Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.

'Safe'


Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains  

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 04, 2005 10:49:00 am PST #210 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Frankenbuddha - to my undying shame, I didn't know the Python connection, and I'm a fairly rabid Python fan. ....shame, shame, shame....

Well, look at it this way, if you've never seen it before, that means there's a new episode of Monty Python out there for you. I'd call that a win.

Ahem. Yeah, how 'bout that Firefly.


tommyrot - Jan 04, 2005 10:52:10 am PST #211 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

However, the GBiB opening band was the Fembots, which I'm pretty sure predated Austin Powers. Unless someone knows of something of Fembots from before 1984? In which case, more shame.

Fembots were the creation of an evil scientist in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. I was so happy when Austin Powers used the term.


reequeen - Jan 04, 2005 10:54:08 am PST #212 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

Damn. And I watched a lot of the Six Million Dollar Man, more shame....shame, shame, shame....

*ahem* Long term memory loss due to premature menopause. *ahem*

But, yay - unearthed Python!


Frankenbuddha - Jan 04, 2005 10:55:51 am PST #213 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

But, yay - unearthed Python!

If I remember correctly, part of the episode includes Gay Boys in Bondage presented as one of Gilliam's inimitable animations.


reequeen - Jan 04, 2005 11:08:54 am PST #214 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball

Thanks, good to know. Monty Python is one of those "gotta get on DVD" things. Been concentrating on the BtVS and Angel - only one more to go. Have the directorial catalogue of Tarantino and Rodriguez (yes, even Spy Kids, but we do have a 9 year old in the house), working on Christopher Guest and John Waters stuff....you know, the usual.


alienprayer - Jan 04, 2005 11:16:03 am PST #215 of 10001
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce

Isn't that Python ep the Sir Philip Sydey/Superintendent Gaskill one?

I'm sure Mal has smuggled some porn at one point, so the episode is quite relevant to Firefly.


Calli - Jan 04, 2005 11:19:29 am PST #216 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm sure Mal has smuggled some porn at one point, so the episode is quite relevant to Firefly.

I wonder how Inara would have felt about that. Sexuality -- yay!? Or "Dude, my Guild is supposed to get a cut of each DVD sold -- you're affecting my benefits package here."


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2005 11:27:51 am PST #217 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Bwah! I love the idea of the Companions' Guild having the same attitude toward porn that modern record companies had towards Napster.


The Partyman - Jan 04, 2005 12:16:29 pm PST #218 of 10001
[insert something funny here]

(this is so much fun, we're wandering off topic again... never mind)

I heard that the Pirates bought the Ninjas Firefly DVD's for Christmas.

The Astronauts, however, refuse to belive that Horses In Space could work even in sci-fi, and so are filming a Reality TV show featuring Cavemen and Monkeys.

The Cowboys are wishing they had a spaceship.

Jesus and Santa Claus are preparing for a Live Televised Debate over the existence of the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man and what, indeed, to do about it.

The Elves and Dwarves have been arguing so much about the ammount of smarm a marmot could snark (if indeed a marmot could snark smarm), that a bloody war has erupted between them, destroying all televisions in the process.

Meanwhile the Robots, having solved the marmot thing, are sitting down with a nice cup of tea.

ETA: Did I miss any?


Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2005 2:03:14 pm PST #219 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Oh, come on now. You know the Elves have flat-panel, tastefully mounted into the trunk of the trees.