Talk about the Christmas spirit.
No fewer than 3,939 Santas strolled the streets of Bucharest, Romania, handing out Christmas gifts in a record-setting season's greeting over the weekend. Guinness said the outpouring broke a 2003 record set in Taipei, when 3,618 Santas went at it.
No fewer than 3,939 Santas strolled the streets of Bucharest, Romania, handing out Christmas gifts in a record-setting season's greeting over the weekend. Guinness said the outpouring broke a 2003 record set in Taipei, when 3,618 Santas went at it.
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It's a YULETIDE!
Wait, bad link. This is the precise link:
It's a YULETIDE!
I think those both work. I've got FlashBlock going on Firefox, which I think interferes with the time linking.
Anyway, it's 7:11 into the clip.
LOL! What a crazy cartoon that was.
I never really got it, I'm embarrassed to say.
That's the second half.
The first half would probably help in understanding.
I just love the visual of a swarm of Santas and the cry, "It's a yuletide!"
It does help to know the whole Tick thing, too.
Yeah, that part I got! And I love silly stuff like that. (In fact, I even love Spongebob...shhhh!)
What I meant is that I never "got" The Tick. It seemed like a very quirky show, and I'll have to look it up, but I'll bet my son was pretty little when it was first on.
So I was probably too distracted to get into it.
My kid (15) is into Family Guy now...and I don't like most of the political stuff in it, but honestly, some of it makes us laugh like crazy.
"The Tick" is basic superhero parody. He actually is powerful (and
"nigh-invulnerable") but he's insane (or at least really, really dumb). So, while he'll recognize that he needs an alias, he'll do something like put glasses on, while keeping his big blue outfit on.
In fact, whenever anyone has asked, he's been known to say "What outfit?"
The comic book revolved around The Tick being a nuisance to a Superman type, various other heroes attempts to achieve legitimacy by hiring villains to defeat, and some trouble with numerous, low-rent ninjas (sort of a scourge of the '80s, you may recall).
There were, of course, parodies of other comic heroes, like Die Fledermaus (German for "The Bat"), American Maid (Wonder Woman) and a hard-boiled detective a la Dick Tracy whose villainous "Chairface Chippendale" was the Tick's arch-nemesis in the cartoon.
The kid who wrote it in the '80s came to Hollywood to do the cartoon version and is now an executive producer who worked on "Angel" and "Supernatural".
Interesting, blake. I kind of thought that was what was going on with The Tick.
I don't remember seeing much, if anything at all on this character when I went to the NY Comic Con last year.
Well, "the kid" who wrote it turned 40 this year, and he stopped doing it after 12 issues. (And the comic has never been the same.)
So, it's been a good 20 years; I'm not surprised that it isn't exactly causing a buzz.
The spin-offs seemed interesting ("Paul the Samurai" and "Man-Eating Cow") but didn't quite have the same magic.
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