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1. Huckleberry Hound (1958): Voiced by Daws Butler, Huckleberry was a blue dog that spoke with a Southern drawl, with a relaxed, sweet, and well-intentioned personality. The term "Huckleberry" can be a slang synonym for a rube or an amateur, and that seems to fit Huck's personality. Most of his shorts consisted of Huck trying to to perform jobs in different fields, ranging from policeman to (ironically enough) dogcatcher, with backfiring results, yet usually coming out on top, either through slow persistence or sheer luck. Huck did not seem to exist in a specific time period as he has also been a Roman gladiator, a Medieval knight, and a rocket scientist. He was never in the future though, only the present (as of the show's airing) or the past. One regular villain in the series was "Powerful
Various Hanna-Barbera characters were known for frequently turning to the viewing audience to make little comments and asides (following the tradition of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters of the 1940s, and earlier by Groucho Marx). Huck took this to somewhat of an extreme, as a significant part of a typical cartoon was his running narrative to the audience about whatever he was trying to accomplish.
2. The Flintstones (1960): The show is set in the town of Bedrock in the Stone Age era. The show is an allegory to American society of the mid-to-late 20th century; in the Flintstones' fantasy version of the prehistoric past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long extinct animals co-exist with barefoot cavemen, who use technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals. The characters drive cars made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by foot.
One source of the show's humor was the ways animals were used for technology. For example, when the characters took photographs with an instant camera, the inside of the camera box would be shown to contain a bird carving the picture on a stone tablet with its bill. In a running gag, the animals powering such technology would, breaking the fourth wall, look directly into the camera at the audience, shrug, and remark, "It's a living," or some similar phrase. Another commonly seen gadget in the series was a baby woolly mammoth being used as a vacuum cleaner. Travel to "Hollyrock," a parody of Hollywood, California, usually involved an "airplane" flight—the "plane" in this case often shown as a giant pterodactyl. (Other familiar place names are similarly contorted: San Antonio becomes Sand-and-Stony-o; the country to the south of Bedrock's land is called Mexirock; and so forth.) Lifts are raised and lowered by ropes around brontosaurs' necks; "automatic" windows are powered by monkeys that dwell on the outside windowsill; birds configured as "car horns" are activated by pulling on their tails. An electric razor is depicted as a clam shell housing a honey-bee vibrating it as the edges are rubbed against the character's face.
Season 6 Episode 6 — "Samantha" features Mr. & Mrs. Stephens (Dick York & Elizabeth Montgomery) from Bewitched as both cartoon characters and voice actors.[1]
Being set in the Stone Age allowed for various gags and puns that involved rocks in one way or another, including the names of the various characters being "rock" puns. These included celebrities of the 1960s such as "Cary Granite" (Cary Grant), "Stony Curtis" (Tony Curtis), "Ed Sulleystone" (Ed Sullivan)", "Rock Hudstone" (Rock Hudson), and "Ann-Margrock" (Ann-Margret). Other celebrity/puns on The Flintstones were "Alvin Brickrock" (Alfred Hitchcock); "Perry Masonary" (Perry Mason); and a new neighbour lady "Sam" (Samantha of Bewitched).
In the show's closing credits, Fred tries to put the "cat" (actually a saber-tooth tiger) out for the night. The cat jumps back into the house through the window, opens the back door, and deposits Fred on the doorstep. Fred winds up getting locked out and yelling for his wife to come open the door: "Wilma! Come on, Wilma, open this door! Willllll-ma!" By the time the theme song "Meet the Flintstones" was used, Fred cut the yelling to: "Willllll-ma!" (This gag was mentioned in the lyrics of the "Flintstones" theme song used for the closing credits. "Someday/Maybe Fred will win the fight/Then that/Cat will stay out for the night.")
Although the cat, Baby Puss, was seen in the closing credits of every episode, it was rarely actually seen in any of the storylines. This running gag of having the lead character of the series ending up being helpless during the end credits in every episode due to the hijinks of a family pet would later be repeated by Hanna-Barbera in the series The Jetsons in which George Jetson ends up being caught on a treadmill that ends up spinning out of control. He also (as does Fred in this series) cries out for his wife, by asking her to stop the mechanism with the line, "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!"
3. The Jetsons (1962): George Jetson works 3 hours a day and 3 days a week for his short, tyrannical boss named Mr. Cosmo Spacely, owner of the company Spacely Space Sprockets. Typical episodes involve Mr. Spacely firing and rehiring or promoting and demoting George Jetson (one time with a robot named Uniblab). Mr. Spacely has a competitor, S.K. Cogswell, owner of the rival company Cogswell Cogs. All homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns, in a style reflective of the architecture of Seattle's Space Needle and the distinct Theme Building of the Los Angeles International Airport. George commutes to work in an aerocar that vaguely resembles a flying saucer with a transparent top. Daily life is characterized as being comically leisurely due to the incredible sophistication and number of labor saving devices, which occasionally break down with humorous results. George's work day consists of pressing a single computer button. Despite this, characters often complain of exhausting hard labor and difficulties of living with the remaining inconveniences.
Other Jetson family members include Jane Jetson, the wife and homemaker; teenage daughter Judy and genius preteen son Elroy. Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid, Rosie; she only appears in two episodes of the original 1960s show, excluding her appearance in the closing credits, but makes many appearances on the 1980s show.
The family dog Astro can mumble and say his words beginning with R's, like later cartoon dogs Scooby-Doo and Muttley could speak (voice actor Don Messick played all three, all of which were created by H-B). Astro's catch phrases are "Ruh-roh!" and "Right, Reorge!" or "Rats Rall Right Reorge!" In the first episode of the '80s show, an alien named Orbity joined the family.
Names of locations, events, and devices are often puns or derivatives of contemporary analogs with explicit futuristic or space-age twists. The same technique was used in The Flintstones with archaic or stone-age twists.
4. Wacky Races (1968): The series ran on CBS from September 14, 1968 to September 5, 1970. Seventeen episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races, for a total of 34 races in all.
Attempting to foil the racers' efforts were the show's resident villains Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick, Muttley. Dastardly would usually gain a large lead, then execute all sorts of elaborate schemes to trap, divert, blow up or stop the other racers, only to see them backfire spectacularly. The intended object lesson may have been that Dastardly might have easily won several races had he only kept his mind on the race and off dirty tricks. Dastardly's rocket car was arguably the fastest car in the series, as evinced by Dastardly's repeatedly zooming to a stunning lead from far behind. Like Wile E. Coyote, Dastardly never saw victory, although on one occasion he did legitimately win the race, but the Jugdes tampered with the replay to make it look as though he cheated by extending the front of his car, and was unjustly denied the victory in favour of Penolope Pitstop. Many of Dastardly's plots look similar to those used in Road Runner cartoons, perhaps because Mike Maltese was a scriptwriter on both series.
Wacky Races was inspired by the 1965 film The Great Race, and the main characters in the cartoon were based on those in the film. Penelope Pitstop (who would later have a spinoff series) took on the appearance of Maggie DuBois, played by Natalie Wood, including her pink outfit and her car's parasol. Dastardly has much in common with Jack Lemmon's portrayal of Professor Fate. Fate and his sidekick, Max Meen (Peter Falk), indulge in similar acts of sabotage and Max has Muttley's knack for making mistakes. Although Fate's car does not look much like the Mean Machine, it does bear the familiar spike on the front and is equipped with smoke screen, cannon, and other assorted gadgets.
One of the original plans for the series was that the races themselves would be part of a live-action quiz show with Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions, the team behind the television series Hollywood Squares. Heatter-Quigley's plan was that contestants would actually bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrubbed, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera Heatter-Quigley dual production credit.
In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, Around The World With The Wacky Racers, was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage.
5. Scooby Doo Where Are You (1969): Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! made its CBS network debut on Saturday, September 13, 1969 with its first episode, "What a Night for a Knight". The original voice cast featured Don Messick as Scooby-Doo, Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Frank Welker as Fred, Nicole Jaffe as Velma, and Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne.[citation needed] Seventeen episodes of Scooby-Doo were produced in 1969. The series' eponymous theme song was written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh, and performed by Larry Marks.
The influences of I Love a Mystery and Dobie Gillis were especially apparent in these early episodes; Mark Evanier, who would write Scooby-Doo teleplays and comic book scripts in the 1970s and 1980s, identified each of the four teenagers with their corresponding Dobie Gillis character: "Fred was based on Dobie, Velma on Zelda, Daphne on Thalia and Shaggy on Maynard."[1] The similarities between Shaggy and Maynard are the most noticeable; both characters share the same beatnik-style goatee, similar hairstyles, and demeanours. The roles of each character are strongly defined in the series: Fred is the leader and the determined detective, Velma is the intelligent analyst, Daphne is danger-prone, and Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are cowardly types more motivated by hunger than any desire to solve mysteries. Later versions of the show would make slight changes to the characters' established roles, most notably in the character of Daphne, shown in 1990s and 2000s Scooby-Doo productions as knowing many forms of karate and being able to defend herself.
The plot of each episode followed a formula that would serve as a template for many of the later incarnations of the series. At the beginning of the episode, the Mystery, Inc. gang bump into some type of evil ghost or monster, which they learn has been terrorizing the local populace. The teens offer to help solve the mystery behind the creature, but while looking for clues and suspects, the gang (and in particular Shaggy and Scooby) run into the monster, who always gives chase. However, after analyzing the clues they have found, the gang determines that this monster is simply a mere mortal in disguise. They capture the monster, often with the use of a Rube Goldberg-type contraption built by Fred, and bring him to the police. Upon learning the villain's true identity, either the only person they had met or someone they hadn't seen before, the fiendish plot is fully explained, and the apprehended criminal would utter the famous catchphrase, or a variation thereof: "And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was a major ratings success for CBS, and they renewed it for a second season in 1970. The eight 1970 episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! differed slightly from the first-season episodes in their uses of more slapstick humor, Archie Show-like "chase songs" during climactic sequences, Heather North performing the voice of Daphne in place of Christopherson, and a re-recorded version of the theme song sung by Austin Roberts. This season also marked an attempt at providing a real mystery with multiple suspects and red herring clues. Both seasons contained a laugh track, which was the standard practice for
6. Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines (1969): Each story features variations on the same plot elements: the Vulture Squadron tries to trap Yankee Doodle Pigeon using one or more planes equipped with Klunk's latest contraption(s), but one or more of the Squadron messes up the attempt and the plane(s) either crash, collide or explode. While they are falling out of the wreckage, Dastardly calls for help, which Muttley either offers or refuses depending on whether Dastardly agrees to give him a medal. Even when Muttley does agree to fly Dastardly out of trouble, Dastardly seldom has a soft landing. At some point the General calls Dastardly on the phone to demand results. Dastardly assures him that they will soon capture the pigeon, but the General disbelieves him and either bellows down the phone or reaches through it and pulls Dastardly's moustache or nose. Klunk then comes up with a new invention and "explains" it in his own unique way. Dastardly says "What'd he say? What'd he say?" and Zilly interprets, before attempting to run away. Once Muttley has "persuaded" (usually by biting/attacking him) Zilly to return, the Vulture Squadron take off in their new plane(s) to repeat the whole procedure over and over again. Eventually the Squadron are left to lick their wounds as Yankee Doodle Pigeon flies off over the horizon, blowing his bugle triumphantly.
Like its predecessor, Wacky Races, Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines owes a great deal to the Road Runner cartoons, with Dastardly once again taking the Wile E. Coyote role. Both characters are fanatics, incapable of giving up even in the face of repeated and painful failure. Michael Maltese, who wrote many of the original Road Runner shorts, is also credited as a writer on Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Dastardly and Muttley.
Dick Dastardly's appearance in this show was based on the English actor Terry-Thomas, the moustache-twirling villain of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, the film which provided the inspiration for Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.
7. The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1970): The title was a reference to a silent movie era melodrama cliffhanger movie serial, The Perils of Pauline. Although the show's predecessor, Wacky Races, appeared to be set in the then-contemporary 1960s, the characters and settings of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop were strongly reminiscent of the 1920s. Adding to the cliffhanger serial feel, episodes typically started with a recap such as "Last time we left Penelope, she was in the clutches of the Hooded Claw". There was never a two part or longer episode, so these recaps never referred to any real episodes, making every episode seem like the last in a non-existent series. This served as a way to jump directly into action or to the end of an adventure in another country with little explanation, allowing the short cartoon to contain simply the chase and rescue part of the story.
The series was a spin-off from Wacky Races and featured race car driver Penelope Pitstop (voiced by Janet Waldo). She wore a bright pink auto-racing outfit, with red tights and white go-go boots. Pitstop was constantly chased by a villain called the "Hooded Claw", aka Sylvester Sneekly (voiced by an uncredited Paul Lynde), who wanted to get rid of her in order to get her inheritance.
Also from the Wacky Races was the Ant Hill Mob, a group of crooks, who, with their brave car, Chugga-Boom, acted as heroes and were constantly rushing to Penelope's rescue. But their attempts to save her almost always ended in disaster for themselves, and Penelope was often left to her own devices. Their friendship with Penelope was non-existent on Wacky Races. On Wacky Races, Clyde (of the Ant Hill Mob) once gave Penelope directions he claimed would get her back to the race, but were actually directions to the La Brea Tar Pits. Why they teamed up as Penelope's friends and guardians is never explained.
The Hooded Claw, aided by his pair of identical henchmen, the Bully Brothers (both voiced by Mel Blanc), concocted needlessly Goldbergian plots to kill Penelope (such as a device to drop her from an aircraft, cut her parachute, and then have her drop into a box of wildcats). While the Mob often rescued Penelope, as often as not she needed to rescue the Mob from the unintended effects of their attempts to rescue her. While Penelope was curiously helpless whenever The Hooded Claw grabbed her, once he left her tied up for his fiendish plans to take effect, she was quite resourceful and ingenious, often coming up with spontaneous inventions to escape her peril.
Penelope was always in a different part of the globe for every peril. Mainly she was in America, but she did go to locations such as Egypt, England, the jungle, Baghdad and the North Pole. These settings were painted by background artist Walter Peregoy.
Just like in other spin-off series, like Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, the Wacky Races series is never mentioned, not by Penelope, nor by the Ant Hill Mob. Plus the Compact Pussycat from Wacky Races is never seen in the series. Instead of that vehicle, Penelope usually drives a green sports car, or any other vehicle that she finds, or even Chugga-Boom.
8. National Lampoons Animal House (1978): This hilarious special edition of the movie that made food fights an art form and John Belushi a star features exclusive bonus content developed and directed by legenary filmmaker John Landis and co-producer Matty Simmons.
The raunchy, screwball spoof about college life in the 1960’s sees Bluto (John Belushi), Otter (Tim Matheson), Pinto (Tom Hulce) and Flounder (Stephen Furst) lead the way with their outrageous behaviour in the ultimate campus comedy!
9. The Blues Brothers (1980): After the release of Jake Blues (John Belushi) from prison, he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) go to visit the orphanage where they were raised by nuns.
They learn that the church stopped its support and will sell the place unless the tax on the property is paid within 11 days.
The brother’s decide to raise the money by putting the blues band back together and staging a big gig. They may be on a ‘mission from God’ but they’re making enemies everywhere they go.
10. Continental Divide (1981): Ernie Souchak (John Belushi) is a celebrated
Suggesting he leaves the city for a while, McDermott sends Ernie to the
11. Neighbors (1981): John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are at it again, but this time they’re on opposite sides of the fence-the backyard fence, that is. And the results are uproarious! Earl Keese (Belushi) is a slightly overweight, fairly average guy who is approaching middle age. He leads a reasonable comfortable life with his family in their suburban home…until the house next door is bought by a truly odd couple, Vic (Aykroyd) and Ramona (Cathy Moriaty), who quickly proceed to drive Earl crazy. Vic’s lunatic, behaviour has Earl running in circles while Ramona’s coarse seductiveness leaves him panting. In short Earl’s tranquil life is suddenly turned upside down. If it’s laughs you want, these are the neighbours to look in on.
12. Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980): It is a dark time for the Rebellion. After a devastating attack on their ice base on the frozen planet of Hath, the Rebels are scattered by Imperial pursuit. Luke Skywalker seeks out the mysterious Jedi Master Yoda in the swamps of Dagobah, while Han Solo and Princess Leia outrun the Imperial fleet to the beautiful
13. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century (1980): Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series was developed by Glen A. Larson and ran for two seasons, from 1979 - 1981. The feature-length pilot episode for the series was released theatrically several months before the series aired.The film and series were based upon the Buck Rogers character created by Philip Francis Nowlan that had been featured in comic strips and novellas since the 1920s ... and on the CBS and Mutual radio networks, airing several times each week from 1932 to 1947.
The Buck Rogers In The 25th Century TV show was a sci-fi series about astronaut Buck Rogers. During a space flight a meteor shower damages his ship's life support system, leaving his frozen body wandering aimlessly through space. Five centuries later, he is found and revived and realizes that there is no way back to his home in the 20th century. The Earth is recovering from a nuclear war and is also being attacked by an evil empire. Buck Rogers joins Earth forces in their fight bringing a much needed 20th century ingenuity which has apparently diminished greatly since the 20th century. For the second season, a starship is sent by Earth to find lost Earth colonies with Buck Rogers along for the adventure!
14. Riders of The Lost
15. The Fox & The Hound (1981): A young red fox kit is left orphaned when his mother is killed by a hunter and his Hound Dog. A kindly owl, named Big Mama, arranges him to be adopted by the compassionate Widow Tweed as a pet on her farm.
Tod and Copper meet and form a friendship they feel will last forever. Slade grows frustrated after Copper is constantly caught wandering off to play with Tod. After several meetings between Tod and Copper, Slade places Copper on a leash to stop him from wandering off.
Undeterred, Tod decides to play with Copper at his home. Tod's visit to Slade's farm becomes disastrous when he inadvertently awakens Chief, who promptly chases him throughout the farm. Slade enters the pursuit as well, trying to shoot Tod. The pursuit finally ends after Slade begins shooting at Widow Tweed's car, with Tod in tow. A furious
For the rest of the summer Tod is limited to the house with Widow Tweed. The matter is shelved for the moment, with hunting season commencing, and Slade takes his dogs into the wilderness for the interim. Meanwhile, Big Mama explains to Tod that his friendship with Copper cannot continue, as they were bred to be enemies. Tod, in his innocence, states that he and Copper are "gonna be friends forever."
Months pass, and Copper becomes an excellent hunting dog. Upon Copper's return, Tod, who at the same time has become a handsome, full-grown, adult fox, meets him during the night, thinking their friendship unchanged. Copper explains that he is a hunting dog now, and that they can no longer be friends. Their meeting is cut short when Chief awakens and alerts Slade. A chase ensues, but Copper diverts Chief and Slade so that Tod can escape. Unfortunately, Chief manages to maintain the pursuit, which carries onto a railroad track trestle. When a fast-moving train suddenly approaches, Tod is able to duck under the vehicle, but Chief is struck and wounded. Enraged, Copper blames Tod for the accident and swears vengeance.
Realizing that Tod cannot safely stay on her farm now,
The vengeful Slade and Copper trespass into the preserve to kill Tod with leghold traps and guns. The result is a harrowing chase throughout the forest trying to catch Tod and Vixey that climaxes when Slade and Copper inadvertently provoke an attack from a disturbed bear. Slade gets off only a single shot before he trips and gets caught in one of his own leghold traps and his gun falls just out of his reach. Copper fights the bear but is nearly killed in a very vicious fight. Against his better judgment, Tod intervenes to save his friend. He fights the much larger bear and ends up luring him on to a fallen trunk that breaks and sends the two falling down a waterfall.
