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hoe about Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas?

Tarzan Boy

I enjoy both those songs. I love the animated TV ad for Listerine that used Tarzan Boy, with a sentient bottle of mouthwash swinging from a vine...classic!

tee-hee! love creative, funny commercials

The funny ones can be the ones that stay with audiences for years, becoming in-jokes. Priceless marketing for brands.

Memetic mutation!

Not to be confused with Marvel mutants.

Or the Mars mutants from the OG Total Recall

I can't believe I ever thought Schwarzenegger was funny and likable. These days, I can still watch the 1st Terminator movie, because:

- He's the villain

- He has few lines

- He dies.

Anything else with him in it makes my skin crawl.

Speaking of creepy crawlies, there are some spiders on our roof terrace. But they're catching insects, so good!

My youngest cousin, who is non-binary, considers Spider-Man their favorite superhero. I offered that the X-Men are sort of like a whole team of Spider-Men, only much more diverse. My cousin said I made a valid point.

One reason I love the X-Men as a concept, the whole point (in my mind) was to champion the misunderstood and feared.

They went one step further than the Legion, which highlights diversity and collaboration.

Very well said, Ibby. And though some writers have made the concept work better than others, it's the concept itself that continues to resonate across the decades.

Agreed - I think XMen lapped the Legion with that core element. It didn't help that the Legion was mostly a white kids' club and DC didn't feel to really do much about it until the 90s

yeah, it was mainly the Reboot where I recall them stressing the diversity/collaboration aspect. it was not as overtly stressed prior. The Retroboot pushed that a bit, with the Earth-Man storyline.

The preboot Legion was operating in a world in which the United Planets had been around for awhile, and cooperation among diverse species was just part of the background for the most part (there are occasional themes of discrimination against particular soecies such as Durlans, but that's more on account of their powers rather than just being alien). The reboot by constrast, was all about the story of the United Planets coming together, and so it makes sense that diversity/cooperation woukd be a more foregrounded theme.

IThe fact that Johns seems so insistent on trying to graft that theme onto the retroboot Legion is yet anither reason his take on the team annoys me.

fair point about the different contexts of Preboot vs. Reboot, EDE!

DnA made the eradication of diversity, a plot that escalated through a number of issues.

So many issues, in fact, that by the time they were finally ready to wrap it up, they only had 2 issues left.

In such oblique ways and in stories that took so long to tell that no one cared by the end,

I was reflecting about Umbra's lost darkfield. She lost it in Legion 2; left for home in Legion 10; and we finally see her again in Legion... 24?

She basically missed the Robotica invasion AND Dreamcrime... she gets knocked out at the beginning of Legion 24 (after Thresholding there, so instantly after leaving Legion World in Legion 10...) how long was she out?!? (or did she stay on Talok VIII for a bit after getting her darkfield back...)

Maybe her Threshold guide had no sense of direction LOL.

"I said Talok VIII, not Talok VI!"

The proverbial wrong turn at Albuquerque.

Albuquerque