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Arethinn ([personal profile] arethinn) wrote2004-10-28 04:29 pm

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Why is my cranial DJ (saw someone else use that phrase and I think I prefer it to "mental jukebox"; hope you don't mind if I yoink it) playing the theme song to Inspector Gadget???

Why, I ask you, WHY???
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[identity profile] rialian.livejournal.com 2004-10-28 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
===Do you actually have a wish to hear some of the mystical significances of that show?...(grins)

===Or would you rather I left you with the frightening concept of....Inspector Gidget?

===I will go with the latter..(laughter)

[identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com 2004-10-28 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I only know of "Gidget" in the vaguest sense, so I'm afraid I don't get this joke at all.

Mystical significances I would actually be interested in, though. :)
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[identity profile] rialian.livejournal.com 2004-10-28 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
===I will allow someone else to assist you into pain, then...(laughter)

===In terms of the mystical/metaphysical, consider his effectively being an embodiment of "Jack"...as in the Jack of all trades, and master of none. He is in some ways the Fool, but he seems to be like the Magician. One could see him as the Magician in training...having a lot of interesting toys and tools...but not the mastery. He has enough of the Fool to actually survive and get the job done...but it is a very chaotic and improbable result, that seems impossible. The univers simles on him while it is laughing. It is probably because he has the best intentions, even if he does not have all the facts and acts on false perception of the world. It is from his innocence and honorable intent that his successes occur. His widsom and his instincts give hidden helping hands that he is never competely (if ever) aware of the help.

===He could be considered a type of fool...but I am more inclined to think of him in terms of the Magician.

[identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com 2004-10-28 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll never be able to look at Get Smart the same way again.

I wonder if anyone has done an "80s Cartoon Tarot"?
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[identity profile] rialian.livejournal.com 2004-10-28 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
===Another great example...and full of a lot of very intelligent insights hidden within it.

===I would be suprised is one has not been done....

[identity profile] starlightforest.livejournal.com 2004-10-28 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I just like Don Adams. :)

A quick Google on "80s cartoon tarot" (in various permutations) didn't turn up anything. The phrase "cartoon tarot" exists but I don't see anything (on a quick skim) that's like what we're thinking here. I wonder how one would go about such a thing... Is Rainbow Brite the High Priestess? or maybe the Star? Is Skeletor on the Death card? Dr Claw the Devil? Do we have the suits of Thundercats, Care Bears, Beverly Hills Teens and GI Joe? It makes my thinker hurt!

[identity profile] bluegodjanus.livejournal.com 2004-10-29 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Go go gadget boots!