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Photo from a Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix article in a 2005 issue of Nintendo Power, depicting Mario using a bowl of spaghetti with mushrooms and meatballs to "carb up" for his dancing challenges in the game.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: NP (US), Issue 195, 2005

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THRESHOLD DAY HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

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Happy Winslow Wednesday

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Kevin ‘Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance’ Nintendo 3DS

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superstar saga

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Did you know? The classic Homestar Runner "Everybody, Everybody" song was indirectly inspired by Gamera!

The songs "Everybody, Everybody" and "Homestar Runner Theme Song" feature high-pitched childlike voices (actually series co-creators the Brothers Chaps' voices sped up):

Both songs were inspired by the children's chorus of "Gamera March":

This was revealed in a 2001 interview with retro CRUSH:

What was the influence for the Everybody theme song?  It almost reminds me of something Shonen Knife would have done. Mike: We had the music done and were going to leave it at that, but as i was listening to it, i started singing the 'everybody, everybody' part. So we recorded it and sped up our voices. Matt: With both that and the Homestar Runner theme song I was thinking of the English-language version of the Gamera theme song. You know, "Gamera is really neat, Gamera is turtle meat" and all that. Japanese kids are awesome.

Matt's mention of "Gamera is really neat..." lyrics suggests he learned of the song from Mystery Science Theater 3000, where it was memorably featured in episode 312 (Gamera vs. Guiron).

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"Merry Christmas, XBOX! It's Usher, and I hope Santa got you everything you asked for. INCLUDING Dance Central 3. I'll see you guys in the new year."

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spending christmas with the fam

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Mrs. Claus opens "The Year Without a Santa Claus" by claiming the eponymous year took place "before you were born". Seeing as the movie was released in 1974, this means the year must have been before then.

Bounding this on the lower end is the presence of ice hockey - mentioned by Heat Miser - and the use of telephones. Ice hockey was invented in 1875, while Alexander Graham Bell built the telephone in 1876, meaning the year must post-date these. These figures give a range of approximately 100 years during which Santa may have taken his holiday.

Yet, narrowing this further is the presence of a December calendar counting the 1st to a Wednesday. Between 1876 and 1974, only the Decembers of 1880, 1886, 1897, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1926, 1937, 1943, 1948, 1954, 1965, and 1971 started on a Wednesday.

But still this can be narrowed further.

When Santa set out that Christmas Eve, we see what appears to be an almost full Moon in the sky. Within the years listed, only 1920 had a full Moon on Christmas.

Ergo, 1920 was the year without a Santa Claus.

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I’m devastated. But it was such a good show

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The very first thing I ever saw of Team Fortress 2 was Team Fortress 2 - Super Smash Bros. 64 Intro, a Garry's Mod video recreating the intro to Super Smash Bros. with the TF2 cast.

In the video, Sniper is cast in the Fox role - mirroring the Great Fox, Sniper's shown piloting a plane, something he very much does not do in the game (the models were borrowed from a community map).

I wasn't much of a PC gamer at the time - I had never heard of TF2 or GMod, so on some level I had no idea what my high school buddy was showing me. Indeed, this video made me think the Sniper was a pilot for a good while!

But I knew Smash, and the TF2 character designs looked so interesting and funny that even with zero context I was still intrigued. And learning more about TF2 ended up really changing the course of my life - getting into PC modding, joining forums where I made IRL friends that I still meet regularly, even my interests in fanart and cosplay were very much shaped by my years-long obsession with TF2. I don't play it much these days, but I still have the collection of all 9 figures and have several posters adorning my walls. I'll always have a special fondness for this game.

Anyways, the seventh and final installment of the TF2 comic came out today...

...and there's a brief sequence where the Sniper co-pilots an old ramshackle prop plane!!!

I know this is almost certainly a coincidence (even if Valve did acknowledge TF2SSB64, the piloting is an extremely minor gag; it's been fifteen years, the two planes look completely different, and from what I can tell ctf_aerospace was never that big of a community map) but... wow, it was an incredible rush of nostalgia on those pages – rocketing me back to that "hey, check this video out" moment of after-school art club and bringing back a flash of why I've loved TF2 for so long :)

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Winter Warlock from Santa Claus is Comin' To Town is like a Studio Ghibli supporting character. going from scary sorcerer to charmingly diminished woobie

reminds me of the Witch of the Waste (hey, same alliteration!) from Howl or the Heron guy from Boy and the Heron

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MERRY SMISSMAS FROM TF COMICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The legends were true