Ah yes, the resurgence of nostalgia [Archive]

The Schnoo

04 Mar 2003, 05:14 AM

So... what's up with all this shit... check it:

The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, movies, etc...

Thundercats have a live action movie coming out.

G.I. Joe apparently is coming back ,this time in it's original form.

Transformers have become a fucking joke.... but they're back...

He-Man, same thing...

And they are totally bringing back out all the old toys.. new packaging, but it's THE SAME FUCKING THING!!!

anyone else think of anything old that's new again? Cause.. i mean... unless they totally start making this stuff awesome again... then my childhood, the last bastion of pristine purity i had, will have been raped by corporate america.

-The Schnoo

eurotek1

04 Mar 2003, 06:59 AM

my little ponies...

DogStarMan

04 Mar 2003, 07:14 AM

I think Rainbow Brite is making a comeback because I keep seeing these rainbow stickers in a bunch of car windows.

http://www.blerg.blogger.com.br/rainbow.gif

Sovrana

04 Mar 2003, 07:23 AM

this may not be Rainbow Brite.....do you see pink triangles too? ;)

Bronzetree

04 Mar 2003, 07:42 AM

Originally posted by The Schnoo
So... what's up with all this shit... check it:

The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, movies, etc...

Thundercats have a live action movie coming out.

G.I. Joe apparently is coming back ,this time in it's original form.

Transformers have become a fucking joke.... but they're back...

He-Man, same thing...

And they are totally bringing back out all the old toys.. new packaging, but it's THE SAME FUCKING THING!!!

anyone else think of anything old that's new again? Cause.. i mean... unless they totally start making this stuff awesome again... then my childhood, the last bastion of pristine purity i had, will have been raped by corporate america.

-The Schnoo

I actually make my living in the comic book field as a writer and editor off of some of these.

DogStarMan

04 Mar 2003, 09:29 AM

Originally posted by Sovrana
this may not be Rainbow Brite.....do you see pink triangles too? ;)
Yah, I've seen those too, but I always thought they had something to do with the Mork and Mindy resurgence...

http://www.space-debris.com/com_rwilliams_mork_small1.jpg

...which, incidentaly, also came in cartoon form...

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Mork.jpg

Juliana

04 Mar 2003, 11:13 AM

There is a Strawberry Shortcake video coming out this week or next

They're ruining our childhood

There's also a new Archie cartoon starting soon, or already on. The gang fights supernatural bad guys. Vamps, witches, zombies, the whole 9 yards

Kwyjibo

04 Mar 2003, 11:48 AM

I've seen Strawberry Shortcake toys in most stores. Of course the Care Bears are back. If I'm not mistaken, I think I heard something about the return of the smurfs.

I've seen that new Transformers toon, and I gotta say is sucks my hairy hanging pair.

The old GI Joe cartoons are rerunning at night on the weekends though. I caught myself watching an episode one day, it took me back. I've seen the comic book too... and oh boy how that blows.

Kwyji'cuzknowingishalfthebattle'bo

Don't start bronzey, you know I'm kidding.

DogStarMan

04 Mar 2003, 11:49 AM

Originally posted by Bronzetree
I actually make my living in the comic book field as a writer and editor off of some of these.
You write for the new Transformers? I thought that was all done in Korean sweatshops.

lawdog

04 Mar 2003, 12:08 PM

G.I. Joe and the Transformers are back!? Swee-eet. Now, if someone would just bring back these mofos: http://members.aol.com/retrojunkie/GOBOTS.GIF, I'd be a happy man.

c-lando

04 Mar 2003, 03:53 PM

Maybe we should title this thread the "reassurance of nostalgia".
Everyone is looking for "happier" times...

The Schnoo

04 Mar 2003, 04:02 PM

Yeah, strawberry shortcake is back. The smurfs are coming back... sad... Carebears...

Wonder if they'll bring back gummybears, who incidentally, are bouncing here and there and everywhere.

And, as god as my witness, the go-bots shall never return from the dead.. LEADER 1 IS DEAD AND BURIED!!!!!

Yeah, it is sad that transformers is basically poke'bots, sucky.

-The Schnoo

Juliana

04 Mar 2003, 04:24 PM

I LOVE the Gummi Bears.

I hope they don't come back though, unless they bring back the OLD cartoon and that's it.

