Speed Racer
Posted on 08/18/2006 2:04:39 AM PDT by sully777
Did you hear about the red ship and the blue ship that collided?
Both crews were marooned.
Dyslexic man walks into a bra....
A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under his arm and says "Pint please, and one for the road."
My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. He was pulled in by a strong currant.
Question: Why do Japanese anime characters have caucasian features?
I bought a circus and got a fair deal.
I ran into problems right away: the truck driver refused to tow the lion; the lion ate a clown but it tasted funny; and there was a huge fire and the heat was in tents.
The human cannonball got fired. It was hard to find another of the same caliber.
You're punny, you are.
Lord, forgive me, be with the starvin' pygmies in New Guinea.
Well, in addition to it's technical inanity, it's got the whole Xenu/Thetans/Scientology thing attached. If it were sold as pure science fiction, perhaps, maybe, and even then a poor representation of sci-fi. Plus it was like Travolta's own variation of Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ in that for Travolta this poorly made sci-fi is part of a scientology belief system, or so I've read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7P8_l_zmJw
A brief selection of edits of Blue Velvet dialogue over Peanuts clips. Companion piece to the much longer Apocalypse Pooh
is that you dad?
my father maintains that that was the worst thing star trek ever did.
there were a couple things that made it worth it..
spock philosphizing over the lyrics of row, row, row your boat, and later singing it. also uhura doing a feather dance was nice.
plus 
I hear it stems from Osamu Tezuka (who is famous in the West for Astro Boy).
But I've seen plenty of cartoons (before and after Astro Boy) by Tezuka that don't look like mainstream japanimation so I have no idea.
There are lots of legends among Japanese cartoon fans that don't hold much truth.
When Fred Mister Rogers died, WFMU played some cuts of his on the radio (it was days before 9-11).
One of the cuts was a bizarre, almost psychedelic piece (purely the words, not the music) of King Friday replacing the words to row row row your boat with much longer words that meant roughly the same thing.
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