Introductions / Your First SPC Experience

[BurkeWorld]

Welcome aboard.

Just don't piss me off and we'll get along great.

^_^

Burkey

[Peteroski]

I'll be very cautious

[BurkeWorld]

I'll be very cautious

Haha, all in good fun, people are always welcome here.

Burkey

[fjdfjtj]

As far as I know, the first time I've ever heard of SPC was about a week ago while reading the webcomic Funny Farm.

It sounded interesting, and after a quick search I downloaded some of the really horrible quality episodes.

Now I'm obssessed.

[BurkeWorld]

As far as I know, the first time I've ever heard of SPC was about a week ago while reading the webcomic Funny Farm.

It sounded interesting, and after a quick search I downloaded some of the really horrible quality episodes.

Now I'm obssessed.

And so it begins....

Burkey

[PizzaCatFan]

I found this board through reading at another anime board, and it was mentioned.  I can never keep a constant screen ID for myself, so it'll be hard to for you folks to believe that I have been an on-and-off contributor to the Pizza cats/Teyandee fanbase.

Hopefully I can put all the confusion to a halt here, and do some more constant things.  SPC was one of those gateway anime for me, and still holds a place within my memories.

I once did run a website under the id 'aniemfan_25' and it did have a pretty thorough section on SPC/KNT in it, but I  had let that die off, even though the evil Google caches have it perminantly in memory now.  Meh. ~_~;;  I also was the one who gave that petition to bring this series on DVD a go.  I found out that 'online petitions' are pointless....to get companies or other folks to notice, you actually have to write or type up a letter to them.  Letters speak louder, period.  (I'll admit, I have not done so yet, due to time).  The petition did do something good early on though, before spammers and jerks flooded it.  It showed me just how many die-hard Pizzacats fans wanted to see this series out on a long-lasting media format.  I'm sure many are in this board now, so my thanks to you.

To say the least, I was VERY disappointed that it took a bootleg company to put out one volume of the series out....with out-of-order episodes on it.  What can you do though, when the big suits at Disney won't push an official release....not much.  Right now, we are in the thick of a '1980s revival', so once a '1990s revival' happens.....who knows...and with the things the next-generation DVD formats will bring....only time will tell.  Hopefully things fall into place.

Anyways, enough negative stuff.....where to begin?  My first experience with SPC...

For you folks outside the U.S., keep in mind that we were one of the last countries to land SPC on our airwaves...the 1996/1997 TV season to be exact.  Mostly on local FOX, WB or UPN affiliates at some rather ackward timeslots.  For me, it was on at 9:30am on a UPN station, and at 2:30pm on a WB station. (Yay for me, since I got a double-helping of this show)  Saban did not feel it would go over well back in 1991/1992, when it was premiered in Canada and in European countries, thus why the long wait.

September 1996:  Another anime title, Dragonball, on early Saturday AM on my local WB station (then, still an independant channel), was canned since the station went through all 13 eps probably a dozen times over.  I caught a bit of this but it's too insignificant to count it as my gateway anime, but still it introduced me to the artstyle.  In any case, I was channel surfing like most do, and froze the remote upon this show that took up the 10:30am timeslot...the ep was "If You Knew Sushi Like I Knew Sushi".  Watched the last 15 minutes and I was hooked...somewhat.  I didn't catch the Cats' names at first (except Polly's...who could forget a punned-name like "Polly Esther" any day?).  I do recall myself thinking the show was 'quirky and insane, but in a good way' as well as 'funny'.  I also appreciated that this bit of animation (Didn't know the 'anime' term just yet) was more mature than what was being run around it at the time.

Obviously, I wanted more, but the trouble was...I could never find it again after that one viewing, so I gave up and moved on, going through the autumn and into winter  I do recall watching something else from Saban in the 10:30am slot, but it was no Pizza Cats.

January 1997:  New year, and I made one resolution right away....to find those quirky Cats again.  Back then the TV Guide was ones' friend when trying to find a show, when and where it aired.  I noticed it moved to weekday mornings and afternoons (explained above).  So on my day off from class (Monday Jan. 13, 1997...I was a junior in HS at the time), I tuned in.  This was U.S. ep 13 "Candid Kitty"...one of the few clip-shows SPC had.  That little episode helped me play catch-up, and I was then, hooked for good. 

The rest goes down in history.  I've seen all 40 U.S. aired SPC episodes at least once, some twice, and two of the 'banned' episodes (One had Francine as the focused character, the other was about how Polly gained her flute with its magic powers) soon after gaining Internet access.

Time has gone so fast, and SPC spurred my anime fandom into many other series.  Some have been better, a couple were worse, but as I said before, these Cats will always hold a place in my mind.

My anime library will not come full circle until SPC is put out there OFFICIALLY.

I shall sniff around the forum backlog and see what else I can learn.  I'll share what I know and memories as well.  Should be fun and I look forward to reading everyone else's memories and information. 

[BurkeWorld]

Longest intro ever.

Welcome aboard.

(I already like this newbie way more than some of the vets here.)

Burkey

[PizzaCatFan]

Veteran SPC fan, just a newbie to this particular message board.

Thanks for the greeting, Burkey.

[ApacheMan2K]

welcome aboard, PCF! it is okay if i call you PCF, isn't it? j/k

[BurkeWorld]

Veteran SPC fan, just a newbie to this particular message board.

Thanks for the greeting, Burkey.

Longer time SPC fan here. ^_~

1991 baby!

Burkey

[adam808]

Welcome. Your site was one of the first few I looked to for info I think.
I have it bookmarked and look at it still.

[PizzaCatFan]

Welcome. Your site was one of the first few I looked to for info I think.
I have it bookmarked and look at it still.

