Posted by chimubu at 1cust152.tnt1.hobbs.nm.da.uu.net on November 14, 1999 at 14:35:50:
In Reply to: Had anyone realized? posted by Smalls on November 14, 1999 at 13:12:30:
Take barney's origin of being created by a texas school teacher, as well as its line of products (they almost exactly parrallel what is mentioned in the film), add elemnts of Micky and Mcdonalds, and viola=MOOBY.
By the way, just how many of those Hicks boys are there?
christian
wanting loki and bartlby action figures
: ...the irony of the fact that Dogma's main competition has been a film about a cute little yellow animal that children worship above all else, considering the whole Mooby subplot?
: Which, despite all the comparisons to Disney and Mickey Mouse, still strikes me personally as more a commentary on Barney the Purple Dinosaur than anything.
: At any rate, I've run into a lot of people who loved it and a lot of people who really liked it but nit-picked a few little things out... and no one who wasn't happy to have seen it.
: ya missed a spot
: Smalls