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TherealRNO [2010-04-07 00:04:45 +0000 UTC]
Mickey's expression is brilliant. It's a nod to his more ruckous days, as well as to his loving nature towards Minnie.
Mickey Mouse Club Theme [ [link] ]
Gallopin' Gaucho (old short where Mickey was a date-raping drunk smoker toting a gun and Minnie was a scantically-clad floosie for the time period) [ [link] ]
Minnie's Yoo-Hoo (Minnie's Theme, as well as the original song for "The Club" that symbolized what the two mice--and by proxy, Walt & Lillian--did in their private time alone) [ [link] ]
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-14 19:45:12 +0000 UTC]
"Lol I know what you mean it's so funny what they put in cartoons back then and now it's not allowed to air"
Sort of like how the 80's toned down Lucy Van Pelt for the TV series (TCB&SS) when the previous specials and films had her retain some of the obnoxiousness she exhibted in the Shulz strip (80's animated Lucy wouldn't come right out and say, "Hey stupid" to the blockhead, but comic strip Lucy definately would've and the Lucy from the earlier cartoons might've). Different standards for different mediums within different times, I suppose.
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MandyDandy-02 In reply to TherealRNO [2010-04-15 01:02:24 +0000 UTC]
Yeah and some of it like the old Sesame Street show aren't allowed to air now cause they're 'racist' it's a kid show! Geez!
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-15 02:03:09 +0000 UTC]
Oddly, it was the show's OWN producers that SAID that. The thing is...as societal expectations change, so do standards. Where it was appropriate to show kids playing within a construction site in the 60's & 70's, it's no longer appropriate nowadays. Where it was appropriate to include snarky humor for the adults watching with their kids, it is generally frowned upon nowadays. Where it was appropriate to air the show in full originally, it is no longer expected, as the show must make room for commercials and must also now adhere to the "interactive" element produced from the popularity of Dora & Blue's Clues. In the case of the Street, the somewhat annoying Elmo's World is it's "interactive" element. Luckily, with Kevin Clash as one of the few behind the camera in helping the show to succeed these days, he generally now either sticks Elmo into the regular Street story with pre-recorded Elmo's World footage tacked on (because execs tested it being removed and the kids watching weren't interested in the show being without that segment) or the little red menace--Oscar's words, not mine--is confined solely to his little fifteen minutes of fame, allowing his fellow Muppets to have the spotlight. Honestly, the only Muppet I can stand that is relatively 'new' from my perspective would be Zoe. Sure, Abby is cute and Murray asks questions (which is a smart way to find out things), but Zoe was--and still is, even with her fondness for ballet dancing--the tomboy female equivalent to Elmo. The good thing is that although she was Elmo's female counterpart, she was smarter in the sense that she knew things Elmo didn't, kept him in line when he became too much of a bother, and even got on his nerves with her insistance that her pet rock, Rocko, is actually alive (when it clearly isn't). For that last one, getting on Elmo's nerves is a good thing, as it gives him a taste of his own medicine and shows Elmo in a more human (or monster) light, instead of just being the hyperactive three year old he is typecast as.
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-15 02:48:38 +0000 UTC]
But really, you're never told old for the Muppet brand of humor, even if it has lost something when Jim left us. It is the sort of humor that, IMO, is timeless and worth sitting kids in front of. Instead of say, Spongebob--which favors stupidity as a form of humor--the teenybopper dreck that says the audience has to act like Miley or the brothers Jonas to be a success, and "adult" programs like Family Guy, whose jokes offend some people's sensibilities.
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-15 19:30:22 +0000 UTC]
"My mother can't stand Spongebob"
Consider her in the same boat. I prefer humor that is funny on its own merits as opposed to "adult" ones that make fun of every little thing or shows like said sponge, whose only source of comedy seems to be him and his best friend acting stupid to the detriment of their friends and co-workers.
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MandyDandy-02 In reply to TherealRNO [2010-04-16 01:55:21 +0000 UTC]
lol I likes about anything but like to switch it around
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-16 02:48:02 +0000 UTC]
The sources of humor I like would be that which can actually be seen by all ages, instead of a single demographic. That cuts out the supposed "adult" stuff and things like [i]Spongebob[/i]. Sure, many do like the sponge, but his humor is a relatively new style--i.e. writing based solely on stupidity, something not even [i]Ren & Stimpy[/i] did, for that show was meant as an irreverant adult satire that Nick execs failed to catch, similar to a certain program about an egomaniacal alien produced by Jhonen Vasquez--in comparison to say, the classic Warner Brothers [ [link] ] slapstick that often had a hidden point to it or the meaningful explosively hilarious humor seen in the Muppets [ [link] ] prior to Jim Henson's death.
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-19 02:28:14 +0000 UTC]
Cool. *anticipating "The Cheapest Movie Ever Made" (the film return of The Classic Muppets [ [link] ] to their movie-making roots by Segal & Stoller) and "Fraggle Rock: The Movie" (the big-screen debut of the cast of Fraggle Rock [ [link] ], as overseen by the Henson children; directed by Cory Edwards, who wants a true Fraggle film that is as timeless as the series, as he said per the 2008 podcast when production was first truly underway [ [link] ] & his blog [ [link] ]; executively produced by Ahmed Zappa--who grew up a fan like many of us kids of the 80's--distributed by the Weinstein company; and starring as much of the original gang as possible: the health-willing Jerry Nelson, the supposedly vanished Kathy Mullen, the able-bodied Steve Whitmire, the seemingly ageless Dave Goelz, and the always ready Karen Prell) in the hopes that they bring the Henson creations back to some semblance of their former glory*
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MandyDandy-02 In reply to TherealRNO [2010-04-20 03:35:38 +0000 UTC]
lol It's something I'll look forward to anyway. Got love such classic's as Muppet Treasure Island, and Elmo in Cinderella lol
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-20 03:41:38 +0000 UTC]
Agreed. Although with the Elmo ones, they're too focused on him and not enough on his fellow Muppets.
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MandyDandy-02 In reply to TherealRNO [2010-04-20 04:30:17 +0000 UTC]
true, true. but he's just so darn cute and sweet I could dunk him in my Tea lol
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-20 04:38:40 +0000 UTC]
But all the Muppets are cute and sweet in their own odd little ways. Some moreso than others, but still...
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MandyDandy-02 In reply to TherealRNO [2010-04-20 04:40:00 +0000 UTC]
Indeed same could be said for many classics
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TherealRNO In reply to MandyDandy-02 [2010-04-20 04:42:31 +0000 UTC]
Too bad entertainment now largely seems to be missing that special something nowadays, IMO.
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MandyDandy-02 In reply to TherealRNO [2010-04-20 04:45:18 +0000 UTC]
It lacks that personal touch and pride in ones work
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Nicole-la [2010-01-04 00:48:49 +0000 UTC]
Wow... I never thought I would think that Mickey is sexy... XD Congratz on winning!
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yesterdayzchild [2009-12-25 04:05:28 +0000 UTC]
Aww, they're so cute!!
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BlitzKriel [2009-12-21 04:18:17 +0000 UTC]
aw thats so sweet <3
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