Milburn Drysdale (life in review)

(99.9% written below is either made up or of someone else’s life)

Born May 6, 1904 he was a man who did not like to sit in one place too long. He only took short term jobs such as; the silent movie industry, working on a pineapple plantation eventually becoming a merchant seaman. Traveling all over the world and learning the different customs before World War Two began.

After serving in the United States Merchant Marines during World War Two, Mr. Drysdale returned to civilian life. He obtained a job as a bank teller at the Commerce bank of Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills, California. Over the years he rose through the ranks eventually becoming the banks President.

During this time he married Margaret MacGibbon. A widower, whose late husband Charles White, a major stock broker for many Hollywood celebrities died of a heart attack. Before his death they had a son named Sonny.

Mr. Drysdale has often been referred by his coworkers as the modern day Ebenezer Scrooge. His only redeeming quality is that he would bend over backwards for his major account holders. The Clampetts were considered to be his most prized account.

Under Mr. Drysdale leadership, the Commerce Bank became home to the rich and famous. But in 1971 Mr. Drysdale was forced to retire from the banking industry due to a series of personal problems. His wife of 24 years passed away due to heart and lung problems.

His step-son Sonny dropped out of college due to a drug addiction. This led his mother to worry nonstop that increased her heath problem. He was arrested many times as Mr. Drysdale would pay large sums of money to keep Sonny out of prison. Sonny was found dead of a heroin overdose in an abandoned warehouse six months after his mother passed away.

The only thing that kept Mr. Drysdale sane was his continuing friendship with Mr. Clampett. At his wife’s and son-in-laws funeral, the Clampett family was the only ones who showed up. Along with a few bank employees. With no other living family members Mr. Drysdale decided to travel across the country.

He went to visit Mr. J.D. Clampett who had moved his family back to their native home in the Appalachian Mountains after his mother-in-law passed away. While visiting both men would regularly go fishing or hunting. A visited that lasted until Mr. Drysdale passed away on April 15, 1980 at the age of 75.

His body was cremated and his ashes scattered over his favorite fishing spot. Once again the entire Clampett family attended the funeral for a man they considered to be a member of their own family. 

Two Reasons Japanese Kids Shows Are Watered Down For American Kids

Same Body Different Head

Both shows are made-up entertainment so 

why not the people who star in these shows?

If you haven't figured it out yet, same body but with a different head.

Deadpool on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Who wouldn't want an insane, psychopathic and hysterically twisted hired killer to be on S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Caught and captured, Deadpool lends his services to S.H.I.E.L.D. in hopes of getting a
reduced sentence. The word play between Deadpool and Coulson could be awesome, as could
the bizarre style in which Deadpool captures S.H.I.E.L.D. targets. In the end Deadpool escapes,
leading to constant appearances throughout the show, usually at the worst time possible. Story link

NCIS Fan Script (Hidden Treasure)

I’m not very good at writing.  So this will be another cliff note version of my fan made version of a NCIS episode.

The story begins from a look around an apartment.  As the sounds of people fighting are heard followed by gun shots being fired leads to the front door being kicked opened. The fighting continues inside as they each try to kill the other person. The phone begins to ring as one of the attackers grabs a gun that had earlier fallen on the floor and shots the other.

As the first man falls followed by the other, the sound of McGee’s voice is heard on the answering machine as it becomes evident that the apartment in question is that of Tony DiNozzo’s. McGee is sounding annoyed in wondering if Tony is coming in to work today. The scene finishes with the image of two people lay face down on the floor.

Cue music

At NCIS McGee is still leaving a message on Tony’s answering machine as Gibbs enters to tell McGee that Tony has been with other officials in a secure meeting in the Directors office since early morning. A little office banner goes on between McGee and Ziva about what is going on with Tony this time as Gibbs brushes it off as a review from an earlier case.

Inside the Directors office Tony is being asked to go undercover again. Much like when he went undercover by dating Jeanne who is the daughter of an arms dealer La Grenouile. This time he is to simply take a night class and monitor a suspect. Tony is showing a little reluctance but takes the assignment. He is extremely happy to find out that it’s a film class but is taken aback to find out that the suspect is a woman 15 years older than him and the same next door neighbor who slept with his father on his own bed.

In the squad room Gibbs gets the usual phone call announcing a call out for an NCIS agent. But when Gibbs gets the address, he double checks it again. He calls the Directors secretary and leaves a massage for Tony. As Gibbs and team leave, Tim and Ziva find out that they are going to Tony’s apartment. Making their way towards the elevator they both seem excited as they've never been to Tony’s place. McGee makes a comment about this being virgin territory as he’s looking towards Ziva who can’t figure out how to address his statement. Gibbs hitting the elevator button with a raised eyebrow while trying to keep a straight face.

At Tony’s apartment, the team is met by the building manager and the police. Other tenants noticed the commotion and called the police. The team notices that the attack originated next door. Gibbs and Tim enter Tony’s Apartment and begin to work on dealing with the two people lying dead on the floor. Ziva goes inside the neighbor’s apartment to see the place is completely trashed. One room looks more like an observation room. Files, blueprints and machines all strode onto the floor reveal that the person(s) living here was watching Tony.

After a while Ziva joins Gibbs and Tim to inform them on what she has found. Afterwards Gibbs gets a call from Tony saying he’ll be there in ten minutes. Ducky and Palmer show up as both Tim and Ziva appear to want approval from Gibbs that they would like a look around of Tony’s apartment. Reluctantly he gives them 5 minutes and to be quick about it.