If I had the userID/password yet for my Tripod account, I'd be back to updating it ASAP.  Sadly I lost that information.  Consider that information as 'archival' for now.  I like it though, that people still find it useful and informative.

Good news though.  I have the pages, images, and what have you, backed up on CD.  I've switched computers twice since I built that site originally.  Someday soon now, I shall redo it into just a SPC-themed site, and also a short section on anime.  That should give me less work, but allow me more time to make things look more updated.  The dark look has to go.

I do not have any graphics specifically for me to make an SPC themed site design. (ie: gaphics, backgrounds, fonts.)  If anyone knows of anything out there, I'd like to know.

Once the new one is set up and I find a good host with as few ad intrusions as possible...or possibly a paid host, which would allow me to nail down a domain name, the link will be posted here first.

[Methid Man]

'AnimeFan'? That name does sound familiar...

-- Sam the Methid Man

[Artemis-kun]

Hmm, seeing as I've already made some posts, I guess I should make a mention here. This is the first time I can recall actually getting involved in a forum on SPC though I do recognize a person on here, and I'm gonna wait and see if he remembers me lol.. But anyways, I think the first recolection of SPC for me was.. a long time ago lol. I don't think I can pin any sort of date to it, but I'd imagine very early 90s. I remember seeing it in a standard timeslot on YTV as a kid and then it just disappeared, only to happen across it playing at 3am one sleepless school night in elementary. lol I remember writing to YTV asking if there was anything to be done about the timeslot SPC was shown in. They sent a post card with all the network personality signatures on it back to me.
Anyways, as far as actual skills I could lend to the community, I suppose if anyone has any need of help in the encoding department, I can lend my skills, as I used to do encoding for some private channels on mIRC back in the day, and they say it's like riding a bike, you never forget lol. Also, I'm very proficient at all things computing... dunno if that helps much with an online forum though lol.

[Hibernian]

spc was my first anime i was 3 when i first saw it on kids wb ever since i was obsessed with the furry fighters and the evil avians

[PizzaCatFan]

spc was my first anime i was 3 when i first saw it on kids wb ever since i was obsessed with the furry fighters and the evil avians

Pretty good memory if you can recall watching SPC at the age of 3.

I was 17-18 when it was shown.  I can't recall what I was watching at 3.  Sesame Street, probably. lol  (Hey, it beats that purple dino any day, especially the old-school stuff)

I'm sure I was into anime back in the 1980s, but I have just faint recollections.  Thundercats probably doesn't count, but it's close enough..Voltron a close second.  Couldn't find where and when Robotech was on, so I never saw it.

Thundercats....Samurai Pizza Cats.  Geeze, I have a liking for anything feiline that is animated.  Well, I'd be into Tokyo Mew Mew as well, but never with the English hackjob it recieved.  Those poor kittens got mauled by the same folks who many One Peice fans loath with a passion.

[Methid Man]

While SPC was my first anime that made me realize what anime was all about, it was not the first anime I laid eyes upon. Looking back in hindsight, I remember watching some shows back in the 80's that I would later realize to be anime. I'm not sure which one of them was the first, but the one I remember the most well was Voltron so I guess that would be my real 'first' anime.

Heh...I also remember when Nickelodeon used to have this show where they had anime versions of those fairy tales. I learned fairy tales through anime before I even learned them in school.


-- Sam the Methid Man

[PizzaCatFan]

Here's a little SPC-related look back in time for you.

Nickelodeon was (literally) Saban's home in the 1980s.  Two exceptions..."Mysterious Cities of Gold" and "The Little Prince", which were different productions altogether (Still anime, but not localized by Saban).  Basically any anime they dubbed from 1984, the company's startup, through their shift over to the big FOX network with the Power Rangers and Digimon bookending that period (1993-2001) and syndication with a block of shows including our favorite feilines and DBZ's early seasons (1995-1997), was thrown on the Nickelodeon channel, usually in one big block in the mid-morning period.  I don't have their entire Nick output on hand.  I do recall watching some Saban-dubbed anime titles on Nick.  They ran a lot of things aimed at younger kids, I remember that much also.

[Rurouni Wolf]

Now if only I can download the Japan version of Tokyo Mew Mew on LimeWire sans Divix. Then, I could die happy! I agree with PCF. The English version of Tokyo Mew Mew is suffering from what I call "Sailor Moon's Syndrom". The voice directors basicly took Excel from "Excel Saga" and stuck some cat ears and a tail on her. Why must cat girls suffer so? How I count the ways voice directors botch anime. One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand, four one-thousand...

[Battousai]

G'day ALL

I've been an SPC fan since forever ago.  I first came across it back in ninety .......two.  I think,  and I absolutely loved it.   I mean,  back in those days I also loved Disney classics like DuckTales,  and Chip n Dale - Rescue Rangers.   The latter I espcecially love with those cute,  what do you call them....chipmunks,  but this(SPC) was different.   I mean this was(and still is) absolutely hillarious.   Those cats always managed to crack me up.  Their jokes are (to me anyway) ....how shall I put this .... always hit the spot.   Nooo,  not the G-spot.   The H-spot.   The hillarious spot.     And those cats are cute too aren't they ??  I mean look at Speedy,  together with his(English-dubbed) voice,..  chasing after Lucielle, ... having his heart broken, etc .... just looks cute n cuddly.     

I dunno ...... maybe its just me. 

I was sorting out my last survivng tape collections the other day (mom discarded most while I was away in college  ) ,  and found 2 tapes filled with 6 hours of SPC.  yaay    .  Soon after,  I decided to find more people who are also into it on the net.   I was never  "net-savvy" back then.  Internet gathering is kind of a new interest for me.  Hope I'm not too late to join in on the fun.

Anyway,  its good to be here.   Nice to meet you all.