I'd just about kill to see Duck Tales back too.

samanafay

04 Mar 2003, 04:39 PM

don't they play Duck Tales on one of the many Disney channels on directv? my mom has directv and i know i watched Duck Tales a time or two over last winter break.
i insanely loved that show when i was little.

whitegirl

04 Mar 2003, 07:03 PM

speaking of Carebears..... why not kill some? (http://http://www.liquidgeneration.com/games/carebears.asp)

classicgrrl

04 Mar 2003, 08:35 PM

some ideas:

--hollywood is out of ideas...again.
--they finally figured out that three year olds dont have an income
--Japanese animae is too expensive to sell crap with...
--an attempt to tap into GenX expanding pocketbooks by invoking memories before their collective parents' divorces...

I'm not cynical, I just got an over-tweaked shit detector.

SteelTown Boy

04 Mar 2003, 09:36 PM

Classicgirrl calls it correctly:Hollywood really needs new ideas.

no wonder why reality TV is ganing a foothold. as much as I thought that Geena Davis was a king sized hottie with gams,I would prefer that she not do a TV show again.

The Schnoo

05 Mar 2003, 12:08 AM

You missed the light brite boat, dawg...

It's out there, ready for your kids or yourself to start sticking pegs and flicking lights.

I shoulda asked eastmann or laird a few years ago if i could put out some tmnt comics or write a story for the comics or something.. they coulda taken those storylines and put them in the show and i coulda made tens of dollars.

Oh well...

-The Schnoo

eurotek1

05 Mar 2003, 06:51 AM

i just hate it when they screw with stuff, ya know?! like strwberry shortcake. now she and all her friends have updated outfits. leave them alone! don't go changing clothes, names, voices, etc. just show the stuff on tv. don't mess it up! kids don't care what clothes characters wear.

now, bring back som VOLTRON, and i will most happy!
and not the ghetto version with all the cars adn stuff, just the cat version.

Bronzetree

05 Mar 2003, 09:17 AM

Maybe I wasn't clear that I really, truly do make my living off of 80s nostalgia properties. No, I have nothing to do with Transformers or cartoons of any kind, but I'm editing the G.I. Joe comic, wrote another Joe comic called Battle Files and also wrote the Micronauts comic book. My company is also bringing back Voltron comics (yes, the Go Lions, euro).

Just kinda sucks to see an entire thread full of people I like and respect tearing apart what I do for a living.

DogStarMan

05 Mar 2003, 09:31 AM

I'm happy to say that I'm tearing nothing apart and I'm quite jealous of what you do for a living. I'm just bein' my smart-assed self :D

I love ya' man! Now go'onwitchabadsef'!

IPrayForSound

05 Mar 2003, 10:01 AM

Just popping in to say that I haven't ripped on any of this stuff, and I don't plan on it.

Murphy

05 Mar 2003, 10:16 AM

Hey, it's probably better to have a revival of the old stuff we had so we can actually stay in touch with this younger generation of whippersnappers.

If my kid gets into the smurfs and gummi bears, then cool, I can relate to that. But it's when they start whining about that Pokemon and Spongebob crap that I just don't get. (Ha!)

And I think stuff like GI Joe will always live on. After all, he is a Real American Hero.

Now, this whole deal of bringing back Let's Make a Deal and the Newlywed Game, whaddya y'all think of that?

IPrayForSound

05 Mar 2003, 10:33 AM

I got so into Let's Make a Deal last night... I'm so embarrassed.:o

Murphy

05 Mar 2003, 11:00 AM

Originally posted by IPrayForSound
I got so into Let's Make a Deal last night... I'm so embarrassed.:o

I'm embarrassed for you! :p It took me about two minutes to realize what I was watching and I quickly turned it away in horror.

[off-topic] Though I will say there was NOTHING worth watching on TV last night. I flipped through Let's Make a Deal, I'm a Celebrity,Get Me Out of Here!, some I'm a Band Groupie VH1 reality show, and ABC's terrible sitcom lineup. It actually forced me to turn off the TV and read!(my internet connection wasn't working) [/off-topic]

DudeMan

05 Mar 2003, 05:34 PM

Originally posted by Bronzetree
Just kinda sucks to see an entire thread full of people I like and respect tearing apart what I do for a living.
No way man -- I don't think anyone's tearing apart what you're doing for a living. I admire the hell out of creative types, mostly because I've got so little of it flowing through the dominant, left side of my brain.

