I love the feel of warm squishy mud twixt mah' toes.
Sour weeds are yummy on tha tummy.
Who needs guns...we's got dirt clods!
Nuthin' sez' luvin' like a snowball in the ear!
"The wind doth taste so bittersweet,
Like jasper wine and sugar.
I'll bet it's blown through others' feet,
Like those of...
...Casper Weinberger."
- Opus the Bard
"George Phblat's new film, 'Benji Saves the Universe,' has brought the word, 'Bad' to new levels of badness."
"Bad acting. Bad effects. Bad everything. This film just oozed rottenness from every bad scene... simple bad beyond all infinite dimensions of possible badness."
"Well... maybe not that bad, but Lord, it wasn't good."
"Some jerk parked his corvette in a handicapped zone. We tried to move it but they locked the transmission...not that we didn't try!" WHAM *sound of a transmission hitting a bar top.
PENGUIN LUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ronco Turnip Twaddlers for everyone!!11 Merry Christmas!!
"Out? I just signed a lease!"
"So we're going condo! Vamoose!"
"Every breath you take
Every, uh, leaf you rake
Every dog you wake
Every herring you bake
I'll be watching yoooouuu..."
[trombone solo]
[the crowd roars]
"Er, 'Sting' and the boys would like a word with you."
"Thank You, Thank You! Groupies always welcome!"
"Nun-beating? Good Lord, man, I can't condone THAT!"
Little, tiny jackabasselopes hopping everywhere as Opus tries to get pampers for all of them.
NRA Lobbyist: Where's the candidate (Bill the Cat)? Did he enjoy our little gift?
(RAT-AT-AT-AT-AT)
...Ah, he's exercising his constitutionally-protected second amendment rights.
Milo: Apparently at the neighbors.
"Tain't corn! It's dope!"
[passes ice tray]
"Refill this while you think about it. It's nesting season."
Opus answers the door on Christmas morning to see a flock of Christmas geese in red ties.
They've come to lift a friend high in the sky because he'd made a wish for wings that work.
sigh
"That rock and roll SMUT is a threat to the morals of the traditional American family!"
"Dad, you think that pantyhose ads are a threat to the traditional American family!"
"Go! I don't converse with pagans!"
Candle, thats actually what got me to remembering all the fun I had reading Bloom County. I found A Wish for Wings that Work and gave it to my four year old as a stocking stuffer for christmas. He loved it and played it about thirty times.
Man, there's just something about animated penguins. The best thing about the Madagascar movies are the penguins. Then there's Opus. And who can forget Chilli Willi?
*PENGUIN LUST!
I used to work at a recreational facility, a part of the State Institution that's closed now.
In the pool area, I painted a lot of murals of sea creatures.
I tried to keep most of them Oregon sights but I couldn't resist penguins, including quite a few paintings of Opus.
I've only seen the Wish movie once, but I have the book.
I watch the
Penguins of Madagascar cartoon on the Disney channel every chance I get, too!
"Wife, I'm home! Fix me a steak!"
"Fix it yourself, Mr. Moral Majority! I'm tired!"
"Sir, your sign says 'Have It Your Way' and 'My way' is herring on a bun with lots of mayo!"
"Milkshake. Hold the cup."
"Is there something wrong?"
"Well, I strongly suspect that you're carbonating my hormones."
"Sir, some of my best friends are chickens."
"Super. D'you want legs, thighs, or breasts?"
"DISMEMBERMENT? Are you BARBARIANS?!?!"
"..."
"Well, this 'Colonel' chap and I are going to have words!"
"Regular or crispy skin?"
Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts.
"Look, just cough up some dough, Mac."
"some jerk parked in the handicap spot. We couldn't move the car. Not that we didn't try." *drops transmission on bar top.
Just saw where "Mars needs moms" didn't do so good. I have a sneaking feeling that it will do better on DVD. But, it seemed like it lost a lot of that BB magic when they changed the animation to fit motion capture rather than maintain BB's style to add to things. Or... I it could just be a bad economy and people are looking to actually do things with their kids rather than hunker down in theaters with them.
Who knows.
Still, sad to see it didn't do so well. I'll be getting it for sam as soon as I can.
It's hard to translate a children's picture book into a full-length movie.
The book is a delightful little number that would have maybe filled a half-hour TV special. But they had to add a whole bunch of stuff to it to pad it out, and it sounds like they lost the essence of the story.
I haven't seen the movie, so I can't say for sure, but after seeing the last couple trailers, I pulled out my copy of the book to see if I was forgetting something.
The nature of the source material just doesn't lend itself to full-length feature animation. I just hope they don't try it with "Zen Shorts." Or "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus."
Plus, BB's art is a great draw. He manages to exaggerate facial expressions just perfectly with his particular brand of art. A lot gets lost in translation it seems.
[While Binkley's getting existential, Portnoy's about to drop a live beehive on his head]
BINKLEY: What do you think, Portnoy?
PORTNOY: 'Bout what?
BINKLEY: Do you think deep down, we're all just basically evil?
[Portnoy changes his mind]
PORTNOY: Nah.
BINKLEY: I'm relieved. Really.
Portnoy : SOCIALISM!!! That's where the Democrats are taking us! and how does one spell Socialism?
L-I-B-E-R-.....
Milo: Mail Call.
Your unemployment check, medicare check,medicaid check, social security check, welfare check, aaaand your farm subsidy check.
Portnoy: Gimme!
AND NOW ABOUT THAT FEDERAL DEFICIT...
I actually invoked a "Bloom County" reference last year in the
Evil Lash storyline. The reference is to one of Oliver Wendell Jones' nutty experiments going awry and Milo (I think) asking "Wasn't this a Lucy episode?"
I liked the one were Binkly waxed poetic on how the little things seemed to take on much more importance in the face of looming doom.
Bloom County?
Let's see now, Bloom county, Bloom county.... mmmm, nope, nuthin' registering.
Oh, wait... I know. Is it .... HEE HAW?
Eh, was that too Canadian eh?
>sigh< Some folks just got no culture.
I go me lots of culture bub ....
CULTURE SHOCK A LA RICK'S-OWN-TWISTED-MIND STYLE!
