{"id":9209,"date":"2006-01-23T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/spoooooon.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:32:47","slug":"spoooooon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/spoooooon.html","title":{"rendered":"SPOOOOOON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tick01.gif\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Tick\" width=88 height=88><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4963\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Tick <\/em>(the animated series) is reportedly on its way to DVD<\/a>.  Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the live action series, but <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112196\/\" target=\"_blank\">the animated series<\/a> rocked.  I actually purchased one of my few bootleg DVD sets from the SDCC in order to get a (crappy, flaky) copy of it, so I&#8217;ll be in line to buy the real one when it is formally released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can&#8217;t let the package hide the pudding!  Evil is just plain bad!  You don&#8217;t cotton to it.  You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness!  Bad dog!  Bad dog!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;m &#8212; amused &#8212; to discover that the series is owned by &#8230; Disney?!<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfad.org\/julia\/blog\/archive\/001918.html\" target=\"_blank\">Julia<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tick (the animated series) is reportedly on its way to DVD. Huzzah! I enjoyed the live action series, but the animated series rocked. I actually purchased one of my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[45,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9626,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/good_news_bad_n.html","url_meta":{"origin":9209,"position":0},"title":"Good News, Bad News, Good News, Bad News","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-May-06 3:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Good News: A The Tick animated series DVD set is coming! 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