Rugrats

I HAVE NO REASON TO LIE!

I AM A BANANA! *cries*

Nice trick, liar!

but you are a banana.

You are Chris-Chan's banana. Sleep tight. :3

^FUCK YOU >(

quite banana (trollface)

edited 1st Mar '11 7:20:23 AM by vanthebaron

I AM A BANANA!

DOYOOOOOOOOOO!

It's not a banana, it's a duck.

I like how despite being episodic, there're still a canon followed (e.g. Chuckie sleeps in his bed after the bed episode, etc.)

I think Chuckie has the physical development variety of Sidekick Graduations Stick.

He is... in All Grown Up

Ah you mean over the course in the series? Yeah

edited 6th Mar '11 3:22:24 AM by Ookamikun

After a few light-hearted jokes between me and a couple of friends, we've decided to write a series of Reptar movie scripts as though they were Sci-Fi B-Movies produced in the 80s.

We're in the planning phase right now, so right now we're just tossing ideas around. Plot details are vague, but we have a general idea of it: Reptar is sent through time in an experiment gone horribly wrong, and begins destroying New York; scientists attempt to destroy Reptar, but it's futile. Eventually, they build a giant robot codenamed 'Project Robosnail' to combat Reptar. An AI is built to control Robosnail, but it eventually goes haywire. Reptar defeats Robosnail and is sent back into the past.

We don't know what we're gonna do with the second script, but we know it's gonna be a Dactar movie. Third'll probably be Thorg, though Goober was also suggested.

Goober can be the Big Bad

You need a battle scene in a 1980's styled Times Square.

And here is an idea for a framing device that would set up for the opening scene:

September 4th, 1987

In a roach-infested basement auditorium at the Criterion Center in New York City, 200 radio contest winners have gathered for an advance screening of a new motion picture that has been kept secret. Whether the audience will like it is not known but after tonight, they will know the wrath of....

REPTAR

Framing device closing scene:

After the movie ends, the audience gets excited and starts raising hell in the theatre and across Times Square. During this burst of energy, the sounds of Thorg (the villain for the sequel, right?) can be heard. While many run, the audience members stand in awe as their new hero emerges from the waters to begin a new battle. This was no movie. It was all real.

Stinger: Reptar will return in...

REPTAR VS. THORG

edited 7th Mar '11 5:11:45 PM by Buscemi

I've written an opening for your concept. Just a few ideas that thought you might like.

Opening Scene:

Beginning with a skyline of a 1980's era Times Square and a billboard for the film Reptar (done in the style of some of the Japanese Godzilla posters) featuring a release date of September 11th, the camera begins to pan down slower and slower until we get into a grungy, roach-infested basement auditorium filled with 200 rowdy patrons here for a sneak preview of a new movie. Loud talking, popcorn fights, making out and screaming occur. The place may explode at any moment.

The graphic on screen is shown: September 4th, 1987 New York City Times Square Criterion Center, Broadway and 44th Street 6:25 pm

A studio representative, aged 40, thin, balding but otherwise not too bad looking, escorted by a NYPD security guard, is led to the front of the theatre. Noticing his surroundings (and facing a crippling fear of roaches and rats), he is very creeped out.

Opening monologue from representative:

WQHT Radio New York and Paramount Pictures have cordiality invited you to an advance screening of a new motion picture that will be opening citywide in the next few weeks. Due to the request of the director and some higher-ups at the studio, we cannot tell you anything about the picture other than it is 95 minutes long and has a PG rating. And since you are the guests of the United Artists Theatre Circuit and Paramount Pictures, please help youself to as much popcorn and Coca-Cola products as possible. But we don't you throwing up your internal organs from eating too much. Now enjoy the feature presentation!

Representative (to security guard): Get me the hell out of here before a god damned rat crawls up my ass.

Security Guard: Indeed, Mr. Representative.

(lights dim and show starts)

The 1987 Paramount logo appears onscreen as the opening music begins. The opening credits for the film take place in the year 2012. Anti-environment industrialists bomb a Brazilian rainforest in an attempt to turn the area into the world's largest shopping mall. During the building period, a construction worker finds a larger-than-normal lizard crawling around and trying to survive on remaining vegetation. During the bombing, the lizard somehow built a tolerance to nuclear power. The construction worker whips out a large cellular phone.

Construction Worker (dials phone): Hey boss, you are not going to believe this.

(cut to a future-as-seen-in-the-1980's New York apartment, where an evil businessman with Gordon Gekko hair and a robot wife is seen drinking a double shot of scotch with a bloodshot look in his eyes)

Mr. Hugo: Are there protestors trying to stop my masterpiece?

Construction Worker: No boss, I found this lizard. It's bigger than average and it somehow survived your blast.

Mr. Hugo: So this is why you interrupted me? For a lizard?

Construction Worker: Not just any lizard. This could be worth millions. You could even finance that presidental campaign you've been dreaming about.

(Mr. Hugo thinks for a second.)

Mr. Hugo: I'll be in Brazil faster than you can say "Pay raise".

edited 8th Mar '11 12:27:01 AM by Buscemi

Reptar vs. Homer Kong.

Too bad Homer Kong can only climb three feet.

I prefer the Lizard with a tolerance to nuclear power concept over the generic time travel cliche. Don't think I'll be using the auditorium intro and outro you suggested, however. Only change I would make is changing the year from 2012 to 2010, hence the Reptar 2010 title shown in some episodes. I'll definitely try to incorporate the general plot and the character of Mr. Hugo.

The theatre intro does seem a little too meta. But then again, I do have a personal interest in the 1980's and incorporating elements into modern fiction.

The character of Mr. Hugo was inspired by Gordon Gekko from Wall Street and Daniel Clamp from Gremlins 2. I figured that if you need a villain in a monster movie, why not make it an anti-environment business tycoon who deserves what's coming to him?

For the next scene, I was planning to incorporate the time travel concept by having Mr. Hugo hand the lizard over to a scientist attempting to perfect time travel (to explain this: Mr. Hugo doesn't care about science and just hands over the little guy to any scientist, the professor mentions that his field isn't biology but Mr. Hugo doesn't care). While contained in a glass cage, Reptar continues to grow until he breaks out. He then badly injures the scientist but the scientist cheats death by throwing him into the time machine. The machine turns itself on and sends him into the 1980's. Now in a different time and still growing, Reptar has two things on his mind. First, figuring out where he is. And second, find Mr. Hugo.

edited 8th Mar '11 8:48:40 PM by Buscemi

This idea is excellent and I approve!

OH GOD!◊

Found an old copy of rugrat's in Paris, I see this show in a whole new light.

Looks like Pat Sajak sucked a bit too much helium that day.

He also looks like as if Kurt Cobain's Barney costume and the Simpsons version of Adam West had a love child.

It looks like one of the devil worshippers from The Devil's Rain. Or that he had a run-in with my avatar.

edited 15th Apr '11 6:31:20 AM by maxwellelvis