9th April, 2004
Friday TV
Friday, 7:17 am in Archive
Today I woke up at 5:50am after a dream in which ~Mat [h] had been mercilessly hunting me down and railgunning me in Quake III, only to find ~wolf [h] had either, a) beaten me up, or b) never gone to bed. I didn’t see her; she was downstairs talking to Miscellaneous Male Voice #1.
Anyway, I lay in bed for a while not getting back to sleep and eventually Cheeze TV came on, so I got up. Now I’m not watching something called Crush Gear, which seems to be kind of like Beyblade except with little toy car things. Strange.
Where did all the good ‘toons go?
Anyway, My current crisis is not being able to renew my domain. It expires on the 15th, and I was going to renew it the other day, but pressed ‘back’ on the browser to change payment type, and now it’s telling me my domain is “in the payment queue” (even though I never actually paid anything) and won’t let me re-attempt to renew it. Grah!
Mat got me Tactics Advance the other day. I’ve been waiting for it for weeks because of those naughty things bad EB staff get up to when they think no-one is watching. He makes fun of me for preferring to play it on my computer still, however. I tell him it’s easier (The screen/controller is bigger) and besides, I’ve already got a 40 hour game I’m not exactly going to give up.
Now I just need to figure out a way to transfer things between my GBA and PC… hm. ~Josh [h], you’d be doing something along those lines for your Project, yes?
Speaking of ~Josh [h] – and ~Random [h], this one’s for you too – I have a speech on Postmodernism coming up, and I was wondering if you guys knew of a good five-ish minute grab from Buffy that demonstrates intertextuality (ie. referencing other stuff)? Any help is appreciated!
The Crush Gear people seem to have gone to Singapore. I’d know that giant lion-fish thing anywhere…
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Referencing other stuff? Well, they make references to quite a few other things, but 2 that stand out are season 5, episode 1; Buffy vs. Dracula, ‘cause the whole bloody episode’s a reference to Stoker’s book. They also do some self (in the Buffyverse sense) referential things that you could use…one is season 6, episode 8; Tabula Rasa. After the group loses their memories, circumstances have Buffy and Spike try to figure out not only why Spike’s a vampire, but he launches into a bit about how he could be a vampire with a soul; the whole piece of dialogue is a rip at Angel, and reads like this:
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BUFFY: Randy!SPIKE: (vamped, turns to her) Hey, I’m a superhero too! (Buffy runs off screaming) Joan, where’re you going? Hey! Joan! Wait up! Wait up! (she takes him down) Bloody hell, what are you doing?
BUFFY: You don’t know who you are.
SPIKE: Right, none of us do, and we’re being chased by-
BUFFY: You’re a vampire!
SPIKE: How can you say - I, me, a vampire? No.
BUFFY: Check the lumpies. And the teeth. (he does) I kill your kind.
SPIKE: And I bite yours. So how come I don’t wanna bite you? And why am I fightin’ other vampires? I must be a noble vampire. A good guy. On a mission of redemption. I help the hopeless. I’m a vampire with a soul.
BUFFY: A vampire with a soul? Oh my god, how lame is that?
</i>Hope that helps…I’d put more but I can’t seem to find my copy of <i>The Quotable Slayer</i>…
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Heh! I loved that bit.
What jumps to mind for me is where the part sometime in the last series (or the second last? My memory is horrible, really) where Andrew, Giles, Anya and Dawn are playing DnD (there’s a reference) and Andrew says they have to fight Trogdar the Burninator (from Strongbad email stuff…).
I guess it’s not very much. I found it amusing, Though I’m sure there are many better ones. -
TEH BURNINININININATORRRRRRRR!!!!!
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Need to get Quotable Slayer. Tomorrow.
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Hmm… that actually sounds good. Josh, Random, any ideas?
Eek.. there are small second cousins looking at me! Help! Children! What do I do!? oO
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Children!? Quickly, hide until they’ve passed!
Anyways, it just clicked in my mind, thanks to <b>gaps</b> there; yeah, they had a DnD game with Trogdor in season 7. Andrew was DM-ing. If anyone’s gonna give you something to use, it’s going to be season 7’s Andrew. The guy was a walking pop-culture encyclopedia. He referenced D&D, Star Wars, several comic books, Dr. Strangelove, Star Trek (including a story he’s telling where Faith ends up beating up a Vulcan, because he’s a twit who misunderstands what Volcanologist means, 7x18 - Dirty Girls). The character himself may even be good to discuss, as they chose to make him someone they could pump a ton of references from.
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Xander: I’m mentally undressing Scott Bakula.
Andrew: *sigh* Captain Archer…
Ahh I love Andrew.