So in Ape Escape 1, Spike is completely immune to Specter's mind control, yet he falls for Specter TV.
There are two explanations for this-
Specter upped his mind control game over the years and can get past Spike's defenses (logical, frightening, he specifically kept Spike in mind when doing this, the fact that Spike is like 10 makes this worse)
Spike isn't actually brainwashed and is just tired of Specter's shit, so he's playing along and leaving it up to Kei and Yumi (lets me sleep at night, funny as fuck, a ten year old gambling on two nine years olds is peak comedy, he deserves it)
My personal headcanon is that he's BSing because c'mon. In AE1 he fights back for a solid ass minute, deflects Specter's power, and knocks him on his ass. But he's just a kid. He's tired. He wants to do kid things, and also sleep.
You may notice Jimmy and the Professor in that image. Jimmy is a sweet bean who would fall for three Pipos in a trenchcoat pretending to be human, and I don't know what education system allowed the Professor to attain his current position. Even if they're playing the same game (they're not), they wouldn't notice Spike is faking.
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That word's been thrown around a lot. Do you really mean that he's a pedo in your version of the game?
Unfortunately, I'm dead serious.
It's just a hatecrime, really. There's no other way of stepping around it; they first made Yellow Monkey (Monkey Yellow) a gay stereotype, and then they added in the jokes where he's into the little boys you play as. He's into Satoru/Kei and wants to date him, flirts with Hikaru/Jimmy, and is disinterested in Sayaka/Yumi. Because he's gay! And that's what gay men do, in British media! Even in our more progressive media, they'll have the gay man who's into young boys. It happened just last year in BBC Doctors (NOT Doctor Who) -- I'm not sure if the joke is there in the original JPN ver, but it sure as hell is in the U.K dub.
In AE2 & AE3, he's flirtatious and effeminate, and all around, a rather uncomfortable gay caracature - it's less so in AE2, where he's -sort of- flirting with Hikaru - and it could be passed off for weird taunting - in AE3, when he's completely disinterested in Sayaka, then is head-over-heels for Satoru, and is asking to go on a date because he's so cute... Oh, they didn't just make him gay, they made him a gay paedo. That's... -sigh- that's rather in line for a 2007/2008 British Dub.
AE3, U.K Dub:
(To Sayaka/Yumi) "Cute girls aren't really my thing." (Compliment; commonly used to mockingly imply 'I'm into boys')
(To Satoru/Kei) "Oh, look at the precious little boy! [...] How adorable. Well, what will it be? Fight me, or go on a date with me, silly? [...] What will it be, Handsome?"
AE3, N.A Dub:
(To Sayaka/Yumi) "I do so hate you cutesy types." (Agressive/no underlying implication about sexual preference)
(To Satoru/Kei) "Oh my, what a cute little child you are! [...] You can either fight me.. Or perhaps you could become my personal chef, for ever and ever! [...] Well? Which will it be?"
... -Sigh- I'll have to hand this one to the N.A Dub. It's frustrating, because otherwise, the U.K Dub of Ape Escape has been absolutely whimsical and wonderful; a lot of culture gets lost between versions. I could sing from the rooftops, the wonderful world of very specific culture that our dub has, whilst still being the same language! ... However, that is a double-edged sword, when our media oft thinks that 'gay man who is a paedo' is a funny character to portray.
Edit: Oh. No. It's so much worse in the JP ver. Yet also, the way in which they have localised it to the U.K version makes it feel so much more targeted. Both are unique from each-other in the way in which they portray Yellow, whilst the core joke of 'gay paedophile' is still there. Ouch! That smarts.
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Denver Nuggets: 2022-23 NBA Champions
DENVER (AP) Confetti flying in Denver. The Nuggets sharing hugs while passing around the NBA championship trophy.
Those scenes that, for almost a half-century, seemed impossible, then more recently started feeling inevitable, finally turned into reality Monday night.
The Nuggets outlasted the Miami Heat 94-89 in an ugly, frantic Game 5 that did nothing to derail Nikola Jokic, who bailed out his teammates with 28 points and 16 rebounds on a night when nothing else seemed to work.
