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Live Action 'The Tick' Pilot
ForteBravo writes "Patrick Warburton ('Puddy' on Seinfeld) is slated to star in a live action 'The Tick' pilot on Fox. Link courtesy of memepool. Could there be a more perfect candidate out there to play our favorite bumbling hero? I don't think so." Okay, as long as I get to play the part of Die Fledermaus.
How about you shove your hand up your ass next time you see a story you don't want to read...
...or is your head taking up too much room as it is?
Must be nice to be the only person in your universe. Go fuck yourself.
The tick is a big dumb guy who doesn't take himself seriously and has no ego whatsoever. He points out all of the things that are screwy, and just lives the superhero thing for it's own sake. Bruce just isn't bulky enough, and he has the wrong aura.
However, he would make and EXCELLENT Die Fledermaus. The guy who does the voice for Die Fledermaus in the cartoon is aping Bruce's style totally. Pull out your old comics and conjure up Bruce saying the Ticks lines, and then the Mause's lines. Perfect!
Oooh. I bet it feels SO good to be so anti-establishment, huh?
How about this one? Does that make you happy?
Frasier for Chairface, or at least his voice...
WTG ITS HD
you are special
...David Warner for chairface. It just seems too right. (BTW, has anyone heard Kelsy Grammar (sp) doing voices on "Courage the Cowardly Dog"?) And Sigorney Weaver (or Megan Gallager, or someone of that type) as American Maid. I saw Kirk Douglas mentioned above as the Terror. That could work, or maybe Dana Carvey doing his "grumpy old man". As for Arthur...he needs to be skinny and small, he needs a fairly high voice. None of the ideas I have read so far make sense for him. Cpt_Kirks
i've never heard of this charachter in seinfeld
The tick rocks...SPOON!!! darkharlequin...
patrick stewart will be the star of the new live action show, "the grits." he will recite shakspeare, and then say "make it so" and pour a big bowl of hot grits down his pants. thank you.
The Tick was a great cartoon series. I can't wait. My favorite episode was when the Tick had a breakdown and ended up in that mental hospital where he had to wrestle Shaft who dressed in different costumes.
At least somebody mentioned the comic books. Although the cartoon was very good, I really missed the Ninjas and Paul the Samurai. And I think the Big Show should wear the Tick suit and have the voice actor from the cartoon voice over him. I can't think of anyone else with the right body size. "I will, but not because you told me to!" --Lung Zai-Suk, Mighty Mighty Death Machine
>But the problem is that its bound to be expensive in live action. Yeah not to mention all the stuff he breaks every few seconds.
hmm why is it i cant wrap text where i want too. pressing enter does nothing. silly /. :)
A live action Freakazoid would involve Jim Carey .. and I'm still cringing at the idea of him doing the Grinch this year
...?
Then again doesn't Dexter Douglas remind us of ourselves at times
Dr. Forbin
"What do we do now sir?
"We die."
I never saw him as dumb; the fact that he would just sit there and stare off into space made him different. I thought it was a satirical comment on our obsessive need to always be doing something, even if it's just looking at some magazine that we have no interest in. I thought it was rather cool that he didn't have to compulsively busy himself with something, and it was hilarious that Elaine couldn't stand the fact that he wasn't doing something.
NOTE: For non-Seinfeld fans, there was an episode where Elaine and Puddy were flying on a plane and while Elaine was busying herself reading, Puddy was just staring off into space. Elaine kept asking him if he wanted something to read, and he would reply, "No, I'm fine." She couldn't stand the idea that he was doing nothing and decided she wanted to break up with him again.
You should have used an underscore ( _ ) instead of a , and made the R capitolized. That way no one could have figured out you were the fake Roblimo.
That's why I have nonexistant copies of the Buckaroo Banzai, My Favorite Martian, Inspector Gadget and Galaxy Quest soundtracks .. and I'd love to have one of the Tick to go with my Attack of the Killer Tomatos copies .. Dr. Forbin "The girl of my dreams is a vegatable!!"
