01/16/2004 Entry: "Reader Mail, Volume Ah-Bee-Chee-Dee."

It's amazing how much less inviting snow seems once the holidays pass. Before Christmas, we're all "yay snow" and "snow yay." If it snows after Christmas, we curse the clouds. It snowed a lot here yesterday. Motherfucking piece of shit cloud cocksuckers. I'm pretty sure they'll be time to have another article up either late tonight or sometime during the weekend -- probably a movie review, unless I get sick of writing about it again and move back to Chia plots. Here's some reader mail from the past week, with replies...

Tommy: "Can you start a petition to bring back: Madballs, My Pet Monster,  Suckerman, Manglors, MASK, MUSCLE, Super Naturals, Inhumanoids, Battle Beasts and Boglins. I'm a kid, and I want to be able to play with these toys without paying through the nose. So can ya try to do it?"

God I get some strange e-mail. "My Pet Monster" and "Suckerman" have already been brought back -- I've done articles on both. Suckerman's priced at around ten bucks, though I'd imagine he's much tougher to find than when I bought him several months back. My Pet Monster is already living on the clearance racks in most toy stores -- if you can find him, he'll be between 10-20 bucks. "Boglins" have been brought back, too, though I'm not sure if they're available in the States. As for the rest: Super Naturals...boy, I'll be doing a big article on those guys pretty soon, but no, they'll never be back. "Inhumanoids" has a better chance cause of the old cartoon and all, but I really doubt it. I don't think the retro revival will go on long enough for us to pull Tendril and Metlar out from the caves. I wouldn't be too surprised if "Battle Beasts" made a comeback, mostly because they were so huge in Japan, and they're much more thorough in these sorts of revivals than we are. "Manglors" won't be back, but I'd give things like "MASK" and "Madballs" a 25% chance. "MUSCLE," of course, is already sorta back with the "Ultimate Muscle" series.

Garrick: (re: Pop Qwiz) "Sweet Christ... I forgot about that nasty shit. Just to let you know, Nickelodeon had a quiz show around the same time that this shit was on the market, and before commercial breaks, the host went way out of his way to point out that the kids were going to be eating the cancer catalyst during the break, and it showed the contestants eating the stuff straight from the bags with nervous looks on their faces. I would be nervous too if I had a bag of that crap slapped in front of me on national TV and was told to eat it. I saw a show five or six years ago about 80's one hit wonders and where they are now. They were interviewing the lead singer from the group Madness (Our house, in the middle of our street). He was sitting on a patio, and there was some random kid next to him eating a bag of that crap. I remember seeing this and thinking 'Christ, they still make that?' There really isn't any way of telling how old the footage was, but still."

Pop Qwiz is one of those things that you just don't remember till you actually see it again. Something having to do with the color patterns, I guess. Oh, as others mentioned in the comments, I too remember just how often the crap burned to a crisp. It was especially interesting with the blue variety -- the black ball swarming with only moderately scorched blue popcorn looked like some kind of space anomaly.

Wayne: "I was shown your July 25th 2002 article on the Transformers Power cycle and was curious if there is any way I could get a copy of that commercial? It would make a rather interesting addition to my collection of Transformers stuff."

I love easy ones. The Power Cycle commercial is online -- in fact, it's linked right off of the main page. :)

Russ: "I was reading your article about Ecto cooler, and I’m glad you found out the truth.  I’m having an 80’s party this weekend, and was wondering if you know when ecto cooler came out.  I remember it from the 80’s, but some of my friends say it was a 90’s thing.  Please get back to me if you know.  Thanks."

Hm. I'm drunk with non-sleep so I don't feel like searching around for the true date, but you could definitely get away with the stuff for an 80s party. Even if you consider Ecto Cooler as a "Real Ghostbusters" thing, that show debuted in '88. Besides, the old commercial was thoroughly 80s. Go for it.

Louisa: "I used to read X-Entertainment daily, then I kind of got away from it and lost track... but I live in Newark, Delaware and the other day I picked up a copy of the News Journal, only to find an X-E article. Clearly, fate kicked me in the ass. I'll read again."

I rarely bring up the print column on the site, but it's been a major blessing and a great time for me. To be honest, I had no idea that it'd go on for this long. Now that I check, I've been doing three articles a week for the paper since last May. That's a lot of shit. Hopefully, I'll make good on my resolution to shop it around, and the older articles can be funneled towards a new audience. Maybe even you! But yeah, if you're in Delaware, pick up the News Journal on Weds, Thurs, and Happy Saturdays.

