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January 17, 2010 1:11 PM Subscribe
WE ARE VR. When the show VR Troopers was canceled, the cast and crew got drunk, dubbed over part of an episode and threw in some outtakes. Via the Something Awful Forums.
meh
posted by shockingbluamp at 1:23 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by shockingbluamp at 1:23 PM on January 17, 2010
Ow my balls!
posted by benzenedream at 1:27 PM on January 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by benzenedream at 1:27 PM on January 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Outtakes at the end were the best part, definitely worth watching.
Starts at 7:12
posted by uri at 1:32 PM on January 17, 2010
Starts at 7:12
posted by uri at 1:32 PM on January 17, 2010
Saban made awful television.
posted by James Cooper at 1:37 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by James Cooper at 1:37 PM on January 17, 2010
So if I grew up watching this it would be funny but like...if I didnt it wouldnt be?
posted by Senor Cardgage at 1:44 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by Senor Cardgage at 1:44 PM on January 17, 2010
I chuckled a few times but was overall underimpressed. The outtakes were funny, but the overdubbing could have been much funnier.
posted by schyler523 at 1:49 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by schyler523 at 1:49 PM on January 17, 2010
Eh, I thought it was funny. I'd never seen this show but I was in middle school when power rangers came on, so I was at least a little familiar with this kind of TV.
posted by delmoi at 2:00 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by delmoi at 2:00 PM on January 17, 2010
I thought this show was awful when I was a kid, and yet I still find myself occasionally singing that god damned theme song.
posted by spiderskull at 2:23 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by spiderskull at 2:23 PM on January 17, 2010
Wake me when the Beetleborgs do a foul-mouthed dub.
posted by Think_Long at 2:30 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by Think_Long at 2:30 PM on January 17, 2010
I've never seen that show and I don't see what's so funny about this video.
posted by krautland at 2:41 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by krautland at 2:41 PM on January 17, 2010
It's funny that they did this, but the actual result is probably only funny to them.
posted by LordSludge at 2:51 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by LordSludge at 2:51 PM on January 17, 2010
I liked it. It's cute for what it is, the cast and crew just playing around to amuse themselves. Sure, it's no DynaMan.
posted by webmutant at 2:57 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by webmutant at 2:57 PM on January 17, 2010
Saban made awful television.
Yeah he did. I think he managed to be in the right place at the right time with the right idea. When Power Rangers came out I was old enough to recognize it for what it was, a bad show kludged together with snippets of Japanese Super Sentai shows. Not that I specifically realized it was a sentai show, but I knew it in form from seeing it in various forms when it was rebroadcast on US TV when I was really young. Fast forward a few years when Manga & Anime have throughly broke through to mainstrain and I don't think you would have a chance to pass something like that in front of kids anymore. I don't know if he's still around making shitty kids shows, but he had a really good run there for a while by building of his initial success.
Looking further into it shows that company has now been sold.
posted by P.o.B. at 3:16 PM on January 17, 2010
Yeah he did. I think he managed to be in the right place at the right time with the right idea. When Power Rangers came out I was old enough to recognize it for what it was, a bad show kludged together with snippets of Japanese Super Sentai shows. Not that I specifically realized it was a sentai show, but I knew it in form from seeing it in various forms when it was rebroadcast on US TV when I was really young. Fast forward a few years when Manga & Anime have throughly broke through to mainstrain and I don't think you would have a chance to pass something like that in front of kids anymore. I don't know if he's still around making shitty kids shows, but he had a really good run there for a while by building of his initial success.
Looking further into it shows that company has now been sold.
posted by P.o.B. at 3:16 PM on January 17, 2010
Wow. I got this mixed up with what I just remembered was Captain Power. Now, if they had done a cast and crew overdubbing to that, I'd be impressed. Nothing like a show created to sell gimicky toys that decided, "Fuck that, let's kill of major characters and make a show so dark, children will have nightmares!"
posted by Ghidorah at 3:34 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by Ghidorah at 3:34 PM on January 17, 2010
Gidorah,
Indeed. JMS (of Babylon 5 fame) was behind Captain Power, and wow was that show amazing.
posted by effugas at 3:51 PM on January 17, 2010
Indeed. JMS (of Babylon 5 fame) was behind Captain Power, and wow was that show amazing.
posted by effugas at 3:51 PM on January 17, 2010
I'm surprised people are hating on this so much. I think it's hilarious.
posted by prunes at 4:08 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by prunes at 4:08 PM on January 17, 2010
I'm surprised people are hating on this so much.