Ok, you got the first post. You're right there at the top, and people will see your post first. This is a great opportunity to present your opinion about something to the whole world. I would have thought you'd say something, anything other than hey I got the first post. You just missed a golden opportunity. You must be a very boring person not to have anything to say.
yeay !
sam Raimi would be perfect - er.. is anybody still following this?
oh bugger!
I wouldn't be too excited. Barry Sonnenfeld is running this one, and recent efforts show that, frankly, he sucks.
...and all the rest of the sleazy MPAA members. As long as DeCSS is under attack, I'll not bless 'em with my patronage.
What the fuck is this?!?!? TV-Guide??! Slashdot has gone downhill lately.
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Come on you lazy fucking assholes, post some REAL stuff here, such as-
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000
or
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/02/11/news
I want my subscription money refunded!
Greg Hyland taught me how to draw when I was 8 years old at a course held in the local culutural centre =]
Definitely a brilliant casting move. I've been wanting to see him do something besides Cadillac & M&M commercials.
He has a somewhat larger role as the bodyguard in Scream 3...yeah Adam West as Die Fledermaus, that would be amazing! and Raimi would be good too.. some people also said Bruce Campbell would have made a good Tick, although I don't know about that one
Also the Tick vs. Arthur episode
Itlan
We'er gona eat your brain!
Please, Please, start watching Ally McBeal.
For a minute, I almost thought I had accidently typed "www.tvguide.com". There are probably actual news-worthy/nerd-worthy events (that matter). Too bad slashdot.org -> slashdot.net -> slashdot.com doesn't realize it.
heheh
i won!!
made my day!!!
I don't think Al Gore is quite animated enough to play Little Wooden Boy.
said Sonnenfeld. ?I like it even more than my
6-year-old daughter. It?s really up my alley. it
doesn?t feel like anything on television today.?
Argh. Idiot quotes.
Heh, I could claim that I have a bootleg copy of the non-existant soundtrack music, but I won't because that would violate MANY copyright laws! If I did have such a copy, I'd say it was extremely cool! The campiness factor alone is enough to make it incredibly fun.
All I'm saying is that Fox and the composer would make a lot of money if it were actually produced, not copied on audio tape like I have allegedly seen and heard.
First off, I am a huge Tick fan. I'm also really excited about this live-action business.
However, I really don't think that Puddy is the right guy for the job. If you have ever seen Henry Rawlins do comedy, I think he'd be a lot better fit for the part.
And there'd better be a recurring part for Bruce Cambell in there somewhere or I'm out. (An overacted film just isn't good without 'ol Bruce)
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Should we trust Bill Clinton?
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Should we trust Variety?
I bet you're glad the moderators are here to tell you what's funny, offtopic, insightful, interesting, flamebait, informative or trollish. We wouldn't want you to think for yourself.
Not in the face!!!
But I'm wondering who'll play Chairface?
The Tick: An object at rest cannot be stopped! The Midnight bomber what bombs at midnight!: So I sez, yeah man, I'm tired of working for the man! So I sez, why dontcha blow him up!
The Tick was one of the smartest cartoons that I have ever seen. Like some of the great old Looney Toons, it worked on so many levels.
I used to set my alarm clock just to make sure that I was up on time to see it. (That's higher praise than you think.)
I think that it would be difficult to capture all of this in a non-animated sense, especially with the budgets a 30-minute comedy would have.
I can almost see it turning into the original (60's) Batman cartoon, with "POW!" and "WHACK!" flashing across the screen during the fight sequences.
I do wish them the best of luck, though. If they do it right, it'll be a wonder to watch!
Moderators not here yet kimosabe.
MMMM...me hep good troll.