Tod survives and meets Copper at shore, who is stunned at Tod's heroism for his sake in spite of current events. However, Slade does not share any gratitude and suddenly appears, still vindictively eager to kill the fox. Copper makes the moral decision of interposing his body in front of Tod, and Slade, reluctant to kill his own hound for a petty vendetta against a fox who had just saved their lives, is forced to give up and return home. The fox and hound share one final smile before going their separate ways and at the same time, Squeeks the caterpillar is turned into a butterfly while Dinky and Boomer are watching through Squeeks' hole in order to eat it (throughout the film, Dinky and Boomer are always trying to eat Squeeks but are outsmarted by Squeeks every time).
In the final scene, as Copper rests in his dog house, he hears Tod's voice of when they were young saying that they would be friends forever. He smiles at this, and falls asleep. The view then backs out to a small hill, where Vixey joins Tod, looking at both houses.
16. Here Comes
17. Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan (1982): It is the 23rd century. The federation starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training manoeuvres, and Admiral James T. Kirk (Willaim Shatner) seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back. Aided by his exile band of genetic supermen, Khan (Ricardo Montalban) – brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth-has raided space station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most dealdly trap for his old enemy Kirk… with a threat of universal Armageddon! Co-starring Kirstie Alley (Cheers) in her stunning motion picture debut.
18. He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe (1983): The show takes place on the fictional planet of Eternia, a land of magic, myth and fantasy. The show's lead character is Prince Adam, the young son of Eternia's rulers, King Randor and Queen Marlena. Prince Adam is a seemingly cowardly, blond muscleman dressed in a pink-and-white chemise
Despite the limited animation techniques that were used to produce the series, He-Man was notable for breaking the boundaries of censorship that had severely restricted the narrative scope of children's TV programming in the 1970s. For the first time in years, a cartoon series could feature a muscular superhero who was actually allowed to hit people, though he still could not use his sword often; more often than not He-Man opted to pick up his opponents and toss them away rather than hit them. The cartoon was controversial in that it was produced in connection with marketing a line of toys; advertising to children was itself controversial during this period. In Britain, advertising regulations forbade commercials for He-Man toys to accompany the program itself. In similar fashion to other shows at the time: notably G.I. Joe, an attempt to mitigate the negative publicity generated by this controversy was made by including a "life lesson" or "moral of the story" at the end of each episode. This moral was usually directly tied to the action or central theme of that episode.
The show was so successful that it spawned a spin-off series, She-Ra: Princess of Power following the adventures of He-Man's sister. Mattel's subsequent attempts to relaunch the He-Man toy line have also led to the short-lived sequel series The New Adventures of He-Man in the early 1990s, and an update of the series for a contemporary audience in 2002.
It is also noted for featuring early script-writing work from later Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, Paul Dini of the 90s Batman-fame, and David Wise, head-writer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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20. Star Trek III The Search For Spock (1984): Admiral Kirk’s defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is inexplicably being driven insane. Then a surprise visit Sarek, Spock’s father, provides a starling revelation: McCoy is harbouring Spock’s living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing U.S.S. Enterprise and defying Starfleet’s Genesis planet quarantine. But the klingons have also learned of Genesis and the race to meet Kirk in a deadly rendezvous.
21. Indiana Jones & The
22. The Gummi Bears (1985): The series focuses on the escapades of the eponymous "Gummi Bears," anthropomorphic bears who are the last remnants of a once-great civilization of Gummis that fled the land centuries ago. Regarded by most of humankind as fairytales, the show's main cast of Gummi Bears (six in number at the outset of the series, increased to seven during the third season) live in the vast subterranean warren of Gummi Glen in the medieval
The main source of this evil is Duke Igthorn, a renegade noble and his army of ogres from the neighboring
In addition to combating Igthorn's ambition, the Gummis regularly encounter other evil humans and magical beings ranging from wizards to gods, all the while attempting to hide their existence from the world at large. One of the show's main recurring storylines outside of the schemes of Igthorn is the mystery of the ancient Gummis, who are now scattered all across the world, but who have left advanced technology and magic behind them.
23. The Racoons (1985): The series features the adventures in the Evergreen Forest (which is depicted to be in Western Canada) of Bert Raccoon and his friends Ralph and Melissa, particularly in their attempts to thwart the industrialist actions of pink aardvark Cyril Sneer and his trio of pig henchmen. Another interesting character was the capitalist Mr. Knox—a crocodile with a
Usually, the series would feature the main characters learning major life lessons in teamwork, friendship, cooperation, and sometimes just helping out their fellow friends that live near the forest, human and animal alike, tangling with the tyrannical tycoon Cyril Sneer, who does not let anything as trivial as nature's defining highlights (trees, lakes, etc) prevent him attempting to attain a profit.
One unique element of the series is that Cyril gradually evolves from an unrepentantly destructive capitalist to a likable and environmentally responsible, if still highly aggressive, businessman and occasional ally of the Raccoons.
Debuting in 1980 with The Christmas Raccoons TV special, The Raccoons slowly began its journey to becoming a regular animated series, using assorted specials over the next few years as stepping stones (The Raccoons On Ice, The Raccoons and the Lost Star, Let's Dance), before finally becoming a regular series in 1985. Five series of episodes were produced, airing from 1985 to 1992.
In 1989, a new character by the name of Lisa Raccoon was introduced into the series. Lisa is Ralph's niece, and the statuesque older sister of Bentley Raccoon, and the daughter of George and Nicole Raccoon. She is the love interest/best friend of Bert Raccoon. Lisa made her debut in Spring Fever, she was voiced by Lisa Lougheed, the singer of the series' ending theme.
In 2003, As Long As Forever: A Raccoons Movie was listed as being in development on the Canadian Television Fund's website [1] in the "Development Projects" section, however since then no information has been posted to the Canadian Television Fund's website about it.
The series returned to Canadian television on the new Teletoon Retro network, which launched October 1, 2007.
24. Star Trek IV The Voyager Home (1986): William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and the rest of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew take to the skies in one of the most acclaimed and intriguing Star Trek adventures ever.
It’s the 23rd century and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must travel back to 1986
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26. Duck Tales (1987): The general premise of the show is about the adventures of Scrooge and his nephews. The nephews, who were originally living with their uncle Donald, are left in Scrooge's care when the former joins the Navy.
Though Scrooge is the richest duck in the world, he constantly tries to find ways to increase his wealth. A few episodes involve protecting his wealth from villains who want to rob Scrooge of all his money. The prominent recurring antagonists in the show include The Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell who are always finding ways to rob and swindle Scrooge and his nephews. Scrooge's nemesis in the show is Flintheart Glomgold, who always tries to devise plans to dethrone Scrooge Mcduck from his "Richest duck in the world" tag.
The show's second season saw the addition of characters Fenton Crackshell and Bubba Duck. Along with them came stories that generally shifted away from the globetrotting plots of the first season, and revolved primarily in the contemporary setting of Duckburg. Episodes would feature either Bubba or Fenton but rarely both.
Although Scrooge and his nephews were the show's main characters, some episodes focused on other characters like Launchpad or Gyro.
Some episodes are based on Carl Barks stories or simply have elements from such stories. (The Unbreakable Bin is based on Barks' The Unsafe Safe)
The series is notable for being the first Disney cartoon to be produced for syndication[1] , and paving the way for future Disney cartoons, such as Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and TaleSpin. DuckTales also spawned two spinoffs – Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack.
A world broadcast premiere television movie (entitled "The Treasures of the Golden Suns") first aired on September 18, 1987. Afterwards, it was later turned into a five-part pilot episode. The hundredth episode (which was also the series finale) aired on March 11, 1990. A feature-length movie was released in theatres on August 3, 1990.
The show was the most successful of Disney's early attempts to create high-quality animation for a TV animated series (earlier shows included The Wuzzles and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears in 1985).[2] Disney invested a far greater amount of money into the TV series than had previously been spent on animated shows of the time. This was considered a risky move, because animated TV series were generally considered low-budget, investments for most of the history of TV cartoons up through the 1980s. Most of the DuckTales episodes were animated in Asia by companies such as Cuckoo's Nest Studios, Wang Film Productions of Taiwan, and Tokyo Movie Shinsha of Japan.[3]
Many critics say that Disney's own animation studio had lost most of its luster during the period from Walt Disney's passing through the 1980s. However, the studio took a number of risks that paid off handsomely, and DuckTales was one of those risks that won big. The studio gambled on the idea that a larger investment into quality animation could be made back through syndication — a concept that worked well with live-action TV reruns, but which had only been used with inexpensive cartoon series that either recycled theatrical shorts from decades past or only featured limited, low-budget animation.
The 1987-1988 season of DuckTales consisted of 65 episodes (the standard length for a Disney TV show). The next season (1989-1990) included an additional 35 episodes, bringing the total to 100 episodes — making DuckTales one of the longest-running Disney shows in terms of number of episodes. (The longest-running Disney show is Dumbo's Circus). In the second season, Bubba the Caveduck and his pet triceratops, Tootsie, and Fenton Crackshell and his alter ego Gizmo Duck appeared.
The show was successful enough to spawn a feature film, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, and two spinoff series: Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack. The success of DuckTales also paved the way for a new wave of high-quality animated TV series, including Disney's own The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1988.
The 1989 series Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers was paired with DuckTales in an hour-long syndicated show through the 1989-1990 television season. In the 1990-1991 season, Disney expanded the idea even further, to create The Disney Afternoon, a two-hour long syndicated block of half-hour cartoons. DuckTales was one of the early flagship cartoons in the series.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie all appeared in the drug prevention video Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Scrooge and Launchpad appeared in Disney's short-lived animated series Raw Toonage (originally aired on CBS in 1992 and 1993).
DuckTales was last seen on Toon Disney, a Disney-owned network that airs mostly animated cartoons. After the addition of Jetix in February 2004, the show left circulation along with a number of other shows, and as of 2006, it is currently being syndicated on the United Kingdom channel Disney Cinemagic. The Disney Channel reran the series in the late-1990s until their pre-teen lineup took over.
27. Star Trek The Next Generation (1987): After the box-office success of the Harve Bennett-produced Star Trek-based movies, Paramount decided to create a new Star Trek series in 1986. Roddenberry initially declined to be involved but came on board as creator after being unhappy with early conceptual work. The creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation was announced on October 10, 1986. The show was, unusually, broadcast in first-run syndication rather than running on a major network, with
Roddenberry hired a number of Star Trek veterans, including Bob Justman, D. C. Fontana, Eddie Milkis, and David Gerrold. Paramount executive Rick Berman was assigned to the show at Roddenberry's request.[citation needed]
The Next Generation was shot on 35mm film[3], and was one of the first television shows with sound recorded in Dolby Surround.[citation needed] The filming negatives were scanned in a straight-to-video device.[citation needed]
The first season was marked by a "revolving door" of writers, with Gerrold and
Season One has been criticized as aimless and formulaic. Mark Bourne of The DVD Journal wrote of season one: "A typical episode relied on trite plot points, clumsy allegories, dry and stilted dialogue, or characterization that was taking too long to feel relaxed and natural."[5] Other targets of criticism include poor special effects and plots being resolved by the deus ex machina of Wesley Crusher saving the ship.[6][7] However, Patrick Stewart's acting skills won praise and critics have noted that characters were given greater potential for development than those of the original series.[6][5]
While the events of most episodes of season one were self-contained, many developments important to the show as a whole occurred during the season. The recurring nemesis Q was introduced in the pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint", the alien Ferengi first appeared in "The Last Outpost", the capabilities of the holodeck were explored, and the history between Will Riker and Deanna Troi was investigated.
Later season one episodes set the stage for serial plots. The episode "Datalore" introduced Data's evil twin brother Lore, who made several more appearances in later episodes. "Coming of Age" dealt with Wesley Crusher's efforts to get into Starfleet Academy while also hinting at the threat to Starfleet later faced in "Conspiracy". "Heart of Glory" explored Worf's character, Klingon culture, and the uneasy truce between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, three themes that would play a major role in later episodes. Tasha Yar left the show in "Skin of Evil", and the season finale, "The Neutral Zone", established the presence of two of TNG's most enduring villains: the Romulans and, in a foreshadowing manner, the Borg.
The series premiere became the first television show to be nominated for a Hugo Award since 1972. Six first-season episodes were each nominated for an Emmy Award; "11001001" won for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series, "The Big Goodbye" won for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series, and "Conspiracy" won for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series.[8]
Season two
The show underwent significant changes during its second season. Beverly Crusher was replaced as doctor during the season by Katherine Pulaski, played by Diana Muldaur who was twice a guest star of the original Star Trek. The show's recreational area, Ten-Forward, and its mysterious bartender/advisor, Guinan, played by Whoopi Goldberg, appeared for the first time in season two. Owing to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, the number of episodes produced was cut from 26 to 22 and the start of the season was delayed. Because of the strike, the opening episode, "The Child", was based on a script originally written for Star Trek: Phase II, a previous attempt to create a new weekly Star Trek series, while the season finale, "Shades of Gray" was a clip show. Both episodes were critically panned.[9]
Nevertheless, season two as a whole was widely regarded as significantly better than season one. Its focus on character development received special praise.[10] Co-Executive Producer Maurice Hurley has stated that his primary goal for the season was to plan and execute season-long story arcs and character arcs.[11] Hurley wrote the acclaimed episode "Q Who?", which featured the first on-screen appearance of TNG's most popular villain, the Borg. Season two focused on developing the character Data, and two highly-regarded episodes from the season, "Elementary, Dear Data" and "The Measure of a Man" featured him prominently.[9] Miles O'Brien also became a more prominent character during the second season, while Geordi La Forge found a position as chief engineer. Klingon issues continued to be explored in well-regarded episodes such as "A Matter of Honor" and "The Emissary", which introduced Worf's lover K'Ehleyr.[12] Five second-season episodes were nominated for six Emmys; "Q Who?" won for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.[8]
Season three and beyond
In the third season, Michael Piller became head writer, and Gene Roddenberry took less of an active role, with Piller and Berman becoming the executive producers. Doctor Crusher came back to replace Doctor Pulaski who was always noted as a guest star in the second season. Ronald D. Moore joined the show after submitting a spec script that became "The Bonding"; he became the franchise's "Klingon guru".[8] Six third-season episodes were nominated for eight Emmys; "Yesterday's Enterprise" won for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series and "Sins of the Father" won for Best Art Direction for a Series.[8]
Brannon Braga and Jeri Taylor joined the show in its fourth season. Seven fourth-season episodes were nominated for eight Emmys; "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" won for both Outstanding Sound Editing in a Series and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Series.[8]
The fifth season's "Unification" opens with a dedication to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who died October 24, 1991. Although Roddenberry's health had been deteriorating before his death, and his involvement with the series diminished, he continued to be credited as executive producer.[8] Simultaneously, responsibility for the show gradually shifted to Berman, who took over the franchise upon Roddenberry's death.[8] Seven fifth-season episodes were nominated for eight Emmys; "Cost of Living" won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series and there was a tie between "A Matter of Time" and "Conundrum" for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. In addition, "The Inner Light" became the first television episode since the 1968 original series Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" to win a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.[8]
Three sixth-season episodes were nominated for Emmys; "Time's Arrow, Part II" won for both Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series and "A Fistful of Datas" won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.[8]
The seventh season was The Next Generation's last. The finale, "All Good Things...", was a double-length episode (separated into two parts for reruns) aired the week of May 19, 1994, revisiting the events of the pilot and providing a bookend to the series. Toronto's SkyDome, which was renamed '
28. A Pup Named Scooby Doo (1988): The new format followed the trend of the "babyfication" of older cartoon characters, reducing the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cast to junior-high age. This new show also used the same basic formula as the original 1969 show: the gang (referred to in this show as the "Scooby-Doo Detective Agency") solved supernatural-based mysteries, where the villains (the ghosts and monsters) were always revealed as bad guys in masks and costumes. The biggest difference was the tone of the show: With A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, producer Tom Ruegger built upon the slightly irreverent humor he had established along with producer Mitch Schauer with Scooby's previous incarnation, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. This resulted in a wackier, more extremely comic version of Scooby-Doo that satirized the conventions of the show's previous incarnations. It was not uncommon for the characters to do wild Bob Clampett-esque takes when they ran into ghosts and monsters, Fred was constantly blaming a character appropriately called "Red Herring" for each and every crime on the show (true to his name, Red was always innocent, except for the one episode in which Fred didn't blame him) and shots of the characters (and even the ghosts and monsters) dancing were inserted into the obligatory rock-music-scored chase sequences. The ghosts and monsters themselves were also more comedic, such as a creature made out of molten cheese, and the ghost of a dogcatcher. The series also features Scooby and Shaggy as their favorite superhero duo. Shaggy would be the fearless Commander Cool (a combination of Batman and Superman) and Scooby would be his faithful canine sidekick Mellow Mutt (a combination of Krypto, Robin (comics) and Ace the Bat-Hound.)
29. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988): It’s 1947 Hollywood and Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a down on his luck detective, is hired to find proof that Marvin Acme, gag factory mogul and owner of Toontown, is playing hanky panky with femme fatale Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon Cartoon Superstar, Roger Rabbit. When Acme is found murdered, all fingers point to Roger, and the sinister, power hungry judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) is on a mission to bring Roger to justice. Roger begs the Toon-hating Valliant to find the real evildoer and the plot thickens as Eddie uncovers scandal after scandal and realizes the very existence of Toontown is at stake!
30. Ghostbusters 2 (1989): When college profs Peter Venkamn (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) lose their jobs, they decide to go into the freelance Ghostbusting business. Their first job is saving Donna Barrett ( Sigourney Weaver), and Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), who’ve inadvertently opened the gates of hell, right in their own apartment building! The paratroopers of the paranormal swing back into hilarious action in Ghostbusters II when an underground river of ghoulish goo threatens to rot the Big Apple to the core. Saving the world has never been this outrageously funny!
31. Oliver & Company (1989): This is a really thrilling animated classic with action,freindship,courage and heart.
It all begins when an orphaned kitten befreinds dodger,the cool dog from a
Oliver gets adopted by a young little rich girl called Jenny who is very lonley until she found oliver.
Before long a tough guy called sykes and his doberman dog try to keep Jenny and oliver apart by taking Jenny but not far on their trail are oliver,dodger and all his street smart canine pals.
it is now up to them to out wit the villans and rescue the girl from sykes in an electifying chase that will leave you breathless.
32. Charmed (1998): the story of Charmed begins with the three Halliwell sisters — Prudence, Piper and Phoebe — coming together six months after the death of their grandmother. Moving back into the family Manor in San Francisco, the youngest sister, Phoebe, discovers an old book — the Book of Shadows — in the attic. Reading an incantation from it, she unwittingly sets in motion events that fulfill an ancient prophecy. Strange and harrowing occurrences begin which eventually lead the sisters to realize that they are witches.
They discover that they not only possess supernatural powers, but also come from a long line of powerful witches. The first in the line, Melinda Warren, possessed three powers: the power to move things with her mind, to freeze time, and to see into the future. Melinda was burned at the stake in the Salem Witch Trials. However, before she died, Melinda prophesied that each coming generation of Warren (later Halliwell) witches would grow stronger and stronger, culminating in the arrival of three sisters -- the strongest good witches the world had ever seen; the three sisters would form The Power of Three, the most powerful magical force ever.
Prue Halliwell, the oldest sister, develops the power of telekinesis and can move things with her mind. Her telekinesis is usually triggered by anger, and is first channeled through her eyes. But she can soon channel her telekinesis through her hands, like her ancestor Brianna and her Grams (she first does this in season one's episode, "Out of Sight"). She later gains the power of astral projection, where she can make a "copy" of herself appear wherever she desires by projecting her consciousness, while her physical body is left standing there unconscious. Her power of astral projection develops (in season two's episode, "Ms. Hellfire") from her power of telekinesis, when she feels an overwhelming need to be in two places at once. While in that status, she is unable to use her power of telekinesis. In the season three episode, "Primrose Empath", one of the last times she is shown using her astral projection power, she is able to project her "clone", while her physical body stays conscious.
