Rocking in Hakata

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Could be a server glitch. Maybe try it again? It works for me.

As long as we are all nostalgigasming here....
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Hey Arnold was great, but came around much later than Doug. I was also a huge fan of Angry Beavers. Man, there used to be some really good television...what happened?

Looney Toons, man, that's where it's at. Looney Toons. Nothing more recent compares.

Spongebob does a pretty good job I reckon. Man, I wish that had been around when I was a kid.

I find him hilarious in Japanese, but I hate his English voice. Ugh. So irritating! I wish the Japanese voice actor spoke English, did the English show, and that it was around when I was a kid. Ha ha.

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Mmm, this show was TOO great. I wore underpants on the outside and belts on my head for months after I learned of Quail-man.

I can't believe I was so into a show like this, looking back. D8

But the first time I ate sushi (I think it was octopus, or something equally chewy and hard to break apart); I was EXTREMELY excited and eager and shoved it in my mouth without asking any questions. I chewed for a while, but I couldn't break through the meat so I figured I could just swallow it, 'cause I really wanted to move onto the next piece and try more. But the piece was way larger than I thought, so I ended up almost choking and I ran off to the bathroom and spent most of the meal there dealing with that. Haha.

I'm thinking that I'll be Quailman for the next costume party I need to go to. You know what else I've loved as I'm rewatching it? All the little musical stings, the theme songs for each person, etc. It's been ages, but now that I've refreshed the tunes in my head I find myself humming the Quailman theme, the Bluffington march theme, the Beets theme (usually Killer Tofu, but also Where's My Sock, I Need More Allowance, etc.), Skeeter / Mr. Dink's themes, the Patty romance theme, and more. It's kinda sad. Ha ha.

Also - dang, calm down with the sushi already! Ha ha.

Quailman is a good outfit choice for just about *any* party, ever. :D But yes, those musical themes were quite great. Another thing that, oddly enough, remains with me until today, is the memory of some episode where Chalky (THAT took some investigating) is playing basketball or something, and then he's exhausted and he chugged some energy drink. I really liked Chalky, and, being the impressionable kid I was, thought the way he held that drink and chugged it was the coolest thing since ever. And now, whenever I hold a bottle of anything and drink it, I'm reminded of that scene. ...Pretty weird.

I assure you, I handle sushi much better now. I go out for it all the time with my family, and I'm coaxing a few of my best buds to go to an all-you-can-eat bar with me, although the very idea of that makes it sound like it'll be horrible quality.

Wow, you're right -- it looks so much older than I remember it being. I feel so old now!

I actually remembered the "they look like little tires" part. I love how the grandma's voice is so blatantly done by a man.

I keep telling myself that it looked better on a crappy old TV screen than it does now on my computer...you know? Upscaling (or is it called upsampling?) makes low resolution stuff look worse on high resolution screens. Ask any gamer who tries to play old games on new TVs. Ha ha.

Having said that...it's probably just because we're ancient. We'll all be gumming applesauce soon... And yelling at whippersnappers. Enjoy it while you can! Ha ha.

Old TVs don't really look *good*, but the inherent blur completely obviates any need for antialiasing, and if the programming is *designed* with that kind of screen in mind, it doesn't really have any details too small to be seen, so the clarity is "good enough" that you can effortlessly follow everything that's going on. It doesn't look photorealistic, but for cartoons that hardly matters.

And for most programming, you'd be surprised how little it matters whether your television is a color model. With rare exceptions, the color doesn't really add anything. Just saying.

This is random, I know, but I had to watch Gattaca (the movie) for the first time in black and white, and I thoroughly enjoyed it; it felt like it fit the whole theme of the movie. Watching it again in color, I was actually repulsed; everything looked the wrong color and incredibly overdone/cheesy.

Oh god, I remember this exact scene from when I was just a kid! Has it really been that long?! The animation is so dated now... does this mean I'm getting old already? >___>

Yeah, the image they portray of a Japanese restaurant is interesting, to say the least. Also interesting was what Doug's grandmother was ordering: the something wallawallabingbang? Haha.

Haha, so when they started playing the music I thought more of the generic chinese themes of chinese restaurants rather than japanese. But wow, the animation and stuff really does look dated! o _o I remember watching this show as a little kid on a saturday morning, haha.

I agree - it seems more "generic Asian / Chinese" than it does Japanese.

A lot of Americans really don't know the difference.

Just about the only things most Americans can identify as being specifically Japanese are sumo, a white flag with a red circle in the middle (which you see in the few WWII movies that aren't set in Europe), kamikazi, and these days anime and manga -- but when that cartoon aired, nobody over here had heard of anime or manga yet; the only comic books we knew about were Marvel and DC products. Try asking random Americans over the age of 25 (i.e., too old to be into anime) what Japanese music sounds like, and see how many of them can come up with an answer.

Sushi is big on the east coast? I did not know that. It sure isn't big around here, but then neither really is seafood in general. About 65% of the population categorically refuses to eat fish of any kind, period, and most of the rest will only eat it breaded and deep fried. However, a lot of older men go fishing for recreation in rivers and reservoirs, and sometimes they will eat what they catch -- breaded and fried, of course. (In fairness to the population of Ohio, it should be noted that if you go to a grocery store here and buy "fresh" fish, what you get typically last had any contact with water about two days before you buy it, and it usually comes from Lake Erie, which is not really known for being in pristine condition.)

Personally I like my fish baked with a little lemon juice, but maybe that's just me.

Also, if you think that animation looks dated, you should watch some old cartoons sometime. Something from back in the era when they still felt the need to point out the fact that it was in color (woo!) in the opening credits. They were still airing a lot of that stuff in syndication when I was a kid; I guess that dates me.

Gawd, the music is awful :D Of course there's also the fact that you eat sushi with your hands, not chopsticks... That always weirds my friends out, when I leave the sticks provided aside.

Anywho... That was a nice little flashback :) Thanks for sharing!

Yeah - I wholeheartedly concur about the music. Ha ha. (It's not
wrong to eat sushi with chopsticks, though. It's cool either way.
Except maybe for chirashi-zushi, which would be gross to eat with
your hands. Ha ha.) Thanks for the comment!