Jokic became the first player in history to lead the league in points (600), rebounds (269) and assists (190) in a single postseason. Not surprisingly, he won the Bill Russell trophy as the NBA Finals MVP - an award that certainly has more meaning to him than the two overall MVPs he won in 2021 and ’22 and the one that escaped him this year.
“We are not in it for ourselves, we are in it for the guy next to us,” Jokic said. “And that’s why this (means) even more.”
Denver's clincher was a gruesome grind.
Unable to shake the tenacious Heat or their own closing-night jitters, the Nuggets missed 20 of their first 22 3-pointers. They missed seven of their first 13 free throws. They overcame that to take a late seven-point lead, only to see Miami’s Jimmy Butler go off. He scored eight straight points to give the Heat a one-point lead with 2:45 left.
Butler made two free throws with 1:58 remaining to help Miami regain a one-point lead. Then, Bruce Brown got an offensive rebound and tip-in to give the Nuggets an edge they wouldn't give up.
Trailing by three with 15 seconds left, Butler jacked up a 3, but missed it. Brown and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope made two free throws each down the stretch to clinch the title for Denver.
Butler finished with 21 points.
“Those last three or four minutes felt like a scene out of a movie,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Two teams in the center of the ring throwing haymaker after haymaker, and it’s not necessarily shot making. It’s the efforts.”
Grueling as it was, the aftermath was something the Nuggets and their fans could all agree was beautiful. There were fireworks exploding outside Ball Arena at the final buzzer. Denver is the home of the Larry O’Brien Trophy for the first time in the franchise’s 47 years in the league.
“The fans in this town are unbelievable,” said team owner Stan Kroenke, who also owns the Colorado Avalanche, the team that won its third Stanley Cup last year. “It means a lot to us to get this done.”
The Heat were, as Spoelstra promised, a gritty, tenacious bunch. But their shooting wasn’t great, either. Miami shot 34% from the floor and 25% from 3. Until Butler went off, he was 2 for 13 for eight points. Bam Adebayo finished with 20 points.
The Heat, who survived a loss in the play-in tournament and became only the second No. 8 seed to make the finals, insisted they weren’t into consolation prizes.
They played like they expected to win, and for a while during this game, which was settled as much by players diving onto the floor as sweet-looking jump shots, it looked like they would.
The Nuggets, who came in shooting 37.6% from 3 for the series, shot 18% in this one. They committed 14 turnovers.
The tone was set with 2:51 left in the first quarter, when Jokic got his second foul and joined Aaron Gordon on the bench. Jeff Green and Jamal Murray, who finished with 14 points and eight assists on an off night, joined them there, too.
It made the Nuggets tentative on both sides of the court for the rest of the half. Somehow, after shooting 6.7% from 3 - the worst first half in the history of the finals (10-shot minimum) they only trailed by seven.
True to the Nuggets' personality, they kept pressing, came at their opponent in waves and figured out how to win a game that went against their type. Their beautiful game turned into a slugfest, but they figured it out nonetheless.
“What I was most proud about is, throughout the game, if your offense is not working and your shots are not falling, you have to dig in on the defensive end,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said.
It felt almost perfect that an unheralded and once-chubby second-round draft pick from Serbia would be the one to lift Denver to the top of a league that, for decades, has been dominated by superstars, first-round draft picks and players who lead the world in sneaker and jersey sales.
Over their near five-decade stay in the league, the Nuggets have been the epitome of a lovable NBA backbencher – at times entertaining, adorned by rainbows on their uniforms and headlined by colorful characters on the floor and bench. But never quite good enough to break through against the biggest stars and better teams to the east, west and south of them.
Before this season, there were only two teams founded before 1980 – the Nuggets and Clippers – that had never been to an NBA Finals. The Nuggets took their name off that list, then joined San Antonio as the second original ABA team to capture the NBA’s biggest prize. The other two ABAers, the Pacers and Nets, have been to the finals but lost.
