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More Issues with the BBBs |
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For those of you just tuning in, the BBBs are some of my childhood heroes, the Big Bad Beetleborgs. (A lesser known Metal Hero American Dub.)
I randomly remembered the show when my mum found an old BBB costume part. (Which I still deny is mine.)
In my 'Anybody Remember' post, I questioned the logic based on the Wikipedia info.
Today, however, I watched the first episode.
First, the main characters are about ten? Twelve maybe.
There's two guys, and a girl who's the sister of one of the guys.
The girl looks like she eight-years old, and yet she's got the tough-tomboy appearance.
Anyway, they start out at the comic book store, 'Zoom Comics' teasing Jo (the girl) teasing her brother about the chick working at the comic-store.
They're kids, and they're teasing him about having a crush on the girl, who's like fifteen.
Sheesh. I didn't remember that part.
Moving on, they run into these snobby rich boys, and end up in a dare to go to this old abandoned house.
The rich-twerps leave to go scare 'our heroes'.
Said heroes find out there's a mummy/Grim Reaper, and Frankenbeans, (Frankenstien), who chase after them wanting to eat them presumably.
Later, they narrowly escape said monsters by finding a hidden switch that opens up a wall.
The rich-kids run into a vampire, and then quickly leave the house screaming. (The vampire also wants to eat the children. Hmmm.)
After a series of trick doors and coridoors, the three end up in a room with an organ.
Jo leans of the organ, releasing the inhabitaning 'phasm', a ghost named Flabber.
Flabber is kind of like a freaky-ghost version of Elvis Presly and John Travolta mixed together. Oh, and he's light blue, with a huge nose and chin.
Anyway, he freaks out the kids (can't blame them) and the tallest faints.
After a while, they all decide to leave, which is when Flabber says that he'll grant them one wish for freeing him.
The kids decide this is all a dream, and wish to be their comic book superheroes, the Beetleborgs.
They hand Flabber the comic book, where he mistakes the Metal Heroes to actually be rats, and promptly turns the unwitting children into such.
The episode ends with the rat-children wondering what the bloody Hael happened.
Actually, it ends with a 'To be continued...'.
There is just something terribly wrong with all of that.
Maybe the Japanese original would be better... even though the second season (English Dubbed 'Beetleborgs Metallix') was the last of the Metal Hero era.
The funniest thing about the whole thing was the rich-kids cell phone.
In the beginning, the two rich boys are seen running screaming out of the abandoned house, and a monster-hand grabs the boy's fallen cell phone.
How he could lose something the size of a small brick is beyond me.
Why his mum even let a twelve-year-old back in the 90s have a cell-phone, regardless of money is also beyond me.
Who the heck was he going to call? Everyone else seemed rather middle class....
The monsters were all extremely intent on killing the kids, and none of them would say the word 'dead', or 'death'.
Instead it was always 'unliving' or something to that affect.
Good Gaea, and don't even get me started on that Flabber-thing.
Regardless of what he thinks, 'Flabberific' can not be a good thing.
By what the heck, it's got a catchy theme song, so that's at least something over the Power Rangers, right?
 nuit_douce · Fri Jun 26, 2009 @ 03:26am · 0 Comments |
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