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Re: TIL Thread: Today I learned...

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:24 pm

TIL that they're doing a revival of a 1960s Hanna-Barbera show "The Banana Splits"

...as a R-rated slasher horror film

...on SyFy

...and it's clearly a ripoff of FNAF

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Post by Octavia (?) » Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:37 pm

The Banana Splits had a catchy theme song and that's all I remember about it.

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Re: TIL Thread: Today I learned...

Post by Princess Flufflebutt (?) » Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:53 pm

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Evidently I'm on "Jonny Quest" kick.

Anyone remember the 1990s revival "The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest" that aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block? Yeah, the making of that show was...not easy, turned out.

The biggest problem was that the people originally in charge of it disliked the original show and intentionally tried to make the new version completely different from it as a result. That didn't go well, as you'd expect. Millions of dollars were spent before they realized the scraps of scripts they churned out was unusable (one of the people involved said they barely made sense).

They were eventually fired and new showrunners were hired (among them former Terrytoons/Ralph Bakshi animator Cosmo Anzilotti) to basically salvage what they could from what the original producers did.

While this was going on, a separate unit was set up to create an entirely different "Jonny Quest" show, this time much closer to the 1960s series (and helmed by people who actually liked the old show). This was meant to be separate from "Real Adventures", but for whatever reason they decided to make this "season 2" of that show, even though there's little connection to it.

The whole show was a big, expensive clusterfuck, in the end :-I
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Re: TIL Thread: Today I learned...

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:43 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:24 pm
TIL that they're doing a revival of a 1960s Hanna-Barbera show "The Banana Splits"

...as a R-rated slasher horror film

...on SyFy

...and it's clearly a ripoff of FNAF

Okay :-I
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:13 pm

Octavia wrote:
Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:37 pm
The Banana Splits had a catchy theme song and that's all I remember about it.

(sees the end credits)

Okay, TI (also) L that Richard Donner (of "Superman" and "Lethal Weapon" fame) directed this show.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:32 pm

At this point, SyFy could probably get another MST3K revival entirely out of riffing on their own original movies.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:55 pm

TIL about American Fotoplayer. Basically one-man orchestra that was used during the silent movie days.

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Re: TIL Thread: Today I learned...

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 1:43 am

Okay, I sorta knew that "All in the Family" lead to a crapton of spin-offs (and some of those spin-offs got their OWN spin-offs), but man, I underestimated the sheer number.

I think people are familiar with "The Jeffersons" and "Maude" (the latter itself had its own popular spin-off "Good Times"), but then there are obscure ones like "Gloria", focusing on the Bunkers' daughter (the premise being she divorced Mike and moved out...yeah). Only aired for one season.

Gloria's own show still lasted longer than "Checking In", though, which was a spin-off of "The Jeffersons" focusing on the housekeeper Florence. That one only aired for 4 episodes before being canned! (Florence later returned to the Jeffersons after the cancellation of her own show).

The final spin-off was "704 Hauser", which aired in 1994 for only 5 episodes. The series' concept was that a black family moved into a former home of the Bunkers, years after Archie sold the place. The only character from the earlier show who appeared was Joey, Mike and Gloria's son, who made a cameo in the first episode.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 3:17 pm

TIL my mom recognizes Tails the Fox as being "from those games", but neither of us has a clue how.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:22 pm

Did you know that not all languages have the same distinction between green and blue that we have? I just learned this last night and it's mildly freaking me out that language could filter the perception and classification of color differently for different people. :-I

One theory suggests that languages and cultures start off by distinguishing black, dark colors, and cool colors from white, light colors, and warm colors, with a general dark/light pair of words. As the language evolves, red is normally the first to get its own word, then green and yellow, then blue gets cleaved off of green, then brown from red, then purple, pink, orange (or red-yellow before the orange fruit provided a distinct name, though whether the name of the color or the fruit came first is itself an unsolved linguistic problem), and gray, and last various relativistic terms for describing more colors.
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Post by diribigal (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:30 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:22 pm
I just learned this last night and it's mildly freaking me out that language could filter the perception and classification of color differently for different people. :-I
You should take the color perception survey at
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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:03 pm

Vox did a video about it a couple years back:

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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Mr. Big wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2019 1:43 am
Okay, I sorta knew that "All in the Family" lead to a crapton of spin-offs (and some of those spin-offs got their OWN spin-offs), but man, I underestimated the sheer number.

I think people are familiar with "The Jeffersons" and "Maude" (the latter itself had its own popular spin-off "Good Times"), but then there are obscure ones like "Gloria", focusing on the Bunkers' daughter (the premise being she divorced Mike and moved out...yeah). Only aired for one season.

Gloria's own show still lasted longer than "Checking In", though, which was a spin-off of "The Jeffersons" focusing on the housekeeper Florence. That one only aired for 4 episodes before being canned! (Florence later returned to the Jeffersons after the cancellation of her own show).

The final spin-off was "704 Hauser", which aired in 1994 for only 5 episodes. The series' concept was that a black family moved into a former home of the Bunkers, years after Archie sold the place. The only character from the earlier show who appeared was Joey, Mike and Gloria's son, who made a cameo in the first episode.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:11 pm

diribigal wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:30 pm
You should take the color perception survey at
http://labinthewild.org/studies/color_perception and then read the article at https://medium.com/hci-design-at-uw/the ... 6ac0d25d34
I hope this survey can get out to more people, especially those from cultures that haven't been heavily influenced by Western (particularly American) color perceptions. I gave my color names, but I get the feeling that English-speaking people will be represented quite well vs. others in the resulting data set.

