Pigs in Space is Conan too this is my position
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Is there a name for this phenomenon?
A lot of modern popular culture was invented in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and so us millennials born in the 80s and 90s emerged into a world where all the adults had Star Wars and Star Trek and Indiana Jones and Jaws and such on their minds, so the adults making kids shows wrote them as references to media we didn't have time to watch yet. So by the time I was old enough to sit down and watch Star Wars, I knew the plot already. We kinda got pop culture backwards.
I didn't grow up with Care Bears, I was raised on a steady diet of Sesame Street and Eureka's Castle, so this specific instance is news to me but this kind of thing happened a lot. Does it still?
I consider this series Conan, having never heard of it before this moment
I'm not subbed to this community but you guys always have the best posts lol
It fills me with the same sort of glee as whenever an Ich_iel post hits the front page
The Trekkies on here are a great group for sure.
join us...
There is way too much lore to catch up on...
Watch a couple of the original cast movies, maybe stream TNG while you're doing chores and before you know it your one of us
All I had to do was force feed my wife a couple SMW episodes and she said "oh! It's a melodrama with costumes and lasers, and occasionally they have courtroom episodes where they ignore procedure and monolog and whoever gets the last one wins" and she loves it now
I haven't seen anything Trek made since 2009. You'll be okay.
I saw the JJ Abrams movies, but I've pretty much just watched the original, TNG, and sometimes DS9 on repeat for years. Finally starting Voyager now...
Say what you want, but I liked the Bobby's World parody. The only thing I remember about it was he was the captain of the Boobyprise
I'm gonna tell my kids this was Star Trek The Animated Series
"We're already canceled, so let's do whatever we want."
Flashes of 90's X-Men after they shipped production to a tiny Filipino studio. Weird shit.
"Beast's head is too big for his body. We either need to make his head smaller, or his body bigger. Y'know what? Let's play it safe and do both."
Ah lawd, not handsome Beast.
Please don't let my wife see this picture
I have a direct answer to that question! The oral history on how the Care Bears made a Star Trek parody can be found in a recent video by Allison Pregler: https://youtu.be/t_pYuglkn84
Memory engram unlocked.
I don't remember, but that carebears starship is too damn familiar.
Engram never found the engram!
I had no idea these were Canadian
They aren't, according to the wiki page.
Care Bears are multi-colored bears, painted in 1981 by (American) artist Elena Kucharik to be used on greeting cards from American Greetings.
The animated series, however, was produced by Nelvana, a Canadian animation studio.
Ah that's where the Canadian part comes in. Good catch. "The Care Bears" animated series was American, the later "Care Bear Family" series was Canadian.
The Care Bears Family is a Canadian animated television series produced by Nelvana and C.B.I.S. Productions based on the American franchise of the same name, and is the successor series to the American animated series produced by DIC Entertainment
All the best SciFi comes out of Canada.
I was a kid in this era, saw some of these episodes, and thought nothing of it.
After all, the Muppet Babies were doing Star Wars….
Also Star Trek.
AND an intro where they're waking up from a nap but it's interspliced with the scene from Aliens where the Colonial Marines are waking up from hyper sleep on the Sulaco
Wait! How'd they wrangle that? They...oh wait it's parody.
Muppet Babies would occasionally use actual Star Trek and Indiana Jones footage, they could get the rights because 20th Century Fox. I doubt Paramount let them use actual TNG footage.
I think this was pretty popular in Germany
What was the german name? Herzbären?
Edit: ah found it. Glücksbärchis
Ireland too. I loved the Care Bears as a young kid. From memory, it was on just before The Getalong Gang in Ireland
I wore Braveheart-inspired facepaint for a football game once as a kid when I lived in Germany, except it was yellow instead of blue to match my team color.
Another player asked what/who I was supposed to look like, and I said "Braveheart", but obviously this 11yo girl had not seen Braveheart- the only Brave Heart she knew was from the Care Bears
I got made fun of a lot that day lol
Finland as well. There's a lot of fans.
It was pretty popular in the US too.
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That wasn’t a Mandela effect!?!?
I keep discovering things from the 80s kid me would have loved but I never knew existed until my late 40s.
There's nothing wrong with letting your inner child enjoy it!
Unfortunately the Care Bears didn't think to take a barber with them on their interstellar voyage, and as a consequence their coats got pretty long. You can catch up with what happened to them in TOS S02E15.
It's like one of the later seasons of The Smufs where they got stuck in a Quantum Leap type situation where they traveled through time or some shit. They were low on ideas after a while.
But is it cannon?
I like to think it is.
Absolutely not.
This is cannon:
Bam boom
Probably. Weirder stuff has happened in Star Trek.
Low budget??? They paid my buddy Gord a two-fer and a sandwich for each episodes I’ll tell you that!
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