I just don't like it when they screw with the old formula that we loved so much as kids. Stay true to the essence of what made it so memorable in the first place, and it's all good.

The Schnoo

05 Mar 2003, 10:32 PM

Voltron with the cats did come back.. in 1998 or 99, when transformers went to beast wars and it was all computer generated, that was a big deal back then and then they brought back voltron... basically they just started the show back up where it stopped in the first place.. it was actually kind of cool, just wasn't on anything but syndication and only on at like 6 am or something.

-The Schnoo

Milkman Dan

05 Mar 2003, 10:50 PM

OH MY GOD YOU WRITE FOR THEM! I'm sorry this just blows my mind every time I see/hear/interact with people in the biz.

And the TMNT show is actually good. It's dark, the animation is decent for american saturday morning fair, and the dialouge is very well written.

As far as Voltron coming back (again), yay. A big nay though for the live action Thunder Cats. Unless it's full of clown cars and talking shoe horns, I won't be able to take it seriously.

Docta

06 Mar 2003, 08:59 AM

just heard about this one, *giggle* i hate to say i want to watch it

http://www.cbs.com/specials/batcave/

Kwyjibo

06 Mar 2003, 09:29 AM

Originally posted by SteelTown Boy
...as I thought that Geena Davis was a king sized hottie with gams...

Hear, hear!

Juliana

06 Mar 2003, 09:30 AM

Originally posted by Bronzetree
Just kinda sucks to see an entire thread full of people I like and respect tearing apart what I do for a living.

I think we're making a distinction between what you do, and what we're mostly complaining about, or at least I am. What you do is good and, well, sort of pure (wait, stay with me). You've stayed true to the original concept. This stuff, at least the stuff I'm bitching about (Strawberry Shortcake, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man.....) aren't. They're fundamentally changing what was, to my 8 year old brain, cool. The lady in the Castle of Greyskull is Telia's mom for Pete's sake! I tried to watch an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last Saturday, and they took out all of the fun humor. In the half of the show that I watched, they didn't eat or even mention pizza. That's just not right.

Really Scott, I think what you do is really awesome. We were at the mall Sunday, and Jason took me to the comic book shop to let me see the GI Joe issue with your name on it, and I thought it was pretty exciting. I also ended up talking to some kid at one of the schools I sub at, and he was talking about comics, and I told him how I know the editor of the new GI Joe, and he thought that was REALLY cool

IPrayForSound

06 Mar 2003, 09:34 AM

I'm not certain of this, but I think TMNT was originally darker and more manga-style than the version we got on saturday mornings. I'm sure someone will correct me soon. Now it's time to take wagers on who. ;)

eurotek1

06 Mar 2003, 10:24 AM

yah, dude, bronze, what you do is way cool.
and thanks...we like and respect you, too!

Kwyjibo

06 Mar 2003, 10:40 AM

IPFS: The original comic book form of TMNT was definitely dark and manga style. Maybe Strawberry Shortcake started out that way too? Who knows?

Bronzie, mah man. I own a sizable portion of the Joe books you've edited, and I think they're pretty nifty. I agree with everybody else, we're capping on the crap they're churning out just to make a buck. I don't think that fits your book at all.

Milkman Dan

06 Mar 2003, 11:21 AM

Originally posted by Juliana
I tried to watch an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles last Saturday, and they took out all of the fun humor. In the half of the show that I watched, they didn't eat or even mention pizza. That's just not right...

Well, I think we have a bit of a conflicting value on what I remember the Turtles as. Sure, at my young age we had pizza fests and the like... but at it's core you had teenage mutant NINJA turtles. We all didn't want to pretend to be mutant turtles that eat pizza and talk surfer trash talk. No, we wanted to be Ninjas. And being them Teenage AND Mutant... it was all the sweeter.

But as my friend stated, Turtles is "as good as he remembers it", and does not fall for the Thunder Cats Syndrom, as it's call (which is... we all remember it being hard ass, but sit down and WATCH an old episode). I was more avidly into the comics and movie (THE movie, not two and three with time travel and sausage slinging Michealangilo)... and with the new show, they very much stick with that dark, gritty feel... but still have humorous writing that should appeal to kids. It's the shinnig light amoungst the "Fighting Foodons" and Ultra Mans on that shit station, and here's hoping they keep it as such.

