RIP Flower. 
How awful that was...........
How awful that was...........
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Meerkat Manor. On Animal Planet...
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Posts: 5343 (09/29/07 8:08 AM) Registered User |
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BGrenier |
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Posts: 1131 (09/29/07 8:35 AM) Registered User |
yet the "manor" folks continue with their "disney" approach to the show I completely disagree. There's been tragedy since S1 starting with Flower kicking out her daughters & Shakespeare's last stand. Sure, we didn't see him die, but we all know what happend. Then there was the S2 fight with the Commandos where Zaphod killed one of Hannibal's sons. I distincly remember a pan shot of the son lying dead on the ground, like they did this year with Carlos. It now does not surpise me that Meerkats screw like rabbits and have so many pups what with all the death on the Kalihari. In the past 2 seasons, the drama was more oriented to forces within as opposed to this season where the outside forces are much more prominent. I don't think this is Disney at all... Also, they have to get people to watch the show and the only way to really do that is to anthropomorphize the animals. Sometimes, it involves a lot of bad crap happening at once. RIP Flower. U were one of the best. |
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Posts: 18 (09/29/07 7:42 PM) |
I completely disagree. completely? wow. i said that there has always been tragedy on mm (as there is in meerkat life. especially for the pups. check out mozart who is like 0 for 100 in pup production.) but in the past death was fewer and farther between in eps. sean usually had to create all of this false drama of impending doom. to be resolved after the commercial to keep folks tuned in. and then i was all "sean, you lying sack of shit. who do you think you are? epmb?" "dee dee deet dee!" was like some mm joke between us because i knew most of it was a setup. "you got me again, sean!" this season, everytime sean expresses doubt about a meerkat i know that little fucker is a goner. this season i am surprised if lola does make it. or axel. we've escalated to multiple meerkat mortality per ep. maybe it was the death of flower in the same ep with rocketdog's spontaneous abortion that threw me over the edge. both followed by "dee dee deet dee!" "dee dee deet dee!" is now like an insult. or as if they are mocking the meerkats and the viewer. it doesn't work anymore. i love the meerkats but i am having a hard time watching this show now. they should replace sean with sigourney weaver. or al gore. dump the cutesy music and narrative. the dichotomy between the hard life of a meerkat and the cute "disney" approach to the presentation bugs me now more than ever. that's all i was saying... |
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Posts: 6 (10/01/07 12:25 AM) Registered user |
I had seen the advertisements for the show but we don't get Animal Planet in our satellite package so I figured I was out of the loop. I was menu surfing
about three weeks ago and found it on the Access channel and have had so much fun watching these silly buggers. I've only just started season two but
I'm sure the announcer is Bill Nighy. Does SA take over at some part?
The hardest thing of all has been Shakespeare's death. I knew there wasn't a chance he survived the attack but still I had hoped. To find out that Tosca has also died is almost too much. She pulled at my heartstrings all season - I can't stand to have someone on the outside looking in. And now because Flower is such a control freak, Tosca has not survived the winter. Poor Tosca. I know it's life and death in the desert yada, yada but that doesn't make it easier to accept. Now from reading here I read that Flower is dead too - well how much more can one person handle? Yussarian, Blossom, Lenny and Squiggy, Carlos ????? I don't know how much more I can take. No wonder they copulate like - well, meerkats. They need to! Every frickin' episode someone is getting laid. I guess their lives are so short that TPTB need to assure us that they have some fun. The theme music should be "we're here for a good time, not a long time". I think I need to stop reading this thread. It's too hard. |
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BGrenier |
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Posts: 1134 (10/01/07 4:54 PM) Registered User |
...Youssarian died? I don't remember that.
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Kassle |
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Posts: 421 (10/01/07 10:28 PM) |
I am a wreck.
I couldn't stop crying for a good while. I will miss Flower. |
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ranzchic |
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Posts: 1209 (10/02/07 4:40 AM) Registered User |
I still cannot believe Flower is dead. I hated her at times but I didn't realize I could have developed at least some sort of emotional connection to her
by just always being there
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She had a thriving life, assembling possibly one of the biggest Meerkat mobs the planet has seen. 50+++ members!  With all that genes passed on, a Flower clone is almost inevitable so I hope one
pops out soon lest the Whiskers as they are is doomed.
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2Legit |
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Posts: 277 (10/02/07 3:03 PM) Registered user |
I'm so sad that Flower is dead.