Like kids in a candy store they quickly look around but stop once they see his bedroom; the same small bed. But once inside the sound of Ziva’s voice could easily be heard as she declared that she was going to kill Tony. Gibbs rushes in to see what is wrong and notices that Tony has hung on his wall two large pictures; one of Kate winning the wet t-shirt contest and the other one of Ziva in a bikini.

After a good look, they all go back into the livingroom where Ducky informs them of his findings. They were both shot but continued to fight on till they both simply bled to death from their wounds. By now Tony is showing up as Ziva looks to kill him on the spot. As Gibbs breaks up their discussion, Tim quickly fills in Ducky and Palmer on what is happening.  Palmer wants to go see but Ducky holds him back saying that works comes first. Plus Ziva might kill him.

They get the bodies ready for transport as Tony tells Gibbs what he knows about his next door neighbor. In her mid-50’s and always ready for a good time; even commenting that it was her that his father had sex with in his bedroom. She’s always trying to spend time with him to the point of creepiness. Tony then learns that she may have been a stalker just by the way she had been tracking his every move.

As Ziva and Tim go to the other apartment to collect all the evidence, Ducky and Palmer take a quick look in Tony’s bedroom as Gibbs catches them acting like teens going through puberty. Back at NCIS Ziva isn’t speaking to Tony. In Abby’s lab, they find out that the dead guys have been listening in to Tony’s phone conversations with an audio and video feed as well for what appears to have been going on for about a week now.

Because it’s Tony’s apartment, Tim and Ziva go back over to look for bugs and anything out of the ordinary. Tony starts looking for any info about the people who live there as well as trying to find a place to stay until the case is over and he can move back in. Gibbs ends that problem by having Tony stay at his place. The reason being is that this could have been a recon job to go after Tony so Tony must stay in protective custody. Tony states that he has to see the Director as it is related to the meeting in his office earlier that morning. Before Gibbs could say anything the Director is there and ready to inform Gibbs in his office about it.

In the Directors office, Gibbs is informed that one of the persons lying in autopsy is Jonathan Price. He is the nephew of Ms. Vivian Stance. Ms. Stance was part of Tony’s operation to shadow him. He was recently paroled in relations to stealing millions from a Navy Federal Credit Union, as the money was never recovered. With nothing solid to link him and his partner to the theft, they were both tried on lesser charges. 

With Tony watching her as he took night classes maybe they could get a lead on Mr. Price and the money.

Back at Tony’s apartment, Ziva is still upset that Tony still had those pictures of her. Tim tries to stay on her good side as both look throughout Tony’s place for bugs.  And they find lots of them in the ventilation system and many other areas of the apartment. They find so many bugs in that it was impossible not to hear anything going on in Tony’s apartment.

In Abby’s lab there is a small machine that Abby figures out is an experimental x-ray machine. Tony joins Gibbs and Abby stating it’s just like from the second Batman movie with Christian Bale where all the cell phones were used as a mapping system to find the Joker. Abby agrees as they both talk about the movie as Gibbs breaks up there conversation to find out what their talking about.

Small devises planted throughout the apartment, all emitting a signal. The machine picks up those signals and gives out an entire x-ray picture of the whole apartment. Tony informs them that before he moved into that apartment, the building had just been through a major remodeling job. They guess that Jonathan Price must have hid the money on that floor during the remodel. And by the looks of the evidence, that money is somewhere in Tony’s apartment.

Tony’s reluctant in having his whole apartment destroyed looking for the money but he has no choice on it. The team shows up with lots of equipment to begin their search. By then Ms. Vivian Stance shows up. She looks really scared but she surrenders to the team. As Tony and Ziva continue to look throughout Tony’s apartment for the money, Gibbs and Tim take her back to NCIS for interrogation.

As they are driving back they learn that Jonathan Price is indeed her nephew. And the other man who died was Brian Dane, his partner. As the building was being remodeled, she was set up to move into one of the apartments. When they robbed the bank, they hid the money in the wrong area of the floor. Once they got out of jail they began looking into the buildings blue prints before they narrowed their search down to Tony’s apartment.

Brian Dane was getting impatient and wanted to kill Tony so they could quickly get the money. But she was against it for she was still in love with Tony’s father. She starts blushing saying that for a man of his age, he still knew how to please a woman. She wouldn’t let Brian do it but when he struck her, Jonathan rushed in to basically defend his aunt’s honor. The fight went into Tony’s apartment because Brian thought that Tony was there. He wasn’t because of an early meeting with the director. She states that she ran because she was afraid.

Abby calls Gibbs to inform him that Brian Dane’s step-father is the building manager where Tony lives at. Gibbs confronts Ms. Stance with this new evidence saying that she was forced to be a distraction to get as many people away from the apartment so he could get the money before it was discovered.

Tim states the obvious saying that two guys rob a Navy bank and hide it in a building being remodeled. The apartment with the money gets rented to the aunt of one of the members as they sit back and wait till the heat is off and collects the money later. But because of the construction they planted the money in the wrong area and had to search and locate it first. Tim also begins to call Tony and Ziva.

Back at Tony’s apartment, Ziva is still boiling mad at Tony so they both search in separate rooms. They begin talking to each other as Tony tries to explain why he still has those pictures but Ziva doesn’t buy his explanation. She notices a small compartment in the closet. Upon looking inside she finds an album. She notices that it’s a collection of newspapers clippings relating to Agent Todd and Jenny Shepard. She sees on the first page that Tony had written a message; ‘Two great people who died on my watch.’

She places the album back where she found it. All her anger towards Tony is gone as she understands why Tony still has that picture of her. By then Tony calls Ziva to say that he has found something. Under the kitchen sink area is the money. They break open the floor and pull out the money. By now both Tony and Ziva’s phone begins ringing but a man standing behind them has other plans.

