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Re: Drive-in Totals
Posted By: Gravemind <kuukan_no_kage@yahoo.com>Date: 2/13/13 3:52 p.m.

In Response To: Could do with an index (Rockslider)


: A lot of work in there! It could really do with an index at the top though. I
: couldn't see the overall structure nor jump to a particular section I
: might be interested in. Best I could do was scroll down (and down and
: down) trying to spot section titles. But even with that poor method, the
: titles didn't have big enough font size to leap out at me, so I couldn't
: even scroll fast.

I actually meant to add an an index, but when I thought of adding one I was still in the early phases of writing and it slipped my mind when I was finishing everything up. I'll go add one in a bit.

: By the way, what was 'Drive-In Totals' about? I was trying to work it out
: from what you listed there, but still ended up with no idea.

The Drive-in Totals bit is a reference to MonsterVision, a program hosted by Joe Bog Briggs that ran on TNT Saturday nights during the mid to late 90s. It would air various horror and sci-fi movies (most of those were B-movies as well) and Briggs would offer commentary just before/right after coming back from commercials. Before the movie started, he would give a humorous list of various highlights from the movie. The Wikipedia article I linked to above gives a list of drive-in totals from the movie Phantasm, but the one I remember best was from when Gremlins aired:

Now it's time for "Gremlins," the 1984 Joe Dante flick about Chinese munchie monsters taking over a Norman Rockwell town and killing a bunch of character actors. You probably already know about this movie, so I'll just give you those drive-in totals. We have:

Four dead bodies.
Gremlin-grinding.
Gremlin-juicing.
Gremlin-stabbing.
Gremlin-microwaving.
One old-lady dog attack.
Exploding blender.
Exploding Gremlin.
Baseball-bat gremlin-bashing.
Syringe to the butt.
Green slime.
Glass-eating.
Dartboard torture.
Gremlin headbanging.
Drunk and disorderly gremlins.
Gratuitous Johnny Mathis.
Gratuitous dwarves.
Heads roll.
Snowplow Fu.

Here's the full episode transcript. Anywho, I watched MonsterVision religiously, and it was a staple program of my weekend TV viewing back in my high school days.

http://shadowofthevoid.wordpress.com


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My review of Halo 4.Gravemind 2/12/13 2:54 a.m.
     Good read, very thorough *NM*SonGoharotto 2/12/13 1:28 p.m.
           Thanks! *NM*Gravemind 2/12/13 2:32 p.m.
     Minor update.Gravemind 2/12/13 3:38 p.m.
     Re: My review of Halo 4.Dielectric 2/12/13 7:37 p.m.
     Could do with an indexRockslider 2/13/13 3:23 p.m.
           Re: Drive-in TotalsGravemind 2/13/13 3:52 p.m.
           Re: Could do with an indexGravemind 2/13/13 11:30 p.m.
                 Re: Could do with an indexRockslider 2/14/13 1:03 p.m.
                       Re: Could do with an indexQuirel 2/14/13 2:33 p.m.
                       Re: Could do with an indexGravemind 2/14/13 5:05 p.m.
                             Re: Could do with an indexRockslider 2/14/13 6:55 p.m.
                                   Re: Could do with an indexGravemind 2/14/13 9:10 p.m.
                                         Re: Could do with an indexRockslider 2/15/13 11:50 a.m.
                                               Re: Could do with an indexGravemind 2/15/13 1:18 p.m.
           Ctrl+F is your friend.Schedonnardus 2/14/13 9:18 a.m.
                 Re: Ctrl+F is your friend.Rockslider 2/14/13 12:08 p.m.
     Re: My review of Halo 4.Quirel 2/13/13 3:57 p.m.
           Re: My review of Halo 4.Gravemind 2/13/13 4:51 p.m.
     Re: My review of Halo 4.Monochron 2/14/13 1:38 p.m.
           Re: My review of Halo 4.Gravemind 2/14/13 5:09 p.m.
     Re: My review of Halo 4.Dervish 2/14/13 5:33 p.m.
           Also, about weapon redundancyDervish 2/14/13 5:41 p.m.
                 Re: Also, about weapon redundancyDef Guru 7777 2/14/13 7:16 p.m.
                 Re: Also, about weapon redundancyGravemind 2/14/13 9:17 p.m.
                       Re: Also, about weapon redundancyDef Guru 7777 2/14/13 11:47 p.m.
                             Re: Also, about weapon redundancyGravemind 2/15/13 3:08 a.m.
                                   Re: Also, about weapon redundancyDef Guru 7777 2/15/13 11:42 a.m.
                                         Re: Also, about weapon redundancyGravemind 2/15/13 11:32 p.m.
                                               Re: Also, about weapon redundancyDef Guru 7777 2/15/13 11:50 p.m.
                                                     Re: Also, about weapon redundancyuberfoop 2/16/13 12:24 a.m.
                                                     Re: Also, about weapon redundancyGravemind 2/16/13 1:51 a.m.
                                                           Oh, and everything uberfoop said. *NM*Gravemind 2/16/13 2:09 a.m.
                                                           Re: Also, about weapon redundancyDef Guru 7777 2/16/13 5:04 a.m.



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