cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP (03/17/85)
Good Lord! Was there actually a Tintin cartoon series? I knew about an
animated feature film, and of course the series of graphic novels, but I
had no idea that there was an animated tv series! Yow!
Let it be known that whoever has the rights to the series had better start
showing them real soon before I track them down and watch all of them at
one sitting!
Boy, what I'd give to see Thomson and Thompson (one with a 'p', as in
'Pneumonia', one without, as in 'Venezuela'), Captain Haddock ("Billions
of blue blistering barnacles! Cannibals! Troglodytes! Ectoplasms! Sea-
gherkins!"), Cuthbert Calculus ("Yes, Professor Calculus, we're turning
back." "Oh, that's all right then . . . I was afraid we were turning back."),
Snowy, and Tintin in action on my tv . . . any other Tintin freaks out there?
By the way, Thomson and Thompson weren't British businessmen, they were
CID agents. Tintin was a reporter (albiet a very young one). Other characters
popped up from time to time, including Bianca Castafiore, "The Milanese
Nightengale" -- an Italian opera singer with a predilection for "The Jewel
Song" from "Faust" -- who seemed to run into Tintin and Captain Haddock in
virtually every book. Sadly, Herge died last year -- no new Tintin books.
Sigh. For "children's" books, they are very classy. (They're very classy
even for adult books!)
.rne.
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