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Randalor posted:How long did the Marshmallow man exist for anyways? 5, 10 minutes tops? i mean as a whole walking entity , yeah like 10 min. but the clean up of Marshmallow matter would take weeks if not months to clean up. and thats even with "help" from city animals. jesus christ at the rat and roach masses directly consuming mallow matter and then the food chain tiers consuming the that. actually maybe the Ghostbuster should be sued for ecological horrorism.
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The whole city glued together, a hellish rice crispie treat
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Is he marshmallow all the way through, or is he like, a shell?
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Future Video GamesUK posted:Is he marshmallow all the way through, or is he like, a shell? They did show a lot of marshmallow "goop", but I don't know enough about marshmallow... uh... physics? to even begin guessing how long it would take to clean up. Does marshmallow dissolve or soften up in water?
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PhazonLink posted:i mean as a whole walking entity , yeah like 10 min. but the clean up of Marshmallow matter would take weeks if not months to clean up. and thats even with "help" from city animals. Also in the sequel the entire Statue of Liberty got relocated, that's kind've hard to dismiss. But nope, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife pretty much everyone has completely forgotten about the Ghostbusters except a weirdo science teacher (GB:A pretty much ignores GB2 entirely apart from a few easter egg that appear very briefly on screen)
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PhazonLink posted:i mean as a whole walking entity , yeah like 10 min. but the clean up of Marshmallow matter would take weeks if not months to clean up. and thats even with "help" from city animals. Plus people who got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up suffocating. They're all just lucky that the explosion wasn't heat based, or else there'd be several blocks covered in sugary napalm.
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That reminds me of being on a campout and one kid flung marshmallow off his stick and another stood up and yelled "do NOT fling burning marshmallow, people! It's like napalm!" I'd forgotten that magical turn of phrase until your post.
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I thought the Nazi salute thing with Smashmouth was from brain problems from organ failure.
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I think it was brain problems from addiction, and organ failure also from addiction.
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Dan Aykoyd is was diagnosed with Asperger's in the 80s. He credits the success of Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters with his fixation on law enforcement and the paranormal. https://childmind.org/blog/dan-aykroyd-says-being-on-the-spectrum-helped-him-make-ghostbusters/
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:Yeah, everything I've seen of Aykroyd indicates he's a kooky fellow with a good head on his shoulders, as odd as it sounds. Like, when he pitched super insane ideas for Ghostbusters movie (Ghostbusters III would have been Ghostbusters in Hell if he'd had his way), other people would tell him that poo poo was too weird and his response was always "Okay, no worries. Let's do something else, then." I accept his cameo in the Casper movie as canon over Afterlife. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also in the sequel the entire Statue of Liberty got relocated, that's kind've hard to dismiss. But nope, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife pretty much everyone has completely forgotten about the Ghostbusters except a weirdo science teacher The ending of GB2 has the Statue of Liberty returned to her plinth... but with her arms having swapped the tablet and the torch. I prefer the IDW comics that follow on from the movie timeline. (also the game) They also have a crosover with the cartoon Ghostbusters, and one with the 2016 Ghostbusters, and also the Ninja Turtles.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also in the sequel the entire Statue of Liberty got relocated, that's kind've hard to dismiss. But nope, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife pretty much everyone has completely forgotten about the Ghostbusters except a weirdo science teacher I think the world just moved on without there being any major new ghosts. They had ghost videos on youtube if i recall. This reminds me of the 90s War of the Worlds tv show, where everyone basically memory holed the alien invasion that occurred in the 1953 movie.
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Media that hasn't aged well you say? Look no further than what popped up during my Nightmare on Elm Street 2 viewing the other day!   They really did not give a poo poo back in the 80's, good lord
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White Light posted:Media that hasn't aged well you say? Look no further than what popped up during my Nightmare on Elm Street 2 viewing the other day! Someone made replicas of that prop a few years ago complete with the toy fingernails, just for all the Freddy fans for whom rooting for a paedophile murderer wasn't enough.
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Why would anyone want a chewy breakfast cereal?
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Jedit posted:Someone made replicas of that prop a few years ago complete with the toy fingernails, just for all the Freddy fans for whom rooting for a paedophile murderer wasn't enough. Kumail Nanjiani did a whole skit on that.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Why would anyone want a chewy breakfast cereal? American children are horrible.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Why would anyone want a chewy breakfast cereal? Isn't that pretty much what oatmeal is?
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White Light posted:Media that hasn't aged well you say? Look no further than what popped up during my Nightmare on Elm Street 2 viewing the other day! Wonder if this is a reference to the terrible terrible Fu Man Chu movie series Goddamn those movies SUCK
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verbal enema posted:Wonder if this is a reference to the terrible terrible Fu Man Chu movie series Nope, unrelated. Wild coincidence.
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Nameless Pete posted:Nope, unrelated. Wild coincidence. Just regular racism? Aw shoot
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Fun fact: In the original 1970s comics Marvel's Shang-Chi is the rebellious son of Fu Manchu trying to take down his father's criminal empire by punching dudes. In later years they renamed their version of Fu-Manchu to Zheng-Zu and made him slightly less of a racial caricature.  
