Took an extra strength sleeping pill to trick my system into shifting to daylight normalcy tomorrow. Let’s see if I can write something half decent before my head lolls onto my shoulder, mouth agape. I already feel heavy eye lids and dizziness. The power of placebo! I doubt my body is assimilating it already.
Why don’t I like Rescue Rangers? Well, before my VHS horror movie phase, I used to always run to the Disney section of Village Video to pick out one of the compilation videos made up of old toons, mostly from the 50’s. Donald Duck, Goofy, Chip ‘n Dale, maybe Mickey Mouse. The old Goofy toons are great but I think Donald Duck was my favorite. Specifically, the one where he is playing hockey with his nephews on the outdoor pond. Or the one where he is trying to steal honey from a big honey bee nest that’s like a medieval castle. Yeah. That one’s the best. Still some of those Donald Duck cartoons with Chip n’ Dale were superb too. Dale was the stupid one, but Chip wasn’t all that bright either. He was kind of sadistic in his revenge towards Donald though. I don’t think I liked that.
Anyway, I liked Chip n’ Dale much better when all they were worrying about was collecting nuts and guarding their tree. When Disney made it into an after school adventure sitcom, they lost all credibility with me. Even though I was only eleven or so, I knew they were selling out. They dressed Chip as an Indiana Jones clone and put him in charge. They gave Dale this gaudy, red Hawaiian shirt and a mentality that was ripped right from Weekend at Bernie’s. Then they throw in fat Australian chipmunk stereotype, “Monty”, and Gadget, a female know-it-all chipmunk with a voice that could pierce metal. And then there was that green bug mascot who I hated most of all. Fuck, I wanted him to die.
So, yeah, it was lame. Not funny at all. Boring. If I wanted to see that type of show, Inspector Gadget did it much better. Also, I don’t like how Chip n’ Dale moved from their forest wildlife habitat and into the city. It’s a shift away from ecological wisdom and movement into urban dystopia. Out of the Disney half hour shows, Gummi Bears was my favorite. There were all kinds of darker themes lurking just beneath the surface.
Look, no genitalia!
The Ancient Undergrad 
“It’s a shift away from ecological wisdom and movement into urban dystopia.”
Speaking of which, there was a great special on Nova tonight that my husband made me watch that started off being about crocodiles in Madagascar and ended up taking a tangent about day and night lemurs that share the crocodiles’ ecosystem. I only mention this because although Chip and Dale are chipmunks, for some reason, they made me think of the lemurs. Mostly the show always took you back to the point that most of the creatures they were showing are on the verge of extinction due to mankind encroaching upon their natural habitat. So, there is the link to the quoted sentence above. I didn’t like the new Chip and Dale stuff either. Inspector Gadget was fairly annoying as well, but that stupid song always got stuck in my head…”doo, de, doo, de, doo, in-spec-tor gad-get….”
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you are lame and i no longer like you. you seem to me to have been a very morose and annoying child and i am glad i got to know you only when you were a morose and annoying young adult, which is slightly more acceptable.ah, im just joshin’ ya. you’re wrong about the show though. it was a great show and you’re just jealous. probably you played it at recess when you were a kid just like me, only you always had to be Dale and now you’re bitter.
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as for the poverty issue, i feel like the vast majority (although not all) of the poverty-stricken people of America are not included in the “extreme poverty” level so coined by leading economists. the “extreme poverty” that Sachs and other economists are working to eradicate is basically Africa, which is caused by disease, among millions of other factors, is NOT self-inflicted, and is, indeed, solveable.
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I have no idea where my parents got their hands on these, but I used to watch Looney Tunes that were all propaganda and had Nazis in it! Old cartoons rock! They always gotta funkify classic characters, it’s terrible . You should watch House of Mouse on the Disney channel (if you get that over there), it’s full of classic Disney cartoons! They kinda modernized the stuff between, but it’s classic-like, so it’s cool.
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i liked rescue rangers.
i’m sure monty was a mouse and the girl, gadget, was a mouse also.
the bug was a fly named zipper.
lol i am a dork. oh well, at least i don’t have any rescue ranger paraphernalia.
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I could lightly tolerate Rescue Rangers, but in moderation. Gadget’s voice got to me like nails on a chalkboard and I constantly wanted to kill Chip because he was a bossy smartass, not to mention an Indy rip-off. Me being an Indiana Jones fan didn’t take kindly to that. I’m not sure who I dislike more, him or Speedy Gonzales
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I always wondered just why Penny and Brain went about doing what they did and didn’t take any credit for it. Let’s do it for Uncle Gadget! I’d say screw Uncle Gadget!”Gummi Bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere, high adventure that’s beyond compare..” Now there’s an awesome cartoon!
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woah your right they have no balls… Their voices were really high though
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Peaceofmymind…got it. I worked with the locals. I need to read that book you suggested. ACK!! after I deblog myself and do more data entry. I made progress yesterday. So very little…but progress, nonetheless.
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okay no wait. RESCUE RANGERS WERE AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I never made it home in time to catch Gummi Bears. I mean, if I really wanted to I could have, but it just wasn’t that great of a cartoon, simply a nice surprise every once in awhile when I did get home early enough.
Anyway. Let’s — get — DANGEROUS!!
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Whoever would have thought that there was so much built-up passion about the cartoons of our childhoods?
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Aloha!!!!I’m sorry that you are in so much pain 😦 Hope you feel better soon!!!! :)Oh I love Disney movies too. I would say that Herbie is my fave of all Disney selections. But you know what, I rather watch the original over and over then the re-make. But i’ll give it a try tho. Pain is hurtful, love is sweet, the anger will go away!
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RYC: The jokes were just perverted. We’re more bound to make fun of ourselves than anyone else too. Ridiculous things like blonde jokes. Blonde jokes that easily translate into man jokes!
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I liked Rescue Rangers okay, but I liked Duck Tales the best. I always imagined that if I ever had enough money I would build a tower so I could swim in my cizzash, just like Scroogie. But then if I over-thought it, I would doubt it was possible to swim in coins like that. Actually, I bet it would probably hurt. So I stopped watching cartoons.
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it seems i learn new things every day. thx for the educational lesson…
check it again — i uploaded it to my xanga pics so it should show up now. not a big deal though either way =P
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me and cleo are old pals. not cleo the psychic, cleo the other sexually damned person in the hurricane. lollies and the lying liars… was hilarious. loved it, but yeah, not as topical and probably not as accurate as he would have us believe. i did like his “team franken” harvard students or whatever they were. i bet that would have been a fun internship.tania li: YEAH darkwing duck!!!
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Were you a Snorks fan?
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Darkwing Duck is terrible. Magnitudes worse than Rescue Rangers. I did actually like Ducktales. I think maybe I watched the Snorks once and a while. They were never a first choice though.
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