Piper, at first the middle child, then the eldest, receives the power to freeze objects (Molecular Immobilization) and therefore stop time (Temporal Stasis or Time Freeze). At first, Piper's control of her powers is weak. Her range is not very far, and she cannot keep people or objects frozen for very long. As her powers grow, she is able to expand her range. She can freeze entire rooms, or direct her freezing powers only at certain objects or people without freezing everyone and everything. She can later also keep demons or people frozen while unfreezing only certain body parts, such as demon heads, which comes in handy when she questions them. (She first uses this power in season three's episode, "Sleuthing with the Enemy".) Piper can also keep people frozen for very long periods of time without her having to be in the room to "hold the freeze". It is later revealed that her power to freeze works at a molecular level, such that she is able to slow molecules down to the point where the object she is directing her powers at is frozen. This power later evolves so that instead of slowing molecules down to freeze them, she is able to speed molecules up, causing objects (and demons) to explode; this power is called Molecular Combustion. Her freezing power is triggered by fear, panic, and surprise, while her explosion power (before she gains full control of it) is triggered by anger.
Phoebe, first the youngest sister, then the middle sister receives the power of premonition, which allows her to see future events. Her power is triggered through touching people or objects (or, if the psychic residue of an area is strong enough, simply being in the room). While her premonitions are initially passive, she eventually gains control to the point that the power is considered an active one. Over time, her power of premonition evolves in several ways. She begins having visions of past events in season one's episode, "The Witch Is Back", making her the first of the sisters whose powers advance. Her powers of premonition later grow stronger, so that she is able to feel the emotions in her premonition; for example, she feels her mother drowning when she receives a vision of the past in season two's episode, "P3 H2O". This ability to feel the emotions within her premonitions may serve as a foretelling of her soon-to-come empathic powers. In season five's episode, "The Eyes Have It", after not having had any premonitions in months due to overwork and overstress, she seeks the help of Gypsies to unblock her powers. She gets a "super premonition", in which she astral projects into the future within her premonition; her ability to feel what happens grows so that when she is hurt in her vision, her present self is also physically harmed. Though this type of premonition occurs very rarely, she is also able to astral project into the future and converse with her future self. Phoebe also has the power to share premonitions with others who have the gift of foresight. Phoebe eventually obtains the active power to levitate, which is useful in combination with her martial arts skills. Her power of levitation is first seen in season three's premiere episode, "The Honeymoon's Over". Her empathic powers, which develop in season six, allow her to read others' emotions and affect the supernatural powers of other beings (whose powers are tied to their emotions). She can channel the powers and reflect the attacks of demons and other magical beings, such as the Valkyries seen in "Valhalley of the Dolls (Part 2)". She later loses her powers, for misuse of them and only manages to earn back her premonition power.
After the tragic and unexpected death of Prue, Piper and Phoebe learn that they have a younger half-sister named Paige, born to their mother Patty and Sam, her Whitelighter, a sort of guardian angel for witches. As this type of relationship was forbidden and unheard of at the time, Patty and Sam gave the baby to Sister Agnes, a nun, and the Matthews family later adopted her. Her birth parents requested only that her first name begin with 'P', to continue the tradition. From her Whitelighter father, Paige inherits the power to "orb". At first, Paige can only orb out momentarily and reappear in the same spot; this is triggered by fear and surprise. She quickly develops the power to orb wherever she wants. According to the prophecy of the three Charmed Ones with three distinct powers, the third sister has the power of telekinesis. Being half witch and half whitelighter affects the powers Paige inherits from Patty: instead of telekinesis like Prue's, Paige is able to move an object by calling for it; the object then orbs to her, or to any location she wishes. This power is called telekinetic orbing. Though this power requires the use of verbal commands, she can sometimes use it silently, such as when in a state of enhanced power. In Season 5, Paige reveals that she also has other Whitelighter powers, such as glamouring. Halfway through Season 8, Paige's Whitelighter side develops more fully when she becomes able to magically heal others and to locate charges by sensing them.
A central theme throughout the show's run is the sisters' struggle to balance their normal lives with their supernatural responsibilities. The burden of keeping their destinies a secret from the outside world repeatedly creates tensions in their friendships, workplaces, and romantic relationships. Only a few know their secret and help them on a regular basis. The most important is Leo Wyatt, a Whitelighter assigned by the Elders to guide and protect the sisters. Leo means a great deal to the sisters both professionally and personally: he heals their wounds, advises them collectively and individually, and mediates between them and the enigmatic Elders. He also becomes the love of Piper's life, her husband and the father of her children. Others who keep the Charmed Ones' secret over the years include police inspectors Andy Trudeau and Darryl Morris, tormented half-demon Cole Turner, the mysterious time-traveler Chris Perry, sisters Christy and Billie Jenkins, Paige's husband Henry Mitchell, and the many other creatures in the magical community.
33. Toy Story 2: In "Toy Story 2," the fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to summer camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody who unbeknownst to himself is a highly valued collectable. It's now up to Buzz Lightyear and the gang from Andy's room - Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and
34. Looney Tunes Back In Action (2003): Bugs Buny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes as back in action.
Daffy Duck, tired of playing second fiddle to Bugs, quits the Hollywood Studio and teams up with an ex stuntman Bobby Delmont (Brendan Frasier) in a mission to rescue Booby’s father Damian Drake ( Timothy Dalton) from the evil chairman of Acne Corporation (Steve Martin). It seems Damian knows the whereabouts of a mysterious and powerful blue diamond and the chairman will do anything to get his hands on it. Daffy and Booby attempt to outsmart the evil Acne stooges, whilst being chased by VP of Comedy (Jenna Elfman) and Bugs – who needs Daffy back in the studio. Our heroes embark on a hilarious adventure that takes the from Hollywood to Las Vegas, Paris and the jungles of Africa where they find the mythical blue diamond and return to Hollywood.
35. Jaws 3 (1983): Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale and Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr. star in the most terrifying Jaws adventure ever. Everyone at
36. Dragonheart (1996): Long ago when majestic fire breathers soared through the skies, there lived a knight who would come face to face and heart to heart with the most remarkable creature that ever existed.
Bowen (Quaid) is a knight dedicated to the Old Code – a noble creed of honour. Whe his pupil Prince Einon, becomes an even crueller king than his father, Bowen’s idealism turns to bitterness. Believing Einon’s soul to have been poisoned by a dragon, Bowen vows to destroy them all. On his quest for revenge, he meets “Draco” (Connery), a dragon whose powers, strength and wit proves to be more than a match for the disillusioned knight. Soon what begins as a life or death struggle between the two evolves into a friendship that will change the face of their medieval world.
37. The Parent Trap (1998): What if you spent your whole life wishing for something you didn’t know you already had? Hallie Parker and Annie James are about to find out.
Hallie is a cool girl from
38. Cold Creek Manor (2002): Sharon Stone & Dennis Quaid lead an all star cast including Juliett Lewis, Christopher Plummer and Stephen Dorff in an edge of your seat thriller that pushes one family’s strength to the limit. In search of the simpler life, ex-New Yorkers Cooper (Quaid) & Leah (Stone) Tilson pack up their kids and move into a recently repossessed mansion. Though it’s a shambles, they dive into home improvement with zeal – only to discover their dream home could be more of a nightmare when one magnificent manor starts giving up startling secrets.
39. Flight of the
A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren
40. Gremlins (1984): From producer Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante, a grim fairytale introducing a new creature unlike you have ever seen before – the funny, clever, cute and extremely dangerous Gremlin. WARNING: Don’t ever get them wet. Keep then out of bright light…it will kill them. But most important thing, the one you must never forget, no matter how much they beg, never feed them after midnight.
41. Return to Oz (1985): If you loved “The Wizard Of Oz” you’ll love accompanying Dorothy on this second thrilling adventure based on L, Frank Baum’s “Oz” books. Dorothy finds herself back in the land of her dreams…and makes delightful new friends (like Tik Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead and the Grump) and dangerous new enemies (the creepy Wheelers, the head-hunting Princess Mombi and the evil Nome King). With every twist in the yellow brick road, you’ll find awesome new surprises and special affects that will astound you.
42. Superman IV A Quest For Peace (1987): Superman does a lot in his newest adventure. Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged
Lex Luthor steals a hair of Superman's head from a museum and uses it to create Nuclear Man, an android that gets energy from the Sun. His purpose of course is to use him as a weapon to kill Superman, so that Luthor will be free to realize his criminal plans.
43. Batman (1989):
After a young boy witnesses his parents' murder on the streets of Gotham City, he grows up to become the Batman - a mysterious figure in the eyes of Gotham's citizens - who takes crime-fighting into his own hands. He first emerges out of the shadows when the Joker appears - a horribly disfigured individual who is out for revenge on his former employer and generally likes to have a good time.
44. Ren & Stimpy (1991): in a 1993 interview, Bill Wray stated that he believes that Kricfalusi created the Ren and Stimpy characters around 15 years prior to the interview for Kricfalusi's and Kricfalusi's friends' personal amusement during the university years; Kricfalusi attended Sheridan College in Canada. Wray said that he had initially "forgotten about" the characters. When Nickelodeon requested new series, Kricfalusi assembled a presentation called "Our Gang," similar to a children's show with a live action host presenting various cartoons. Each cartoon parodied a genre, and Ren and Stimpy parodied the "cat and dog" genre. Vanessa Coffey, the producer of the show, said that she did not like the general idea but that she liked Ren and Stimpy.[7]
In 1989, Kricfalusi pitched and sold The Ren and Stimpy Show to Nickelodeon. Kricfalusi's own animation house, Spümcø, finished the pilot in October 1990 and the first episode of the show proper aired on August 11, 1991, premiering alongside Doug and Rugrats.[8] Spümcø continued to produce the show for the next two years while encountering issues with Nickelodeon standards and practices. Over the years a number of episodes were censored.[9]
According to West, at one point Nickelodeon considered him for the voice of Ren. Spümcø says that Nickelodeon did not consider him for the part, however. [10]
Wray stated that on some occasions Kricfalusi completed an episode in eight months, and on some occasions he completed an episode in "two or three" months. Wray described Kricfalusi's ideal production period per episode as four half-hour cartoons per year and added that the arrangement would not "jibe with our production schedule."[11]
In his blog, Kricfalusi described The Ren and Stimpy Show as the "safest project I ever worked on" while defining "safe" as "spend a third of what they spend now per picture, hire proven creative talent and let them entertain" in that instance. Kricfalusi said that The Ren and Stimpy Show cost around six million United States dollars to produce and generated "a billion bucks or more." in revenue.[12]
Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi in 1992. Without Kricfalusi, Nickelodeon moved production from Spümcø to Games Animation.[13] Kricfalusi said that the main sticking points for the Nickelodeon executives seemed to be the level of violence in the show, and Kricfalusi points specifically to the episode "Man's Best Friend", which features Ren beating the character George Liquor with an oar, for his firing.[14] Nickelodeon banned the episode from airing; the episode did not air in North America until Adult Party Cartoon began in 2003.[14]
Wray described the main issues regarding Kricfalusi's friction with Nickelodeon as stemming from episodes not being produced in a "timely" manner. Wray stated that Kricfalusi attributed the delays to Nickelodeon not approving "things fast enough" and the Nickelodeon staff members "changing their minds." Wray describes Kricfalusi's statements as containing "some truth."[11] According to Wray, Nickelodeon would not have "minded" if the shows exceeded their budgets; therefore Wray did not see going over budget as the issue. Wray said that Kricfalusi believed that the product's quality holds more importance than meeting deadlines, and that he perceived Nickelodeon as "slowing him down."[15] According to Wray, Kricfalusi believed that "every step after the storyboards weakens the process" and that he "fought for the integrity of the storyboards" and lengthened production time because he wished to salvage the quality of the series.[16] Wray stated that the children forming the audience of Ren and Stimpy tolerated episodes when "things get gross" but that the audience did not want "a frightening, dramatic show." Wray cited a "father figure verbally abusing animals" in "Man's Best Friend." Wray disagreed with the sentiment formed after the firing that portrayed Kricfalusi as a protagonist and Nickelodeon as an antagonist, citing the fact that Kricfalusi sold the rights to Ren and Stimpy to Nickelodeon. Wray attributes the sentiment to people liking the show "wanting to look at everything in black and white." Wray believes that "everyone has not been perfect" regarding the Ren and Stimpy scenario.[17]
Bob Camp stated in a USA Today article that Kricfalusi was not "really suited for TV because of the rigors of scheduling. He'll be much happier doing a feature film or some kind of special." The article stated, "Camp says no one is at fault."[18] John Staton, writer of a 1992 article for The Daily Tarheel of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi for missing deadlines.[19]
West also said that Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi for exceeding deadlines. According to West, when Kricfalusi asked West to leave Nickelodeon and join his team, West refused.[10]
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life, believes that Kricfalusi "got what he asked for." Describing the Ren and Stimpy creator as a "gifted animator with a great deal of genius" and that "his business skills are sadly lacking," Marsh reasons that Kricfalusi ought to have catered to Nickelodeon's demands and treated the network with respect since he chose the network as a client. Marsh says that Kricfalusi ought to have used a theater release for a short animated film, a direct-to-video release system, or "some pay-cable medium." Marsh describes his opinion as placing him "in the minority" after debating the issue with other animators.[20]
Coury Turczyn, writer for PopCult Magazine, describes Nickelodeon as firing Kricfalusi due to "being too creative, too original and too sophisticated."[21]
Bob Camp wrote and directed the episodes for Games Animation when Nickelodeon took over the show.[3] Since Kricfalusi previously voiced Ren, West took the role.
Wray said that the producers of the Games episodes did not attempt to "reflect John's vision. We can't - because we are not John." Wray answered "pretty much" to an interview question asking if the third season will "sort of wrap up John's ideas for the show." Wray added that the producers asked themselves "What can we do to make funny REN & STIMPY cartoons?" instead of "What would John have done?" In 1993 Wray said that the Games Animation episodes would "have the flavor of REN & STIMPY" since Camp had served as a writer for the show. Wray added that Nickelodeon wanted a "lighter, gut funny type of show" instead of "truly frightening" episodes.[15]
The Games episodes introduced several characters, including Victor and his father and Mr. Cow.[22]
Kricfalusi described the Games Animation team as having "spent way more money" to produce the series and having "killed" The Ren and Stimpy Show.[12]
Nickelodeon canceled the show in 1996, ending its run with a Christmas episode ("A Scooter for Yaksmas"), with nine episodes never airing on the network.
Ted Drozdowski of The Boston Phoenix stated in a 1997 article that "the bloom faded on Ren & Stimpy.
In 2003, Kricfalusi re-launched the series as Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon". The new version was aired during a late night programming block on Spike TV and was rated TV-MA. The series, as the title implied, explored more adult themes, including a more explicitly homosexual relationship between the main characters[24] and an episode filled with female nudity.[25]
The show began with the "banned" Nickelodeon episode "Man's Best Friend" before debuting new episodes. Kricfalusi produced three of the ordered nine episodes on time.[26] After three episodes, the entire animation block was removed from Spike TV's programming schedule.
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45. Animaniacs (1993): Ensemble cast of off-the-wall Warner Brothers characters, appearing in a wide variety of roles. Wakko, Yakko, and Dot Warner, are WB Studio creations who were just too "zany" to be of any use to the studio. Pinky and the Brain are two mice bent on world domination. Rita and Runt are a cat and dog team, who get into perilous situations every episode, put always seem to find time to sing a song. Bobby, Pesto, and Squit are the Goodfeathers, part of a New York mob of pigeons, who worship Martin Scorsese. Slappy the Squirrel is a late middle-age squirrel; she starred in a series of popular cartoons in the Golden Age. Buttons is a watch-dog, charged with watching the mischievous toddler, Mindy. Chicken Boo is a giant chicken trying to integrate into human society. Flavio and Marita are two urbane hippopotami.
46. Aladdin and the Return of Jafar (1995): This is the sequel to the 1992’s Aladdin. Jafar escapes from the lamp that has held him prisoner with even stronger magical powers. The movie centres on Jafar the villain from Aladdin, trying to gain his revenge against Aladdin, Princess Jasmine and the Sultan, and become the ruler of Agrabah.
47. Star Trek Voyager (1996): In the pilot episode, "Caretaker," Voyager is on a mission to locate a missing ship piloted by Maquis fighters. Janeway brings Tom Paris, a former Starfleet officer, out of prison to help find the ship. Maneuvering through the dangerous Badlands, an ancient alien known as the Caretaker transports Voyager to the Delta Quadrant, on the other side of the galaxy, where the Maquis ship was also sent. In the process, several members of Voyager's crew are killed, including the first officer, helmsman, chief engineer, and all medical personnel.
Voyager and the Maquis ship are attacked by Kazon raiders intent on capturing the Caretaker's Array, which was used to transport the ships. The Maquis ship collides with a Kazon ship, destroying both, after the Maquis crew transports to Voyager. Believing the Kazon will use the Array to harm the Ocampa, Janeway decides to destroy it rather than use it to return home.
The Starfleet and Maquis crews integrate and work together as they begin the 75,000-light-year journey home, predicted to take 75 years. Chakotay, leader of the Maquis group, becomes first officer. B'Elanna Torres, a half-human/half-Klingon Maquis becomes chief engineer. Tuvok is revealed to be a Starfleet spy on the Maquis ship and resumes his duties as chief security officer. Paris becomes the helmsman, and the Emergency Medical Hologram, designed for only short-term use, becomes the chief medical officer. In the Delta Quadrant, the crew gains the Talaxian Neelix as a local guide and chef, along with his Ocampan girlfriend, Kes. Both Paris and Kes become qualified assistants to the Doctor, expanding the ship's medical capabillity. The crew expands to include Seven of Nine, a Borg drone liberated from the collective, in the show's fourth season.
The Delta Quadrant is mostly unexplored by the Federation. On the way home, the crew contends with hostile species that include organ-harvesting Vidiians, belligerent Kazon, nomadic Hirogen hunters, the Borg and Species 8472 from fluidic space. They also encounter hazardous natural phenomena.
48. King of the Hill (1997): Hank Hill is an old fashioned, hardworking, beer drinking man who is trying to live in a modern
Hank Hill lives with his wife Peggy, their son Bobby, and their niece Luann in
49. Futurama (1999): Philip J. Fry is a 25 year old delivery boy living in
50. What’s New Scooby Doo (2002): What's New, Scooby-Doo? With Don Messick's retirement in 1996 (he died the following year), Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, took over as Scooby's voice. Casey Kasem returned as Shaggy, Grey DeLisle took over Daphne's role (having previously voiced the character in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase), while former Facts of Life actress Mindy Cohn took over Velma's. (Grey DeLisle also stood in for Velma's voice in a handful of episodes.)
The new show follows the same format as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, updated somewhat for the 21st century, but with new-age music genres and all-new, original sound effects to replace the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects. Even a distinctive thunderclap sound that was used frequently on older Scooby-Doo TV series was very rarely used on the show. The classic formula was also constantly parodied throughout the entire series, including overusing the line "And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids." The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the studio famous for bringing Looney Tunes to life, which had by this time absorbed Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. (It should be noted, however, that the copyright notice at the end of each episode credits "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." as the author. Also, Joseph Barbera was one of the Executive Producers.)
The band Simple Plan is heavily connected to What's New, Scooby-Doo? They perform the theme song, and appeared as themselves in the episode "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman". Two of their songs appeared in chase scenes: "I'd Do Anything" in the episode "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", and "You Don't Mean Anything" in "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman". Also, they were working with Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
The Episode titled "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing, Metallic Clown" established this show in continuity with A Pup Named Scooby-Doo when at a Putt Putt golf tournament Scooby and Shaggy entered they come to a hole that has a giant clown head for which the ball can go in. In the flashback there is a clown ruining Velma's birthday party and she gets scared. And back in reality she's shaking having remembered what had happened years earlier. An actual clip from the show is used as the flashback sequance.
