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The Tick Premieres Tonight on FOX
abde writes "The Tick finally premieres this Thursday on FOX at 7:30 PM CST. Looks like Patrick Warburton finally gets to spread some creamy Justice on our toast!" Here's hoping that this show comes close to it's source materials. It's in a tough time slot, so I really hope it sticks around long
enough to find a footing. Good luck to you Ben (I know you're reading!) In other TV news, Salon reviewed
The buffy musical which aired on tuesday. Since my local basic cable doesn't provide UPN, I haven't seen it. I've been loving FX syndicating what is easily among my favorite shows: hot chicks, sharp humor, and monster killing. It may be the perfect show. I just wish TV was available via FTP.
Hope they include that.
Pete
The sole purpose of the Internet is to get porn and bomb making plans into the hands of children.
Roommates are taping this and watching Survivor. Speak of the devil, CBS is really in a prime position, what with the hype about "something unheard of is happening tonight". Me, I'm stuck here for the duration... ...though I still need to see "24".
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
Holy cow, Batman! The tick is gonna eat you for dinner.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Family Guy is back on the air as well and airs right before The Tick
Is the show right before it. Family Guy to me is a hilariously funny show, but i know a lot of people who hate it, and i can see the same type of humor definitly not carrying over into the Tick type of humor, but them maybe they are closer than I think, well to each his own. I will be watching them both and laughing.
Teamwork is a bunch of people doing what I tell them.
Taco you post a story about Morpheus and then bitch about not being able to get the Buffy Musical. Let's think about that huh?
I downloaded the entire episode less than an hour after it had aired.
Not to mention that all of the songs have been mp3ed are on Morpheus too.
Happy hunting
The sole purpose of the Internet is to get porn and bomb making plans into the hands of children.
Tick won't be able to say "Spoooooon!".
None of the old villians will be present.
All because of some fucked up copyright stuff.
oh, and Speak won't be there, either.
More information can be found here. (http://slate.msn.com/?id=2058205) for the goat paranoid)
Even without those things, I'm still excited about dorking out, and I think that putty is an excellent choice for the Tick.
Brant
Argle. Bargle.
What the heck happened to the cartoon series? Did it just evaporate once it was sold to Comedy Central? I had mere basic cable at that time, so I wouldn't know.
The only thing that we learn from history is that nobody learns anything from history.
The Buffy musical was good because it was different than the rest of the bleak, TV wasteland. I'm sure that brief spark of originality will go completely unnoticed, however, so don't worry.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
The buffy musical which aired on tuesday. Since my local basic cable doesn't provide UPN, I haven't seen it. I've been loving FX syndicating what is easily among my favorite shows: hot chicks, sharp humor, and monster killing. It may be the perfect show. I just wish TV was available via FTP.
... well... AT ALL!
I thought I was bad, this dude not only is the geekiest dumbass I've ever seen, he hasn't been laid in
SPOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, couldn't resist
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. --Sun-Tzu
I better get home before it gets canceled...
Unfortunately the ratings will be decimated by Survivor tonight. Fortunately for Fox, there are a lot of hardcore fans and the creator of the show needs a thing or two about sci-fi comedy.
Here is the main cast list if you're interested...
David Burke is Arthur
Liz Vassey is Captain Liberty
Nestor Carbonell is Batmanuel
and of course the Tick is played by Warburton (as mentioned in the post).
the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man
The president is speaking tonight. 25 minute speech followed by the standard 5 minute talking head wrap up. Don't know if Fox carries national news in your area but they do in mine (Chicago).
Now my VCR and Tivo settings are all fucked up.
Poo.
Pete
The sole purpose of the Internet is to get porn and bomb making plans into the hands of children.
I hope to God that the Star Trek Enterprise folks supplied some of that Detox Gel so it can be spread all over American Maid! *DROOL*
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Looks like Patrick Warburton finally gets to spread some creamy Justice on our toast!"
I'm not sure I want any of Patrick Warburton's "creamy" stuff on my toast...
