Essay: It's So Hard To Find Good Help These Days

[firestar9mm]

As my current icon may indicate, the best discovery I've made this month by far has to be the complete DVD set of a cartoon I adored when it was on the air, Pirates of Dark Water.  Originally a five-part miniseries that eventually extended to 21 episodes, Dark Water was fun, colorful and entertaining, and while I'm upset that it was cancelled

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[bluehorse]

*picks up a warm cookie and happily takes a bite*

What a fun post! You reminded me of the original Space Ghost, who also had his share of the Good ( teenage twins Jan and Jace), the Bad (Zorak, Moltar, and Brak) and the Furry (Blip the Monkey.) That was an awful series, with stilted dialogue and poorly animated to boot, but it rocked when I was 12 *chuckles*

Hey, this cookie is delicious! *hugs* I love your ramblings, dearheart *^_^

[firestar9mm]

After so many posts cataloging the bloody battle vs. the Smug Married Agenda, I figured it was time to do something fun.

Watching the original Space Ghost (and we did, during dinner, sometimes) only made it funnier when he got his talk show and the bad guys became his silly co-hosts. My favorite was Zorak, but everyone always laughed when they did Brak-on-the-spot. He would always yell something like, "WHERE AM I?"

[bluehorse]

I think poor Brak was brain-damaged somewhere along the way *^_^* He was one of the fiercest villains on the original show. I can't decide who my favorite on the talk show is, though Moltar is awfully hard to beat. I loved it when he went on that bus trip *^_^* Then again, watching Zorak agonize over whether or not it was a good idea to get laid was pretty funny too.

[firestar9mm]

Paws down, my favorite bit was the one where Zorak described how praying mantises are cannibals, and you could never get up a decent kickball game in school because the students were always devouring each other. "And then you'd say, 'Where's my center fielder?' and they'd say, 'Oh, her. She got devoured.'" I loved that bit.

[bluehorse]

And then there'd be a few moments of dead silence while Moltar and Space Ghost let that line soak in *^_^*

I got to meet George Lowe at a con several years ago, and asked him how much of that series was ad-libbed, and how much scripted. He hemmed and hawed a bit, then said it all depended on how much they'd all been drinking that day *~_^*

[firestar9mm]

See, we ought to do something like that. We'd be so funny! Or we'd be drunk enough to think we were funny.

[bluehorse]

We'd be so funny! Or we'd be drunk enough to think we were funny.

Is there a difference? *~_^*