book. I’m just to the point where Lorena gets captured by Blue Duck, but I’m excited to watch the rest of it.
WOO!
Riverdale, man
So Riverdale has, somehow, gotten even weirder.* They’re now in like some sort of alternate universe (?) town called Rivervale, which I thought would just be a one-episode thing but it’s been going on for a few episodes now. Rivervale Cheryl sacrificed Rivervale Archie, so he’s dead, but that’s not even the weirdest thing.
Like, let me describe this dream I had last night just to give you an idea of how weird things have gotten. In the dream, all the characters are fighting one another one-on-one. Jughead is fighting Reggie, and in the middle of this flaming metal arena, Jughead looks menacingly at Reggie and mutters, “say hello to Elizabeth for me.” And Reggie’s like, “who’s Elizabeth?” Then Jughead looks down at this raw chicken that’s just sitting on the ground, pulls a whip out of god knows where, and whips the raw chicken. This makes the chicken explode, launching Reggie across the arena and into the wall. And in answer to Reggie’s question, Jughead nods at the half-exploded raw chicken and says, “her.”
And when I woke up, I had to really think about whether that was all a dream or if that was actually part of the episode I’d watched yesterday.
It’s that weird now.
Edit: and now the LITERAL DEVIL is in Rivervale because PFFFFFT FUCK IT
Edit again from like six episodes later: WHAT IN THE HELLING HELL IS THIS SHOW ANYMORE
*Yes, I’m still watching Riverdale because I have trash taste. Deal.
So RANDOM THOUGHT:
Gravity Falls. I’ve never watched it (apart from like little clips), but two things that bug me about it:
ONE: Why does Dipper sound like he’s 40 years old? Like, the two girls in the below clip sound appropriately aged. Why does Dipper sound like he’s about to take out a second mortgage on his condo?
TWO: Why doesn’t Bill Cipher sound like Plankton from Spongebob? He should sound like Plankton from Spongebob.
Am I judging a cartoon on very superficial components without ever watching it? Yes.
Fight me.
(This blog is brought to you by 1.5 hours of sleep and a REALLY weird bag of cheese.)
Collect n’ Display
My dad collects stuff.
He always has.
Christmas ornaments, VHS tapes, DVD sets, Happy Meal toys, you name it.
So it’s no surprise that when seasons of The Simpsons started to come out on DVD way back in *looks up release date of the first season and gets lost on Wikipedia for two hours* 2001, he started to collect them season by season. Then we got to Season 6 and the DVD box looked like this:
Yes, that is a 3D plastic Homer head. I think it had a super flimsy clear sleeve to make it more DVD-box-shaped, but I don’t remember what happened to that.
Anyway, I remember thinking that people might be upset at the sudden structural change to the DVD box. When I read the little insert inside that had a blurb from Matt Groening, he actually mentioned that they sold “regular” versions of the case (where it was just your traditional DVD box shape and material) for people who were “obsessive about that sort of thing” (not a direct quote, but it was something like that). Which is hilarious.
Anyway, here’s a whole video on the controversy surrounding this unique box.
Fun times.
Castaways!
So remember a few weeks ago when I mentioned I was obsessed with The Backyardigans?
I’m still obsessed with The Backyardigans.
BUT I’ve also found a video discussing the “Castaways” song and how much effort was put into making it a bossa nova groove. It is SUPER interesting.
Now I’m going to have that song stuck in my head for days, haha.
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