Every once in a while I like to masturbate a new word into my vocabulary, even if I don't know what it means.
I can't say I agree with the thought that the new show should be only as good as its original material-- has anybody ever actually read the comics? They just didn't have the spark that the cartoon did.
Of course, the cartoon was probably what Taco meant, in which case-- oh hell yeah. In no particular order, the new show is going to need a few things to match up with Fox's Saturday-morning masterpiece:
1. A running gag along the lines of the "CHA" written on the moon, popping up in episodes that have nothing to do with it anyways.
2. A rehash of "The Tick vs. The Tick" episode-- in which the Tick goes to a superhero bar (complete with Sidekicks' Lounge) and finds that there's another, more psychotic hero that already uses his name.
3. The Human Bullet: whenever things went wrong in The City, he'd be fired from a cannon in his backyard, only to somehow spend so much time in the air as to always show up late. ("Fire me, boy!"
It's nice to know that the legal problems aren't completely robbing the show of its charm-- I remember reading something about problems with Die Fledermaus, for example, so it looks like they've replaced him with "Batmanuel." And I think we can all agree that Patrick Warburton is the best choice for the job, judging from his "Seinfeld" work.
When the show aired, I was young enough to enjoy the cartoon show for what it was, and old enough to still get most of the grown-up jokes. Let's hope the live-action version maintains that delicate balance between smarmy irony and childish charm.
There is a great musical episode of LEXX titled "Brigadoom." The songs are so...elegaic.
Get the mp3s of the songs here:
http://lexx.warpedsystems.sk.ca/mp3page.php3
Screw the Family Guy. What a piece of trash.
Buffy just jumped the Shark with that episode. Once a TV show realizes its a TV show, it sucks. The only way the show can ever regain its dignity back is a "All Naked Buffy" episode.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Mine would have to be...
Interviewer: "Can you blow up the Earth?"
The Tick: "EEGAD! I hope not, that's where I keep all my stuff!"
SPOON!!! ...gotta love the Tick's battle cry.
Shh.
Re TV musicals: I get all the Buffy exposure I can handle from AtAT and don't bother watching, myself. And Salon's TV critic (last I saw which admittedly was over a year ago) is obsessed with the show in a way that's almost creepy. But the show that has done the most recently with musical numbers and other ideas is Drew Carey. I'm not a huge fan of that either but the musical gimmicks tend to be really good, as are the other stunts. For instance, it's the only TV show to do something interesting with a live broadcast (having improv done during it) instead of it just being an ego thing for the cast.
Of all the post-Seinfeld comics to drop their act directly into a sitcom, he's the only one to do anything interesting and novel.
TV already is available on FTP.
How else can i watch Dark Angel?
"On TV, of course!", I hear you americans scream. Nope. Don't think so, because I happen to live in Norway.
So, downloading the episodes from FTPs is the only way for me to watch that series.
So, now you know CmdrTaco. TV is available (in a way) via FTP.
The official TV Show website is here.
It's got some video clips of the show, stills from the set, and a little background on the characters.
It looks like the TV show will be borrowing heavily from the cartoon show. I hope that there is some new material besides the cartoon gags. I wouldn't mind seeing some new story lines.
The Tick contains Die Fliedermaus still acting like a well equipped batman like cowardly jack ass... and the Carpeted Man becomes a regular. (I love how he narrates his Static Electricity power "If I shuffle my feet...")
"It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
Isn't this Puddy from Seinfeld? Will he stare off into the distance whenever he hears Desperado?
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
I download the (as of yet) unaired Tick pilot off of Morpheous a few weeks ago... It's intereseting what you can find there if you search for "Unaired" I'm just hoping someone posts the unaired episode of Batman Beyond "Unmasked".
Anyone find any other "interesting" stuff on Morpheous?
The Avatar
who says newsgroups are dead????
If I had played it from my computer on my tv my friends might not have even noticed (same pause functionality, both widescreen, etc).
