KAGENAMI Q: Yay!
SM: And we finally got to see all the professors!
KAGENAMI Q: Oh yeah!
SM: Do they, like, have names?
KQ: Yep. Every single one.
SM: Well, I never knew what they were, so it'll be really cool to find out what they're all called, rather than "the guy with the fake nose," and "Scary Mario Brothers Guy," and "Mr. Bald Non-Descript Guy"...
KQ: I thought you just thought it was more fun to call them that.
SM: Well, yeah, it's more fun, but I doubt that's what the people who wrote the series called them. I could be wrong...[laughter] You just know if I wrote an anime series, what the characters would be called--[in Space Ghost voice] "Skanky Boy, quickly!" [laughter]
KQ: You were kind of down on the show the day before yesterday because of all the politics that you could cut with a chainsaw, but yesterday...
SM: It actually got interesting!
KQ: It was more character-driven yesterday.
SM: Yeah. How come they're not terribly consistent with whether there's a [next-episode] preview on the show?
KQ: There has been a preview on the show. All but twice. It seems like a lot when there were two in a row that there wasn't one, but they've had them all since. I'm trying to think of what the preview was for yesterday...
SM: I can't remember it...
KQ: Oh yeah, it's the big thing where Zechs' helmet busts.
SM: Oh yeah!
KQ: Now you remember it!
SM: [in announcer voice] Zechs is made to be even more humiliated than usual! "You do look like a jerk in that thing! Let me help you with that!" [in whiny Zechs voice] "Wait, no, I made it in shop class--I really like it..." [laughter] [back to normal] Poor Zechs! Even if he does talk like Clint Eastwood...[laughter] Why is he talking like Clint Eastwood? He didn't to begin with.
KQ: [like Zechs] Just to be really cool!
SM: [like Zechs] "I just need to talk like this so you can tell me from the other characters!" [back to normal] The bondage episode is coming up pretty soon, isn't it...? [laughter]
KQ: But we have to talk about yesterday's episode!
SM: Well, you've got to talk about it some, too.
KQ: But you're more fun to listen to!
SM: I don't think so. You're smarter than me!
KQ: Har. No way! But nobody's as smart as that gal who e-mailed us and said, "Did you know that Quatre's voice is the voice of Jonny in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest?"!
SM: Yeah! That was pretty fuckin' smart--I was impressed with that!
KQ: Yeah, that was a great catch!
SM: So are you going to do the thing where you say, "Can you identify any of the other voice actors?" to the reading public? I thought you were going to put the call out and say, "Let's play 'identify the voice actors'..."
KQ: Sure--if anyone knows, if you could let us know, that would be great! In the meantime, it's fun to guess who they are...you know, like, Danny Bonaduce, and, uh...[laughter]
SM: Gawd...yeah, I think Danny Bonaduce is doing Zechs' voice.
KQ: You do?
SM: No, I'm kidding! I'm a kidder! [laughter] [in Dr. Evil voice] "Why don't you and the 'giant laser' get a frickin' room?" [laughter] I don't know why I just said that--I just like saying that...
KQ: We said that yesterday during the episode!
SM: Yeah, and we both said it simultaneously, which is the really scary part! [laughter]
KQ: What was it about...?
SM: I don't remember!
KQ: Oh! It was when the protesting guy, the "honorable"...guy--they called him the "honorable" something guy--walks in...the guy with all the lines in his forehead...
SM: Oh, the guy who looks like he had, like, four sets of eyes! [laughter]
KQ: Yeah! He walks in and says [in old fart voice] "The Gundams love the colonies!" [laughter]
SM: Oh yeah! And I immediately got a vision of one of the Gundams humping one of the colonies...
KQ: Me too! [laughter] And then we said simultaneously, "Why don't you Gundams and the colonies get a frickin' room?" [laughter]
SM: [in Dr. Evil voice] "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face don't want to hear it any more!" [laughter]
KQ: And then there was that Trowa line was kind of painful...
SM: Arrgh! That's when I said, "If I went out on a date with this guy and he said something like that, I'd get up and walk out!"
KQ: He said something like, "Even though the battle will be difficult..."
SM: "...we have peace in our hearts."
KQ: "I sense that the five of us all have peace in our hearts..."
SM: "Sense this!" Crunch! [laughter]
KQ: But hey, kids, we learned that you can use the media to your advantage, 'cause if you start a big fight and get on TV, then the other Gundams from all over the world will come to your...
SM: Now, I was a little weeny bit confused. Were they all attacking the same base, or were they all attacking different bases? Because...
KQ: I think they were attacking different bases.
SM: Duo and Quat were attacking the one base together...
KQ: Yes.
SM: ...and getting their butts kicked, and then Wufei showed up and helped them, right?
KQ: Uh-huh.
SM: But then Trowa and Heero were elsewhere, right?
KQ: I think.
SM: I couldn't tell.
KQ: I couldn't tell either, frankly! They would've had to hop a really fast bus to all get together...[laughter] But yet, only the three...Y'know, it's been a couple years since I've seen that chunk of episodes, but they all go up into space, and only the three went up into space at that point...
SM: Trowa and Heero were still together, right? Maybe they went to some base near where they were and started kickin' it.
KQ: Yeah. And then Sandrock blew up...awww, man, that part's so sad...
SM: That was so noble of Sandrock to let Quatre out--especially because Wing didn't care what the heck happens to Heero!
I think it's cool that they can watch, like, eight different channels of TV at the same time in a Gundam.
