Podcasting Day: Thunder in Paradise with Dan McQuade 🌭
Added 2023-06-21 12:00:04 +0000 UTC
It’s Dogg Zzone 9000 Day, and this week Defector co-founder Dan McQuade returns to share his expertise on the Civil War. More specifically, the time Hulk Hogan won it for the South using only a superboat, a remote control grenade launcher, fifteen laser guns, and an XXXL Victorian gown. That’s right, we’re finally doing a show on episode 9 of Thunder in Paradise, “Gettysburg Change of Address”!
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts!
As you certainly remember from when it first aired in 1994, it’s the episode with the skeleton mystery and the big Sea-Doo race where Hulk Hogan used Civil War costumes to trick an Army captain into thinking he had traveled through time in order to win a laser tag battle which was also a murder scheme.
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Comments
I don't care how many canals, inlets or fjords the show has, I believe in Knightboat.
Pee-Wee's Uncle
2023-06-23 18:59:33 +0000 UTCThe Crime Solving Boat!
Scribbler Johnny
2023-06-23 14:14:10 +0000 UTCMakes pretty pictures.
Patrick Herbst
2023-06-23 13:13:42 +0000 UTCKind of a shame paintball isn't used, just because I've always loved Oddball's tactic of using paint rounds for his tank in Kelly's Heroes.
Matt Edwards
2023-06-23 12:58:06 +0000 UTCWhat makes Seanbaby's observation that no one ever spoke to anyone that was ever around a weapon is that the MILES system has been around since the 70s. It is, at its basic function, taking anything from a tank to a M-16 and slapping a sort of laser tag system on it. The system prevents the weapon from firing as it covers the muzzle with a locking mechanism and there are no live rounds in the breech. We even used them in the Air Force and it is as rad as it seems.
Patrick Herbst
2023-06-22 23:17:15 +0000 UTCYou can't fool me, I saw that episode of Family Guy, the correct answer is "Who's The Boss"
Daphne Lawless
2023-06-22 21:40:34 +0000 UTCExcuse me while I write far too much about Thunder in Paradise. Patrick Macnee was a very well known British actor, primarily for his role of the spy John Steed in "The Avengers" and "The New Avengers." He was also in the last Roger Moore Bond movie, "A View to a Kill." His character in this show, Edward Whitaker, was the owner of the resort in the show and grandfather of the little girl. Hogan had married Whitaker's daughter in the pilot as part of an insurance scam, then she died between the pilot and the actual show, leaving Hogan stepfather to a child he'd know for about ten minutes. Whitaker was a sort of recurring baddie in that he wanted to take the girl away from her stepfather, Hogan, on the grounds he didn't think it was a good idea for a mercenary to be taking a small child on missions. What an irrational bastard. The boat was called Thunder, Scarab are the company that made the speedboat used. History does not record how well this show worked as an advert for their product. I'm guessing some people were disappointed to find out the real boats don't have a TARDIS-esque, "bigger on the inside than on the outside", hull. In the fiction of the show, Hogan and Bru had built Thunder themselves and wanted to sell it to the Navy. There was no mention I can recall of any other scientists or engineers being involved, just these two guys building all of Thunder's features, including literal invisibility. The show was aired in the UK on Saturday afternoons with reruns of Airwolf and The A-Team. Thunder in Paradise was already a bad show, running it alongside two of the shows it was badly knocking off did it no favours whatsoever. It had none of the charm, humour, writing, special effects or acting talent of either show. The only exception to that would be Patrick Macnee, who was presumably happy to do not much and get paid nicely for it.
Matt Edwards
2023-06-22 21:21:37 +0000 UTCJeff Altman was on one of the biggest TV disasters: Pink Lady And Jeff. An NBC Executive was in Japan and saw the musical duo Pink Lady and immediatly thought they should be on U.S. TV. He forgot to ask if their act would work here, or if they knew one word of English. It lasted one episode.
Bill Culbertson
2023-06-22 13:58:33 +0000 UTCFriend, I hate to tell you this. The outfit responsible is called Pablo Cruise, fronted by one David Jenkins. Their highest chart performance is a track called "Whatcha Gonna Do" that came out in 1977... as did Hogan. Auspicious.
CM
2023-06-22 04:58:43 +0000 UTCIronically, Thunder in Paradise is the only thing playing when you turn on a TV in hell.
Brendan McGinley
2023-06-22 04:00:52 +0000 UTCI only have one question... well, more of a request, really. Can someone tell me the "Thunder in Paradise" song was not sung by a white guy?
Scott David Hamilton
2023-06-21 21:46:58 +0000 UTCKnightboat.
Pee-Wee's Uncle
2023-06-21 20:41:52 +0000 UTCI can't decide which is worse: Thunder in Paradise or Cheeseburger in Paradise. ... Although if you replaced Hogan with a cheeseburger à la Mayor McCheese, that's an idea I can get behind.
Skebotron
2023-06-21 18:23:24 +0000 UTCI've been waiting for anything involving Thunder in Paradise to show up on this site
SingingH0b0
2023-06-21 12:18:56 +0000 UTC
