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Come and join me over on Debutniverse, my Neocities site where I'm watching the first episode of as many different 80s and 90s cartoons as I can! Prepare for fun, nostalgia, and plenty of gifs like these!

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I've been exploring how the word "episode" came to have its present-day meaning. It first entered English with the meaning of an incident or digression in a poem or narrative that is separable from the main subject but may shed light on the characters or events. Think of the Tom Bombadil bit in Lord of the Rings, for example, as opposed to more integral parts like meeting Gollum. It gradually evolved to mean an incident from a larger series of events, like a part of someone's life or one battle in a war. But I was interested in finding out when it specifically came to mean "an instalment in an ongoing narrative", like the way we use it for TV shows. There is a clear jump there where it loses the implication of it being incidental or non-integral. I can find earlier examples of a particular chapter in a story happening to have "episode" in their title, for instance, and those are clearly meant to mean that this chapter is a digression from what's going on around it - the word that's being used to mean "instalment" is still "chapter", not "episode".

The earliest usage I've been able to find with what I'm calling the modern meaning is the 1914 film serial "The Perils of Pauline". Each instalment is referred to on-screen as an "episode" and advertising for it does the same (see image). All earlier film serials I've found use words like "chapter" or "story". And this series basically became synonymous with the cliffhanger serial genre that exploded in popularity at this time. Like, if you've ever seen clips of a woman tied to train tracks and having to be rescued, that doesn't actually happen in this series, but it's the same vibe. So my current theory is that this series rather randomly chose to use "episode", and its influence popularised the term. But if anyone can find an instance of "episode" being used in this exact sense earlier, I'd love to hear about it!

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Side note - the only surviving version of The Perils of Pauline is abridged, but we know of the contents of the full version from listings and a contemporary novelisation, and one of the missing sections features an escaped circus ape. So, this serial is almost certainly the reason why the damsel-in-distress in Donkey Kong is also named Pauline.

#Pauline #Donkey Kong #Pauline Donkey Kong

I've been exploring how the word "episode" came to have its present-day meaning. It first entered English with the meaning of an incident or digression in a poem or narrative that is separable from the main subject but may shed light on the characters or events. Think of the Tom Bombadil bit in Lord of the Rings, for example, as opposed to more integral parts like meeting Gollum. It gradually evolved to mean an incident from a larger series of events, like a part of someone's life or one battle in a war. But I was interested in finding out when it specifically came to mean "an instalment in an ongoing narrative", like the way we use it for TV shows. There is a clear jump there where it loses the implication of it being incidental or non-integral. I can find earlier examples of a particular chapter in a story happening to have "episode" in their title, for instance, and those are clearly meant to mean that this chapter is a digression from what's going on around it - the word that's being used to mean "instalment" is still "chapter", not "episode".

The earliest usage I've been able to find with what I'm calling the modern meaning is the 1914 film serial "The Perils of Pauline". Each instalment is referred to on-screen as an "episode" and advertising for it does the same (see image). All earlier film serials I've found use words like "chapter" or "story". And this series basically became synonymous with the cliffhanger serial genre that exploded in popularity at this time. Like, if you've ever seen clips of a woman tied to train tracks and having to be rescued, that doesn't actually happen in this series, but it's the same vibe. So my current theory is that this series rather randomly chose to use "episode", and its influence popularised the term. But if anyone can find an instance of "episode" being used in this exact sense earlier, I'd love to hear about it!

#linguistics #etymology #language #episode

Dennis the Menace (1986)

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congratulations piracy

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Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

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Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

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[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

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Fun fact! Both the music and the font in that ad were incorrectly sourced and did not provide compensation to the creators

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This is true about the font, but not the music. The report about the music was about a different anti-piracy ad, and a lot of people mistakenly assumed it was this one because it's so well-known.

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Four horsemen of the apocalypse but the horsemen are like MLP-style

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A call for cartoon fanart

Hi! On my site, Debutniverse, I watch the first episodes of all different 80s and 90s cartoons, and I would love to include people's fanart for the various shows on the site! Full instructions are on this post on the site, but the main rule is that the art needs to be based on any of the cartoons listed on the site's main page... and there are now a hundred to choose from! Apart from that, pretty much anything goes! And of course I will include a link to your Tumblr or any other site/profile you have anywhere.

Cartoons are one of my favourite things, as you can tell, and I love to see what they can inspire! Anything you can manage - even just a doodle - will help!

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Gruffi Gummi from Gummi Bears - GIF recreation

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#cartoons #debutniverse #80s cartoons #Gummi Bears #Adventures of the Gummi Bears #Gruffi Gummi #fanart #fan art #my art #art

Birthday Bear from Care Bears - GIF recreation

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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989)

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A silly little fold-up zine I made about Totodile.

#Totodile #Pokémon #Pokemon #my art #art #fanart #fan art #Professor Elm #Ethan Pokémon #Ethan Pokemon #Cyndaquil #Chikorita

The Telebugs (1986)

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Donkey Kong between-arcade-and-Country midquel that reveals how Donkey Kong Jr died

#Donkey Kong #Donkey Kong Jr.#Donkey Kong Junior #Mario #Super Mario Bros.#Donkey Kong arcade #Donkey Kong Country #yes I know all the things wrong with this but it is a joke

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some bonkers fanart because I have been thinking about him lately... I still have to finish the series but ever since the girl cop was introduced I kinda lost interest.

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Bonkers

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Met Jim Cummings at LA Comic Con :) I haven’t forgotten y’all bonkers fans

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