You...are?
posted by adamdschneider at 5:52 PM on January 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
You...are?
posted by adamdschneider at 5:52 PM on January 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Would this be something that I need a television... Aw fuck it. Not funny.
posted by Splunge at 6:13 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by Splunge at 6:13 PM on January 17, 2010
Can we keep talking about captain power instead?
I was a spoiled kid and had at least one of the captain power gun-ship things that went with the episodes.
Oddly one of the few things I can remember is some "joke" about some scanner being "lit up like a christmas tree".
As a child I found that line HILARIOUS. I hope my sense of humor has improved since.
posted by flaterik at 6:50 PM on January 17, 2010
I was a spoiled kid and had at least one of the captain power gun-ship things that went with the episodes.
Oddly one of the few things I can remember is some "joke" about some scanner being "lit up like a christmas tree".
As a child I found that line HILARIOUS. I hope my sense of humor has improved since.
posted by flaterik at 6:50 PM on January 17, 2010
How much creativity do you expect from the cast of VR Troopers?
posted by graventy at 6:54 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by graventy at 6:54 PM on January 17, 2010
I loved this. Being that I was addicted to Power Rangers when I was about... 9 or 10, I remember the crappy look-alikes through foggy rose-colored glasses. It looks like they knew they were in a crappy also-ran and were just trying to have fun with it until it lasted, like working at Circuit City in its last three months. As the PR (the original, not the bastardized version they show kids these days) series went longer, it got more and more serious. Part of the fun was the mindless explosions and fights in foam suits!
posted by tmt at 7:03 PM on January 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by tmt at 7:03 PM on January 17, 2010 [1 favorite]
Wasn't Saban implicated with the CIA and/or the Mossad in some manner?
posted by Poet_Lariat at 7:38 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by Poet_Lariat at 7:38 PM on January 17, 2010
Seems like the cast and crew had a good time working together. It's always sad when a group splits up.
posted by halonine at 7:52 PM on January 17, 2010
posted by halonine at 7:52 PM on January 17, 2010
Wasn't Saban implicated with the CIA and/or the Mossad in some manner?
In 2006, Rep Jane Harman (D-CA) was recorded speaking with a suspected Israeli agent, who apparently asked her to intervene in the AIPAC case. Harman allegedly agreed to do so. It's been suggested that Haim Saban (the Egyptian-born Israeli head of Saban Productions,) was the person she spoke with, but to the best of my knowledge, that was never confirmed. The case against Harman was dropped. The DOJ cited lack of evidence. Rumors that Alberto Gonzales intervened on her behalf abound, but as far as I know, no one has proven that, either. Harman was recorded through a warrantless FISA wiretap.
BTW, I made the mistake of googling "Haim Saban" and "Mossad" and got a ton of links that accuse him of being a "media-controlling mogul ZIONIST JEW," (caps theirs, not mine,) among other things. I didn't bother clicking on any of those links.
posted by zarq at 1:18 PM on January 18, 2010
In 2006, Rep Jane Harman (D-CA) was recorded speaking with a suspected Israeli agent, who apparently asked her to intervene in the AIPAC case. Harman allegedly agreed to do so. It's been suggested that Haim Saban (the Egyptian-born Israeli head of Saban Productions,) was the person she spoke with, but to the best of my knowledge, that was never confirmed. The case against Harman was dropped. The DOJ cited lack of evidence. Rumors that Alberto Gonzales intervened on her behalf abound, but as far as I know, no one has proven that, either. Harman was recorded through a warrantless FISA wiretap.
BTW, I made the mistake of googling "Haim Saban" and "Mossad" and got a ton of links that accuse him of being a "media-controlling mogul ZIONIST JEW," (caps theirs, not mine,) among other things. I didn't bother clicking on any of those links.
posted by zarq at 1:18 PM on January 18, 2010
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