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[vovat]

Hey, I managed to raise the steering wheel on my rental car, so it doesn't brush against my legs anymore! Go me! I only wish I could solve the login problem with the computer at work.


I got this from unclemilo. I don't usually post memes of this sort, but I thought this one was pretty amusing.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Vovat!

1. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and vovat has 7!


2. Vovat can drink over 25 gallons of water at a time.


3. Vovat can't drink - he absorbs water from his surroundings by osmosis.


4. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets vovat!


5. Vovat was the first Tsar of Russia.


6. The first domain name ever registered was vovat.com!


7. The fingerprints of vovat are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.


8. Americans discard enough vovat to rebuild their entire commercial air fleet every 3 months!


9. Europe is the only continent that lacks vovat!


10. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat vovat'.

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Hmm...aren't facts 2 and 3 somewhat contradictory to one another?


While looking up information on the infamous "Justin Bailey" password in Metroid (which someone claims is actually "just in bailey," meaning Samus is dressed only in her swimsuit; I think that's a bit of a stretch), I came upon some information on the old Captain N: The Game Master cartoon. I used to watch that and the various Super Mario Bros. cartoons all the time. The list of changes from the actual video games on the wikipedia page is pretty accurate. In the Mario cartoons, the animation quality was really lousy (right down to sometimes having the wrong character's mouth move during dialogue), but the character design was pretty much true to the games. They kept the early design for Bowser in the later cartoons, so he was bald in the show even when he was consistently shown with red hair in the games, but that's pretty minor. I think the voices were pretty decent, too. I can't really imagine Bowser sounding different from his cartoon incarnation. I have no idea why Mouser had a Russian accent, but I guess it worked. In Captain N, though, they changed EVERYTHING. Sometimes it was just for comic effect or to make someone more interesting, like with Mother Brain or Simon Belmont. But other times there's really no sense to it. I mean, just look at what they did to poor Mega Man! And even though Mother Brain (voiced by Levi Stubbs from the Four Tops, who also voiced Audrey II in the movie musical version of Little Shop of Horrors) appeared in every episode, Samus never appeared, apparently because the original writer had never heard of her. Contrary to wikipedia says, I believe Metroids DID appear in one show, although they were too small and didn't float around.

Comments

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

I used to watch that show all the time! The only thing I remember about it at all is when they went inside someone's body, (because they shrunk down) and there was all this bubblegum inside the guy because he always swallowed it. Soooo weird.

Though it was crap, I still loved it :) And they did destroy Mega Man. I heart him.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that episode. Captain N caught a "video virus" (they were always using "video," "power," or "warp" in the names of pretty much everything on that show), and the N Team went inside his body to help him fight it off. Mega Man actually used the gum to blow a bubble and escape Kevin's stomach. I remember much more about it than I probably should. {g}

Have you ever seen the Mega Man cartoon that used to air on Sunday mornings? Mega Man definitely had a better voice in that show, but the show was kind of lame overall. Among other things, everybody kept calling him "Mega," as if that were a valid nickname; and he was constantly saying, "Now I've got your power!" (And he didn't even need to defeat the robot masters to use their powers, just TOUCH them.) And the theme song was just a few words repeated over and over again, like it was Power Rangers or something. :P

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

I actually think I have a couple episodes of the Mega Man cartoon on tape somewhere. I know my brother went crazy trying to collect all the little action figures. Being a "stupid" girl, I was partial to Roll. I always liked the girls in boyish things (Trini from Power Rangers, April from Ninja Turtles, Rogue from the X-Men cartoon, etc) so I could feel less manly :P

and he was constantly saying, "Now I've got your power!"

I'm going to start saying that to people after I touch them.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Didn't Roll have a built-in vacuum cleaner in that series? There was one Captain N episode that had a female robot built by Dr. Light (or Dr. Wright, as they called him in that show and a few of the earlier Mega Man games) named "Mega Girl," but I'm not sure whether Roll had been introduced as that point.

There were several women in the X-Men cartoon, so I guess you could have had your choice. I liked Rogue in the cartoon, but didn't care for the way she was portrayed in the movie. She wasn't Southern enough. {g}

[revme.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they're using "drink" as a colloquiallism/personification in the 25 gallons fact! Like actually you just absorb that much. sort of like how we'll say Plants drink!

I think it's kind of funny that the writer had never heard of Samus, but had heard of Mother Brain. Although I seem to remember there actually being an episode of Captain N that HAD Samus in it later, but it was probably near the end of the series. IIRC, I remember being annoyed that it was at least voiced by a guy, and I don't think they had the same reveal.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I think it's kind of funny that the writer had never heard of Samus, but had heard of Mother Brain.

Well, it's certainly possible that the decision to use Mother Brain as the main villain was that of someone else who was more familiar with Metroid. Also, the interview gives the impression that the writer didn't know all that much about video games, so I guess it's possible that he saw the mention of Mother Brain at the beginning of the game, but didn't know who the character was he was controlling. Who knows?

Although I seem to remember there actually being an episode of Captain N that HAD Samus in it later, but it was probably near the end of the series.

I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode, and I don't think Samus ever appeared. From what I've heard, she WAS in the Captain N comic books, but my only exposure to those was paging through one issue at a store.