In memory... Every frickin' episode someone is getting laid.Speaking of getting laid....who all is pregnant with Houdini's pups? I know RocketDog was but she lost them. What about the other 2 sisters? Did Flower do it with Houdini too or not? I just can't keep up with them. 2 Legit |
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sugarsmummy |
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Posts: 11 (10/04/07 2:29 PM) Registered user |
I wish I could help you out but I'm only on the second season and I don't have any Houdini as of yet. The biggest rogue for this season (so far) is
Carlos. He'll bang anyone that's not nailed down. I don't think it really matters, though. Every season has it's own Lothario.
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Martrae |
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Posts: 714 (10/04/07 2:57 PM) MESS member |
Bill Nighy narrates the UK version.
Sean Astin does the US. It's so ironic that Flower died because she didn't kill Axle. No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. 
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ericartman |
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Posts: 1881 (10/04/07 3:41 PM) Registered User |
Am I the only one that is glad that Flower finally got her comeuppance? Yeah, Karma is an effin bitch aint it!
Always thinking of herself first. Kicking out her daughters when it was clear their pregnancies were the result of rape. Murdering her own grandchildren for crying out loud! |
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albert is a BAD KITTY |
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Posts: 87 (10/12/07 9:15 PM) |
my god, finally a "light" ep where the carnage stopped for a bit.
i actually got to laugh out loud when zaphod was trying to nail lola and houdini showed up to chase him off, just before they played the stupid song. the stupid song worked for the first time this season. but the meerkats impress with the whole "unrelated" mating thing (if that is true). feral cats are a real problem out here in the boonies where i live. they don't care who they fuck and the overpopulation is out of control. except it does keep the golden hawks and buzzards doing well. nature. go figure... |
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Posts: 4043 (10/15/07 3:34 PM) Registered user |
OMFG I stopped watching this show for awhile but I was casually watching reruns. Flower died? :cactus
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Angelica2003 |
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Posts: 1291 (10/15/07 5:23 PM) Registered user |
they don't care who they fuck and the overpopulation is out of control.Hey, Albert kitty--that's how it is out in the boonies. 
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Jerrifan |
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Posts: 1122 (10/16/07 7:15 AM) |
Geez you people act as though Disney never killed off Bambi's mother
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albert is a BAD KITTY |
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Posts: 131 (10/26/07 11:20 PM) |
i just wish sofa would retitle this thread "meerkat murder". or maybe "homicide, meerkats on the manor..."
or "die! meekkats. die!" or "why don't we just kill every meerkat we care about off each week!" "dee dee deet dee deet!" oh, that's right. sofa got bit in the head by that snake a few weeks ago and can't change the title. because he be dead. like a meerkat. any meerkat. pick one. you like one of them? they'll be dead next week. "dee dee deet dee deet!" |
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sbnbaby |
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Posts: 412 (10/27/07 12:03 AM) Registered user |
So bummed. I taped a maration, then out stupid Comcast DVR went out, they came to fix it, but switched out our DVR and now I have nothing!!!!! Bastards.
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albert is a BAD KITTY |
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Posts: 132 (10/27/07 12:39 AM) |
don't watch.
it would only make you cry. sharesphere and youssarian and sparkle and carlos and whoopie and lenny and squiqqy and kinkajou, and (every pup motzart ever bore) and then motzart herself.... those are not in the right order, but you get the idea. uggghhh... "dee dee deet dee deet!" |
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Posts: 2018 (10/27/07 1:04 PM) BB Forum Moderator |
They should really start scripting this show like every other reality show.
There's no way writers would have let Mozart die! Wilson and Mozart should have gone back to the Commandos together after their romantic night together and he shouldn't have left her all alone. And then one day we'd see a huge battle between the Commandos and the Whiskers! (Rocketdog and Mozart are sisters, right?) And during the fight, Rocketdog and Mozart would see each other (in slow-mo) and they would call off the battle and the Commandos and Whiskers would see that fighting is not the right way to settle territory disputes and that they should all live happily ever after. And then Flower would pop out of nowhere and says, "Just kidding, you guys! I only faked my death and killed all of the Starskys so we'd all be reunited!" And then they would freeze frame on the group laughing, like on the old sitcoms. That would have been much better. =( |
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albert is a BAD KITTY |
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Posts: 136 (10/29/07 3:05 AM) |
* thinking about it, this post was stupid. i have nothing but the utmost respect for soa. i am sorry i was rude. *
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10/31/07 12:10 AM.
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