Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread IX: The 24-Hour Version (Fifth Time)

The Simpsons is great, though it's not British.

One of my favorite Simpson's eps is the "Flowers For Algernon" pastiche, in which Homer learns that it's unbearably lonely being the only smart person (aside from his own daughter) in a town full of idiots.

Another classic is the Halloween ep in which Marge has an alien baby-Maggie and goes on the Springer show.

I once saw Julie Kavner on a talk show, and the host asked her to do the Marge Simpson voice. She did, but with her head turned away from the audience, so as not to ruin it for anyone.

I remember Julie Kavner when she played Brenda on Rhoda.

According to this, she grew tired of being cast as the nice person and looked forward to finally playing an unlikable character.

Well, she does play Patty and Selma.

Maybe she wanted to play an unlikable MAIN character

The Simpsons really has become an institution. Eventually, I think the entire population of the Earth will have been a guest voice on that show.

Drat. When will it be my turn?!

I expect you'll be getting the call any decade now.

"Decade" is the title of a Duran Duran greatest hits compilation.

Dekada 70 is a novel about a Filipino family during the martial law era.

"Marshall Law" is probably the most anti-superhero comic ever published.

On Sesame Street, Grover had a cowboy character called Marshal Grover. He rode Wonder Horse Fred.

Fred and Daphne really had a thing going on in Scooby-Doo, huh?

I always figured Daphne's true love was Velma.

And Fred figured out his true love was Shaggy, too I've seen pics to prove it!

I think I might be the only person in my entire demographic who can't stand Scooby Doo. Though I did enjoy seeing it get mocked in the Animaniacs cartoon "Back In Style."

True story: when the voice roles for Scooby Doo were being cast, Frank Welker wanted to play Shaggy and Casey Kasem wanted to play Fred. Instead, they got the opposite roles. But eventually their characters grew on them.

I'm forty six. Scooby Doo is still better than 90% of the crap on mainstream tv.

Plus, Daphne and Velma are hotter'n pistols!

The original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? is okay, but has been overplayed. The New Scooby-Doo Movies are kind of surreal and campy. I just wonder why the company that owns Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Flintstones, the Jetsons and Yogi Bear puts all their eggs in the Scooby-Doo basket. Of course, the same company owns DC Comics.

cleome, I don't know how many demographic points you and I share, but I've never been a Scooby fan either.

I liked Scooby-Doo when I was a kid, especially the Movies where various fictional and real-life celebrities guest-sttarred.

I've largely outgrown the cartoons now. If I had started watching Scooby-Doo this year, I doubt I would have ended up a fan.

As Scooby went on, the show just got weirder and weirder.

It started off as an amusing kiddie cartoon with some not-so-subtle reference to cannabis.

It then evolved into a showcase for Hanna-Barbera's other characters as well as some contemporary celebrities (of whom I think only Cher, Sandy Duncan and Dick Van Dyke are still living).

This was followed by cartoons featuring Dyno-Mutt and Scooby-Dum, two canines who were possibly even dumber than Scooby.

Then we had the Laff-A-Lympics, which was mildly amusing in a poor person's Mad Magazine way.

Then came Scrappy.

I've always had a sentimental spot for Dyno-Mutt. It wasn't that much better written than the typical Hanna-Barbera cartoon, but Frank Welker (as Dyno-Mutt) and Gary Owens (as Blue Falcon) seemed to be having so much fun with their roles, I found it infectious.