{"id":131317,"date":"2016-08-19T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/dah-doowee-dah-dah-dah-dweedow.html"},"modified":"2016-08-19T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:01:09","slug":"dah-doowee-dah-dah-dah-dweedow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/dah-doowee-dah-dah-dah-dweedow.html","title":{"rendered":"Dah-doowee-dah-dah-dah-dweedow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We watched the pilot episode for the new <i>Tick<\/i> series on Amazon Prime. I don&#39;t believe I would join Prime just to watch this show, but I&#39;m more than happy to watch it since I already am a member.<\/p>\n<p>The series is less zany than the cartoon or the comic, has (with CG) higher production values than the shortlived previous live action series, only has Patrick Warburton as a producer, but does have Ben Edlund as writer\/creator. The story&#39;s actually complex and Arthur-centered, and may very well turn out to be something pretty darned interesting. It&#39;s not <i>quite<\/i> there yet, but, then, this was just the pilot episode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6320755921906127585\/6320755922613888642'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-yfSYZ_WSMvM\/V7fWBddY5oI\/AAAAAAAEDPE\/Vhv_B6oNQzU57MMwN8CEdQcb4uXRVUqqgCJoC\/Tick_Landing_page_750x375._V282759396_%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/jK6YjYcqPBB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched the pilot episode for the new Tick series on Amazon Prime. I don&#39;t believe I would join Prime just to watch this show, but I&#39;m more than happy to watch it since I already am a member. The series is less zany than the cartoon or the comic, has (with CG) higher production &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/dah-doowee-dah-dah-dah-dweedow.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dah-doowee-dah-dah-dah-dweedow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tick_Landing_page_750x375._V282759396_5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/dresden_files_storm_front.html","url_meta":{"origin":131317,"position":0},"title":"Dresden Files:  &#8220;Storm Front&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Mar-07 8:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I'm a week behind, but I finally watched the \"Storm Front\" ep of Dresden Files last night.And ... huh. \u00a0This is a trimmed-down version of the unaired pilot...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-tv"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/doingwrite\/images\/dresdenfiles.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7481,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/my_oh_my_what_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":131317,"position":1},"title":"My, oh, my, what a wonderful day","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Feb-05 10:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Reports are that Song of the South will be released on DVD in 2006, its 60th anniversary. 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