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What a sad world we live in that people are ashamed of liking muppets.
Nay, loving muppets.
I can't speak for the second.
It is quite shocking when they curse, like Rygal going "Shut up you blue bitch" when you normally think of muppets as family friendly.
Yeah, Tennant really pulls off flabbergasted. That'st he only word for that moment.
On that note, I want my Tardis USB Hub, Thinkgeek! It was a Christmas present! Arg!
Rigel is magnificent. He keeps cursing, stealing, gorging himself and biting bits off people. He's like a muppet from hell(albeit entertaining hell, at that).
The Hell Of Disturbing Bodily Secretions, if you want to get all Big Trouble in Little China about it.
Indeed... Rigel and his napalm piss.
I loved the way that each week they could deal with a completely different theme, and it was more like straight drama with hints of sci-fi, most of the time anyway. Also Sam Beckett was such a great character well played by Scott Bakula, and as a kid he was a good role model. In fact when I look back there were a lot of good role models on TV when I was growing up. It doesn't seem to be that way any more.
"Star Trek: Enterprise" needed to have an episode that started off with Archer and Hoshi transporting up to the ship from a planet with "electric storms" or some crap, and when the two of them arrive, they look shocked at each other, with Hoshi stating, "Oh boy." in Bakula's voice. Cue "Long Road Getting from There to Here".
*sigh* They even had Dean Stockwell on for an episode.
It's a shame really that they blew it early with that. They should have waited and then got the two of them together in a real stonker. Honestly though there were times that I would watch Enterprise just to see if Scott Bakula was going to do an "oh boy" before before the main titles. Just once.
Is it wrong to imagine Dean Stockwell appearing out of nowhere with a cigar and a Lego notepad in everything Scott Bakula is in? Or Any character he plays leaping at the end of the episode/film?
He hasn't been in anything very "mainstream" but he's a very good actor.
Have you seen him in nBSG?
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Honestly? It's probably a side effect of growing up with Quantum Leap. That show truly was excellent, and judging from this thread, left an impression on a great deal of people.
One thing that amused me about that show is how it ran from 1989-1993, yet their prediction of how we would live in 1999 was completely George Jetson like.
Well, the movie Strange Days proposed that we'd have memory recording devices by the year 1999. That was released in 1995. Cutting a bit close with the "near future" thing, there.
As for Dean Stockwell, the guy is awesome on BSG. He's like, the only Cylon who gets how stupid it is that robots believe in magical fairy gods.
Man, that was an unbelievably awful movie.
Yeah, but I'm not referring to advanced tech. I'm referring to every day homes.
There's an episode where Sam switches places with a serial killer, and the serial killer breaks out of the facility and Al has to track him down. 1999 looks really, really tacky.
I don't remember that episode. I just remember the future being like the present except with flashing LEDs on everything. :P
It was a very eighties version of the future.
I liked the muppets as well. Farscape was one of the few shows than actually tried to have different looking aliens, as opposed to just humans with asses and pointy things glued to their head (although it did have it's fair share too).
Also they really didn't develop the hilarious potential of him jumping into women's lives enough. Out of a hundred or so leaps, there were probably less than a dozen female leapees. Come on, you don't have a body transfer engine without taking a crack at the gay, right?
Okay, fine, so 1989 might not have been ready for a concept most often seen in manga and anime.
And who didn't love Sam as Dr. Ruth? C'mon?
Not really. Remember that Sam and Al worked at a high tech cutting edge facility. From what I remember of the episode Same leaps back into his own body, normal civilian life wasn't that different.
Wasn't that the episode with Al in the 1940s?