What's New, Scooby-Doo? aired for three seasons on The WB Television Network's "Kids' WB" programming block as a half-hour program, before being put on an indefinite hiatus in 2005. Reruns are shown on the Cartoon Network. Forty-three episodes have been produced so far (fourteen in 2002-2003, fourteen in 2003-2004, and fourteen in 2004-2005, and one in 2005-2006).
51. Aloha Scooby Doo (2005): Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and the Mystery Inc. gang hit the bodacious beaches of Hawaii for the Big Kahuna of Hanahuna Surfing Contest--only to discover there's a terribly real monster about to show all the true meaning of wipeout! The locals are convinced that island spirits are furious over a new resort being built on sacred ground and when an army of tiny demons attacks the surfers, the ancient properties appear to be true. Could this be the first mystery that Daphne finally can't figure out before trouble--in the form of a huge volcano--erupts?
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"Cave Cat" (written by Jim Davis; illustrated by Davis, Mike Fentz, and Larry Fentz): In the Stone Age, the first cat emerges from the sea and is domesticated. The segment partially parodies evolution, showing various lifeforms emerging out of the ocean. Cave Cat also meets his end when the vaguely reptilian giant dog (who resembles Odie and is termed Big Bob by the cavemen) attempts to play fetch with Cave Cat, throwing a tree at him and unintentionally crushing him. (This, as
"The Vikings" (written by Jim Davis and Mike Fentz; illustrated by Fentz): A group of Vikings, including Garfield the Orange, frozen for a thousand years, thaw out and awaken from their cryogenic slumber in the modern era, and attempt to 'pillage' St. Paul, Minnesota. They are forced to adapt to the modern era after a notable lack of success with traditional Viking activities, succeeding in securing employment and a home, but losing their proud spirits in the process.
"Babes and Bullets" (written by Ron Tuthill, illustrated by Kevin Campbell): Hard-boiled detective Sam Spayed investigates the suspicious death of a priest in a segment reminiscent of classic hard-boiled detective fiction, with occasional illustrations done in a manner much more realistic than the usual Garfied style. It was later adapted into the television special Garfield: Babes and Bullets. Shortly before the story begins,
"The Exterminators" (written by Jim Davis; illustrated by Davis, Mike Fentz, and Larry Fentz): A trio of Three Stooges-like cats chase a mouse, and mayhem ensues.
"Lab Animal" (written by Jim Davis; illustrated by Gary Barker and Larry Fentz): at a secret government facility, lab specimen 19-GB receives an unusual injection, followed by his escape from the military base. After swimming across a river, the serum has some unusual effects, causing 19-GB to become a dog. Garfield claims that because of his experiences as a lab animal, he becomes nauseous at the sight of medical equipment. (This most likely explains his fear of the veterinarian.)
"The Garden" (written and illustrated by Dave Kühn): Cloey and her yellow kitten play in a magical, Wonderland-like, garden. However, like the Garden of Eden there is a test of character of a chest the pair must not open. The pair approach the chest and after much suspense, the pair resists the temptation and stays in the garden forever. The segment is written with flowery prose similar to overly romantic poetry, and the illustrations have a strong surrealistic quality.
"Primal Self" (written by Jim Davis; illustrated by Jim Clements, Gary Barker, and Larry Fentz): An orange housecat meets an ancient, primal, dangerous, possibly evil force, causing him to revert to an entirely feral state. It is unclear whether the housecat is corrupted by the primal force, or if its spirit is cast back into prehistory and stranded there, while the primal essence steals its body in the present day. The story ends with him preparing to attack his unsuspecting owner, an elderly woman; it is strongly suggested that he kills his owner afterwards. Garfield is shown to be terrified of the events in this life; he is depicted cowering under a blanket in his commentary on it, remarking that this life taught him that there are elements in a cat that are not to be toyed with.
"Garfield" (written by Jim Davis; illustrated by Gary Barker and Valette Hildebrand; color by Doc Davis): Present-day Garfield meets lasagna, Jon, and Odie. This segment retcons the character's beginnings.
"Space Cat" (written and illustrated by Jim Clements): While exploring outer space, our feline friend has a run-in with The Incredibly Huge Galactic War Fleet (IHGWF for short). The Warfleet doesn't like him, and shows it by blasting him to stardust. It turns out he is in a simulator, probably a computer game, and appears to be living in a world inhabited by both humans and anthropomorphic animals. The segment has a very strong resemblance to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, in both tone and thematic elements. Garfield is shown as a cyborg during his commentary on it, remarking that while he'd like to live forever, he's well aware of his mortal state and refers to the segment as a 'sneak peek of his next life.'
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He then enters a fantasy world in which he is Sam Spayed, a private investigator in a film noir atmosphere. He investigates the alleged murder of a university professor who fell asleep at the wheel of his car and drove over a cliff. The late man's wife, however, believes it to be murder. It is revealed that the late professor was a frequent coffee drinker, to the point that he required heavy sleeping pills to fall asleep. Some of these same sleeping pills were dissolved in his coffee on the fateful night by a colleague, and these led to him falling asleep while driving. The special ends with
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56. Scooby Doo & The Reluctant Werewolf (1988): Every year, all of the classic Hollywood monsters such as Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy, and Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde, gather at Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania for the "Monster Road Rally", an ultimate road race, awarding the winner with the "Monster of the Year" award as well as many other prizes only monsters would enjoy (and one prize--a trip to Hawaii--that none of the monsters want). This year however, Dracula receives a postcard from the Wolfman stating that he has retired to Florida and will not be participating. Lacking one of the most well known monsters, Dracula fears they will have to cancel the race. Luckily, Dracula's minion Wolfgang notifies him there is an another option, namely, to create a new werewolf. After searching an old book for information on whom is next in line to become the next werewolf, it is revealed that it is none other than Shaggy
Dracula sends his horrible henchmen (the mushmouthed, incomprehensible Crunch and the English accented, well articulated Brunch, together known as "The Hunch Bunch", since both of them are hunchbacked) to America to transform Shaggy into a werewolf and bring him back to his castle. After a few thwarted attempts, the Hunch Bunch manage to transform Shaggy by exposing him to moonlight while he is at a drive in movie with Scooby, Scrappy, and Googie in his customized race car. The Hunch Bunch then picks up the car using their batcopter and flies the group back to
After being kept up most of the night, driving the severely detuned "wolf-wagon" in the race, being sent on misleading detours, rescuing Scrappy and Googie from traps, and dodging dangerous monsters and magic spells, Shaggy manages to win. Dracula refuses to turn Shaggy back to his human form, claiming he had his fangs crossed when they made the agreement. Infuriated, the heroes steal Dracula's book on transformation and make their getaway. Dracula chases them in his bat-like car and airplane, where the four narrowly escape Dracula's powerful "Drac-Vac" and his "Munchie-Missiles." In the end, Googie uses the book to change Shaggy back to normal and the group lives happily ever after.
That night, the gang all sit down to watch another horror movie, but nobody sees Dracula, Brunch and Crunch creep up to the window, leaving the film with an open ending.
57. Scooby Doo & The
Gym class soon starts, with the intent to train the girls for their upcoming volleyball match against the boys of the neighboring
58. Scooby Doo On
After encountering many "men in masks" ("just like the old days"), such as a nerdy-looking guy in a lobster-man suit in a canned shellfish factory, An old man in a man-vampire bat suit at a graveyard, a ghost which that turns out to be a hologram, and a zombie policeman, that turns out to be a middle-aged woman, the gang arrives in New Orleans, and are invited by a cook named Lena to visit Moonscar Island, the home of her employer. The island,
The gang arrives on the island and meets
The first two-thirds of the film play out like a regular Scooby-Doo cartoon, with the gang checking out clues and working to prove that the "ghost" is just a person in a mask. During the third act, however, it turns out that the island is home to real zombies. The zombies, however, turn out to be the good guys: Simone, Lena, and Jacques are revealed to actually be werecats who drain the life force out of people to preserve their immortality and the zombies were their many victims and were just trying to warn them about the 3 villains. The gang, along with Beau, (who is revealed to be an undercover police officer) defeat the cat-creatures (when it seemed they were cornered, the time for the werecats to drain the life force had expired, ending their lives and skeletalizing their bodies) and free the zombies' souls to rest in peace.
59. Scooby Doo & The Witch’s Ghost (1999): the Mystery, Inc. gang is invited by horror writer Ben Ravencroft (voiced by Tim Curry) to his home town of
The gang meets a goth girl rock band named the "Hex Girls" during their investigation, comprised of Luna (voiced by Kimberly Brooks), Dusk (voiced by Jane Wiedlin), and Thorn (voiced by Jennifer Hale). These characters would later reapear in the 2003 Scooby-Doo direct to video film Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and "The Vampire Strikes Back" episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo?.
The first two-thirds of the film play out like a regular Scooby-Doo cartoon, with the gang checking out clues & proving that the "ghost" was just a person in a mask. They deduct that the "ghost" is just a publicity stunt set up by the mayor and some of the townspeople as a way to expedite the tourist trade. During the last part of the movie however, it turns out that Ben was lying and his ancestor really was a witch and the journal was actually her spellbook. The ghost of Sara Ravencroft is brought from the netherworld by Ben, and it turns out that only Thorn, because of her own Wiccan heritage (about 1/16 blood on her mother's side), can stop the ghost from acting out her revenge. She recites the spell and Sara's ghost is sucked back in the book but before she goes, she takes a hesitant Ben with her. A burning branch falls on the book, destroying it. The townspeople thank the gang and the Hex Girls continue with their concert. They are backed up by the gang who play various instruments: Velma on keyboards, Daphne on tambourine, Fred and Shaggy on guitar, and Scooby banging on bongo drums.
Like a number of direct-to-video Scooby-Doo animated films released in the late-1990s and early-2000s, Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost features real ghosts instead of simple bad guys in masks. The videos sold well and received generally positive reviews in the press.
60. Scooby Doo & The Alien Invaders (2000): The story starts off when the Mystery Machine driving through a desert town. A sand storm kicks in, and Shaggy makes an accidental turn into government property. The sight of a UFO causes Shaggy to lose control of the vehicle, and find themselves on the outskirts of a small town. While Scooby and Shaggy stay with the van, the rest of the gang walks into a local diner to ask for directions. Shaggy and Scooby then encounter a fictional animal called a jackalope.
Shaggy and Scooby run in the diner in panic while the Scooby-Doo, Where are You theme song is played, claming to have seen aliens. The diner waitress, Dottie, says that they never see the aliens but see strange lights and hear strange sounds at night. The chef, Sergio(pronounced "Serge") says that a month ago, local cattle vanished overnight without a trace and a lot of people moved away. A man named Lester claims to have been abducted once before, and believes the two. He also says that he has pictures, so the gang goes to his house to see them. They turn out to be nothing more than paintings by Lester, who offers to let the gang stay for the night. Daphne and Velma sleep in a bunk bed and Fred sleeps on Lester's couch.
Scooby and Shaggy sleep on the roof, and are abducted. After some struggle on the ship, the two find themselves in the middle of nowhere the next morning. They are awakened by a hippie-chick photographer, Crystal, and her golden retriever, Amber. Scooby and Shaggy fall head over heels in love. Velma, Fred, and Daphne meet the crew of SALF: the Search for Alien Life Forms,Steve, Lora and Max and Velma becomes suspicious when she sees dried mud on their boots, since they are in the desert. Later, she decides to take the gang to a canyon where she presumes a river might run. The canyon proves to be dry, but they find mining equipment, and in the caves, gold. The SALF crew capture them and hold them hostage as they explain that they stumbled upon this cave when searching for ground to place another SALF dish. Since it was on government land, they decided not to report it, and plan to keep it that way. They are also revealed to be the aliens who abducted Scoob and Shag; the UFO was nothing more than a dressed-up helicopter. At the end of the film, Crystal and Amber prove to be aliens from 20 light years away, and are dressed like they are because their interpretations of the way humans are dressed were derived from 1960s television broadcasts. The UFO that ran Shaggy off the road was actually
61. Scooby Doo & The Monster In
Later, when Mystery, Inc. arrives in
During the night, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are scared when they think they hear a noise. They then hear a loud growl and run screaming out of their cottage. They wake up Fred, Velma, and Daphne. After seeing footprints outside of Shaggy and Scooby's window, Fred declares that there is a mystery they have to solve.
The next day, the gang, Jorge, and Luis set out to search for the monster. Charlene gives Luis a charm for good luck. Daphne interviews the townspeople, but none of them are able to find El Chupacabra. When they get back to the van, they find someone has written on it, threatening them to either go away or not see tomorrow. The gang realizes this is serious and decide to search at night. Fred, Velma, and Daphne go one way, Alejo and Luis go another way, and Shaggy and Scooby stay at the van.
At night, Shaggy and Scooby sleep in the van, while someone takes away their brake fluid. Fred, Velma, and Daphne search the woods, and find El Curandero, a medicine man. El Curandero tells them they need to look at history and that they are in grave danger.
Meanwhile, Jorge and Luis are searching when Jorge sees El Chupacabra. Jorge is chased and nearly falls off a cliff, but he manages to hold on. He calls for Luis, but there is no answer. The monster disappears, and Luis shows up, saying he was hit on the head by the monster. Luis helps his brother up from the cliff.
Shaggy and Scooby start driving, but when they realize they cannot stop, they get scared. They meet up with Fred, Velma, Daphne, Jorge, and Luis who where being chased by El Chupacabra. Eventually, the van runs out of gas and stops right in front of a gas station. The van gets fixed, and Jorge gets some ice for Luis's head wound, but Luis does not have a bump on his head. Luis says he is fine.
The gang drives along and finds a sign to a history museum, and thinking that is what the medicine man said, go to it. When they get there they meet a suspicious and hyper museum guide who leads them into an auditorium. There they see a performance about Mexican customs. The guide then makes Daphne volunteer, and she kidnaps her, vanishing with a puff of smoke. The rest of the gang find a secret passageway and follow it, until they come to Aztec pyramids. They find Daphne at the top of one and rescue her, but the tourists chase after them, thinking they have stolen something. After a long chase scene, they finally return home. However, it is revealed the good luck charm Luis has is really a tracking device.
The next day is the Day of the Dead, and all go to the cemetery, where they find from Dolores that Charlene has been captured by El Chupacabra. The family gives offerings to the grave of Señor Otero and hope Charlene can be found. Suddenly, the ghost of Señor Otero comes out of his grave and tells them to sell the hotel and the land or they will by in danger. The family cannot believe that Señor Otero would want them to sell, but Scooby realizes something is suspicious. He follows a scent until he finds a man in a skeleton suit controlling the ghost. The gang catches him, and he is revealed to be Mr. Smiley. Then, El Chupacabra appears and scared everyone.
After chasing the gang, the monster is caught up in some wiring. The gang pulls off the mask, and it is revealed the museum guard they saw earlier is the monster. She tells them she loves Mr. Smiley and that they were going to get all the land. Luis asks what happened to Charlene, and the guard tells him he will never see her again and he should forget about her. Velma then guesses something is up and realizes the face the guard has is a mask, and pulls it off to reveal that Charlene was the guard and El Chupacabra. Fred says that the message written on the van was not in proper Spanish, so it had to be someone who did not speak Spanish. Señor Fuente says that he did want the land, but he respects that the family does not want to sell. Charlene and Mr. Smiley are taken to jail, and everyone enjoys the Day of the Dead.
62. Scooby Doo & The Lock Ness Monster (2003): Mystery Inc. visit
63. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (1989):
After aggravating nearby motorists, getting stuck under a big rig, and walking in the woods for a long time, Clark and his family finally find a tree. He digs the huge tree out of the ground because he forgot the saw.
At home,
Clark has invited Ellen's parents Arthur Smith (E. G. Marshall) and Frances Smith (Doris Roberts), his own parents Clark Wilhelm Griswold Sr (John Randolph) and Nora Griswold (Diane Ladd), and his Aunt Bethany (Mae Questel) and Uncle Lewis (William Hickey) to spend the holidays at the Griswold house in Chicago.
While shopping for gifts at a downtown
As Christmas approaches, the many members of
During the struggle to put the lights on,
After the lights are up and running, Ellen's cousin Catherine (Miriam Flynn), her sloppy husband Eddie (Randy Quaid), and two of their kids, Rocky (Cody Burger) and Ruby Sue (Ellen Hamilton Latzen), show up to stay with the Griswolds for a month, with their dilapidated, rusty RV parked in the driveway.
Stifling his disappointment at their surprise arrival proves difficult for
On Christmas Eve, Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany arrive for dinner. Numerous disasters occur that evening: The turkey is cooked for far too long and dries out, Bethany's cat is electrocuted when it chews on a strand of Christmas lights, and Lewis accidentally burns the Christmas tree down, forcing Clark to quickly search for a replacement.
Clark takes one from his yard and sets it up (while doing this, the tree breaks through the Chesters' window), and inside the house, a manic squirrel leaps out of the tree and "terrorizes" the family before jumping onto Margo followed by Eddie's dog as she comes over with the intention to slug Clark for the damages he caused them.
A delivery from the company arrives at the house that evening, with
Now
This situation gives Eddie the idea for the perfect Christmas gift for Clark after Clark offers to help Eddie treat Rocky and Ruby Sue to a good Christmas -- Eddie goes to Frank's house and brings Frank to the Griswold house, and then Eddie and the Griswolds help Frank see the error of his ways about the Christmas bonuses.
Frank changes his mind, deciding that he will give out Christmas bonuses this year, adding 20% to what the bonuses were last year -- more than enough to cover the check
Outside, Uncle Lewis' cigar ignites the gas from the sewage Eddie had earlier dumped down the street drain while emptying the holding tank on his RV, blasting a Santa ornament into the sky. Everyone watches the strange but touching sight, as
64. Quick Change (1990): The movie opens with Grimm (Murray), dressed as a clown, robbing a bank in Midtown Manhattan by ingeniously setting up a hostage situation and slipping away with an enormous sum of money and his accomplices; girlfriend Phyllis (Davis) and best friend Loomis (Quaid). However, whilst the heist itself is comparatively straightforward and easy, the getaway turns into a nightmare; the relatively simple act of getting to the airport to catch a flight out of the city is complicated by the fact that fate, luck and all of New York City appears to be against their escape. Roadworks obscure the roads to the airport, resulting in the three robbers being bossed in an unfamiliar part of the city. Then, a con-artist/thief robs the trio of everything they have (except, ironically, the bank money, which they have taped under their clothes). When changing their clothes, they are almost gunned down by the stressed incoming tenant of Grimm's apartment (Phil Hartman), as members of the fire department responding to a call try to push their hydrant-blocking car out of the way only to make it roll away into a ditch; when the trio eventually manages to flag down a cab, the driver (Shalhoub) is revealed to be relentlessly non-fluent in English. An anal-retentive bus driver (Bosco), a run-in with some mobsters and Phyllis' increasing desperation to tell Grimm the news that she is pregnant with his child add further complications. And all the while Rotzinger, the world-weary but relentless chief of the New York City Police Department (Robards), is doggedly but fruitlessly attempting tries to nab the trio. A final confrontation onboard a jumbo jet at the airport allows the robbers to escape, but the chief gets the consolation prize of having a major crime-boss (Smith) dropped in his lap.
65. Martians Go Home (1990): Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can escape their distracting influence. It's up to Mark to figure out how they got here, and most importantly, how to get rid of them before they drive everyone crazy!
66. Freaked (1993): The film starts with a breaking news report announcing that the flying gimp has been destroyed and citizens are safe to return to their homes.
