Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

 

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Bang, bang, you're dead.

No I'm not you missed!

Oh yeah, well bang bang from point blank range. You're dead now.

Nuh-uh. I poisoned your drink, you were dead first.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Buh --- but before I drank the poison I took the antidote. And then I stole your bulletproof vest. And I saw you fall over backwards, so you're totally dead.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

But I mixed a different poison with the antidote that the antidote doesn't work for! And I did not fall over backwards--I was just resting!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

But when you were resting, I injected you with air bubbles, and they went to your heart and/or brain and killed you!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Hah--Make up your mind. You can't just say "Uh, I killed you some way and I haven't decided yet!" No fair!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

But, you wanna talk "fair", you told Mom you were going to stop killing me, at least until summer!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

That doesn't count! I was under duress! She was going to make me eat broccoli!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well that's different! I'll go ahead and be dead if it saves you from a smelly vegetable.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Awww....Now I regret killing you! Can I be friends with your ghost?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Sure. Just poison the next not-broccoli you eat, and join me on the other side!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

But I was thinking more of a living human/ghost buddy movie scenario. That would be so much more fun. It could be a 1960's sitcom up there with Mr. Ed, My Favorite Martian, and I dream of Jeanie.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I guess the dead or supernatural one in those pairings IS the one having more fun. But I don't wanna sign up for getting yelled at, a la Major Nelson. Larry Hagman routinely lost his voice doing that part. And Bill Bixby also didn't seem to enjoy having Ray Walston around. Are you sure you're into being the straight man?

Maybe Willl-burrrr had more fun. I can't remember much about him.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I always felt that Major Nelson totally missed the point. I guess stories require conflict, and if he had appreciated what he had, the whole thing would have reached "happily ever after" at the end of the first episode.

I guess the thing is, the story would have to be the live person and the ghost on the same side against the world, and not that whole normal human trying to cover up the amazing friend.

Imagine Major Nelson and Jeannie fending off an alien invasion...or preventing WW III. Not Major Nelson trying to keep hi flight status when Jeannie is being Jeannie.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

You're totally right! Talk about yer missed opportunities.

Okay I'll be the dead supernatural magic force to your still-human guy. Watch out aliens! We're ready for ya.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now we're cookin' with gas!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

:)

As Hank Hill used to say on King of the Hill (an animated show it's a shame if you didn't see), taste the meat, not the heat!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I've seen a few episodes of King of the Hill (I know Hank is a propane salesman, and the kid seems to fail to live up to expectations of Texas masculinity). But that quote didn't show up in any of the episodes I saw.

I found something unlikeable about the characters and drawing style of the show (like awkward drawings of a high school art student who was trying really hard to be realistic, but came off-balance), so I never watched beyond episodes I stumbled into.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oh, well. As Boomhauer might say, Man, mumble mumble dadgum mumble too bad mumble grumble dang ol' TV mumble mutter mumble, man, mumble.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I remember a guy who mumbled.