As Gibbs and Tim are racing back through traffic to Tony’s apartment, the apartment manager has his gun trained on Tony and Ziva. He now has the money and is prepared to kill them both to eliminate any witnesses including Ms. Stance. Without weapons or backup, it looks like this is it for them. Tony, still looking at the gunman, tells Ziva to get ready. By the time she asked for what, Tony charges towards the gunman as he fires his gun.

As Gibbs and Tim show up, they see the gunman is unconscious due in part to Tony’s diversion for Ziva to knock him out.  But they also see Tony is in pain from being shot in the arm. Ziva has already called the paramedics. Tim tells Tony that there is a finder’s fee for finding the money. Tony shoots back saying, “Great, just enough to fix up the place; again.”

At the hospital, Ziva tells Tony that she found the album dedicated to Todd and Shepard. That she understood that those pictures hanging in his bedroom was a reminder of his failures. Tony being Tony lets it be known that he also has a bath and towel set with their picture on it as well. The scene ends with Ziva’s turning her back towards Tony as she is then seen picking up a surgical knife.

End Scene.

The Greatest Thanksgiving Episode EVER

On October 30, 1978 the Pinedale Shopping Mall located in Cincinnati, Ohio was bombed. A Thanksgiving giveaway went terribly wrong as the event turned into death and destruction. And according to TV Guide magazine it was listed at top 40^th of the top 100 greatest episodes of all time.

And to me by far, the best Thanksgiving related TV episode of all time. Below is a condensed version of the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati episode called ‘Turkeys Away’. The full version of the episode can be found at Hula.com. You just have to get use to a few commercials along the way.

CBS vs Captain Kangaroo

CBS is, again, redoing their morning news show for what appears to be a growing tradition with the network. link here. But no matter how many times they change the covers, to a lot of people close to my age, it will still fail. No matter how many people, celebrities or special features, there are people who remember what CBS did to kill many small kids’ dreams.

 I, as many other kids before me, grew up watching the only morning kids program show at the time called Captain Kangaroo. It was always the main topic at school as we talked about all the skits, ping pong balls, Picture Pages and other different parts of the show we enjoyed watching. This was a time long before the internet, computers in every home and for that matter, cable TV.

 It was a wonderful time but soon CBS made changes in 1981 that to this day they have never accomplished. In an effort to compete with NBC and ABC for broadcasting morning news had moved The Captain Kangaroo show to 6 AM and shortened to only 30 minutes. It was difficult for many kids my age to even get up that early in the morning but many of us did. I remember being half asleep in front of the TV set watching the show as afterwards I got ready for school and spent most of the morning trying to stay awake.

Eventually CBS cancelled the show all together as they began broadcasting nothing but the news. I cried as did many other kids. We had nothing to really watch in the mornings now. Just PBS programs that even older kids thought were for preschool kids. Life went on for me and everyone else but for me I never forgot what CBS did to me. I and many other people have been carrying a grudge against the network for many years. Just look at the network ratings. Always last behind NBC and ABC and they will always be last for many years to come.
The Death of Captain Kangaroo - Jan... by videohollic

Lizard Lick Towing

There is a TV show called Lizard Lick Towing that appears on a cable network called Tru TV. It’s interesting to watch this show seeing as how the location of this show is about three miles from where I live. Every once in a while I would recognize a few local people on the show, much so that the people who have appeared on the show are starting to talk about it. Wendell, North Carolina is a small town less than a mile from a place so small that if you blinked while driving through the area you would miss it is called Lizard Lick.

 I am friends with people at the local grocery store in Wendell and with the usual topics of conversation in sports, gas pricing or who’s sleeping with whom; the growing topic is the number of people who have appeared on this show telling their stories on how they were paid to be on it. Few were paid as much as $25 just to be seen running out of their house looking like an idiot as they try to save a vehicle that was towed to their home earlier that day.

So for all accounts, the show can be entertaining at time as everyone in the surrounding area is stereo-typed as typical brainless rednecks. Or realize that a great deal of these reality shows is fake as any other show on TV these days. Obviously the people staring in this show have found a niche that works for them and they are providing income for their families as with the other people who put the show on TV. But it does seem a big difference from the days of The Andy Griffith Show about a small town sheriff of North Carolina promoting honesty and values to this current show that seems to promote ….something. 

To visit Lizard Lick Towing and experience their huge gift shop simply leave Raleigh, NC on east bound 64 hwy towards Rocky Mount, NC. Exit 432 turning right onto Lizard Lick road. At the first stop light you will see their place of business across from the Swift Mart gas station with the giant lizard on top of the ATM machine. Not too far from the Carolina Mudcats baseball stadium.

Sentai Series VS Power Rangers

My kids love watching Japanese kids shows so when Power Rangers Samurai started broadcasting in America, they hated it to the point of refusing to watch another failed attempt at copying Japanese shows. Which led me to writing this article.

The American version of Samurai Sentai Shinkengers has its moments as it tries to copy as much as it can from the original source but as in doing so the spirit of what made it popular has basically been lost. The most visible one is that Saban Entertainment, which makes the shows, still does not know the difference between a Samurai and a Ninja, like comparing a Marine to a Navy Sailor. When the actors chance into their Samurai costumes, they do so while wearing ninja mask. Power Rangers Samurai does have a lot riding on it. The original story line dealt with a lot of serious issues that worked together to create a huge following.

A few examples are as followed. The Red Shinkengers is a proxy for the true leader of the clan. He would rather work alone that use the other Shinkengers and many times have come close to passing out from exhaustion or would rather die from training and/or fighting Doukoku forces. Reluctant at showing his true feelings towards other Shinkengers which causes mix feeling as the others feel he doesn’t care about them. He starts to change especially when a childhood friend shows up wanting to join the team as Shinkenger Gold. He also has to deal with Jyuzo Fuwa, a rogue villain who helps the Shinkengers as well as desires to have a duel to the death with Shinken Red.

