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by Mike
Sep. 30, 2006, 7:42pm | 15 Comments
I'll make it quick because I don't want to bother you! The Caged Bird notes/capsule/etc are all completed. You guys know the drill!

Also, e-mails. Yeah. I have so many and it is a daunting task. Plus I am kind of lazy with these things. Some day though, I swear. Huge thanks to all of you guys who sent in notes though (I think I say this every week), and don't stop! Catch ya later.
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Nice one.
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Sep. 30, 2006, 9:14pm
  • by Kuiosikle(again)
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Oh and thanks for the linakge :P. You should check out his DA page.
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Sep. 30, 2006, 9:15pm
Has anyone else noticed that in the credits of every episode, Kimson Albert, one of the animation directors, has a different, episode-appropriate nickname? Like in "Caged Bird", it's "Kimson 'Magic Murder Bag' Albert", and in VLM, it's "Kimson 'Quiet Desperation' Albert".
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Oct. 1, 2006, 7:06am
  • by Kuiosikle
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Good eye Hank! I mean Pulsar!

I've never noticed that, but it seems a bunch of other commentors did: http://venture.mancubus.net/?item=144 (sroll down).
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Oct. 1, 2006, 7:18am
  • by jeff
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each one is listed for every episode on wikipedia
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Oct. 2, 2006, 3:17pm
  • by Lactamaeon
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The Golden Tongs that Doc Orhpeus tries to capture the Japanese Oni Spirit with unsuccessfully in this episode is I believe a homage-nod to the powerful paranormal instrument used in a story during Grant Morrisons's run of his revamped incarnation of the DC comics "DOom PatROl" series( Issue 43, " Anyhow Stories ", http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/Doom_Patrol/issue43.html , and Issue 44, "Voices", http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/Doom_Patrol/issue44.html ). In the two comics story arc,It is revealed that the Silver Sugar Tongs are really a facet of a higher-dimensional object, used by a evil subsection of the US military to snare ghosts and make them into supernatural agents-soldiers.
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Oct. 1, 2006, 5:10pm
  • by zombiejesus
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now i thought that dr o's tongs looked more like tweezers. in Hellboy's "Box Full of Evil", he finds some demon tongs and they look much more like fireplace tongs. like what you would use to grab something hot and throw it back into the boiling pitch from whence it came.
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Oct. 1, 2006, 9:22pm
  • by Bryan
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I thought H.E.L.P.eR. called Brock's music "cock rock" instead of "jock rock."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_rock
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Oct. 1, 2006, 5:38pm
  • by Roscoe
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Man! Immigrant Song was left of the list of Zep songs with Tolkien refs.
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Oct. 2, 2006, 7:41pm
  • by Mike
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That's because the Immigrant Song is about vikings, not hobbits. :P
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Oct. 2, 2006, 9:15pm
  • by Roscoe
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But, it mentions The Western Shores, where elvs go when they die according to the Tolkien books.
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Oct. 2, 2006, 9:23pm
  • by markmarkmark
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i think those western shores are newfoundland, or, more likely valhalla.
regardless it's less explicit then the rest.
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Oct. 2, 2006, 9:49pm
  • by josh
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yeah, you really gotta streatch to connect "The Immagrant Song" to Tolkien. but it's a definant possiblity i suppose when talking about a band that was influenced by Tolkien as the Zep was.
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Oct. 2, 2006, 11:03pm
  • by Louis
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When #21 cut the cheese after Queen Atheria/Dr. Girlfriend went off to save the Monarch, did anybody catch where "Oh, Thank the maker!" came from? No? Well, itsyet another STAR WARS reference! I think it's one of C-3P0's lines.
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Oct. 5, 2006, 12:46am
Yup, Threepio, in ANH before the oil bath.
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Oct. 5, 2006, 8:45am
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