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Dog and Pony Shows
Here are my thoughts on three movies and three television shows, with SPOILERS for all of them. Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma’s campy 1974 rock musical is mostly a take on The Phantom of the Opera, with … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Food, Gender, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a new hope, adrienne barbeau, allan sherman, augie doggie, bail organa, barney rubble, boo boo bear, brian de palma, captain caveman, cindy bear, danny devito, darth vader, doggie daddy, faust, fred flintstone, goober and the ghost chasers, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, huckleberry hound, jabberjaw, james earl jones, jamie lee curtis, janet leigh, jellystone, jerry springer, jerry springer fights camera action, jessica harper, John Carpenter, jonny quest, loopy de loop, magilla gorilla, my little pony, my little pony the movie, obi-wan kenobi, oprah winfrey, peter potamus, phantom of the paradise, princess leia, quick draw mcgraw, raspberry rover, richard dominick, satan, scooby-doo, shazzan, smooze, snagglepuss, solo a star wars story, the fog, the hillbilly bears, the phantom of the opera, the picture of dorian gray, tom atkins, tony randall, top cat, touche turtle, vivien lyra blair, wally gator, william finley, wilma flintstone, yogi bear |
Holy Hanna-Barbera!
The Hanna-Barbera Now initiative at DC Comics started in 2016, with the idea to use characters from the old studio’s cartoons in more modern and often darker stories. I’d been interested in the Flintstones series for a while now; it’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Environmentalism, Families, Humor, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons | Tagged aliens, astro, augie doggie, bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cosmo g. spacely, dc comics, dogs, dorothy parker, elroy jetson, exit stage left, frank pugh, fred flintstone, gay marriage, george jetson, george o'hanlon, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, hanna-barbera now, homophobia, homosexuality, huckleberry hound, jane jetson, jimmy palmiotti, marilyn monroe, mark russell, marriage, mike feehan, nasa, pearl slaghoople, pebbles flintstone, peter potamus, pier brito, president richard nixon, puns, quick draw mcgraw, robots, rosey the robot, roy cohn, satire, snagglepuss, squiddly diddly, tennessee williams, tony danza, who framed roger rabbit, wilma flintstone |
Foresight Is 2020
2020 always just sounded so far in the future when I was a kid. Really, even 2000 still had a bit of awe-inspiring mysticism about it, but I remember most of my childhood interest in a science fiction sort of … Continue reading →
Posted in Capitalism, Cartoons, Climate, Corporations, Economics, Global Warming, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Science, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged architecture, art deco, automation, computers, elon musk, emerald city, flying cars, futurism, googie, internet, jetpacks, retrofuturism, science fiction, smart phones, space travel |
Let There Be Jobs
I found a link on Twitter to this article, which raises some points I’ve thought about before, and also some others I hadn’t really. I’ve considered before the possibility that there just aren’t enough jobs to go around in the … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Capitalism, Cartoons, Corporations, Current Events, Douglas Adams, Economics, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Politics, Real Time with Bill Maher, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged bill maher, business, david graeber, donald trump, economic recovery, golgafrinchans, job creation, obamacare, president barack obama, the restaurant at the end of the universe, trickle-down economics, unemployment, work |
What Will Haven Be
One thing I’ve seen noted about the future in Back to the Future Part II is that it more or less assumed certain trends would continue in the same way. Inflation was particularly bad in the 1980s, so there were … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Futurama, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Music, Star Trek, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged back to the future, back to the future part ii, back to the future part iii, bender bending rodriguez, computers, elroy jetson, fashion, future, george jetson, h.g. wells, michael jackson, robots, science fiction, the time machine, time travel, zapp brannigan |
Bad News, Nobody
Throughout its run, Futurama has had several of what could be considered series finalés. “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings” was the end of the original run on Fox. Into the Wild Green Yonder marked the last of the direct-to-video … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Douglas Adams, Futurama, Humor, Star Trek, Television, The Jetsons, The Simpsons | Tagged bender bending rodriguez, data, dr. john zoidberg, dr. leonard mccoy, hermes conrad, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, marvin the paranoid android, matt groening, nibbler, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, turanga leela |
They Put a Microchip in My Place
I made a quick comment on self checkouts recently, which resulted in a debate on Facebook. I’m really not that opposed to self checkout in particular, aside from the fact that they rarely seem to work correctly, but it’s more … Continue reading →
Posted in Capitalism, Cartoons, Corporations, Economics, Politics, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged job creators, john henry, laissez-faire, outsourcing, presdient barack obama, technological singularity, working class |
Even in the Future, Nothing Works
The Jetsons is an interesting show in many ways, but its characters aren’t really among them. Compared to their obvious predecessors, the Flintstones, the Jetson family comes across as rather flat, people who have things happen to them rather than … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Futurama, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons | Tagged cosmo g. spacely, fred flintstone, george jetson, jane jetson, jet screamer, matt novak, orbitty, rosey the robot, rosie the robot, wilma flintstone |