It was the Joker’s blossoming into a do-everything force that made the Nuggets a team to watch. Not everybody did. A shift to winning couldn’t change Denver’s location on the map – in a weird time zone in flyover territory – and it didn’t shift everyone’s view of the Nuggets.
Even in Denver.
There’s little doubt that this has always been a Broncos-first sort of town. No single Denver victory will outshine the day in 1998 when John Elway broke through and that team’s owner, Pat Bowlen, held the Lombardi Trophy high and declared: “This one’s for John!”
But this one? It won't take a back seat to much. It’s for every Dan (Issel), David (Thompson), Doug (Moe) or Dikembe (Mutombo) who ever came up short or got passed over for a newer, shinier model with more glitter and more stars.
For the first time in 47 seasons, nobody in the NBA shines brighter than the Nuggets.
“You live vicariously through these guys,” said Denver great LaPhonso Ellis, as he pointed to the big scoreboard announcing the Nuggets as champions. “And to see that there, ‘2023 NBA Champions’ here in Denver, that's so cool, and I'm honored to be a part of it."
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EPISODE
SEASON
DISC 1
S01E01 -MR BIG (PILOT EPISODE)
S01E02 DIPLOMAT'S DAUGHTER
S01E03 SCHOOL DAYS
S01E04 OUR MAN IN TOYLAND
S01E05 NOW YOU SEE HIM, NOW YOU DON'T
S01E06 WASHINGTON 4, INDIANS 3
S01E07 KAOS IS CONTROL
S01E08 THE DAY SMART TURNED CHICKEN
DISC 2
S01E09 SATAN PLACE
S01E10 OUR MAN IN LEOTARDS
S01E11 TOO MANY CHIEFS
S01E12 MY NEPHEW THE SPY
S01E13 ABOARD THE ORIENT EXPRESS
S01E14 WEEKEND VAMPIRE
S01E15 SURVIVAL OF THE FATTEST
S01E16 DOUBLE AGENT
DISC 3
S01E17 KISSES FOR KA0S
S01E18 THE DEAD SPY SCRAWLS
S01E19 BACK TO THE OLD DRAWING BOARD
S01E20 ALL IN THE MIND
S01E21 DEAR DIARY
S01E22 SMART, THE ASSASSIN
S01E23 I'M ONLY HUMAN
DISC 4
S01E24 STAKEOUT ON BLUE MIST MOUNTAIN
S01E25 THE AMAZING HARRY HOO
S01E26 HUBERT'S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY
S01E27 SHIP OF SPIES, PART I
S01E28 SHIP OF SPIES, PART IL
S01E29 SHIPMENT TO BEIRUT
S01E30 THE LAST ONE IN IS A ROTTEN SPY
SEASON 2
DISC 1
S02E01 ANATOMY OF A LOVER
S02E02 A SPY FOR A SPY
S02E03 THE ONLY WAY TO DIE
S02E04 MAXWELL SMART, ALIAS JIMMY BALLANTINE
S02E05 CASABLANCA
S02E06 THE DECOY
S02E07 HOO DONE IT
DISC 2
S02E08 RUB-A-DUB-DUB.…THREE SPIES IN A SUB
S02E09 THE GREATEST SPY ON EARTH
S02E10 ISLAND OF THE DARNED
S02E11 BRONZEFINGER
S02E12 PERILS IN A PET SHOP
S02E13 THE WHOLE TOOTH AND..
S02E14 KISS OF DEATH
S02E15 IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
DISC 3
S02E16 SOMEONE DOWN HERE HATES ME
S02E17 CUTBACK AT CONTROL
S02E18 THE MAN FROM YENTA
S02E19 THE MUMMY
S02E20 THE GIRLS FROM KAOS
S02E21 SMART FIT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO
S02E22 WHERE-WHAT-HOW-WHO AM 1?
