episode 3.333-Stanley Family Reunion

after about 2 hours of serious research on the internet, i have finally come to the origination of the one and only, Stanley:

uncanny, no?
i recall first getting stanley on what i believe was the move to montana, 1994. That sounds best because that would be the date stamped on the bottom of his foot. ready for this shit?

BAM! Stanley, mint in the box! his retail value after all these years?
...$10.95.
But it's not the price that matters, its the awesomeness that i found him!

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would it be weird to buy another Stanley, just so i have one in the box? would i be cheating the relationship i have built with the one brave enough to live outside the airtight packaging? furthermore, wouldn't it creep YOU out if you had a lifeless clone of yourself sitting on the shelf? Think about that.

Stanley is actually known as Servo, or in Japan: Gridman. He starred in the shortlive TV series called "Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad"

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Rings a familiar bell of my title for Justin Shane Tyler Dennis and I: "The Ultimate Teenage Badass Hero Squad" It must have been engrained in there somewhere, and rose to the occasion when i needed it most.

O.K. So get this: the Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (SSSS) is actually a group of 4 teenagers who all played in a band together. From what i can tell, they each have their own way of entering "Syber-Space" by muttering lines like: "Let's Samuraize guys!" then, they'd go in and fight off virus's who are attacking the cyberspace.

There NEMESIS, is Malcolm Frink, who goes to the same high school as them, and according to Wikipedia, is a "loner." so he creates the dude, Kilokahn to make virus' and attack computers all around. Apparently, he enjoys hurting people with his bad computer virus'. EVIL INDEED. So, the low-down, thanks to Wikipedia:

Team Samurai

• Sam Collins - The star of the series, to enter Cyberspace, he utters the words "Let's Samuraize, Guys!" at which point, he would strum his guitar. In the series finale, he is permanently transformed into Servo following Kilokhan's defeat.
• Tanker - The band's drummer and a stereotypical jock. to enter Cyberspace, he would utter the phrase "Let's Kick Some Giga-Butt!" after which point he would knock his drumsticks together. Tanker's uniform was a Black Biker suit with a black helmet and a see-through visor.
• Sydney "Syd" Forrester - Sydney is the brains of the group she is the band's keyboard player. She is also a good singer. To enter Cyberspace, she utters the words "Pump Up the Power!" at which point she would jump up in the air, pumping her fist with her raised arm. Sydney's uniform was a Pink Biker suit with a gold helmet and a see-through visor.
  
• Amp Ere - Amp is the team's so-called space cadet (when he left the show it's implied that he really was a space cadet) and the band's bass player. To enter Cyberspace, he always used a different phrase to be humorous. Some of them are "Three For a Dollar!", "With a Cherry on Top!", "With a Side of Fries!", "Shake Well Before Using!", "Over the Lips, Past the Gums, Look Out Virus...Here We Comes!","For Sam, Sydney, Tanker & Ms. Tilden!", "Two For a Dollar!" at which his poses vary too. Amp's uniform consisted of a Helicopter Helmet and Leather Jacket.

does that not sound like sweetest most awesome thing ever? Of course it does, and aren't you in luck! Through the magic of YOUTUBE, i bring you:

please, for the love of god note that Matthew Lawrence of Mrs. Doubtfire fame, plays the lead role. and yes, you saw correctly..FUCKIN TIM CURRY AS THE VOICE OF KILOKAHN! They spared no expense. And the VHS tapes are offered at bargain prices between $.16 and $.83!

Man, i can barely resist. Look at this:

the japanese did it so much better. damn. this is cool as hell. who would have thunk? while i was hiding from all my friends that i watched Power Rangers, i could have been bragging about watching SSSS! Oh, the regrets in life.

now, if you read all of that, you should be pretty happy to find this little treat at the end of it all. I found some footage of milo as a kitty, and am sick and tired of not having this kind of thing when all our cats were kittens. So for the first time, a Pappin family pet video. I added music that seemed to fit milo just right at the time, being a cat from the streets, he needed to do something to get in our doors, right?