What's a marsupilami community?

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Marsupilamis are a fictional and mythical group of African monotremes. The best known member of this 7-strong family is the lesser marsupilami, which lives in many habitats from jungle to city and may have been introduced to South America in colonial times.

There are myths about marsupilamis, these are

1. Marsupilamis are monogamous or solitary: sometimes.

2. They are prone to laughter: no they ain't, as the Brazilian Portuguese intro for Disney's tv show fad proved.

3. The adult male is the lead: huh, this is not a sensual answer? I suggestively proved that a large middle aged female is the actual lead of a tangle, therefore she's the grand alpha poobah.

4. They swing through branches with tails, hang on vines, or swim: it ain't so in My Friend Marsupilami's first episode, "First Encounter"! It proved that a marsupilami can surf through the trees like Disney's Tarzan! This is possibly also true of the tangle's lead, who brachiates with arms.

What's a marsupilami community?

A marsupilami community is called a tangle, because a crowd of them would cram each other while bouncing through the jungle in a stampede.

There are many facts that even the most serious of fans can't talk about.

1. Marsupilamis are loyal neighbours but can be dangerous when provoked: yes, I saw that in my dreams last week! It is more likely that you'll be ripped in your face by a tangle of teenaged individuals who snarl at you, than by an out-of-work adult male or a big old female who tried to find a snack.

2. An alpha female is called a poobah: here she is! Myth tells that older males often beat their chests and can yell when excited, angry or nervous. But it ain't so for the reality, as the furry poobah proves that she can both yell and chest beat because she is their leader! The offspring are usually called pipsqueaks, because of their little size and are young in age.

3. They are cool at mimicry and vocabulary, but awkward in speech: this is the one thing that marsupilamis can do! 

Pop figure crossword for sinophiles and baltophiles

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Have you seen these pop stars from the Baltic and Nordic states?

AikaKone (Finland), ILGI (Latvia), SKAMP (Lithuania), Satellites LV (Latvia), Autobuss Debesis (Latvia), Eppu Normaali (Finland), Milk Adventures (Latvia), Dingo (Finland), Brainstorm/Prata Vetra (Latvia), Silvi Vrait (1951-2013), Ladezers (Latvia), Violeta Riaubiskyte (Lithuania), Kerli (Estonia), Eolika (Latvia), N.E.O (Lithuania), New Moon/Jauns Meness (Latvia), Ainars Mielavs (Latvia), Ieva Akuratere (Latvia), Vanilla Ninja (Estonia, 2002-08), and Gerli Padar (Estonia)

Have you seen these pop stars from the Sinophone world?

Teresa Teng/Deng Li Jun (Taiwan, 1953-95), Aaron Kwok (Hong Kong), Sara Chang/Zhang Qiang (China), Feng Fei Fei (Taiwan, 1953-2012), Cheng Lin (China), L.A. Boyz (Taiwan, 1992-97), Faye Wong (China/Hong Kong), Coco Lee (Hong Kong/USA), Yang Yuying (China), You Ya/Jillian Yo (Taiwan), Janet Lee/ Lee Chai Fong (Malaysia), Ayugo Huang (Taiwan), Eric Moo (Malaysia), Cheng Fangyuan (China), Lam Wern Fook (Singapore), Tse Ling Ling/Bella Tse (Taiwan/Hong Kong), Liu Huan (China), Hebe Tien (Taiwan), Sally Yeh/Yip (Taiwan/Hong Kong/Canada), Wei Wei (China), Rainie Yang (Taiwan), Candy Lo (Hong Kong), Sun Nan (China), Ouyang Fei Fei (Taiwan/Japan), Liu Shaw Hi (Taiwan), Chen Ming (China), Jody Chiang (Taiwan), Chiu Ching Yun (Malaysia, 1947-2006), Wu Shengzhi (Taiwan, 1944-83), and Gopah (Taiwan)

I guess too many of them (in our world!?) went undocumented of course...

The digital tweens and teens war unmasked!

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I noticed a big explosion of teen web-series and teenage everything in the past decade alone. I also thought that from 2014 onwards, Dora already went to aim at elementary school kids and tweenagers.

Netflix's "Tarzan and Jane" romance/adventure web serial would have been competing with Caribara's own Astro Boy comedy/adventure show (I really hastily nicknamed its titular character the "Euro Boy", because my Dad currently noticed that time's running out for the European Union to get fixed! I guess that this French Astro Boy will be much different from the innovatively beloved 2003 robot nicknamed "Boxy Boy" and his 3D/anime/tokusatsu relatives from 1959, 1963, 1980, and 2009)and of course, Nick's Dora and Friends.

Oh yeah! In the future, I wonder if fans will be bringing up (and also expanding) the Disney Tarzan film franchise for years to come? I guess that Euro Boy (unlike the older relatives which model on different characters, except for the well remembered "Boxy Boy" which is partly inspired by comic icons of the old West and East blocs like Hergé and Zhu Zhixiang, which had been animated by Shinji Seya!) would also be a robot adopted by a human family who loves to treat him as a person, as Disney’s classic Tarzan is to his fellow gorillas!

Awkward! 

