Spaghetti, with Extra Cheese

[spaceroo]

First off, I know I've been awfully quiet lately. It's not really because there isn't necessarily anything interesting to talk about, it's mostly a perfect storm of poor time management and feeling really overwhelmed/wiped out by the holidays

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[austin_dern]

Ooh, ooh, I have exactly those on my TiVo! BunnyHugger and I watched the Daleks movie, despite interest rapidly drifting away as it just kept puttering on somehow. The other films I watched while doing my WiiFit exercises and planned to report on as slow-news-day Livejournal reports, but I still figure to

[spaceroo]

Just about simultaneously with you posting this comment I found your post mentioning the Dr. Who movie and commented on that. How's that for timing

[oliver_otter]

Little known bit of Dr. Who trivia. Dr. Who is a spinoff of the Howdy Doody Show. (Specifically, the Canadian version of the show.) He was originally a puppet with a time machine who gave history lessons as an educational element. He was considered too scary for smaller children, so he was spun off as a human with a time machine in his own educational show. The lessons weren't popular, but he was, so the educational component was then dropped.

That was possibly the original human Dr. Who you were watching.

[spaceroo]

You know, a Canadian Howdy Doody connection explains *a lot* about Dr. Who.

(So, the really odd thing to ponder: is it possible that Jay Ward might of seen this prototypical Who-In-a-Box and and based the Peabody and Sherman segments in Rocky and Bullwinkle on it, thus making Mr. Sherman and "real" Dr. Who fraternal twins?)

Really, a talking dog named Peabody might of made for a for a more believable threat to the Daleks than Peter CushingWho. If nothing else he could of rusted them solid by mistaking them for fire plugs.

[xolo]

Ooo! I love 'UFO'! That's one of the ones they used to always show on the late-night SF movie when I was little, so I have fond memories of that. Very dry, but as everyone else has noted, the absolute sincerity really makes it work.

[spaceroo]

Sincerity, yeah, there's really no other way to put it. U.F.O. earned its visit from the Great Pumpkin in spades. Perhaps the absolutely best moments in the film showcasing its absolute lack of irony were the film projection scenes. You really get the feeling that the producer 100% believed that those blurry little snatches of footage he was teasing us with were *genuinely* earth-shattering material.

[jumpyfox]

Happy Belated Birthday!

[jumpyfox]

Happy Birthday!