However, one is 100% legal, and one is 100% illegal.
None of the villains from the cartoon series will be there. But Ben Edlund has full rights to the comic book villains, and one of them--The Red Scare--is in tonight's episode! Edlund has also made noises about trying to cast someone for Paul the Samurai. (No word on any ninjas, though. They're my favorites! "We're a hedge. Move along. Nothing to see here.")
I dunno about the "Spooooon!" battle cry; it just doesn't seem to me that something like that should be copyrightable.
As a long time Tick fan I have been eagerly awaiting this show. You can view a few 45 second clips of the show at http://www.spe.sony.com/tv/shows/tick/video.phtml.
The Tick is played by Patrick Warburton, who was "Puddy" (Elaine's Boyfriend) in Seinfeld and Johnny James (Jimmy James's VP) in Newsradio. He also was the voice of Kronk in Emperor's New Groove. An excellent casting choice for what is obviously a hard role to cast.
Also of note, in addition to The Tick and Arthur are "Captain Liberty" and "Batmanuel". When you see these characters you will probably notice that they greatly resemble American Maid and Die Fledermaus. This is actually due to copyright negotiations (which actually held up the show for some time). The original comic book characters belong to Ben Edlund, but all of the characters that were created for the cartoon are jointly owned by all the groups that produced the cartoon (Fox Children's Network, Saban, Graz and Sunbow). Since Sony (who owns Columbia Tri-Star) could not reach an agreement on who received what proceeds among all the companies they simply replaced the characters.
my favorite tick cartoon...swimming like a salmon upstream of the electric replicating santas...
the wife never got why it was a good show...
sidekick bar was ON
I just wish TV was available via FTP
how about usenet?
alt binaries.startrek
alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer
new episodes get posted about a day after they air. good news for the 'upn challenged'
see rob taco likes buffy lots of geeks love buffy. I do not have a weird obsession watching buffy for three hours on tuesdays (buffy on fx 2, buffy on upn 1)
btw the musical was just frickin great.
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It may not be available by FTP, but it will likely be available by NNTP, at least on servers that have good completion and no censorship of binaries groups. This is one series certain to show up on alt.binaries.multimedia, as the animated version of The Tick seems to have been a popular post in recent months. The only reason I never downloaded it myself is because I was getting too much other stuff already. That will have to wait until after I get a terabyte RAID or a DVD-R, if you know what I mean.
--
"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
Some quotes:
"What's this?! It's a little boy's face! Oh, don't worry, little boy, I'll free you from this block of wood!"
"You know, Little Wooden Boy, the worst sin in the world is disloyalty. You wouldn't lie to me, would you, Little Wooden Boy?"
This guy likes him even more than me! *shudder*
Looks like crap to me, from the endless promos on the World Series. Almost as much crap as "Shallow Hal."
OK, but seriously folks, hope everyone watches this, cause only 9 episodes in the can.
Our local Seattle P-I TV columnist was asking people to watch it, and devoted his entire column to it.
And, as an aside, Ben Edlund is a great guy.
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--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Stop wishing and load up your favorite IRC client. For many months TV show trading channels have been the fastest growing thing on IRC. And yes, the distributors will very often use FTP.
Your wish is granted.
Article about it on CNN
Family Guy is the sacrificial lamb of a show to go up against the first half hour of Survivor, and Friends, while the Tick goes up against the second half and a Will and Grace episode.
Fortunately, that's less channel flippin for me cuz I can't stand Family Guy.
What about Der Fliedermouse? And who is Captain Liberty? I don't remember him from the cartoon.
In the cartoon, he was originally going to be called "Batmanuel" but they were worried about being too close to "Batman" so they (I assume Fox) nixed it.
I think I like Die Flaturmouse (I can't really improve on the spelling, so why try?) better as well, but at least it's meeting his artistic vision!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Bring back Cop Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...that Fox is paying you enough money to advertise its programming.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
Seriously, a cow that eats humans, with flames coming out of her teats.