KQ: Think of programming that--"The time keeps flashing 12:00!" [laughter] A little while ago you had mentioned, "Weren't there scenes early on where Heero would keep slamming the side of his 'bot [in the cockpit]?" And there were, and I hadn't noticed they were gone until you said that! Well, that's why he keeps slamming it--'cause the time keeps flashing...[laughter] Heero flailing, hitting the side of his 'bot--I really like that about him. I like when he does that...
SM: That was, like, in the first couple episodes...So have we seen the midnight versions of those? Did they maybe leave that intact?
KQ: Maybe. "Oh, we can't show aggressive behavior! He might've killed a bug or something--we can't show that!"
SM: [freaking out] "Arrggh!! Gokiburi!! Arrggh!!" Heero Yuy--totally fearless, except when it comes to cockroaches...Relena's like, "Is that all it takes?" [in snotty, imperious voice] "Pagan, go get me a rather large box of cockroaches, will you?" [in old fart voice] "Just a minute. I'm looking at a Web site about sporks." [laughter] "Did you know there's a Web site about Sarah Michelle Geller? Why, there's a whole lot of Web sites about Sarah Michelle Geller!" [in normal voice] Pagan discovers Internet porn. [in excited old fart voice] "Oh my...!" [laughter]
KQ: He has a hook-up in his car to keep him occupied while Relena goes trotting after Heero...
SM: [in old fart voice] "Take your time, take your time--I've got things to do. Oh my...oh my goodness gracious!" [laughter]
KQ: Oh, oh, and Professor G sounds like Zorak [of Space Ghost Coast To Coast]! [laughter]
SM: Yeah! They did a great job with Professor G's voice! I'm still really, really frightened of his hair, though--and his nose...
KQ: I wanted so bad to go to the Anime Central masquerade and do Doctor J and you do Professor G! That would've been so...
SM: No, no...
KQ: Nobody would've known who we are!
SM: But think of the prostheses we would've had to have worn! Think of the uncomfortable rubber things adhered to our faces...
KQ: Been there. Done that. [laughter] I just wanted you to go through it!
SM: Hey, I did! Don't you remember?
KQ: Oh, that's right! I'm sorry!
SM: [indignant] I was Zsa-Zsa, Queen of the Space Poodles!
KQ: Sayyy, she's the gal of Professor G's dreams...!
SM: Oh, the pain...![laughter]
Go to Chapter 2 "Five Good-Looking Japanese Boys From All Walks Of Life!" (on Romper Room on Speed, Heero and Trowa and Sylvester and Daffy, the Princess Mononoke Press Guide, 'Handing It' To Paul Lynde, and More Praise For Gundam Wing Episode 1)
Go to Chapter 3 "What Were They Thinking?!" (on Bad Accents from Star Blazers to Giant Robo, Tomino's Monkeywrench, Photoshopping Heero's Shorts, the Quest for Two-Flap Swear Words, Duo Gets His Gun, and Gundam Wing Episode 2)
Go to Chapter 4 "'Dickweed' Would Gladden My Heart" (on Duo's Vintage Vocabulary, Heero's Mysterious Dripping, "Instructor Noin" Meets "Inspector Gadget," and Gundam Wing Episode 3)
Go to Chapter 5 "There Should Be About 57 Dots Between the 'Umm' and the 'Okay'..." (on the Appeal of Noin, How Sid & Marty Krofft Swayed Wufei, Crunchy Fruity Rebels, Fear of Freeza, and Gundam Wing Episodes 4, 5 and 6)
Go to Chapter 6 "The Hell With the New Possibilities--She Wants To Plook Heero!" (on the World's Smallest Violin, the Unfortunately-Named General That-Part-Of-Your-Nose, Ringo Starr Meets Turn A Gundam, Memories of Pleading For Heero's Medical Prognosis, and Gundam Wing Episodes 6 and 7)
Go to Chapter 7.5 "Silence Nowwwwwwwwwwww!" (on Heero's Holster, Explaining Headcheese, Sally and Cher Po, the Gundam Wing Voice Actors Revealed, Kudos For Correspondents, and Gundam Wing Episode 20)
Go to Chapter 8 "God Forbid Little Kids Get Ideas..." (on the Great Houdini vs. the God of Death, Keeping Duo from Damaging Impressionable Young Minds, Oz Fashion Don'ts, Duo's True-Life Nature Adventure, a Left Turn into Trigun, and Gundam Wing Episode 23)
Go to Chapter 9 "Stay Away From Those Oz Burritos!" (on the Gundam Wing Language Rules, the Great Destroyer Vs. Great Mazinger, Trowa Markets the Oz Viewmaster, the Omnipresent Mr. B Natural, and Gundam Wing Episode 24)
Go to Chapter 10 "I Don't Usually Use 'Clown' In That Context..." (on Epyon's Sex Appeal, Duo Hitting the [Soy] Sauce, Wasabi Wars, Catherine Gets a Trowagotchi, Evoking Bozo, More Language Rules, and Gundam Wing Episodes 36 and 37)
Go to Chapter 11 "Ralphie Does Not Want To Sit On Santa's Lap Any More..." (on Howdy Doody's Enduring Fashion Influence, the Real Reason the Cartoon Network Wanted Gundam Wing, Duo's Cheeks, Epyon Vs. Sam The Snowman, Feeling Bad For Freeza, Singing the Praises of "Pants," and Gundam Wing Episode 39)
Go to Chapter 12 "He's Not Having Mental Problems--He's Having an Epyon Moment!" (on Push-Up Bras of the Future, More Things To Put In Heero's Pants, Soulmates Zechs and Shatner, Epyon and Secretariat's Love Child, the Nice People at McFarlane Toys, Bandai-ing Dolls About, and Gundam Wing Episode 41)
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