Really *weird* places for a Step...

[Bob Schroeck]

(In response to Lurker's full breakdown of various 80s cartoons...)
Based on these descriptions, I am so glad I never saw any of them. They mostly sound awful. "Spiral Zone" does sound like it had potential, but I expect it got stupidified rather quickly by the production house.

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In the aforementioned Marvin Kaye book, the hero is pulled into a world incorporating -all- the plays; there's a Universal Theme playing constantly (which John Wellington Wells, the Sorcerer, attributes to God--a world where humans can hear the Symphony...?), and people do indeed break into song at the drop of a hat. Even extradimensional visitors find themselves wanting to join in... and locals are puzzled when the hero, fearing assimilation, insists on making an effort to stick to prose.

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Oh, that sounds cool. I'll have to find that book. It sounds a little like um, I think it was a Poul Anderson book where there was a world where all of Shakespeare's plays were literal history (and he was the Great Historian).

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"I'll explain in two words: it's a beach party, and I'm Frankie Avalon."
"And I'm Annette Funicello!"
(The Pirate King and Samuel, from -The Pirate Movie-)

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Oh, I was going to mention that movie. One of my true guilty pleasures -- I love "Pirates of Penzance", but I can't help enjoying this horrible rip-off that was made almost solely to cash in on the success of the version playing on Broadway at the time. It was one of the few things I actually liked Kristy McNichol in, too.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.