...
Now if that's not worth watching The Tick for, I don't know what else would be.
We'll miss American Maid, though
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--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
The bat :-)
It's quite funny, and really does the cartoon justice. I found the style quite innovative. Summary, I liked it, do watch!
Cheers, Joshua
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!
Question for you guys and gals..
Anyone know of a video card that has tivo like capabilities?
Ive been looking at the all in wonder cards from ati, all they mention the cards can do is timeshift up to 30min, mainly to skip commercials and stuff. I want to find something where I can record a tv signal and save it as a movie file of some sort... any ideas?
And to make my comment somewhat on topic, tick looks pretty good.
Zeno
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Religious wars are 2 groups of people fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.
I obtained the pilot on a P2P service that shall remain nameless - just look for "tick live acton".
I thought it was pretty good, though I do wish they didn't schedule it during Survivor!
i've already seen the first 4 episodes and they kick ass
I just watched the musical Buffy episode - it was okay - and I have to say the salon reviewer's take on Buffy is just bizarre. She seems to be saying Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a masterpiece - it isn't. It's a show that once was semi-decent spoof-action and now is a soap opera with vampires. But even if you disagree with me there, surely you have to concede that the reviewer raving about what a great metaphor willow and what's-her-face's song and dance number was was a bit over the top.
I dunno, maybe it's me, but I think this lady spent far too long in a visual literacy class. Even a single lecture can scar one for life, believe me.
"Disinfectant Gel" Note: In the last 15 minutes or so of the buffy musical, Buffy sorta-kinda-almost strips. It's not much, but since I suspect the main demographic of the series is "Teenage girls and horney guys" I thought it was worth pointing out.
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Nuff Said.
"No offense intended."
Tick:
"None comprehended."
www.jumptheshark.com
It's tragic, but nobody forced them to make a musical...
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
I mean, come on, it's not like they show anything. This isn't a pr0n flick, it's a little song-and-dance about two young people (arguably ditzes, but that's besides the point) in love. As such, it's just a sappy chick-flick "Isn't-that-sweet" moment, at least to my mind. And yes, I did watch the show.
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Bush is making a speech tonight on national TV.
"Here's hoping that this show comes close to it's source materials."
/. frontpage.)
Please learn the difference between "it's" and "its". If my 8 year old can do it, so can you. I expect professional journalists to actually give a shit about this kind of stuff. If the logic is too hard for you, try using a grammar checker: Word XP would have underlined the "it's" in your headline.
(and to Mr. Offtopic, go fuck yourself,I'm sick and tired of seeing lazy writing on the
I know I will probably be moderated down by being off-topic, but why didn't (or don't, as it is still time :) slashdot post anything about 24?
Not only it's been spected to be the greatest serie of this season, but they also had the guts to show a 747 being exploded for terrorism reasons (I'm surprised I din't see any criticism about that yet).
Don't take me wrong: I don't have anything about posting a story about The Tick (much the opposite, I'm expecting it to be a great show too), I just think 24 deserved a review/post too.
PS: BTW, 24 will be aired again tomorrow night
"I just wish TV was available via FTP."
s/was/were/
You'll want to check out the "subjunctive mood."
Keeping it clean,
Mike
Slashdot 's editors are dickheads
I am posting a formal complaint.
/. for steeling my 15 minutes of fame.
I attempted to post this same announcement about a month ago. My post was denied but when someone else (even though he is one of the people running the site) posts it it gets up. I would like to say thank you to
Thanks guys
I could have been a contender... I mean slashdot poster.
I'm sure that brief spark of originality will go completely unnoticed
Musical TV episodes are hardly original. In fact, they are a major category for when a show "jumps the shark", i.e. when everything in a series after a specific episode goes downhill. Have they run out of original ideas and now have to stoop to recycled gimmicks from other shows? Only time will tell...
The ivory tower has never had to reach so h
I have a friend with "connections" who was kind enough to bring his copy of the pilot to a party of mine a few months back.
