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Post by Lance Uppercut on Jul 2, 2024 11:07:10 GMT -5
What things you may have grown up with, etc. were you surprised to eventually learn WEREN'T the orignal presentations? Could be due to changes in music, performers, the show's open, etc... - Being used to The Bullwinkle Show versions of the Rocky And His Friends cartoons, first from syndication and then later on cable. Especially the opening bumpers that cut out the "Rocky the Flying Squirrel" parts to cut to an "Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" title instead. And don't get me started on the further alterations on DVD and etc. - I Love Lucy. The heart/cursive drawing. That is all. - By the 80s, the ORIGINAL version of the Jetsons theme tune...yes, there's differences. And of course the original ending sequence being lost for 80s style credits. - Flintstones and Rise and Shine. - Happy Days, Season One, having the split rectangle Paramount TV logo at the end. All of them had whichever logo was current at the time. Including the 70s/80s blue mountain, which felt more natural. - Cockney Stiletto in Danger Mouse/DM being shown without "To be continued" breaks on Nickelodeon. The music too. I grew up on the re-runs and only found out in the year, the opening was added because it needed to fit the contemporary syndication style, that did not exist when it first aired. Damn, I had to look it up. I thought the tv land version was the original, but didn’t know there was an even older version. I can see why they didn’t use it. All that cigarette placement
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Post by Stu on Jul 2, 2024 11:16:59 GMT -5
Back in the day, any of you know Power Rangers used Japanese footage and wasn’t completely filmed in the west? I explained that to so many people and some didn’t believe me
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 4, 2024 11:11:29 GMT -5
Not the same, but since there were so many references to cover songs here about 20 years ago Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry were listening to the radio when a song came on that Tyler really liked. He suggested to Perry that they should cover it, which flabbergasted Perry.
The song was “You See Me Crying”, the last track on Aerosmith’s own classic album Toys in the Attic. The song was a massive pain to record because Tyler went to great lengths to have an orchestra accompanying the band on that particular song and Tyler didn’t even recognize it.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 4, 2024 12:35:29 GMT -5
Not music, but I was unaware of the original silent versions of Wizard of Oz and The Ten Commandments until recently.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jul 8, 2024 0:32:46 GMT -5
I was reading up something about Diana Rigg, and learned that the TV series "The Avengers" was different than I imagined.
First series started with Steed being a secondary character to a doctor, then becoming the main character by the end of the first series.
Series 2 had Steed with three rotating partners (two female and one male), and Series 3 kept only one, Honor Blackman.
Series 4 and 5 had Diana Rigg, who was hired after Blackman left to film "Goldfinger".
Series 6 had Linda Thorson after Rigg left following a dispute over pay.
I knew that Rigg wasn't always on the show, I knew she wasn't the first partner, but I thought she was around for longer than just two series.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Jul 8, 2024 10:59:20 GMT -5
I was reading up something about Diana Rigg, and learned that the TV series "The Avengers" was different than I imagined. First series started with Steed being a secondary character to a doctor, then becoming the main character by the end of the first series. Series 2 had Steed with three rotating partners (two female and one male), and Series 3 kept only one, Honor Blackman. Series 4 and 5 had Diana Rigg, who was hired after Blackman left to film "Goldfinger". Series 6 had Linda Thorson after Rigg left following a dispute over pay. I knew that Rigg wasn't always on the show, I knew she wasn't the first partner, but I thought she was around for longer than just two series. Did we have some kind of "X lasted shorter than it felt" thread? Cause this belongs here for sure. Making me wonder...did Emma Peel instantly become an iconic character, or years after the fact? If we're doing an Avengers timeline, we must mention things coming full circle to Series 2 when they had a New Avengers in the '70s, where Steed is part of a team with more than two members.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Jul 8, 2024 11:43:52 GMT -5
Jushin Liger the anime before the wrestler.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Jul 12, 2024 18:38:40 GMT -5
New one for me...
Wherever Would I Be from the movie While You Were Sleeping was a cover of a Cheap Trick song.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 12, 2024 18:43:10 GMT -5
Not the same, but since there were so many references to cover songs here about 20 years ago Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry were listening to the radio when a song came on that Tyler really liked. He suggested to Perry that they should cover it, which flabbergasted Perry. The song was “You See Me Crying”, the last track on Aerosmith’s own classic album Toys in the Attic. The song was a massive pain to record because Tyler went to great lengths to have an orchestra accompanying the band on that particular song and Tyler didn’t even recognize it. Sadly, 20 years ago was 2004. This happened back in like 1984 when they were busy getting the band back together and still all high and drunk AF.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 13, 2024 11:09:51 GMT -5
Not the same, but since there were so many references to cover songs here about 20 years ago Stephen Tyler and Joe Perry were listening to the radio when a song came on that Tyler really liked. He suggested to Perry that they should cover it, which flabbergasted Perry. The song was “You See Me Crying”, the last track on Aerosmith’s own classic album Toys in the Attic. The song was a massive pain to record because Tyler went to great lengths to have an orchestra accompanying the band on that particular song and Tyler didn’t even recognize it. Sadly, 20 years ago was 2004. This happened back in like 1984 when they were busy getting the band back together and still all high and drunk AF. Ah. Well, I guess maybe it was 20 years ago that one of them retold the story in an interview and it sounded like it was recent. Either that or it’s a case of me getting older and things seem more recent than they actually (for instance, high school doesn’t feel 31 years ago). Either way, the story is still golden though.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 13, 2024 11:20:22 GMT -5
Sadly, 20 years ago was 2004. This happened back in like 1984 when they were busy getting the band back together and still all high and drunk AF. Ah. Well, I guess maybe it was 20 years ago that one of them retold the story in an interview and it sounded like it was recent. Either that or it’s a case of me getting older and things seem more recent than they actually (for instance, high school doesn’t feel 31 years ago). Either way, the story is still golden though. Yeah, it's probably my favorite story from their autobiography.
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