Kids do a good job doing 46 & 2. Looks like none of these kids were born on 96 or before. They should put this on the Disney Channel.
Sadly, I lost somebody on Sunday morning.
RIP Buddy Laws
Monday, September 23, 2013
Kids do 46 & 2.
Kids do a good job doing 46 & 2. Looks like none of these kids were born on 96 or before. They should put this on the Disney Channel.
Sadly, I lost somebody on Sunday morning.
RIP Buddy Laws
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Changing Nature?
Getting away from lazy worker rage for a little, I like to talk about one of the most creepy endings to a TV series. The early to mid 1990s brought us Full House, Family Matters, Blossom, The start of the Simpsons and much more. We had TGIF, a good excuse to not to stay outside on a summer night while darkness falls (a little dramatic, are we?)
Just past Jim Henson's death, the project he worked on before his untimely death was a show called Dinosaurs. For anyone who grew up in the 90s, do we need to explain? Here's a short synopsis, a typical family of walking intelligent (maybe not) dinosaur family with the husband, wife, two teenage kids and a white dinosaur baby. The show was a little crude for the family, as it walked into the world of satire. Me and an ex-girlfreind once was bored after sex and we decided to watch some back shows on NetFlix. The first few episodes of Dinosaurs we watched as I told her about the dreaded final episode, something she wasn't interested in watching.
Changing Nature begins as every episode starts out, with the intro. Then we go with the news reporter telling the folks of Pangea (what they called Earth) telling of the annual entrance of the Bench Beetles. These beetles help destroy the growing cider poppy. However, when the time comes for these beetles to arrive, only one returns by the name of Stan. This later causes the cider poppies to continue growing, causing some inconvenience.
So, as in the series, Earl is the working stiff of the family for a big corporation that decides to take charge of the cider poppy issue by destroying them with helicopters dropping some shit on them. But before they do, Stan and the teen female dinosaur (forgot her name) go on to see what happened to the Bench Beetle's grounds. It had been replaced with a large industrial park with Earl's company's Wax Fruit production center standing on the old grounds. Stan and the female dinosaur protest on TV, and Earl comes in to oppose.
The company (known as WeSaySo) does to their word on destroying the cider poppies. But also, they have destroyed all plant life. While I'm mentioning this, would it be cool if Bill Duke were to pop-up as himself and tell WeSaySo that they done fucked up?
Earl, who is in charge of the WeSaySo Task Force (or it could have been a different name, too lazy to research while I'm trying to finish this up before I go to work) and his boss begin to discuss how they can bring plant life back. The boss (Named B.P. Richfield, what a coincidence with the BP) gets impatient with the discussion and suggests to put bombs in the volcanoes around the world to produce clouds.
Just past Jim Henson's death, the project he worked on before his untimely death was a show called Dinosaurs. For anyone who grew up in the 90s, do we need to explain? Here's a short synopsis, a typical family of walking intelligent (maybe not) dinosaur family with the husband, wife, two teenage kids and a white dinosaur baby. The show was a little crude for the family, as it walked into the world of satire. Me and an ex-girlfreind once was bored after sex and we decided to watch some back shows on NetFlix. The first few episodes of Dinosaurs we watched as I told her about the dreaded final episode, something she wasn't interested in watching.
Changing Nature begins as every episode starts out, with the intro. Then we go with the news reporter telling the folks of Pangea (what they called Earth) telling of the annual entrance of the Bench Beetles. These beetles help destroy the growing cider poppy. However, when the time comes for these beetles to arrive, only one returns by the name of Stan. This later causes the cider poppies to continue growing, causing some inconvenience.
So, as in the series, Earl is the working stiff of the family for a big corporation that decides to take charge of the cider poppy issue by destroying them with helicopters dropping some shit on them. But before they do, Stan and the teen female dinosaur (forgot her name) go on to see what happened to the Bench Beetle's grounds. It had been replaced with a large industrial park with Earl's company's Wax Fruit production center standing on the old grounds. Stan and the female dinosaur protest on TV, and Earl comes in to oppose.
The company (known as WeSaySo) does to their word on destroying the cider poppies. But also, they have destroyed all plant life. While I'm mentioning this, would it be cool if Bill Duke were to pop-up as himself and tell WeSaySo that they done fucked up?
Earl, who is in charge of the WeSaySo Task Force (or it could have been a different name, too lazy to research while I'm trying to finish this up before I go to work) and his boss begin to discuss how they can bring plant life back. The boss (Named B.P. Richfield, what a coincidence with the BP) gets impatient with the discussion and suggests to put bombs in the volcanoes around the world to produce clouds.
Borrowed from AVClub, sorry, too lazy to get my own photo
So, the bombs in the volcanoes do make the clouds and causes snow opposed to rain. Earl looks out his windows and is happy to see that soon, the snow will melt eventually and the plants should pop-up. However, the news says otherwise and the reporter (named Howard Handupme) states that the Task Force's solution created clouds that will not dissipate for over 10,000 years.
Earl calls his boss who is excited about how people are buying WeSaySo products and having the best 3rd quarter ever. Earl tries to reason with him and telling him that they have caused the end of the world, but BP Richfield surely doesn't give a shit. He's got a lot of money.
And after so, we hear the depressing music while we see the Sinclair family trying their best to stay warm. A few jokes are cracked by Stan and the grandmother (eventually she moves in somewhere during the series), and Earl finally apologizes to his family and explains how it's easy to take nature for granted. He also explains to the baby that they are pretty much screwed.
The show ends with Howard Handupme grimly stating the final long range forecast witch is very cold and dark for years to come. He ends the final newscast nearly in tears: "Goodnight....goodbye."
While it rolls credits, it shows the front of the Sinclair house being covered by the Storm of the Century, or the Final Storm of the Era, you hear the harsh wind and the depressing music.
That right there gave me the fucking creeps. Can you just imagine another episode of that? With the temperature just dropping and dropping? Eventually, the folks who run the power plants and the gas plants saying fuck-it, and they shut off the power and the heat? What the fuck could you do? I live by myself, if I couldn't get to my family due to the snow covering my house and it get colder and colder, I'd fucking burn down my house and go along with it. I'll experience hell before I go there.
What also happens after the credits roll, they have the Walt Disney logo pop-up. I suppose after that was played, they went to the TGIF logo with the voiceovers singing "Just stay right here."
These very special episodes do make good discussion, especially the Different Strokes episode with the child molester. And that show reminds me why I'm going to hell, after Gary Coleman died, I joked with a couple of friends, "Hey, Gary Coleman died from a Different Stroke." That and also laughing at Hulk Hogan 9/11. I'll just shut up and finish with this video:
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