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Post by Mike Strike on Dec 23, 2021 17:25:48 GMT -5
"Princess Sally is a comic character & not from the games like Amy". This ones manages to be wrong on both ends:
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Dec 23, 2021 17:31:31 GMT -5
Scrappy's introduction basically coincided with a downturn in the quality of Scooby-Doo stories in general. The character was perfectly fine, but any premise of the show being about mystery solving was pretty much gone in favor of just having Shaggy and Scooby bumble around and crash into stuff like an old Three Stooges short. That was the real problem. It's also a generational thing. GenX was always at the very best bemused by Scrappy, even though kids liked him. |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Dec 23, 2021 19:04:08 GMT -5
Yoko Ono didn't break up The Beatles, Paul McCartney did. Paul didn't break up the Beatles. Paul, John, George, and Ringo broke up the Beatles. It wasn't just one person, it was the entire group that split itself apart. |
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Dec 23, 2021 19:57:36 GMT -5
Joe Quesada broke up Peter and Mary-Jane... It's true he was the biggest proponent in the company of ending the marriage, but he was far from the only one who wanted them broke up.
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Post by greyfmdan on Dec 23, 2021 23:51:00 GMT -5
Agreed on most of the points here re: Scrappy. I’ll add, I wonder how much of the modern Scrappy hate is because of Internet groupthink—or at least, because the Internet has poisoned the well somewhat. I remember watching Cartoon Network reruns as a kid in the 90s, & to be honest, I kind of liked the Scrappy character. I didn’t particularly care for the 3-shorts format change, but I didn’t see that as the fault of the character. Granted, rewatching now as an adult, I find him somewhat cringey. But if not for all the Internet hate, I do wonder if I’d be watching him with quite as critical an eye. Scrappy's a part of my favourite Scooby Doo era where it's just Shaggy and Daph, which I 'ship hard. I can't hate that era. There’s a reason Daphne was the character from the original gang that they brought back full-time. And I doubt the reason was because she was the most popular one with the kids. |
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Post by thechase on Dec 24, 2021 2:06:35 GMT -5
Joe Quesada broke up Peter and Mary-Jane... It's true he was the biggest proponent in the company of ending the marriage, but he was far from the only one who wanted them broke up. Peter and MJ have been back together for five years, they even 'fixed' OMD without undoing it at the close of Nick Spencer's run by having Mephisto reveal that he foresees a future where Peter kicks his ass, and his vision changes to Peter and MJ's daughter doing it instead, which demonstrates the return of the marriage is inevitable in the main books. Another false narrative is that Marvel committed to getting rid of the marriage. In truth, the marriage never actually went away. While he was alive, Stan kept Peter and MJ married in the newspaper comic strip, then across 2015-2019 Marvel published the AU book Renew Your Vows title with Peter, MJ and their kid Annie fighting crime. To this day the newspaper strip's reruns are still all about the marriage. It's all illusion of change. Most of the changes brought on by 'Brand New Day' have been almost completely overturned now, even Harry Osborn's resurrection and Sins Past have been undone. |
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 24, 2021 6:49:10 GMT -5
Joe Quesada broke up Peter and Mary-Jane... It's true he was the biggest proponent in the company of ending the marriage, but he was far from the only one who wanted them broke up. Peter and MJ have been back together for five years, they even 'fixed' OMD without undoing it at the close of Nick Spencer's run by having Mephisto reveal that he foresees a future where Peter kicks his ass, and his vision changes to Peter and MJ's daughter doing it instead, which demonstrates the return of the marriage is inevitable in the main books. Another false narrative is that Marvel committed to getting rid of the marriage. In truth, the marriage never actually went away. While he was alive, Stan kept Peter and MJ married in the newspaper comic strip, then across 2015-2019 Marvel published the AU book Renew Your Vows title with Peter, MJ and their kid Annie fighting crime. To this day the newspaper strip's reruns are still all about the marriage. It's all illusion of change. Most of the changes brought on by 'Brand New Day' have been almost completely overturned now, even Harry Osborn's resurrection and Sins Past have been undone. It's worth noting that Axel Alonso was the second biggest proponent of undoing Peter's marriage and he's gone now too, as are most of the writers that supported the idea. |
