I'm realizing a lot of these involve people in costumes specifically haha
- So I was wrong about Bananas in Pyjama's it just aired alongside so many other shows growing up it became tied with other actually Canadian shows I watched (for the sake of the poll I guess it get's an Honourary Status
Mr. Dress Up
I've seen it described as Canadian Mr.Rogers which I guess isn't to far off seeing as this man was once an understudy of Mr. Fred Rogers.
Big Comfy Couch
Maybe this is why Clowns don't bother me
The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
Nice to know my love of dragons started early and has always existed
Mystery Hunters
Fun show. They explored well mysteries around the world. From Hauntings and Cryptids to other stuff. Good fun
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Probably the one I'd expect more non Canadians to be familiar with, Canadian Goosebumps pretty much but like as campfire stories. Some of em could actually be pretty creepy
Zoboomafoo
Probably one of my biggest influences in my animal loving heart
Uh-Oh!
You keep your Nickelodeon Slime, this is the only slime in my childhood. The main part of the game show was spinning a giant wheel to pick the next challenge and if it landed on Uh-Oh then one person in the team ended up in a tank where they got slime dumped on them if the other kid answered a Trivia Question wrong. The guy who did the sliming they called the Punisher. Also the prizes were always dope like gameboys, scooters, bop its, n shit (you can see how dated it is now lol but lemme tell you as kid those prizes were the shit and I wanted em)
Please tell me I (and my sister) aren't the only ones who remember this.
Polka Dot Door/ Polka Dot Shorts
Polka Dot Shorts was basically a spin off of Polka Dot Door which is why they're are lumped together. Back to kids shows with costumes (I wonder what this says about me)
Banana's in Pyjamas
In the 2010s it got like a CG reboot (ngl kinda terrifies me a little) the original did have animated segments from what I remember tho
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my thoughts on Majestic Rep’s RTC
it’s a lot sorry guys
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(spoilers below the cut)
you can tell when ocean starts questioning her attitude and how conflicted she is, especially right after WTWN
jane gets startled so easily poor baby
noel’s riffs are amazing!! (noel’s lament)
the choreo is awesome too!
mischa is a such a sweetie he genuinely cares so much about the other choir members
mischa flipping ocean off before “i love you guys” haha
constance’s finger guns after “fornication”
constance laughing at ocean out down jokes and then switching up is so funny
i love oceans line delivery she’s like three seconds snapping i love it
jane going from being able to move
fluidly during the songs to being stiff again she looks so confused every time
ricky. just ricky ❤️
connie i thought the crystal meth joke was funny
^^ i love all the dialogue in that scene i don’t remember it in original cast slime tuts
fuck mischa’s adopted parents fr you can tell his anger is a defense mechanism because when he feels comfortable with the choir he’s so sweet!!
MISCHA FALTERING WHEN SAYING HES TALIAS FIANCÉ
“THANK YOU FOR KILLING MY MOTHER AND INDIRECTLY KILLING ME” 💔💔💔
MY LIFE IS AWESOME
(i’m gonna start categorizing by song now i don’t have much for WTWN and Noel’s Lament so)
jane dope 🔥🔥
mlia gives mad sibling karaoke vibes
karna i see u bopping along
the singing too is immaculate
OK JANE i see u dropping it down
TALIA
this mischa genuinely seems so into it he deserves so much credit in way of character work
the way he gets all bashful during his Talia monologue 💓
background harmonies (constance is carrying and also i can hear her so well!!)
again riffs!! well done
the choreo goes crazy!! this applies to all the songs tho
the arms making a steeple 🥺😩
THE ENDING RIFFS 💔💔💔😩😩😩😭😭🥺🥺😞😞
the projection i’m gonna end it all 💔
MISCHA FUCKING CRYING INTO NOELS SHOULDER HELPHELPHELP and even once the dialogue moves on he’s still clinging to him and Noel rubs his back
“ocean why aren’t you talking right now it’s weird” (ricky in the bg: ☝️)
i love u connie awkwardness
jane is so reactive to everything she hears like a little puppy
“OKAY!! 😁😁😁😁” (autismo lore dump time)
oceans face when he’s explaining it 😀 to 🙁 to 😟
AND THEN SHE FUCKING MOANS U CATHOLIC FREAK (no offense to catholics reading this)
noel’s face me too bud
ricky’s lore is kinda gross just because it wasn’t always this way. but sigh what can you do
SPACE AGE BACHELOR MAN:
ricky my little freak boy ❤️
spacedolls realness coming through
“sure…😬”
rip ricky u would have loved therian tiktok
little curtain face thing “it gets weird now :)” (•.•)
“THAT SON OF A BITCH !! 😡😡😡”
the emotion behind his lines the whole time tbh adds to the comedy (“i thought i told them !! 😕😕”)
the ending “b-b-b- bachelor man!” (“meow!!”)
we love u mischa hype man (again sweetest man alive)
constance’s “oh man!” was so agressive i loved it the one in the soundtrack seems so sad. this constance is less shy more awkward and i love it
THE BALLAD OF JANE DOE:
i know i know. but choreo.
vocals!! ily jenna
bg vocals as well!!
the mixing 🥹
OK THE OPT UP????
the choreo at “a choir never complete” reminds me of the opening funeral scene from beetlejuice. definitely fits the vibe!
the borderline growl/anger in “and i��m asking why lord” yes!!!!
she sounds so desperate. crying.
“does no one care?!” again the anger and emotion!