The news break ends to reveal "The Skye Daley Show", already in progress. Skye (Brooke Shields) is interviewing beloved former child star Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter), who is seated on the opposite side of the stage in darkness; his silhouette appears to show that he's grotesquely and hideously disfigured. Rather bluntly, Skye asks how Ricky so quickly went from one of
It all began when he accepted a job from the slimy mega-corporation E.E.S. (the 'Everything Except Shoes Corporation') to promote "Zygrot 24", a controversial and lethal toxic fertilizer, in
Once Ricky and Ernie arrive in the country of Santa Flan, they cross paths with a group of protesters, specifically the hard-willed and attractive young environmentalist Julie (Megan Ward). The two con Julie into thinking they're also environmentalists and she agrees to join them on a trip to an anti-Zygrot 24 protest. However, she soon finds out their true identities and the three are stuck with each other for the rest of the drive. They decide to take a detour to see
Now incorporated in Elijah's freak show, Ricky meets the other freaks: Ortiz the Dog Boy (Keanu Reeves), the self-proclaimed "Leader of the Freaks"; Worm (Derek McGrath), the half-man, half-worm; Nosey (Jeff Kahn), whose entire head is one big nose; Cowboy (John Hawkes), the half-man, half-cow; the Bearded Lady (Mr. T); Sockhead (Bobcat Goldthwait), who has a sock puppet for a head; The Eternal Flame (Lee Arenberg), who has constant flaming flatulence; Rosie the Pinhead; The Hideous Frogman (Tim Burns), a Frenchman in a scuba suit; and the skeleton of Paul Lynde. At first, Ricky wants nothing to do with any of the other freaks, but soon warms up to them after hearing their stories of how they came to be here. Meanwhile, he discovers that he's developed a telepathic bond with Stuey and summons him to get help. Stuey manages to sell Ricky's story to the Weekly World News, but ends up being captured by a group of shady businessmen that presumably work for Elijah.
The night of the big show comes, and each of the freaks perform a routine for a sold-out house, including Julie and Ernie's comedy and dance routine and Sockhead's heartfelt rendition of "The Wienerschnitzel Polka". Ricky, encouraged by Worm, decides to turn his deformity into the acting chance of a lifetime: he performs the opening soliloquy from Richard III which moves the audience to tears and earns him a standing ovation. An E.E.S. executive arrives and, disgusted by Ricky's new appearance, tells him he's fired, causing the entire audience to start laughing at him. Overcome by rage, Ricky rips off the executive's head and the crowd runs away in terror, much to Elijah's amusement.
The next day, Ricky attempts to escape but is caught by a pair of talking, machine-gun toting Rastafarian eyeballs who take him to Elijah's lair. Elijah informs Ricky that at the next show, he plans to mutate him into a full beast that'll slaughter all of the other freaks, a surefire moneymaking event. On his way back, Ricky runs into the other freaks in the middle of their own escape attempt. He tries to warn them about the eyeballs, but none of them take him seriously. He gets into a blade fight with Ortiz, who ends up running off to chase a squirrel, catching the attention of the trigger-happy eyeballs who chase him out of the park. The freaks decide to elect Ricky as their new leader and Julie admires him for his selfless act.
After Ricky tells the other freaks of Elijah's dubious plans, the group devise a scheme to get back at him by altering the supply of Zygrot 24 to transform Ricky into a peaceful superfreak instead of a murderous one. Ricky, Ernie, Julie and Worm tunnel into Elijah's lab and successfully concoct an altered batch of the chemical. Meanwhile, back at the quarters, Sockhead gets nervous and tries to make a break for it, only to be fatally gunned down by the eyeballs. Upon escaping from the lab, Ricky loses the Zygrot, but instead finds a tasty batch of macaroons, which sparks a celebration amongst the hungry freaks.
Ricky eventually finds out that Elijah's Zygrot suppliers are none other than E.E.S., who arrive at
Elijah goes ahead and infects Ricky with his own Zygrot, turning him into an equally grotesque seven-foot monster. As the Ricky Monster and Stuey Monster battle to the death onstage, Elijah catches the E.E.S. executives double-crossing him and stealing his "Tasty Freaks Machine". Elijah soaks them all with the Zygrot, mutating them all into a giant, fleshy shoe. Right before the Ricky Monster is about to destroy the Stuey Monster, however, a wave of compassion comes over him, and he drops his weapon and gives Stuey a hug. Enraged, Elijah unsuccessfully tries to fight the Ricky Monster, who bashes him in the head, paralyzing him. Pleading for his life, Elijah says that only he can get the freaks back to normal: he baked a time-release antidote into a batch of macaroons. The Ricky Monster knocks him into an open vat of Zygrot 24 just as the FBI arrive to save the day. Elijah dramatically rises from the vat, transformed into a hideous beast that looks exactly like Skye Daley. The FBI agents gun him down.
Back on "The Skye Daley Show", the entire audience has fallen asleep and it's revealed that Ricky Coogin's grotesque silhouette was nothing more than the shape of a cactus in the background. One by one, the freaks are brought out onto the stage, each one transformed back to normal, with the exception of Worm, who bitterly states that he's never liked macaroons. They are then joined by the still-mutated Ortiz and the Stuey Monster before it's revealed that Skye Daley is actually Elijah C. Skuggs. Skuggs lunges after Ricky with a machete, only to be gunned down by the now normal Julie. As she embraces Ricky, Skye rises again, this time to be gunned down by Ernie. After Ricky and Ernie discuss what they've learned from their whole experience, they wave goodbye to the studio audience. Before the credits roll, though, the machete-wielding Skye lunges at them one more time...
67. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2001): In the decade of 2080, on a lunar colony called Little America, a retired smuggler named Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) buys a nightclub in order to fulfill a longtime wish and prevent the murder of Anthony Frankowski (Jay Mohr), the club's previous owner, by his creditors. Seven years later, "Club Pluto" has become a successful business that is frequented by many socialites. The staff consists of Pluto, a Hispanic assistant, and an anthropomorphic android robot named Bruno (Randy Quaid). Meanwhile, Anthony has become a stage performer under the name of Tony Francis. Tony has achieved interplanetary fame despite his apparent lack of talent. His music, performance style, and costume resemble those of Frank Sinatra.
Pluto is approached one night by a young woman called
Pluto and Dina visit Doctor Pendankin's apprentice, Mona Zimmer, who operates a cosmetic surgery station. They pose as a married couple attempting to revive their infatuation for one another by having their figures altered. After having seen several examples of commonly preferred body shapes and contours, Zimmer asks for a police permit to perform the operation. Nash attempts to pay her off and she exepts it. Then they tell her they are police offices that have come for information regarding Doctor Pendankin's death (and show her Pluto's fake badge). If she gives them the information, they won't "arrest" her. Having been intimidated by Pluto's bluffs, Zimmer reveals that Doctor Pendankin had worked for or with a Terrestrial criminal having what apeared to be the initials "WZW" inscribed on his briefcase prior to her death.
Pluto and Dina return to the hotel. They meet Pluto's mother, Flura Nash (Pam Grier). All are attacked by Rex Crater's assassins, who have tracked them to the hotel. They all narrowly escape and Pluto takes Dina and Bruno to an abandoned smuggler's refuge.
At the hideout, Pluto mounts an Internet-based search for any Terrestrial criminal with the initials "WZW". When this yields nothing, Dina suggests that the initials are in fact "MZM", having been seen upside-down by Mona Zimmer. Pluto searches for "MZM" and discovers a criminal called Michael Zoroaster Marucci. Pluto suspects that Michael Marucci and Rex Crater are one and the same. Abruptly, he is contacted by his mother, who tells him that Rowland has been killed. Moments later, the hideout is attacked by Rex Crater's agents. A chase ensues and the heroes escape; their car is damaged and explodes, causing them to be presumed dead.
They are eventually rescued and taken to
Pluto accuses Rex Crater of being Michael Marucci. Rex Crater reveals himself to be a clone of Pluto, created by Doctor Pendankin from Pluto's removed appendix. He was to act as a public face of Michael Marucci's illegal activities but who then killed Marucci. Rex coolly murders his agents who had failed to destroy Pluto, shocking most of the onlookers, then goes on to explain his elaborate plans to create the "most exclusive" gambling casino ever made upon Club Pluto's ruins. Pluto contemptuously destroys Rex's model of the casino and assaults him.
Rex and Pluto fight for possession of Rex's gun while the others watch, uncertain of which is Pluto and which Rex. Pluto shoots Bruno when he gains possession of the gun. Rex's assistant Belcher assumes that Pluto would not damage his own robot and shoots Rex. Pluto orders the robot guards to leave, and reveals his identity to Dina by speaking of her employment to him. Belcher realizes Pluto is not Rex, Pluto knocks him out with a fast punch. Bruno reveals that he was wearing a bulletproof shirt on Pluto's advice. Rex (who, having all of Pluto's memories, was also wearing a bulletproof shirt) attempts to garotte Pluto with a wire paperweight, but is thrown through a window and dies.
The movie ends with the protagonists celebrating in the rebuilt Club Pluto. Bruno is made manager of the Club, and Dina its lead singer. Felix is granted lifelong credit and Tony invited to the celebration. Pluto, his desires fulfilled, rests at ease.
68. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s
69. Back By Midnight (2002): Dangerfield plays Jake Puloski, a prison warden whose plans for renovating his rundown prison are ruined when his superior, Eli Rockwood (Randy Quaid) rejects his budget. This comes at the same time that Rockwood is in the midst of selling his company to the very wealthy Gloria Beaumont (Kirstey Alley). Rockwood also informs Puloski that his contract as prison warden will not be renewed, which means that Puloski will be forced to retire in two months. Without the funds for a proper remodeling, Puloski decides to approach the problem by allowing a group of prisoners to leave the prison to burgle a sporting goods store owned by Rockwood (on the condition that they are "back by midnight").
70. K-9 (1989): Belushi plays "maverick" police detective Michael Dooley, who has been tagged for execution by a major international drug dealer (Lyman, played by Kevin Tighe). To help, a so-called "friend" (Brannigan, played by Ed O'Neill) gives Dooley a police dog, "Jerry Lee," trained to sniff drugs. The two attempt to put Lyman in prison, but Dooley soon learns that Jerry Lee is a mischievous smart-alec who works only when he wants to. Many of the movie's gags revolve around Jerry Lee's playfully destructive episodes.
The German Shepherd Dog "Jerry Lee" was played by Koton, a real-life police dog from the
K-9 was directed by Rod Daniel and written by Steven Siegel and Scott Myers. It was produced by Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon, and released by Universal City Studios. It has two sequels, K-911 (1999) and K-9: P.I. (2002).
71. K-911 (1999): In this sequel to the action comedy K-9, police detective Dooly (James Belushi) has been teamed up with Jerry Lee (Mac), a German Shepherd police dog, for nearly ten years, but Jerry Lee isn't as young as he once was, and Dooly's superiors suggests that maybe it's time that the dog was retired from the force. Dooly isn't pleased with this idea, since Jerry Lee has become one of his best friends over the years, but when the dog can't keep up with chasing a gunman during a shootout, Dooly is overruled and he now has two additional partners -- Zeus (Lucan), a young, strong Doberman Pincher, and his new trainer. K-911 also stars Christine Tucci, James Handy, and Wade Williams.
72. K-9 P.I. (2002): Dooley and Jerry Lee are at it again. The day after Dooley (James Belushi) retires as a detective from the police force, he finds himself -- and his faithful canine companion Jerry Lee -- chasing high-tech burglars who have stolen a valuable prototype computer chip. Trouble is, Jerry Lee has eaten one of the chips, and the other three won't work without it. Meanwhile, Dooley is convinced to breed Jerry Lee and winds up with a crush on the female dog's owner (Barbara Tyson), however, a mysterious and beautiful client looking for her missing boyfriend has breeding ideas about Dooley of her own. Once again, Dooley needs Jerry Lee to rescue him from danger and straighten out his love life.
73. Batman Returns (1992): Around Christmas time in Gotham City, the aristocratic Cobblepots give birth to a baby boy. Due to him being deformed, they lock him in a box, where he shows his first sign of homicidal tendencies when he kills the family cat. They drop their deformed infant baby in the sewers, abandoning him because of his ridiculed look. Thirty-three years later, it is Christmas time again as the city is being run by Mayor Hamilton Hill, who deals with the ambitious but ruthless business tycoon, Max Shreck.
Shreck arranges for the Penguin to "rescue" the mayor's infant child from his own gang members. The plan works, and Penguin becomes a hero to all except a suspicious Bruce Wayne (Batman's alter ego). After finding out his original birthname of Oswald Cobblepot, Penguin eventually wins the approval of citizens of
Dazed, Selina goes back to her apartment and goes ballistic. She destroys her apartment and crafts a homemade black vinyl costume to pursue a new life, as a vigilante figure named "Catwoman." Carrying a whip as her weapon of defense, she bombs Shreck's department store and battles with Batman, losing another life in the process. As Selina, she then forms a romantic relationship with Bruce Wayne, while also allying herself with Penguin to get back at Batman for 'killing' her.
When the subsequent plan is put into action, Batman is framed for kidnapping and murder and finds himself trapped in the Batmobile under Penguin's control. Catwoman and Penguin's alliance falls apart when she rebuffs a sexual advance from him, and Penguin opts to kill Catwoman himself. His campaign to recall the current mayor is quickly destroyed when Bruce Wayne plays selected comments he stated while controlling the Batmobile; comments insulting the people of
Bruce meets Selina at a dance party hosted by Shreck, where she reveals to him her intentions to kill Shreck. While dancing, the two subsequently discover the other's secret identity, but before they can leave to discuss this development, Penguin storms the hall and tries to take Max's son, Chip. Max successfully pleas with Penguin to take him instead. Batman attacks Penguin's Red Triangle Circus goons and puts a stop to the kidnappings. Penguin then dispatches an army of rocket-armed Penguins to bomb all of
Batman then discovers that Catwoman intends to kill Shreck inside Penguin's base. Shreck tries to bribe Batman, but Batman simply ignores him, and tries to talk Catwoman out of her planned murder. He promises they could live happily together, but Catwoman refuses to listen, and scratches him on the cheek with her claws. During this argument, Shreck draws a gun he took from a Red Triangle clown and fires it at Batman, but it only scrapes him. Catwoman then starts to approach Shreck, who shoots her four times, leaving Catwoman alive but wounded. Catwoman then exacts her revenge of Shreck by inserting the stolen stun gun into her mouth, activating the spark, and pressing her lips to Shreck's, while also ripping a cable out of Penguin's electrical generator with her free hand, sending the electricity everywhere. A huge explosion follows, and as the smoke clears away, Batman tries to find Selina in the debris, but only the charred corpse of Shreck is found. A gravely injured Penguin then emerges from the water and tries to kill Batman once again before ultimately succumbing to his wounds.
Some time later, Bruce drives around the city, with his butler, Alfred, when he sees Selina's shadow on a wall. Alfred stops the car and Bruce searches for Selina in vain; however, her cat rubs itself up against Bruce, who takes the cat with him and leaves. The camera then pans up to the top of the city, amidst the sky scrapers. The film ends as Catwoman appears, watching as the Bat-Signal light up the night sky.
74. Batman Forever (1995): The film opens with Batman (Val Kilmer) preparing for action. Two-Face, alter ego of former District Attorney Harvey Dent (Tommy Lee Jones), is holding a hostage in a bank vault. He connects the Bank vault by chain to a Helicopter, intending to fly it out of the bank. Batman arrives, rescuing the hostage and foiling the robbery by cutting the chain. Two face tries to escape but Batman hangs on to the chopper by the chain and is dragged through the City until he climbs slowly on top of the chopper. Two face aims at Batman but accidentally shoots the pilot and is forced to take his place at the wheel. Batman bashes his way into the cockpit, but not before Two Face aims to crash the chopper into the "Our Lady of
Edward Nygma (Jim Carrey), a researcher at Wayne Enterprises, has developed a device to beam television directly to a person's brain. Bruce Wayne, convinced that mind manipulation would raise too many questions, turns the idea down, but Nygma continues to work on it after hours. When Fred Stickley, the head of the research department, discovers Nygma's clandestine overtime, Nygma knocks out Stickley then uses him to test his device, discovering that he can use it to absorb people's knowledge. Realizing
After having met clinical psychiatrist Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) at the robbery, Bruce Wayne invites her to a charity circus event. Two-Face and his cohorts storm the event, bringing a bomb with a two-minute timer. Two-Face, who blames Batman for the attack which left him disfigured, will detonate the bomb unless Batman reveals himself.
Batman on his way to save Dr. Chase Meridian from Two-Face and The Riddler as seen in the climax of this film
Edward Nygma, who has been stalking Wayne and leaving riddles for him, is inspired and delighted by watching Two-Face's raid at the circus on live television and creates his own alter-ego in the form of The Riddler, a master of puzzles and quizzes. He perfects his brain-manipulation device into a system which beams signals to and from the human brain in order to simulate an immersive television viewing experience. This has the side effect of allowing the Riddler to read viewers' minds, as well as augmenting his own intelligence. Making a deal to use his brain-manipulation device to discover Batman's true identity, he becomes partner-in-crime with Two-Face in order to fund mass-production of the device. Successful, he readopts his Nygma persona and hosts a launch event for a set-top version of his device. Nygma convinces an unwitting Wayne to try it, resulting in Nygma discovering
Bruce and Alfred eventually solve the riddles, each one having a number in it:
1. "If you look at the numbers on my face, you won't find 13 anyplace." (a clock)
2. "Tear one off and scratch my head; what was once red is now black instead." (a match)
3. "The eight of us go forth, not back, to protect our king from a foe's attack." (chess pawns)
4. We're five items of an everyday sort; you'll find us all in 'a tennis court'." (vowels- in the words 'a tennis court')
Each number corresponds to a letter in the alphabet, with 1 and 8 being digits for the number 18. 13 being "M", 18 for "R" and 5 for "E", M-R-E, or "Mr. E"- mystery, or enigma- Mr. E. Nygma). Changing into Batman, Bruce asks Alfred whether he should use the Batboat or the Batwing. Dick suggests both as he enters the Batcave- now dressed in a "Robin" costume of Alfred's design. Bruce decides two against two are better odds, and finally agrees to Dick becoming a partner.
Batman and Robin locate the Riddler's lair. During the assault on the lair, Robin confronts and overpowers Two-Face, but instead of letting Two-Face fall to his death, Robin rescues him, but Two-Face draws a gun capturing Robin. Batman manages to find his own way up to the high-altitude lair, only to find Robin already hostage along with Dr. Chase, both bound and gagged in individual cages on either side of Riddler's throne.
Riddler, challenging Batman with the greatest riddle of all ("Can Batman and Bruce Wayne actually co-exist?"), gives him the choice of rescuing only one of them, but Batman instead destroys the brainwave-collecting hub, sending Two-Face running for his life, and reversing the brainwave stream from Nygma's head. Before Nygma collapses, he springs the trap doors in Robin's and Dr. Meridian's cages, sending them plummeting to their apparent doom, but Batman rescues both of them, only to be drawn on again by Two-Face perched on a nearby plank. Batman reminds Two-Face that he's always of two minds about everything, so as Two-Face flips his coin in the air Batman pulls a handful of similar coins out of his pocket and tosses them into the air with it. Frantically trying to find his own coin, Two-Face loses his footing and falls to his death. Batman returns to the now-destroyed Riddler's lair and finds Edward, his mind now enfeebled by the brainwave reversal. He answers Nygma's riddle saying "I had to save them both. You see, I'm both Bruce Wayne and Batman."
The Riddler is later committed to Arkham Asylum, and Dr. Chase is asked to consult on his case. Riddler offers to reveal the identity of Batman to her, but he thinks he himself is Batman. Dr. Chase then meets Bruce Wayne outside and tells him his secret is safe.
75. Batman & Robin (1997): The film begins with Batman and Robin preparing to save Gotham City yet again. Batman receives a call from Commissioner Gordon, informing him of a new villain named "Mr. Freeze." The two of them go to the museum, but are forced to battle with his henchmen first. Freeze, whose goal is to steal a diamond of exceptional size, succeeds, and attempts to escape. Batman attempts to follow him by climbing into his rocket, but is trapped by Freeze, who freezes Batman to a wall. Freeze sets the ship to explode, before fleeing the craft. Robin, who grappled onto the rocket before its takeoff, manages to enter the ship before it detonates and rescues Batman.