Mike: "My girlfriend found your page and I have to say we both find it thoroughly entertaining.  I have a question for you about something I had as a kid, which I thought you might be able to answer. It was probably 1986 or so, a local TV station (I believe channel 21 in CT, might be Fox affiliate) had a giveaway of a light gun toy.  I thought it was cool (I was 7 years old) so I sent them a postcard, and I actually won!  The box showed up at my house a few weeks later. The gun itself was a huge plastic thing, (my memory of this is vague) that I think looked like a space ship with a handle and trigger on it.  It came with a few reflective targets that you could shoot at, and if you hit them the gun made a sound effect. However, the coolest part of this gun was that it worked with a TV show that was on early in the morning.  I have vague memories of this show being live action, and having guys wearing suits that had shiny reflective 'targets' on them.  I think it was set in outer space or something.  Anyway, if you shot the guys on the show, it also made the same sound effect, which was really cool.  So you could play along with the characters on the show, shooting the bad guys. Do you have any idea what this is?  I can't remember the name of the show."

The toy you speak of was from "Captain Power," which I'll be covering in-depth soon enough. I had both the hero and villain ships, plus most of the figures. I could never get the damn thing to work correctly, but it was still pretty fun. Show was a lot better than it's given credit for, too.

Kay: "Hi,  I emailed you earlier today asking if your blog was available for syndication.  Well, I did a little searching, and it turns out that someone has set up an RSS feed for you! It's located here: click! Other than the fact that it's a little delayed (the last entry posted is your second to last), it seems to work!"

Thanks, Kay! I don't know anything about RSS or RSS feeds or feeding RSSes, but a few have asked, so there's the answer.

Chestnuts roasted by Brian Hammons @ 01/16/2004 12:26 PM EST

It's -30 here.
Celcius.
That translates to C-O-L-D for all you American readers.
I hate northern winters.
*sigh*

Chestnuts roasted by Xen @ 01/16/2004 12:32 PM EST

Muppet Babies was an awesome show. My favorite episode has to be the one where they spoofed ghost busters, by going into scooter'ss computer and being the bug busters.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/16/2004 12:33 PM EST

Speaking of Muppet Babies, I met Barbara Billingsley a couple of years ago. One of the nicest persons you could ever meet, Nanny was. I resisted the temptation to do the Jack Nicholson as Eddy Haskell bit, "How the hell you doin' Mrs. Cleaver? Say, Ward dosen't seem to be around today? Too bad....." and so on and so forth. She has relatives around the Lawton area, 70-odd miles south of my environs.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/16/2004 12:38 PM EST

Muppet babies are back???? I am SO there!

Chestnuts roasted by B -Dawg @ 01/16/2004 01:12 PM EST

Yay Muppet Babies! I always enjoyed the show, as long as I wasn't forced to listen to the theme song. That thing is so high pitched it makes me ears bleed. i wouldn't normally mind the ear-bleeding so much, but it interferes with my hearing of the show. Oh, and I am going away for the weekend, so try not to get too depressed seeing no posts from me. At least I will have lots to catch up on when I get back ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/16/2004 01:22 PM EST

I did something on Captian Power a while ago:

http://www.parnasas.com/PopArena/Articles/cap-power.html

Knowing Matt though, he's likely to blow mine out of the water.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 01/16/2004 01:30 PM EST

I don't know if they were Muppet Babies or not, but I saw some Muppets figures recently that rocked. They even had the dayplayers, like the eyeless scientist dude.

Chestnuts roasted by Jake @ 01/16/2004 01:32 PM EST

Deep Thought....

How do a pig and a frog get busy? Mammals and Amphibians do not seem to mix well. Also, I have never seen a frog that is as large as a pig. If I did, I would run like hell the other way.

Chestnuts roasted by Moose @ 01/16/2004 01:40 PM EST

Wow Suggs (Madness's lead singer)and pop qwiz in the same topic I never thought I'd put those 2 together. :/ I have seen Muppet Babies stuff for sale at Walgreens and Clare's

Madness and Ska music rule!:)

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 01/16/2004 01:49 PM EST

Hey Moose:

There are some pretty big frogs out there, maybe the diameters of dinner plates. Couple that with a small size pig (I'm sure there are small ones) and you've got inter-class love (class being taxonomic ranks). Of course, since amphibians don't have...external parts...the pig might be a little disappointed.

