#dr. ropata

[daimyosprincess]

TEMUERA MORRISON as Dr. Hone Ropata in Shortland Street 1.16

Shortland Street gifs — 3/?

please don't repost my gifs, reblog to share :)

[sandumilfshou]

im gonna need the sw clone stans or jango/boba stans to officially create and roll with the fanon headcanon that whenever someone with jango fett's face has to use a fake identity its always the identity of dr. hone ropata

do this for tem, please

[fuck-yeah-5pm-sky]

[ellenhenryart]

[temuera-morrison-tournament]

Info and Masterlist

Right now I have ideas for 3 main tournaments. The first one will be movies (done!), then depending on how that goes I’ll do TV shows (happening now!) and characters (done!). I’m open to suggestions for more. I’m also only doing things that I’ve seen, so I’m excluding Rangi’s Catch, Other Halves, Mauri, The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy, Shark In The Park, New Zealand at War, The Reluctant Hero, Te Ao Mahana, Missing Christmas, Mt. Zion, Dawn, Meke, Echo 3, The Woman in Blue, and Far North. (If anyone can point me in the direction of any of those I would love to watch them and add them to the polls. I’m in the US and don’t currently have a VPN.)

Each round of polls will last one week. I’ll add links to watch the movies/shows if it’s easily accessible and free. This is so if you haven’t seen one or both movies/shows in a poll, you can still make an educated guess as to which one(s) you would like more. If there’s a tie, I’ll count my vote as invalid and advance the one I didn’t vote for.

Masterlist of polls under the cut

Tournament 1: Movies

Finished! Results:

Tournament 2: Characters

Note: this bracket is too big to comfortably fit everything into a summary picture, so I’m putting the winners in bold and including the results percentages in red for the losers and green for the winners.

Round 1, part 1: (posted Friday, December 29)

Briggs (Couple’s Retreat) 60% vs. Juliano (Speed 2) 40%

Madden (Hard Target 2) 7% vs. Chief Tui (Moana) 93%

Jake Heke (Once Were Warriors and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?) 75% vs. Detective Sergeant Harris (The Grasscutter) 25%

Damo (The Marine 2) 0% vs. Jager (Six Days Seven Nights) 100%

Snakehead (The Beautiful Country) 33% vs. Powell (Dora and the Lost City of Gold) 67%

Commander Cody (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith) 65% vs. Jango Fett (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones) 35%

Alf Winters (Never Say Die) 8% vs. Veteran Clone Trooper (Obi Wan Kenobi) 92%

Frankie Jones (My Life Is Murder) 16% vs. Boba Fett (The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett) 84%

Selwyn Broadhead (Seekers) 4% vs. Tom Curry (Aquaman, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, and The Flash) 96%

Peter Bartlett (Occupation and Occupation: Rainfall) 75% vs. Rua Kenana (Rain of the Children) 25%

Round 1, part 2: (posted Friday, January 5)

Major Rasul (Vertical Limit) 5% vs. Captain Rex (Ahsoka) 95%

Abin Sur (Green Lantern) 57% vs. Wiremu (Gold: The Dynamiters) 43%

Hemi Crane (Fresh Meat) 17% vs. Axel Hood (Barb Wire) 83%

Te Kai Po (River Queen) 33% vs. Frank (Sons of Summer) 67%

Tim (Little White Lies) 17% vs. Maru (Adventurer) 83%

Kereama (Tracker) 40% vs. Runi (Blueberry/Renegade) 60%

Sean (Gloss) 80% vs. Manu (Broken English) 20%

Doctore (Spartacus: Gods of the Arena) 33% vs. Rangi (Rangi’s Catch) 67%

Jack Te Pania (The Barefoot Bandits) 20% vs. Don Sandovate (The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake) 80%

Hone Ropata (Shortland Street) 86% vs. Alamein (Mortimer’s Patch) 14%

Round 2, part 1: (posted Friday, January 12)

Azazello (The Island of Dr. Moreau) 44% vs. Briggs (Couples Retreat) 56%

Chief Tui (Moana) 89% vs. Jake Heke (Once Were Warriors and What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?) 11%

Warfield (Mosley) 63% vs. Jager (Six Days Seven Nights) 38%

Te Rangi (Frontier) 86% vs. Powell (Dora and the Lost City of Gold) 14%

Warden Mourdain (The Osiris Child) 14% vs. Commander Cody (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith) 86%

Veteran Clone Trooper (Obi Wan Kenobi) 15% vs. Boba Fett (The Empire Strikes Back, The Mandalorian, and The Book of Boba Fett) 85%

Jack Carrigan (Whipping Boy) 0% vs. Tom Curry (Aquaman, The Flash, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) 100%

King Ramusan (The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption) 20% vs. Peter Bartlett (Occupation and Occupation: Rainfall) 80%

Round 2, part 2: (posted Friday, January 19)

Tamiahana Mahana (Mahana/The Patriarch) 18% vs. Rex (Ahsoka) 82%

Abin Sur (Green Lantern) 56% vs. Axel Hood (Barb Wire) 45%

Anaru Vaipiti (Tatau) 80% vs. Frank (Sons of Summer) 20%

Tito Ihaka (Ihaka: Blunt Instrument) 57% vs. Maru (Adventurer) 43%

Mauricio (From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter) 25% vs. Runi (Renegade/Blueberry) 75%

Sean (Gloss) 43% vs. Rangi (Rangi’s Catch) 57%

Will Bastion (Crooked Earth) 67% vs. Don Sandovate (The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake) 33%

Eddie Jones (The Brighton Miracle) 14% vs. Hone Ropata (Shortland Street) 86%

Round 3: (posted Friday, January 26)