Batman and Robin chase after Freeze, retrieving the diamond in the process; however, Robin is frozen by Freeze, and the diamond is stolen yet again. Batman, faced with the decision to either chase Freeze, or thaw out Robin, stays behind in order to save his young ward. As a result, Freeze escapes with the diamond.
Meanwhile, Pamela Isley, a scientist in South America, is trapped in a lab by her insane boss, Dr. Jason Woodrue, who refuses to tell her about his new experiment. She escapes the lab and witnesses him use her formula, developed to give plants the ability to defend themselves, to turn a diminutive convict into a hulking monstrosity, dubbed "Bane." Woodrue discovers Isley and attempts to sway her to his side, but his advances are denied. In a final effort to silence Isley, he throws her to the ground and crushes her under a shelf of poisons and toxins, killing her.
Isley is later revived, but instead of the unnatractive nerd she was before, she is a gorgeous seductress wearing hardly anything. She uses her newfound beauty to seduce Woodrue who can hardly speak because of her great beauty. She calls herself "Poison Ivy" and tells him that her blood was replaced with aloe, her skin replaced with chlorophyll and her lips filled with "Venom," a claim Woodrue verifies when he kisses her and dies instantly. She devotes her new life to destroying humanity and recreating the environment, with plants dominating the ecosystem. She destroys the lab, but not before deciding to visit
Mr. Freeze, hiding in an ice cream store, announces his plan to freeze Gotham City and hold it for ransom, in order to cure his wife's advanced case of the fictional disease McGregor's Syndrome. In order to keep her alive as he searches for a cure, Freeze has cryogenically frozen her.
The next day, at the
Bruce Wayne, attending the unveiling of a new telescope, demonstrates its ability to reflect light off satellites in the sky, allowing it to see any point on Earth. His girlfriend Julie is present and a reporter asks when they're getting married; Julie says that their love is enough, for now. The conference is interrupted by Isley, who tells Bruce that his company should be more focused on the environment and how it could be soon destroyed. Bruce declines her offer, as it would result in the deaths of millions of people, due to the fact that her proposal would be that
Batman and Robin attend the ball, where women are being "auctioned" in order to raise money for the telescope. However, everyone's attention is diverted by a person in a gorilla suit, dancing seductively atop some rocks. The gorilla reveals itself to be Poison Ivy, who uses her pheromone mist to entrance everyone in the hall, including Batman and Robin. She goes onto the stage and at first tells Batman to join her for the night, but seeing that Robin is younger, she decides to tell him to leave Batman and join her. She attempts to disrupt Batman and Robin's friendship by having them argue over her; she then puts herself up for auction, which starts a frenzy of bids. Batman is ultimately the victor, but before he can enjoy his spoils, Mr. Freeze bursts in and steals the diamond. Poison Ivy tries to use her mist on him, but because of his condition, he's immune.
Batman and Robin track down Freeze and his henchmen, and Batman prevents Robin from following him, knowing that his Redbird will be unable to make a perilous jump. Freeze is captured, and Batman and Robin have a falling-out. Robin says that until Bruce learns to trust him, their team will never work. Barbara, stealing another of the Wayne motorcycles, is seen by Dick, who grows suspicious.
Freeze is imprisoned in a chamber within a small area of the Arkham Asylum under a cold temperature. He tries to escape, but is unsuccessful because he cannot survive without a cold climate. Meanwhile, Ivy and Bane acquire a new hideout, which they steal from a petty gang.
Later, Bruce is eating with Julie, who proposes to him; however, he fantasizes Ivy walking into the room and doesn't pay attention to what Julie's saying. She kisses him, while he imagines that he's kissing Ivy. She angrily tells him that he called her Ivy, and asks him who Ivy is; he replies that he doesn't know. Barbara tells Dick that Alfred has McGregor's Syndrome, the same illness plaguing Freeze's wife.
Freeze is rescued by Ivy, posing as his sister; she disposes of two guards by seducing them and giving them her deadly kiss, and they escape from the prison. Batman and Robin rush to Freeze's hideout, to find that he's no longer there. They enter the room where Freeze's wife is being held and smell Ivy's dust. They follow it into the air vent, which leads to a new room.
Batman and Robin fight Bane, but Robin, who now knows Ivy's true ways, is interrupted by Ivy who seduces him and comes close to kissing him, but decides to seduce Batman when she sees he's been defeated by Bane. Batman, who unlike Robin can control his desire for Ivy, tells her to tell him where Freeze is, only to be caught by Bane again. Now that Bane has Batman, Ivy seduces Robin once again. Robin gives in to her beauty and agrees to kiss her, but is stopped by Batman, who now knows Ivy's deadly ability. Robin gets frustrated that he almost kissed Ivy, but was disrupted by Batman, so he fights him. While they fight, Ivy and Bane manage to escape. On the way out, Ivy disconnects the cryogenic chamber keeping Freeze's wife alive. Next, she and Bane steal the BatSignal from the police station.
Alfred, now bedridden, gives Barbara a disc. She manages to guess the password and is told by a digital representation of Alfred who Batman and Robin are, where the BatCave is and that there's a BatSuit in her size.
Later that night, Dick and Bruce see a Robin signal in the sky, and realize it's from Ivy. Dick goes there alone and asks Ivy what Freeze's plan is. She tells him, then kisses him; however, Robin has prepared for this, revealing that he's wearing rubber lips, preventing him from feeling the toxic effects of her kiss. Ivy traps Robin, then Batman, who appears shortly thereafter. However, a young, costumed girl appears to save the two of them.
Ivy and the girl fight and the girl pushes Ivy into her seat, where she's trapped by the giant leaves. Batman and Robin both escape from their traps. The girl says that she's Batgirl and tells them that she's actually Barbara. The three of them decide to go after Freeze together. By the time they get to the lab where Freeze and Bane are,
Batman and Freeze fight each other, with Freeze still thinking that Batman was the one who killed his wife. Batman wins the fight, as Batgirl and Robin unfreeze
At the mansion, Bruce injects Alfred with the medicine, and he, Dick and Barbara pray that it will work. Ivy is shown imprisoned in Arkham, pulling petals off of a flower, saying, "He loves me, he loves me not." She picks a petal off the flower, then puts it in her mouth and starts to eat it. Just before she finishes it, Freeze walks in and tells her that he's her new cellmate and intends to make her life a living hell for almost killing his wife. The next morning, Alfred wakes up and tells Bruce, Dick and Barbara that he feels fine. Everyone agrees to let Barbara stay at the mansion, and the three of them agree to work together, fighting crime; Alfred remarks that they'll need a bigger cave. The movie ends with Batman, Robin and Batgirl running in front of the Batsignal to save the day again.
76. Pinky & The Brain (1995): Pinky and the Brain first appeared as a recurring segment on the animated series Animaniacs, another show produced by Steven Spielberg. On September 14, 1993, Pinky and the Brain premiered on television in the episode Win Big, which aired on the FOX Kids Network.
On September 9, 1995, Pinky and the Brain were spun off onto their own half-hour series on Kids' WB, with each episode consisting of one or more segments, including some of the segments from Animaniacs. The first season of the show was scheduled in a prime-time slot from September 9, 1995 through May 12, 1996 as part of the new WB Network lineup, and as a result, tended to have more jokes and humor aimed to adults rather than children. However, due to poor ratings, subsequent seasons were moved to Saturday mornings as part of the Kids' WB programming block.
Around 1997 the overall structure within the WB Network changed, including the placement of Jamie Kellner as head of the Kids WB programming. Along with this came pressure on the writers of the show to back off on the idea of world domination and to include more characters on the show.[16] The episode "Pinky and the Brain ... and Larry"[14] was a response to this pressure.[16]
With increased pressure from the WB network, the series was retooled on September 1, 1998 into Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, in which Pinky and the Brain were owned by Tiny Toons character Elmyra Duff. The show lasted for 13 episodes, 5 of which were shown whole and 6 of which were chopped into segments and aired as part of The Cat&Birdy Warneroonie PinkyBrainy Big Cartoonie Show.
After Pinky and the Brain and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain were canceled from the Kids WB, Cartoon Network aired Pinky and the Brain from 1998 to 2000. Nickelodeon then acquired syndication rights to broadcast all 65 episodes of Pinky and the Brain on both Nickelodeon, and later Nicktoons Network, beginning on September 4, 2000.[48][49] While the episodes aired unchanged, Nickelodeon altered the opening sequence, masking various items such as beakers with the orange Nickelodeon logo in the same shape and the Acme Labs sign changing into a Nickelodeon logo (this garnered a lot of negative criticism from fans). During 2003, Pinky and the Brain aired on Boomerang with the theme song unaltered. It continued to air on Boomerang and Nicktoons Network until 2005 when it was taken off both channels. It can now be found on Jetix (Toon Disney), every night at 10:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
During 2006, Pinky and the Brain, among other shows, was scheduled to be broadcast on the AOL broadband channel, In2TV.[50] However, as of 2007, Pinky and the Brain is no longer a featured series on the site.
In Canada, Pinky and the Brain is currently airing on YTV having started on September 3, 2007. The theme song has been unaltered.
77. The Pink Panther (1963): As a child, Lugash princess Dala's father gives her as a gift the largest diamond in the world, the Pink Panther. The huge pink diamond has an unusual flaw: if one stares into the stone long enough, one can see what appears to be the image of a leaping panther; hence the name. Viewers watch as this image comes to life and participates in the credits. When Dala is a young woman, rebels in her home country have seized power and are demanding the possession the jewel, but the princess refuses to hand it over.
Dala relaxes on holiday in an exclusive skiing resort in Cortina d'Ampezzo, where noted British capitalist Sir Charles Lytton, who leads a secret life as a jewel thief called the Phantom, has his eyes on the Pink Panther. Charles's American playboy nephew George follows to the resort in an attempt to steal it and blame it on "The Phantom", not knowing that the Phantom is his uncle.
On the Phantom's trail is French police inspector Jacques Clouseau of the Sûreté, whose wife Simone (unknown to him) is the paramour of Charles and helper in the Phantom's crimes. Clouseau tries to stop the theft attempts, but he is so clueless and clumsy that when several attempts are made at a fancy-dress party, he looks everywhere but the right place. Throughout the film, scenes at the skiing resort's hotel show Madame Clouseau dodging her husband while trying both to carry out Sir Charles' plans and to avoid George, who is enamoured of her.
In spite of himself, the buffoonish inspector captures Sir Charles and his accomplices. Conviction looks inevitable until Dala and Simone hatch a plan to frame Clouseau. The defense calls a surprised Clouseau to the stand as their lone witness. The barrister asks a series of questions that suggest Clouseau himself could be the Phantom. The unnerved Clouseau pulls his handkerchief out of his shirt pocket - to which is attached the jewel (planted there by Mme. Clouseau).
As Clouseau is being driven away to prison, a regretful Simone expresses fears that he will rot in prison. Sir Charles points out that "it takes years for people to rot; and when the Phantom strikes again, he'll be free as a bird." In the police car, the officers tell Clouseau as "The Phantom", he is a "national hero" and a sex idol for millions of young women. They ask him, with some deference, how he had committed all those robberies, he smiles a little and says, "Well, you know... it wasn't easy."
The cartoon character of the Pink Panther then closes the film. Because of Clouseau's popularity among viewers, the sequel A Shot in the Dark was rewritten to include him, having been originally intended to create a series of movies for David Niven's character, the Phantom. Later during the same year, the animated Pink Panther character got his own series of animated shorts.
78. A Shot In The Dark (1964): Inspector Clouseau is called to the country home of a Paris plutocrat, Benjamin Ballon, to investigate a murder. Although all evidence points to the beautiful maid Maria Gambrelli, an infatuated Clouseau stubbornly refuses to admit that she is guilty. In order for the real culprits to keep the truth hidden from Clouseau's boss, Commissioner Charles Dreyfus, they must commit more murders. Each time there is a murder, Maria is arrested, and each time Clouseau sets her free. Clouseau is always at the wrong place at the right time and manages to get himself arrested by uniformed police four times in quick succession (first for selling balloons without a license, then for selling paintings without a license, then for hunting without a license, and finally for public nudity, after ending up in a nudist colony). As Clouseau continues to bungle the case, Commissioner Dreyfus becomes increasingly agitated, resulting in his accidentally cutting off his thumb and stabbing himself with a letter-opener. An anonymous figure starts attempting to kill Clouseau, but ends killing a doorman, two cafe customers, and a Cossack dancer, thus leading to an explosive ending as all the suspects in the case – Ballon, his wife, and all of the servants were murdering each other for having love affairs, except Maurice, who was a blackmailing butler – are blown up as they attempt to escape in Clouseau's car. The anonymous bomber is revealed to be Commissioner Dreyfus, who has been driven mad by Closeau's blunders, and, in trying to kill him, has accidentally murdered the real killers.
79. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976): The story opens at the sanitarium for the criminally insane, where former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who is largely recovered from the murderous insanity that saw him repeatedly attempt to kill his rival, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, is about to be released. Unfortunately, Dreyfus' recovery is shortlived; upon encountering Clouseau (Peter Sellers), who is now Chief Inspector and has arrived with the helpful intention of speaking on Dreyfus' behalf, Dreyfus resumes his insanity.
Soon thereafter, Dreyfus escapes from the asylum, intent on killing Clouseau. His first attempt involves planting a bomb whilst Clouseau destructively duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk), who is under orders to keep Clouseau alert by randomly attacking him. The bomb merely destroys Clouseau's apartment whilst Clouseau himself is unharmed (viewers eventually learn that Cato was sent to the hospital), largely due to an inflatable costume and a telephone call. Dreyfus sets his sights higher; enlisting the help of an army of the most vicious criminals alive, he kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's daughter Margo, forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom. Because Hugo Fassbender fears to have his daughter harmed, he agrees.
Clouseau travels to England to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, with typically chaotic results, as Scotland Yard Superintendent Quinlan (Leonard Rossiter) painfully learns. Meanwhile Dreyfus reveals an elaborate plot to get rid of Inspector Clouseau by threatening the whole of humanity. Disintegrating the United Nations headquarters in New York City before the disbelieving eyes of the world, he blackmails the leaders of the world, including the President of the United States (a thinly-veiled impersonation of Gerald Ford, advised by a similarly poorly-camouflaged Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau.
Forced to take Dreyfus' threat seriously, several nations send murderers to kill Clouseau at the Oktoberfest in Germany; however, in his typical bumbling fashion, Clouseau manages to evade each assassination attempt just as it is about to happen, so that the assassins all kill each other instead. The assassins of twenty-six nations are killed in the attempt; the only survivors are the Egyptian (an uncredited cameo by Omar Sharif) and Soviet Russian operatives. The Egyptian assassin, sneaking into Clouseau's hotel room, shoots a man he believes to be Clouseau (who is in fact one of Dreyfus' henchmen, who had taken it upon himself to assassinate Clouseau). The Russian operative, Olga Bariosova (Lesley-Anne Down), who has sneaked into Clouseau's room, seduces the Egyptian, similarly mistaking him for Clouseau. His passionate sexuality convinces her not to assassinate him; when the real Clouseau makes an appearance, he is most surprised to discover a beautiful woman in his bed who confuses him further by declaring her undying passion for him, and by finding a dead man in his bath. A tattoo on the dead man, combined with Olga's dismissively revealed knowledge, reveals to Clouseau Dreyfus' location; a castle in Bavaria.
Dreyfus is elated at Clouseau's apparent demise, but his joy is soured by a bad case of toothache. Clouseau, who has arrived in the village near Dreyfus' castle and has unsuccessfully attempted to breach the castle, thwarted every time by a drawbridge that appears to be mocking him - eventually infiltrates Dreyfus' castle hideout disguised as a dentist, intoxicates Dreyfus with nitrous oxide, and pulls one of Dreyfus's good teeth. Realising the deception and laughing hysterically, Dreyfus orders Clouseau killed, but Clouseau escapes.
Enraged, Dreyfus means to seek vengeance on the world by destroying England; Clouseau—who has been thrown into the castle's barnyard—is literally catapulted onto Dreyfus' doomsday machine. The buffoon's weight redirects the disintegrator so that it hits Dreyfus (causing his feet to disappear) and Dreyfus' castle. As Dreyfus' henchmen, Fassbinder and his daughter, and eventually Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle (Clouseau nearly thwarted once more by the drawbridge), Dreyfus himself plays the castle's pipe organ, laughing insanely and gradually disintegrating. The castle disappears.
Returning to Paris, Clouseau is reunited with Olga, who has dismissed Cato for the evening and intends on completing her seduction of Clouseau; their romantic evening is interrupted firstly by Clouseau's apparent inability to remove his clothes without a struggle, and then by Cato, who chooses this time to once more follow his orders and attack Clouseau. The inevitable struggle sees all three hurled by a reclining bed into the Seine.
80. Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978): A French businessman/mobster named Philippe Douvier (Robert Webber) is making a deal with a New York Mafia for a multimillion-Franc drug-smuggling operation, whose officers suspect Douvier of growing too old and being no longer strong enough to handle it. Douvier, along with his secretary and paramour, Simone LeGree (Dyan Cannon), attempts to prove his strength by assassinating the most famous person in France, the one believed to be the best: Chief Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers).
Douvier's first two attempts fail; his attempt to blow Clouseau up with a bomb fails, and the subsequent attempt by a Chinese assassin called Mr Chong (an uncredited appearance by Founder of American Kenpo, Ed Parker) is thwarted when Clouseau knocks him out of a window, believing him to be his (Clouseau's) valet Cato, who had orders to keep his employer alert by means of random attacks. That night, Douvier anonymously calls Clouseau and poses as an informant to tell him the whereabouts of a criminal known as the French Connection. Despite being warned by Cato, Clouseau drives toward the location, but his car and clothes are stolen by a transvestite named Claude Rousseau. Rousseau drives into the trap and is killed by Douvier's men. Subsequently, the majority of people believes Clouseau to be dead.
Clouseau's "death" makes several changes. His mad boss, ex-Commissioner Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is deemed sane, and is to be released from the Mental Asylum to try and crack the case, while Douvier's plans continue. [Curiously enough, in the previous movie, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dreyfus was made to vanish by a doomsday machine whose creation he had ordered; because the producers believed that a Pink Panther movie would be incomplete without him, he was revived without any explanation. Therefore, since all sequels include Dreyfus, this causes a continuity problem. Because most fans refuse to consider the four movies made without Sellers' involvement (Inspector Clouseau, Trail of the Pink Panther, Curse of the Pink Panther, and Son of the Pink Panther) as canon, some argue Revenge to be a prequel to Strikes Again, although dialogue in either or both films would seem to make this impossible].
In Rousseau's clothes, Clouseau is taken to the mental asylum (a scene featuring a cameo by Andrew Sachs from Fawlty Towers); he escapes into Dreyfus' room. Dreyfus faints at the sight of Clouseau, whom he believed dead (all Clouseau can say is "Peek-a-boo!"), whereupon Clouseau disguises himself as Dreyfus, and is driven home in a car by operative Francois.
At home, Clouseau finds Cato, who (despite having turned Clouseau's apartment into a Chinese-themed brothel) is relieved to see him alive, and the two plan their revenge on whoever ordered the assassination, taking advantage of the belief that Clouseau is dead.
Meanwhile, Dreyfus, thinking that Clouseau was just Rousseau, had returned to the commissioner's office to find out that he was the one to be read the eulogy at Clouseau's unofficial funeral. He refused since he "hated Clouseau intimately" and would rather thank his murderers than track them down. However, the commissioner revealed that the chief's wife had written the speech. Dreyfus would faint yet again into the empty burial pit at Rousseau's funeral (mistaken as Clouseau) when he saw Clouseau secretly reveal himself in the crowd.
Meanwhile, after his wife threatens him with a divorce, Douvier, needing her respectability and her silence pertaining to his crimes, tells Simone that their courtship must end. Angry, Simone storms out of Douvier's office, giving an impression that she may blackmail Douvier. Douvier gives orders to have Simone killed at Le Club Phut that very night.
