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Cor chief!

ewgfewgf
edited September 2006 in Chit chat
I've just received the complete Dangermouse collection on DVD. Every episode ever, of the greatest cartoon in history. The Simpsons? Great! Futurama? Fantastic! But do either of them have anywhere as funny a character as Penfold? Of course not.

Plus it reminds me of simpler times, when the world was younger, when the writers could get away with putting the characters in pitch dark caves or cellars or dungeons, every single episode, just to save the animators from drawing a few more frames of animations, and when kids' programs were still watched by adults.

So stop reading, and order yours! I got it from Amazon for ?29, at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangermouse-25th-Anniversary-Ultimate-Collection/dp/B000HA46K8/sr=8-1/qid=1158327005/ref=pd_ka_1/026-9707700-0619604?ie=UTF8&s=gateway

And in honour of this aspicious release, I've finally made up an avatar. Ooh eck!
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Comments

  • NickHNickH
    edited September 2006
    Do you get to see the cliff-hangers of each five-minute segment, or have they merged them into one?
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2006
    danger mouse had some fantastic voice acting talent in it, it was class!
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited September 2006
    DM and Penfold are just pure class! :-D
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited September 2006
    The only kids program I liked more at the time was Trapdoor with it's underlying adult humour which was completely lost on me at the time, but twenty years later was genius.

    Dangermouse had the best song of them all though (the original Rhubarb was a close second though):

    "He's teriffic"
    "He's magnific"
    "He's the greatest secret agent in the world."

    Brilliant.

    See, it didn't take Duran Duran or whoever the flavour of the month is like with the Bond themes. And Dangermouse IS the greatest in the world. They wouldn't have dared advertise him as such if he wasn't.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • ewgfewgf
    edited September 2006
    NickH wrote:
    Do you get to see the cliff-hangers of each five-minute segment, or have they merged them into one?

    That's a very good question, as I seem to remember that some of the stories were broadcast both in five minute segments (with the cliff hanger, as you said), and a twenty or so minute full version of the same episode, minus the announcer's... er announcements that were broadcast after the five minutes' cliff hangers.

    I've not seen the five minute versions yet, but I've only seen some stories from one disc (there are twelve discs in the set).

    Oh, and one bad point is that the front end menu of the DVD is a rendered (or drawn, but in a bad attempt to copy the original) version of Dangermouse and Penfold going down the chair/lift, into the Mark Three (the name of DM's yellow car), and driving off. Not only does it look inferior to the original artwork, but when Penfold rolls off the lift into the car he doesn't summersault/fall, as he always does in the car:evil:
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2006
    anyone remember Doctor Snuggles?

    I used to like that.
  • CKayCKay
    edited September 2006
    I used to love Dangermouse :) There was something special about the cartoons of the 70`s and 80`s, something to do with drugs probably.


    There`s a trailer of a new Doctor Snuggles here, I recognise the main bloke but can`t say I remember the program... oh, and the trailer links on the main text, not on the links at left.

    http://www.doctorsnuggles.com/Welcome/Welcome.html
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