If you've seen the 1997 reunion special Hey Hey It's The Monkees, then if you want, it would be fun if the boys met their future selves.
“We’re so…old…” Peter exclaimed as the guys blinked at their older selves.
“We’re so…young!” Older!Peter went up to the younger and the two started moving their hands and heads at the same time, mirroring each other, mesmerized in the face of their other self.
“Thank God we’ve found you!!” Older!Micky went to the younger and clutched his shoulders, “Only you can stop the world from annihilation! You’ll soon meet a woman with red hair—it’s very important that you kill her!”
“What?!” Young!Micky clucked out, “Who is she?! What’s going on? What happens in the future?!”
Older!Micky burst out laughing, unable to keep a straight face for long, “Nahh I’m just kidding. How often do I have the opportunity to prank myself? Say, would you like to try my latest experiment?”
Out of nowhere, he held up a purple, fizzing drink and offered it to his younger self.
Micky shrugged and was about to take it but Young!Mike immediately charged over and swiped it from his hand, “Nope.”
“Good call.” Older!Mike nodded in approval before squinting at his younger self, “Man, I can’t believe I used to wear sideburns. Look at the size of those things!”
Young!Mike was pouring that concoction out the window when he did a double take at his older self, “I can’t believe I’m wearing a beard…maybe I should grow one.”
“You do,” Older!Mike retorted.
“Fascinating…” Young Peter and the older were still mirroring each other, now poking the other one’s nose.
“Say, are we still a hit with the ladies?” Davy asked his older self with a little smirk.
“Yes…” Davy began, “Just with a different demographic is all. I guess different isn’t the word just more…mature.”
“Do we ever get married?”
“Erm…in the real world, yes, but in this universe—it seems to be implied we all just live together forever.” Older!Davy replied.
“Aww that’s sweet.” Young!Micky smiled, “I like that…what do you mean real world?”
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I can’t remember if I’ve posted this finished version or not…. >_> And if I have, I didn’t post it so y'all could view the high resolution image. XD
SO ANYWAY. For kicks, and an amazing study on shading and facial structure and whatnot. Certainly not very refined, but it was just one of those I-did-it-for-the-lolz pictures.
And that scorpion. Last thing I did in the whole picture because I freaking HATE scorpions. Turned out to be the easiest thing too. B|
Happy 80th Birthday to Dave Goelz, the legendary Muppet Performer behind Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Zoot, Boober Fraggle, Uncle Traveling Matt and so many other Muppet and Jim Henson characters!
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Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.
Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.
I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.
I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'
”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media
Randolph Mantooth, who starred as the goofy but gallant firefighter-paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency!, the 1970s NBC action show that changed life-saving services as we know it, has died. He was 80.
Mantooth died Thursday at a hospice facility in Ventura, California, his brother, Donald Mantooth, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been "ill for a number of years and kept getting thinner and thinner," he said.
Mantooth was just getting started as a contract player at Universal when he was hired in 1971 to play Gage opposite Kevin Tighe as his partner, Roy DeSoto, on Emergency!, created by Dragnet legend Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader.
When he was told he was going to play a paramedic, the first thing Mantooth said was, "What the hell is a paramedic? At that time, there were only [a handful] in all of California," he told Amy Harrington in a 2013 interview for the TV Academy Foundation website The Interviews.
He said he initially didn't want to do it because it meant he would have to get a haircut.
Gage and the more buttoned-down DeSoto worked out the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Station 51, interacting often with Rampart General Hospital personnel Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller), nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London) and Dr. Joe Early (Bobby Troup, London's real-life husband).
Emergency! aired for six seasons, from January 1972 through May 1977, then tacked on seven telefilms over the next couple of years. There even was a Saturday morning animated series in 1973-74.
When the show premiered, there were 12 paramedic units in all of North America. In the next three years, 46 states enacted laws that allowed paramedics to practice emergency medicine. Within 10 years, more than half of all Americans were within 10 minutes of a paramedic rescue or ambulance unit.
Experts say that growth simply would not have occurred without Emergency!
"When you take life-saving services out of the hospital and into the field, the number of lives that are saved is incalculable," Mantooth said. "The stars just lined up with this show perfectly for a purpose, for a greater purpose.
"I could be remembered for driving a car that has a name like the General Lee, not that there's anything wrong with that show. Instead I'm remembered for something that changed emergency medicine, forever. How lucky can any one person be?"
