Talk:Shopping For Danger

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Fun Facts Formatting

Shouldn't the fun facts be changed to the new sub-categories? --24.10.244.31 19:09, 12 Feb 2005 (MST)

Removal of Fun Facts

I removed the following "Fun Facts" from the article:

• If you zoom in on Gunhaver's binoculars, you can see the Blue Lazor tank.
• PRiCE STYLE's capitilasation could be a reference to the album SMiLE by Brian Wilson.
  • More eerie weirdness: They were both released on the same day.
• The voice of Crackotage is done in the style of Wordsworth from the 80's cartoon Heathcliff (and the Catallac Cats), whose voice was done by Stanley Jones. Wordsworth was a rhyming cat that also had headphones on but unlike Crackotage, Wordsworth rollerskated.
  • Actually, since Cheat Commandos is a pretty direct parody of the G.I. Joe cartoon, Crackotage is a parody of the G.I. Joe character Roadblock, who also spoke in rhymes.
• The grocery store "muzak" is a different version of the main Cheat Commandos theme. Some cartoons such as Inspector Gadget would also have all the background music as a rehashing of the main theme as well.
• The grocery store "muzak" also sounds like the Nook 'n' Go music from Animal Crossing.
• Reynold's voice is similar to that of Brains from the 60's TV series Thunderbirds.
• Reynolds' voice seems to be a mix between Dilbert and Drew Carey, although the scene where Reynolds trys on the backpack might have been inspired by the scene when Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) in Ghostbusters II, puts on the proton pack and wants to be a ghostbuster.

Not only are several conversational, but a few contradict each other. And others are just downright silly. -- Tom 18:37, 28 Sep 2004 (MST)

More:

• This is the 1st time we hear what all the popular Cheat Commandos [exept Foxface] sound like.
• Fightgar reports back to Gunhaver by speaking into a wrist device. But when Gunhaver receives the transmission, it has now become video picture of Fightgar.
• Is this the first time we see the back of a Cheat character?
• No. In Arcade Game we saw the back of The Cheat, and I'm sure it's happened in other places besides.

These aren't all the Cheat Commandos. Who's to say the wrist device doesn't include a video transmitter? And Fun Facts should not be questions. -- Tom 20:58, 28 Sep 2004 (MST)

Couldn't we keep the one about Roadblock? It seems pretty legit to me (though I know very little about GI Joe). --Upsilon

this cartoon leads me to think fierbert is ((the cheat))even in the cheat camados.

Declined fun facts

These were on the STUFF page and declined. If you wish to contest these, leave a note here, but don't allow it to be confused with any of the original votes.

Fan-freaking-tastic

'FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC' may be a reference to 'Sex in the City' or Cheat Commandos...O's.

• Delete heavy bolter 06:31, 22 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Delete Doesn't seem likely for some reason. --TheNintenGenius 10:09, 22 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Decline This saying was around long before that show ever aired.-Fuzzy
• Decline Stretch. →FireBird
• Delete --Asploder
• Decline — InterruptorJones[[]] 10:44, 23 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Decline. - Rainer
• Decline. I hate that show. -Miss Free Country USA
• Decline. --Paliosun 19:15, 26 Nov 2004 (MST)

VERDICT: Declined after unanimous "declines" after about a week of voting. Moved to Talk:Shopping for Danger. -- [[User:furrykef|furrykef (Talk at me)]] 04:13, 28 Nov 2004 (MST)

Speaker sound

The sound for turning on the speaker in the easter egg might be a reference from the SBEmail theme park.

• Delete heavy bolter 06:31, 22 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Delete Nah. --TheNintenGenius 10:09, 22 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Decline No.-Fuzzy
• Decline It's a general sound effect.
• Decline Notta. →FireBird
• Delete Nup. Asploder
• Decline — InterruptorJones[[]] 10:44, 23 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Decline. Sounds are re-used all over the place. - Rainer
• Decline. Only if the sound is unusually reused is it interesting. -- Mithent 12:44, 26 Nov 2004 (MST)
• Decline [[User:fahooglewitz1077|fahooglewitz1077 | Talk]] 14:40, 26 Nov 2004 (MST)

VERDICT: declined after unanimous "declines" after nearly a week of voting. Moved to Talk:Shopping for Danger. - [[User:furrykef|furrykef (Talk at me)]] 04:13, 28 Nov 2004 (MST)

Price Style (Declined)

Price Style is most likely mocking Wal-Mart, with it's 'low, low prices everyday'.

• Decline. Many stores have slogans that say low, low prices everyday. Wal-Mart's slogan is actually "Always Low Prices. Always," so you really can't say based on that that Wal-Mart is being mocked. ISlayedTheKerrek
  • Second!
  • Third --flashstorm 17:09, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)
    • Can we get you to sign your votes? ISlayedTheKerrek 07:23, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)
    • sorry, didnt have an account than. Its signed now--flashstorm 17:09, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

Let's Rock and Roll! (Declined)

Reynold's slogan "Reynold's commandos, let's rock and roll" is a spoof on the Cheat Commandos' battle cry, "Cheat commandos, rock rock on!"

• Decline Let me be the first to say this is obvious and unnecessary. --TheEggman 22:04, 15 Feb 2005 (MST)
  • Second --Alun Clewe 16:24, 1 Mar 2005 (MST)
  • Second! --Aussie Evil 15:49, 3 Mar 2005 (MST)
• Decline Gee willikers, it must be obvious day on Camp Stupid
• Delete. This is a little too obvious. ISlayedTheKerrek 07:24, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

The Definition of "Declined"

See those fun facts marked "Declined" above? That means they're not to be put back on the article page. I just went through and deleted them from the article after someone had put them back in. --oddtodd 01:02, 1 Dec 2004 (MST)

Let me eat a little crow. I think I spoke a little too soon. After looking at the History, it seems that the fun facts never got deleted in the first place. I apologize if I offended anybody, but I guess I'm a little cranky tonight. --oddtodd 01:17, 1 Dec 2004 (MST)