Finally, my .sig is vindicated! :)
:)
Oh yeah, cant wait to see the movie
"There is no spoon" - Neo, The Matrix
"SPOOOOOOOOON!" - The Tick, The Tick
"Redeyes! Didn't expect to see you so... SPOON!"
wow. I feel first post special!
"I've been a huge fan of 'The Tick' for years," said Sonnenfeld. "I like it even more than my 6-year-old daughter...."
It's hard to imagine what a little girl could do in six years to have her dad say such stuff in such a big, industry magazine.
=;]
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Too funny.
I would like to see The Human Ton and Handy.
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Mystery Men was doubly funny if you could read those signs in Japanese, Cyrillic, and Devangari and knew they didn't say anything.
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First and only comic book investment I ever made.
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Adam West as Der Fleidermaus
John Luvitz (sp?) as Arthur
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
When I first heard Elaine's boss at J Peterman
talk, I thought he was The Tick.
Similar delivery. Maybe they should get him.
Also a good superhero parody (though a bit more oriented on the industry than the actual heroes) is Lethargic Lad.
Of course there are lots of similarities between the Tick and Him, but afaik they were created independently of each other.
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My choice for Arthur would be Miles, from Murphy Brown, but that's just MHO.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
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STFU about slashdot bias.
Spoon!!!!!
I hope it's cool, I miss the Tick cartoons.
And no I don't have cable. :
"Think of it as evolution in action."
The first Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles....
It was a, parody of Frank Millers: Ronin and daredevil.
Ronin, was a realy cool comic, that Frank Miller did in the mid 80's.
The parody was inspired, and almost as good as the original.
"Think of it as evolution in action."
Warburton also played a short-lived character on "News Radio" before they canceled it. He played an evil corporate takeover artist..
For those of you interested, I have a Tick News section on one of my websites that I'll be collecting the various story links on. If you have any more, I'd love to see them. Unfortunately, I'm not as elite enough as /. to allow discussions -- something I'm currently still writing (but there are other Tick discussion boards (and newsgroup) if you really need to vent to fellow Tick fans). I won't make it a secret I'm a little scared about a live-action Tick (I've been a big fan since the comic first came out), but something is better than nothing... and maybe, just maybe this will be popular enough to propel The Tick onto the big screen. I'm tired of waiting. Ben! Hurry up already!
Without you I'm one step closer to happiness without violence.
...which is really too bad, because if more people had, they wouldn't be saying things like "It'll never stand up to the animated series."
:)
I don't mean that as a slam or a flame, but the comics were *never* as surreal as the cartoon got, and I actually liked it for that. Everything that happened in the comics was mostly probable (except for Tick being nigh-invunerable [ie. he was invunerable "when the plot called for it"] and the super-strength). Very little happened in the comic that someone couldn't do in real life. For instance, the tv show never covered the legions of poorly-trained ninja, or Tick and Arthur's cross-country journey, and their escapades in Deertown, etc. If you can find 'em, you really should check 'em out.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the animated series was great in it's own way, but it was much sillier in-and-of-itself than the comic ever was. Tick could basically be entertaining in a paper bag ("Arf! Arf! Barking panther catches the scent of his elusive prey! Arf!"). I mean, they never even mention his secret crime viewfinder goggles in the animated series.
i wonder who'll get to be the Terror...
maybe kirk douglas.
....waiting impatiently for my long awaited night of a million billion ninjas.
"The things we wizards have to put up with."--Jethro Bodine
This is great news. Puddy was my favorite recurring Seinfeld character, and should be perfect as the Tick.
The next big question is, who gets to play the Man Eating Cow?
Judging from all the people here who loved the TV show, someone should really release all of the episodes on video. (There are only two tapes out now...damned bastards!)
