The real Henry Gale's hot air balloon had a "Nozz-a-La" banner on its side, presumably as a sponsorship for his ballooning-around-the-world. Among other things, it also establishes that we take place in the same universe as LOST. That's the one George line that stuck with me throughout.Īlso, yeah, the Derry, Maine thing was a cheeky play at getting E&SM into the Tommy Westphall Universe. You're one of maybe three people that would understand my "Ha-hah, NEWSPAPERS!" non-sequitur sometimes dropped on the Kongversation. Haha, Milo, that's fantastic! Glad you enjoyed that nonsense we made a decade ago. Hopefully at some point this whole thing will be more widely available.
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And like I said, it rounds out an excellent DVD set that's packed full of extras.
And it's fun to see the show taking aim at a different genre than sitcoms. It's a nice DVD extra, an episode 103.5 if you will. So it looks like this was planned to be 104. What about the Street Walking segments, wouldn't they have been filmed at a different time? They look really funny. It's too bad the recording failed before the end. Interviewing a jar of salsa is an amusing piss-take as well. I don't remember if he's mentioned much in Season 2, so is 106 where he dies still canon? (But then number 6 in the Top 33 list.?) And there's the Derry mention, placing the show in Stephen King's fictional universe! Wahey!īy the way, was this going to be broadcast as an actual episode of the show? Such format breaking shows the satirical ambition of E&SM. Leon establishes that this is set just after 103. On the other hand, the band being a mix-tape is a funny acknowledgment of the lack of production values. So it's pretty distracting that Leon has a microphone cable snaking out of his back during the monologue. Complete with topical Bill Clinton-based humour. So this is a result of Chad and Hyle's love of late-night talk shows, I guess. Of course, in that case the aesthetic was a stylistic choice. I'm reminded of another low-budget-look sci-fi sitcom with a talk show spinoff: Dean Learner's Man to Man, which followed Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. But now, there's one more feature to watch. All in all, with the deleted scenes, script pages, and commentaries, the DVD set is a great package. The promos are fun historical artifacts, and essential as DVD extras. The unfilmed 106 Goodbye, Goodbye would have been a nice end to the series, wrapping up by revisiting all the introduced characters, but as it is the mystery and high concept of 105 is better as a transition to Season 2. This seems like a very special book.Continuing my long-delayed watch-through of E&SM, I'm watching the Disc 3 special features. The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the only book in this post that I’ve actually read. There were a couple of Russell titles with unreal covers. So, as promised by my title: It’s Friday here’s a lazy post of some old book covers.Ĭabu by John Robert Russell. I’ve included some details from the book covers too. Forgive the bad lighting and my fat thumbs. I’m sure that there are some really great blogs out there that do this sort of thing properly-take real care with scans and bother to credit artists and designers properly. Anyway, I hadn’t initially intended to do a post, and what I’m presenting here is hardly representative as a sample (there are literally tens of thousands of sci-fi books in the store). certain editions by authors like William Gibson and Neil Gaiman) actually end up looking really dated and generic. I love old sci-fi covers (Daw covers in particular) looking at so many this afternoon, I noticed that certain prestige-style covers that attempted to “transcend genre” (e.g. I wound up spending about 75 minutes perusing old sci-fi and fantasy titles, occasionally taking a pic or two. I went to the bookstore this afternoon, looking to maybe find something I hadn’t read by my favorite author Garth Marenghi, or at least to pick up something from the so-called Bizarro fiction genre.
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