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Alphanumeric! A "ReBoot" (1994 - 2001) documentary series and remaster

Unionized Elf said:
You can tell there were British people amongst the show's creative staff from the various Easter eggs to British entertainment seen throughout the show. Like the penguin from Wallace and Gromit, or the joke about about Mrs Slocombe's pussy from Are You Being Served.
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That, and having tributes to the Gerry Anderson shows in one episode, and a tribute to The Prisoner in another.
 
Unionized Elf said:
IIRC, since ABC cancelled the show after the second season, there was no American network overseeing the third, meaning they didn't have to worry about American Broadcast Standards and Practices. They only had to worry about Canadian policies, which are far more lenient with television than American. Indeed, YTV in Canada basically told Mainframe "as long as people are watching, we don't really care what you do."
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Yes, it's true. The Canadian TV industry is far more lenient on what it can and can't do. Less censorship for the most part.
 
The amount of profanity you can get away with on Canadian television compared to American is insane. Watching Daytime (as in 1:00pm) reruns of Trailer Park Boys for example, the only words that got censored were Fuck and Cock. I even remember when they started saying Shit on BSG, Americans were complaining "what's the point of including real profanity if it's just going to be bleeped out?" While Canadians were all "wait, what? You guys are bleeping out shit?"
 
Yeah, took me a long time to realize that as a Canadian we'd get a lot of stuff during the Daytime that Americans would only get after 9 or 10pm.
 
Unionized Elf said:
Again, what of them?

Although, of the ones you listed, only Alphanumeric was an actual catchphrase. Mike was a character's name, and Glitch was Bob's device. To call them catchphrases would be like saying "Spock" or "Warp Core" are catchphrases on Star Trek.
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the catchphases were classics

like the different ways of reactions how the bob dot enzo mouse and fong says them
 
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