What is the Watercooler?
It's a haven in the middle of a harsh, 9-to-5 world. A place where you can gather with your fellow human beings and bond over a paper cup full of cool refreshment.
All sorts of randomness is welcome here. Post pictures, videos, special Chat information, or just discuss news and current events.
Want to be a guest poster? PM TimeChaser.
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Pierce the Fandom with Our Chat...?
Originally proposed by Kei a while back and respectfully shanghai-ed by me, the idea is basically to turn on the Sci-Fi Channel once a week and spam it up in Chat while watching the English dub of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
What is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
A twenty-seven episode anime, TTGL is Gainax's way of taking giant-fighting-robot anime and stuffing it with so much awesome, one can barely take it. The English dub originally aired last year, but due to immense popularity has earned a rerun stint in the former Gundam 00 timeslot. Fan-spazzing on theOtaku.com can be found over at Team Dai Gurren.
Episodes
Episodes Three and Four are up next for tonight, where we will be introduced to new characters and watch how Kamina uses the mecha version of the Fusion Dance.
So, feel like joining in? The chat room will open at 10.30 EST. The password is gattai.
Half-finished plushie break!
You may now return to whatever you were doing. It'll be done by Sunday, probably. I started last week. It's 4 feet tall.
Lion, turtle, bees - Timmy?!
What is Movie Sign?
Every week, we nestle down in Chat and watch an episode of the cult TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for short) while spamming up the Chat box. We use episodes available on Google Video so that we can all watch simultaneously.
What's MST3K?
It's a comedy show about a man and his robots, stranded in space and forced to watch some of the worst movies ever made as part of a mad scientist's bid for world domination. To keep their (and our) sanity, Joel Robinson or Mike Nelson, along with 'bots Tom Servo and Crow, talk back to the films and riff on them. You can read up on the show over at the SoL.
Next Episode
We can blame the British again for our next movie, Fire Maidens From Outer Space, in which a crew of five chain-smoking male astronauts go to investigate signs of life on Jupiter's 13th Moon (which, ironically, wasn't discovered until 1974 despite the film being made in 1956). There, they find the remnants of a civiliation composed entirely of women, save for one elderly man who claims to have fathered them all...squicky. There's a monster that haunts the area, but when your zippers are visible, it's hard to be terrifying.
Host Segment Highlights
"Oh, I prayed for a friend, and he came! His name is Timmy!"
Crow's new friend Timmy (who looks uncannily like the gold 'bot except black) seems innocent enough at first, but he soon shows his true colors when he sabotages a demonstration by Joel, attacks Servo, and ends up in combat against Crow...Can our man Robinson fix the mess?
You know the date, so why not give it a go? Join us on Sunday and see what all the fuss is about! Movie starts at 8PM EST, room opens at 7:30.
The password for the room is: timmy. Get a head start on load time and find the video here
MARCH MOVIE SIGN MADNESS concludes with...
3/29 - Episode 609 - The Skydivers (w/short "Why Study Industrial Arts?")
...but rolls right into APRIL MOVIE SIGN with:
4/5 - Episode 311 - It Conquered the World
4/12 - Episode 705 - Escape 2000
4/19 - Episode 112 - Untamed Youth
4/26 - Episode 1012 - Squirm (w/short "A Case of Spring Fever")
