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Psychics, Psychologists, and Gynecologists

WARNING! SPOILERS! Don’t Look Now – This movie starts with a girl drowning when she goes into a pond after a ball. Children in movies really need to stop chasing after objects, although I guess you can also meet frog princes that way. That’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Health, Monsters, Music, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ariel, barry manilow, beetles, burgess meredith, carol channing, charo, dead ringers, don bluth, don't look now, donald sutherland, gilbert gottfried, gynecology, hans christian andersen, jeremy irons, jodi benson, mice, moles, psychics, shelley duvall, smile, stewart and cyril marcus, swallows, the little mermaid, thumbelina, toads |

Myriapod Mania

I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games | Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards |

It’s Koopa Clobbering Time

Here are some more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews, and for once I haven’t heard the reviews on the Super Show Show podcast at the Hard Times, because they haven’t gotten to most of these yet, “Mario of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged a basement divided, adee don't, albatosses, apes, beetles, big bad wolf, chippie chipmunks, fred travalena, gramma toadstool, honey i shrunk the kids, jungle land, karate, karate koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopa-kola, lions, little red riding hood, little red riding princess, luigi mario, mario mario, mario of the apes, martial arts, melanie chartoff, misaki, mouser, mr. gibbel, mr. miyagi, mushroom kingdom, ninjis, no way to treat a queenie, plumb fu, princess i shrunk the mario brothers, princess peach toadstool, queen elizabeth ii, ratigator, sayanora, tarzan, tawny tyler, the karate kid, toad, triclyde, trouters, waldo the wizard, wolves |

Harum Scarab

The ancient Egyptians seemed to have a god for every kind of animal with which they were familiar, some of which were quite prominent and others more obscure. The scarab beetle was a common symbol in Egypt, used for many … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Egyptian, Etymology, Language, Mythology | Tagged amulets, atum, beetles, dung beetles, heart scarab amulets, insects, khepri, pyramid texts, ra, scarabs, sun |

Meet the Beetles

I remember the description for Buzzy Beetle in the original Super Mario Bros. instruction booklet: “Quite the toughy, fireballs don’t even phase him.” They don’t work on Bullet Bills either, but for the most part, a fireproof enemy was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged beetles, bony beetles, buster beetles, buzzy beetles, dry bones, goombas, koopa troopas, new super mario bros. wii, paper mario: sticker star, para-beetles, piranha plants, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, super mario bros. super show, super mario world |