Nov 22, 2018
@allisonpregler Fanart from his Last Video of Jack of All Trades
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@allisonpregler Fanart from his Last Video of Jack of All Trades
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Jack of All Trades
♪In eighteen-hundred-one, the Revolution had been won and Uncle Sam’s favorite son had a job he needed done.
Which brought Jack to a lady, both beautiful and smart, who found his mix intriguing; a scoundrel with a heart! ♪
And so on and so forth. Jack of All Trades is a sadly underappreciated television series that ran for two season in the year 2000. Set in 1801, its approach to history is slipshod at the best of times, but that’s part of the fun.
Starring Bruce Muthafuckin Campbell as one Jack Stiles, an American spy who gets shipped off to the ass end of nowhere where he teams up with Angela Dotchin’s Emilia Rothschild, a British exporter/spy/inventor.
Together, with Jack playing Batman by taking the guise of local legend the Daring Dragoon, they battle French imperialism by interfering with the rule of the astoundingly incompetent younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, Governor Croque (Stuart Devenie).
Despite the Dragoon being the only person on the island with an American accent, being the only non-French white dude on the island, only appearing after Jack Stiles came to work for Emilia, and Jack always being mysteriously absent at the same time as the Dragoon makes his appearance, neither the governor nor his men are able to connect the two, which I guess explains why he’s the governor on a rinkydink little island in the ass end of the East-Indies.
But despite being on the ass end of nowhere, Pulau-Pulau plays host to numerous historical figures, most of whom were dead by 1801, including but not limited to Blackbeard (nearly 100 years), Catherine the Great (5 years) and Benjamin Franklin (11 years), not to mention Napoleon himself (played by Verne Troyer), who wouldn’t become Emperor of France for another three years according to my good friends over at Wikipedia own encyclopedic knowledge of everything.
Marie Antoinette (8 years) is referenced contemporaneously.
The Statue of Liberty, the construction of which wouldn’t begin for another 70+ years, features prominently in one episode.
Pretty much the only thing they got right was Thomas Jefferson being president.
As I said, the historical inaccuracies are all part of the fun.
Jack of All Trades was an amazing show and if you’ve never seen it your life is lesser for it. Similar to how it was before you came to know the magnificence that is myself.
Things I Love - Jack of All Trades
I love everything about this show. 15 years later, and I still have a huge crush on Angela Dotchin.
Simlis Jack, a karibi szuperkém (2000)
Simlis Jack, a karibi szuperkém (2000)
Catleen múlt heti, a Kardok királynőjéről írt cikkének olvasása közben rám tört a nosztalgia, és felrémlett bennem gyermekkorom egyik kedvence, aminek, bevallom, először még a címe sem jutott eszembe, mindössze csak vidám emlékfoszlányok villantak fel róla az elmémben. Viszont elég hamar sikerült a sorozatra bukkannom, újranéztem, és… Ööö… Nos, igencsak meglepődtem.
1801-et írunk, Jack Stiles…
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