….Quoted from “It’s Martin Luther King Day, Charlie Brown”. I especially like this line at 1:46, and the sequence just prior to it at 1:37. :P Beware, racist humor ahoy.
So tonight I spent majority of my time talking with Jessica about children’s shows of our past and how superior they are to the smut on television today. We watched a few Youtubes - mainly 30 minutes of 90’s cartoon intros and 30 minutes of 80’s cartoon intros.
In these there were many recognizable shows we remember and love: Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Gargoyles, Voltron, Inspector Gadget, Beetlejuice (hell yes), etc, etc. The highlights, though, were shows we’d never heard of that were either awesome, terrible, or awesomely terrible. First, an awesome: NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THERE WAS A SAM AND MAX CARTOON. I’m disappointed. :( Moving on, some…. strange ones: Samurai Pizza Cats, Back to the Future (what?), Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures (I reaaaaally wanna see this), BraveStarr (The planet of New Texas? Really? XD), Thundarr, Blackstarr (notice a recurrance of R’s here?)…. But finally:
GILLIGAN’S PLANET:
WHAT THE FUCK. I think that sums this up:
Jessica:………..
Me: o.o
Jessica: WHAT THE FUCK
Me: Gilligan’s ISLAND
IN SPACE?
WHAT THE FUCK
Jessica: WHAT THE FUCK
A spaceship made of wood.
WHAT.
Me: WHAT THE SHIT
Jessica: I’m scared.
Hold me.
Me: NO.
THIS IS WRONG
WRONG
*hold Jessica, for he is scared too*
Moving on… We then decided to watch what turned out to be a creepy, disturbing claymation animation:
Give it a watch. I don’t really have too much else to say except that I woulda been running faaaar from that mask. >.> This led to a conversation on the finer points of mindfuck movies and videogames. Jessica introduced me to a spiritual predecessor of BioShock called System Shock 2. Here’s a clip:
She more or less described the game as a hellish mix of Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Resident Evil, and Star Trek. Basically the AI in the game discovers humans, doesn’t like them, and makes her own brand of life that tries to kill you and her, so she uses you as a pawn to save herself. Sounds like something I’ll definitely have to try. Apparently it would’ve done better but Half Life overshadowed its release.
Next up is another mindfuck horror game: Condemned. I need to try this, but all I really have to go by right now is her word and this video, which needless to say makes the game look tough and terrifying:
XD Those guys are wussies, but entertaining nevertheless.
Anyway, enjoy all these videos, and I need to sleep. Leave me some comments to read and comment on myself!