How to respect Discogs

How to respect Discogs

1. People will be nice.

2. Don't Spam!

3. Buy some cheap stuff.

4. Avoid unreliable sites! But these are the sources of some worthless foreign-language cassettes.

Marsupilami voice actors through time

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Here are some significant voices of the titular Marsupilami character through time:

Disney's Marsupilami (1993): Steve Mackall (original English), Eric Metayer (French), Marcio Simoes (Portuguese), Victor Mares Jr (Spanish) and Marcio Mete (Italian)

Notes: Marcio Mete is kinda too childish by the way! Canadian-American Steve Mackall is also tv announcer and screenwriter, as is the retired voice of NBC's fabulous "Must See TV". Eric Metayer is a son of humorist Alex Metayer and much older half-brother to Clement Metayer, also an actor.

Marsupilami (2000): Bruno Buidin (original French), Pietro Ubaldi (Italian), Richard M. Dumont (English), and Peter Szokol (Hungarian)

Note: Bruno Buidin is also the French dub artist of some anime characters and shows! Pietro Ubaldi is also a singer and tv host too!

My Friend Marsupilami (2003): Thierry Ragueneau (original French), Peter Szokol (Hungarian), and Richard Dumont (English)

Notes: Thierry Ragueneau is also a singer and comedian, as well as being the French dub artist for American tv spy show "The Mentalist". Richard Dumont is also a director.

Marsupilami: Houba Houba Hop (2009-11): Marc Saez (original French), Richard Dumont (English), and Peter Szokol (Hungarian)

Note: Marc Saez is the longest running native Marsupilami voice actor ever! He voiced the character for 3 years (2009-12) on tv and is his current voice actor! He is also a comedian like Thierry and Eric!

Our Neighbours The Marsupilamis (2012): Marc Saez (original French), Richard Dumont (English), and Peter Szokol (Hungarian)

Marsupilami family history unmasked!

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The history of Marsupilami is being unmasked right now! 

Spotted marsupilami: a big, hairy and omnivorous marsupial (or more likely, it's in fact technically a monotreme) being widely known as just marsupilami, it is mainly monogamous. Its infamously long tail acts as an all-in-1 tool for different purposes! 

The idea of popularising these typical cryptids would have been made by an ailing old Edgar Rice Burroughs when he finished his old Tarzan books! He would gave them to a faithful Belgian cartoonist called Andre Franquin from 1949 onwards until his death in 1997, and that's history! 

The most infamous members of their kind are (or were) Mars (also called Kumbo, Spirillen, Mars, Spiralis or even Marsu), his wife (named Mia or Maya), their original kids (all named Bibi, Bibu and Bobo! Plus there's a new kid on the block called Biba, who's in fact their secretive cousin!), and their extended clan which includes a bossy mother of his (unofficially named Frazella, who is cream and had mainly appeared in My Friend Marsupilami)!

As a whacked-out teenager (in Disney's Marsupilami), his father (unofficially named Marsupilami Sr.) went into his ancestral African homeland (during the summer holidays) by being with an old gorilla friend of his, Maurice! His brother is the ironically nicknamed "Baby Prinz", who is also the actual father of Black Mars! He also has maternal grandparents of West-Central African origin, so I suggested they could possibly come from Nigeria or even Cameroon!

He came back into the Amazon a week before being met by Frazella! He met her and gave birth to their two litters of babies (the latter in a short-lived spinoff called Marsu Kids)! Although Mars and his middle bro named Razor ain't conjoined twins, they act like each other because they shared an egg before their hatch-day)! Their older brother (from the first litter) is a pet of Spirou and Fantasio who also bears that nickname, plus he has a similar wife and similar kids too!

A melanistic older cousin (and sometimes the classier rival) named Black Mars (who has a wife named Venus) did appear in some comics though, but it's sad news that he's now fainted! Biba is a possible "paternal cousin" of the triplets because Mars possibly has numerous siblings! But did some of them bear young? I guess it's poor Razor being her father, who knows!

The two most popular (and official) theme songs for the franchise are "Marsupilami The Superstar!" (from the Disney show) by Roy Braverman and the intro of "My Friend Marsupilami" (from a tv show of the same name) by mambo legend Lou Bega, of "Mambo No. 5 (a little bit of)" fame!

Don't you think that the "Dance like an African" song (the song that MFM's intro is based on) is also seen in (Dreamworks hit) Madagascar's first sequel! As it spreads, will the medley (of both) cross into the Sonic Team line during its future making of "Candomble Talk-in?Tarzan Jungle Tails"!?

There is also the almost instrumental "Houba Houba Madness" from "The Classic Marsupilami", two versions of the cuddlecore "Houba Houba Hop/Ma Ma Marsupilami", and the derogatory "Houba Dance" from the film adaptation.

Other songs are included: Gil Slavin's "Houba Houba Song" and "Beatbox song", Dennie Christian's "Houba Houba Hop/Wir Sind Zwei Freunde" and "Houba Rock", "La Danse Du Marsupilami" by Sax Pustuls, "Marsupilami" by Cristina D'Avena, "La Chanson du Marsupilami" by Annie Cordy and Charlelie Couture, and "Geia sou Marsupilami".

Similarly named "Le Marsupilami": Bob Azzam, Ordures Menageres, Les Champions, Anne Meson-Poliakoff, and Rob Hoeke Boogie Woogie Quartet. The original song, you may notice, was made by Danyel Gerard.

Pink Studio day!

Welcome to my site everyone! I've got big news!

I want to introduce you to Pink Studio: a Croatian indie pop band that includes my old gym teacher Nikola Karan! 

Hooray for Pink Studio, thanks for your indie pop twists! Now I'm getting indie pics