Men In Black: The Series

[Spike Spiegel]

And who knows which episode explains the differences between the show and the movie (I wish to find it).

[DrSpengler]

I dunno quite what you mean by "differences".

MIB the Series had a concept in common with the Real Ghostbusters in that the first MIB movie was just that, a movie based on the "real" events as experienced by the cast of the TV series. There were, of course, a few differences (Kaye not being neurilized at the end being the only major one).

They explained that in an episode where the Worm Guys sell a script about Jay's first mission as an Agent to a Hollywood studio and while their agent is on the phone he gives off the cast list: "This has gotta be big! I'm talken Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Rip Torn!"

The Real Ghostbusters did a similar thing where the Ghostbusters went to the set of a movie being made about their battle with Gozer and there's a scene where they look at the cast list and Winston says, "Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis? What is this? A law firm?" The episode ends with them going to the premiere of the movie and watching actual footage from the film on the big screen.


Is that what you were thinking of, or something else? Either way, MIB the Series was a GREAT cartoon.

[Anarchistguy]

A great, underrated cartoon

[Spike Spiegel]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

I dunno quite what you mean by "differences".

MIB the Series had a concept in common with the Real Ghostbusters in that the first MIB movie was just that, a movie based on the "real" events as experienced by the cast of the TV series. There were, of course, a few differences (Kaye not being neurilized at the end being the only major one).

They explained that in an episode where the Worm Guys sell a script about Jay's first mission as an Agent to a Hollywood studio and while their agent is on the phone he gives off the cast list: "This has gotta be big! I'm talken Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Rip Torn!"

The Real Ghostbusters did a similar thing where the Ghostbusters went to the set of a movie being made about their battle with Gozer and there's a scene where they look at the cast list and Winston says, "Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis? What is this? A law firm?" The episode ends with them going to the premiere of the movie and watching actual footage from the film on the big screen.


Is that what you were thinking of, or something else? Either way, MIB the Series was a GREAT cartoon.

I mean which episode shows someone explaining that a movie of them is made every so often and shows a cartoon of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

[Anarky]

Oh, I've seen that one. It's basically explaining why the new MIB headquarters is at LaGuardia and not where it was in the movie. It's because every now and then, someone decides to make a movie about the MIB and then they need to relocate to stay out of the public's spotlight. In the flashbacks, Jay and Kay look like movie Jay and Kay too. But I can't tell you what the name of the episode was.

But all in all, that series is awesome. Sure, they broadcasted it in the weirdest order, only loosely sticking to the actual episode order, over here but I enjoyed it a lot.

[Spike Spiegel]

There is a very good chance of this show coming to DVD soon enough...I just checked Wikipedia and the Sony Pictures official site...

It is on DVD in Australia and in the UK!!!

Hopefully they will release it here.....

:crosses fingers:

[ZariusTwo]

Only bare-bone DVD releases containing only a fraction of the series are out on DVD. That really says nothing

[Jon]

That stinks. But a little better than what we got here (so far only having 3 videotapes of, like, 2 episodes each).

[Spike Spiegel]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Only bare-bone DVD releases containing only a fraction of the series are out on DVD. That really says nothing

Thank you for sharing, Mr. Negative

Sheesh.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Only bare-bone DVD releases containing only a fraction of the series are out on DVD. That really says nothing

And as opposed to nothing, I don't see how that's bad. I'm still upset they don't try releasing Jackie Chan in Season sets, extras or not.

It's almost like Sony doesn't care about it's own cartoons. I mean, we still don't have The Real ghostbusters as actual box sets yet. Just 3 DVD's of 4 episodes each. I don't expect to see the entire series, but just the Saturday morning seasons would be fine.

As for MIB? To this day, i have never seen the episode in which J becomes a superhero.

But if you're asking about the episode where they go to Hollywood... out of the corners of my recallection....

basically odd things keep happening to celebrity aliens, they disappear. One is a send up of Alien, while the other is supposed to be a parody of ALF. The suspects are basically a group of kid's show aliens who don't like how those two are portraying aliens.

They send J and K to Hollywood (I think... I forget it almost completely. It could have just been J and the Symbiote) to investigate, while the worms tag along to make it big in hollywood. They get a commercial for coffee. But it isn't coffee since the real stuff doesn't photograph good, so they have chocolate sauce. Said hollywood agent (talking about Will Smith, et al) is a robot, and is owned by a poodle similar to Frank the Pug winds up getting the screen play that the worms proposed.

The worms look at the movie with disgust, as they are portrayed like a certain band of reptiles whos name escapes me at the moment. Zed, horrified (or more likely P.O'd) there's a movie about them calls in to set of the BIG Neuralizers. Jay makes a comment like, "No wonder why they keep making the same movies over and over."