That same night, after he is told by an informant of the possibility of trouble at the nightclub, Clouseau and Cato go to investigate, and accidentally save Simone from being murdered by Douvier's assassins. Clouseau and Cato are separated, because Simone has not noticed Cato and is eager to take Clouseau (whom she considers her savior) home. At Simone's flat, Clouseau tells Simone that he is the supposedly dead Chief Inspector; although Simone denies it- both of them being more than slightly drunk- he eventually convinces her of the truth, prompting her to reveal that Douvier is the man responsible for the assassination attempt. As the assassins enter, having tracked them down, Clouseau and Simone escape into the flat below, in which lives Dreyfus. Dreyfus faints again while the two depart, but not before he overhears Simone telling Clouseau of Douvier's plans.
Simone tells Clouseau of Douvier's plans to meet with the New York Mafia Godfather, Julio Scallini, in Hong Kong; Clouseau sees this as a chance for his revenge. Clouseau, Cato, and Simone travel from
Clouseau disguises himself as Scallini while Simone stalls the real Scallini, so that Clouseau can uncover Douvier's plans. He succeeds; however, the plan goes terribly wrong when Clouseau's disguise is exposed. A car chase begins.
Eventually, everyone crashes; a shoot-out (provoked by a crazed Dreyfus, who has recognized his rival) in a firework warehouse leads to the arrests of Douvier and Scallini. Clouseau is awarded for bringing down the mobsters. Thereafter he and Simone spend the evening together, talking about their histories. This is the third sexual affair of which Clouseau has been part since the absconsion of his wife. His two previous partners were Maria Gambrelli in A Shot in the Dark and Olga the assassin in The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Curiously enough, dialogue in the first film implies that Madame Clouseau, like her third successor, was named Simone.
81. Trail of the Pink Panther (1982): When the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash, Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers), is called on the case despite the protest of Dreyfus (Herbert Lom). While on the case, it is revealed he is being followed by the mob.
Clouseau first goes to London to investigate Sir Charles Lytton (Clouseau is not aware he is in fact living in the South of France, but nobody bothers to tell him). Traveling to the airport, he accidentally blows up his car, but believes to be an assassination attempt. Clouseau decides to disguise himself (wrapped in several bandages) while on the flight, which leads to an awkward hassle with Scotland Yard (there to pick him up).
Meanwhile, it is confirmed there might be an assassination attempt against Clouseau, and is ordered not to go to Lugash. Unfortunately, Clouseau is later told by Dreyfus to go to Lugash.
En route Clouseau disappears, and Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley), a journalist investigating his disappearance, sets out to discover his background by interviewing people with whom he was involved over the years. This provides ample opportunities for flashbacks to scenes from the earlier films. Jouvet also interviews Clouseau's father (a heavily disguised Richard Mulligan), providing glimpses of Clouseau's childhood where he is played by Lucca Mezzofanti, and his early career in the French Resistance in which he is played by Daniel Peacock. Jouvet does encounter a run-in with the mafia, led by Bruno Langlois (Robert Loggia), the main antagonist of the two-part story made by this and the next film. Langlois politely warns Jouvet to stop searching for Clouseau (Clouseau apparently caused trouble for Langlois in the past), but Jouvet refuses, and complains to Dreyfus about the threat. Dreyfus, who wants Clouseau dead just as much as Langlois does, presses no charges against Langlois, much to Jouvet's frustration.
The film ends with Jouvet concluding that Clouseau must be alive. Clouseau (played by Joe Dunne only seen from behind) is seen standing looking over a seaside cliff, when a seagull flies over and messes the sleeve of his coat. The words "Swine seagull!" are heard in the distinctive 'over French' accent of Clouseau. A montage of funny clips from other Pink Panther films is seen until the end credits.
82. Scary Movie (2000): The movie begins as a girl called Drew Decker (Carmen Electra) is making popcorn in her house, when she receives a phone call from a person asking if she likes scary movies. The person reveals that he is watching her and then proceeds to attack her with a knife. She escapes into her garden with the killer on her tail, who eventually rips off her clothes and leaves her in her white bra and panties. After Drew passes through a set of sprinklers, she is accidentally run over by a speeding car. The killer catches and kills her and the opening credits start to roll.
The next scene takes place in the house of Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) as her boyfriend Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams) shows up. Then, her father enters the room and Bobby hides under the bed. Cindy's father tells her that he'll be out of town doing business with Uncle Escobar. Next day in school, the news teams are trying to interview the police and students who knew Drew, but get turned down. In order to get a lead, Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) has sex with the retarded brother of Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth), Doofy Gilmore (Dave Sheridan). The group (Cindy, Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), Bobby and Buffy) gather around the fountain and discuss how the killing happened exactly one year after their car accident.
Here, they recall how while drunk driving, Bobby and the rest of the group, along with Drew, accidentally hit a man but only injured him, then Greg (while trying to get rid of their beer) flings the bottle into the air and hits the man they hit (who was walking away at the moment) and really kills him. In the end, they hurl the body into the shore and swear to tell no one. While Cindy is in class, she receives a note saying that someone knows what they did last Halloween, she then recalls her date with Bobby, but then receives a note that says "No bitch! I'm talking about the guy you killed!" and gets scared.
During the miss Teenage Beauty contest at school, Buffy is about to perform her talent, an acting piece, but sees how Greg is murdered by the killer in the audience and starts screaming for help. The audience believes she is acting and give her the first prize. That night, Cindy is attacked by the killer, but she calls the cops and the killer escapes. Then Bobby shows up with the same gloves and knife as the killer and is arrested. Cindy goes to stay with Buffy that night but receives a call from the killer and has Bobby set free.
The next day, while changing in the locker rooms, Buffy teases Cindy about getting scared by the killer's phone call and Cindy leaves, offended. After everyone leaves the locker room, Buffy is left alone and the killer shows up. Buffy, noticing the 90's horror movie cliché pretends to be scared, then pretends to run around, then to make it more cliché breaks her own leg, leaving herself helpless and allowing the killer to cut off her head. However, (against all biological laws) her head stays alive and says "Ooh! Look at me I'm all dead, I'm a gross scary severed head!" prompting the killer to shove her head in a lost and found bin.
Ray asks Brenda to the movies and they go to see Shakespeare in Love, Ray goes to the bathroom and (since Ray shows several signs of being gay throughout the movie) peeks on a guy peeing and gets impaled through the head with the guy's penis. Then, the killer shows up at the cinema and sits next to Brenda, Brenda then starts talking throughout the movie and eventually starts talking on her phone. As the killer slowly pulls out his knife to kill her a pissed off audience member snatches the knife from him and stabs Brenda, then the whole audience starts attacking her until she finally dies in front of the movie screen.
In order to not stay alone, Cindy organizes a party in her house. During the party, Cindy has sex with Bobby. The killer then shows up to kill Shorty Meeks (Marlon Wayans), Brenda's stoner brother but winds up getting high with him and his friends and scares Cindy with a phone call blowing his secret strike. The killer, pissed off with losing his surprise attack (and after accidentally killing all of Shorty's friends while swinging his hook around in a rap off) attacks Cindy and Bobby. They both escape and Bobby reveals that he and Ray (who survived getting impaled with a penis) are two killers who are trying to start a new gay life in Los Angeles, but must first get rid of everyone who knows them.
Bobby shoots Shorty and kills him, then he and Ray prepare to kill Cindy, but since they said they are copying the real killer, the real killer shows up and slaughters them with his hook. Then the killer proceeds to have a The Matrix-style fight with Cindy using bullet time and winds up getting beaten and escapes. The police show up and take Cindy to the station, where they find out that Buffy's brother Doofy was actually faking to be retarded and is the real killer. The camera turns to a shot of Doofy walking down the street and pulling off his retarded disguise, then climbing onto Gail Hailstorm's car and driving away. The sheriff and Cindy find Doofy's disguise in the street and Cindy proceeds to scream "NOOOOOO!" until she is hit by a car and killed.
83. Scary Movie 2 (2001): The sequel to Scary Movie begins with a parody of The Exorcist, in which Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out. The exorcism doesn't go as planned, and a chain of The Exorcist-like vomiting occurs. Megan insults McFeely's mother and he shoots her in the head.
One year later, Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans) and Shorty Meeks (Marlon Wayans) are at college, trying to live new lives, after the curse in the last movie. (Although all of them died in Scary Movie, in a deleted scene, Brenda says her death was a near death experience, and Cindy was never officially declared dead.) Cindy and Brenda get tagged by a dorky girl, Alex Monday (Tori Spelling); Ray, who is still confused by his sexuality, has two new friends, Tommy (James DeBello) and Buddy (Christopher Masterson); while Shorty is still the same stoner he was in the last movie.
The story begins when a college teacher, Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) and his wheel-chaired assistant Dwight (David Cross) plan to study ghosts from a haunted mansion, with the clueless teens as bait. Newcomer Theo (Kathleen Robertson) becomes part of the study group.
As Cindy drives to the mansion she is singing along (very badly) with a song, possibly and most likely a joke from Urban Legend (Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C) when the radio stops and Vitamin C yells "Hey! Will you shut the fuck up and let me sing, bitch ?". When Cindy arrives at the mansion, she meets a talking Amazon parrot who is vulgar and slanderous, and the caretaker, Hanson (Chris Elliott), who has a grossly disfigured hand. After some weird incidents on that night (Cindy being beaten up by a cat, Ray raping a toy clown after it had attacked him, Shorty getting attacked and smoked by a weed-monster, Alex having a sexual encounter with a ghost, etc.), the teens finally learn about the professor's plan and try to escape the mansion.
The professor gets killed by a female ghost with disfigured features. The gang would like to kill the ghost of the mansion's former owner to escape. To this end, they are equipped with several technological devices by Dwight that serve to harass and injure the spectral enemy. They are pursued all throughout the mansion. Hanson gets possessed, and Cindy, Brenda and Theo parody Charlie's Angels to get him, but end up beaten up.
In the end, they use Cindy as bait to lure the ghost to a device that ultimately destroys it. Two months later, Cindy encounters Hanson again when she and Buddy are taking a walk. After Buddy disappears without notice, she looks up to see Hanson serving at the hot dog stand. She screams "No!" while Hanson screams "Yes!". Hanson is instantly hit by a car. It is being driven by Shorty, who is receiving oral sex by the beautiful ghost...with a bag over her head.
It is also revealed that Cindy is now taking care of the parrot, who despises her because she talks so much.
84. Scary Movie 3 (2003): The movie begins with two friends, Kate (Jenny McCarthy) and Becca (Pamela Anderson). Kate tells Becca that she watched a tape which supposedly kills people seven days after watching it. After Becca goes downstairs for drinks, she returns and sees Kate drowned and purple lying on a chair; Becca however, is oblivious that her friend is dead, even when Kate's head falls off. At the last second, the TV turns on and Tabitha, the ghost girl, leaps for Becca.
In a farm outside Washington D.C., Tom Logan (Charlie Sheen) is woken up by a little girl screaming, and accidentally bumps into a lamp after getting up. Tom goes outside to investigate the screaming and he meets up with his brother George (Simon Rex), who tells him the dogs are acting strange (the dogs are playing Julius Ceasar, smoking a waterpipe and riding a tractor). After both men look inside the corn field they discover Tom's daughter screaming and the reason of her screams: the crop field has a huge crop circle in it. After seeing the circle, George asks "what do you think it means?" even though when it's shown from above the circle's are shown to be a huge arrow with a sign pointing to the farm that reads "ATTACK HERE".
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At the rap-off George meets his old friends CJ (Kevin Hart) and Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) who are going to be the rap-off judges since the original judge, Simon Cowell (played by himself) was shot dead by the audience when he gave another rap battle a horrible review. George is pitted off against Fat Joe (played by himself) and he wins, but he puts on his hood (which resembles a Ku Klux Klan uniform) and gets thrown out of a window by the audience. Cindy goes to Brenda's house that night and Brenda tells Cindy that she watched the killer tape last week and that she needs protection for the night, Brenda then suddenly has a heart attack, but it turns out to be a prank by Brenda. After many more pranks, Tabitha the ghost girl comes out of Brenda's TV and Cindy doesn't believe Brenda when she tells her. However Tabitha drips water on Brenda's new carpet and she gets pissed off, then she starts kicking Tabitha's ass until Tabitha knocks her over and strangles her. Cindy then goes to where Brenda is and finds her dead behind the couch.
At Brenda's funeral, Cindy gets the killer tape which Brenda watched and takes it home with her, also George mistakes The Wake as Brenda is not dead and tries to revive her with a lamp's wires, only blowing up the body and he gets thrown out the window by the mourners. Cindy takes the tape back home and watches it after that she gets a call from Tabitha who tells her she will die in seven days. Cindy asks Tabitha if holidays count since Martin Luther King day is coming up, the voice says Martin Luther King day is not a real holiday and Cindy contradicts her which pisses off Tabitha who says "Geez lady ,I'm giving you seven damn days, if you want I can just come up there and kill the shit out of you right now!" and hangs up. Cindy goes to do some inquiries and leaves George to look after Cody, but when she returns home, she finds George knocked out (who was playing Yatzee with Cody and got five equal dice, then he got up and bumped his head on a shelf) and Cody who has just watched the killer tape, just in the moment, CJ and Mahalik arrive and CJ comments his aunt Aunt Shaneequa is an oracle and she could help Cindy.
Cindy goes with Aunt Shaneequa (Queen Latifah) and her husband Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and Cindy gives them a copy of the killer tape. After watching a segment of it Aunt Shaneequa discovers a backmasked picture of a lighthouse and then gets into a fight with a woman from the video, but she tells Cindy to go find that lighthouse from the tape. At work Cindy looks through various pictures of lighthouses and finds the one in the tape, but she leaves the tape behind and her boss grabs it. Cindy arrives at the lighthouse where she meets The Architect who tells her the real story of Tabitha and how the killer tape got out in the world, The Architect had rented Pootie Tang but accidentally returned the killer tape in Pootie Tang's box. He also says that Tabitha was their evil daughter and that his wife drowned her in the family's farm well while he thought a time-out would have worked. Meanwhile in the White House, President Harris (Leslie Nielsen) and his main agent, Agent Johnson (Ja Rule) beging worrying about the Alien Invasion warnings that Cindy Campbell had given in the news show and after destroying a Mother Teresa award ceremony believing that a lot of people there were Aliens in disguise, Johnson and President Harris go to look for Cindy in the Logan Farm.
In the Logan Farm, Tom has everybody in the house go into the basement for refuge while he, George and Mahalik go outside to fight off the aliens. Suddenly, two aliens sneak up behind Mahalik, Tom and George when Secret Serviceman Jones and President Baxter Harris arrive and accidentally run them over. Baxter tells them he came looking for Cindy since he claims that she may hold the key in defeating the aliens. Baxter then notices the UFOs mistakening them as the Air Force in those "new round planes." Just as the UFOs get closer, CJ arrives with an army of rappers and among them are Master P, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Redman, Macy Gray and U-God. However, they have an argument and shoot each other dead. After that, the aliens strangle Tom, George, Mahalik, CJ, Baxter, and Secret Serviceman Jones. Mahalik breaks free and knocks the head off of one of the aliens claiming "without their heads, they're powerless." The aliens' leader (voiced by Tom Kenny who also voiced the other aliens present) talks and reveals they came to earth because they need to kill Tabitha since they watched the killer tape, believing it to be Pootie Tang. When Mahalik asks why they were choking them, the aliens explain that strangalation is how they say hello. When George asks how they say goodbye, an alien kicks him in the balls. If they thought that was strange, one of the aliens shows them that they pee through their pointer finger which disgusts Tom at the moment that one of the aliens put his pointer in his mouth. President Baxter Harris quotes that the humans and aliens aren't that different after all and he pees through his pointer finger.
In the basement, Cindy recognizes a shot from the killer tape and then makes a hole in the wood and she finds the well where Tabitha drowned; suddenly Tabitha appears behind her. George goes to look for Cindy and then finds Tabitha attacking her, after a short battle Tabitha pretends the curse to be broken so she can attack them (Cindy: "So you won't be evil anymore?" Tabitha: "Nah, i'm just screwing with ya!") but as she prepares to attack, President Harris opens the door behind Tabitha and knocks her into the well. George seal the well and the curse is over. George and Cindy get married with everybody, including the aliens and Aunt Shaneequa in the ceremony. As George and Cindy drive away they accidentally leave Cody behind and when they rev up the car they are about to hit Cody but stop just in time, however a car coming from another direction hits Cody and throw him through the air as the movie ends and the credits roll.
85. Scary Movie 4 (2006): Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil wake up chained in a bathroom (spoofing Saw). Shaq has to make a free throw with a huge rock in order to get the saw down to cut off their legs (spoofing Shaq's famous difficulties at the free-throw line). Shaq and Dr. Phil have only two minutes to free themselves of their leg braces before dying from the room's airborne nerve gas. Finally, Shaq makes the basket and lowers the saws down. Dr. Phil ends up sawing off the wrong foot, thereby remaining chained and the two are presumed to be dead.
Tom Logan (Charlie Sheen), spoofing Bill Pullman's character from The Grudge, wakes up. There are three girls (from The Girls Next Door on E!) in his bed who later have a pillow fight. He tries to kill himself by taking too many sleeping pills but the pills turn out to be Viagra, resulting in a monstrous penis. Unaccustomed with the different mass distribution he tumbles over a balustrade, lands on his erect penis, and dies. Cindy Campbell goes to get a new job (parodying Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in The Grudge). She's been asked to be a caretaker for the creepy "Grudge House." She receives a tour inside, Cindy expects nothing and she gets a 'feeling of evil' as the guide tries to hide the overflowing hair on the ceiling, in drawers and baskets and on his head; and The Grudge Boy in the bathtub by pushing him down with a plunger, and then walks out naked and Cindy smiles and says "I'll take it".
Meanwhile, Cindy's neighbour Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko), spoofing Tom Cruise's character in War of the Worlds, gets fired from his job as a crane operator at the docks. At a bar afterwards he runs into Mahalik (Anthony Anderson) and CJ (Kevin Hart) where it is revealed, in a parody of Brokeback Mountain, that the two have started a homosexual relationship. Tom gets home, where his ex-wife (Molly Shannon) has just arrived with his children, Robbie and Rachel, who both resent him. Cindy's job is to look after the incapacitated Mrs. Norris (Cloris Leachman), however she is incompetent at it, to the point of accidentally sponge bathing Mrs. Norris with her own urine. Throughout the night Cindy notices strange events going on in the house, culminating in her finding a ghostly boy in the attic.
The next morning she confides in Tom about the events of the previous night, which leads to a conversation about their past relationships. Cindy has a flashback to her first marriage, showing a big African-American man cussing her out, and then another to her second marriage, to the death of her husband George (Simon Rex) where, in a parody of Million Dollar Baby, George trips and breaks his neck (as do numerous members of the audience) during a boxing match between Cindy and Tiffany Stone, a female version of Mike Tyson also showing a pile of bitten-off ears. As they share a kiss, the sky suddenly goes stormy and everything electrical stops working (In the real movie cars stopped working, but in this movie cars, bicycles,skateboards and a man runs out of a toilet, trousers down and holding a newspaper ("My bowels have stopped moving!"). Tom goes to investigate, and discovers the world has come under attack by gigantic triPods (giant iPods) that play 80s music... and then switches to the "Destroy Humanity" playlist, transforming the iPods into actual Tripods, which vaporize the humans they zap (it was also showed three people which seemed to be rappers, gets vaporized and dropping a huge pile of bling-blings).