I will tell you all now, that it _is_ different from both the comicbook original and the animated series. Both were fun in their day, and both stand on their own merits.
However this new series is off to a very amusing start. I got quite a few deep laughs out of the humour, and Patrick Warburton's (SP?) delivery of the patented Tick Monologues(Tm) are nothing short of sterling!
The plot was nothing spectacular, but was very enjoyable. Indeed, if the writers manage to keep this level of quality, it will be a series to watch faithfully!
On the subject of the new characters: They're different. Get over it. They work in their own way, and can hold their own as supporting characters. (Why does this bring to mind visions of sidekicks like Brazier Boy and Leather Lass?)
I seem to remember hearing rumours (From my friend with "connections"? I can't remember) that Ben Eglund is part of the creative team on this series. If this is true, it should put to rest any complaints of deviating from the source material.
I can only hope that this show doesn't get buried in the typical FOX time-slot shuffle.
You know what? I have never heard of a real person ever actually watching Survivor. The only times Survivor ever comes up, is when it is referenced by other TV shows or the Internet. My guess is that it's all just a big hoax and the show does not actually exist.
Unfortunately the ratings will be decimated by Survivor tonight
Since when has decimate come to mean anihilation? Decimate means to eliminate one out of 10. Hardly a majority of the viewing audience, but unfortuantely tiny percentage differences in ratings do ultimately cause a show's demise. I just dont see 1 out of every 10 people who intend to watch The Tick tonight being pulled away by Survivor. The demographics between the audiences for Survivor and The Tick dont really overlap much: tabloid junkies who would watch grass grow if it were on TV, versus a cultish following of (generally) more intelligent people able to pick up subtle references, but able to appreciate slapstick as well.
The ivory tower has never had to reach so h
For those of you who will miss the premiere of the Tick live-action, or otherwise are unfortunate enough not to have a station which carries it, you can always find the 1st episode on Gnutella. I had the episode posted "privately" on my web-site for a while, but had to remove it due to space reasons. :-(
The Draw Carey Show has been doing musicals and "special" shows since the first season. Hell, next week's show is the Live #3, they do 4 different shows all live, each for the different timezones... It has the Who's Line is it Anyway? people in it as well... They also do all kinds of strange opening scenes and April fool's versions where there are a bunch of mistakes.. then they do a pop-up video of that episode later.. :)
I got the Pilot episode laying around here somewhere, It's great. If this episode tonight tonight is anything like the pilot, you will be very entertained. I didn't think that this show would be that good, but after watching the pilot episode, it rules. Tivo and VCR time With Family Guy before it...best hour of television all week. ...And I may be able to dig up that episode, I have it around here some where
Slashdot # 199661 the number that's the same upside down and right side up
I downloaded a not-for-public pilot for the Tick live action series. It was hilarious. I hope it gets a lot of fans and lasts for a long long time. SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!! Also, someone,please digitize this and the family guy because I got school until after it's over. Let me know. Thank You.
Tick is too much of a super-hero freak to put into live action. It's gonna suck BAD!!
I shall miss El Seed.
Monday night/Tuesday morning?
True, true. It's going to be hard to find a better villain than Chairface Chippendale, who created a superpowered laser in an attempt to carve his name into the moon.
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
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The idea of writing is to communicate.
If a write "There goes a kat"
it would be incorrect spelling, however, I still convey my meaning.
since you know what he was talkng about, He was successfull regardless of grammer rules. which are temporary anyways.
Its about time you enlish Nazi's got a grip, and relized your not at all important. The very fact that i ackowledg your existence just shows I need more work to do here at work.
ok smart guy hot do you pronounce this word:celtic?
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I would love a /. inerview of Ben edlund(?).
He has had a much bigger impact a geek culter then Will Wheaton, boy genius.
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In a not-too-distant land I wrote a tail of woe regarding Cablevision and their tendency to break my cable (this time, physically cut it) at inopportune times.
