From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #182 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Saturday, January 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 182 In this issue: [monkey] Monkey on TV Re: [monkey] More Monkey movie files? Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 02:03:01 PST From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] Monkey on TV Hi, I got this message in my guestbook during the night. I've "bleeped" some of the words appropriately. > YES it was one of the greatest, no, the Greatest TV show of all time. > However, if anyone out there is hoping to see MONKEY back on the tele in > its original form, forget it. Times have changed since the early 1980's. > There is no way those anally retentive, uptight, left-wing, politically > correct F*****S at the BBC and ABC(Australia) are going to let the > original MONKEY back on air without editing the living s**t out of the > series. Do you think Monkey is edited at all when shown on cable channels in the UK and Australia? Does anyone remember any bits that have been edited out? Howell ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:52:18 +1100 From: tu chung Subject: Re: [monkey] More Monkey movie files? Howell Parry wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone out there has the ability > to make movie files (AVI, QuickTime etc.) of classic clips from > Monkey? > > At the moment, the only movie file from Monkey that I'm aware of is > the one I link to from my Monkey Movies page: > http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8153/movies.html > > This movie file contains the intro to Monkey, and was created sometime > last year by L Jones (ljones@lineone.net). The quality is superb. > > However, since its quality is so good, and it lasts for 1 minute and > a half, it's also quite large - over 12MB when uncompressed. > > It'd be cool if someone out there could create several short movie > files, each one no bigger than 1 or 2 MB. > > Let me know if any of you can do this, and I'll sort out somewhere on > the Internet where you can upload it / them to, so that lots of other > Monkey fans can download them... > > Thanks, hope someone can help, > > Howell > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com I would be happy to host any clips.monkey is coming back on Foxtel and i now know someone who has foxtel so i will be getting some eps.Hopefully,i can find someone who has a video card to capture some scenes.Meanwhile,if anyone can create some clips themselves and would like them hosted,please email me. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 22:49:19 +0000 From: "Sheep Groper" Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV > Do you think Monkey is edited at all when shown on cable channels in > the UK and Australia? Does anyone remember any bits that have been > edited out? It isn't edited on Arena, except where it fades in and out for ads and that's just a few seconds I think. It *was* edited on the ABC. Best example - episode 1. He tries to fly out of Buddha's hand and arrives at the five pillars at the end of the universe. He graffitis, and then he feels the call of nature so he waters them ( love the expression on his face then, he must have been busting ) before flying back. This shower scene was cut out of the ABCs version but is complete in the Arena one. And I believe the music is too disjointed in 'What Monkey calls a Dog Woman' in the scene where he fights her, slamming his staff into her bosy as she jumps through the air, but it's the same when screened on ABC or Arena so it may be supposed to be like that. Nowadays the ABC is happy to show a pissing contest between school boys, I guess standards change. XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX Bob shore 4.5 kg, not bad for a decrepit old wether. Bramble shore 5.5 kg, and we both sport bruises from that experience. Bess shore 6 kg, showing that greed is good where fleeces are concerned. "You need more memory? Over the years, you've had more RAM than a field of Sheep!" - Cat shepherd@posgate.apana.org.au Suburban Shepherd in Canberra, Australia's droughtstruck capital city. XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxX ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:39:19 +0000 From: "Timothy Parnell" Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV I've often wondered about that myself.........Our episodes are 40 minutes or there-abouts, which seems unnatural to me. Were the shows longer in the Japanese version??? For sure , some of the content is bizarre for a series that was targetted at the 6pm market here, so I wonder if the humour was occasionally too much for our audiences sensibilities... Any thoughts,anyone?? Tim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:16:49 +0000 From: "Semprini" Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV > I've often wondered about that myself.........Our episodes are 40 > minutes or there-abouts, which seems unnatural to me. > Were the shows longer in the Japanese version??? > For sure , some of the content is bizarre for a series that was > targetted at the 6pm market here, so I wonder if the humour > was occasionally too much for our audiences sensibilities... Maybe in Japan they had loads of adverts that spanned it out to the hour like Bravo does in the UK. (And will be doing again as from this weekend - hoorah!) I think you can get away with a lot with humour really depending how you do it. Take the Simpsons, a lot of that is highly suspect but because it is perceived as a children's programme it gets away with it because the main audience probably doesn't get it all. I think it's the same with Monkey. When I was little I'm sure I didn't get any of the jokes. There was just a cool fighty bloke with a big stick. That was more than enough for me. Only when watching it a year or so ago again did I get any of it..! .oOo. "hello" (c) 1997 mailto:semprini@buttle.com (All Rights Reserved) http://freeweb.redcat.org.uk/~semprini/ (for Heaven's sake, go there..) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:16:49 +0000 From: "Semprini" Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV > Hi, I got this message in my guestbook during the night. I've > "bleeped" some of the words appropriately. > > > YES it was one of the greatest, no, the Greatest TV show of all time. > > However, if anyone out there is hoping to see MONKEY back on the tele > in > > its original form, forget it. Times have changed since the early > 1980's. > > There is no way those anally retentive, uptight, left-wing, > politically > > correct F*****S at the BBC and ABC(Australia) are going to let the > > original MONKEY back on air without editing the living s**t out of the > > series. > > Do you think Monkey is edited at all when shown on cable channels in > the UK and Australia? Does anyone remember any bits that have been > edited out? It's certainly a weird one. What was it exactly that they would have edited out? It is theoretically possible that during the translation they changed huge pornographic bouts of swearing into what we hear in the English (or whatever) version, but is it actually likely? Wasn't the target audience children here? (Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying Monkey is just for children because I love it now, it's just one of those rare children's programmes that seems even better as an adult.. well, presumably...) .oOo. "hello" (c) 1997 mailto:semprini@buttle.com (All Rights Reserved) http://freeweb.redcat.org.uk/~semprini/ (for Heaven's sake, go there..) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:28:24 +1000 (EST) From: Chris Hadgis Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV Monkey screens in Australia on Foxtel. They (Foxtel) have quite a good record when it comes to screening episodes in full and in order. Unless the episodes have been edited before being given to Foxtel, then they are the full episode. If time permits, I will tape some of the Monkey episodes for which there is no review and attempt to write one up. ChrisH ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:06:59 -0800 From: The Rascal Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey on TV >Do you think Monkey is edited at all when shown on cable channels in >the UK and Australia? Does anyone remember any bits that have been >edited out? Dear Howell, YES! I have noticed that the episodes from cable have been edited. For instance to my memory, the episode entitled "Saint, Catfish and Shape Changer" had a good chunk missing from it. There is a sequence where the 3 disciples chase the shape change thru the woods, and at some point the shape changer becomes Tripitaka. In order to find out who the real Tripitaka is, the disciples tell him to use the head ache thing on Monkey, much to his protest the priest does...and the false Tripitaka is revealed when the real one stops preying and the head ache thing stops, while the false one is still going :) Anyhow, hope that helps! Re, Pete. ------------------------------ End of Monkey Digest V1 #182 **************************** ----------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the Monkey Mailing List digest list, send mail to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe monkey-digest To send a message to the list, send mail to: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org If you have any problems or questions, send mail to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org For lots more information and news about "Monkey", check out the Monkey! web site: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8153/