But who are we to judge what loves what? Or they could just get married, and then there would be no question of having sex anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 01/16/2004 02:03 PM EST

I think it's amusing to watch 80's shows and laugh my ass off when they're using a computer. I saw this episode of Family Ties where Alex was doing something on a "home computer" that was half the size of a bus. Technology, ain't it grand? Another fun thing to do is to watch TV shows or movies where they're playing generic video games and try to identify the music/sounds being played. Usually it is Atari 2600 Pac Man dot eating but lately I have heard some ages old Donkey Kong music too.
I think X-E needs a mailing address. Seriously. I have about 50 thousand video tapes of shitty movies I'd send :)

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/16/2004 03:20 PM EST

Ha ha!... reading Sean's entry I was expecting locker jokes via You Can't Do That on Television...

"Hey, Moose!"

"Yeah, Alistair?"

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 01/16/2004 03:30 PM EST

back into the attic tonight to find my captain power stuff. I had a castle, the good guy ship, and the bad guy ship. I rememebr shooting the TV, and it blowing my mind, that it knew what I was shooting. I had one VCR tape in particular that I remember not being able to shoot everything, so I would get real close to the TV to shoot everything on that one scene.

I gotta see what I have up in the attic, I rememebr selling a few of the things at a yardsale, but I hopefully held on to somepart of it.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 01/16/2004 03:34 PM EST

We're doing the dreaded Inventory here at work, so i'm taking a break from numbers here. I likeded Moose. She was/is cool.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/16/2004 03:52 PM EST

I've been doing inventory at work all day too, kingklash. Where do you work at? I'm working at a comic shop.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/16/2004 04:08 PM EST

At an Native American art gallery. The paintings and sculptures are catalogged, it's the crafts and artifacts we have to count by hand. So many of this or that at so much per item. I really suck at math, so the I am a natural at worrying about getting the totals right.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/16/2004 05:32 PM EST

K-Duck, I read once that the reason they use such old game sounds is that they are identified as game sounds. What with the realistic sound effects these days, games sound like movies now. 2600 Pac-Man: donk donk d-donk, boop!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/16/2004 05:38 PM EST

That's a little harder than what ihave to do, i just take old comics scan the bar code into the computer and move them into boxes. By my estimation i scanned about 600 comics today.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/16/2004 05:47 PM EST

Hmm, thats cool. Amongst my collections are a passel o' comic books I share with Little Brother. We have two copies of Gambit's first appearance. Spiderman's my all time fave tho'.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/16/2004 05:54 PM EST

"Pop Qwiz is one of those things that you just don't remember till you actually see it again."

Actually, I identified it as colorful popcorn as soon as it was mentioned. I wish I hadn't though, remembering things like Pop Qwiz is like getting kicked in the mouth.

You think "Oh yeah, I remember that! Wait, why the hell do I remember that?" And as far as muppets go, Palisades makes the best muppet action figures ever (not to mention GI Joe and Transformers stuff).

Check 'em out:
www.palisadestoys.com

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 01/16/2004 06:04 PM EST

In response to whitemale_98's [much] earlier comment... Garbage Pail Kids are back. Check out: http://www.garbagepailkidsworld.com/ for more info. I just bought an assload of them the other day in North Carolina at a Kaybee Toys.

Chestnuts roasted by gesis @ 01/16/2004 06:04 PM EST

In my bookmarks, for the comment about X-E, I have "Pop Culture you thought you only imagined."

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/16/2004 06:07 PM EST

I had to comment: My bookmark is "X-Entertainment owns a Slime Horse"

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 01/16/2004 06:11 PM EST

Muppet Babies: Heck yeah! Used to LOVE that show. Remember the one where they were all playing video games, and Gonzo challenged Miss Piggy to a couple levels of "The Legend of Emelda?" That was always my favorite episode. I was also big on the one where they made a time machine to fix an old photo of Nanny's or summat similar. Great stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 01/16/2004 06:22 PM EST

for the record, my bookmark for XE was "Betty White Loves X-Entertainment." I bookmarked it after I read my first article about kid cuisine in February 2 years ago. I'm a long time fan(psycho) Matt...

