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Re: TIL Thread: Today I learned...

Post by Auxiliatrix (?) » Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:29 pm

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TIL Doug has a Japanese dub
Of all shows to dub, I'm not sure why Doug would be one of the top-tier choices. :pinkieshrug:
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:40 pm

It's because there used to be a Nickelodeon station in Japan. Just about all the Nick shows up until "Teenage Robot" aired there (although I recall "Doug" was dubbed later than the most).

Japanese Nick shut down in 2009, but it was revived in January 2018. "SpongeBob" was the only one airing in Japan in the meantime, on various stations (from NHK to Japanese MTV to Animax to revived Japan Nick).

Of all the Nick shows to air in Japan, I think only "SpongeBob" and "Teenage Robot" had a following there.

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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Tue Oct 09, 2018 5:53 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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TIL that, for the Japanese dub of "Doug", Doug Funnie was voiced by Masako Nozawa.

Yes, the original voice for Goku in "Dragon Ball" :-I
The most important follow up question: did she also voice Roger Klotz?
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Japanese Nick shut down in 2009, but it was revived in January 2018. "SpongeBob" was the only one airing in Japan in the meantime, on various stations (from NHK to Japanese MTV to Animax to revived Japan Nick).
It's the only show Nick has on these days too, so no surprise there. :-P
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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:18 am

TIL that the setting of the Dragon Age games, Thedas, can also be read as:

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:00 am

Pocket wrote:
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It's the only show Nick has on these days too, so no surprise there. :-P
Well, that and "Loud House"

Now I wonder how "Loud House" would be received in Japan... :ponder:

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Madeline wrote:
Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:18 am
TIL that the setting of the Dragon Age games, Thedas, can also be read as:

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That's literally how they came up with the name.


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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:57 pm

Highbrow Dash wrote:
Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:34 pm
That's literally how they came up with the name.

BioWare: a never-ending stream of :facehoof:

Or maybe I should :facehoof: at myself. I can’t decide

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 4:42 pm

nah, do it at Bioware, they deserve it
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:18 pm

Madeline wrote:
Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:09 am
Dana Delaney as Lois Lane comes to mind as someone who came out of live action, but still nailed her VA role to the extent where she’s my favorite incarnation of the character. You can find several more examples on any show Andrea Romano has ever voice directed and/or cast. She’s one of the best at making that kind of stunt casting actually work.

Mark Hamill is another good example. Being the Joker was a big up for him in a period where people mainly remembered him as “that kid who played Luke Skywalker,” if they remembered him at all.
Those are good examples! And I agree with you about Lois Lane.

I was also thinking of "Top Cat", and how much of the voice actors came from live-action background. Specifically, Arnold Stang (Top Cat), Maurice Gosfield (Benny the Ball), and Allen Jenkins (Office Dibble).

Stang did have other animation voice credits before and after "Top Cat", but for Gosfield and Jenkins, this was the only time they voiced in animation. Gosfield died just few years after "Top Cat" aired, though.

"Top Cat" was produced for prime-time, so they probably had different goals for their voice acting choices. Supposedly they wanted Daws Butler to voice Top Cat until they hired Stang.

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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:56 pm

I should have thought of “Top Cat,” considering it’s one of the only H-B shows I like enough to have on DVD :-I

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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:04 pm

Perrydotto wrote:
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nah, do it at Bioware, they deserve it
I still regret buying Mass Effect 3. The first time I was glad I got spoiled before I played the game. Unfortunately I’d just recently gotten a PS3 and the other games for it, so it meant I’d plonked out nearly full price for the whole trilogy and a bunch of DLC. The schadenfreude is on me :smith: worse yet, I’d already been buying those for 360 when that machine died on me

That was probably the moment where I gave up on “AAA” gaming for good, in retrospect, even if I didn’t realize it at the time and kept foolishly wasting money on games hoping I’d like them again :-I

Oh well, I can’t fix the past, but it’s easy for me to not buy games now, so yay?

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Madeline wrote:
Wed Oct 10, 2018 6:56 pm
I should have thought of “Top Cat,” considering it’s one of the only H-B shows I like enough to have on DVD :-I
I honestly consider "Top Cat" to be the best show Hanna-Barbera produced (I also enjoy "Quick Draw McGraw").

Maurice Gosfield voicing Benny makes sense considering that the whole show was inspired by Sgt. Bilko, and Benny in particular was based on Private Doberman in that show.

So why not hire the actor that played Doberman to voice the cat version of that character? :smirk: Gosfield did a bunch of bit parts here and there, but Bilko and Top Cat were the only times he got to be a regular.

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Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:56 am

Yeah, that makes sense.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Oct 13, 2018 1:14 pm

I'm on a TV sitcom trivia kick :-I

TIL that Phil Silvers was a co-producer on "Gilligan's Island", and actually more money in royalties on that show than playing Bilko.

Short version: CBS wanted Silvers to star in their new sitcom after the successful "Bilko" ended. He agreed on the condition that his production company will produce it, and that said company will get the option to produce other shows that he's not starring in. That turned out to be a wise move for Silvers, because the new sitcom he was in only lasted one season. CBS still had to fulfill the other agreement, so when they agreed to greenlight "Gilligan's Island", it was on the condition that Silvers' company would co-produce it.