Jyuzo Fuwa, A man whose wife was murdered and has been transformed into his sword, wants to battle Shinkenger Red to the death. On many occasions he has assisted the Shinkengers in order to protect Shinkenger Red from dying before they can have their personnel battle as with on other occasions to test the Shinkengers strength and weaknesses. At the same time he is looking for the person responsible for his wife’s death. He also shares a bond with Dayu Usukawa.

Dayu Usukawa, a woman who gave her heart to a man as he left her to marry someone else. In a jealous rage she sets fire killing everyone. As the fire starts to consume her, she clutches the man she loves as he longs for the other woman who is now dead. She is reborn into a Gedoshu similar to the way Jyuzo was as her former lover is turned into a shamisen; a musical instrument that plays eerie music with the sound of a tortured man begging to be set free. Dayu is very loyal to Doukoku.

Doukoku is to the Shinkengers as Darth Vader is to the Rebel Force. With a seal keeping him from entering into our world, he sends others to cause misery and pain in order to break the barrier between both worlds that would allow him to freely enter our world. If Doukoku entered our world with the seal still in place, he would basically dry up and die. The first time the Shinkengers faced him, Doukoku defeated them without moving a step. So powerful, that for the love of Dayu’s music, he risked death in order to save her and her shamisen.

On Wikipedia for ‘Power Rangers Samurai’, Saban stated “the show will have a "brighter tone and gets an infusion of fun and comedy that wasn't present in Jungle Fury and RPM. In reality, Samurai Sentai Shinkengers was darker than the last Sentai Series that being Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Jungle Fury) and Engine Sentai Go-onger (RPM). As Jungle Fury and RPM were comedies by comparison to the original source material leads one to wonder how to turn a serious story line into a comedy. The entire Japanese series is meant for kids but with Samurai Sentai Shinkengers, even older adults with or without kids, were watching this show. So much so that there was an extra movie made of the series. So much so that it is still talked about and has been recognized as one of the best Sentai series out of a now 35 different Sentai shows.

The show was watched not only in Japan but across the internet using a software program called Keyhole TV as with torrent downloads and web sites such as TV-Nihon. All of this leading to a continuing ongoing argument. Should shows, primarily from Japan, be subtitled or dubbed? Watching a Japanese show being watered down to a Weird Al Yankovic version can be entertaining but it lacks to true feel or spirit of the show.

My final thoughts are these. Saban created this type of show many years ago as a way to bring Japanese entertainment to American audiences, did help open the door to overcoming cultural differences as well as experiencing something other than the cookie cutter style of programs and movies coming out of Hollywood. But over the years as the internet grew to shorten the cultural gaps, Saban’s Power Rangers shows became more appealing to preschoolers than to their original fan base that made Power Rangers famous.

An age group that today is watching dubbed Japanese anime shows as well as American anime shows based on Japanese anime like Sym-Bionic Titan on TV. If Saban Entertainment wishes to be taken more serious by the age group that made them famous when the Power Rangers first began broadcasting in America, it would be more beneficial as well as cheaper to simply bring the Japanese Sentai series to America, as is. Whether dubbing the voices or using subtitles, more and more people and kids are already watching the Japanese Sentai series as well as other shows like Kamen Rider and Ultraman through the internet and are seeing Saban’s Power Rangers as a kiddy show.

SyFy Remakes?

The Sy Fi channel has been somewhat OK at remaking older TV shows and movies. Dune and Battlestar Galactica have been great but a few other remakes have been ugly to say the least. So here is my top 10 list of old shows that the SyFy channel should consider remaking into TV shows or movies.

1.      The Phoenix

2.      Logan’s Run

3.      ALF

4.      Buck Rogers

5.      Quantum Leap

6.      MacGyver

7.       Tales of the Gold Monkey

8.      Airwolf

9.      Greatest American Hero

10.  Space: 1999 

Top 10 TV Shows

It might not be much of a Top Ten list but this is the top ten shows I always make a point to watch whenever I do watch TV.

1. NCIS

2. Doctor Who

3. Top Gear

4. Generator Rex

5. Modern Marvels

6. The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest

7. Futurama

8. Eureka

9. Ben 10 Ultimate Alien

10. How It’s Made / How Do They Do It?

Doctor Who Season 5

I just saw the last episode of Season 5. The episode was called 'The Big Bang', a part 2 episode with 'The Pandorica Opens' being part 1. The is truly a very good season for the new actor, Matt Smith playing the 11th Doctor but by far 'The Big Bang' being one of THE best episode tied with 'The Time of Angels' and 'Flesh and Stone'. A two part episode with a combo of Weeping Angels and River Song.

The final episode was great especially with the Darlek begging River Song for mercy as with the opening scene when the Pandorica opens up and the Doctor is not inside. But I could go on and write a book about this episode but over all the exception of 'Victory of the Teletubby Daleks' and Vincent and the Tissue Paper' I would personally give Season 5 an A-. And to thing most chat sites thought Omega was going to finaly show up in the final episode.

Nostradamus effect

I watched a show about Nostradamus on TV and I just have to make this comment just to get it out of my system. Usually I’m not very religious but listening to so called experts try to explain things in a secular way almost like dumbing down stupidity to an idiots level. The topic of discussion was about the final days on Earth. Using the Christian Bible it states in the New Testament about the tongue was like a sword as another part describes the breath as fire. Hence the flaming sword that keeps Man (both man & woman) from God is nothing more than the word of God being spoken.

