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Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:05 pm

hyzmarca wrote:Is that street legal?

It looks to be a golf cart, so I'm gonna say "no". But in Smurfville, that's the hottest ride there is.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:07 pm

Shatner wrote:
hyzmarca wrote:Is that street legal?
It looks to be a golf cart, so I'm gonna say "no". But in Smurfville, that's the hottest ride there is.

"Hottest Ride In Smurfville" is a title that can only be claimed by Smurfette.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:17 pm

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:23 pm

Prak wrote:
Shatner wrote:
hyzmarca wrote:Is that street legal?
It looks to be a golf cart, so I'm gonna say "no". But in Smurfville, that's the hottest ride there is.
"Hottest Ride In Smurfville" is a title that can only be claimed by Smurfette.

I don't think they can have sex. I mean, they're a monogendered species whose babies are magically delivered by magical stork. Plus, those tights are pretty smooth in front, if you catch my meaning.

Smurfette herself is basically a genetically engineered magical freak of nature created to be supernaturally attractive. I suspect that the smurfs' lusting after Smurfette is a result of a passive magical emotion manipulation power that she has rather than actual natural smurf desires.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:03 pm

That means Smurfette is essentially a magic psychoactive drug. I'm pretty sure that still makes her the hottest ride in town, the ride is just tripping instead of smurfing.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:35 pm

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:59 pm

Essence · Post by **Essence** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:17 pm

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:30 pm

For Shrapnel:

Covent · Post by **Covent** » Sat Nov 28, 2015 3:29 pm

Thanks for the pic AH, just found my friends Christmas gift.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:06 pm

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:35 pm

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:06 pm

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:48 pm

Darth Rabbitt wrote:

Saw this on my facebook last week and it made me chuckle.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 1:33 am

I'm not sure why, but this sort of made me think of Koumei.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:40 am

Darth Rabbitt wrote:

It's not actually a quadrilogy. There was a huge rift in the fandom over Revenge of Mohammed. There's a segment who says that Return of the Jew was bad, too, but since Return of the Jew was where the series really hit the mainstream most people don't pay attention to the grognards. Revenge of Mohammed was a real huge schism, though, and a lot of Return of the Jew fans said that the series didn't even need to be a trilogy, and the first two were actually pretty complete on their own anyway, choosing to interpret Revelations as more of an "open to interpretation" kind of ending, rather than a cliffhanger.

Jesus In Space is an effort to finish the trilogy in a way that "lives up to the true spirit" of the first two installments according to some of the anti-Revenge of Mohammed fans, but most of the guys who say Revenge isn't canon don't like Jesus In Space either, if only because a lot of them have really bunkered down on the "there only needs to be two books" argument and don't want to back down from it.

It doesn't help that Jesus In Space isn't even really a sequel. It's written more in the style of the first two as a linear narrative rather than a sequence of episodes out of chronological order in which the progress of the overall narrative is not really as important as the individual stories, which was how Revenge of Mohammed was written, but despite the stylistic similarities and being ostensibly written to complete the trilogy, Jesus In Space is almost completely detached from the first two books. The protagonists start off in Jerusalem, the centerpiece city of the first two books, but then leave to a completely different continent to have adventures that are a completely different front of the overall good vs. evil narrative. Sure, there are armies of Heaven and Hell and they do battle, but they're completely different armies. It's really a separate plot in which the two sides happen to have the same uniforms as the guys from the first two books. Which is another entrenched criticism by anti-fans of Revenge of Mohammed, so Jesus In Space really shot itself in the foot there, even if they didn't go so far as to try and displace Jerusalem by making a second, even holier city.

It's also really debatable whether or not making Jesus the centerpiece of the third book is really in the spirit of the first two. Jesus didn't feature in the first book, so having a new protagonist for Revenge of Mohammed was following the general trajectory of the series better in that sense.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 2:02 pm

Chamomile wrote: but most of the guys who say Revenge isn't canon don't like Jesus In Space either, if only because a lot of them have really bunkered down on the "there only needs to be two books" argument and don't want to back down from it.

Actually, a lot of them go out of their way to try and say the first book doesn't really "count", either. They'll cite it for origin stories for their second book, or occasionally if it parallels things they like in the second, but they spend a lot of time saying that events in the second book obviated ones from the first. If you point out flaws in the main character from Return of the Jew, they'll say "Oh, that was all in Jewish Adventures. He doesn't do that anymore."

Chamomile wrote: It's also really debatable whether or not making Jesus the centerpiece of the third book is really in the spirit of the first two. Jesus didn't feature in the first book, so having a new protagonist for Revenge of Mohammed was following the general trajectory of the series better in that sense.

A good number of fans of Return of the Jew try to go back and reinterpret Jewish Adventures to make Jesus a central figure. They make leaps in the first book that you couldn't have made if you hadn't already read the second.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:27 pm

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 7:24 pm

Darth Rabbitt wrote:

You guys have missed a couple major points.

There's all that hubbab about the incessant revised versions the director keeps making to Episode 2 as technology gets better and his beard got longer:

While the effects were hand-drawn, this was a cult classic that redefined cults ever after

The first version to receive a wide release

The revision a modern fan is most likely to be familiar with

A plurality of the fandom prefers this remake

The abridged version for travel

An even more modern recut, largely ignored

One of the major divides is whether they include the Holiday Special which aired between the first and second episodes and whether and how they try to fit it into the canon. While it is noteworthy for introducing the character of Roma (Fett) prominently in Return of the Jew, it is difficult to reconcile the Holiday Special's positive characterization of Roma with Episode 2's portrayal where the same Roma is not merely villainous, but key to freezing (Han) Saulo in carbonite.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:06 am

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:05 am

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:30 pm

I'm assuming that's braille?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:41 pm

Shrapnel wrote:I'm assuming that's braille?

Looks like.

But the message is GNU Terry Pratchett.

It made me cry a little.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:48 pm

Huhn. I haven't read Pratchett, so it took a bit of digging for me to find out what that meant. But still, it does seem bittersweet.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:53 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Huhn. I haven't read Pratchett, so it took a bit of digging for me to find out what that meant. But still, it does seem bittersweet.

Shrap, I recommend you pick up Feet of Clay, Going Postal, or Small Gods one of these days, and read it through.