This is just one such time. Alas, for me, no tick tonight.
Ah. It's not that offtopic is it?
Slashdot? Oh, I just read it for the articles.
This may even make up for the de-die fliedermausing
I get all hyped up over the Tick and now I'm ticked off. It's not on!
Wait is he done? Wow just a few seconds makes....
But it's still not on!
The only problem with the early comics is that they would take for freaking ever to come out, it seems like there was a time they were trickling out at a pace of one comic per year. (Either that, or my local comic shop had a tar-slow distributor.)
The problem with the Tick today, is that they've stopped taking all that time, and instead of a new villain each issue that makes you fall out of your chair laughing by mere concept alone, they've turned it into a formula where they just reuse the same characters over and over. It used to be that every story (or story arc as it were) was a new joke on some comic cliche. The first issue was a Superman joke, the next few were about ninjas, Chairface was a from Dick Tracy, that samurai guy was a great take on the Lone Wolf-type samurai character, etc. Take the Red Scare, for example, he was really funny because of his complete irrelevance - in the early 1990 the Soviet Union had recently become an also-ran in the super power race, and so a Soviet Union styled enemy attacking a memorial to the creator of the Dewy Decimal system was a great joke. (The irrelevant attack the irrelevant.)
That wasn't not the only problem, though. In my mind, the Tick doesn't translate directly to television. The funny part of the Tick was that it was a comic book making fun of comic books. When you make the thing a cartoon, if it was going to remain funny, it needed to become a parody of cartoons. When you just move the stories over from the comics you get a parody of comics in cartoon form... which isn't that great. So, if they miss their mark again, my guess is that it will be because they continue to parody comics but now in Live Action form. In fact, live action is probably the worst medium for the character... how many live action superhero TV shows have their been? Batman, Spiderman, Flash, Hulk... most of them either had an extremely short run or were *cough, Batman* self-parodying.
Of course, I hope I'm wrong, and the show turns out to be the best thing since the original run.
this is the funniest damn show i have seen in a longass time on primetime...
gotta go, commercial'z almost ovuh'!
late.
./v
"I think, therefore I get paid."
ya thts rite so sinse we can comunicat spling an teh gramerr arnt emportent cuz u cn get my meenig rite??? and i pronauce celtic lik it sez heer
Thankfully, I saw this episode months ago (thank you Gnutella) so nothing completely missed. Next week, however!
And I want to see Chairface Chippendale!
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
There were a couple times i chuckled, but after that family guy episode, it was total shit.
It definetly wasn't as bad as I thought it could be! The intro was slightly lame, as were the intros of "Bat-Manuel" (Die Fleidermaus and "Captain Somethingorother" (American Maid). But the combination of very well implimented special effects and actors who delivered lines in ways that ADDED to the effect the story was trying to tell gave me great hope for this series.
Oh, and of course the tick isn't saying SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON(!) yet, they haven't gotten to that part - should be fun! It has about the equivalent 'kick' of the original show, with the same number of awkward not-so-funny parts. I'll be watching it whenever it's convenient to catch a show.
I just hope it can pay for it's budget!
:^)
Ryan Fenton
Grade: B-. It actually sucked less than I expected it to, though it wasn't in the same league as, say, Mystery Men. It's definitely not like anything else on TV. I give it six episodes before Fox pulls the plug. Catch it while you can.
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Patrick Warburton doesn't have the ability to convey the childlike innocence of The Tick. He's just muscle and bravado. The guy who did the voice of the animated Tick had it all totally down. The Tick is Forrest Gump with superpowers.
There has NEVER been a decent live-action remake of a cartoon. Never. I think that a live-action Cowboy Bebop could work if someone like Quentin Tarantino directed and he infused it with the same kind of berserk energy he gave "Pulp Fiction." But that's about it. Think about the march of iniquity that has resulted from live-action remakes of cartoons. Rocky And Bullwinkle. The Flintstones. The Flinststones in Viva Rock Vegas. Dudley Do-Right. The list goes on, and on, and on.