-j
I agree with the guy who says Bruce would be better for Die Flader Mouse .. or however you spell that .. hehe... others I'd like to see:
Tim Curry: Chairface
The guy who plays the squinty eyed guy on third rock from the son: Sewer Urchin
John Cusak: Dinosaur Niel
Demi Moore: American Maid
I remember sitting home on Saturday mornings. Enduring all the 'Fox Kids' commercials with Ronald McDonald and Barbie. I remember reminiscing about my childhood whilst laughing my head off. The Tick was and is a very funny show, but how many adults can say they watched a children's cartoon religiously?
Two words: Bruce Campbell
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Don't get me wrong. I like Puddy.
But the Tick is a perfect Bruce Campbell part. He does the bumbling hero very well, doesn't quite understand how things really work but full speed ahead. And, he has the chin.
George from Seinfeld could pull off Arthur, perhaps.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
"Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!"
Hollywood will PROBABLY F' this up but what they hey, the first Batman was pretty decent so maybe there is hope! The question is, who do you trust to Direct this? Sam Raimi? Cameron? Oliver Stone? No-dear God-No!!!
I loved the cartoon, I only hope the live action can do it justice.
Where did the cartoon get relegated to anyway? I haven't seen it in a long time on TV.
Just a dude. Stuck in IT.
I can't really think of anyone who could appropriately play my personal favorite Tick character, the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight.
Also, I would be happy to see if they could get Hank Azaria involved in this show somehow...it seems right up his alley.
"LITTLE WOODEN BOY!!! Why do we always hurt the ones we love?"
I'm Peggy.
Warburton is great! My favorite Puddy line:
"All signs point to YES." (his thumbs pointing to the back of his new 8-ball jacket)
Definitely a brilliant casting move. I've been wanting to see him do something besides Cadillac & M&M commercials.
On a side note, who else noticed that in the Seinfeld "Superman" American Express commercial, that Warburton was the voice of the animated Superman? And that the actress who played "Lois" was the same one who played "Lois" in an episode of "Seinfeld"? I thought that was funny...
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No, not die Fledermaus, die. It's as in German, the German 'the'. The Bart, er, The Fledermaus. No one who speaks German can possibly be evil, right?
On another note, isn't is supposed to be Delflator Mouse (in The Tick)? I thought the whole idea of the name was to poke fun...
One of these days...Milkshake... BOOM!
...and what makes you think starwars.com is reliable? they will deny all information until the movie is released. usually variety (and other such publications) will qualify any of their statements,.. if you go back and look at the 'offending' articles, i'm sure you will see some such disclaimer.
besides which this is not a secret like episode 2 stuff is,.. stop being paranoid.
...dave
Think different? I'd be happy if most people would just think...
I hope they do the one where the Tick was transmogrified into miniature two-headed chicken that could only speak high school French! And then he laid an egg before he was switched back1
I can't seem to remember exactly who this Patrick Warburton person is... I didn't get to watch as many episodes as I would have liked--could anyone post a link to a picture as a favor? Thanks.
-- That tickles!
Aren't ticks supposed to have eight legs?
Tick: What makes you think I don't?
Can't do it again. It failed the first time because the ignorant masses found it unfunny therefore the Network Clods found it unprofitable.
Same reason why "The Critic" found it's way into the trash bin, and unfortunately I think "Family Guy" is wandering that way as well.
I certainly hope the show's producers don't overlook the character of Little Wooden Boy. Without help from this dynamic sidekick, the Tick would not have been able to defeat the Swiss as easily as he did. Damn Swiss bastards....
...I don't see this lasting past one season.
Don't get me wrong. I love the Tick. I loved the original comic books ("You mean it wasn't just an animated series?") and I loved the cartoon.
The thing is:
a) regular super-hero stuff doesn't tend to translate all that well into live action. Even blockbusters like the Batman series really weren't very good.
b) A lot of the Tick's humor is based on viewer knowledge of the cliches it busts on. So, anybody who ran across the comic book was already part of the audience that would get it. And even though the animated series was a little mismatached for saturday morning kiddies, it did still self select for those adults willing to watch cartoons in the first place -- so again, the people watching it were going to get it. Now, live action shows, on the other hand, target at the general public, and I don't think Joe Public is going to get it. Joe Public doesn't like to think to get jokes, and he's going to take his Neilsen numbers to someplace where he won't have to.