DISC 4
S02E23 THE EXPENDABLE AGENT
S02E24 HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE SPY BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
S02E25 APPOINTMENT IN SAHARA
S02E26 PUSSYCATS GALORE
S02E27 A MAN CALLED SMART, PART I
S02E28 A MAN CALLED SMART, PART II
S02E29 A MAN CALLED SMART, PART III
SEASON 3
DISC 1
S03E01 THE SPY WHO MET HIMSELF
S03E02 VIVA SMART
S03E03 WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION
S03E04 THE SPIRIT IS WILLING
S03E05 MAXWELL SMART, PRIVATE EYE
S03E06 SUPERSONIC BOOM
S03E07 ONE OF OUR OLIVES IS MISSING
DISC 2
S03E08 WHEN GOOD FELLOWS GET TOGETHER
S03E09 DR. YES
S03E10 THAT OLD GANG OF MINE
S03E11 THE MILD ONES
S03E12 CLASSIFICATION DEAD
S03E13 THE MYSTERIOUS DR. T
S03E14 THE KING LIVES?
DISC 3
S03E15 THE GROOVY GURU
S03E16 THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK, PART I
S03E17 THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK, PART II
S03E18 DON'T LOOK BACK
S03E19 99 LOSES CONTROL
S03E20 THE WAX MAX
DISC 4
S03E21 RUN, ROBOT, RUN
S03E22 OPERATION RIDICULOUS
S03E23 SPY, SPY, BIRDIE
S03E24 THE HOT LINE
S03E25 DIE, SPY
S03E26 THE RELUCTANT REDHEAD
SEASON 4
DISC 1
S04E01 THE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION
S04E02 SNOOPY SMART VS, THE RED BARON
S04E03 CLOSELY WATCHED PLANES
S04E04 THE SECRET OF SAM VITTORIO
S04E05 DIAMONDS ARE A SPY'S BEST FRIEND
S04E06 THE WORST BEST MAN
S04E07 A TALE OF TWO TAILS
DISC 2
S04E08 THE RETURN OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
S04E09 WITH LOVE AND TWITCHES WITH
S04E10 THE LASER BLAZER
S04E11 THE FARKAS FRACAS
S04E12 TEMPORARILY OUT OF CONTROL
S04E13 SCHWARTZ'S ISLAND
S04E14 ONE NATION INVISIBLE
DISC 3
S04E15 HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
S04E16 THE DAY THEY RAIDED THE KNIGHTS
S04E17 TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD
S04E18 I SHOT 86 TODAY
S04E19 ABSORB THE GREEK
S04E20 TO SIRE, WITH LOVE, PART I
DISC 4
S04E21 TO SIRE, WITH LOVE, PART II
S04E22 SHOCK IT TO ME
S04E23 LEADSIDE
S04E24 GREER WINDOW
S04E25 THE NOT-SO-GREAT-ESCAPE, PART I
S04E26 THE NOT-S0-GREAT-ESCAPE, PART II
S05E13 SEASON 5
DISC 1
S05E01 PHEASANT UNDER GLASS
S05E02 IRONHAND
S05E03 VALERIE OF THE DOLLS
S05E04 WIDOW OFTEN ANNIE
S05E05 THE TREASURE OF C. ERROL MADRE
S05E06 SMART FELL ON ALABAMA
S05E07 AND BABY MAKES FOUR, PART I
DISC 2
S05E08 AND BABY MAKES FOUR, PART II
S05E09 PHYSICIAN IMPOSSIBLE
S05E10 THE APES OF RATH
S05E11 AGE BEFORE DUTY
S05E12 IS THIS TRIP NECESSARY
S05E13 ICE STATION SIEGFRIED
S05E14 MOONLIGHTING BECOMES YOU
DISC 3
S05E15 HOUSE OF MAX, PART I
S05E16 HOUSE OF MAX, PART IL
S05E17 REBECCA OF FUNNY-FOLK FARM
S05E18 THE MESS OF ADRIAN LISTENGER
S05E19 WITNESS FOR THE EXECUTION
S05E20 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALET
S05E21 DISC 4
S05E22 AND ONLY TWO NINETY-NINE
S05E23 SMARTACUS
S05E24 WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, ALGIE?
S05E25 HELLA COLUMBUS, GOODBYE AMERICA
S05E26 DO I HEAR A VAULTS
S05E27 I AM CURIOUSLY YELLOW
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