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NEWS: Sailor Moon Parody on MSNBC




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littlegreenwolf



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:40 pm Reply with quote
"But when Queen Beryl of the Negaverse invades Earth and the Sailor Scouts can’t stop her with their usual Mercury Bubble Freeze and Cosmic Moon Power attacks, Rooney saves the day by complaining petulantly about something he saw on the back of a cereal box, boring the villains to death."

Anime hyper Oi, that was great. Just goes to show how anime, or at least certian anime shows, are becoming a common part of our culture I suppose. It's obvious the person who did this thing did research at least to get the attacks and names correctly.
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space clam



Joined: 11 Oct 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:55 pm Reply with quote
Laughing Andy Rooney, Galactic Hero... Of course, the article might have been written by someone whose kid(s) adored the anime, in which case the author's research was involuntary memorization by force of repetition. (Kind of how parents used to [still do] have to know all the names of the Pokémon to keep their kids happy) Now, if we could just take Jessica Simpson and put her under the psychological microscope of Evangelion...
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