Comments on: A Sneak Peek Inside the Dream Factory

By: fenzel

fenzel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:30:42 +0000

When pineapples are outlawed, only outlaws will have pineapples.

And they are so delicious!

I hope I never see that day.

They’ll take my pineapples from my cold dead hands . . .

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:22:37 +0000

fenzel, you doubt the efficacy of putting guns on the cargo ship, but keep in mind that the pilot’s typical defense against the air pirates was something along the lines of this:

1) identify enemy plane coming up behind you
2) throw a pineapple out the window
3) the pineapple passes through the propellor blades and is sliced into pieces
4) the pieces fly into the face of the enemy pilot, thereby temporarily blinding/stunning him.
5) escape!

well, now that i just worked through that logic, i realize that the guns still are not an effective deterrent against air pirates. i cede to you fenzel. now to stock up on fresh fruit…

By: fenzel

fenzel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:34:47 +0000

By the way, there’s a name for the strategy the allies employed against Germany during the world wars to blunt the impact of submarine warfare. Rather than send cargo vessels one at a time, they’d send them in groups, protected by destroyers and other warships.

Now if only somebody could remind me what that’s called, and perhaps employ some sort of instructional pneumonic, like a song, explaining to me why somebody shipping cargo would want to do it.

I mean, it doesn’t have to be by sea, of course.

Any takers?

By: fenzel

fenzel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:32:27 +0000

Well, putting guns on the cargo ship isn’t really going to help. That sort of strategy hasn’t really worked since the 1600′s. They’ll just shoot you before you see them.

I mean, I guess you could give him a ball turret, but when you’re not flying in formation, it’s kind of useless.

What he really needs is a fighter escort.

By which I mean regular Launchpad McQuack crossover episodes.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:59:30 +0000

And if you go through exactly the same chain of logic, but decide you’d rather do a movie than a series, you get this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJXT2OCY-Do

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:53:20 +0000

I was wondering what the last of the four links for “where vampires fight werewolves” could possibly be. And then I found out, and I laughed and laughed.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:07:30 +0000

But does this help explain why this bear pilot guy, who was getting shot at by air pirates on every mission, never put guns on HIS OWN PLANE?

I think one episode actually acknowledged this, but my memory is foggy.

By: wrather

wrather — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:09:58 +0000

The google ad I saw when I read this post live on the site was for the new Hulk movie.

I can only assume that The Google’s AMAZING contextual ad matching algorithm is soooooooo good, it can detect even the undercurrent of Fenzel’s love for Hulk cinema, or as the french say, Film Vert.

Great post, too, by the way.