SilverWook

As Nimoy was there from the very beginning, I was hoping he would be around for the 50th anniversary. It will be a tad bittersweet now.

I watched The Menagerie a few weeks back, and I still marvel at how they integrated The Cage into the show's continuity. As I kid, I really thought they made up new costumes and changed the sets to show what happened during Pike's command. And Spock really does look a lot younger in The Cage.

Hey, some rabbits are just babe magnets. ;)

I've noticed he turns up in a lot of Sea Hunt episodes. Just about every TOS actor was working pretty steady in tv before Trek came along. And both Shatner and Nimoy paid a visit to The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.

Stumbled across this photo, and it made me smile. Too bad he wasn't actually on the Muppet Show!

JEDIT: He did a cameo on Muppets Tonight! in the 90's though.

http://youtu.be/AYNfE8VSveA

DuracellEnergizer said:

^Just take a gander at the Star Trek thread.

But anyway, in tribute to Mr. Nimoy, here's the best non-Trek related thing he ever appeared in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q

;-)

 Wow, I've never seen that video, and I watched a lot of MTV back in the day.

There is a surreal moment when he was a regular on Mission: Impossible about a year two after TOS ended. His character enters an apartment where a Saurian brandy bottle is part of the set decor. He looks at it like he's seen it before!

Spock was not Nimoy's first alien role either. He played a Martian in the 1952 serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. Note the eyebrows...

It was in the Star Trek thread.

And very nice photo. Is that from Mission Impossible?

From personal experience, I knew what his health issues were from years of smoking. It still doesn't lessen the blow.

I've been a Trek fan my entire life, longer than I've been a Star Wars fan, so I'm definitely "old school". My earliest tv memory is Spock walking down an Enterprise corridor. The character was a huge part of my childhood.

One of my cherished possessions is a Wrath of Khan Spock mug my Mom gave me for my birthday many years ago.

I was in the middle of rewatching the animated series, but I think I need to pause for a while.

If Doctor Demento was still on the radio, one of Nimoy's songs would probably be #1 this weekend.

I was perusing movie listings on Fandango, and Awake is inexplicably listed as playing near me tonight. Talk about spooky...

Interesting how on SNL's budget, the Jeopardy game board is just like that of the original show pre Trebek era. The Jeopardy 1999 skit from the 70's ought to be included for the heck of it.

I wish Frink could somehow use Jeopardy Sean Connery in his next edit.

Frank your Majesty said:

Clue had the unique feature of different endings, while the Lego Movie had a distinct look.

 I have to wonder if the filmmakers  were inspired by early interactive Laserdiscs like this...

Koenig did contribute the script for The Infinite Vulcan, which is another good example of concepts that would have been too expensive to do in live action.

And giant clone Spock is still out there somewhere!

Sweet Zombie Jeebus! Moderator approved!

Maybe the release of Lucasfilm's Strange Magic woke somebody up?

Who must we sacrifice to ensure there is a Blu Ray? ;)

I enjoyed The New Scooby Doo Movies era too. (Not to be confused with the live action films.) It was fun to see the gang cross paths with other Hanna Barbera characters and celebrities of the day. (And Batman!)

How Casey Kasem kept sane during the Josie and The Pussycats crossover I have no idea. Shaggy and Alexander are pretty much two sides of the same cowardly coin.

Shaggy and Scoob aren't stoners, they just have a high metabolism. ;)

I think they were pretending to arrest him, but I like DrCrow's explanation better. ;)

Danfun128 said:

I wanted HD DVD to win because it was less strict copyright wise, but it doesn't matter now :P

There's still a bunch of Universal titles that look better than their DNR'ed to death Blu Ray versions.

It still irks me the zoom feature Warner titles had on HD DVD was never carried over either.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

This may be a minor point but it has bugged me since I was a kid.  It seems like 99% of the time when I hear someone talk about Star Trek they call it Star TRACK.  Trek and Track are two completely different words that have completely different meanings.  It bugs me every time I hear it.

 People have been doing that since at least the 70's. People used to call Spock Doctor Spock, because of the famous pediatrician with the same name. It did make for an amusing on set photo though.

Still, it's enough to make me want to use the Vulcan Death Grip on some people. ;)

Around 1973 or so, Hanna Barbera was farming out it's animation work to Australia of all places, and the drop in quality showed. Even as a kid, I picked up on which later Scooby Doo episodes didn't look quite on model.

One reason I enjoy Sealab 2021 so much, is I suffered the original Sealab 2020 as a kid with all it's non violent preachy storylines. Surviving a week of school only to have characters on Sat morning stressing doing your homework also made me want to gag.  ;)

With the exception of the live action Land of the Lost, this was about the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal kidvid landscape at the time.

You darn kids with no appreciation for the classics, get off my lawn! ;)

Scooby was my main Sat AM staple in the early 70's. The animation isn't better or worse than any other show that was on the air at the time, except for Filmation. It's harder to see what made it unique over 40 years later, after umpteen spin offs, clones, reboots, and a now a direct to video movie every three months. (Or so it seems.)

The concept of a "scary" cartoon was mildly controversial, especially in a climate where self appointed do gooders were doing everything possible to make cartoons as bland and inoffensive as baby food. Scooby Doo's scares were safe. The gang was never going to stumble across dope smugglers, or hippie death cults, or real ghosts.

The two biggest mistakes of later incarnations were Scrappy Doo, (just about every other cartoon got an annoying pint sized character in his wake) and making the ghosts real. Vincent Price made 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo better than it had any right to be though.

A friend of mine is a life long Scooby fan, and he grew up to be a paranormal investigator in his spare time.

You could just put MST3K on one of the many monitors in the Death Star control room. ;)

I had almost forgotten that I knew of people who wouldn't let their kids watch Scooby Doo for similar reasons back then.

As the ghosts and other spooky goings on in classic Scooby episodes were always a smokescreen for some crooks' activities, you can appreciate how nutty a notion that really was. Much like missing the point of certain Trek episodes being about overcoming irrational superstition and fear.

I thought the Heavy Metal parody they did was brilliant. If the sequel wasn't dead in the water, they should have been the ones to animate it.

pittrek said:

I always liked the wolfman. I mean he looks like a highschool student's helloween costume but it perfectly fits the scene

 Well, it was something Rick Baker had lying around when the Cantina inserts were shot in California. It wasn't made specifically for the movie.

Ironic that Lak Sivrak, (the other wolfman) finally got an action figure in 1998, after he was erased from the scene. ;)

DrCrowTStarwars said:

 Yeah I know it was based on a true story but that still doesn't make it any more fun for kids who had to live through the over reaction.

I never understood how playing D&D(which I wasn't allowed to do)was any different then playing Star Trek or Lone Ranger(which I was allowed to do).

It was because of it's supernatural trappings, which LOTR, Narnia, and Harry Potter all share, but only the Potter books will turn little Timmy into a necromancer with a penchant for partying with demons. ;)

Right off the bat, before TOS even aired an episode, Roddenberry got a lot of flack from the network because Mr. Spock looked like ol' scratch. They feared complaints and worse from religious groups. There's an infamous press kit photo where NBC airbrushed out the pointed ears.

Of course, Spock became the most popular character on the show, and the network backed off.

I wonder how that episode of TNG, where "satan" was trying to get into Picard's pants played in some repressive parts of the country?