#Whoppi Goldberg

[popculturebuffet]

The Little Engine that COuld: A Cinematic Trilogy of Train Madness (Commission for Lachey V

Happy new year all you happy people!

This year was rough and i'll get into it more in my best of the year lists but for now let's talk about Trains again. Once again Lachey has asked me to cover trains. Unlike Thomas though this one did have a part in my childhood, it's the Little Engine That Could.

The Little Engine that Could, for those who didn't grow up with this one, is a story that had been passed around some time, evolving and even getting a book in the 20's that didn't stand well as a folk tale about a little engine who thinks she can , she thinks she can.. and she's right. The story got popularized by a 1950 version that's been the standard since by publisher Arnold Munk, who wrote a bunch of stories under the pseudonym Walty Piper, one of many. It's a book I cherished as a kid, an inspiring story of not giving up and trains and the cover always stuck out ot me

So when Lachey asked me to cover the various adaptations of it, I was all aboard. So today we're covering the 1963 short, the 1991 tv special and the 2011 Movie. So get aboard for film strips, murder mountains, and nightmare trains, this is The Little Engine that Could

The 1963 Short

Our first is also our shortest with each version ramping up in length and rediculouness. The initial short is just a 1:1 adaptation of the book, which was a nice refresher for me. The story is simple: An engine gets derailed while trying to deliver the birthday train, a train filled with sentient toys for the children

None of the other trains will help him either because their too old or because if they were an ice cream flavor they'd be pralines and dick, the latter being consistent across all three versions. Thankfully a little engine happens by and thinks she can and despite her size and struggles she perseveres. I'ts a good story about overcoming your limitations. I could pick apart this aseop.. but I won't. While perseverance can be a BAD thing sometimes, see our current political state, it's not a bad thing to teach childern especially onces who might have confidence issues. It's a solid short with a good message and nice narration. Not much to say on it but a good time nonetheless.

The 1991 VHS Special:

The 1991 version is Lachey's faviorite, even having a cell from it and i'm happy to say out of the three it's mine too. This special oozes with charm, having a nice soothing tone to it, bright vibrant animation and and starring voice acting legend Kathie Sourcie as the titular engine, named tilly, a child train whose constantly told no to actually getting to haul cargo by the dickish water tower what runs the train yard.

This one nicely expands things, introducing the other engines first so we meet the one whose old, now cartoonishly sputtering and the one whose an asshole who refuses to help because it's beneath them who looks a LOT like a certain other asshole

It's a nice bit of expansion and needed in a half hour specail without overdoing it. It simply gives the trains more fleshed out versions of thir persionalities; the train carrying the birthday train whose name i'd forgotten is kind, motherly and supportive to Tillie, the train whose too old is a milk train, and the train whose an asshole is a bully to tillie.

The entire world hates tillie in this one. That's not an exageration: the tower screams in a child's face no at her desires, and when she does finally sneak out to think she can, the entire world is determined to stop her. That's not hyperbole. A random eagle screechs at her ot turn back. The winds turn against her. A fucking mountain bellows at her TURN BACK TURN BACK. The entire world wants to make sure she can't.. and she proves them wrong. We even get a jaunty musical number that slaps

Also Frank Welker can fucking belt.. I do not understand why they didn't have him sing for the Scooby Doo Musical. But Nothing Can Stop Me Now is a belter, an adorable song that gets the message acrossed amazingly, written by the same chaps what made the ducktales theme. It's a fucking triumphant song.

And naturally after all the trials it plays again when our heroine wins the day, delvering the birthday train to a kid. As you can see not only are the toys fleshed out a bit, but we actually get a story behind the train: it's a train that delivers a ton of toys and good times to someone on their birthday as before but we now get a kid waiting for it while his sister mocks him because older siblings be dicks sometimes. I have a teenagerdom of being called stalin to prove it.

The 1991 special is a great adaptation, taking the general outline of the book and beefing it up into a charming little specail. 30 minutes is just about the right runtime: enough to flesh out the story but not so much you have to add a lot of weird shit to make this a full movie. I mean there is the eagle telling a child train to go back, but it's the normal amount of nuts. For our next one though....

The DTV Full Length Movie (2011)

So in 2011 unviersal studios said "Quick we need a film to put out on dvd grandparents will buy for their kids not knowing better!' and thus the Little Engine that Could 2011 was spat into the world out of a stygian hole in the sky.

