SWAT Kats
So, it's half past 10 at night, I haven't written any of The Grey Line all day, I'm bored out of my skull, I really ought to be doing something interesting for tonight's blog post and my thumbs hurt again. And what am I doing? That's right, downloading old episodes of SWAT Kats.
Damn, I vaguely recall maybe having liked that show as a SWAT Kid (a term I just coined and will likely never use again). It's one of those shows that you don't ever really think of when considering your childhood but as soon as something reminds you of it (or you see it referenced on TV Tropes), little memories and images start coming back. You can't recall the plot but you remember the big cat and the little cat and that they had a jet. When you watch the intro, you recognise the logo and the theme tune rings a bell.
But, though I haven't watched the first episode yet, I doubt anything else will come back to me and sooner or later, I'll forget what's a childhood memory and what I read about on Wikipedia. The first episode is fully downloaded now, so I'm going to go watch that for a little while. I be right back.
Okay. On the one hand, the plot makes no sense whatsoever. On the other hand, they're fighting a dinosaur in a jet plane, in the middle of a city. And that dinosaur is called a Megasaurus Rex. And all this occurs before they get sent back in time, their plane runs out of fuel and they have to eject in order to avoid getting eaten. They then get attacked by flying dinosaurs, while up in the air, in their seats. Fortunately, the chairs are also jet planes and they can simply put on their gas masks and skim over the surface of an active volcano in order to get rid of them. Of course, that's just a last resort. For when the chairs run out of missiles.
By the gods, I love this show.
And, just so you know, they escape from the past by refuelling their jet with gas from the volcano. When this initially doesn't work, T-Bone utters a line that, by all rights, should go down in television history.
“Maybe we should have tried the unleaded volcano.”
I'd write more but... I have to go and watch the next episode. I just have to. I don't care about doing a woodle. And neither should you. Go download the episodes.
Damn, I vaguely recall maybe having liked that show as a SWAT Kid (a term I just coined and will likely never use again). It's one of those shows that you don't ever really think of when considering your childhood but as soon as something reminds you of it (or you see it referenced on TV Tropes), little memories and images start coming back. You can't recall the plot but you remember the big cat and the little cat and that they had a jet. When you watch the intro, you recognise the logo and the theme tune rings a bell.
But, though I haven't watched the first episode yet, I doubt anything else will come back to me and sooner or later, I'll forget what's a childhood memory and what I read about on Wikipedia. The first episode is fully downloaded now, so I'm going to go watch that for a little while. I be right back.
Okay. On the one hand, the plot makes no sense whatsoever. On the other hand, they're fighting a dinosaur in a jet plane, in the middle of a city. And that dinosaur is called a Megasaurus Rex. And all this occurs before they get sent back in time, their plane runs out of fuel and they have to eject in order to avoid getting eaten. They then get attacked by flying dinosaurs, while up in the air, in their seats. Fortunately, the chairs are also jet planes and they can simply put on their gas masks and skim over the surface of an active volcano in order to get rid of them. Of course, that's just a last resort. For when the chairs run out of missiles.
By the gods, I love this show.
And, just so you know, they escape from the past by refuelling their jet with gas from the volcano. When this initially doesn't work, T-Bone utters a line that, by all rights, should go down in television history.
“Maybe we should have tried the unleaded volcano.”
I'd write more but... I have to go and watch the next episode. I just have to. I don't care about doing a woodle. And neither should you. Go download the episodes.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:29 PM
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