You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Never saw Gilligans Island.
Neither have I. But surely you've heard the song...
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@accalia said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@abarker said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@izzion said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@boomzilla
Hopefully off-pitch and with the wrong words. Because it's not an official Dad Song unless it's butchered.It's best when the wrong words rhyme with the right words. That seems to bug my kids more than completely random words.
You should try singing the words from another song. That irks the living daylight out of my kids.
try singing Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligains Island (or visa versa).
it works!
Never saw Gilligans Island. Is that the one where Sandy and Bud find a stranded mammal and become friends with it?
something like that.
it always works with "because i would not stop for death" by Emily Dickinson
it has to do with the particular poetic form of the lyrics.
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@anotherusername said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Never saw Gilligans Island.
Neither have I. But surely you've heard the song...
Sorry, no. This is what we had to make do with:
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Sorry, no. This is what we had to make do with:
And that was hilarious !
Thanks for bringing back those childhood memories !
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@abarker said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@remi said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Based on chances of actually getting out with limited collateral damages (i.e. without the Earth being destroyed), I'd say Star Trek TNG.
Based on chances of being rescued and having amazing adventures all along, I'd say Doctor Who.
Based on chances of being rescued while having fun, I'd say Chuck (mostly the early seasons, later ones... a bit meh...).
Based on chances of having fun, although probably not really rescued (or at least not alive), I'd say Top Gear.
Based on chances of being rescued and possibly turned into an inhuman, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Plus Coulson and his new hand are awesome. And don't forget The Cavalry, or Fitz-Simmons, or …
Wait! I've got another one!
Based on chances of being caught up in a huge human-trafficking/slavery/prostitution ring run by a major pharmaceutical company that is going to create the apocalypse, I would pick Dollhouse, because Echo is badass. She'd probably be able to rescue me, too.
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@Captain Yes, it's still good, but the anime's quality has gone down drastically, SO MUCH FILLER and such a low animation quality it's unbelievable. If they at least made story fillers, but no, they just put in loads of pointless scenes that are non-canon and in which nothing of significance ever happens.
My only warning is that the Dressrosa Arc, or the Doflamingo arc as you call it, is unbelievably long but feels very dragged out if you don't binge it.
But after that one the pace picks up again and Oda delivered again, the next one is a short adventure/exploration/world building arc again which is just wonderful and after that comes one of those tense Oda plots completely out of left field.
I too was a little bit concerned if the Quality could keep up, but while everything between Whitebeard and the middle of Dressrosa is not the best the series ever was at, it was still great. And like it is with One Piece, if you are not one of those tortured souls that reads the chapters every week and has been doing so for years, binging it is the best thing you can do anyways.
If you are not the Manga type of person and would rather watch the anime, google for One Pace, a fan edit where they cut out all the filler and cut out all those extra seconds Toei likes to linger on scenes just to strech the episode time to 20 minutes. They allways compress 4 badly paced episodes into 30 fully packed minutes and it's great.
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Arrow.
At best I can get A.R.G.U.S. helping out, at worst I hang around with Felicity.
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@Quwertzuiopp said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
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@Quwertzuiopp said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
low animation quality
but you repeat yourself...
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@Zecc said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Arrow.
At best I can get A.R.G.U.S. helping out, at worst I hang around with Felicity.
What? She's about the only good thing left on that show after the last couple seasons.
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I'd pick "The Apprentice", because then Dear Leader can just proclaim the alternative fact that I'm not actually kidnapped. I'll be free and the terrorists defeated.
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Jack Bauer?
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@masonwheeler said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
that's Leonard Nimoy!
I THOUGHT IT WAS HIM!
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@Lorne-Kates said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
I'd pick "The Apprentice", because then Dear Leader can just proclaim the alternative fact that I'm not actually kidnapped. I'll be free and the terrorists defeated.
Wait, are we allowed to pick non-fiction? I want to change my answer to a documentary about Kim Jong Un's favorite foods. I'm not sure how that would work for rescuing a kidnapping victim, but I want to see how it happens.
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@ben_lubar said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@Lorne-Kates said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
I'd pick "The Apprentice", because then Dear Leader can just proclaim the alternative fact that I'm not actually kidnapped. I'll be free and the terrorists defeated.
Wait, are we allowed to pick non-fiction?
No need to expand the category; @Lorne-Kates was talking about Trump.
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@HardwareGeek said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@ben_lubar said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@Lorne-Kates said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
I'd pick "The Apprentice", because then Dear Leader can just proclaim the alternative fact that I'm not actually kidnapped. I'll be free and the terrorists defeated.
Wait, are we allowed to pick non-fiction?
No need to expand the category; @Lorne-Kates was talking about Trump.
Alternative non-fiction.
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Getting into Leverage. Definitely a good answer.
I like the
tipnod to Elmore Leonard in the 5th episode.ETA: to not be so out of context.
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@dangeRuss said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
I'll just call the Doctor.
Dangerous. If you're in a Christmas special, you have a pretty good chance of dying in the process. Even regular companions get killed off every now and then.
@loopback0 said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Pick something like Scooby Doo - they're always out in like 5 minutes with no-one being harmed.
They were my first thought as well :)
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@bugmenot said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
Doctor Who. But not the good guys, the Daleks. Because if my life has become governed by a Reddit topic, the whole bloody planet can go fuck itself.
We can convert you into a Dalek (that happens in the show, they look like a human with a dalek telescope stuffed in his forehead). Then we exterminate the remaining humans together.
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@fbmac said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
We can convert you into a Dalek
The fact that you're offering means you're not a real Dalek: a real Dalek wouldn't ask ;)
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@fbmac said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
a dalek telescope stuffed in his forehead
That sounds ... uncomfortable.
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@RaceProUK said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
@fbmac said in You've been kidnapped. You can enlist the characters from one television show to make a rescue attempt. Which show do you pick?:
We can convert you into a Dalek
The fact that you're offering means you're not a real Dalek: a real Dalek wouldn't ask ;)
TBQH that whole subterfuge thing seemed rather un-Dalek-like to me.
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@PleegWat Agreed. I can see the Cybermen messing with shit like that, but the Daleks are generally to arrogant to do something like creating Daleks who mimic the characteristics of other species.
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@Onyx Cybermen did it too, as early as the canary wharf episode.
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@PleegWat yeah, I remember, I was kinda justifying that at the same time, which was probably unclear, sorry.
I'm not sure if they did it before the New Who era, though you can kinda excuse the modern Cybermen as the alternate versions (at least the ones before the Universe got restarted by the Pandorica, I think they are pushing oldschool Cybermen again after that).
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I'm actually a bit surprised no one has mentioned Person of Interest yet. Saving people who were in trouble was the entire point of what the protagonists did. One guy even managed to be enough of a screwup that he got saved by them multiple times, culminating in this gem:
Wait, you plan to kill me?
Probably.
*gleefully* OK, that's a big mistake. Yeah, you better get out of here. Right now while you still can.
...
*door busts open, Reese shows up and beats the crap out of the bad guys*
We have to stop meeting like this!
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@Onyx Yeah, I agree it fits the cybermen more. I never saw the original series.