Archive for the ‘television’ category
August 19, 2010
– – Pennsylvania’s Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County boasts its own unidentified aquatic creature, with boaters describing sudden water turbulence and old photos showing large shadowy figures just below the surface…
Now Raystown Lake spans about 30 miles and reaches depths of over 185 feet, so there’s plenty of room for a potential cryptid to hide. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files recently did a segment on the creature that included eyewitness accounts, experiments, a sonar run, and a diving search. Something was seen in the water of considerable size, while visibility was poor and the investigation was inconclusive; investigators felt that there was something in the water, but that it remained unexplained.- -What could more true, or safer to say? We’ve heard this kinda thing many times before…
The creature if it exists is felt to be vegetarian, and to display behaviors and feeding habits similar to a manatee. I personally have been on Raystown Lake, and unfortunately saw nothing…
Categories: animal occurrences, cryptozoology, furry, television, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Pennsylvania's Loch Ness monster, Raystown Ray
Comments: 3 Comments
August 15, 2010
– – Yes, that’s right…another post on the same topic, something without precedent in the annals of Foxsylvania! Some say that he’s cuter than the Geico gecko, but you can’t compare apples and oranges, and appearance is subjective, anyways! At any rate, Maxwell the Pig has taken on a life of his own, and appears at home both everywhere and nowhere, a surreal porker for the 21st century. Both lovable and annoying, he’s just being himself! With a literary tradition going back to the 1728 nursery rhyme (“The Nurse’s Song”), this little piggy is as old as the 18th century but as fresh as tomorrow!
Maxwell knows that life is too important a matter to be taken seriously. He has a childlike quality and exuberance that would brighten the psyches of the worst “namby pamby jackwagons.” The endless squealing is meaningless, yet somehow manages to say it all…that embracing life with a pinwheel in each hand while leaning out of the window and shrieking with delight is perhaps the best of all ways to handle it!
The name “Maxwell” is of English/Scottish/Welsh origins, and means “major well.” This well is one we all could benefit from drinking from…
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, cool things, furry, imaginary animals, television
Tags: Geico pig, Maxwell the pig
Comments: 1 Comment
August 13, 2010
– – It’s a twisted world after all, and Geico has the perfect commercial to commemorate this fact; called “Piggy,” it puts a twist on the old nursery rhyme about the little piggy who cried “Wee! Wee! Wee! all the way home.”
Leaning out of a back window of an SUV, this little piggy does just that, much to the chagrin of an annoyed and weary mother and her son. He even holds two pinwheels out of the window as he does it! Not to worry, though…the piggy’s wearing his seatbelt! When this ultimate annoying rider makes it home, he declares “Oh, cool!,” and thanks his ride. Viewable on YouTube and many other sites, and well worth a look…
By the way, the pig’s name is “Maxwell,” and the long-suffering driver is “Mrs. A”…
Categories: absurdities, animal occurrences, animal oddities, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, furry, humor, television
Tags: Geico commercial, Geico's Little Piggy
Comments: 6 Comments
July 31, 2010
– – The second half of a 2010 Destination Truth episode focused on the Giant Moa, an extinct flightless bird native to New Zealand that was hunted to extinction in the 1500’s. There were twelve species of moa, the largest of which stood up to twelve feet tall! Now this big bird wasn’t “Big Bird” but could easily kill the Sesame Street specimen; the giant moa had colorful feathers and three-toed taloned feet with which it could conceivably disembowel hunters. Eyewitness sightings of giant moa have occurred in remote locations of New Zealand, however, despite their presumed extinction, giving grounds for a Destination Truth investigation.
Josh Gates and his team rummaged around after dark in those remote locations, setting up camera traps and hunting about for evidence of these giant avians. The cameras yielded nothing save blurry images, and investigation found bones, a feather, and footprints. The bones turned out to be mammalian, the feather was from a rare bird but not a moa, and the footprint castings could not be identified.
So once again, an extinct species must be presumed to be extinct, since as it was commented it’s hard to keep a twelve foot bird off the radar! How sad, however, that the human race with their boom sticks eradicated this species…
Categories: animals, cryptozoology, extinct species, television
Tags: Giant moa on Destination Truth
Comments: 2 Comments
July 29, 2010
– – He began as the simple, hand-held puppet shown to the left and morphed into an animatronic animal with an attitude…I’m talking, of course, about the Car Fox!
Designed by Legacy Effects studio, the special effects group behind Predator, Iron Man, and Avatar, the new Car Fox takes five people to operate, and took six weeks to design.
Animals are said to find their way into consumers’ hearts and minds in ways no human spokesman can. This will lull them into a false sense of security…buhwahahahaha! 