If Fox had any decency they'd buy the original characters from the animated series like American Maid and Sewer Urchin from Haim Saban, and revive the show as it should be...ANIMATED.
The original animated Tick never had a chance. It was a show for Fox Primetime, not a show to ghettoize on Fox Kids' Network. Ben, if you are reading this, please stop the charade and give this hideous excuse for a show the early death it deserves.
"This is bad...duh duh definitely bad." -- Sewer Urchin
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
The key is to set your client to use port 21. You may find that most normal FTP sites use that port.
...the All-In-Wonder Radeon has Personal Video Recorder capability. So does Matrox's vid card that does the video ins and outs/TV tuner thing.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Hockey pre-empted Buffy in my area. And I had a tape in the VCR and all too.
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me.
what a fucking terrible show...
I love this show. I love it so much "Spoooon!" was my senior quote. Wonderful.
man this show brings me way back to 6th grade. the only thing i have to gripe about the show is what was the whole bus station scene about? his nonsense rants well make no sense. in the cartoon the rants were great i had no idea what the hell he was talking about but damn did he look good doing it! spooooooooooooon! rick moranase(the guy from space balls dark helment and honey i shurnk the kids, i don't know how to spell his name0 would be great as arthur at first he was playing him but he is not. oh well he would of played a great low selfesteem moth.
i relish to taste the creamy nuget of justice.
cya
Okay, in addition to being unable to descramble cable transmissions (any of you hardcore criminal hacker types write apps for Windows ME? Didn't think so) the program that ATI packages with their video cards failed to generate a neat little .mpeg file of that last tick episode for me to watch while I was wasting time at a faculty research presentation.
<punchline>
So, I'm so sick of this program that I'm through with it. I don't need a Ph.D. that badly.
</punchline explanation="program meaning the PhD program I'm in not the program that runs my ATI card. Get it?">
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
I watched it and i liked it. It was a little wierd seeing it as live action(as opposed to the cartoon), but overall I think they did a good job in the transition.
I'm really glad to see there are so many other Tick fans here too. I though we were few and far between.
The Tick was simply awesome! (Possibly) even better than the cartoon! Kudos in extremis to all involved!
HEY! WHERE'S the NINJAS and the big piece of Candy CORN?!? WTF? And why was The Red Scare a real menace instead of a goon hired by "The Running Guy" to beat up the Dewey Decimal Memorial?
Well - it can't be EXACTLY like the comic book, but I damn well hope that they put "The Chainsaw Vigilante" in there...
"Okay Milksnakes! Prepare to hear the voice of reason!"
That's just one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life!
My biggest complaint: No face-mask. We shouldn't see the Tick's face! Where's his mask?
Oh wait...it's not really a costume anyway.
And remember: "I...AM...NOT...A....ROACH!!! I'm A TICK!"
"Ticks suck blood. Do you suck blood?"
"I got a straw right here, pal!"
Okay, I did kind of like Die Fliedermaus in the cartoon, but Batmanuel will be a decent replacement IF:
he drives a mid-seventies El Camino Lowrider with hydraulic lift and a disco-ball instead of a dome light
His sidekick's name is "Rueben"
His secret hideout is in a storm drain under his low-rent apartment, and instead of a butler, he has a "dos equis" drinking uncle Chico that used to be a bullfighter in tijuana
But of course all this comes from Paul Rodruegez's (SP?) stand up sketch about "Vatoman and Rueben" fighting crime in their "chebby lowrider"
strange an interview was posted on bbspot just days before the request for questions.....
according to the log on bbspot, it was even posted to slashdot but was rejected
sounds like a job for the human bullet. fire me boy!
>> The idea of writing is to communicate. If a write "There goes a kat" it would be incorrect spelling, however, I still convey my meaning."
