The Aquabats! Super Show! (2012), “The Return of the Aquabats”
Turns out I grew up with the guy who created this, and I didn’t know it until last year.
those are the aliens from Laserblast!
October 2019 - Ecuador’s government has fled the capital of Quito and moved to the city of Guayaquil, after tens of thousands of indigenous people marched on the capital, joining ongoing anti-austerity protests by workers and students there. Highway blockades, strikes by transportation workers and mass demonstrations have turned into violent protests after brutal police crackdowns, with hundreds arrested, dozens injured and at least two people dead after police opened fire on crowds besieging the parliament. Protesters have burned army vehicles and the national police headquarters, and taken dozens of police hostage.
The protests started when the Ecuadorian government made a deal with the IMF for billions in loans in exchange for harsh austerity measures and neoliberal reforms, which included scrapping fuel subsidies, doubling the price of fuel overnight. [video]/[video]/[video]/[video]
Cobra Commander: People trust television. It’s their friend! They believe what television tells them! About the news, the weather…or G.I. Joe! Don’t you see? We control the creation of truth!
i love this scene!
‘Voice and picture sssynthesisss’
You guys !!
Cobra Commander teaches us the value of good old fashioned propaganda and fake news ;)
I wonder if there’s a market in the G.I. Joe universe for “Cobra Cuts” of famous movies that Cobra sliced up for propaganda in this episode.
“Like, yeah, I know the Cobra Cut is objectively horrible, but that was the version I saw when I was a kid and none of the other cuts feel right…”
And then there are people who saw the Cobra Cuts for the first time and never realized they were Cobra Cuts and they just go through life thinking that’s how the movies ended, and then they see the original version and are like *spits out drink* “What the fuck!?”
What I’m trying to get at is that the Mandela Effect must be out of control in the Sunbow Verse, and Cobra probably did more lasting damage to American society with shitty movies than they did with all the M.A.S.S. Devices and Weather Dominators in the world. That, and the lasting impact of giving the world Cold Slither and then retiring them after a single album that to my knowledge consisted entirely of one song.
I have a lot of feelings about this clip that I’m still sorting out; the main one is this is the scariest I have ever found Cobra Commander.
I would say top 3 scariest CC moments from the toon in no particular order:
1. The above clip.
2. That time he summoned an eldritch horror and promised it “sacrifices undreamed of” if it would just kill Serpentor for him.
3. Though kind of undercut by Cobra’s incompetent cartography department, CC’s delivery in this clip is pretty cold blooded:
When just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions of course rice is the damn problem 😒
Better tell over 50% of the human race they can’t eat their main staple crop anymore because a bunch of bigwigs love oil more than reason
The Claws of Axos ep.1 - The Doctor’s angry reaction to Mr. Chinn’s xenophobiafor historical context [and the ppl who think this show was ever apolitical,] this episode aired during a time when neo nazis were rioting and assaulting people across London, and the National Front was at its peak of popularity
I’d look with rather profound disbelief at anyone who watches Jon Pertwee’s era and labels it “apolitical”.
I remember that I used to have three main categories that I ended up mentally slotting Pertwee-era stories into:
1) energy sources
2) pollution and environmentalism
3) nuclear armaggedon
Classic Who has always been something of a blunt instrument when tackling what was going on in politics at the time - whether it was the debate over Britain entering the European Union (The Curse of Peladon), or having one of the villains be a caricature of Margaret Thatcher when the show literally had an anti-Thatcher agenda in the late 80s.
yeah i mean
the show’s blatant and intentional leftist ideology was pretty clear from the outset [they blew up a thinly veiled metaphor for Fascism in the second ever episode…], but try telling that to ppl to whom Twelve is suddenly and inexplicably ‘’too political’’
not to mention the people to whom Thirteen is suddenly ‘too political’
