Showing posts with label DC Universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC Universe. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Crazy Bigfoot coincidence

Sunday, discovery+ debuted Jack Osbourne's Night Of Terror: Bigfoot. Barbra wanted to watch it because she likes watching things about Bigfoot. So we watched it Sunday night.

Later on that night, I was going to be doing a few things and wanted the TV on in the background. I was flipping channels on Dish and came upon a Bigfoot special (or two) that was going to be at least two hours long. I think it was on the Discovery Channel. So I left it on that channel for a bit as I did a few things.

Later on still that night (which was by now the early morning), I was lying on the bed and flipping through HBO Max. I came upon Super Friends, which I haven't watched in years. I flipped through the seasons and picked an episode at random to watch. I didn't think I would watch the entire episode, just a few minutes or so of it. I started playing the episode. It showed the opening credits, and then the title card to the first story of the episode. And of all things, the name of the first story was: BIG FOOT! 

Apparently it was Bigfoot Night for me!

This particular season of Super Friends had like three stories per episode, and the HBO Max screen that showed this season's episodes also listed the titles of each story beside the episode numbers. So there were a lot of titles of stories of episodes on that screen, which is why I didn't even notice the name of this story at first. As a matter of fact, I think I may have even noticed the names of the second and third stories of this episode, just not the first.

So after a night of watching Bigfoot shows, I pick an episode of Super Friends to watch that just so happens to be about Bigfoot. FREAKYYYYYY!!!

Thursday, June 06, 2019

Batman foils thieves who rob little towns along the Mississippi River in this month's Batman calendar. Was Osceola one of the towns?


I have the Vintage Batman 2019 Calendar by Asgard Press.  Every month features a different vintage Batman comic book cover.  This month's cover (the cover for June) is Detective Comics #90 from August 1944.  The title of the issue's Batman story is "Crime Between the Acts!"  It tells the story of a showboat called the Mississippi Mermaid that travels down the Mississippi River.  The troupe aboard the ship entertains the "river folk" at the little towns along the river, and during the intermissions of their shows, the troupe sneaks off the ship and robs the towns blind.  That is, until they're stopped by Batman and Robin!

I read the issue on the DC Universe streaming service and I was disappointed to find out that my hometown of Osceola, Arkansas was not one of the little towns that the showboat stopped at!

It was funny, though, that the showboat captain & leader of the river gang that robbed the towns was named Captain Ben.  After all, I played a character called Captain Ben in our Star Trek series of movies at Dramedy Productions!

Hmmmm...this Captain Ben doesn't look much like my Captain Ben...