Powerpuff Girls Marathon
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On Friday, April 16, Cartoon Network is having a marathon of Season 5 of Powerpuff Girls. There's a new episode at 7 PM, and then from 7:30 to 2:30 they're showing all of Season 5. including the episode which premiered at 7. Most of these episodes have only been shown once before, and you can fit it all on one T-160 tape.
From 2:30 to 4 AM the marathon continues with the last three episodes of Season 4, but those have been rebroadcast more often. A good episode list can be found at TV Tome. One of the standouts from this season is "City of Clipsville"; while several shows have done "fake clip show" episodes (including both South Park and Clerks, both of which were so metafictive they made my head hurt), the particulars of this one are terrific.
The only downside is that they're showing the episodes in mostly reverse order, which is annoying because there is a small amount of inter-episode continuity which gets violated that way. But hey, it's seven straight hours of bug-eyed heroines with ultra super powers, so you know that's good eating.
agrumer: On Friday, April 16, Cartoon Network is having a marathon of Season 5 of Powerpuff Girls. There's a new episode at 7 PM, and then from 7:30 to 2:30 they're showing all of Season 5. including the episode which premiered at 7. Most of these episodes have only been shown once before, and you can fit it all on one T-160 tape.
From 2:30 to 4 AM the marathon continues with the last three episodes of Season 4, but those have been rebroadcast more often. A good episode list can be found at TV Tome. One of the standouts from this season is "City of Clipsville"; while several shows have done "fake clip show" episodes (including both South Park and Clerks, both of which were so metafictive they made my head hurt), the particulars of this one are terrific.
The only downside is that they're showing the episodes in mostly reverse order, which is annoying because there is a small amount of inter-episode continuity which gets violated that way. But hey, it's seven straight hours of bug-eyed heroines with ultra super powers, so you know that's good eating.
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Date: 2004-04-08 07:21 am (UTC)The sprout isn't nearly the fan of the PPGs as I am, but we indulge occasionally.
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Date: 2004-04-08 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-08 08:22 am (UTC)(We don't have cable.)
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Date: 2004-04-08 08:32 am (UTC)But I'll see what I can do.
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Date: 2004-04-08 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-08 10:03 am (UTC)I can't take things like SpongeBob and South Park - I watch them for five minutes, and then I'm done for a year.
The sprout loves Lizzie McGuire, Disney's junior-high soap opera, and Annalina Ballerina (I may have that wrong) which is a British, or pseudo-British, cartoon about dancing mice. Also the "Arthur" series, not about the mythical king, but about an eight-year-old boy and his family.
I keep trying her out on stuff like Animal Planet or Discovery Channel, but she's not into it. She loves shows about kids growing up, but she's not into information qua information, yet.
We're trying to decide whether to ditch cable television for the summer - we don't watch it if there's any chance of being outside.
One reason this works is that the local public library branch is four blocks away, and has three thousand DVDs in stock. It's across the street from the ice cream shop.
I hadn't thought that through yet, but jeez, that sounds like a much better investment of $50 a month in the summertime!