...and I guess you could communicate your homosexuality by parting my cheeks and tossing my salad while I sip a Mochachino at the local Starbucks. Such behavior doesn't make public rimming any more acceptable than 5th grade writing by a professional journalist.
unfortunately, the article you pointed to doesn't say any more than you did ... anybody know what issue is behind the sticky legal confliction that would allow the show but not certain key elements such as characters and catch-phrases?
Even more surprising is that the credits do NOT mention New England Comics, the creators of the Tick comic that the cartoon series was based on. Christopher Lloyd made a guest appearance on this premiere and also was not in the credits. eech!
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
okay, perhaps I should have dug through the NEC website a bit first. There is a page on the TV show which links to a statement from Tick creator Ben Edlund (who is in the credits while New England Comics is not).
Regarding the concerns of "Spooon" and certain key characters and copyright issues (as discussed in the above link here), Ben says that "the material from the cartoon series has passed into the ownership of interests outside this current endeavor."
Note that the statement was written back when the pilot was the only episode filmed and while Fox was still considering the show. The statement clears up a number of issues leaving only the lack of NEC and Christopher Lloyd in the credits.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
"I just wish TV was available via FTP." - nope but new episodes are available via newsgroups!
Apocoplyse Cow refrence at the end. I remember way back reading the old b&w comic strips. I know they had a URL for a while, but it seems to me they were in Dragon Magazine for sometime too.
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At the time it was no 50ft cow, more like a cow in post apocoliptic war zone, big guns, bandillier, am I way off? My wife seems to think it was an old villian, I say nay. What says
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
I just wish TV was available via FTP.
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Well CmdrTaco, as a famous sycophant once said 'your wish is my command'
This system (for which I'm the Software Architect) offers interactive digital TV via IP, this case study
reveals all the gory technical details of the disruptive technology that is going to bring Microsoft down, by bringing IP to every home in the developed world in the next five years.
It's obvious it will take some time to build up the inside jokes and self-references, but I thought it was not too bad...
I'm gonna miss "Die Fledermaus" and "American Maid" and all the rest of the Supers...
But "Batmanuel" seems humorous enough...
Hopefully the show will be around long enough to get the chance to develope the way it needs to...
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Goofy, Geeky Gifts and More!
Too bad I cannot download the episode off of freenet.
Does anybody know what Ben Taco is referring too?
I've been a big fan of the show since the very beginning and it's just a trip how they can take what seems like a completely absurd idea and make a great show out of it.
Anyway, back to the bug reports.
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If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
Why can't I get VHF, damnit (my antenna picks up WB and FOX, nothing else). I would have much rather been watching Survivor than the stupid Tick show. Yeah, I too wish TV was available by FTP (although a streaming multicast protocol would be much better).
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
Don't forget the episode where they go to the Rangers/Devils hockey game. The one when Puddy (Devs fan) paints his face. After the Devs win, he shouts "Go Devils," & freaks out the priest.
I hear a lot of people griping about the lack of Die Fleidermaus and American Maid. Well, they don't have the rights to those characters, since the Fox Kids TV Consortium (Saban and a few others) won't release them. According to an interview with Ben Edlund, the reason that they won't release them is...wait for it...they still want to make an animated Tick movie.
Now THAT would be cool.
The same interview also explained why the Tick in the TV series doesn't have the facemask of the comic. Apparenlty they tried several different permutations of the mask idea, but it always seemed to freeze the Tick's facial expression in one position. And on TV, a lot of acting comes from facial expressions (and Warburton doubly so) so they opened up the face. It ended up being simple TV logistics.
The interview is hiding out at newenglandcomics.com and it's a good read for all Tick fans.
Meanwhile, I thought BatManuel was hilarious. He gets the pompous womanizing essence of Die Fleidermaus but seems even more low-rent. And he made a Falco joke, which is always alright by me. Jury's still out on Captain Liberty, though.
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"I used to listen to Null Device before they sold out."
> eliminate one out of 10.
Since Rome fell, perhaps? Did anyou actually use decimation after that? Come to think of it, did rome use it for anything other than slave revolts?
hawk