David Bowie and Venture Bros: two great tastes that taste great together!
What’s the deal with Metalocalypse going into repeats after 4 episodes - and not airing at all this week? Cartoon Network programming is dildoes!
The short pitch clip for the proposed Batgirl series - it would have been awesome to see Yvonne Craig in her purple Bat-duds every week, despite:
1) The remarkably condescending treatment of women, even for its day: “Gotham City… abounds with girls of all shapes and sizes: debutantes, nurses, stenographers and librarians”.
2) It’s ear-splitting theme song. Which, in addition to sounding like nails on a chalkboard, stole it’s lyrics from “Cotton Eye Joe” (‘Where do you come from, where do you go’?). Although the show wasn’t picked up, the theme lived on as Babs’ intro music on Batman.
3) It’s embarrassingly lazy, expository dialog - Babs: “Isn’t that your youthful ward, Dick Grayson?” Bruce: “Yes, and the other gentleman is my millionaire friend Roger Montrose.”
Somehow, out of all the ridiculous scenarios we witnessed in the campy ‘60 Batman TV show, that exchange was the most unrealistic. I know it’s a short pitch film, you’ve gotta keep dialog to a minimum, but come on!
Still, despite everything I’ve just said, I would have watched this show religiously, it actually shows a lot of potential to have been better than the original Batman show it would have spun off of - and, hello, Yvonne Craig, in costume, on a motorcycle? Sexadelica!
If nothing else, this video is a terrific testament to what could have been, and should be of interest to all Venture Bros. fans, as it’s obvious that the bad guys made quite an impression on Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick. Enjoy!
If I was your dad, and you were your mom, and the you that wasn’t your mom was another girl, I would never let anyone take the you-mom.
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Dean Venture |
Happy 62nd Birthday, David Bowie - singer, songwriter, Sovereign, and - as a young David Jones - founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men.
I only read it for the articles, honest. I’m certainly not checking out Dr. Girlfriend’s cupcakes! I’m, uh, very interested in Mecha Mouth II.
(via Somewhere. Don’t look at me that way. I don’t remember)