I got a perfect score on the color perception test, of course. :twiright:
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Post by Void Chicken (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:12 pm

This is the main reason traffic lights look blue in a lot of anime. The real lights are the same color as they are in the west. But the hue in anime is considered green to the Japanese, so those are green lights to them.

e: Oh the Wikipedia page mentioned that :-I

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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:28 pm

Void Chicken wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:12 pm
This is the main reason traffic lights look blue in a lot of anime. The real lights are the same color as they are in the west. But the hue in anime is considered green to the Japanese, so those are green lights to them.
I've encountered this specific phenomenon in video games, though the only games I've encountered it on were on the Game Boy Color, so I assumed it was an odd technical limitation of the platform. I didn't know until now that ao was the base name shared for those colors in Japanese and that it could thus influence artistic depiction.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Fri Jun 21, 2019 8:13 pm

diribigal wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:30 pm
You should take the color perception survey at
http://labinthewild.org/studies/color_perception and then read the article at https://medium.com/hci-design-at-uw/the ... 6ac0d25d34
Apparently my color perception score is 100 :dwi:
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:42 pm

TIL that the word "motel" came from "motor hotel". Huh

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Post by Cthulhu Inc (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:45 pm

Octavia wrote:
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Apparently my color perception score is 100 :dwi:
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Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:49 pm

TIL that "lemonade" in the UK refers to a carbonated drink, basically 7Up but minus the lime flavor.

WTF? How is it that every American kid grows up knowing that "chips" means French fries and what the boot of a car is but not this?
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Pocket wrote:
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WTF? How is it that every American kid grows up knowing that "chips" means French fries and what the boot of a car is but not this?
Because American kids are taught growing up that "chips" refers to what people in the UK call "crisps", and that the "boot" of the car is called a "trunk."

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:37 pm

TIL that it is, in fact, possible to polish a turd. Mythbusters proved it in one episode


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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:26 am

TIL that the day Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi commercial was the exact halfway point of his life.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:48 pm

TIL that they used to refer China as "Cathay" a long time ago.

I found some old comics which had references to a character visiting Cathay, and I figured it was a country I never heard of. Turns out that's how they called China back then.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jun 30, 2019 12:00 am

Also, TIL that there is a short film that won TWO Oscars, a 1971 Mexican documentary called "Sentinels of Silence" (Orson Welles narrated the English version). It won for Best Short Subject and Best Documentary.

Because of this the rules were changed afterwards so that short documentary films can only be considered for one category but not both.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jul 03, 2019 12:00 am

TIL that, while the majority of "All in the Family" was taped in front of a studio audience, the final season was taped in a closed set.

To get the audience laughs, they would play the finished and edited episodes during a live taping of "One Day at a Time" (the original show, not the reboot on Netflix) and record the reactions, which would then be dubbed into the show.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jul 12, 2019 12:29 am

More on AITF since I've been rewatching the show...TIL that, in the Richard Nixon tapes, he complained about "All in the Family" because one of the episodes featured a positive portrayal of a gay character.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:39 pm

I guess I'm on a old sitcom kick :v:

TIL that "The Brady Bunch" had a spin-off in the 1980s called "The Brady Brides", the premise being that Marcia and Jan grew up and got married (to a college professor and a toy company salesman respectively), with all of them living together (along with Alice the maid). The husbands disliked each-other, kind of a "Odd Couple" type situation.

The show was cancelled after just 10 episodes.



Interestingly, the husbands were NOT retconned out in later revivals "A Very Brady Christmas" and "The Bradys", where they were included.

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:00 am

today i learned that shark skin is tough and sharp do the point that sharks like mako sharks could cut you if you touched them

this skin allows them to go really fast through the water by causing cavitation. air bubbles form, meaning that their skin isn't touching the water reducing drag and also preventing parasites from latching on.
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I read shrek skin at first
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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:16 pm

Octavia wrote:
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The Banana Splits had a catchy theme song and that's all I remember about it.

This is all I remember about the Banana Splits:


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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:54 pm

I bought that CD the day it came out and I still have it. :allears:
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:41 pm

TIL about how, in 2000, a German satirical magazine "Titanic" offered a fake bribe to FIFA delegates to vote for Germany to host the 2006 FIFA World Championship in exchange for a cuckoo clock, sausages, and ham. Altogether worth maybe less than $200.

And it apparently worked. One of the delegates who was instructed to vote for South Africa abstained after getting the fax because he was confused about what was going on, leading Germany to get enough votes to host it.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:48 pm

FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet, so that doesn't surprise me at all.
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Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:47 pm

This popped up in my recommended videos and uh... wow. It was a huge eye opener for me as someone who does a lot of work with digital pictures.



They use iOS's blur effects as the main example, but this affects literally everything that involves digital color mixing, from antialiasing to compositing layers to even resizing images. And all of it could be fixed forever if they changed the code to run the numbers through that simple formula. It would probably cause a significant performance hit, though, which would be unacceptable for games and problematic for video rendering.
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Sat Jul 20, 2019 4:21 pm

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:22 am

Remember back when this site had a front page, where I wrote a long post about Merriwether Williams and how she helped develop a show called "Free for All", based on a comic strip?

Well, TIL that the creator of "Free for All" became a homeless meth addict sometime after the show ended. He was high on it at the time of his murder. :nngh:

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Post by diribigal (?) » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:22 am

Recently I learned that Ayatollah Khomeini let the black people go from the embassy, basically on the basis of their oppression in America. I haven't seen the movie, but I hear Argo did not mention this detail.
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