From: John Grigg (starman2100@lycos.com)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 22:41:05 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
One of my favorite cartoon characters on TV today is Plankton, on
Sponge Bob Square Pants (See Nickelodeon). For such a small guy, he has amazing powers of imagination and megalomania. Your post reminds me of the episode where Sponge Bob wandered through everybody else's dreams and found that Plankton's dream was about him being a 100' tall monster squashing and blasting the buildings and denizens of Bikini Bottom.
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I knew this show had hit it big when I saw Sponge Bob toys plastered everywhere in my local retail stores! lol I wonder how long the show will maintain its popularity...
While visiting a friend and his grandchildren(that's the ONLY REASON I would watch a kid's show..., lol!) I took in two episodes of the show. I saw a Halloween edition which had extropian overtones and actually disturbed me!
A "real world" painter in a boat above Bikini Bottom drops his pencil. Sponge Bob finds it and soon learns whatever he draws comes to life. He draws himself(with the skill level of a ungifted kindergartner...) and the picture comes to life! It goes on a rampage and even after Bob thinks he has erased it, the creature comes back! The story had overtones of both Frankenstein and the dreaded gray goo scenario. Mike, I think at the next extro you should give a presentation on the extropian metaphors in this fine children's animated childrens program. : )
OK. I admit to having watched "The Powerpuff Girls Movie" awhile back! lol And you know what..., it was a real hoot! The scene where a game of tag gets totally out of control(city is ravaged) on their first day of school is very cool stuff. I think the fathers in the theater were enjoying it more than their kids were!
In a live action film I could certainly see Robert Bradbury cast as their concerned father figure/guardian. In one of the scenes he could lecture them about the importance of not offending creatures such as slugs which later on may be uplifted. They would then remind him about Mojo Jojo who is about the meanest and most calculating uplifted monkey around!
I sometimes look at my employer's dog Albert(a great dane), and wish there was a way he might be uplifted now. He could be put to work around the lodge, and would generally be happier having some freedom and responsibility. I imagine him being like a "dog boy" soldier in the Rifts roleplaying game.
Tomorrow I start being a leader of men around here(just for a few days)!
best wishes,
John
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