I had to reinstal windows recently, and I lost that bookmark.. but that title will always hold a special place in my heart.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 01/16/2004 07:16 PM EST

kingklash I was big into comics up until 96. Last summer i got back into them, and that first appearance of Gambit is the most expensive comic I have. I have about 280 comics in my current collection which i started last may/june.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/16/2004 07:17 PM EST

I used to collect GPK shit. Now it kind of makes me queasy. Strange how things change as you age. Anyone remember Wacky Packages? Those were my favorite sticker/cards EVER even though I didn't "get" the jokes on many of them. King- you can't get more recognizable than old Pac Man especially when he's just forming there in the middle of the maze bloom bloom bloom bloom! Then the loudest most annoying noise to let you know your ass was about to be chased down by four blocky looking ghost monsters. :) the good ol' days.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/16/2004 07:23 PM EST

Oddly enough, Chad, I was looking through TV Guide and saw Betty White is having a birthday this week, tomorrow I think. She will be 82. Wow...that's 52 years older than me I don't feel so old anymore!

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/16/2004 07:25 PM EST

Reinstate the whale page! I worked for days on my awesome whale-age, and now its platform for showing off its excellence is denied me!

Chestnuts roasted by Awesometron @ 01/16/2004 08:23 PM EST

Xen! Bite your tongue. I haven't been to school in two bloody days and it's freakin' fantastic. ah, the life of a computer nerd . . . I'm so lonely . . .

Chestnuts roasted by Fantastica @ 01/16/2004 08:36 PM EST

heh the snow thing is so true. i dint go to school for the past few days not because i cared about the snow because all the teachers in my school didnt come in becuase of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 01/16/2004 09:06 PM EST

heh the snow thing is so true. i dint go to school for the past few days not because i cared about the snow because all the teachers in my school didnt come in becuase of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 01/16/2004 09:06 PM EST

Dude, there's still whales. Look at the bottom of this page. There's a link to Pictures of Baleen Whales.
Anyone ever wonder what some of the people around here look like? In my mind everyone looks like faceless blobs.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/16/2004 09:11 PM EST

Bad news for fans of the new MotU show. It's apparently been cancelled.

While stuff like the new Transformers Armada shit continues to get made. Life's not fair.

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 01/16/2004 09:54 PM EST

I have synesthesia, so I usually peg a color to some of the more "recognizable" names around here. So, Killer Duck, you are a pale yellowish color. Gabby is bright green. Matt is a deep red w/ a little green. (the same color as my husband - uh oh) Kinglash is a dark lavender color. Those are just off the top of my head. I can sometimes even guess who wrote the post by what color it brings up, even before I read the sig at the bottom.

So, none of you have a face, but you're colors are bright.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 01/16/2004 10:02 PM EST

We didn't really get snow here (and the kids are in school, much to their annoyance), but it has been windy and very cold. My mom says it may snow again, but I'm wary of the local weather people after they claimed we were supposed to get 3-5 inches of snow and we barely got a dusting...

Muppet Babies will always be one of my all-time favorite cartoons. I actually managed to tape an episode when it ran on Nickeolodeon in the late 90s, the one where the babies make their own old-time radio shows and Gonzo does a hilarious parody of "The Shadow." (Incidentally, the black-and-white segments shown when Nanny explains how old-time radio worked to the Babies are from a real radio show from the 30s and 40s, the sitcom prototype "Fibber McGee and Molly"). My favorite "Muppet Babies" ep was probably the first one. I even remember the title: "Gonzo's Video Show," in which Nanny gives Gonzo a video camera and the Babies try to make their own movie. It starts with the Babies doing their own make-believe "Beach Party" and ends with a hilarious parody of "Star Wars" and drive-in theaters.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/16/2004 11:03 PM EST

Traj...funnily I always imagined Gabby as being greenish too. ALSO funny is that today I am wearing a yellow long sleeved t-shirt with a duck sillouette on it.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/17/2004 12:00 AM EST

I hate when I hit the post button prematurely.
Star- the episode of Muppet Babies I remember most is one where Nanny's newspaper got ruined somehow so they decide to make her a newspaper. Animal's want ads always cracked me up. Mmmmummble mumble....car...for sale...mumble mumble...convertible...mumble mumble FIVE CENTS! I wonder if they have these on DVD.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/17/2004 12:02 AM EST

Killer Duck, I did a google, and while there isn't a DVD yet, there is a lot of speculation, espciacially since they have released a lot of older Muppet shows on DVD. Apparently, in Europe they even have Fraggle Rock on DVD (which is another show that rocked...Pardon the pun! :) )

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 01/17/2004 12:36 AM EST

Much thanx, Cameron...I also looked after posting and was saddened by the lack of Muppet Babies to own. We used to call my sister Wembley after the Fraggle Rock thing.
Gabby, wherefore art thou? I have 2 questions for you. 1-are you green? 2-do you wear glasses? This is all.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/17/2004 01:38 AM EST

Amen, Sean.

