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Was it this show that had a reference to the shrine of the silver monkey from legends of the hidden temple on it recently? I know something I've seen in the last month or so referenced it but I can't for the life of me remember what.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:25
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I don't remember it, but this would be the show to do one.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:58
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Milo and POTUS posted:Was it this show that had a reference to the shrine of the silver monkey from legends of the hidden temple on it recently? I know something I've seen in the last month or so referenced it but I can't for the life of me remember what. Archer made a point how in its latest season how it was nothing like the show "Tales of the Gold Monkey".
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Oct 22, 2018 13:06
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Davros1 posted:Archer made a point how in its latest season how it was nothing like the show "Tales of the Gold Monkey". I think that was actually a reference to a much older show actually and I'd never seen it either so it was kinda over my head Cojawfee posted:I don't remember it, but this would be the show to do one. Oh yeah, absolutely. If I remember it right, it literally had them trying to stick the monkey parts together. I watch a lot of poo poo though and rewatch older stuff too so it could be all sorts of stuff. I've been combing the scripts of some reason shows including family guy and haven't found it but sometimes epiphanies happen.
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Oct 22, 2018 13:14
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Milo and POTUS posted:I think that was actually a reference to a much older show actually and I'd never seen it either so it was kinda over my head They specifically state that the totem they are after is in no way a Gold Monkey.
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Oct 22, 2018 13:16
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Right, there was an Indiana Jones rip-off tv show in the early 80s that the season of Archer was heavily riffing on, the treasure at the end was a golden monkey statue. Unless that’s what you meant since the show was called Tales of the Golden Monkey. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Oct 22, 2018 |
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Oct 22, 2018 15:11
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The thing in Archer: Danger Island series was very clearly a riff on Tales of the Gold Monkey, a 1980s show that I remember watching as a kid. And while it was kinda-sorta a riff on Indiana Jones and the Only Movie Starring Indiana Jones That Had Up To That Point Been Released, it was more of a play on a brief romance filmmakers in the late 70s/early 80s had with early-to-mid 20th century aviation. Two big standouts that I remember are a Tom Selleck move called The High Road to China, and Tales of the Gold Monkey. There are other, less memorable examples floating around in my head, but those are two worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing. This was just a moment in film history, like how a few body-swapping movies came out in the late 80s (Vice Versa, Like Father Like Son, 18 Again, Dream a Little Dream), or how a few under-the-sea horror/thriller movies came out in the... what, was it the late 80s/early 90s? (I'm thinking of Deep Star Six, Leviathan, and The Abyss.) The Gold Monkey series was a part of the early aviation craze. Around that time, there was also this thing about animal sidekicks. Anyway... the Archer thing was definitely a take on Tales of the Gold Monkey, with Pam's breaking of the fourth wall to explain that the season's MacGuffin was definitely not a golden monkey being a little wink toward the audience. As for the original question, Milo and POTUS posted:Was it this show that had a reference to the shrine of the silver monkey from legends of the hidden temple on it recently? I know something I've seen in the last month or so referenced it but I can't for the life of me remember what. ... not that I'm aware of, unless you're making a pretty abstract connection to something from Comatown. I mean, yeah, the Comatown stuff is very easily explained as either Barbarella or Empire Strikes Back references, but that doesn't mean that it's not similar to other things on a more abstract level.
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Oct 22, 2018 15:57
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Milo and POTUS posted:Was it this show that had a reference to the shrine of the silver monkey from legends of the hidden temple on it recently? I know something I've seen in the last month or so referenced it but I can't for the life of me remember what. I remember seeing one too and I can't place it. You're not alone, friend.
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Oct 22, 2018 22:18
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Ok wait, in the finale, how did (most of) the council use the teleporter to get up to meter majeur, while at the same time, one of the "ends" was planted in the ventech building to enable the invasion? Did they sneak in, put it on that storage room shelf, then teleport up? Or did someone place it later, after the council was already up there -- and if so, why was it necessary to teleport into the ventech building at all, when they were apparently able to infiltrate it anyway? Was this explained and I'm too dumb to remember?