So in the final day of Man, the day of Armageddon as many Christians believe, when the chosen are carried up into the sky to be saved as the world is destroyed by fire is nothing more, in my opinion, as the day when the world of Man is cleansed by the word of God and restored to its proper place.  A day when the over 400 denominations of Christianity and countless other religions with even the atheist and secular people will try to control and prevent Armageddon from happening. Armageddon by biblical standards is the destruction of what fallen Man has created such as their lifestyle and ways of life that contradicts Heavens law. Armageddon will not be the destruction of the planet similar to the Hollywood movie 2012.

For that matter, the Christian form of Hell is not a place of eternal fire with people burning but a place totally void of ‘the word of God’. If someone is condemned to Hell they cannot bring themselves to come before God or anyone who is close to God for ‘God’s Love’ or ‘The word of God’ is like a barrier to them. Someone who is in Hell cannot face this form of purity because of the sins they have committed while they were physically alive. Judgment Day is the day when one enters the spirit world and is judged by the life they have led.  An old story in when Jesus was on the cross, the thief on the right supported Jesus. Jesus told this thief that he will go to Paradise. Once the thief died he went to Paradise but couldn’t stay even though Jesus welcomed him. The thief had committed too much sin that his spirit body couldn’t handle being that close to God.

As with others, that person will feel pain throughout his whole spirit body and will go far as he can to ease that pain. A place where others live the way as when they were physically alive such as murderers, rapist, thieves and those who committed crimes too horrific to mention live as they please far from the Kingdom of Heaven as they continue to commit their sins onto one another. That is Hell, a place lacking Gods Love. The book, ‘A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands’ is a good introduction into life in Hell. About a person who goes to Hell and the restoration of himself so as to elevate his spirit to a higher plain closer to God. 

NEW Thundercats TV show

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Warner Brothers have announced that popular eighties cartoon ThunderCats is to be revived, and Japanese animation studio Studio 4°C has been tapped to animate the series.

Cartoon Network is set to air the series, and they are quick to cash in on the anime connection.

Sam Register, Cartoon Network’s Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs,was quoted as saying the series will be “Warner Bros. Animation’s first anime series,” conveniently forgetting that the original was also animated in Japan by Pacific Animation Corporation, which would go on to became Studio Ghibli.

Indeed, they lay it on quite thickly in their press releases:

Roaring to life through WBA and Studio4°C’s use of the Japanese animated artistry of anime, “ThunderCats” characters Lion-O, Mumm-Ra, Panthro, Cheetara and others will spring off the screen with realistic cat-like characteristics inconceivable in previous incarnations.

Studio 4°C already has strong ties with Warner Bros., as they are also working together on the anime adaptation of Halo.

Hogan's Heroes fan made movie idea

As I usually do when driving, I start imagining different things and ideas whether they be movies, TV shows, science events or so forth. I once though out two TV documentary from two old CBS TV shows, Alice and The Jeffersons, while my two kids were getting their teeth cleaned at the dentist. Hogan’s Heroes is one of the TV shows I like that never had an ending. So to pass the time I came up with one. I’m not really great at writing things down as I imagine them but I can give a cliffs notes version of the movie.

A few actors come to mind as to what characters to play in the movie. Michael Weatherly (NCIS) as Hogan, David Tennant (Dr. Who) as Newkirk, Bill Nighy as Klink, Robbie Coltrane (Harry Potter’s Hagrid) as Shultz, Rowan Atkinson as Colonel Crittendon, Michael Chiklis( The Shield) as Patton, D.L. Hughley as Kinchloe, Kyle Grooms as Baker and Seann William Scott as Carter. Truefully, I don’t know any short French actors to play LeBeau.

The movie opens as the team is out preparing to sabotages a railroad line. As the train blows up they head back to Stalag 13 which starts the opening theme song similar to the TV opening. As the credits finish we see the daily life of Stalag 13 with the prisoners basically running the camp without the German guards aware of the situation. New prisoners are arriving as Klink talks to Hogan about a meeting he will be attending with other Prison Camp Commanders.

As Shultz leaves with Klink to attend the meeting Hogan gets word from London about an update of the war and needs info about German defenses in their area. As the team works with the underground to gather info, General Burkhalter arrives and wants to speak with Hogan. Instead of talking in Klink’s office they walk around the camp as Burkhalter tells Hogan that the war may be ending soon as the Allies are getting closer to the area and that he plans to go to Berlin to attend a meeting with Hitler. They make jokingly chit chats comments about the war to which Burkhalter becomes very serious. He tells Hogan about the meeting Klink is attending as well as admitting to Hogan about the concentration camps. A plan is being considered by the Gestapo to exterminate all prisoners of war and to have Prison Camp Commanders given a tour of the facility to create a timetable on moving all prisoners to be exterminated. Then all prison guards will be sent to Berlin to stop the Russian advance towards Berlin.

As Burkhalter prepares to leave he hints that Hogan is the one running the camp and asks Hogan to keep an eye on Klink. Stating that Klink may be an idiot but not the like the ones running the war. As he leaves Hogan is puzzled by Burkhalter comments but quickly contacts London as well as the underground to verify Burkhalter claim. By the next day all info is checked out and Hogan is ordered to evacuate all camp prisoners as soon as possible. They are given 48 hours to leave as the weather will clear for planes to arrive to pick them up s well as other routs through the Underground for everyone to escape. As Klink returns to camp he is drop off at his quarters as Shultz parks the car and goes into the barracks to speak with Hogan. Shultz looks worried and isn’t in a joking mood as the prisoners try to get information from him.