Cindy runs back into her house and finds the ghost boy again. They began talking in "Japanese" (actually Japanese brand names and "buzz words" such as Sony, Mitsubishi, and Fujitsu), in what may be a parody of the scene between Beatrix Kiddo and Pai Mei in Kill Bill in which Pai Mei says "Your Mandarin is lousy. It causes my ears discomfort.", which the ghost boy says to Cindy. She is told by the ghost boy that she can find the answer to the alien attack when she finds his father. He gives her directions to his location but Cindy couldn't read them so they transformed into a Yahoo map so that Cindy could read it. Tom splits up with Cindy and flees with his kids. Cindy runs into Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), who apparently faked her death in Scary Movie 3, and together they manage to find the last working car and follow the directions of the ghost boy.
The scene then changes to the President of the United States being informed that aliens are attacking. President Baxter Harris (Leslie Nielsen) is sitting in
Cindy and Brenda come across a village that is a hundred years behind modern times. After unsuccessfully trying to steal clothes off some villagers, they take some from a laundry basket and attempt to fit in. Unfortunately, they are captured and are taken into a court to decide their fate. Henry Hale (Bill Pullman), the head of the village, rules that Cindy and Brenda may stay in the village, but they may never leave.
Tom and his children run into a battle between the Army and triPods. Robbie decides to join the fight, excited by the graphic violence. While Tom tries to dissuade him, Michael Jackson (who has gathered a bunch of children) tries to persuade Rachel to come with him, but Tom manages to stop her in time. Unfortunately, Robbie gets away.
That night, the village is attacked by Those We Don't Speak Of, however it is discovered that they are simply villagers in costumes. Next door, Henry is stabbed by the mentally challenged Ezekiel (Chris Elliott). Henry reveals to Cindy and Brenda that he is the father of the ghost boy, who was killed at Cindy's boxing match because everyone snapped their necks and Don King crushed him. He tells Cindy that only she has the power to defeat the triPods. At that point, Cindy and Brenda get captured by a triPod, as do Tom and Rachel.
The characters wake up in the bathroom from Saw. Cindy and Brenda are wearing the "Venus Fly Trap" from Saw II and Tom is wearing a device that would shoot a large dildo into his anus. Jigsaw appears on a monitor on the wall, and tells them they have 60 seconds to get the Venus Fly Traps off before they close. Eventually, Cindy figures out (after much prompting) that she has to get the key from behind her eye, which she does with ease, because the key was behind a glass eye she got due to a "bad bar fight in '96". Cindy frees them from their traps, and Tom's kids come down from the ceiling, about to be sliced into bits unless he holds onto a rope which happens to be between an iron maiden. He grabs onto the rope which leaves him open to another torture device called the Nut Cracker, which gives him various punishments such as kicking his crotch, and giving him a purple nurple and a wet willy. Moments before their deaths, Cindy finds photos in the toilet of Jigsaw, a woman, and the ghost boy, and realizes that Jigsaw was the ghost boy's real father, and the entire invasion was revenge for his son's death. He then says "Anyone can hold a grudge, but it takes real courage to forgive," and it is at this time that Jigsaw comes into the spotlight. He then tells them that the invasion is over and allows them to leave.
He apologizes for the invasion, and then Brenda and Jigsaw's brother, Zoltar, emerge from the other room, where they have just had sex. Jigsaw asks Zoltar if he caught anything, Zoltar replies that Brenda (untruthfully) told him she was a virgin and Jigsaw finishes by saying "We are so fucked." Nine months later, Brenda gives birth to a baby that looks just like Jigsaw and Zoltar.
After that, James Earl Jones gets hit by a bus while delivering Morgan Freeman's closing lines from War of the Worlds.
A five minute epilogue spoofs the Tom Cruise couch incident by showing an Oprah Winfrey Show episode with Tom Ryan jumping on a couch with Oprah (played by Debra Wilson). Tom runs around the studio, does backflips (performed by David Leighton), swings across the studio, and chews/rips apart one of the couch cushions. Cindy Campbell walks in and gets thrown by Tom off the stage. Tom then breaks Oprah's hands and wrists, smashes a chair over her head, runs towards the camera lens, and the screen goes black.
86. The Nutty Professor (1996): The film opens with an exercise show hosted by Lance Perkins (Murphy) on TV and we see Professor Sherman Klump (also Murphy) getting ready for school. Meanwhile, hamsters are overrunning
He then has an unpleasant meeting with Dean Richmond (Miller). The Dean tells him that the incident with the hamsters has cost the science department most of its funding. Harlan Hartley (Coburn) is the school's last remaining wealthy alumnus and is planning to award a $10 million grant to the college, and Klump is warned not to alienate him as well.
After class,
This inspires
I got myself a date,
Friday night, at 8!
And I will not be late,
She might even be my mate,
Yes, that would be so great,
Great-great, great-great, great-great!
And I can hardly wait!
While watching Lance Perkins on TV giving one his speeches of motivation, Sherman falls asleep and dreams he is making out with Carla on a beach but she gets burried into the sand by Sherman's weight, Sherman awakes to Lance telling the viewers to get up and tell themselves "Yes I Can!", which Sherman does. Now
Later that night, alone and depressed in his apartment, Sherman stuffs himself with junk food while watching Lance console a fat woman who tells a sad story about how a man asked her out as an excuse to make fun of her obesity.
The following day, while still slim, he starts to flirt with Carla, who comes to the lab looking for
Buddy returns to Carla, who is delighted with him. He gives a waiter a credit card to pay for the meal. Buddy and Carla then share a kiss. Immediately after, the serum begins to wear off and Buddy makes a quick exit. Jason happens to be at the bar and notes the card Buddy is using belongs to
The next morning,
Later, in the lab, Jason tells Sherman that he can't control Buddy, whose testosterone levels keep rising, using his out-of-character attitude as Buddy as an example. He warns him not to use the serum again and to focus instead on the research for Hartley. Later, Carla talks to
Buddy, who is becoming ever more aggressive, takes Carla out on a second date, this time to the hotel where
Buddy then picks up three beautiful woman, and invites Carla to participate in some "group action." She promptly dumps him. Undaunted, he throws a party at
When he arrives, he discovers that Buddy has been given his job and his ticket to the alumni ball. At home, depressed,
Buddy knocks Jason out and goes to the alumni ball, where he intends to drink the last of the serum and permanently eliminate
As Buddy stands poised to return a blow,
87. The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps (2000): As the film opens,
The orphaned DNA, a glowing blob of jelly, combines with a hair from a basset hound and grows instantaneously into an adult man, Buddy Love—now a fully autonomous being. Thanks to his doggy heritage, however, this Buddy Love has a tendency to chase cats and cars.
Buddy steals some of
This, however, is the least of
Denese and Cletus arrive, and see
As in the first film, bloopers accompany the closing credits.
88. Dr. Dolittle (1998): The film starts out with Lucky the Dog (Norm Macdonald) is explaining in narration how it is so easy to pretend to talk with your dog. He then adds, "but what if it was not pretend".
The film now opens to John Dolittle as a kid talking to his Dog (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres). He asks his dog questions, one being "Why do dogs sniff each others butts"? Her response is that it's their way of shaking hands. His father (Ossie Davis) hears the question and says that the dog doesn't have any idea what he said. He was wrong. He finds this out when John meets his new principal, he sniffs his butt. The dog obviously knows something is going to happen. When his father hires a minister to remove the evil from him (and freaking him out), the dog saves him by biting the minister. The dog is then taken up for adoption. John is very upset now. He never talks to animals again (for now).
Thirty years later, we see John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) shooing a puppy out of his apartment. He is a doctor, married with two kids. His oldest daughter Charisse (Raven Symone) is a gangster gal who wants to be named Paprika. His youngest daughter Maya (Kyla Pratt) is a nerdy girl who does experiments, such as raising a swan egg (or so she thinks) so it will bond with her. She also has a Guinea Pig named Rodney (Chris Rock). His wife Lisa (Kristen Wilson) just wants to spend time with him. Meanwhile at work, a big medical company owner Calloway (Peter Boyle) wants to buy the company. Everyone is very excited because this means much more money. John also takes his family out in the country for vacation. After taking the family to the country, he has to stay late at work to give Mrs. Parkus (Cherie Franklin), a woman who is addicted to shellfish even though she is really allergic to it, medication.
Driving home, he accidentily hits Lucky. Even though he feels terrible, Lucky, alive and well, walks away and shouts "Watch where you're going next time, you bone-head!". This is the first time an animal talks to him years later. While asleep, Rodney sneaks from under the covers to see John. The next day, he is driving Rodney to the country and Rodney starts talking to him. He than realizes that John can speak to animals but John says that the thing that made him talk to animals would not affect him but after those years, this starts happening to him. To stop the annoyance, John puts Rodney on the roof of the car.
Up in the country, an owl wants him to remove a twig in her wing. After this happens, she tells all the animals about this. Soon, animals start asking favors to John. Scared, he goes to see Dr. Litvak (Steven Gilborn) for a CAT scan, but nothing is wrong with him. He then meets two trash eating rats that obiously don't like him. The next day he finds Lucky being taken to a kennel.
So he takes Lucky out and then to the vet. Thinking he got rid of Lucky, Lisa calls and Lucky starts woofing to make it sound like John got a Dog. So John makes a deal with Maya. If she stays at camp, Lucky is all hers. That night, a large bunch of animals come to see the Doctor for treatment, such as a drunken circus monkey, two dysfunctional pigeons, a homosexual goat with a rash, an OCD dog , and some cloned sheep with rectal trauma. After treating a horse with near-sightedness, the drunk monkey tells the Doctor about a sick circus tiger (voiced by Albert Brooks). They find him atop a 5-story building attempting to commit suicide, while the rats make fun of him. John and Lucky confront him saying that everyone loves tigers(using Tony the Tiger and "Eye of the Tiger" as examples) and that he can cure him. his working with animals is distracting him from a meeting with Calloway and spending time with his wife. Soon Lisa finds all the animals.
She and Mark catch him giving CPR to one of the rats, which was a false alarm (a.k.a Gas). They send him to an asylum, where he meets Blaine, one of his enemies from medical school. Meanwhile, the Tiger is getting sicker, so Lucky tries to save John. John is mad at all the animals for sending him to the asylum. But Lucky says that he is hiding from his past self. With the help of
But because they need to go through the party, and because Rodney is there, the tiger, whose name is Jake, comes out from under the hospital bed and scares everyone. Now everyone is watching the operation. Lisa is now upset that her husband thinks he can talk to animals. John's father reveals he can talk to animals. With that said, she comes in the operating room to comfort the tiger. John finds out that it is a blood clot, and with that, saves his life. Calloway is watching this and he is very amused. He wants to buy the company, but John refuses.
In the end, John is now a human doctor and an animal doctor. Maya's egg hatches, revealing to be an alligator. The rats are mad that the ending is happy. The owl shows up and chases the two. John and Lucky are seen walking to the circus and talking about things, while the song "Talk with the Animals" plays in the background.
89. Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001): The movie starts out with Lucky the Dog (voiced by Norm Macdonald) explaining John Dolittle's (Eddie Murphy) gift of talking to animals. John comes home from
Also, Charisse's (Raven-Symone) sixteenth birthday is coming today, and John was mad because she decided to go out on a date when she was supposed to spend it at her house. She was also not doing well in her classes. As a punishment, her father takes her phone away. Later on, her boyfriend, Eric Wilson (Lil' Zane), comes over and he is told that they have to spend her birthday there so he joins them. John embarrasses Charisse by telling stories and doing stupid stuff. He is interrupted by Joey (voice of Michael Rapaport), a raccoon that tells him that his boss, the God beaver, wants to see him and he says no than later tells him to meet him in his car the next morning. He goes back inside and when they start singing happy birthday, Charisse's cake has the two annoying rats from the original film in it, claiming that they wanted to surprise her. John then brings them outside.
Afterwards, Charisse is in Maya's room later on as she hears a conversation between her little sister and Lucky and her father promises her they would go to
The next day, John, Joey and a possum named Jimmy brings him to the forest outside of the city. He meets the Godbeaver (voice of Richard C. Sarafian) and the beaver shows him that the forest is being cut down. John plans to save the forest to get an endangered female Pacific Western bear together with a male to save their species though that is only if the male stays away from campsites and stores, though he only has one month to do it.
At a circus, John attempts to get Archie, the surviving male member in his species, to go out into the forest to teach him to become a real bear and mate with the lone potential Pacific Western bear female, Ava. Reluctantly, he agrees but John knows that Archie, being separated from his mother when he was six-months old, doesn't know what kind of bear he is and never acts as a real animal. John, after taking his family on a vacation to the forest for the rest of the month then makes a deal with Ava to not make any decisions for the month and promised to turn Archie into someone she will love to provide, hunt and protect for her when she has cubs, though she is already involved with someone else.
During the training, Archie attempts to catch a fish but he didn't have the time to grab one then drowned because of having an inability to lift his head out of the water, though he can't eat insects, and can't hibernate. After an unsuccessful attempt to be taught by two bears, John hires his animal friends to make an attempt to stop Charisse and Eric from making out, though unlike the training, it was a success.
Meanwhile, John then teaches Archie and Lucky to be the strongest males in their species, though the training goes to trouble when John accidentally scolds Lisa and then, unwittingly ignores her for the next few days. Then, John tells Archie that he will win Ava's heart, by challenging a fight to her boyfriend, the tough, western-accented Kodiak Bear, Sonny.
Then, every animal in the forest watches as John dances with Lisa and the two attempt to embrace but Lucky accidentally blows it, making John angrily getting the animals away from the cabin and Lisa dumps him by making him sleep on the couch, much to his chagrin. Then, Archie attempts to get Ava's attention by singing her a song while imitating John in a smooth voice and on a tree branch but blows his attempt when he is too heavy for the branch to hold and he falls down, humiliating himself.
Archie then refused to come out of his newfound cave because of humiliating himself in front of Ava and John attempts to get him out by calling him a coward. Archie proclaims that it was hard but John knows how hard it is when his wife grows mad at him, Charisse growing mad at him too and spending his family vacation with a pizza guy as Charisse's boyfriend. John constantly calls him a coward and pokes him, much to Archie's chagrin. When Archie hits John, making him fall on a muddy hole, Archie begins to listen to his "inner bear".
As he brings Ava a fish, Archie wants to know why Sonny is acting like Prince Charming, though Ava reveals that he brings a "hundred fish" and asking her if she'll be in heat, rather than telling her how beautiful she was and making her life comfortable with fun, poetry and laughs. The two then went out on a walk and as Lucky knows, there is "love in the air".
Then, Lucky then attempts to win the affection an attractive female wolf (though throughout the film, Lucky attempts to get her attention two times but both are unsuccessful as she runs off as Lucky assumes the weakness position for wolves and heads off after drinking Lucky's water bowl and being chased by John who teaches Lucky and Archie to be alpha males). The attempt was successful as Lucky urinates around her territory and she is about to go out with him but one of her packmates came and finds Lucky urinating part of the pack's territory and the two wolves leave, much to Lucky's depression.
Then, Archie and Ava, after the walk, find a bee hive on a fallen tree at the edge of a very tall hill and Archie attempts to get it but Ava tells him that many bears had died getting it, so he agrees. Sonny arrives at the scene and attempts to run Archie off but he gets outwitted by his rival, though he doesn't like getting confused. Archie still wants Ava around but Ava reluctantly goes with Sonny, much to Archie's depression.
Afterwards, Mr. Potter, the owner of two logging companies, attempts to make a deal with John and when Archie arrives, he tells John he has his "big finish", knowing that he will win Ava about John telling him to listen to his "inner bear". Back at the cabin, Charisse is beginning to hate living in the forest and is annoyed with her family talking to the animals, though John doesn't know what is bothering her. Meanwhile, Archie goes after the bee hive on the fallen tree branch while watching out for his balance and the log is beginning to collapse as the animals watch and John attempts to stop Archie from getting the hive.
The bees that are protecting the hive attack Archie, go after John but then, chase after Mr. Potter's apprentice. Archie, at all last, finally gets the hive, winning Ava's heart and earning the respect of the other animals, though a furious Sonny could have got that hive if he wanted and Ava then dumps him to go with Archie.
When the two play hide-and-seek to mate, Mr. Potter's apprentice tranquilizes him. John returns after this and finds that Archie, being hit by the tranquilizer dart, destroyed the back of a restaurant in the woods. After getting advice from the other animals of what happened, John visits Archie in jail after an attempt to get one more week to get Archie to mate with Ava to save the Pacific Western bear species. Archie then discovers that he may be too dangerous to be set free and is going to be sold to a Mexican circus.
Then, John realizes that Charisse has developed her father's gift of talking to animals, though it has been in her for two weeks now. Later, John held a meeting for every animal in the forest to not give up without a fight no matter what kind of animal expression they have and everyone agrees to do it and free Archie. The animals, led by Charisse, Eric, and Maya, rebel against the loggers and every animal around the world go on strikes as an effort to free Archie.
Mr. Potter and his apprentice are then attacked by some of the animals at the company, such as a swarm of rats, a fleet of pigeons, a pack of wolves and Mr. Potter's apprentice is then attacked by the swarm of bees outside the building, while Mr. Potter is cornered by Ava and Joey. Then, when the animals refused to have twelve acres in their home, the strike kept growing, though every animal pros are getting in on the act. As a deal is made, the Dolittles and the animals have saved the entire forest outside of
The film then ends as Charisse and her father getting closer than ever and helping Pepito with his blending problems, Lucky once again winning the affection of the female wolf and cubs being raised by Archie and Ava, though the brother-sister duo are taught by Archie on how to sing and dance.
90. Soul Plane (2004): After Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) gets stuck in an airline toilet, the plane suffers a minor disaster and, as a result, his dog is sucked through a jet engine. He then sues the airline. After getting a large settlement of $100,000,000 he decides to start his own airline, called NWA (Nashawn Wade Airlines), whose acronym and logo are a pop culture reference to rap group NWA. The airline specifically caters to African Americans and hip hop culture. The terminal at the airport is called the Malcolm X terminal, the plane is customized with low-rider hydraulics, spinners, and a dance club. The safety video is also a spoof of the Destiny's Child song Survivor. It's the first flight for NWA and Nashawn is trying to deal with a multitude of problems. His pilot Captain Mack (Snoop Dogg) has never flown before, learned to fly in prison and is afraid of heights, his partner, Muggsey (Method Man), is setting up a miniature casino and strip joint in one of the areas on the plane, and Nashawn's ex-girlfriend is on board and less than happy to see him. In another part of the plane the family Hunkee is dealing with problems of their own. Aside from being the only white people on the flight, Elvis Hunkee's (Tom Arnold) daughter is turning eighteen and plans to allegedly use the newfound freedom by drinking and having sex, his son has transformed in a matter of seconds from an exact duplicate of him to a loud wannabe gangster, and his girlfriend has found a new interest in black men after viewing pictures in a pornographic magazine. The pilot seemingly dies, after eating mushrooms that the co-pilot uses to soothe his genital crabs. Nashawn then attempts to contact the co-pilot, who is incapacitated after slipping on the water located around the hot tub, forcing Nashawn to attempt to land the plane himself. Nashawn then lands the plane safely, using the airplane stuartist's flight knowledge learned while having sex in the cockpit with the pilot on another flight, in the middle of Central Park only to have the spinners stolen from the plane. He then gets back together with his ex girlfriend after earlier revealing to her that he only broke up with her so she wouldn't give up her college opportunities for him. The pilot soon after wakes up, and realizes that he is on the plane alone and was mugged while sleeping. The movie then ends with the Nashawn telling the audience the fate of his crew. He claims that he and his ex girlfriend are back together taking their relationship slow this time around, his cousin Muggsey has started a strip club and gambling casino located in an airplane similar to the club in Nashawn's plane, Elvis Hunkee has begun a sexual relationship with Monique's perverteded character who had earlier in the movie sexually assaulted the same African American male athlete that Barbara left Hunkee for, and Elvis Hunkee's son has become a major music video director but has disappeared shortly after filming a Michael Jackson video (this references the child molestation charges that had been filed against Michael Jackson in both 1993 and 2003).
TO BE CONTINUED
By Shway Ross & Richard Moody
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