STATE STEREOTYPES

God Bless America!

MOVIE/COMIC BOOK/TV CROSSOVER!

What isn't explained is how Beast was brought forward in Time from the Cuban Missile Crisis to be at the University of Farmer's. And conversely, how that Farmer's agent was sent back in time to the X-Men school in 1962.....

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AND HERE NOW, THE NEWS......

FAIR WARNING:

“What’s the news across the nation

We have got the information

In a way we hope will amuse you

We just love to give you our views

Ladies and gents, ‘Laugh-In’ looks at the news.”

 

SKED ALERT! "DOCTOR WHO" MID-SEASON FINALE!

Tonight is the mid-season finale of 'Doctor Who' - "A Good Man Goes To War".

At least here in the "Magnited States Of America". The Brits have already seen it. (And yes, so have I.....)

So, my fellow Yanks, here's a little something to whet your appetites:

I will say this and no more - a good case could be made for a new spin-off, just from this episode alone......

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AS SEEN ON TV: POE, FREUD, AND CALIGULA

SIGMUND FREUD, CALIGULA& EDGAR ALLEN POE

 AS SEEN IN:
'The Venture Brothers'

AS VOICED BY:
Christopher McCulloch (Poe)

TV DIMENSION:
The Tooniverse

From TV Rage and TV.com:



Brock and the Venture Boys get out of the dungeon, and are now somewhere in the past with Brock choking Edgar Allan Poe. Brock asks Edgar where he put the “Hand of Osiris”. Edgar gives in and tells Brock he hid it under the floor boards of his house. Hank starts to worry about the timeline and wonders if they are messing with it; Dean says to Hank not to worry about it.

Brock prepares to take his team in to go up against the Egyptian worshippers. Dean has mounted his head on the friendly mummy and is riding the Perfect Man. Through the wonders of time travel, Brock has produced a second Brock Samson to help him.

Brock, still at the pyramid, tells Hank to team up with Caligula for the attack pattern, but changes his mind when he sees Caligula dry humping Hank, and sends Hank to team up with Sigmund Freud, and for Caligula to be at the last wave alone. They are to attack right after the 2 Brocks and Edgar Allan Poe charge in.

After the role credits at the end of the show, the imaginary announcer says “Next week on the Venture Bros.” and we see the 2 Brocks with Hank in the middle of a snow storm. Brock is holding Hank in his arms while Hank is saying to him he feels cold and being pessimistic that he is going to die. Brock asks the other Brock to open the carcass remains of Edgar Allan Poe to stuff Hank inside him to keep him warm. The other Brock can’t bare the stench of the insides of the poet. Just then, Brock curses Dr. Venture's name when he sees they're all forsaken.

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MISSING LINKS: THE MIRROR OF PORTUGAL

Horace Dorrington was considered one of 'The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes' in Toobworld, whose exploits were first chronicled in a series of stories by Arthur Morrison. As a private investigator, he was corrupt, amoral, and on at least one occasion, a murderer. He could be relied upon to solve his cases, if only that, but always as a means to lining his pockets with more than his established fee with the client.

Wold Newton scholar Rick Lai considers Dorrington to have been the third most dangerous man in London, after Professor Moriarty and Colonel Moran from the Sherlock Holmes canon.

In one of his cases (set in 1895 as per the TV series, if not the original stories), Dorrington was hired to retrieve the fabled Mirror of Portugal, a diamond thought lost since the French Revolution. Until recently it was passed down through the generations of his client but it was stolen from around his neck. Dorrington tracked down the thief to be a Mr. Hamer, who shared an office with the client.

Dorrington forced Hamer and his wife to take him to where the diamond was kept, but it turned out Mrs. Hamer had it on her all the time. And when they reached the Thames, she threw the legendary stone into the river - if she couldn't have it, then no one would. After first insuring that he had collected his fee from his client, he then told the man and his brother where it could be found... which is all that he had been contracted to do.

And so the Mirror of Portugal lay at the bottom of the Thames, slowly sinking into the mire of the sediment, for over one hundred years. But then in 2006, a strange occurrence happened - the Thames River suddenly drained off, near to where the diamond lay in the muck.