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Oct 22, 2018 23:48
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feetnotes posted:Ok wait, in the finale, how did (most of) the council use the teleporter to get up to meter majeur, while at the same time, one of the "ends" was planted in the ventech building to enable the invasion? Did they sneak in, put it on that storage room shelf, then teleport up? Or did someone place it later, after the council was already up there -- and if so, why was it necessary to teleport into the ventech building at all, when they were apparently able to infiltrate it anyway? Was this explained and I'm too dumb to remember? The teleporter was inside a shipping crate, so obviously they had mailed one to Ventech
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Oct 22, 2018 23:53
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feetnotes posted:Ok wait, in the finale, how did (most of) the council use the teleporter to get up to meter majeur, while at the same time, one of the "ends" was planted in the ventech building to enable the invasion? Did they sneak in, put it on that storage room shelf, then teleport up? Or did someone place it later, after the council was already up there -- and if so, why was it necessary to teleport into the ventech building at all, when they were apparently able to infiltrate it anyway? Was this explained and I'm too dumb to remember? One was stolen, the other left behind. Guild replicates another one/multiples to connect to the Meteor Majeure. (sp?) Rusty probably just throws the one he has in the storage room as he can't even sell the dang thing thanks to the OSI. The replications don't work as well, it seems, leading to Phage's incident. Or maybe they straightened out the kinks after Phage's incident.
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Oct 22, 2018 23:58
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I don't think the Guild has more than one, since using it for the operation meant that Dragoon and Red Mantle had to take the shuttle. They needed the teleporters so they could keep a link open and keep drip-feeding Brock henchmen to keep him occupied all night.
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Oct 23, 2018 00:21
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LashLightning posted:One was stolen, the other left behind. Guild replicates another one/multiples to connect to the Meteor Majeure. (sp?) Rusty probably just throws the one he has in the storage room as he can't even sell the dang thing thanks to the OSI. Nope, they definitely got both teleporters in that heist. But we're probably meant to assume they can make more once they have the prototype, if it ever ends up mattering again (which it won't). Red Dragoon and Mantle chose to take the shuttle because they didn't trust the teleporters. But I have every faith that Rusty's original prototype teleporters would have the flaw that sent Phage to Coma Land.
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Oct 23, 2018 00:24
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LashLightning posted:One was stolen, the other left behind. Guild replicates another one/multiples to connect to the Meteor Majeure. (sp?) Rusty probably just throws the one he has in the storage room as he can't even sell the dang thing thanks to the OSI. Both were stolen. At the end of "The Unicorn in Captivity," the pad that was in the getaway truck (the one on which Monarch appeared shortly before the truck crashed) landed on the ground next to Gary and Monarch after the crash. Then, the other one that was inside the dislodged panic room fell out and landed almost on top of it. When Brock and the OSI get to the scene, Monarch, Gary, and both pads are missing. drrockso20 posted:The teleporter was inside a shipping crate, so obviously they had mailed one to Ventech This is what I believe happened. You can see what appears to be shipping crate debris around the pad when you first see people teleporting in. Either that, or there was a third pad. But, I believe they just shipped one of the pads over. Edit: Phenotype posted:Red Dragoon and Mantle chose to take the shuttle because they didn't trust the teleporters. But honestly, though it pains me to say it... I think Doc just goofed. Edit Edit: Nevermind. The next post nails it. I forgot a line of dialog that explains it. tarlibone fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Oct 23, 2018 00:26
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Yeah, they shipped it in. It's plain as day. Shelia says "would you please use the teleporter" to which Red Mantle replies "it's being used for tonight's blackout operation." That's pretty drat cut and dry.
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Oct 23, 2018 00:33
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bull3964 posted:Yeah, they shipped it in. It's plain as day. poo poo, I forgot about that. You're right. Doc's off the hook. ... this time.... ... no, he's off the hook. My mistake.
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Oct 23, 2018 00:41
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Still, Sheila's line makes it sound like she and most of the others teleported up, which I guess means that they've been staying on the space station since before the earthside end was mailed to Venture.
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Oct 23, 2018 01:39
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Or they just dropped it off on the loading dock an hour earlier and Hatred stuffed it in storage on the way to see Hank in the hospital.
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Oct 23, 2018 02:03
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Oh my god it doesn't matter.
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Oct 23, 2018 02:36
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TK-42-1 posted:Oh my god it doesn't matter. How did the Venture's get to New York in the first place? Did they take the X-1? Did they fly commercial? Ride a limo all the way there? It wasn't explicitly shown which means I should type hundreds of paragraphs speculating about it.
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Oct 23, 2018 03:32
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Imagine if Billy had gone through first instead of the Captain.
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Oct 23, 2018 06:00
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TK-42-1 posted:I remember seeing one too and I can't place it. You're not alone, friend. Folie a deux?
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Oct 23, 2018 06:54
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Dimebags Brain posted:How did the Venture's get to New York in the first place? Did they take the X-1? Did they fly commercial? Ride a limo all the way there? It wasn't explicitly shown which means I should type hundreds of paragraphs speculating about it. It’s going to be a long few years, friend.
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Oct 23, 2018 07:00
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Hank has good taste in candy bars but why would you only eat half a candy bar.
