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Yes, do the math: · 6:37pm Nov 17th, 2013
There once was a children's adventure series in which a little toffee-nosed git of a polymath snarked his way around time and space in an improbably-named conveyance and with the help of a loyal but relatively immature assistant created and/or fixed all manner of problems with the time-stream.
It came out in 1959.
"No, no, wait," you say "you've got the date wrong. It was 1963."
No. I mean 1959.
"But this year is the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who and if you do the math..."
No, I'm not talking about that foreign ripoff. I'm talking about the original.
And you say nothing, because now you are quite flummoxed.
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I'll admit, I'm looking forward to this movie. I know I shouldn't be, but I am. I was raised on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
That show was awesome. Now I'm sad that I can't watch it.
Loved it as a sprog, am doubtful of the big-sceen remake. As an animator, I'm well aware of how easy it would be to re-do in Flash. Hmn....
Good show, but the original to both of these was Sherlock Holmes. Time travel is just a minor detail. Moriarty, Cybermen, whatever.
That's right, Mr. Peabody!
*slow clap* Bravo...
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Oh, but I'm just getting started...
In one of those accidents that seem always attendant upon laboratory assistants, Sherman acquired immortality through regeneration. With Mr. Peabody as his personal tutor he quickly mastered a great many subjects including, at length, the physics of time travel. Throughout their adventures they continued to expand and improve upon the original Wayback, eventually moving the entire laboratory, as well as their living quarters, into a "pocket universe" inside it. To keep up with his now-immortal protégé, Mr. Peabody piece by piece replaced his organic body as it aged with an electromechanical one, eventually transferring his consciousness to a digital medium within his new form.
Though Sherman has lost all memory of his origins after so many regenerations over millennia of subjective time, his former mentor and benefactor still keeps watch over him in the form of K-9, and even lets the dear boy think he runs the shop.
(And they never talk about what happened with that Roomba. The Daleks are very sensitive about their ancestry).
1517527 *blink blink* I...I think I love you.