Shultz keeps telling Hogan to get out as soon as possible going as so far as walking over to the bunk bed to open the trap door and ordering them to leave. He states ‘I usually say that I know nothing but after the last couple of days, I wish it was true.’ Hogan goes to see Klink who is sitting in a chair with a bottle of alcohol in one hand and a gun in the other. As they talk Klink is torn from being a German and a military officer. It takes a while but he listens to Hogan and doesn’t kill himself. Hogan keeps his men watching him just in case.

As Shultz returns to his quarters he starts babbling to the other guards about what he saw as he eventually passes out from drinking too much from the alchol he got from the prisoners. In Berlin Burkhalter gets word that a spy at Stalog 13 has uncover Hogan’s entire operation. He leaves for Stalag 13 before Hochstetler hears the report. As Burkhalter arrives back at camp; Klink is drunk and starts to let Burkhalter have it. Burkhalter listens and basically understands why Klink is saying the thinks he is says as Hogan tries to stop Klink from talking. They are interrupted as Hochstetter arrives with Gestapo men to arrest Klink, Hogan and his men. As they rounded up an allied unit arrives. (A TV show called Patton 360 explains that Patton sent a unit to rescue his son in law from Stalog 13) A firefight starts up with the prisoners caught in the middle.

The camp is temporarily liberated as everyone takes off especially since the Gestapo knows everything now. Many of the prisoners are quickly caught and as everyone is brought back into camp and are prepares to be executed by Hochstetter who has lost patience and wants to kill them instead of taking them all to Berlin. Before the first prisoner is killed another fight breaks out. The Luftwaffe guards, after listening to Shultz about the concentration camps, plans to kill the prisoners and send all available troop to protect Berlin from the Russians, turn against the Gestapo. Led by Shultz, they fire onto the Gestapo guards and save the prisoners. As Hochstettter attempts to kill Hogan, he himself is killed by Klink who still has his gun in his coat pocket. The fighting ends as the prisoners and guards cheers Klink’s name.

Klink feeling like the King of the world until Patton shows up and all the injured people are treated. Burkhalter with Hogan formally surrenders as Patton says ‘Well done Nimrod’. Burkhalter has been a spy for the Allies. Hogan is dumbfounded as Burkhalter says something like ‘I am a German officer not a Nazi. If I had told you who I was then I would have been endangering my life if you and your men had been caught. But I knew everything about your operations but I had to look the other way to protect myself as well as you and your men.’ Klink never hears this conversation because he and the other guards are being put into trucks to leave for an American prison camp. As they leave, the camp is burned down and all the former prisoners return to England. Burkhalter takes Hogan and Patton to the concentration camp ending the first part of the movie.

After the war had finished and Russia seals off part of Berlin as well as other parts of Germany, Hogan gets a message from Shultz who is in the part of Germany being controlled by Russia. Not so much as a letter of please come and help me but a letter saying he is sorry for what he has done to them, asking for forgiveness and to let him know that they may never see each other again and he has always thought of Hogan as a friend. Hogan learns that Russia has closing off the part of Germany Shultz is in and after a debate with himself he ask permission to go in and rescue Shultz.

He is denied permission saying it’s too dangerous to risk good men to save an old German. And a former prison guard at that. Hogan says Shultz is more that that. He is a drinking buddy when you want to celebrate or to get over bad news. He loves the ladies and is always a gentleman to them. Hogan states their operations at Stalog 13 were saved many times by Shultz and that orders or not he and his men were going in to get Shultz out. Hogan’s commanding officer says something like; with all that you and your men have done I can’t stop you but while you are in that region keep tabs on the Russian troop movement.

The old team is put back together and prepares for their mission to proceed into occupied territory. Hogan’s commanding offer enters to inform Hogan a German guide will help them in their mission. Thinking it’s a member of the underground Hogan is eager to work with him or her but is shock as is the rest of the team to see Klink enter the room. After a few joking comments at Klink’s expense, Klink says he volunteered for the mission because of all the people he served with; Shultz is like a friend and deserve a better life. And by morning the team sets out to go behind Russian lines to rescue Shultz.

They sneak into Russian controlled area where they are met with other former German Military officers also gathering intel on Russian troop movements. They are taken to a hotel not far from Shultz home for the night to hide out as Russian troops are moving through the area. It looks like a quiet night until a car pulls up and a couple enters the hotel. As Hogan’s men pretend to work at the hotel preparing to tell the guest the hotel is full are shocked to see that one of those people is Marya. Hogan is shocked as Klink says something like; welcome to the Russian front.

Marya convinces them to let them stay as well as keeping it a secret that she recognizes Hogan and his men. Later on she meets with Hogan and Klink and let them know it was her that got Shultz’s letter out of occupied German area. She knew Hogan would stop at nothing to save Shultz and they could be together again. LeBeau is basically drooling and testifying that she is always on their side. Everyone is a little relaxed until the other gentleman joins the group with a gun pointing at them. He is ready to arrest them as American spies as Klink says I’m not American, I’m a German so I can’t be a spy. The Russian man says; you’ll still be a dead spy.

Marya breaks the tension and says she needs Hogan and his men help them on a mission then they, as well as Shultz, can safely return to England. She explains that there are Russians who do not support Stalin plan to start another war to take over all of Europe just like Hitler did. Figuring America and England would not have the resources, they would concede to a Russian controlled Europe. Hogan freaks out thinking she wants him and his men to go to Moscow and cause a revolution. But Marya says that they only need to delay the Soviet troops and keep them from invading all of Berlin as well as the rest of Europe. Just long enough for the other Allied Nations to build their troop levels up to counter a Soviet attack.