-- I'm not evil, I'm
This guy would also be great as Superman. He even did the voice on the AMEX commercials with Jerry.
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Since everyone else is doing it (not all these are from the 'Tick' character):
"I'm full of tinier men!"
"HO HO HO"
"It's a YULE TIDE!!!"
"FO-pah!!"
"BOOM, baby, BOOM!!"
"And she said to me, are you bad, and I said, yah, I'm bad baby, and she said are you BAD? And I said Yah, baby, yah!! And she said are you bad, and I said HEADS UP SPACE PONIES, WE'RE MAKING GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!!!"
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SPOON!!!
- "When I say dance, you'd best DANCE motherf*cker!" -Violent Femmes
Eating kittens is just plain wrong!
And no one should do it!
EVER!
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The Tick stands out from that crowd as an example of a comic book that truly rocked! What's more, the animated series was fantastic too :-)
The comic book still rocks, in fact the guitarist in my band draws it (Gabe Crate). He's quite good, although no one can match Ben Edlund's original and creative issues from back in the day.
Chris
Puddy was such a moron on Seinfeld, plus he has the beefcake voice and look on his face. Needless to say, he'd be perfect to play The Tick. Sure, superhero productions don't transfer well to live action, but then again this is the Tick we're talking about here.
Heh. Graphic novels, eh? I love it when people try to justify comics as graphic novels... The only comics that actually are "graphic novels" are the ones that are squarebound, and trade paperbacks don't count (that's several issues collected together, like what most people read when they read the Tick)
/. crowd is going to be overly critical of someone for reading a comics.
Not that I really care, but I don't think the
Intolerant people should be shot.
"Uh, kinda... fat..."
"Really?"
Intolerant people should be shot.
"I can taste your back!!!!!!"
Tom Green as anything?...uhm....no! Thanks for playing, though.
Dustin Hoffman as Sewer Urchin!
Leonardo Decraprio as Arthur, just so he can get the ego beaten out of him! Not in the face, Not in the Face!
It'd be great if Sam Raimi produced this. He'd give it the right sort of campiness and such, just like Xena's become.
oh wait, that was the Matrix...
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I was so disappointed when they cancelled The Critic those many years ago, and put what in it's place? Another clone of all the other generic la-de-da brain-numbing crap that's out there. Why? Because some suits say, "hey, these reports indicate most people like 90210 and Melrose, so let's make another show like that. That will sell". And then it's a circular loop, because that's all there is on most tv, and thus that's what network executives strive to reproduce because it 'sells'.
Oh well. At least Comedy Central is still maintainning decent shows, and Critic Reruns (albeit there are only like 15 of The Critic episodes made).
make world, not war
I've loved The Tick from the first time I saw it (which was the Fox cartoon series). Warburton and Sonnenfeld are good choices to continue it, but the very best part of the cartoon was the tremendous voice work (especially Charles Townshend, who always balanced the fine line between heartily enthusiastic and dangerously manic). "Puddy" will be working under a HUGE shadow!
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Hmm... Apparently that whole Star Wars casting thing wasn't enough to teach us not to trust Variety. Hopefully they're right this time.
Now if they'd just bring the cartoon back...
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Bad guys always have an antidote. They're funny that way.
"I'm a scientist! I don't think, I observe!" - Dr. Clayton Forrester
More parody comics:
Of course, the Tick is still high on my list... I hope they do this right. ("Ninjas. I Hate these guys.")
"I'm a scientist! I don't think, I observe!" - Dr. Clayton Forrester
"When evil is ahead, and you don't have any arms - you've got to get a leg up!"
I can't wait for this to come out. The Tick is on of my all-time favorite animated series (right next to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Eek! The Cat).
