“I got this cool tape off eBay containing four episodes of the TV show The New Scooby-Doo Movies?not the original CBS Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! show, but the even worse one that came out a few years later, the one with Scooby-Dum and Scooby-Dear, and all these really lame minor-celebrity guest stars like Tim Conway and Jerry Reed,” said Erdman’s brother Kevin , 26. “Dave was supposed to come over and watch it with me, but he canceled. I later found out it was because he and his wife went to see some Arthur Miller play. How dork-ass is that?” —Aging Gen-Xer Doesn’t Find Bad Movies Funny Anymore (The Onion (Satire))
Last week, when I needed a spare tape to record a TV newscast I thought I was going to miss because my son asked me to read a storybook version of Macbeth. Kid-friendly, but still longer than your average good-night story.
I told my wife to tape over one of my old copies of Mystery Science Theater 3000 I figured if I didn’t recognize the title of the movie, I would never miss it.
My wife refused, and taped over an episode of Boo-bahs instead. And she checked out the first season of Wonder Woman from the library. That’s kitsch, but it’s good kitsch. So maybe I’m not as far gone as the guy in this story.
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Sorry, Dennis, I been away for a few days trying to get the swing of Graduate School. Wonder Woman does fly on her own power, but how is that really, REALLY dumb compared to the Invisible Jet? Would we rather see her flying on Pegasus (Disney’s _Hercules_ shows Hercules riding Pegasus–which never actually happened in Greek myth ;)
Well Dr. Jerz
In the JLA: Unlimited, she flies like Superman. Which is really, REALLY dumb!
Bobby, my local library carries “first run” PC games as well as DVDs of popular movies and TV series. Most public libraries are cognizant of the fact that they serve the public. If the public wants DVDs , PC games, and graphic novels, you can bet a librarian somewhere is working on getting them. Library BOARDS on the other hand, tend to be made up of stodgy older members of society, who view those new fangled graphic novels as the first steps down a slipperly slope. Why, who knows what sort of filth those smut peddelers at the library are pushing on our children….
Bobby, how does she get around without her plane nowadays?
On a cooler note: Libraries are carrying Wonder Woman DVDs? I find that amusing considering librarians are still debating whether or not to have graphic novels in libraries.
Wonder Woman’s constant preaching about redemption is closely linked with her mission on Earth. Aside from rounding up bad guys, the comics show her as an ambassador who promotes peace around the world, WITHOUT the Invisible Jet these days (which Lynda Carter says was a bad idea on VH1’s “I Love the 80s series). As a side note, moviegoers can see Lynda Carter playing a superpowered principal in the movie _Sky High_, in which she does a spin move that acts as a nod to her days as Wonder Woman.
“I hate Illinois Nazis.”
I didn’t have to look that one up.
Yes, the dialogue in Wonder Woman was stilted… but I didn’t remember WW’s innocence and her complete lack of trash-talking when rounding up the bad guys. She always talked about redepmtion. It seems silly now, of course, but watching it reminded me of a more inncoent time (in my own life, as well as America).
My daughters are both planning to dress up as Wonderwoman after watching the shows on DVD. I have to admit, Yeoman Prince is rather fetching, even if her alter ego kept the folks over at Aquanet is business. The plots are thin and the dialouge is stilted, but so was everything else on the TV at that time. I find it more amusing to see who acted in the show. For instance, Henry Gibson, who played a Nazi in The Blues Brothers, also played a villain in the Woderwoman series.