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Not Fan Girl, really!
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Date Posted: 15:08:51 10/19/01 Fri
The same episode where his latest scheme to get Freakazoid to chase him around is taking over the airwaves in order to collect every TV show ever made ... so he won't have to program his VCR anymore. His proudest accomplishment: finally collecting the Candy episodes from last season of Ponderosa! (Remember those?)
I love that show--it's too bad it only lasted 24 episodes. It's loaded with great cultural references (although not *quite* on a par with the Simpsons) and absurd humor. The Lobe is the funniest villain (naturally), although lots of other "groovy character actors" provide voices as well. (The Lobe count is now up to *eight* episodes, BTW.)
There have been several Tron references on the show. In one episode, Fan Boy spouts off a bunch of Tron trivia; in another, the Lobe causes Freakazoid and his buddy Cosgrove to be sucked into the virtual reality game they're playing (also shades of DW's The Outer Limits first episode!). And, of course, there's the whole concept of how Dexter Douglas *became* Freakazoid. (No wonder DW is computer-phobic.)
Oh, gawd, I don't sound like Fan Boy, do I? The character is hilarious ... but makes me feel a bit paranoid too! Ack, I *knew* I shouldn't have written that fan letter; I'm sure I sounded like a pathetic sycophant. Really, Mr. Warner, we have lives, honest! But your work--and the nice group of people who meet here to talk about it--just make them a lot more enjoyable. (Oops, that sounds like something Fan Boy would say too, doesn't it?)
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