Randy DeRoy Mantooth was born on Sept. 19, 1945, in Sacramento. He said he lived in 24 states before he turned 18 because his father, Buck, was a pipeline construction engineer whose job kept the family on the move.
"I was never in any town long enough to really cultivate long-lasting relationships with people, so I was always living in my own little fantasy world," he said.
His mother, Sadie, was a waitress. After she and Buck divorced, she made good on her promise to give each of her four kids a car when they graduated high school.
Mantooth acted for the first time at San Marcos High in Santa Barbara, then followed his acting friends to Santa Barbara City College and then to New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he changed his first name to the more formal-sounding Randolph.
Famed Universal talent scout Eleanor Kilgallen spotted him in the play Philadelphia, Here I Come — he shared a best actor award with Brad Davis in that — and got him signed to a contract, bringing him to L.A. in 1970.
A scene he did that year with Hal Holbrook on an episode of NBC's The Bold Ones: The Senator, where his character breaks down during courtroom testimony, was seen by Cinader. Said Mantooth, "From what I was told, he went, 'That is my Johnny Gage.'"
Put to work on Emergency! alongside such seasoned performers as Fuller, London and Troupe, he and the similarly inexperienced Tighe "were in the same boat," Mantooth said. "It was more like us against them."
The pair took paramedic classes, where they learned how to insert an IV, and trained with the fire department. Cinader wanted the show to be funny but told his actors that "when the [station alarm sounds], funny is left at the door. You are now a professional," Mantooth noted. "We never got away from that."
He added: "We never went home with Johnny Gage, we never went home with Roy DeSoto, we didn't hear about Johnny Gage's drunk father beating his mother. Who cared about that? [The show] was about the job."
Cinader insisted every rescue on the series had to have been done in real life, so writers combed firefighters' logs for storylines. Meanwhile, NBC executives made sure that no one would die and no blood would be shown during the first couple of seasons.
Mantooth said that "if I fell off my roof cleaning the gutters, I'd want [Gage] to be there because he knows what he is doing."
He and Tighe had the same agent, shared a motor home during the entire run of their show and became great friends. The series ended, Mantooth said, because his and Tighe's original seven-year contracts had expired, Tighe didn't want to continue and Mantooth didn't want to go on without him.
When Mantooth raced home in 1978 to find his ranch in the Lobo Canyon area of Agoura Hills engulfed in flames, Tighe was already there, trying to get the animals safely off the property. Tighe later served as the best man at Mantooth's 2002 wedding to actress Kristen Connors.
Mantooth followed Emergency! by joining the second season of the ABC comedy Operation Petticoat in 1978, followed by work the next year on the ABC comedy Detective School and on the NBC miniseries The Seekers, produced by Cinader.
After guest-starring on such shows as Battlestar Galactica, Charlie's Angels, The Fall Guy, Diagnosis Murder and L.A. Law, Mantooth was in the middle of getting separated from his wife and wanted out of L.A., so he moved to New York to work on Loving and said he had a blast.
On As the World Turns, he stepped in to play Oakdale chief of detectives Hal Munson after actor Benjamin Hendrickson died by suicide in 2006.
Later, he appeared in such films as He Was a Quiet Man (2007) and Bold Native (2010) and on episodes of FX's Sons of Anarchy in 2011. A year later, he and Tighe were named honorary fire chiefs by the L.A. County Fire Department.
In addition to his brother, he's survived by his sister, Tonya.
In his TV Academy Foundation interview, Mantooth got emotional talking about how in the '70s he was saved by paramedics who figured out he had carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a malfunctioning house furnace and how other emergency personnel brought his sister back from the dead after she was injured in a car accident in the '80s.
"Do I respect paramedics? Do I respect firefighters?" he asked. "There's a debt I owe them that I probably can't ever pay back. But I'm gonna try."
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For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026
To add: I recommend reading books that you find easy to digest. While I love reading heavy nonfiction topics, now with my brain fog I find it much easier to read YA novels.
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Listen okay there’s like a whole backstory for this thats like not really relevant but I swear there are reasons for this
But really the biggest reason is that I needed to manifest the idea, and once I had created this monstrosity I needed to inflict it on other people. You’re welcome
Anyway shout out to @danfielding @lunarhobbits @rose-of-pollux @carmichaelthepolarbear (it wont let me tag u rip) and @coolramautumn for all contributing to this idea in one way or another (but theyre not at all responsible for this abomination pls dont blame them)
Also thank you to the people who liked this post for instigating me into finally posting this (ignore how long ago i actually made that post tho lol)