The said deal was apparently common in television back then (and still happens today, although on limited basis). This is why Bing Crosby was a partner on "Hogan's Heroes"

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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:35 pm

I just noticed that all of the antagonists in Mr Big's webcomic "The Fuzzy Princess" are all animals, even the humans.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:02 am

Davyinatoga wrote:
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I just noticed that all of the antagonists in Mr Big's webcomic "The Fuzzy Princess" are all animals, even the humans.
I just like naming human bad guys after animals, it's all :-I

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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:07 am

I always have wondered what kind of person would willingly go by "Bloated Whale", though. Seems like a nasty nickname that somehow stuck.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:16 am

Perpetual Motion wrote:
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I always have wondered what kind of person would willingly go by "Bloated Whale", though. Seems like a nasty nickname that somehow stuck.
In all seriousness, I named him "Bloated Whale" because I noticed a lot of bullies in older anime have bizarre nicknames like that. "Doraemon" has Gian (or Giant), "Gutsy Frog" has Gorilla Imo (Potato Gorilla?), "Kiteretsu" has Buta-Gorilla (Gorilla Hog) and "Q-Taro the Ghost" has one nicknamed Godzilla, which makes me wonder how they didn't get sued by the owners of the movies.

I thought those were all funny, so "Bloated Whale" came as a kind of a throwback to ancient anime.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:32 pm

Oh man, I remember reading about that. I fully support Superman beating up Klansmen :jingo:

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Davyinatoga wrote:
Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:35 pm
I just noticed that all of the antagonists in Mr Big's webcomic "The Fuzzy Princess" are all animals, even the humans.
Technically, since humans are animals, our names are animal names. :twiright:
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Post by Jill (?) » Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:10 am



i dunno nearly as much about hares as i do rabbits, but the way they're commonly mixed up would explain a few things


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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Oct 22, 2018 1:03 pm

The Red Sonjas of the animal world.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Oct 23, 2018 7:32 pm

TIL that the Energizer Bunny was a parody of Duracell Bunny.


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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:15 pm

TIL that I didn't win $1.6 billion
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Post by Cthulhu Inc (?) » Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:31 pm

same
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:42 pm

I know I didn't because I didn't play. :twiright:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:40 am

A single winning ticket was sold in South Carolina, which is fortunately one of the few states that allows the prize to be claimed anonymously.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:03 am

TIL that Stop signs used to be yellow until the 1950s.

They always wanted to use red, but the red dye at the time had the tendency to fade. Eventually they switched to a type of lacquer that's fade-resistant, and thus red signs became the norm.

(I learned this because I had to look up pictures of Stop signs so I could draw it in my comic :-I )

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Post by diribigal (?) » Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:56 am

Today I learned about the mathematics and the regularities in "longest juggling routines you can do with a fixed number of balls and maximum height size that don't have a subroutine you can repeat". It's probably more mathematical than it sounds, but I like math and juggling. :pinkieshrug:
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:34 am

Today (or more precisely during the last month) I learned that craftsmen are all botching at their jobs.
I'm moving soon into my own apartment and there is nothing that was done right there.
They are supposed to be certified "master craftsmen". Even I could have done it better with my two left hands.
Very uneven walls with lots of holes, putty over old wallpaper, uneven painted doors and heat radiators, broken tile next to the water meter, the attic is not cleared, the cellar wall is wet and the wall is crumbling...

I wish I could live in the stereotype Germany where everything is done right. :anticipation:
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Adiwan wrote:
Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:34 am
Today (or more precisely during the last month) I learned that craftsmen are all botching at their jobs.
I'm moving soon into my own apartment and there is nothing that was done right there.
They are supposed to be certified "master craftsmen". Even I could have done it better with my two left hands.
Very uneven walls with lots of holes, putty over old wallpaper, uneven painted doors and heat radiators, broken tile next to the water meter, the attic is not cleared, the cellar wall is wet and the wall is crumbling...

I wish I could live in the stereotype Germany where everything is done right. :anticipation:
Friendly piece of advice - call a professional electrician to come and check out all the wiring in the apartment to make sure it was done properly. My dad has had way too many instances over the years where he's gone to replace like a light switch or a wall outlet or some other fixture in a room, shut off the power to that room on the circuit breaker, and still gotten zapped because whichever idiot wired the house ignored proper procedure and took shortcuts that would inevitably lead to power still going to the room despite the breaker being flipped off.

To say nothing of my own recent experience involving something not being properly wired/grounded.

So yeah. Get a professional to double check and make sure that shit was installed right.

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Mr. Big wrote:
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They always wanted to use red, but the red dye at the time had the tendency to fade. Eventually they switched to a type of lacquer that's fade-resistant, and thus red signs became the norm.
That's very interesting, because the yellow ink they use in four-color printing is always the first of the four colors to vanish if you let it get hit with direct sunlight.
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:15 pm

TIL I learned that actor Brian Blessed is a ridiculous badass:
Blessed was a keen boxer in his youth and claims to have sparred with the Dalai Lama. He has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times without supplemental oxygen, reaching heights of 28,200 feet (8,600 m) in 1993 and 25,200 feet (7,700 m) in 1996, but without reaching the summit. He holds a 3rd dan in Judo. He has reached the tops of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He is the oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole on foot, and has undertaken an expedition into the jungles of Venezuela, during which he survived a plane crash. Blessed has completed 800 hours of space training at Star City in Russia.
And here I was just looking him up because he voiced Clayton in Disney's Tarzan. Holy cow :waugh:
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Post by Pocket (?) » Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:55 pm

I love it when celebrities decide they're gonna just go do something awesome like that. Like, James Cameron has gone deeper into the Mariana Trench than anyone else, including the actual scientists whose submarine he borrowed. I have to wonder how that conversation went. I wonder if he even planned on beating their record or just kept going because he didn't know any better.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:05 am

TIL that Nazi Germany made their own movie based on the Titanic as a propaganda tool. Its production was a total clusterfuck, from the Nazi soldiers sexually assaulting female extras to the Gestapo murdering the film's original director for speaking out against the said harassment.

Despite being a propaganda commissioned by them, the Nazis ended up banning the film anyway after they realized that it would actually lower the German citizens' morale, since the film showed massive death and panic.

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