The Little Engine that Could has a BAFFLING array of talent behind it. The cast includes Phineas and Ferb's Alyson Stoner , Whoppi Goldberg, Patrick Warburton, Brenda Song, Jim Cummings, Charlie Schlatter and all around legend Jamie Lee Curtis. All fantastic actors who badly needed a paycheck.

LETC takes the bare bones of the main idea, an engine hauling a cart of toys, and makes it the story of Dream Haulers, trains who deliver dreams to children. A concept that could make a good show for younger children, have trains help solve their problems and such, but here is just a backdrop for a very by the numbers plot: A quirky determined underdog wants to live their dream but THE MAN won't let them, meanwhile a child is bullied and needs to learn a lessson or something so he ends up in a fantasy world but it's a BIIIIGGGGGGGG disaster for that world, so our plucky underdog takes him on a journey home with the help of a bunch of oddballs she picks up along the way. She looses faith after the villian tricks her but finds her courage again after a pep talk and everything's fine.

This film felt weirder watching it: you have big names doing this thing, a weird concept that's vaugely defined, usual so bad it's good stuff.. but the film is so bland. Looking back on it for this review it just.. exists. It was a slog to get through and the more I think about it the less it appears. The voice performances are good for the most part: Allyson Stoner, a veteran from Phineas and Ferb at this point, does a fantastic job, using a similar voice to isabella and giving the train a lot more character than the script, Whoopie Goldberg does her best as the stern yet well meaning control tower.. thing, Jamie Lee Curtis is a clown toy, one of may toys the engine fines because THE BOOK DID IT and has a lot of fun and Patrick Warburton is his usual fantastic self as the train's car/sidekick. He dosen't get to do much but that's more because the film is so paper thin. Every character is just... a bland description. The plucky hero, the snooty bully, the valley girl bully, the strict but well meaning boss, the worn out mentor who causes this whole mess and needs to be saved, the villian, the secondary mentor you find on the quest, the comic relief.

The exception to this.. is the most obnoxious character in the movie and sadly our Co-Lead, Richard. Richard is memorable.. because he won't shut the fuck up and won't stop complaning the entire film. He starts out being bullied, with the film giving the old cliche you should stand up to your bullies. That always ends well and surely dosen't still get you a cup of punch in the face. I'm not saying don't stand up, but the film treats it as a weakness of richards for not going back to get his grandpa's pocket watch they take. That he's cowardly. Him avoiding telling his grandpap is a bit but in fairness Richard probably dosen't want to have to bury the bodies. So he hops on a train which rusty, little engine's mentor played by Jim Cummings who tries his best, who taking a nap doesn't notice a child on the train which shatters the barrier between worlds and forces the little engine to take the long way. Just as a quick aside before I gripe about a fictional child... Rusty himself.. is a weak character. We're supposed to WANT him to get his job back, as little engine does.. but he's tired, falling asleep on the job and his negligience causes their tunnel to collapse. All the control tower does is demote him to moving shit around. She doesn't even fire him... if i'ts possible. It's sad.. but even Rusty admits this was his fault. Granted everyone ignoring his backup plan to go over the mountain as an ass saving lie is stupid, and they shoudl've at lest sent someone to scout to see if it was possible. But i'm giving too much credit to a film that is trying for the youngest audience possible as an excuse to fart out crap.. whcih it isn't. I mean i've reviewed 5 seasons of Thomas and Friends at this point: it may be bonkers due to things they didn't think through, but boy you can just feel the love and effort squeezed into every frame, the creativity, the pomp.

Here it's just a lifeless film that plops a troubled boy into it because ad executive law states if you make something with a girl protaganist kids won't love it.. which makes me giggle uncontrollably when I think the most popular younger ages show today not only has a female lead, but actually you know tries. But back in 2011 you had to staple a penis onto a project to get it made, and thus we have Richie who just whines the whole journey. now granted he is right to be a little sore, he's in another universe because he went in a train car to mope. No one would handle that well. But the way he just complains or whinges about the dreamland they pass through being "girly" and asks where all the superheroes are. Richard spends the whole film just not shutting up and only occasionaly lightneing up and is only really useful when there's either no other choice or it's the climax so he has to be. His character development is also weak as he just .. grows a spine because he went on a life threatning adventure?

It may also be because he threw pies at nightmarish simulcra of his bullies. Yeah this film suddenly takes a turn in the last act as for no decsrinble reason we get a proper antagonist. The bullies are just the setup and normally it'd just be the other trains and the tower doubting the engein..which really is enough. When she goes for their help they mocker her like assholes. The only notable one is Brenda Songs, who dosen't have a name, and even then she's just a typical airhead/brat character way bellow her va's paygrade and talents. Song hadn't done amphibia yet but she'd done enough suite life to show she had comedic chops that are never left out to thaw here.