Hogan makes contact with London and is ordered to assist Marya and her people. They have to delay the Soviet troops for a few days until America and England can get all their equipment in place to counter the Soviets. They gear up in Soviet uniforms with fake documents and proceed to do what they do best. Blast railroad lines and Soviet convoys. Everything is going OK until one night as they prepare to blowup one convoys line that the lead truck gets a flat tire. The driver and a few Soviet guards get out and start changing the tire. It is at this moment that Hogan and his men see that the driver is Shultz. Like many Germans at this time, they take whatever work they can find in order to feed their family.

They approach the convoy dressed in Soviet uniforms and play up the part as Field Commanders inspecting the area. Shultz see’s one of Hogan’s men and on instinct pretends to look away and pretend he didn’t see them. As the tire is changed and Shultz gets ready to get into the truck Hogan gets an idea and arrest Shultz saying that this is Commandant Klink of Stalag 13. Klink starts to say something but quickly realizes the situation and shuts up. Shultz realizes what Hogan is doing and pretends to start acting like Klink to the point that Klink can’t bare to take it anymore. Klink is handed over to Hogan as the convoy start off to where it blows up a few miles down the road.

The guerrilla tactics work and the Soviet general put in charge of a European invasion is killed during one of Hogan’s bombing missions. Minus a briefcase of Soviet intel. He is replaced by a member of Marya’s group who puts the invasion on hold until further noticed. By this time Hogan receives word that everything is ready in Europe to counter a Soviet invasion. The team makes their way to Shultz home and is shocked to see his family. He and his wife are getting older but his kids look great. His son is big, good looking and strong while his two daughters are drop dead gorgeous. All the men can’t take their eyes off of them until Shultz yells at them. He says something like; I might have been a stupid bumbling prison guard but I’m not that man when it comes to protecting his daughters.

They all pack up and leave together as Marya ask Hogan to stay with her. He backs out as a gentleman but Lebeau ask to marry her instead. She kisses Lebeau and as Hogan, acts as a lady and says she needs to stay in Russia to free her people. They arrive at Berlin and are nearly caught until they get inside an old building that borders a makeshift wall being built to separate the city. As they are coming up with an idea as how to get out, Klink gives them the idea of just tunnel their way out. And for a few days they proceed to dig a tunnel as an American units dig on the other side. The two tunnels meet up and everyone leave through the tunnel. Marya says goodbye to Hogan and his men and leaves. Many other Germans who heard about the tunnel through the Underground use it to get out of East Germany.

The movie ends as Shultz and his families are setup in a new home, Klink, for his helping Hogan is given a pardon and a new position in the new German Military. Now as General Klink he is basically a desk general in charge of bookkeeping. The rest of the team goes their own way as some retire and some stay with the military. The movie ends with Hogan getting into a car leaving with Hilda.

Well that’s my idea of a Hogan’s Heroes movie. Like I said earlier this is a rough draft or cliffs note version of the one I already thought out in my head.

Worlds Dumbest

I recently started watching a show on truTV. Channel 204 on Dish Network. The show is hosted be a few writers, comedians and former entertainment celebrities. At first I would watch a few minutes of this show but now I just sit back and feel a lot better about myself knowing I made a lot of good choices in my life and grateful that the most stupidest things I had ever done were not recorded.

NCIS HOUSE crossover

I recently became a fan of the TV show NCIS due to the fact that I do not watch regular Network TV (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox). The USA channel has been showing repeats of the show along with another show, HOUSE, which I love watching. Although this season of HOUSE is causing sea sickness due to the moving camera effect. To that effect, the camera shots on NCIS have a stuck zoom lens effect going as well.

I got the idea of a two part episode while watching Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. (Don’t ask.) This is a quick ruff draft I thought out as I was driving from Durham to Wendell one afternoon. I haven't seen all the shows of both series so don't get upset if this madeup story doesn't really follow NCIS and House storylines. This folowing story is just for my fun.

Part One (NCIS) (cliff note version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EilqyFEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yyywq6BCzk
McGee, his sister Sarah and Ducky are attending a book signing in New Jersey for McGee’s new book. Ducky tags along to meet his God-son, Dr. Robert Chase and his wife Dr. Allison Cameron. Sarah came to do some shopping. Due to a crazed fan, Gibbs had McGee carry his gun with him. Just in case.

Chase and Cameron are walking towards to the book store chatting about his God-Father when multiple shots are heard and people running out of the book store. As they get closer to the book store they see 3 people get into a van and speed off. Upon entering the book store they witness Dr. James Wilson, who was there to buy some books, shot in the arm, Ducky treating McGee who is unconscious, two dead guys and McGee’s sister standing over one of them with McGee’s gun.

Everyone is carried to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and quarantined. Earlier during the book signing as Ducky is impatiently waiting for his God-son and Sarah is surprised how popular his big brother is with his books when a guy carrying an oversized backpack is seen running from a group of others plus a van tries to take a short cut through the book store but the terrorist start shooting into the store at him. He gets hit but as they rush into the book store, McGee already has his gun drawn as Ducky helps Sarah cover for safety.

McGee kills one but is quickly hit by two others shooters. They are trying to grab the oversize backpack that is now leaking a gas. Wilson is shot in the arm when he is helping Ducky treat McGee’s injuries. As two of the terrorist grab the guy and the backpack and carry him into the van, one of the terrorist makes his way over to McGee, Wilson and Ducky to kill them when Sarah grabs McGee’s gun that is laying on the floor and shots him dead. Hearing the shot, the other terrorist fires into the store as they leave the scene quickly in the van.

Gibbs and team show up and go over the crime scene but they get a call that someone who was exposed to the gas is now dead. Thinking its McGee, Gibbs and Ziva get to the hospital and see that the gas is a combo mixture that is similar to a nerve gas (I making this up as I go folks) McGee is in surgery and House is making fun of Wilson as he is getting a cast on his arm after the bullet was removed. They meet Dr. Lisa Cuddy to where Gibbs order all those in the bookstore to get treated for the mystery gas and to stay quarantined.

