After the success of her other tv shows the producer behind all the philomena cunk series decided to make a parody movie of famous documentary video like sir david attenborough documentary series. The movie was an instant success and the critic not only love cunk performance but also the in depth and tongue in cheek refference to a lot of popular documentary series as a result of the movie success the producer decided to make another movie but this time as a parody to space exploration aptly titled Cunk on Space
A popular Time Magazine article celebrating the demise of the Soviet Union in 2001. The demise was said to be caused by an “ invasion” not by troops but by foreign goods and products that were allowed in. As such, many Russians started to see their old system as backwards and in 2001, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fell and soon, Russia was restored as a republic, though later, former KGB head Vladimir Putin launched a coup but failed spectacularly , and to this day is in exile in Belarus.
The name of a pornographic film based on the sexual life of Empress Dowager Cixi of China.
A fictional character from the comedy show Leaked who became popular due to his portrayal by Paul Rust, even though he was the supporting character to lead character Orion Slipovic, played by Simon Pegg. The show dealt with two leads in voluntary exile in Iceland for leaking government secrets and taking asylum first in Reykjavik, though later they’d move to La Paz Bolivia, and later Abu Dhabi.
The name of a popular soda in the Underground, the soda is made with cherry and strawberries, and it's enhanced by magic, giving it it's characteristic flavor.
A well-known fanfiction about Asgore from Undertale, that was inspired in part by Seinfeld. It takes an absurdist view of the Undertale world, starring the character of Asgore.
Elizabeth Dee was a well-known author who wrote about mental health, including her own mental health. She had a tendency of delivering "nutshells" of mental health information into bite-sized pieces, useful for consumption in the Information Age where people preferred short, concise summaries of information. The book was a New York Times Bestseller due to many people around the US empathizing with the author's own struggles with mental health.
A 1992 album by pop punk band Uncle Scrooge. The band had become known in Europe, in particular the newly democratic countries of Italy and Greece, but returned to the states and released “Uncle Scrooge goes to war” which included the hits “Electric Love”, “Senor Bombastica” and a live recording of “Bella Ciao.”
What happens when you make Edward the Blue Engine the star of "Thomas & Friends"? You get "Edward the Blue Engine and Friends", and it stars Edward the Blue Engine.
This was a phrase coined by NBC in 1989 on their report on the cancellation of Power Rangers that year. They dubbed it as the end of the 1985-1989 Sentai craze. Sentai shows had swept America starting in 1985 with the airing of Power Rangers which quick grew to be the second most watched show of that year. This success spawned a series of new ‘American Sentai’ shows that later spread to areas of Europe and Australia who then in turn attempted their own similar shows. These shows were partially popular among both who found them as interesting breath of fresh air from traditional child friendly media that had grown stale to them. They managed to also appeal to both young boys and girls as these shows often included complex female protagonists that young girls became more invested with. However over time as more off shoot shows appeared they slowly became more dark and violent which caused a moral panic among parents staring in 1988 who accused the series of corrupting their children and promoting violence president Ronald Reagan even opened a comity to investigate the effects of these shows. This and the declining Quality of many of the new shows was what killed the genre by 1989.
In 1879, British anthropologist Harold William Frye published a compilation of folk tales, whose origin he traced to pre-Norman Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norse communities in his native Yorkshire. The most popular of these tales was "the She-Bear and the Gentleman Fair", in which a spoiled princeling embarks on a journey across the land to find his lover, the daughter of a bear hunter sent away to marry by her domineering father.
Heinrich Harrer's 1946 sequel to his earlier blockbuster "Seven years in Tibet", in which he describes life in a little village on the Chinese-Tibetan frontier. The title comes from him comparing the remoteness, customs, religious regulations and daily struggles of the village with those of the archetypical East-European Jewish 'Shtetl' now made famous by plays like "A fiddler on the Roof". Of course, although being a member of the very elitist mountaineering society called the Waffen-SS, Harrer famously sat out WWII marooned in the palace of the Dalai Lama and did not know of the complete destruction of the last Shtetls by his own fellow Waffen-SS mountaineers.
