U.S.S. Flamingo, Supplemental

This is a text supplement to the video which can be found here.

Ok, for those of you not in the know, Flash Forward was an awesome show on when I was younger that I watched all the time. It was an awesome series staring Jewel Staite as Becky and Ben Foster as Tuck. I may sometime do a video or something on it if I can find the footage, but that show was awesome.

As for Kim Possible, I stand by every word I say in this video. It’s seriously a lot of fun and worth watching even for people older then the intended audience. The same is not true of TaleSpin. That one is a bit too childish in nature for an adult.

Oh, about TaleSpin, I’d like to thank Allison Pregler a.k.a. Obscurus Lupa for the episode of her show she did about the show Tales of the Golden Monkey because it was at that point that a. I became familiar with the show, and b. I realized that TaleSpin was totally drawing from it.

I had always wondered where the idea of the biplane, the island and the juice bar, i.e. this whole crazy series, came from, and seeing some of Tales of the Golden Monkey does explain it. If you see the show and are familiar with TaleSpin, you’ll see what I mean.

Particularly, there’s Louie. Louie is the King of the Apes in Jungle Book, so why would he be a bartender in this show? I think the answer is that in Tales of the Golden Monkey, there’s a bar called the Golden Monkey, where the titular idol is, that is run by a bartender named Louie. If that wasn’t enough for them, Louie is actually played by Roddy McDowall, who famously starred in almost all of the Planet of the Apes movies and was the only actor to appear in all five films as well as the television series. In other words, he’s famous for being an ape, and Louie is the King of the Apes.

So, thanks Lupa. You can find her stuff on blip, on That Guy with the Glasses and at Making You Stupid.