Tony shows up with a surveillance video tape as Gibbs and all plus House and company watch it. Tony and Ziva are joking that McGee actually did a good job, House, remembering Dr. Lawrence Kutner suicide, sees how close Wilson came to being killed. House makes a comment about ‘girls with guns’ to which Gibbs replies that there would have been 3 dead bodies if it wasn’t for Sarah. With Abby’s help, they do get a positive ID from DNA and the video.

Gibbs and team starts tracking down the terrorist only to find the van at an airport with 3 dead terrorist, plus the guy who was originally carrying the backpack. The backpack is missing but except for the one guy who was killed for the backpack, the other three were killed by the gas that came out of it. Eye witness says that the van basically nearly crashed as they came to the airport but another SUV (stolen) was there and 2 men wearing mask grabbed the backpack and left on a small plane.
They track the plane to another state and find out more info on the terrorist really and their plans. Similar to James Bond’s Goldfinger, the terrorist are planning to make a nerve gas and on multiple airplanes, spray the gas over major cities during major sporting events. Gibbs gets a call from Tobias Fornell. The one running from the terrorist with the backpack is a deep undercover FBI agent who was trying to get away and alert his officials when he was spotted near the bookstore. They find a flash drive on him with all the info they need.

They find the terrorist main location and take them out and were able to find the locations of the other airports being used in other cities. Other NCIS and FBI units are called in to deal with them as well. As they wrap up operations Gibbs gets a phone call saying McGee has turned for the worse and others are showing signs of the gas taking effect with 2 more deaths. The team gets samples of the gas. One goes to Abby and the other one to the hospital in hopes of an antidote.

The show finishes with a scene of House playing with his cane and looking at his marker board filled completely with all symptoms McGee is experiencing as Forman, with a mask partly on enters the room and saying that Wilson just collapsed.
End of part one

Part Two (HOUSE) (cliff notes version)

After Gibbs and team leave after watching the surveillance video, Ducky takes the dead bodies back to his lab to do an autopsy but not before making sure Sarah is OK. Dr. Lawrence Kutner enters to check on McGee as he seems to be in stable condition but he doesn’t say in front of McGee that his condition is starting to decline a bit.

House and Cuddy visit Wilson who appears to be in a mild shock. He keeps seeing the gun being point right at him and thinking this is it. House says get over it; I did when I got shot. Cuddy interrupts and says it looked like the girl saved you and the others when she shot the terrorist. Wilson agrees commenting that if she wasn’t there then he would have been killed for sure.

House asked why he was there to begin with and learns Wilson likes reading McGee’s books. House gets a call and leaves Wilson and Cuddy taking with him a copy of McGee’s new book. House goes to see McGee and as he enters McGee is acting funny and becoming non responsive. House stabilizes him and looks over to see Sarah terrified and in tears for her brother.

With everything calming down, House takes Sarah to talk with her. He, in House fashion, thanks her for saving Wilson’s life and learn McGee has been teaching her to protect herself. (Relating to an earlier episode where she was framed for murder). House treats her to lunch where he is surprised by the type of pizza she loves to eat. House also learns more about McGee. (A computer nerd, mystery writer, military police and part time dad to Sarah due to a family problem with their parents.) House is paged to the quarantine area. One person is found dead and a few more are starting to get very sick. The scene cuts to Ducky and Palmer are preparing to do an autopsy when Ducky collapses to the floor.

House says they can try all the medicine in the book but until they know what kind of gas it was, there is no way of knowing how to treat and cure them. He goes back to his office and goes over the board again for a possible answer when Forman enters telling House about Wilson. House turns around looking at Forman when he gets that look in his eye and leave to go to McGee’s room. As he enters the room he see’s McGee now on life support and Sarah standing next to him.

House goes into a long winded speech about the whole situation finally getting to the point where Sarah doesn’t seem to be getting sick. Sarah is the only person at the bookstore who is not affected by the gas. She agrees to blood work and other test to see how she stands out over everyone else. While the tests are run, a sample of the gas arrives and with all the results are in they learned that it’s not nerve gas. The undercover agent was able to change the formula a bit to fool the terrorist but he was unable to weaken the gas enough before he was found out.

As Gibbs returns to the hospital they learn from Abby the formula for the gas that is on the flash disk. House looks at the formula the same time he is looking at lab results of Sarah and notices a connection. Her unusual favorite pizza, which she ate before the book signing began, immunized her from the major affects of the gas. House gets the ingredients for the pizza and finds out what is needed to make an antidote for the gas. It is tested on everyone at the same time due to their medical conditioning getting worsen while Abby gets a copy of it as well to give to Ducky. Sarah is also given the antidote as House states that she would eventually be affected by the gas.

Everyone else is cured and as the NCIS team is visiting McGee before returning to DC, House enters the room and chats for a while. House begins to describe everyone there even though he is really meeting them casually for the first time. Almost like Sherlock Holms, House correctly describes Gibbs, Tony and Ziva and as everyone is amazed by his powers of deduction, House simply says that he read McGee’s new book. He then looks towards Tony and Ziva smiling asks when the wedding is. They both grab the book on the table while making comments about McGee trying to read it as Gibbs smiles on.

House looks at Gibbs and thanks him for getting the formula and stopping the bad guys. House also makes a statement that it is great that McGee will get better and take care of Sarah. Gibbs says Sarah lives with her parents. House says “You mean you don’t know?” Gibbs looks straight at McGee. (Show credits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_wubzYw1bc
The End