In order to save the Earth from the resurgence of the Racnoss spider empire, the Gallifreyan Time Lord known as the Doctor opened a floodgate that caused the surging waters to cascade down into the center of the Earth where the clutch of spider eggs were just hatching after being dormant since the formation of the planet.

It wasn't just water that flowed down into that shaftway, but the muck and the mire and all the detritus to be found in the Thames. And that included the Mirror of Portugal.....

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AS SEEN ON TV: DOCTOR BOB

On this date in 1935, Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

DR. ROBERT SMITH

AS SEEN IN:
"My Name Is Bill W"

AS PLAYED BY:
James Garner

From Wikipedia:
Robert Holbrook Smith (August 8, 1879 – November 16, 1950) was an American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, more commonly known as Bill W. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith. After graduation from Dartmouth College in 1902, he completed medical school at Rush Medical College. Smith was married to Anne Ripley Smith, who played a vital role in the development of the 12 steps of AA. Smith co-founded the recovery movement Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, in 1935 in Akron, Ohio.

Smith was called the "Prince of Twelfth Steppers" by Wilson because he voluntarily helped more than 5000 alcoholics. In addition, it was in his home that the basic ideas of AA were developed. Many AA ideas developed initially in an offshoot of the then-popular Oxford Group, which was a Christian movement. Smith said that AA's basic ideas came from their study of the Bible; the Steps, in essence meant "love and service." Although Bill Wilson had helped other alcoholics with little or no success, AA is said to have begun June 10, 1935. This was the day "Dr. Bob" took his last bottle of beer, under the watch of Bill Wilson, to steady his hands for surgery. By applying the spiritual solution of the 12 Steps and working with other alcoholics, Smith was able to stay sober from June 10, 1935, until his death in 1950 from colon cancer.

I'm sending this out to my cousins Peter and Maggie - only for the reasons that today is their birthday (They're twins), and because their family name is Smith.....

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TELE-QUICKIES: FREEZE-FRAME FUN

Like words and phrases, frame grabs can be taken out of context.....

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AS SEEN ON TV: DON CARLOS

DON CARLOS

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS

AS SEEN IN:
'The Adventures Of Sir Francis Drake'

AS PLAYED BY:
Joseph Cuby

From Wikipedia:
Carlos, Prince of Asturias, also known as Don Carlos (8 July 1545 – 24 July 1568), was the eldest son and heir of King Philip II of Spain. His mother was Maria Manuela of Portugal, daughter of John III of Portugal. Carlos was mentally unstable and was imprisoned by his father in early 1568, dying after half a year of solitary confinement. His fate was a theme in Spain's "Black Legend", and inspired a play by Friedrich Schiller and an opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

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MUTANTS!

Mutants aren't just found in the comic books and movies; they're also in Toobworld. Earth Prime-Time had at least one TV series about Homo Superior - 'Mutant X'. ('Heroes' may have been about mutants, but they could also have been about mutates. Mutants are born that way; mutates are genetically altered later. Beast of "The X-Men" - now a resident of Toobworld thanks to a Farmer's Insurance blipvert - is both. Anyhoo, after Future Hiro met Peter Perrelli on the subway, the timeline was changed and the rest of the series ended up in a parallel dimension.  So if there was anything to that stuff about their powers being triggered by an eclipse later in the series - I dropped out partway through Season Two - then it wasn't really relevant to Earth Prime-Time.)

'The Twilight Zone' had at least one mutant - Jimbo Cobb, a simple man with the power of telekinesis. And even Claudette Colbert played a mutant, in an episode of 'Suspicion'.

"The Last Town Car" told the story of Edith Miller, who thought she was being haunted by an old-fashioned taxi. Whenever she rode in it, she was transported back to a crime connected to the cab some decades before.

It turns out she had psychic abilities and was actually tapping into the memories of the cabby. Many years before, he was the personal driver for a spiteful old man who ruined the lives of his own two children. The driver couldn't stand to see him hurt anyone else and so he pushed his boss into the oncoming traffic. As he thought back on his crime, the scenario was replayed for Mrs. Miller as though she was actually there to observe it.

I don't know if either Jimbo Cobb or Edith Miller can blame an eclipse for their abilities; I think they were born with those "talents". But based on the ages of both characters, mutant abilities pre-date the dawn of the atomic age....

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