A few days ago I saw some Ducktales here and decided to write about one of my favourite Hungarian historical moments, but then I realized that the anniversary is in less than a week, so I scheduled this post exactly on the 30th anniversary even for the minute, at 18:08 CET. (Edit: fuck Tumblr, it messed up scheduling, but second part is on its way)
So let me to present you the story of the Ducktales generation of Hungary, the children born in the 80s, who were traumatized by the aforementioned cartoon exactly 30 years ago, on December 12th 1993 at 18:08.
The year is 1993. The ill-fated little Central-European Hungary is barely out of the more than 40 years of terrible communist dictatorship, it only elected it's first in decades democratic government in 1990 and the last occupying Soviet soldier left the the country in the Summer of 1991.
The first media war is on full rage, meaning that there is still only two, government owned, tv channel, (and time to time HBO, if you were at the right place at the right time) but unlike during the socialism, Western programmes are allowed. This two facts together mean that every time there is a kid's programme on, practically every children who has access to tv, watches it.
Every Sunday afternoon is for Walt Disney, but most importantly for Ducktales. This one has a chokehold on every kid, the absolutle favourite. (Interestingly never became popular for any other generations in Hungary, unlike other iconic programmes, despite being aired a few more times in the following decades.)
So we get to the Sunday of December 12th. Allegedly 2.2 million children is in front of the tv, accompanied by many adults. The episode "A Whale of a Bad Time" is at its emotional high. Scrooge McDuck (or as we know him, Uncle Dagobert) is histerically jumping on the dinner table, because the ship with his money is lost. At 18:08 one of the most famous last sentence is said: 'A sea monster ate my ice cream!!!'
The screen goes black and white, the programme stops, blackness, then the grey channel logo shows up and Chopin's Funeral March starts playing. For long minutes nothing happenes, except of course for the hundreds of thousands of kids having a temper tantrum. By the time the March is coming to the end, even more adults are in the room, either because of the screaming kid or the sudden change of mood.
After 2 whole minutes again a moment of blackness, then a fat, old man in thight black suit comes up with a flag in the the background.
For many of the children watching, this was the first time to ever come to contact with politics, and for some of them, with death. Because the man, Péter Boross, who at that first moment still unbeknownst to the audience had already been the Prime Minister for less than an hour, had an important message:
'Fellow citizens, Hungarians, here at home and around the world. Destiny gave me a painful duty. Dr József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary today after 5 pm passed away.'
Of course the passing of the reigning Prime Minister would be breaking news everywhere, especially if he is the first democratically elected one in more than 40 years, but this event became more important for a different cause.
Sam "I keep forgetting about you and Crowley's Summer of Love" Winchester vs. Dean "There's a woman you haven't mentioned?" Winchester - totally normal yet very jealous brothers. The sheer amount of spite 👌Sam can pretend he is cool and edgy about it all he wants, but I remember how he nearly keeled over and hurled listening to Crowley's "Dean is mine" speech during the "summer of love" lmao
[the misadventures of crowley and squirrel. dean winchester completes me, and that’s what makes you lose your chickens. / i am going to find you. i am going to save my brother.]
sam doesn’t lose it until crowley deigns to compare his relationship with demon!dean to sam and dean’s partnership, at which point he goes full murderous rage. yet, when all is said and done and dean is cured + has chosen to be sam’s partner-in-crime, he doesn’t really care about murdering crowley anymore. reminds me a lot of his rage over benny, and how after benny’s dead (having sacrificed himself for sam, which i’m sure contributes to this attitude because sam respects self-sacrifice) he’s able to admit that he respects him. but not until after he’s no longer on the same place of existence as dean. :)
Per your samulet reveal scene tags: #the best part about sam having the samulet for years#is that soulless sam had it#sam kept it THROUGH GADREEL#and marked up dean --- Yes!! And honestly what makes me REALLY want to chew my own leg off is the way you can see the very same realization hitting Dean, and the way Jensen acted it is just 👌👌 perfect! Their expressions kill me. Can't deal.
Their expressions are the absolute best! And they never talk about it again after the reveal, but they are stuck in the bunker so I imagine they find a quiet corner away from the main plot and actually have a conversation about what it means that Sam fished that amulet out of the trash and kept it for 6 years!
So, I jist listened to Come From Away. I really liked it, but one thing makes me curious, even beyond the usual "listening to a musical without the script" thing.
The musical portrays the flashbulb "where were you when you heard?" phenomenon with regard to 9/11 as happening in Canada as well as the U.S. I am no authority on this, being both American and really too young to remember 9/11, so I'm putting the question out there: is that accurate?
ohh, exciting!! palm tree, chamomile and jasmine please <3
palm tree: do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?
do i have a fictional villain i DON’T love??? i’m a fan of villainfucking so i have no moral qualms, but i’ll go with kamakura from dangan ronpa for mass-murdering and greasy hair crimes.
chamomile: what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?
presents 🥰 i like small but thoughtful gifts, like something a friend remembered me mentioning, or experience presents like concerts/events/skydiving
