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Original Title: The inside of an Old County Buffet from the 90s. Do you miss it? I don't because the family that bought out the location near me kept the menu mostly the same but also added some Asian food items which is great.

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The Good Son (1993) (i.redd.it)

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1985 Chevrolet Caprice Classic (i.redd.it)

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I stumbled across my old Pound Puppies set when looking through old totes. Somewhere, 4-year-old me just squealed and asked for a juice box. (www.reddit.com)

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Found a Clearasil Daily Face Wash from 1997 (www.reddit.com)

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Tootsie Roll Pops Commercial (1982) (old.reddit.com)

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The Looney Tunes short "Hillbilly Hare" (starring Bugs Bunny) was released 75 years ago today on August 12th, 1950 (old.reddit.com)

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I’m Just a Bill (i.redd.it)

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37 years ago today, New Kids on the Block released their second album ‘Hangin’ Tough.’ featuring the singles "Please Don't Go Girl", "You Got It (The Right Stuff)", "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)",... (i.redd.it)

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Original Title: 37 years ago today, New Kids on the Block released their second album ‘Hangin’ Tough.’ featuring the singles "Please Don't Go Girl", "You Got It (The Right Stuff)", "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)", "Cover Girl" and the title track. August 12, 1988

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Hollywood don't undestand the Smurfs (old.reddit.com)

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Let me starting saying I think I know why the original Hannah Barbera cartoon was so popular. It had magic, wizards, dragons, giants, elves, knights, kings, all sorts of mythological creatures and had an amazing worldbuilding. For people who like fantasy stories (you know like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter that sort of thing) is was gold at least as a kid. The only other show with such was Gummie Bears.

However, I don’t think any of the recent theatrical movies captured any of that, nor that the people behind them even saw the show. I think Hollywood execs think of the Smurfs in the most basic, elementary level, to be this:

a) A show about a wizard trying to capture these little things, like the Coyote and the Roadrunner and Tom and Jerry.

b) Cute little mascots things that are good for marketing like the Minions or Trollz.

(and don’t get me wrong, Tom and Jerry and Coyote and Roadrunner are of my favorite cartoons but I don’t think Hollywood understand them either).

In practice a live action adaptation of the Smurfs should not be like Alvin and the Chipmunks, should be like WILLOW.

And I’m not taking that comparison lightly. Is that literally there’s the framework on how to make a good Smurfs movie based in both the comic and the cartoon.

First you can choose a villain like Balthazar or Chloridris (yes, for those of you who didn’t know because the movies always use Gargamel, the Smurfs have a whole rogue gallery of interesting and colorful villains) to hold the role of the BigBad, of the wizard-emperor/emperess of the realm like Bavmorda. Then you can add two human companions like Johan and Peewit (or choose other names, whatever) to be the human protagonists (like Willow and Madmartigan), and of course the Smurfs themselves. And if you want to use Gargamel (I personally will save him for the sequel maybe just referring to him offhand, like the Joker in Batman Begins/The Batman but…) you can make him either someone Balthazar/Chloridris hires or forcebly recruits to chase the good guys or even put him in a “enemy mine” situation as Token Evil Teammate much like the last movie did. And is a fantasy film, you can add dragons, ogres, giants, elves, goblins, wizards… everything you want.

But instead they either brought them to the “real world” or make them into just a plot with such local and minimal stakes (like the Lost Village) that only works as the plot for an episode.

Anyway that’s my view on that. I do wonder about the recent film which is so bad:

Why they make the character of Razamel as main villain? Why not just use Gargamel anyway, is a reboot is not like they needed to “take care” of any continuity or previous depiction of the character. And if they were going to make a new character maybe because they really didn’t wanted Gargamel to be “bad”, why not use Balthazar? He’s already a relative of Gargamel and would work as nostalgia call back to the cartoon.

Tho I guess you can ask the same on why they make Papa Smurf to be the kidnappee in distress, and then introduced what is basically another younger Papa Smurf (they could have just use any other smurf to be the McGuffin and just use Papa Smurf instead of a completely made-up, yet similar character).

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OJ chase on TV in Duke Nukem (i.redd.it)

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