/rant

Juliana

06 Mar 2003, 02:13 PM

Originally posted by Milkman Dan

Well, I think we have a bit of a conflicting value on what I remember the Turtles as. /rant

Well, yeah, probably.
I don't know, I liked it because I thought it was funny and silly. I was never a hardcore fan or anything, I just watched the cartoon every once in awhile.

And yes, you're right about Thundercats, which is why I'm REALLY glad they don't show the old He-Man shows and a few others like it.

samanafay

06 Mar 2003, 02:47 PM

i haven't really watched any TMNT cartoons lately but I seriously loved them as a kid. (I should check to see if my brother still has any of his videos.) Although, I do remember them standing up better in the test of time than shows such as Thundercats and stuff like that. And I loved the Thundercats too, I even named my kitty after a character on the show. I don't get how it's so bad.

Has anyone seen a cartoon called Cow and Chicken? That is one of the funniest, darkest, weirdest cartoon I have seen lately. So funny!

classicgrrl

06 Mar 2003, 11:28 PM

Originally posted by Bronzetree
Just kinda sucks to see an entire thread full of people I like and respect tearing apart what I do for a living.

comic books are super massive coolness. scrappy-do on scooby aint no comic book...

i detest tv.
i detest tv even more when they take comic books and screw them up trying to bring them to "life"
same with movies.

bah. life sucks. i'm going to bed.

Sovrana

07 Mar 2003, 10:04 AM

I understand the disappointment of remakes, come-backs, and appropriations of art in general. My father always complains about film remakes: "it could never be as good as the first one." or "they really ruined that movie."

The truth is these are not supposed to be exact copies of the original....what would be the point of that?? I think it is natural to compare the original to the newer version but then we have to remember to keep each in their own context...historically. Audiences change and so art changes.

(For the record, I was never happy with the re-release of Star Wars with "better" graphics. I remember when the final explosion, that scene itself was a film icon. I would see it repeated on various series of clips celebrating film history and the like. The image was changed to look more "real" and now we may never see it as a reference to a specific film aesthetic that was so impressive to the audiences of the 1970s. Now Star Wars looks like everything else.....a copy? hmmm!)

Hmmm...maybe most of your complaints on these re-newed cartoons rest on your realizations that you are getting old and that pisses you off!! hehehehe!!

Juliana

07 Mar 2003, 10:39 AM

I will again proclaim my love for the Harvey Birdman, attorney at law cartoons.

Milkman Dan

07 Mar 2003, 12:21 PM

I can completely understand why people want the fun and silliness, I mean... they were heroes in a half-shell... with turtle power. Not something that one can take seriously on any platform.

But to me, the hard-core, Samuarai Jack esc humor topped with following the comic and first movie more makes a stronger show. For me.

I still have the one on tape, I think where Shredder and Krang try to float away the city, and all the buildings float away. Then come back down... exactly where they were. And no one is hurt. YAY!

Phreon

08 Mar 2003, 10:58 AM

Thundercats, TMNTs, Macross (Robotech) and the likes were cool, but there's one series I'd love to see brought back in it's original form:

The mother of all U.S. (introduced) anime, STAR BLAZERS.

I guess this dates me, doesn't it?

Phreon

The Schnoo

08 Mar 2003, 10:01 PM

Originally posted by Phreon
Thundercats, TMNTs, Macross (Robotech) and the likes were cool, but there's one series I'd love to see brought back in it's original form:

The mother of all U.S. (introduced) anime, STAR BLAZERS.

I guess this dates me, doesn't it?

Phreon

hell no, i love starblazers... there is nothing better than captain harlock.. at least not a better character ever.

Galaxy express 999 and it's sequels were some of the best anime movies ever made.

-The Schnoo

Phreon

09 Mar 2003, 09:58 AM

Just to reiterate how much I loved StarBlazers...

To the mind of a gradeschool boy, there has never been a ship better than the Argo or a weapon cooler than the Wave Motion Gun.

To wit, The Argo vs. Enterprise D (http://www.greatyamato.com/ultimateyamato/nccvsyam.txt)

Phreon

P.S. Notice my avatar?

Ol-One-Eye

09 Mar 2003, 04:14 PM

The Dukes of Hazzard: Now this was entertaining! Daisy Duke, fast cars, cops, and a hound named Flash! Why aren't they bringing back re-runs of this classic?

Parachute pants: I hope these never return!

Florescent colored clothes: Yuk!!!

Leg warmers: I never understood why girls wore these over their jeans.