Categories: animals, furry, television
Tags: Car Fox
Comments: 2 Comments
July 19, 2010
– –Another challenge for the Green Hornet: Making it on the big screen! Some old-time comic and radio serial heroes don’t translate especially well to movies; The Shadow and The Phantom come to mind. Coming in January of 2011 will be The Green Hornet, an adaptation of the once-popular radio serial, comic book, and 1960’s television series.
Seth Rogen will play Britt Reid, the millionaire publisher and popular media figure who by night assumes the identity of crime fighter The Green Hornet. The role of sidekick Kato made memorable in the otherwise forgettable tv series by the late great Bruce Lee will be played by Asian pop star/actor/director Jay Chou; look to the character of Kato to be further developed as the creator of The Black Beauty, the Hornet’s “rolling arsenal” of retro weaponry.
Bruce Lee played Kato in 26 episodes of the tv series aired in 1966-67, with The Green Hornet being known as The Kato Show in Hong Kong. As the Green Hornet would have said to Lee’s show-stopping sidekick, “Let’s roll, Kato!”- – If only Bruce Lee was here! … <sighs>
Categories: comics, cool things, movies, Off-topic, television
Tags: Kato, The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet movie
Comments: 8 Comments
June 22, 2010
– – Kids these days would probably roll their eyes at the notion of being entertained by a hand puppet, but in the days of yore young ‘uns were entertained by such as this and worse…
Combine a star who’s a hand puppet with British television and humor and you have Basil Brush, a fictional fox character who may be a glove puppet yet grows on you (like a glove), and can be hilariously entertaining. Created in 1963 as a children’s show character, Basil has evolved but always been portrayed as a well-spoken fox who can be appreciated on a variety of levels. A puppet who claims to dislike puppets, Basil’s most prized possession is his “brush,” the traditional name for a fox’s tail (for which we are rightfully known).
In more current incarnations, Basil has been depicted as having a family that is every bit as dysfunctional as many of our own. With his “Boom!-Boom!” catchphrase, I ‘d be proud to call Basil my foxy friend…
Categories: animals, furries, furry heroes, television
Tags: Basil Brush, British fox classic
Comments: 1 Comment
June 3, 2010
– – I, for one, am not really fond of gigantic insects, especially when they’re anthropomorphic, possessed of the power of speech, and even capable of driving cars. These are so much more than the lumbering giant insects seen in such vintage B-flicks as the ant saga, Them…the giant insectile creatures of Starship Troopers were a hoot, though!
…such are the awesome and disgusting ants and roaches of Orkin, appearing in televised ads right at your doorstep and even crashing your pool party! These bugs are insidious and clever; they might be delivering a pizza that you didn’t order, or saying that they’re broken down, and need to use your telephone…in one of the latest ads, a giant cockroach shows up to leer at an amorous couple in a hot tub. He (-it?) lets his towel drop to the floor, and asks in a wonderful voiceover if he can go “dipping skinny!” When they are spurned and countered, the bugs peel out in a variety of cool and classic vehicles, including motorcycles!
At once both sinister and comical, these bugs are animatronic, and it reportedly takes seven guys to operate each one. If they come to your house, don’t let ’em in…it would probably take more than a rolled-up newspaper to defeat them, and we value your readership!
Categories: insects, Invertebrates, television
Tags: giant insects, Orkin bugs
Comments: 4 Comments
May 28, 2010
– – When MonsterQuest has a re-run marathon fest, I can usually tell by the number of renewed hits that I get on my old posts on past episodes of The Quest. It’s the good episodes that get the hits…like myself, most people aren’t as interested in installments on wild dogs, rats, or bees.
So mundane and unexciting were some of these episodes, in fact, that we can bring you this picture of a MonsterQuest reject…in fact, he might have been more interesting than some of the episodes that aired!
Categories: animals, anomalies, creature features, cryptozoology, furry, television
Tags: MonsterQuest
Comments: 2 Comments
May 19, 2010
– – The notion of ancient astronauts (namely extraterrestrials) visiting earth and spurring the development of human culture, technologies, and religions is nothing new, and found popularity during the later twentieth century in the writings of Erich von Daniken and others. Ancient astronaut theories have been widely used in science fiction, but have not received support within the scientific community. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan and others have concluded that extraterrestrial visits to earth were possible but unproven, and likely improbable.
The History Channel now has an Ancient Astronaut series that may pique your curiosity if you haven’t been down this trail before. It’s good fun, and you may want to believe as you’re exposed to ancient religious texts and physical specimens such as cave drawings, stone sculptures, and pyramids…
Categories: aliens, cool things, historical perspectives, mysteries, space, strange happenings, television
Tags: Ancient Astronauts
Comments: 3 Comments
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