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Pity put the poor dubs. They don't get no respect!

They've grown on me, having to use them to introduce the series to a friend of mine, Susan, who just doesn't do subtitles. Period, end o' discussion. Okay, some of the voice actors may not have been the best choices, but you cope, right?

Anyway. It occured to me, during one of my long drives to school a couple weeks ago, that you don't hear (well, I don't) many radio morning shows doing imitation voices. For years a local station had a guy who imitated d**k the Bruiser (old-school wrestler), Rocky, Bullwinkle, Popeye, Jackie Stewart, even our beloved local baseball announcer Ernie Harwell (and his sidekick, Al Kaline). It's a lost art.

But!

If I were a dj with a morning show, I'd do better than imitation voices.

I'd have the RGU crew on board, using clips from the dubs.

Doing a news segment about a politician caught embezzling or boffing some PYT on the side? Here's Akio's position: "That's a sin, isn't it?"

And to the age-old question about why some people are so stupid, Anthy says, "I think it's probably genetics."

Nanami could do the weather ("The sky is so blue!") and squee over celebrities in the news ("Won't you give me a kiss?") and claim responsibility for crimes she didn't commit ("I did it it! Hahahahahahah!")

'Course, I probably wouldn't have a show that lasted very long (unless the demographic was stuffed with Utena fans), but hey, it's my dream radio station, right?

Hmmm.....screwed up Utena ideas...

I once started this thing many, many years ago called "Grand Curried Spring Break." Touga throws a party a high school student would actually like to go to, and subsequently gets very confused and annoyed at the constant screaming of, "Toga! Toga Toga!" Animal House crossed with SKU is the best description I can think of. Anthy secretly grew a special brand of pot in the rose garden. Which managed to switch bodies with Utena and Touga. Dominatrix!Utena. The horror...the horror.

I've always wanted to do a comedy fic where Utena tries to return Juri's sword from her duel with Touga, which is only a pretext for Juri's seduction. And Utena sits though most of it like the oblivous, naive little thing she is.

I like that idea. Write it!

Speaking of pot, you know, I don't think Akio ran the duels during the mid to late-60s. Clothes magically disappearing and reappearing? A castle in the sky? With all the LSD going around, who'd notice?

Though hearing Akio say "Groovy" would be far out, man. smile

And I can so hear him cursing out the bell-bottoms after getting his foot caught in the hem one too many times while jumping over the car.

You KNOW that there would have to be a duellist at some point dueling so that he could get an unlimited supply of drugs. Wait, except this is SKU, so it has to be angsty. Uh...yes, drugs to kill the PAIN. And he has to sell them to feed his starving siblings. Or something.

And suddenly I'm imagining 70's Akio as a Blackspoitation character. And going to a car dealership and losing it when they try to sell him a little red Volkswagon Beetle.

Speaking of, I think we should have a PS2 for our Student Council meetings.

Ahh!! xd You already read the first chapter, I see! Hehehehehe... if you don't mind, could you please review it? I'd love constructive criticism.. redface

Eh, it's survived the storms and such of ff.net. If it does get deleted in time, I'll just move on to something else.. but for now, it's there, and thats what important. They haven't warned me or anything... xd