Big hair sprayed hair: I never liked girls that had big hair. I always thought the girls looked better just getting out of the shower or stepping out of a pool. (Wet women are beautiful . . . their eye lashes separate just a bit and their body just glistens when the light reflects off of their skin . . . (sorry, got side-tracked))

Open-toed shoes for women: I am sooo glad that this fashion came back and I hope it stays! For all you guys out their with that foot fetish thing going on . . . you know what I'm talkin' 'bout boys!
;)

VinceBlack

11 Mar 2003, 03:21 PM

Speaking of nostalgia, I found a website for Voltron out on the net. Totally rules! Check it out dudes!

http://www.voltronuniverse.com

postfeminist

02 Apr 2003, 06:30 PM

all i can contribute is this link. right here...this is it (http://members.aol.com/abishort/she-ra/shera.htm)

i loved this show.

word.

Kittymld

02 Apr 2003, 06:39 PM

Hell yeah, I had almost all of the She Ra "action figures". My fave was Peek-a-Blue.

shivui

03 Apr 2003, 02:24 AM

i'm pretty sure someone out there still has their pizza hut copy of TMNT's April Foolish.
i loved that show to death when i was a kid.
i never got into comics. my fam was totally about tv. we watched all those cartoons.
i even ingested all the hanna barbara stuff. wacky races(or whatever) was always pretty cool. i saw it not too long ago on cartoon network.
i'm glad as i can be with the replays of GI Joe. i think that was probably my fav show. probably second only to transformers.

i don't really like what's going to these days either, but luckily i don't have the time or the patience to get involved so i can't really have an opinion. lucky me.
i have seen the new heman and don't like it one bit. i haven't liked any transformers shows since i was a wee one.

i'm just glad that power rangers isn't all over the place, still.

i remember my dukes lunchbox. man, what a childhood.

IPrayForSound

03 Apr 2003, 10:19 AM

I just wish they'd come out with an Animalympics DVD set. That'd be super sweet.

gnahc79

03 Apr 2003, 01:24 PM

Originally posted by Ol-One-Eye
The Dukes of Hazzard: Now this was entertaining! Daisy Duke, fast cars, cops, and a hound named Flash! Why aren't they bringing back re-runs of this classic?

because all those jackass-copy-kids will weld their doors shut and bust a nut trying to hop into their parents' grocery getter :)

Homsar

08 Feb 2005, 10:56 PM

Just thought I'd bring back one of the earliest threads I could find to see if the title lives up to itself.

classicgrrl

08 Feb 2005, 10:59 PM

not a resurgence of nostalgia.

they're just out of ideas and are tired of the japanese making all the money off the sheeple children.

Cupid

08 Feb 2005, 11:06 PM

Ha! And now they are bringing back the Dukes of Hazard...casting Jessica Simpson as Daisy.

Note to self: pay a visit to those crazy newlyweds. If her looks have started to fade, make a special arrow.

The Mad Hater

08 Feb 2005, 11:08 PM

the people who played with these toys when they were children have kids of their own now. the nostalgia factor increases the sell-ability of this stuff. parents love to buy stuff for their kids that reminds them of their own childhood. I call it clever marketing.

The Mad Hater

08 Feb 2005, 11:11 PM

Note to self: pay a visit to those crazy newlyweds. If her looks have started to fade, make a special arrow.

why on earth do people (and gods, apparently, or cherubs, or whatever) feel the need to announce notes to self publicly? if it's a note to self, shouldn't it be kept to one's self?

Cupid

08 Feb 2005, 11:31 PM

why on earth do people (and gods, apparently, or cherubs, or whatever) feel the need to announce notes to self publicly? if it's a note to self, shouldn't it be kept to one's self?

God, actually. If you're thinking of the flying babies, those would be the amorini.

Do you think it'd be better to private message myself next time? All "notes to self" I write down on the nearest surface; in this case, typed on the nearest surface.

I think people just like talking to themselves. If it's a note to self, you don't have to listen.

classicgrrl

08 Feb 2005, 11:31 PM

Ha! And now they are bringing back the Dukes of Hazard...casting Jessica Simpson as Daisy.

thats disgusting and sacrilidge.

beki

09 Feb 2005, 03:06 AM

speedracer, attack of the killer tomatoes, and that one show with rats that rode motorcycles. hell yeah!

seafoamgreen

09 Feb 2005, 06:58 AM

The disturbing thing about this resurgence of 1980's nostalgia, at least in regards to toys, is that we are being marketed to as parents. The generation that played with cabbage patch kid's and TMNT's is now having children and toymakers are positioning old licences for us to buy for our children.
This nostaligia trip is not an accident. Frankly, its kinda freaking me out.

