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    The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    Well, according to the Dancemistresses card, and contrary to what my coach said, Combat Ballet IS a skill.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    No Heroics was HILARIOUS. But the last few episodes of the first season weren't as good as the first few. It's still golden, but I wish the first season had ended on an upswing.
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    Image of Little Time Bomb Little Time Bomb
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    The British version is just so dirty I can't imagine how much you would have to tone it down to get it on US network tv.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    WAIT! No Heroics was, like, 95% gay blowjobs!


    /eyeroll for America

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    @Evlsushi: If they were going to put in more geeky and cool stuff, it'd be okay to go to 50% gay blowjobs, I think.
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    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    Personally, I can go without the gay blowjobs thanks. Stupid UK, making it friendly to everyone while losing sight of the actual point of the show... I'm looking at you Torchwood!!
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    Image of glwtta glwtta
    05/18/09

    @Zidel333: Wait, there was some sort of point to Torchwood apart from all the hot hot bisexual sex?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    @glwtta: Alien hot hot bisexual sex, silly.
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    Image of InvaderPhlegm InvaderPhlegm
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    I already love the original; cannot wait for a second series.


    I guess a US remake could work well. If they made it similar to The Big Bang Theory, just set in a bar . . . with some gay blow jobs, I think they'd have a hit on their hands.


    I do think that it's cool, that it would be set in the same universe - possibilities for crossovers, abound. After all, what is a good super hero anything without some sort of an occasional crossover?

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    Image of Charax Charax
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    Technically that should be *fewer* gay blowjobs. As a Brit I'm sure he'll appreciate the pedantry.
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    Image of Slovenly Muse Slovenly Muse
    05/18/09

    @Charax: Grammar nerds FTW!
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    Image of Kishi Kishi
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    Eh, I'm okay with them not picking it up. I don't need to see American TV ruin another British sitcom I enjoyed- if I ever feel that need, I'll just go back and rewatch the US version of Coupling, which was terrible, except for the guy who's on Eureka now. He was a pretty good casting job.
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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    05/18/09

    @Kishi: Of course ironically enough, Coupling was Moffat's attempt to remake Friends for the UK market with characters that people didn't want to stab repeatedly. Or something.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: I guess it's like Xeroxing. Too many copies and the quality goes. Friends --> Coupling worked; Coupling --> Coupling didn't.
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    Image of Slovenly Muse Slovenly Muse
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    Frankly, I'm relieved. I did not consider this remake to be good news. After all, what's No Heroics without all the gay blowjobs?
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    Image of GayRobotsRUS GayRobotsRUS
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    Wait... if ABC had picked it up, the American version would have had "less gay blowjobs" and more "geek detail" and cool references...?


    *headdesk*


    Why are American networks so scared of sex and homosexuality?

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/18/09

    @GayRobotsRUS: They're trying to fend off the day when GayRobots-R-US!
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    05/18/09

    @GayRobotsRUS: Um, because this is America. What do you expect from a country founded by Puritans?
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    Image of FriarJohn FriarJohn
    05/18/09

    Christians. Duh.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/18/09

    @TemporalSword: Then again New England, Puritan Motherland, Is totally down with fags and dykes marching down the aisle. Give anyone three or four hundred years and they're bound to come to their senses. Yay, New England! Fluffernutter sandwiches and Scrapple for everyone!


    Meanwhile here in San Francisco, CA we are all doing the communal *headdesk*.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    @FriarJohn: Exactly.


    Why not more geek detail and cool references *and* the gay sex?


    Something for everyone!


    However, he did say it would have been "expensive", and that's the kiss of death for ANY show nowadays, no matter how much or little sex.

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    Image of Kevin Jones Kevin Jones
    05/18/09

    In reply to The U.S. Isn't Ready For Snarky Superheroes?
    We had the Tick. FOX canceled that too.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/18/09

    @Kevin Jones: Yeah, this sounds a lot like live-action Tick.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    05/18/09

    @Kevin Jones: SPOOOOON!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/18/09

    @Kevin Jones: Agreed. That was funny stuff. Whenever I see the actors from that, I still think of them as Tick, Arthur, Capt. Liberty, and of course Batmanuel is over there on LOST Island being immortal and mysterious.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    02/13/09

    In reply to Superhero Sitcom Won't Lose Its Powers When It Crosses The Atlantic
    You know, the first three episodes of No Heroics were really hilarious and amazing, but then it got sappy and started trying to take itself seriously with a tangential love interest story....


    Really disappointing.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/13/09

    In reply to Superhero Sitcom Won't Lose Its Powers When It Crosses The Atlantic
    This was already tried with the live action Tick show. That lasted what, three episodes? The cartoon was much closer to the comic and was more enjoyable, I think.
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    Image of Allard Allard
    02/13/09

    @Skunky: I'm not sure what the corollary between this and the Tick show are. The Tick show was about super heroes actually doing heroic things at least occasionally. This is a show about really bad superheroes, who never really do anything right and sit around getting drunk all the time.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/13/09

    @Allard: In the Tick, it's usually the Tick that does all the hard work, sometimes with Arthur or American Maid (one of the few competent heroes in The City) helping. In the live action one, they changed the names of American Maid and Deflatermaus and changed them into some sexually repressed losers that mainly just argued for awhile before pawing at each other again. Even the Tick himself was less useful than in the cartoon.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    02/13/09

    In reply to Superhero Sitcom Won't Lose Its Powers When It Crosses The Atlantic
    Meh. I watched the first episode of the original and I didn't care much for it. It seemed like nonstop sex jokes, if you ask me. Don't get me wrong, sex jokes can be funny, but you can't have nothing but them.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    02/13/09

    @Platypus Man: Yeah, I almost gave up after the first episode as well, but thankfully, they found their footing in the later episodes.


    There are still plenty of sex jokes, and some gags that fall flat on their face, but overall the series plays like a NC-17 version of the live action Tick.

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    02/13/09

    In reply to Superhero Sitcom Won't Lose Its Powers When It Crosses The Atlantic
    God I hope they don't screw this one up. When I heard that No Heroics was coming to the U.S. I figured it was the original version which I was never able to finish. This news of a remake is troubling.
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    Image of rek rek
    02/13/09

    @Evlsushi: You couldn't finish 6 episode?
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    02/13/09

    @rek:


    I just never got around to seeing it.

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