Briggs 7% vs. Chief Tui 93%

Warfield 29% vs. Te Rangi 71%

Commander Cody 48% vs. Boba Fett 52%

Tom Curry 92% vs. Peter Bartlett 8%

Rex 94% vs. Abin Sur 6%

Anaru Vaipiti 40% vs. Tito Ihaka 60%

Runi 0% vs. Rangi 100%

Will Bastion 20% vs. Hone Ropata 80%

Round 4: (posted Friday, February 2)

Chief Tui 89% vs. Te Rangi 11%

Boba Fett 78% vs. Tom Curry 22%

Rex 74% vs. Tito Ihaka 26%

Rangi 67% vs. Hone Ropata 33%

Semifinals: (posted Friday, February 9)

Rex 74% vs. Rangi 26%

Chief Tui 36% vs. Boba Fett 64%

Finals: (posted Friday, February 16)

Boba Fett 54% vs. Rex 46%

Tournament 3: TV Shows

Qualifiers: (posted Friday, March 29)

Shortland Street vs. Mortimer’s Patch

Mataku vs. The Barefoot Bandits

The Mandalorian vs. Bro’Town

Gloss vs. Happy Hour

Round 1: (posted Friday, April 5)

The Book of Boba Fett vs. Shortland Street

Ahsoka vs. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena

The Tem Show vs. The Barefoot Bandits

Tatau vs. Frontier

Seekers vs. The Mandalorian

The Life and Times of Temuera Morrison vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars: Visions vs. Happy Hour

My Life is Murder vs. Adventurer

Round 2: (posted Friday, April 12)

The Book of Boba Fett vs. Ahsoka

The Barefoot Bandits vs. Frontier

The Mandalorian vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars: Visions vs. Adventurer

[waitingforgodotyaoi]

temuera morrison as dr hone ropata in shortland street you will always be famous to me

[dinbeskarbaby]

I just found this and it calls me out-

[airyairyaucontraire]

actual question which may or may not ever be answered

you know how Boba Fett found Fennec Shand near death with a horrendous abdominal wound and restored her to life with a new techno-tummy?

Did he just stabilise her and take her to a hospital or clinic somewhere, or did he know how to do the work himself? I would imagine bounty hunters learn a lot about first aid because they can easily get hurt at work and they may also need to patch up people they've captured in order to bring them in alive, but that seems well beyond that. Is there an operating theatre on board Slave 1? How and when does someone with Boba's life story learn that kind of medical skill?

personal theory: all of Temuera Morrison's past roles can psychically help each other out, so that was actually just Boba channelling the mighty Dr Hone Ropata

[ladydisofdurin]

Dr Ropata at it again!!!

[chamomileteainabuttercup]

srsly feel like I should come up with a new username for this blog to reflect its current tone and content but don't know what for the life of me

I mean, I am squatting on the url "onesmallskankinthescudpie"

stupid urls I am squatting on:

notinguatemalanow (it’s a Dr Ropata reference)

onesmallskankinthescudpie

wobbegong-kenobi (it’s a pun about a type of Australian shark because someone I know already did woebegone-kenobi and that is the best pun on his name EVAR)

the-lookbook-of-boba-fett (was going to be a theme blog I didn’t stick to it)

trickylittlebugger (to honour Nose Lizard)

glup-shitto-just (because it’s funny when you see “glup-shitto-just reblogged your post” in notifications)

olesnakehipsmcgee (ole snake hips mcgee)

[c3po]

non new zealander star wars fans are privileged bc like you don't have to see jango fett and clones and have dr ropata pop into ur head. temuera morrison is just a star wars dude to u guys and u don't know how lucky u are

[daimyosprincess]

TEMUERA MORRISON as Dr. Hone Ropata in Shortland Street 1.40

Shortland Street gifs — 4/?

please don't repost my gifs, reblog to share :)

dedicated to my birthday bestie @kimiheartblade! may you be blessed with Tem smiles forever 💖

[gulfportofficial]

It occurs to me that those outside Aotearoa may not ever have seen this iconic clip from THE New Zealand soap (and vital cultural organ that consistently comments on the issues of the day) called Shortland Street. And that they may be interested because that’s Temuera Morrison making his TV debut all the way back in the pilot (and Lisa Crittenden as head nurse Carrie Burton. She has a ton of TV credits to her name too).  You gotta let me set the scene. The year was 1992. I was 9. It was the pilot episode, and we watched excitedly because we lived at the bottom of the world and far away from TV epicenter. We were very excited to have our own TV programmes made here, in that ridiculous parochial way that NZers get. I was 9! People on TV with kiwi accents! It sounded weird, we were so used to American and English.  Anyway, that line, “you’re not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata” has become a legit bit of NZ slang. Delivery on point. And I love Tem’s reaction to it, which unfortunately you don’t really see in this clip. It’s great stuff.  Speaking of Tem though, which I meant to do, I honestly just love him so much? Did you know that when he was stuck in NZ during the pandemic he got a job pouring concrete because he was bored and wanted to practice a skill? When he and Cliff Curtis were working together on Six Days Seven nights they were supposed to ad lib a bunch of lines in Te Reo about pirate stuff and they talked about what they were having for dinner instead.  He’s just a very cool guy and it’s awesome to see him in a big lead role like he is now. 

[ellenhenryart]

(via You're Not in Guatemala now Dr Ropata Funny Typography Magnet by ellenhenry)

[holliano]

One of the top news stories in New Zealand today. Shortland Street has come up with a line to rival the infamous "You're not in Guatemala anymore, Dr Ropata." New Zealand television everyone.

[featheredvelociraptor]

Everytime I get a look under that clone helmet or hear that voice, I get an urge to say “You’re not on Tatooine anymore Dr. Ropata!”