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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2013, 09:44:15 PM »


The songs were all parodies


 




 


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« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2013, 10:00:56 PM »

Well that\'s a song Rockapella themselves have released/sold on their CDs. So if anything, the royalties for that song would go to them. I don\'t believe Rockapella paid a royalty for Zombie Jamboree, especially since this version has an extra verse written by Sean.



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« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2013, 10:35:00 PM »


//The N is still an okay network though.




 


No it isn\'t. The N became \"TeenNick\" in 2009. 


 


As for the topic at hand...even if this is true and PBS starts showing WITWICS reruns, what time of day would they be on? Of course, I\'d watch at pretty much any time - as my username makes clear, this show more or less WAS my childhood.


 


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« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2013, 10:43:57 PM »


 




//The N is still an okay network though.




 


No it isn\'t. The N became \"TeenNick\" in 2009. 


 


As for the topic at hand...even if this is true and PBS starts showing WITWICS reruns, what time of day would they be on? Of course, I\'d watch at pretty much any time - as my username makes clear, this show more or less WAS my childhood.


 


/It and Power Rangers, VR Troopers, etc.


//I didn\'t have cable TV at my first house, OK? 


 




 


It would have to be on \"Monday through Friday at 5!\" :P


Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2013, 11:04:42 PM »


Well that\'s a song Rockapella themselves have released/sold on their CDs. So if anything, the royalties for that song would go to them.




 


That\'s almost precisely how royalties don\'t work.  If they did, I\'d release a CD of Justin Bieber songs, and all of the royalties on those songs would go to me.  (Plus you guys would all rush out to buy my Justin Bieber covers, wouldn\'t you?)


 


Look, I\'m not claiming I understand the complicated world of music licensing.  I\'m just saying you don\'t either. 

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« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2013, 11:52:59 PM »


Still don\'t know how any kid lost on the US map.




I\'m even more amazed there were kids that could conquer the Africa map.


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« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2013, 12:03:19 AM »


 




//The N is still an okay network though.




 


No it isn\'t. The N became \"TeenNick\" in 2009. 




Why of course. I guess it seemingly slipped my mind since the channel didn\'t really change with the name change as that\'s what it was, only a re-branding.

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« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2013, 12:41:11 AM »



Still don\'t know how any kid lost on the US map.


I\'m even more amazed there were kids that could conquer the Africa map.



The Asia map served that purpose for me.


Then when they expanded the US map to include all of North America it to me was disappointing.
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« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2013, 04:35:44 AM »

So which map garnered the most wins?  I wanna say Africa & Asia are the 2 biggies followed closely by Europe & South America with poor USA bringing up the rear.  Shame.



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« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2013, 10:55:47 AM »


So which map garnered the most wins?  I wanna say Africa & Asia are the 2 biggies followed closely by Europe & South America with poor USA bringing up the rear.  Shame.




 


I think it\'s a toss-up between South America and United States, in terms of win percentage.  However, United States got replaced with North America in 1993.


 


Also, if they decide to rebroadcast 1990s episodes of WITWICS and WITICS, I just bet that the episodes \"The Taking of the Towers\" and \"Brandenburglary\" will be intentionally skipped due to featuring the World Trade Center towers and being a bad reminder of 9/11.


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« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2013, 10:08:15 PM »

Doesn\'t mean they won\'t put episodes up for streaming on their website or on Netflix or something else. TV\'s not the end of the line for PBS nowadays.



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« Reply #27 on: July 17, 2013, 10:27:31 PM »

I don\'t get it. What\'s the point? What are we staying tuned for?


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« Reply #28 on: July 17, 2013, 10:48:42 PM »

Could they be working on a new Carmen Sandiego video game for the Playstation or something?


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« Reply #29 on: July 17, 2013, 10:56:21 PM »
If there\'s any educational style hit franchise coming to a more modern system I\'d honestly like to see them expand a bit on the Oregon Trail iOS game that was released earlier.
I suppose you can still learn stuff on TLC, though it would be more in the Goofus & Gallant sense, that is (don't do what these parents did)"- Travis Eberle, 2012

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