Ahhh Yeah.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Elliot
If we could get these series on the Internet (which would require a totally new video file format... cartoons have an ENTIRELY different dynamic than pure vidoe does that makes them look pretty damn bad... but also opens up avenues where simpler compression algorithms that fail on real video could FLY on cartoons) and work out a way to pay the people providing it on a per-view basis (or hell, they could sell commercials just like any normal show but be able to count their viewers much more accurately) I think they could work. I mean, the people that follow The Critic, The Tick, all those shows on Comedy Central's Animation Block, plus shows like Family Guy and Futurama (even tho it has the Touch of Groenig(TM) I think its going to end up in the dustbin because it has too many technical jokes (how many caught that Bender's main CPU is a 6502, the same processor used in the NES and Gameboy?)) have a cult following which is much different than a normal following. A normal following watches every episode - once. In droves. A cult following watches every episode MANY times, picking apart its intricacies, but on a lower scale of people. The numbers probably end up the same in respect to total number of views... plus, think about how easy it would be to aim those advertisements if its going straight to a cult audience...
Esperandi
Not nerd worthy?! Blasphemer!
Would a non-nerd spend a day crafting a replica of little wooden boy? Would a non-nerd spend the time and money to collect all of The Tick Taco Bell toys from way back when? I think not!
I bet your belt is a fashion accessory of evil.
We eat the pig and then together we BURN!!!
With due respect to Bruce Campbell's smugness, I think William Shatner would be outstanding as Die Fledermaus. And with the amount of self-parody he's been doing lately, he might just go for it. I can't believe nobody has come up with a decent suggestion for Arthur though. How about Neil Patrick Harris? Granted he's already in a series, and not quite pudgy enough, but his current role on Stark Raving Mad practically *is* Arthur...
The /. article Rumors About Episode II Denounced, posted about 5 articles below this one, indicates that Variety is an inaccurate source of casting information.
Should we trust this?
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One of the things that made the Tick so silly and so much fun was the seemingly endless possibilities that cartoon media provided. I mean, come on...a guy with a chair for a face!? Can the live action version survive if it can't make the impossible possible as was the case in the cartoon? And how will we react to the new voices of the Tick and the other characters? Many of us have grown accustomed to the voices from the cartoon. This reminds me of the transition Dilbert made from static comic strip to cartoon. All of a sudden fans were introduced to the voice of Dilbert, and to some it just wasn't right. I for one would be satisified with new Tick cartoon episodes. And a DVD boxset couldn't hurt either!
Now that that's out of the way. I'm not sure I think this is a good idea or not. I've heard about this before and I was afraid then as well. I feel like "The Tick" will be very hard to do well in live action. I think animation is the right format for the show and really wish Fox would take the money to start that back up instead.
But what do I know, I think Crusade shouldn't have been canceled and X-Files should have ended long ago.
"You got a question, you talk to the 8-ball..."
-Shawn "If the Name Don't Rhyme It Ain't Mine" Conn
The Tick was a parody? Oh...I get it now...
... and how could Bruce Campbell play a character that doesn't hit on every sexy female in sight?
... " - Ash
... let's just stay away from this combo.
Compare :
"Sidekicks don't kiss!" - Tick
"Hail to the King, baby
Otherwise, it would rock of course. But if I saw the Tick hitting on American Maid, something would just be wrong
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Drew Carey is way to big to play Arthur. The guys built like a linebacker and is an ex-marine. He just looks like of short and dumpy on TV. Besides do you want to see him in tights?
So far I've gotten all my Karma from telling people they are wrong... :)
I really really hope they manage to do the series right. But the problem is that its bound to be expensive in live action. Lots of money for makeup and special effects. If its not shot right and done right it could really really suck. Honestly cartoons is probably a much better format for it. It could lead to much funnier DeFladermouse jokes though.
"Why are you wearing skin tight rubber?" -Tick
"What?"
