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Quentyn, our intrepid hero from

So, what do you think?

Well, I plan to add to this later, but I have homework to do now. If anyone wants, you can add to what I've written, or you can start over, taking the theme in a different direction. (In other words, you don't have to worry about plot continuity.)

VERY funny! I like it. I think it deserves to be continued.

Later that evening, after the tulpas have conjoured a small tee-shirt and a pair of shorts for Quentyn and helped him get situated

Sheldon: "Wow, you really are from another world, Quentyn. Well, I suppose we'd better start teaching you about this world."

Velvet: "Ooh! I know! I know! TV! Show him TV!"

Quentyn: "Tee-vee?"

Sheldon: "It's moving pictures, along with sound. Hmm... I suppose that might help."

Morty: "We'd have to be careful what we show him."

Sheldon: "Perhaps some nature videos, along with the History Channel, or maybe..."

**As Sheldon continues talking to himself oblivously, the others run off and return with a stack of DVD movies.**

Sheldon: "Um, shouldn't we start out with the Discovery Channel or something?"

Zoot: "Naw, that'd be boring. Besides, we need to try out the new plasma screen and THX speaker system we bought with Ben's credit card."

Sheldon & Morty: "You WHAT?!"

**Slick puts in the first movie.**

Quentyn: "What's a THX?"

Gunther: "Heh. You're about to find out."

**cranks up the volume to maximum**

Later, at about 3 AM that night...

Lilly: "Ben, I hear someone screaming. Can you see what they're up to?"

**Ben gets up and goes downstairs, and Quentyn runs up to him, completely hystarical**

Quentyn: "I wanna go home! I wanna go home! Get me out of this crazy place!"

Ben: What's going on? What have you guys been showing him?

**Ben picks up some DVD boxes.**

Ben: "Saving Private Ryan... Jurassic Park... Alien... Terminator... Matrix Revolutions... Godzilla VS Mothra... The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... The VeggieTales Movie... Silence of the Lambs..."

Hey, Veggietales is that bad... its not that great, but its not that bad either....

(As a side note, I turn 21 in2 hours and 21 minutes.... GLEE! ...I think...)

Hey, Veggietales isn't that bad...

Yeah, I was just saying that it would be incredibly confusing to Quentyn, who doesn't know what's real and what isn't, especially in light of the the other movies he's watched.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

Personally, with those choices, I wouldn't blame Quentyn. Lotta people believe what they see in the movie theater, even though they shouldn't ("ICE FLOATS!! ICE FLOOOAAAATS!!").

I think we can forgive our poor Questor for being a bit traumatized when he sees movies he thinks represent the reality of this new world...

StrangeWulf13 wrote:("ICE FLOATS!! ICE FLOOOAAAATS!!").

Another reference I'm missing?

Yep. It's a famous old story - a movie with a scene of a submarine under the Arctic ice. Something blows up on the surface of the ice-pack while the sub is trying to escape, and the whole theater is on the edge of their seats as sharp chunks of ice rain down on the sub, threatening to puncture the hull... until one person in the theater yells "ICE FLOATS!!!" The ensuing wave of hilarity ruined the drama completely.

An early example of Hollyweird having very little grasp of reality. In their defense, the only ice most of them see in southern California is what's in their drinks.

Oh, good... For a minute I thought the point was "Everyone thinks ice floats, but really...." And I was wondering just where your info came from...

Kerry Skydancer wrote:Yep. It's a famous old story - a movie with a scene of a submarine under the Arctic ice. Something blows up on the surface of the ice-pack while the sub is trying to escape, and the whole theater is on the edge of their seats as sharp chunks of ice rain down on the sub, threatening to puncture the hull... until one person in the theater yells "ICE FLOATS!!!" The ensuing wave of hilarity ruined the drama completely.

An early example of Hollyweird having very little grasp of reality. In their defense, the only ice most of them see in southern California is what's in their drinks.

Kerry, I think that scene was from the original movie "Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea" when the Van Allen belt caught fire and threatened to incinerate the Earth.

S'aaruuk (Das Uber Geek at cher soivice)

When... the Van Allen Belts..... caught fire????????

Suddenly, the ice problem seems minor....

