daft obsession du jour

[wisdomeagle]

It's been forever since I've seen Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, but the lure of Carmen/Patty is just too great! Although I must admit that when pondering this pairing, I thought Patty was slightly older than eleven. (Eleven? That's just not so! I refuse to believe it!)

Per this episode guide, Patty steals mostly American artificts, plus also an alligator.

Per here, she's eleven and "looks up to Carmen Sandiego like an aunt." *cough*

Best of all from the Wikipedia article is possibly Carmen's backstory - It's also known that the orphange Carmen Sandiego grew up in during her whole childhood was "The Golden Gates Girls' School."

*dies*

There's an awful lot more canon than I'm willing to acknowledge - I'm an old-school purist who thought Where In Time? was lamer than lame and that nothing was the same without Greg Lee, but, but, but Carmen/!eleven!Patty.

Plus, also Double Trouble! Lo, the twincest!

...I've been trying not to have this idea, but it won't leave me alone. PBS Kids Ficathon. Arthur/Buster! Shari+Fred talking religion. Double Trouble! Katzcest. Bert and Ernie, Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy, Prince Tuesday and Daniel S. Tiger, Laa Laa and Po, BJ and Baby Bop, and the financial support of viewers like you! Old obsessions die hard, my friends. Oh yes.

Comments

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

There was a television show? With a plot? I remember the game show (I adored the woman who played the Chief) and I had a bunch of the computer games, including a really bad PC-ripoff of Where in Time?

Also PBS Kids ficathon? So, so wrong but omg so right! Can we add Zoobilee Zoo, and Square One TV so I can try to write Mathnet fic?? Except I'm not sure I'll be able to remember the names of the characters!

[wisdomeagle]

Well... not with a plot, so much. The show I'm remembering is the game-show you're thinking of (unless there's another Chief as awesome as Lynn Thigpin, and I doubt it!), but there were weekly mysteries in which Carmen's henchpeople stole Historical Artifacts and the object of the game was to find the stolen objects and the criminals.

We have only one of the computer games, and it is... very old and amusingly low-tech. We've also got a board game somewhere.

I'm totally trying to figure out how one would structure the 'thon for maximum participation! Possibly similar to Yuletide, with multiple requests and a list of the shows you could write! OMG, I shouldn't do it! Eeek!

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

That was the one - with Lynne Thigpen! I don't remember a Patty, though.

If you could put off the PBS Kidficathon until after April, though? Because of Remix and femslash06 and wingswing?

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

There was a Saturday morning cartoon show version. I think that's the one I remember. I watched the weekday afternoon gameshow on occasion but had no real attachment to it (geography has never been my thing, though I did enjoy the low-tech computer game I got play in middle school when I finished my computer class work early) but I really enjoy the Saturday morning cartoon show 'cause it had plot.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

My favourite memory of the gameshow version was when they completely stuffed up a question that involved Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guniea, and didn't show a single option with the correct bits of the map coloured in. (Tasmania became New Zealand, New Zealand was added into Australia, and they highlighted the whole landmass of New Guniea, instead of the eastern half which is PNG.)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh, and dude, so much Mathnet/Square One love! (Which is kinda funny 'cause math has never held particular interest for me, and I was too young to get the Dragnet references, but . . . Mathnet!)

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

I'm too young to get the Dragnet references too, and I was never a math person either. But I *adored* Mathnet. Especially the multi-part Mathnet-in-New York episodes.

[attaining.livejournal.com]

I loved me some Carmen Sandiego. I thought she was hawt. When I was little, I secretly 'shipped Carmen/Ivy. Oh, Ivy, you hated because you loved. I'm thinking of the cartoon series where Carmen stole stuff and for whatever reason these two kids were the only ones who could track her down, and she'd leave them notes to taunt them. I did love the game show and the crappy PC games, too.

Wishbone rocked the PBS. I only watched PBS for Wishbone.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that cartoon was amazing.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

If we can all cme together as a community to help each other find canon information about vaguely-remembered-but-sorely-beloved-source-texts, that would be one of the greatest expressions of fannish love ever.

[rensong.livejournal.com]

I used to watch that show all the time. Every day after school the bus would drop us off at gramma and grampas and we would watch Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago as we munched on the really yummy afternoon snack Gramma made for us. I miss that show. And I wish I could find an origional game that woudl work on a IBM (or at least my IBM, which is almost 8 years old now). Stupid game making people

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Carmen Sandiego was just *the* bomb. I loved that show.

I don't know if Ghostwriter counts as PBS kids, but I totally loved how Lenni/Gabrielle/Tina were totally the OT3 of girldom! I had such a crush on Tina and I wanted to be Lenni so, so bad.

- Meg