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teenybuffalo

We will worship Great God Ra/ We'll just stand there and go, "Ahhhh!"

Feb 14, 2016 02:07

I have just found out in casual conversation that there was a cartoon on TV for one season in 1997 called Mummies Alive! It featured Ancient Egyptian mummies who were like undead Power Rangers, or possibly Sailor Scouts, and they were all bodyguards to this one pharoah who had been reborn as a schoolboy in San Francisco. They had Egyptian-themed ( Read more... )

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moon_custafer February 14 2016, 21:46:22 UTC

I've been watching part of ep. 1, & it is quite cute. I especially liked the big one-armed mummy trying to understand a refrigerator: "The white stone sarcophagus contains food offerings." Also the kid pointing out right off the bat that one of the mummies is very obviously a woman, to the shock of the others who'd never suspected her disguise in life.

teenybuffalo February 15 2016, 03:23:45 UTC

I just watched the first episode and was impressed favorably. All the more, as I was just in San Francisco, and most of the locations are recognizable. The baddie has a suite of offices/living quarters/lairs in the Transamerica Pyramid, which is making me wonder if that's their entire reason for setting this show in SF.

They struck the reincarnation theme quite strongly with the hero hugging the poor little mummified cat's sarcophagus and crying a little, before saying, "What'm I doing, I don't even like cats!"