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Oct 23, 2018 10:55
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Probably Rusty shouting, "Hank, that's your third Whatchamacallit! Put the rest in the fridge!"
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Oct 23, 2018 11:06
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I'm assuming the henchmen Brock slaughtered were a necessary part of the Level 10 ceremony, right? I'm just thinking such a ceremony by the Guild would involve a sacrifice.
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Oct 24, 2018 17:38
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Pershing posted:I'm assuming the henchmen Brock slaughtered were a necessary part of the Level 10 ceremony, right? They were a distraction to keep Brock busy or else he would have showed up half way through the ceremony and turned the guild headquarters into a charnel house.
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Oct 24, 2018 17:42
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Oct 24, 2018 17:43
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Remember Watch and Ward come in and are like “ok we gotta get doc back now or samson is going to go all sickhouse on us” or somesuch
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Oct 24, 2018 18:08
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Mr. Nice! posted:Remember Watch and Ward come in and are like “ok we gotta get doc back now or samson is going to go all sickhouse on us” or somesuch I swear that isn't even the first time that has figured into their planning. Like "muster enough henchpersons to soak 1 Brock Samson for X turns" is just high-level Guild SOP at this point.
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Oct 25, 2018 04:57
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I like the gumption of the one blackout team leader who tried to get out of the mission by saying, with confidence, that he had "left a little team behind" when asked why he'd returned. He looked so dejected and resigned to his fate when he was told to get back in line.
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Oct 25, 2018 05:52
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Just a thought : I hear lots of people say that while Dean takes a lot after Rusty, Hank takes a lot after Brock... and I think that last one is wrong. Hank doesn't take after Brock, that lunatic who cares even less about the antics of the Ventures' life than Rusty does, Hank takes after Hatred! Is it really a coincidence that, in the same episode, both Hank and Hatred try to seduce someone to get their way? Hank is the master of imagination and weirdness, but Hatred can get creative and weird (remember the whole decoy thing in season 4?) when he wants to.
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Oct 29, 2018 21:52
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That theory is a little disturbing considering what Hatred did to the boys when he kidnapped them.
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Oct 29, 2018 22:31
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As for whether it's a coincidence that Hank and Hatred both tried to seduce someone who was in their way or not... yeah, I'm going with coincidence. Hank often plies women with his seductive talk and smooth moves. He's tried this on numerous girls and women in the past; it's kind-of his shtick when it comes to interactions with the ladies. Besides, he only tried it in Comatown because he realized he was Lando Dee Williarissian, whose only way out of the trap would be seducing the monster and then selling Action Man to the Empire. Had he been Luke, he'd have used the Force; if he'd been Han Solo, he would have either shot the beast first or dreamed up a dimly-lit and underwhelming backstory full of ridiculous contrivances in order to put the beast to sleep or to make it so mad that it left him alone in the cave so it could go to the library and complain about it on the Empire Internet. Conversely, this was the first time I've seen Hatred actively try to seduce anyone who wasn't Princess Tinyfeet. I think that early in the series, Dean was depicted as more studious and intelligent than Hank, and Hank openly idolized Brock and emulated him however he could. So, in the early going, you have Rusty Venture, former Boy Adventurer and current Super Scientist, split into two children: Hank was going the way of the adventurer, and Dean was going toward academia. Brock was just Hank's model for adventurers, seeing as how his dad had given up that lifestyle by the time Hank and Dean were born. I think that by and large, this remains the same: Dean is now in college, although he is shying away from a career in science; and Hank is still the adventurer of the two, just with less idolization (and mimicry) of Brock.
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Oct 29, 2018 22:52
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Right, there was an Indiana Jones rip-off tv show in the early 80s that the season of Archer was heavily riffing on, the treasure at the end was a golden monkey statue. Bring 'em Back Alive?
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Oct 30, 2018 00:02
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Baba Oje from Arrested Development has passed away
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Oct 30, 2018 20:42
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hughesta posted:Baba Oje from Arrested Development has passed away Now he can finally guide 24.
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Oct 30, 2018 20:53
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hughesta posted:Baba Oje from Arrested Development has passed away This needs to be somehow added to a gif of Twenty-One crying in Orpheus's arms.
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Oct 30, 2018 22:09
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of the Venture Bros upon hearing this news
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Anyone who's going through Venture Bros withdrawal, go check out the new DuckTales. It's basically PG Venture. Huey is Dean Dewey is Hank Louie is kinda like Pete White Donald is Brock/Hatred Mrs. Beakley is Brock Launch pad is harder to say. David Puddy as a cartoon? Gyro is Rusty Scrooge is Jonas's image, a more ideal, caring Jonas And on and on. There are some episodes that feel like straight up Venture episodes, like the Egyptian one.
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