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Dec 26, 2021 15:02:14 GMT -5
While we're on it, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is not the tale of festive adultery people claim, it's the kids dad.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 27, 2021 2:43:39 GMT -5
Yoko Ono didn't break up The Beatles, Paul McCartney did. Paul didn't break up the Beatles. Paul, John, George, and Ringo broke up the Beatles. It wasn't just one person, it was the entire group that split itself apart. Yeah, almost they were pretty burnt out by that point... (Also it is entirely likely Yoko kept them together for the last album cause John was almost kicked out of the band for showing up to meetings and stuff completely off his ass on drugs and proclaiming himself the messiah before he and Yoko hooked up) but it is incredibly likely the group would have gotten together again at some point had John not been murdered. I mean just look at how often the 4 collaborated on each others solo stuff. (Also allegedly Paul and John were watching SNL together When SNL publicly offered a substantial amount of money for them to come down and reform... they almost did it but decided against it at the last minute) While we're on it, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is not the tale of festive adultery people claim, it's the kids dad. I've never heard anyone think it was actually about a woman kissing Santa. It's pretty obvious from the lyrics that it's from the view point of a child catching his dad dressed as Santa. "What a laugh it would have been had daddy had only seen mommy kissing Santa" is more or less the give away. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 30, 2021 7:10:02 GMT -5
We got one for the IWC in Wrest, so.... How about "All the kids except Charlie died in Willy Wonka." No. Wonka says they'll be fine...hopefully wiser. Problem is they never included the scene where Charlie sees the kids leaving the factory from the great glass elevator. Oh don’t believe the Wonka apologists. He murdered those kids. And it wasn’t the first time either. |
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Post by mrtuesday on Dec 30, 2021 7:30:41 GMT -5
Paul didn't break up the Beatles. Paul, John, George, and Ringo broke up the Beatles. It wasn't just one person, it was the entire group that split itself apart. Yeah, almost they were pretty burnt out by that point... (Also it is entirely likely Yoko kept them together for the last album cause John was almost kicked out of the band for showing up to meetings and stuff completely off his ass on drugs and proclaiming himself the messiah before he and Yoko hooked up) but it is incredibly likely the group would have gotten together again at some point had John not been murdered. I mean just look at how often the 4 collaborated on each others solo stuff. (Also allegedly Paul and John were watching SNL together When SNL publicly offered a substantial amount of money for them to come down and reform... they almost did it but decided against it at the last minute) While we're on it, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is not the tale of festive adultery people claim, it's the kids dad. I've never heard anyone think it was actually about a woman kissing Santa. It's pretty obvious from the lyrics that it's from the view point of a child catching his dad dressed as Santa. "What a laugh it would have been had daddy had only seen mommy kissing Santa" is more or less the give away. "Mommy has a Santa kink" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 30, 2021 9:13:22 GMT -5
While we're on it, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is not the tale of festive adultery people claim, it's the kids dad. Maybe. But we can all agree that Michael telling Joe about it probably didn't end well. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 30, 2021 11:33:17 GMT -5
Remember the Jenkem bullshit?
God damn, I remember when the local police came to our department wide safety meeting to talk to all the truck drivers (like snowplow/rock truck drivers) to learn how to spot "Jenkem sources". Like with a straight face they said "Look out for bottles filled with brown fluid and balloons on top. Call us immediately". They also said something to the effect of "Kids love walking the road ditches looking for 'trucker bombs', it's a great way to get Jenkem quickly."
Yes. Everybody knows that kids are all about walking road ditches looking for bottles filled with trucker piss.
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