Instead we get THE NIGHTMARE TRAIN, an evil train that tricks the engine into giving her it's cargo and plans to uh.. run around with it, do stuff. He delivers nightmares and.. is never brought up before this. He is intresting, the idea of this oppisite numbers, his plan to only deliver nightmares, he's a little creepy.. but like the rest they just don't do much. We just get the bully hullcinations because it's all production could afford and a chase scene once the little engine is encouraged by patrick warburton to go kick this man's ass.

So everything wraps up okay and this film... it.. sure did happen. That's about it. This film is bonkers but not enough to be so bad it's good, has a cast way too good for it. It exists and that's about all it does and it's questionable if it even does that well. Thankfully the perfect adaptation had only been made and as ravenous for IP hollywood is, this mess hasn't been attempted again. Maybe some day we'll get a tv show, a thomas and friends like affair. But for now i'm glad we got the terrible dtv half assed phase of adapting this joyous book out of our system. Remember i'm pulling for ya, we're all in this together.

[mannytoodope]

(loud scream)

Delores : Oh, no! No, no, no! I can't do this. I'm sorry. This is fine for covering a little bulge, but now I've got holster hips!

Reverend Mother : People wish to kill you. Anyone who's met you I imagine. A disguise is necessary to protect us all. While you are here, you will conduct yourself as a nun. Only I will know who and what you truly are. You will draw no attention to yourself whatsoever.

Delores : But look at me! I'm a nun! I'm a - I'm a penguin!

Reverend Mother : As from now and until you leave, you are Sister Mary Clarence.

[ethiack]

Producer CUTS TO BREAK during The View FIGHT!

Wow...

[an-adhd-infested-nerd]

My favorite episodes of Star Trek are when they put the actors in weird little costumes

Star Trek: The Next Generation Costume Party

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Could not happen to a better person!!

[esouliie]

if we’re casting viral pop culture icons as wicked characters i think wendy williams is madame morrible and whoppi goldberg is dr. dillamond

okay okay i see the vision… i think trisha paytas is glinda and justin “this is going to ruin the tour” timberlake is the wizard

[falllpoutboy]

if we were in the 90s A and JW would have been together. Like all the black woman were with white man back then it was bad lmao. Few examples,

grace jones

whoppi goldberg

robin givens

i dont know about the tone of this ask

[ereuven]

Este Diciembre...

Mi Top 10 de mis películas favoritas de temporada.

1. Los fantasmas de Scrooge con Jim Carrey es mi película favorita de todos los tiempos.

2. Una Navidad de Locos no puede terminar Diciembre sin que vea esta película.

3. El Origen de los Guardianes obviamente amo esta película.

4. Mickey y sus Amigos Juntos otra Navidad

5. Mickey Celebra la Navidad mi cuarto y mi quinto lugar me recuerdan mi infancia y lo mucho que me la pasaba viendo Disney en las vacaciones de Diciembre.

6. El Grinch de Jim Carrey simplemente es espectacular, película de cajón.

7. En Busca de Santa Claus con Whoopi Goldberg, casualmente era la primer película que veía en mi primer domingo de vacaciones, como siempre me levantaba temprano los domingos para ver a Chabelo, al terminar cambiaba de canal y estaba esta película, entonces tiene un lugar especial en mi corazón, Chabelo y Whoppi me acompañaban mientras estaba sola, tomando mi vaso de leche con galletas en pijama.

8. SantaClausula me encanta, me recuerda a mi hermana.

9. De Mendigo a Millonario esta película me recuerda a mis abuelos, a mi papá y a mis tíos.

10. Mi pobre Angelito no podía faltar, es un clásico.

@daiki-blu ✨️ @miniatureprincedefendor ✨️

[miniaturemoonheart]

Ghost was released on July 13th, (1990). 33 years ago today. 😱

#RIP Patrick Swayze dang. I was 17 when I saw this movie. Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze was either married or boyfriend and girlfriend. Either was . Swayze character was targeted and killed by a man name Willie. Whoppi Goldberg played Ada Mae Pierce. Medium/ conartist. Swayze character spirit could not move on; once Swayze character found out who killed him. Why he was killed. Willie died. The demons took him to hell. Swayze character best friend also was dragged to hell by demons. Swayze went to heaven. Money is the root of all evil. Yes, Swayze character was killed over money. All the embezzlement funds that the best friend stole from people. Was transfer into an account to help the needy. Not the greddy.

