Talk:Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 14.2

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Revision as of 16:55, 5 March 2007

Okay guys, I've done the transcript! Please bear with it, it's the first I've ever done. You can tweak it if you want, because some of the words I had trouble understanding (particularly some of the things Marzipan and Homestar said). w00t! I've made my first major contribution! EYanyo 07:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Yay for you! I've been here for a really long time and still haven't gotten the chance to do a transcript, so you were lucky! I think it looks fine, by the way. -Brightstar Shiner 14:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Image

That's a pretty spoileriffic image you got there. Why not replace the Easter egg screencap with that of Pistols for Pandas? --Ppk01 10:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

We tried that one first. It wasn't as interesting. --DorianGray 10:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. Here's the other one if people agree the current one's too much of a spoiler. Trey56 10:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm unhappy that the spoileriffic image ruined the joke for me :-( That uncalled for. I replaced it with Trey's suggestion. Loafing 10:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Kipedia link...

Dernit! I can't make no underover rumble-dumble Kipedia linkses? Dernit! Someburdy help me!

What you're after is [[Wikipedia:page name|]]. The w: shortcut doesn't work here, since we're not part of the Wikimedia Foundation. --phlip ^T_C 11:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that the wikipedia template could use some tweaking. The above does work to create a link to wikipedia, but it shows up like Wikipedia:Lanai, whereas I think we really want it to be Lanai.—BryanCTC 15:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Works fine to me. You just forgot the little | symbol. - Joshua 16:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

NOT Redskins

Under real-world references it states the skins are a reference to the redskins, but the actual joke is supposed to be that when male sports teams scrimmage against themselves they divide the team in half and one half takes of their shirts and are the "skins" and the other half is the "shirts".--75.5.227.239 11:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Charlton Heston

So, this fact was removed.

Crack Stuntman, the celebrity spokesman for Pistols for Pandas, is most likely a reference to Charlton Heston, spokesman for the National Rifle Association.

I think the similarities are strong: Charlton Heston was the long-time and very prolific president of and spokesman for the NRA, and they're quite unique in that there are no other gun associations or corresponding celebrity spokespeople that come near to the fame of the two. In addition, Heston and the NRA faced well-known opposition, for example from Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine. I think it would extremely difficult for TBC to create a celebrity spokesman for a gun organization and have Marzipan be protesting it without thinking of Heston and the NRA. Should this fact be STUFFed? Trey56 15:33, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

If it was STUFF'd, I'd vote for it. -Brightstar Shiner 15:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I was going to suggest the same similarity. You might not like poking fun at Heston, but this definately was.

Butt Congressman

Jimbo said the same thing about Homer in The Simpsons' episode "King-Size Homer." --Jnelson09 15:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)