JSpaceman

09 Feb 2005, 09:44 AM

Do you think it'd be better to private message myself next time? All "notes to self" I write down on the nearest surface; in this case, typed on the nearest surface.

PM to self... your PM box is full.

Content Chick

09 Feb 2005, 09:54 AM

Jspace, you can't copy my signature. I grabbed it first.

JSpaceman

09 Feb 2005, 10:03 AM

Whoa, when the hell did you do that??? :confused:

postfeminist

09 Feb 2005, 10:04 AM

Content Chick

09 Feb 2005, 10:06 AM

Whoa, when the hell did you do that??? :confused:

Yesterday morning. I saw it and I had to have it.

ThreeDLou

09 Feb 2005, 10:41 AM

Clever marketing or not, the stuff in the 70's & 80's was great.
Has anyone bothered to watch the cartoons today? There's a great many of them that simply borrow the gross-out factor of Ren & Stimpy or they concentrate on a kid/kids being the center of attention. Kids want to see something to which they can aspire. I want to be blah, blah not, oh look there's a kid that's going to school. I go to school. Whee!
I ran home after school every day for Star Blazers because, for Christ's Sake! There's only 240 more days to save the Earth! Hurry, Derek Wildstar! Get Nova's pants off and save the frigging EARTH!
Anyway, the nostalgia factor gets higher because there's nothing good out there. Even Spongebob steals the gross-out stuff. It's funny, but I always get the feeling of deja vu.

Note to self: stop rambling.

IPrayForSound

09 Feb 2005, 11:37 AM

thats disgusting and sacrilidge.
Ummm...you say that like the original Dukes of Hazzard was genius and the original Daisy was played by a good actress. So, basically, I'm not seeing your point.

seafoamgreen

09 Feb 2005, 12:07 PM

what sucks about these toys, compared to those in the eighties, is that there is decreased chance of physical harm due to playing with them.

Transformers were die cast metal, not some plastic bullshit. And every time you played with them, a finger would get caught, or someone would throw one at you.

Kid's today, with their safety, their hula hoops, their crazy be-bop. Little Bastards

JSpaceman

09 Feb 2005, 12:13 PM

Transformers were die cast metal, not some plastic bullshit. And every time you played with them, a finger would get caught, or someone would throw one at you.

Kid's today, with their safety, their hula hoops, their crazy be-bop. Little Bastards
Ha! And don't forget about those stomper trucks from the 80's with their little foam rubbery wheels. Hardly a day would go by back in the day without some kid in the neighborhood getting their hair all wrapped up in one of those things...

rocketman70

09 Feb 2005, 12:18 PM

Ha! And don't forget about those stomper trucks from the 80's with their little foam rubbery wheels. Hardly a day would go by back in the day without some kid in the neighborhood getting their hair all wrapped up in one of those things...

Haha, I forgot all about those. Cool!

ideoplastic

09 Feb 2005, 12:27 PM

Ummm...you say that like the original Dukes of Hazzard was genius and the original Daisy was played by a good actress. So, basically, I'm not seeing your point.

Suppose what that really leaves is "disgusting," which I'll second, not wanting to watch two hours of Jessica Simpson falling out of her shorts.

IPrayForSound

09 Feb 2005, 12:29 PM

two hours of Jessica Simpson falling out of her shorts.
Make it 4 hours, and I'm in.

classicgrrl

09 Feb 2005, 12:30 PM

Ummm...you say that like the original Dukes of Hazzard was genius and the original Daisy was played by a good actress. So, basically, I'm not seeing your point.

my parents told us they were going to divorce to the Dukes of Hazzard. and nobody should ever play Daisy Duke except Daisy Duke. Her character was a bad stereotype but she had brains (she put together a carborator in the dark in one episode).

There are some things you just shouldn't fuck with...

Jessica Simpson is too thin and too blond to play Daisy Duke. She just isn't the character.

Also, are the really gonna put a confederate flag on the side of the General Lee? C'mon man let it rest. Go resurrect something worth resurrecting - show reruns of Hee Haw or Archie Bunker.