Chestnuts roasted by ibinsomniac @ 01/17/2004 09:59 AM EST

Matt, i noticed that you have been swearing a lot lately. Are you okay?

Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 01/17/2004 01:33 PM EST

blah blah blah....huh? oh, ok. Hey, funny thing about the colors (the colors, man, the colors), besides triggering a Freak-Out in TV's Frank, back in high school, I made up some comic book characters for my friends and myself. Kind of a Tron/TransFormers/Monty Python/Doctor Who/Hitchhikers thing going on. My designs were robotic in a B-movie clunky sort of way, which was part of the gag. Anyroad, I came up with a mostly purple shell for my own character. I'm not surprised that synchronicity happens, it's the timing that gets me.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/17/2004 02:58 PM EST

I'm drinking purple soda. We're having a heat wave! Earlier it was around 30 degrees out and I swear it feels like the greatest, nicest spring day!
Why in the hell does Paine from Final Fantasy X2 stand facing away from the enemies? Is it to give fanboys a good tit shot? And Rikku's voice makes me want to pull out my ear drums and sell them on eBay. Eh, my roommate's plaing it. I don't do well with RPGs. But I kicked ass on Viewtiful Joe so :p

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/17/2004 04:55 PM EST

Its what you get for playing Final Fantasy. Play some good RPGs like Fallout 2 or Knights of the Old Republic. And they don't have commercials that make it sound like American Idol done in CGI..

As to Captain Power? Ive got the badguy ship and the thing works perfectly with the 3 cartoon shooting tapes they made. Its kinda dumb, but cool at the same time. I doubt it will be brought back though. Its a Mattel product, and they screwed up Masters of the Universe bigtime.

Glad I am a Transformers fan. Even crap like the Armada cartoon can't hurt us anymore. Ive seen the first 2 episodes of Energon in its Japan version. VERY cool. High quality animation and all the robots are done as cel shaded CGI.

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 01/17/2004 05:13 PM EST

I don't "do" RPGs much. My roommate is the RPG freak and the one playing FFX2. The last one I played was Dark Cloud and that was more action-y.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/17/2004 05:57 PM EST

my friend played ffx2 and said it was good. we all play Ragnarok online mostly though. :D

We like the rpg/mmorpg type games.

First rpg I ever played was Dragon warrior for NES - AWESOME SERIES.

In a week or two i'll be posting more frequent. I ordered the power cable for the laptop so i just have to wait for it. woo hoo

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/17/2004 10:24 PM EST

I loved Dragin Warrior! Where else could you choose to fight everything? "A horse appears..." My brother and I still make jokes about that :) with the music.

Gabby, you being a voyeur out there? I wanna know if you wear glasses, kiddo.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/17/2004 11:18 PM EST

I remember seeing a commercial where it was some sort of Real Ghostbusters promo where Ecto Cooler was giving away a trip to Universal Studios Orlando, for the Ghostbusters 3-D show. That show was spectacular to my 10 year old brain. Anyway, do you know the commercial I'm talking about? I could very well be mixing up two different commercials, as both Beetlejuice commercials and Ghostbusters commercials usually used that "green-glow-around-the-corner" lighting effect instead of investing money into real special effects. Anyway, if you can find it, I'd be eternally grateful.

Chestnuts roasted by MadMax1001 @ 01/18/2004 02:13 AM EST

A mailing address would indeed be super nice, I have a little can full of Princess Toadstool Cherry soda with his name on it (well not litteraly... yet). I also have empty cans of the other three flavors to spare, so we'll see what happens.

Chestnuts roasted by Kou Hotaru @ 01/18/2004 02:38 AM EST

Hi...what i've been noticing about shows and video games is they get the games and the systems screwed up, like the short lived Gary the rabbit, seth green was acting like he was playing simpsons road rage with a nintendo 64 controller, and that is very common. As a regular video game player i feel that should be illegal to do that

i have an ad in a early 90's short lived magazine simpsons illustrated for pop qwiz, that is mostly why i remember it. it was a 3D edition of the magazine, the 3D glasses said it was for the space mutants movie.

i think that 2 references to the simpsons in my posts will be made by default.

now i have to go to bed and think about ninja turtle mighty beanz and the muppet babies...