"Oh, I see, well we all grow out of that stage sometime chum..."
So far I've gotten all my Karma from telling people they are wrong... :)
I loved the Cartoon! Ummmm Close to the first post :)
The Anti-Blog
I have to admit; their IQ's gotta be right there together, but Puddy was a completely different kind of funny. He was funny because he was stupid and sluggish. The Tick on the other hand is funny because he is stupid and very much active. The Tick is always getting himself into interesting situations, where Puddy just kind of finds himself in those situations. I think it's somewhat of a missmatch.
Also, Bob Dole is being considered to play the part of The Terror
Strom Thurmond would look more the part.
-Darkshadow (There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.)
This could very well be the most horrible thing to happen to TV entertainment since MTV...
:P
Apparently, the producer is affiliated with Disney. This doesn't bode well... The megalo-corp. that took Victor Hugo's great story of the cruelty of human society and the rejection of Those Who Are Different (a subject i would think we _all_ would be sensitive to) and made it into a fucking musical cartoon, complete with singing inanimatia! A MUSICAL? wtf...
These guys could screw up a wet dream, and Edlund is gonna let them take my beloved Tick, _my_ Tick? (i've been a reader since the first issue, and even the spin-offs... french bread! ha! i love it!)
i just don't know what to think about this...
...could be really disastrous...if anyone has evidence that i am being too hasty, please, i beg of you, correct me.
Oh, BTW, the article didn't even seen to ACK the dead-tree-pulp origins of the Tick. And, yes, i know, 'inanimatia' is not a word...
"Cogito ergo es... I think, therefore you is." -The King of the Moon's Head,
"Cogito ergo es... I think, therefore you is." -The King of the Moon's Head,
Good call, i agree.
"He wants a shoehorn,
The kind with teeth.
People should get beat up,
For stating their beliefs.
He wants a shoehorn,
The kind with teeth,
'Cause he knows there's no such thing."
~TMBG (duh!)
"Cogito ergo es... I think, therefore you is." -The King of the Moon's Head,
"Cogito ergo es... I think, therefore you is." -The King of the Moon's Head,
Maybe they should have got Neuman to play Arthur.
Not that he'd take the part, but George would make a better Arthur.
The REAL question - who are they going to get to play American Maid?!?
"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others." Thomas Jefferson.
Arthur? Arthur!!! My moustache is touching my braaaain!!!
--Fesh
--Fesh
Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.
How about Mickey Dolenz as Arthur?
Slightly disreputable, albeit gregarious
While I am always suspect of live action versions of comics, I really do hope they do the Tick justice...so far, I've liked all versions of this "property" (even the Sega Genesis game ;D) as for my favorite line: "poor Tongue Tongue, he has but one tongue with which to taste the world"
Is it just me or does The Tick allready seem more interesting than the upcoming X-Men movie? Yes... even though they haven't announced any other characters or costume design, i can only see it being better than xmen
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
"Poor, Tongue-Tounge. He now only has one tongue to taste an entire world."
-dvorsd
I have missed him since Comedy Central took him off of their main lineup. He is one of the characters that it is really hard to peg on a live-action star. If they do not get him right, or do not have the same kind of laughs that the cartoon had, they will kill a bunch of actor's careers. I mean, I made my own Little Wooden Boy, right from directions in "The Tick: Mighty Blue Justice!". How are the suits at Fox going to keep me, the devoted coming back without the likes of Omnipotus, Rosebud and Buttery Pat? This kind of sight gag and humor was the hall-mark of the Tick. Sorry for the questions and pessimism, but I like the Tick and I would hate to tune into the first episode and just completely feel ashamed because I suggested a load of cr@p to my friends to watch. Anyway, I will watch it when it comes on. On a side note Goodbye Charles Schulz, you will be missed forever, we are losing another Jim Henson.
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I've always liked the Tick... I have an autographed copy of the "Tick Omnibus" - very cool.