[marionto]

Training to deal with Meghan on The View

[trukker94gurl]

Watch "DISGUSTING: Whoppi Goldberg Claims Tornado Victims Got What They Deserve" on YouTube

[katrina407]

Oh hey all yee fans so far this site is much better to write

I,m not so sure about REd IT though anyone be careful they sort of delete, but you what it could be a machine you are "chatting with though so all yee "anxiety " problems you "she or he might feel hurt , just giving you a wee warning, I TRY not to let it get to me though madam medium kind of "cold in (if it is a Her

all i wanted hey she is,nt Whoppi Goldberg like in Ghost

some are real and some are "fake"

[3lub]

Trump GOES WILD After Whoppie Goldberg EXPOSE His Rhetoric!

[lualewis]

I'd argue you don't have the child until it's born. But if thata not enough, I'd also argue that nobody else has the right to use someone organs without their consent, so why does that change here.

And you know what? Even beyond all of that, the 16 year old being pregnant does not change any of the other legitimate points brought up in this picture.

The 16 year old hasn't finished her education, and because of an accident, now she might not be able to.

She can't financially support herself. So unless there are programs that can consistently help her (there aren't because they keep getting gutted or changed), or her family can help (coin toss on that), the mother is now stuck with an incomplete education, limited options to get income, and the extreme expense of parenting. An expense that families with 2 working parents can't always afford, so I hope the dad is there somewhere but we all know the state for pregnancies like this one.

And she isn't a legal adult. Her getting pregnant doesn't change that. Which means she has even more limited resources than a legal adult would, and is going to struggle even more. Struggles that will carry down to the fetus after it is born.

You are using pregnancy as a punishment because of an accident happening. You're forcing your beliefs on others.

As I've said before, if you are against abortion, don't get one for yourself. But DONT force that belief on others.

EVERYONE DESERVES A CHOICE. And that choice should always be respected. If that 16 year old decides she wants to keep it? Fine. But if she looks at everything I've said and decides against it? She deserves that choice, and the healthcare option that abortion is.

Beyond even these arguments; banning abortion doesn't stop people from getting them. It makes abortions more dangerous, and more likely to leas to long term complications, or even death.

This is so well known, something that was so common, that..... im pretty sure it was Whoopi Goldberg...... has an incredibly dark piece of stand up about it. From the perspective of a girl getting an abortion. I saw the bit once while I was in college, it was part of a class about stand up comedy being a form of literature and how it can cover incredibly dark topics. Whoppi Goldberg herself has come out about having an illegal abortion and how dangerous it was. I will have to find that piece of standup, it was incredible and brutal.

[andyourhostkristenwiig]

So I read about the comedians that met up in Vatican after an invite from the pope. And I was so not impressed at all.

BUT THEN I read that he invited comedians from various countries...and just like that I suddenly see a photo of Annette Frier and Whoppi Goldberg...and now I am impressed.

I still don't get why, and how this random group of people was chosen (I mean...Hazel was there and Sträter I believe??? Sounds like they looked into the LOL cast) but that was surprising for sure!

[wesslan]

yo! thanks for sending in my fic! :D <3<3

(and yes,,,, sleep deprivation and my love for whoppi goldberg definitely played a big part in this lol)

Cards on the table by wesslan (https://archiveofourown.org/works/48795628/chapters/123091795#workskin) Batman. Tim’s parents faked their death and fled the country years ago, but neglected to take him with them. He spent some time on the streets. But now as a 16 year old, he makes a living as a fortune teller. He does this by stalking and hustling out Gotham’s elite by telling scarily accurate fortunes based on information he gathers about them. His life is strange, but he wouldn’t change a thing! Then he gets booked for the big Wayne Halloween party. Then he slowly finds himself tangled with the Waynes. I love how even though Tim’s living situation changed, Tim still finds a way into the Wayne family. And he gets to help each of the members of the family, and they reciprocate it in the end!

This seems like a SUPER interesting alternate universe, some part due to this tag (which made me giggle):

#author saw ghost (1990) and somehow here we are???

Fair and I am so serious about how much that both confuses me and intrigues me hahaha. I love fics like this though that seemingly come out of a fever dream (or in @wesslan's case, perhaps sleep deprivation), and I think this is such an interesting approach to Tim's storyline. Thanks so much for sending it in!

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