Chestnuts roasted by Goobian @ 01/18/2004 05:10 AM EST

Oh, please do an article on Captain Power. My good friend the Beastman owned the gun and videos when we were, oh, about seven or eight years old? He didn't tell us that he owned it though (probably because this was the same kid who claimed he owned a Turbo Graffix 16, but when we showed up to play it, his parents would make us gather round the TV and watch cheaply produced videos of him singing church hymns with a "gospel clown" instead), so I guess we sort of showed up at his house not knowing what to expect. He just sprung it on us at this yearly birthday bruhah/spend the night. The point is (sorry), I was the last one to show up and didn't know how to play. The gun, shaped like a ship "went off," the Captain Power action figure ppopped up with a violent buzz, and I practically shit myself at the shock of it all. They've never let me forget it, but I sear to God I didn't cry. I DID NOT CRY!!! "£$"£%(¬!!!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by the Unstoppable @ 01/18/2004 09:06 AM EST

Score!... RPG talk. Currently playing Disgaea. Funny stuff.... oh, to keep true to X-E's content, I must 'ditto' heeloyd... Dragon Warrior was also my first RPG. I never played it, no, but my friend had it, and I thought, "Good God, what is this 'slime' character!?" It's been Final Fantasy and Shining Force ever since.

Oh, and speaking of that friend, he was the kind of dude that made you watch him play, and all he had were 1-player games...odd guy. Did anybody else have a friend like that?

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 01/18/2004 09:10 AM EST

Hi guys,

What happened to the X-E Forum? I cant seem to find a link anywhere
;( Did y'all move to another site/link?

(yeah, I know, I been out of the loop for a while)

Chestnuts roasted by Mars00pial @ 01/18/2004 09:47 AM EST

Goobian - How dare you disrespect Greg the Bunny by calling it Gary the Rabbit!? Count Blah was definitely the best character. "Ah iggit blah" indeed.

Chestnuts roasted by Diabetic Dinosaur @ 01/18/2004 09:49 AM EST

ohhh I HATE muppet babies! That was the worst show ever. Nothing interesting ever hapened. The REAL mupput show kicked ass.

!!!trajeal!!! I'm just too curious what color am I?

I have an actual picture of me and my youngest daughter online somewhere, but I can't find the url right now.....oh well.

if x-e had a mailing address, I'd send the princess of power board game (it does appear to have all the pieces) and probable a bag of assorted crap, 50 items worth of course.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 01/18/2004 11:28 AM EST

oh yea, and there's a picture of me on "hotornot.com" my silly wife put it on there.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 01/18/2004 11:29 AM EST

brandon dark chocolate brown

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 01/18/2004 12:14 PM EST

I have no responce to that.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 01/18/2004 03:44 PM EST

Traj, Jesus H...before I even saw your reply I thought of Brandon in brown. This be fucked up. Except I never saw king as purple.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/18/2004 05:03 PM EST

Duck, it hurts me that you don't read my posts :P I said I was going to be away for the weekend, geesh. Or maybe you're just impatient because I am so cool. You have all discovered my secret that I am, in fact, a bright green marsian. Is that how you spell marsian? I dunno. Anyway, I'd rather be bright green than puke green. And yes, I wear glasses, at least I do when I am using the computer because the screen makes my contacts go all dry. I'm going to go relax now, as I almost died twice this weekend (well, not really, unless you count almost being scared to death) and last night was busy because one of my sisters got a concussion. That's what you get for tobogganing on ice.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/18/2004 05:41 PM EST

It isn't that I don't read the posts, Gabbster...I have trouble paying attention :) Martian is spelled like that <<<. And somehow I just knew you had corrective eyewear...weird. I hope amongst all the fear and the almost death and the concussive sister you had some fun? And hopefully your sister is OK.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/18/2004 07:03 PM EST

The new MOTU is cancelled?! NO! It was just getting good, too, with all the new ass kicking baddies. I hope the video game still makes it out. I WAN'T THE POWER! And a new GI Joe cartoon.

