Postby jayrath » 16 years ago
"Outer Space Port R45"
Another snappy title from our translator. Anyone else would have cut the above in half. If we know it's a space port, do we need to also know that it is an OUTER space port, and that it is R45? Does that make us extra excited? "Oh, honey, look what's on TV tonight. I know Outer Space Port R44 was on last night; but tonight is R45!"
I'm a little upset that none of the American cast and crew get any credits whatsoever on the DVDs.
Pilot Tennyson is Paul. I am the responding pilot.
Dave and I are the gabby twins; I'm the taller one. Rich is the angry man, the hotel owner. The chief is Greg. You can hear here how we had to dump all the Japanese text into a few seconds.
I am the guy who gets the space pirates message.
Okay, this is all pretty gross.
Big icky captain in the helmet is Bob.
Oh! Disgusting show. Please no cartoons with characters cutting themselves! Or anyone.
"The Hijacked Airship"
Huh. Interesting episode. Paul is the hijacker, Greg is the captain. I am the news announcer. Nothing more to say. You know the classmate credits.
"The Human-Faced Rock"
Announcer is Debbie. HA! I am Mr. Whitely, who is named for our star, Patty Whitely -- Astro. The voice mimics Ed Wynn's, an early American vaudeville, Broadway and radio star. (If you ever hate a laugh track -- it is because of Wynn; he needed to hear audience response. Radio producers forbade audience noise until Wynn demanded that he needed it to perform. His son, Keenan Wynn, is Lt. Bat Guano in "Dr. Strangelove.")
And amazing again -- now we have Prof. Lewis -- the character is named for Del, our director, and Dave mimics Del's voice in doing it. Hilarious. The character even looks like Del. I'm sure that's how we hit on it. This is an example of how we rewrote on the spot.
Linda or Carl must have directed this show. Too funny! All respect to Linda, but when she directed, it meant we absolutely burned through scripts. And that made so much trouble for our engineers, because the work was sloppy. They had to spend days, repairing what Linda let us all gleefully get away with.
Fireball is Kahlei. The more I watch these shows, the more I remember that she was -- well, Kahlei was a pretty incredible woman. I have not seen her since we finished the shows. Sigh. I wish we had kept in touch; I wish we all had. I do not have the slightest idea where she is now. It's me, Patty, Paul and me now -- Skunk, Astro and Atlas, plus Dave, who had no recurring part except the yellow-shirted classmate. I'm trying really hard to find Brian, though.
This particular show just rings so many bells for me. Classic!
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jayrath on Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.