See, this is what happens when you walk around all day with your head the highest part of your body. The blood drains away from the brain and starves it of fuel. We should encourage screenwriters to hang by their toes for at least a few hours every day.

Kerry Skydancer wrote:

When... the Van Allen Belts..... caught fire????????

Suddenly, the ice problem seems minor....

OHhhh Yeah, ostensibly by a particularly heavy and violent meteor shower. And of course with no explanation of how space rocks with no atmosphere to cause frictional heating were able to ignite a magnetic radiation belt. But hey.....this was 1961. Actually the "falling ice" was near the beginning of the film, as the Seaview was on a shakedown cruise under the polar icecap. The ice impacts alerted everybody to something wierd and when they surfaced and climbed out on the sail tower dressed for arctic survival, found themselves in 100+ degree heat with a sky that was literally on fire.

At this juncture they spot a "survivor", Michael Ansara on an ice flowe pretty much burnt to a crisp. And the plot continues.....

It wasn't a bad flic, starred Walter Pigeon as Adm. Nelson, Peter Lorre as a scientist, Barbara Eden (sigh) as Capt Crane's executive secretary and love interest, Joan Fontain as a psychiatrist etc.

And of course, given the cold war attitude on nukes and how they couldn't be used for anything good, a multi-megaton thermonuke is used to "burn-out" the fires by supersaturating the belt with even more heat and radiation........yeah....riiiiiight. And no one tried to explaine how the fires were continuing to burn in the vacuum of space either.

S'aaruuk

Disregard also that there was an *open topped aquarium* on board that thing, and no matter how it rose or dove it never spilled a drop. Water stayed perfectly level with the top of the tank, too....

Good point Ralph.....looking back there are some truely hysterical tech screw-ups from that era.

My limit was the repeated scene involving computer consoles exploding, CO2 fire-extinguishers blasting away (in an enclosed, restricted living space) and once the fire was out EVERYTHING WORKED.

Not one scene of some poor schmuck of a tech on his back under a burned-out console, replacing modules and testing connections. Nope. The fire is out so it's fixed.

The first episode I saw, my Dad was there. We saw the flying sub dive into the ocean, and he said, "There's the voyage to the bottom of the sea."


What can I say? He was Air Force. Navigator on a bomber in WWII. Flying into the ocean probably had a certain meaning to him that didn't register with me at the time.

I always had to laugh at the fact the plexiglas front plates didn't fracture or blow out of their mounts when the Flying Sub would dive from altitude and submerge at around 150mph.....OR the occupants didn't get strained thru the 5 point harnesses from the deceleration G's.

However the one thing I always loved was the general look of the Seaview......esthetically she was one sharp looking design. Some dude actually built an RC, fully functional working model that was about 8' long and used to blow minds at model boat meets when he'd surface the thing in the middle of some event. He won all kinds of awards and trophies for detail and accruacy.....not to mention just plain cool. I think Irwin Allen even sent him a letter of appreciation or something of that nature.

And Monty.....I agree that the "fire's out, it's all fixed" scenerio used to drive me up the wall too... ..I even saw the all-too-familiar "moving checkerboard" computer "readout" on a couple of really low budget filx.

The "computer blows up" schtick was based on designs of the day (or a decade earlier). You see, the more a computer did, the more power it drew. Work your computer hard enough and it actually could blow up. It still didn't work if you put the fire out and started everything back up, but hey...

Irwin Allen was a great storyteller. Exciting stuff, great visuals, but he played fast and loose with science, history, and even his own continuity to achieve it. (And the Flying Sub was introduced during the TV series, not the movie. IIRC the movie was the first to use the big board of square lights moving around. Anywhere.)

On a minor technical note, ice can sink in alcohol.

Earl McClaw wrote:IIRC the movie was the first to use the big board of square lights moving around. Anywhere.

I should have been more precise.....I meant after the show ended, I saw the computer board in a couple of cheesy made for TV movies and a couple of even cheesier straight to video movies.

I'm having a TOTAL brain lock here...IIRC???

S'aaruuk

Sharuuk wrote: I'm having a TOTAL brain lock here...IIRC???

IIRC = If I Remember Correctly