BlackNova Traders
I think Hemos would make a great Arthur...
and most actors can play more than one role (Kevin Costner being the obvious exception)
Tom Green would rule as the tick.
I loved the cartoon! I have no idea why it was put on saturday mornings. Wasn't one of the guys involved with it involved with the Critic also? Anyway, I hope they don't screw it up because I'd like to be able to watch this for a few years.
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- Robin "roblimo" Miller
As a fan of the graphic novels and toon version of the Tick I'm somewhat dubious of a live action version.
Who is this Puddy anyway? A regular on Seinfeld...
Maybe they should have got Neuman to play Arthur.
Spoon!
Drew Carey is my pick for Arthur. He wouldn't take the part either...
The tick is totally making funny of 90% of cartoons, if you watch it for a bit you'll notice 2-3 comments that make fun of superman/batman type of crap every day.. Man i love the tick..
- soy
SPOOOON! 'nuff said.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Spoon!
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
This is th best news I've heard all week, I honestly hope they do it justice.
So this now begs the important question, who plays American Maid?
Finkployd
my own personal favorite:
"look out world, i'm full of TANG!!!!!"
Vice President Al "Internet" Gore has decided to call it quits in his bid for the Office of the President of the United States as he has been offered the part of Little Wooden Boy for the upcomming TV series.
Also, Bob Dole is being considered to play the part of The Terror, and Bill Gates was offered the part of Brainchild.
In related news, Hemos the Hamster is rumored to be "putting on a few pounds" so that he can try out for the part of Speak.
The Tick is one of the very rare superhero parodies I have ever liked. After 4 years working in comic book stores, I developed a deep loathing for Marvel and DC superhero blandness. This developed into a love of the alternative presses, Last gasp, Rip-Off, Dark Horse (sometimes) and especially the really underground small-press scene.
:-)
Often, people produced superhero spoofs, but most of the time these were weak and lacking in anything to distinguish them from the increasingly uninventive superhero market itself.
The Tick stands out from that crowd as an example of a comic book that truly rocked! What's more, the animated series was fantastic too
Can they make it a hat-trick with a succcessful live action series?
We'll have to wait and see.
A little planning goes a long way...
Butter me, Pat.
Oh well, no point in steering now.
Hey, You're the guy who made my head hot! Well, I'm not going to let you make my friend's heads hot!
J:)
Oh well, no point in steering now.
We must warp to the speed of LINT!
Yes! YES! Of course! The Speed of... what?
Lint! Ever wonder why after you wash your clothes you always find lint in your pockets?
Uh.. I guess.
IT'S THAT FAST!!!!!
-m
Ok, the Tick was good fun. What made it such fun was that it was completely over the top. The Tick getting punched into orbit (and going on an existential journey within his mind), clones made entirely of snot, and armies of corn soldiers ("We're colonels!") and things of that sort were what made the Tick worth watching. Am I the only one that thinks that this is going to be hard to capture in live-action? A lot of the stuff that happened on the Tick was pretty improbable. I have my doubts about the show's ability to pull off effects like talking monkey geniuses on a weekly basis. It seems like either they won't try, and the show will be dull because of it, or they will try, and the cheesy effects will get in the way, and even if they manage to make the effects passable, I have my doubts about the actors' ability to play something that over the top without coming off as hammy.
I don't mean to sound like I'm dumping on it before it even gets off the ground (although I suppose I am), but I am very skeptical. Seems like a better choice would be to revive the animated series. That's what I would prefer, at least. Still, the ways of Hollywood are, at best, bizarre and inscrutable.
-r
Marlon Brando or William Shatner. They'd save money from not having to buy a costume or use computer graphics.
Ok. Let's compare these mugs: Patrick Warburton vs. Bruce Campbell. (sorry, Bruce-Campbell.com was down as I wrote this.)
I call for a re-cast! All in Favor? SPOON! All opposed? not in the face! not in the face!. The Spoons have it!
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