Grizzly Cube - crime fighting reporter Mika Wong prowls the city in a plexiglass cube with her partner played by Bart the bear.
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We already have that 24 / 7:
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Not a tanker, but there was a show called The Highwayman that had a similar idea. I used to quite enjoy it as a kid.
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#ROCKet and the ROLLerNinja!
Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Tanya Roberts as secret agents who use Roller Disco as cover for their never-ending international exploits. Their secret is that the roller skates are rocket powered and controlled by Power Glovesâ˘. Their wisecrackinâ âhandlerâ, Rocket, is played by Burt Reynolds.
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Wasnât roller disco basically dead by the '80s?
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Xanadu premiered along with reagon in 1980.
Iâm sure that roller disco was a big hit along the borders of the Iron Curtain (where all the action takes place) long after its peak in the US 
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Oh, yeah. Well, Xanadu is probably what killed it!
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I like those fighter jets with swastikas on them! I mean, I donât like them. I think they look kinda cool in an alt history kind of way.
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Thatâs one exciting boring machine!
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Inevitable Simpsons reference:
Announcer: We now return to âKnightboat: the Crime-Solving Boatâ.
Michael: Faster, Knightboat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers.
Knightboat: You donât have to yell, Michael, Iâm all around you.
Michael: Oh, no! Theyâre headed for land. Weâll never catch them now.
Knightboat: Incorrect: look! A canal.
Homer: Go, Knightboat, go!
Bart: Oh, every week thereâs a canal.
Lisa: Or an inlet.
Bart: Or a fjord.
Homer: Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat.
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The documentary is The Strain. Eugene Jarecki and Jon Ronson go looking for the âundisclosed location.â Featuring Werner Herzog as a crazy old man with a sword.
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Jacko? Oy!
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I always liked that it was "Jack as âJettoâ ".
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I remember seeing the crawler in a book as a kid and wondering why they didnât just turn that into a giant tank/troop carrier.
It is far less awesome than it sounds, and considering it had to have a specially constructed roadbed (due to how tall the saturn rockets were) Iâm⌠still kinda wishing it was at least looked into, but the older slightly less stupid Me understands why we never just rolled up with this thing and SUDDENLY ALL OF THE ARMY!)
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âŚwat
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If you think those look cool, you should probably check out the Luft Art pages maintained by Luft '46, a site dedicated to the advanced next-generation aircraft, including jets and rockets, that were designed by German companies toward the end of WWII, but (mostly) never built.
Itâs a rich vein of alt-history imagery.
Jozef Gatial: Heinkel He P.1079B/II jet heavy fighter:
Marek Rys: Focke-Wulf Fw Ta 283:.
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