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FreudianSlippers posted:In later years they renamed their version of Fu-Manchu to Zheng-Zu and made him slightly less of a racial caricature. Note also that they lost the rights to the Fu Manchu character in 1983 and danced around the issue for nearly three decades by using aliases or simply referring to him as Shang-Chi's father until they renamed him Zheng-Zu in 2010. I suspect that if they hadn't lost the rights they wouldn't have changed his name. Alan Moore also used Fu Manchu in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics but never referred to him by name
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Even though I know it's an old timey yellow peril design, they did too good of a job and made him look cool and badass. That's a guy whom I want running a giant criminal empire. I'd totally work for that guy if I was a mook.
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ishikabibble posted:Oh yeah nah, Tom DeLonge has famously always been a huge 90s alien truther. I'm sure he also probably got enough poo poo about it that he was fine joking around with it, but he's been giving interviews about it for years. poor guy
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Some related trivia: there were at least fifty Charlie Chan movies made between 1926 and 1981 but the Hanna Barbera cartoon The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan was the first time the character had ever been portrayed on screen in America by an actor of Chinese descent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXK9ASh_v4E He was originally created in 1919 as a positive counter to the negative "Yellow Peril" characters that were popular at the time but his depictions on screen (usually played by white actors in yellowface) were mostly racist in retrospect 
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I always forget just how many mystery cartoons that Hanna Barbera had and just how many of them involved a van and / or a band.
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Vandar posted:I always forget just how many mystery cartoons that Hanna Barbera had and just how many of them involved a van and / or a band. And/or a wacky animal sidekick, and that one had all three. They were really hedging their bets. Note also that when the series started they actually went to the effort of casting VAs of Chinese descent as Chan's many many children but people complained about their accents so they replaced most of them with white VAs Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 21:10 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Vandar posted:I always forget just how many mystery cartoons that Hanna Barbera had and just how many of them involved a van and / or a band. Back when Cracked was still good, I loved the article where they claimed that the sheer amount of people with technical skills forced to resort to crime in Scooby-Doo (and by extension its dozens of imitators) and enormous number of abandoned locals was "proof" that it was set in a universe where the US had suffered some sort of Great Depression 2.0
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Hanna Barbera had a lot of weird stuff in the 70s specifically. Maybe a half dozen failed live-action pilots and attempts at educational action/sitcom cartoons. Korg 70,000 BC is a live-action educational/action Saturday morning show about cavemen. They also had a cartoon about modern people being sent back in time to the Neolithic that was also meant to be educational, but it had dinosaurs. The weirdest was probably These Are the Days, a slice-of-life drama cartoon meant to teach kids about life at the turn of the 20th century. They’re all just stodgy, slow cartoons with plots that just kind of trundle along until someone can explain how something works or how a rainbow is made or where bread comes from. Everybody knows about Sealab 2020, obviously.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Everybody knows about Sealab 2020, obviously. The Sealab 2021 April Fools episode where they just re-dubbed a 2020 episode to show how mindnumbingly dull the original show was was a stroke of pure genius.
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It astonishes me that the Fu Manchu movies were still being made in the late 60s, but the last one (which was also Peter Sellers' last role) was made in 1980! It's supposed to be a comedy, but apparently not the type that satirizes its racist premise.
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AceOfFlames posted:Back when Cracked was still good, I loved the article where they claimed that the sheer amount of people with technical skills forced to resort to crime in Scooby-Doo (and by extension its dozens of imitators) and enormous number of abandoned locals was "proof" that it was set in a universe where the US had suffered some sort of Great Depression 2.0 Gotham City amusement parks are like Los Angeles and football teams. Town planners feel like a city of their size and prestige ought to have one, so they keep making failed attempts, but the people's interest simply isn't there.
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ponzicar posted:It astonishes me that the Fu Manchu movies were still being made in the late 60s, but the last one (which was also Peter Sellers' last role) was made in 1980! If you want to be super technical, that Grindhouse trailer with Nicolas Cage was released in 2007, but I guess it would be a case of the latter? AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 22:19 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Nameless Pete posted:Gotham City amusement parks are like Los Angeles and football teams. Town planners feel like a city of their size and prestige ought to have one, so they keep making failed attempts, but the people's interest simply isn't there. You'd think they'd wise up after the 4th or 5th supervillain lair. Or at least try to capitalize on it. "Ok, so Mr. Freeze moved into the abandoned ice cream factory, Joker into the abandoned toy factory and Poison Ivy into the abandoned botanical gardens... if we were to create an abandoned bank, would we get a money themed supervillain to move in and then we could steal his money while Batman is beating him up?"
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ponzicar posted:It astonishes me that the Fu Manchu movies were still being made in the late 60s, but the last one (which was also Peter Sellers' last role) was made in 1980! Amusingly, he did play an explicitly satirical yellowface parody character in Murder by Death just a few years prior. I guess he didn't really get the message.
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Looks like a tough guy Prince Valiant
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Some related trivia: there were at least fifty Charlie Chan movies made between 1926 and 1981 but the Hanna Barbera cartoon The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan was the first time the character had ever been portrayed on screen in America by an actor of Chinese descent. As someone completely uninformed as to the canon of either Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan, it feels like a missed opportunity if they never had a story where the latter tried to foil the schemes of the former That's like a Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper level obvious crossover
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