THE BG VOCALS AT THAT ONE PART SO GOOD THEYRE ANGRY FOR HER IT SEEMS
the roller coaster. them being sucked back into it choreo wise. reverse looking.
THE HIGH NOTES 💋💋💋
ocean being the one to put the birthday costume on means a lot to me. idk
ocean comforting her too 🥰🥰
janes birthday claps!
SNATCH !! 🧁🧁
ocean doing connie’s hair ❤️
savannah scene!!
we don’t get to see it but i know the waltz is happening
“ur ma best frand 💓“
^ and then ocean immediately snaps my heart again.
“no you don’t ocean. 😕”
i understand oceans monologue she just. executed it badly.
constance 😝 beat her ass girl
“or they’ll call you a cow” baby. come here. 💔
constance. i get you. i get u connie baby.
JAWBREAKER/SUGAR CLOUD:
oceans face ❤️ i don’t know how to describe it but she looks. proud. and her sitting almost re-evaluating everything in the back. (assuming)
ricky giving her the mic ❤️
HER GIGGLE
them scooting her around aghhhahahdhdbdheh
cloud props!
CONFETTI AND BALLOONS AND IM SMILING LIKE A FOOL
jane looks so happy with her ballon skipping around 🥹
the ending!! ILY CONSTANCE
mischa helping her down awww
ocean and connie hug!!
can’t forget the nischa hug
ocean losing her voice inflection and sounding so genuine. so scared. so raw.
janey when she gets chosen 🥹🥹
ocean and connie hug 2
JANE REACHING FOR RICKY SNDBDJWKDJDKF
ITS NOT A GAME/ITS JUST A RIDE
crying over the ending brb
the slideshow will always get me
something about the whole scene. houfhhhhhhh
“and you give and choose while you live and lose” and the lines preceding it get me 🥹
ARE THOSE REAL VIDEOS OF JENNA?!?!?!
KARNA SOUNDING LIKE THEYRE GONNA CRY
the first lines of it’s just a ride. no music. so raw sounding 🥹 the teary voices. the haphazard harmonies.
ocean and mischa holding each other. big bro little sis 💓
“WOO!”
THEIR FREESTYLE DANCING!
they’re having so much fun. they’re dead but they’re LIVING for the first time.
all of the hand holding. my babes.
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OOZEPUNK
WHAT IS OOZEPUNK?
Oozepunk is the term I'm coining for the microgenre of urban heroic sci-fi horror-fantasy that first exploded in the mid-80s with movies, shows, and comics like Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Toxic Avenger, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hellboy, Street Sharks, and others. Lots of natural crossover with Biopunk and Cyberpunk, aesthetically and philosophically.
Your childhood trauma didn't let you forget Roger Rabbit heavily featured colorful nightmare slime, did it?
A ragtag gang of weirdos (often horribly mutated--more on that soon) band together to save a city that doesn't understand them. Grimy sewers, abandoned buildings and graffiti'd brick walls are lit up by neon lights, streams of mysterious, glowing goo and/or the unearthly lights of futuristic particle weapons--ideally all of the above!
Beyond the "cracked concrete and gutters full of liquid plutonium" aesthetic, Oozepunk prankishly asks "What if catastrophic aberrations of science, particularly DUMPING TOXIC FUCKING WASTE STRAIGHT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT created fucked-up monsters... but they're HEROIC fucked-up monsters!" These catastrophic aberrations of science grant the heroes incredible powers, but COST them their place in human society. (Ghostbusters and Roger Rabbit eschew character mutation in favor of discovering that the undead and olde tymey cartoons are real [and exploitable!], respectively. 'Busters and 'Toon sympathizers alike are treated like insane idiots and/or frauds in their respective universes.)
Oozepunk heroes are challenged not only by strange supernatural beings, but by human society itself. The Ghostbusters battle with local politicians as much as they do the undead. In the recent (and delightful) TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Splinter warns the Turtles of humans and their obsession with "milking" mutants for their blood--on top of the villainous mutants they're trying to thwart!
Crank up the creep factor in Oozepunk and you get awesome anti-establishment goo-horror like 1988's The Blob, The Stuff, Street Trash, and probably a bunch more. Toxic Avenger is a batshit crazy splatter-comedy (i.e. classic Troma)... and still garnered sequels, a kid's cartoon and toyline!
And there's a Shredder's Revenge-style Crusaders beat-em-up coming out next year??
This looks dope as shit
Ghostbusters and TMNT are the only current, "evergreen" (or radioactive green!) Oozepunk franchises I can think of off the top of my head, but Oozepunk elements are buried in almost all of the stories and settings I love the most. Heroic kaiju like King Kong, Godzilla and Gamera paved the way for our freaky friends, but so did comics characters like Fantastic Four's Ben "The Thing" Grimm, The Hulk and Swamp Thing. Hell, I think I blame SESAME STREET of all things for starting me down the Oozepunk path.
Surprise! I've loved screaming trash monsters with secret hearts of gold since I was a fucking baby, and they've ALWAYS been there for me!
But it's not just Oscar, Sesame Street as a whole is a proto-Oozepunk utopia, years before the big Ooze-splosion of the 80s. Muppets, monsters, talking animals and chill humans all live and work together to scrape by with a little dignity in a gritty-but-wholesome urban world!
Sesame Street, a decades-long reminder that educational childrens' programming can and SHOULD be cool as hell looking and loaded with all kinds of friendly mutant freakuloids.
OOZEPUNK! Whaddya think?
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