Chestnuts roasted by Trampus @ 01/18/2004 07:36 PM EST

Of course I have corrective eyewear, all the reading I do has ruined my poor, poor eyes. And yeah my sister's ok after a night of puking and dizziness. Thanks for the spelling info, Duck!

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/18/2004 10:04 PM EST

No prob, Gabbs. I wear glasses too though it is a recent development in my life, past couple of years.
Kids these days are so different than when we were growing up. If it isn't computer animated it has to be all quick cuts and speedy cameras or they lose interest quickly.

Jesus stop those damn girls from singing and dancing in the middle of battles...

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/18/2004 10:38 PM EST

Freaky, Duck! Do you have synesthesia? I've never actually "met" anyone else who has it, but I did beling to a board on Yahoo where I lurked, and a few others associated colors w/ people. Most of them gave their numbers and letters colors, and a few had wierd tastes and smells for certain things.

Don't feel wierd about the brown thing, Brandon. I see a lot of people in shades of brown, yellow, orange and red. One guy at TelevisionWithoutPity.com was a persistant baby shit yellow, but I had to doll it up by calling it raw sienna or some thing. It's nothing personal.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 01/18/2004 11:02 PM EST

Heehee I feel special being green now ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/18/2004 11:07 PM EST

HEY EVERYONE

I know everyone loves Hordak and slime. And especially a Hordak slime pit.

Well there's one cheap on ebay right now http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3170738879&category=30

I don't collect MOTU, but I thought there might be some people here that would be interested.

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 01/19/2004 12:29 AM EST

Trampus: I doubt in this day and age that a GI Joe cartoon would be able to fly with network execs. Too many similarities with the real world.

But I do have fond memories of the original... :)

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 01/19/2004 02:39 AM EST

"Oh, and speaking of that friend, he was the kind of dude that made you watch him play, and all he had were 1-player games...odd guy. Did anybody else have a friend like that?" - Nachokhaki

I think I was that friend... :/

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/19/2004 03:03 AM EST

Traj, I am nit sure if I have it because this is the first time I ever heard of it :) I do tend to have images in my head of people. Blobby colory things, really. Like I was so sure Gabby wore glasses. Strange that the only person who regularly posts that I can't get much on is king, oddly.

I don't like playing RPGs much but I don't mind watching and making maps. I am odd that way. When my roommate plays I have to watch because she gets lost otherwise.

Holy shit, did that duck just say she likes to watch? Dayum, boyee!

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/19/2004 03:19 AM EST

If it helps any, I am a Scorpio, and seem to have the trait of keeping to myself often attributed to the sign. Or, maybe its having Nov. 1 as a birthday. Having people walk around in disguise at your yearly turn has an effect eventually.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/19/2004 12:08 PM EST

Who's the voyeur now Duck? Ha. Awww King, Halloween is my favorite holiday... so I guess your birthday is too, since as far as I am concerned Halloween isn't over until about noon on the first, or whenver it is I wake up after my evening out ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/19/2004 03:31 PM EST

OOH, peepers all over the place. Remember, since this is a Quantum Universe, we are always being watched. Gooble Gabby!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/19/2004 03:45 PM EST

You guys...

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/19/2004 08:55 PM EST

Duck try here: http://mutuslab.cs.uwindsor.ca/schurko/misc/synesthesia.html The movie Fantasia almways makes me think that someone w/ synesthesia made a cartoon.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 01/19/2004 09:56 PM EST

Hey Matt, I love these mario icons and stuff. Ever think of doing a review of some mario stuff? Possibly the show or the movie? I know that'd be something good X-E style.

Chestnuts roasted by Kyo Kusanagi @ 01/20/2004 12:23 AM EST

"Fantasia's" opening piece, "Fugue in D Minor" was loosly based on the idea of synesthesia. I like the case where some guy broke up with a girl because his synesthesia gave him such a terrible taste whenever he heard the girl's name.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/20/2004 02:11 PM EST

he's already done the show, and the movie a while ago, if i remember correctly.

Chestnuts roasted by anthony @ 01/22/2004 03:21 AM EST

They're adverting a DVD set of the first season of G.I. Joe on Spike TV. From Rhino Video, I believe.

Chestnuts roasted by Punk Rock Poet @ 01/28/2004 07:03 PM EST

Hey, Does anyone here remember Red Dwarf? I know it's not exactly 80's but this isn't an 80's site, right? guys?
Still 90's are getting kinda dated too :P

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 01/28/2004 10:39 PM EST