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Raidra wrote:

Hellhound iscariot666 wrote:

Raidra wrote: Oh, I have it on tape and DVD, so there's no need for that. I just need to go through and look up the title.

It was one of the better episodes, though you can understand why my nephew reacted to the part about the dead vines with a "Seriously?" expression. Yeah, I probably had the same thought.

Have you ever heard of a children's book called 'George Washington's Socks?' Why, did it have people stop zombies by tying them to dead trees too? ;-) No, I hadn't heard about it until you mentioned it. I looked it up on the website of my local library, and it sounds interesting. The title also made me think of a juvenile fiction book called Al Capone does my shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (Yes, that's how her first name is spelled). I haven't read it myself, but I saw it at a local library one day. It turns out there are at least two sequels.

I checked and that Challenge of the Super Friends episode is "Swamp of the Living Dead". It may not be an original title, but it lets you know what you're in for. I didn't even have to look at the whole episode list. I saw that title and thought, "Yes, that's the one!" I wonder if people could prank horror buffs by asking, "Hey, have you ever seen 'Swamp of the Living Dead'?" and letting them assume there's a George Romero movie they don't know about. What did you think of the whole 'George Washington's Socks?'  It's kind of interesting since the last that I heard of the book was about some kids going on a camping trip, traveling back in time somehow and meeting George Washington as he was crossing the Delaware (I believe that's how it went).

There was also this book I read that took place during Segregation, well, there's actually two of them. 'My Louisiana Sky' is the first one. 'My Louisiana Sky' involves a preteen that lives in the 1950s with her mentally-challenged parents and her grandma. The girl relates how her grandma basically let her dad marry her mom, because nobody else would want to marry her mom. Her dad like her mom was viewed as retarded by the townsfolk. I believe the girl's grandma mentioned how the dad was passed from grade to grade by the teachers that never seemed to give a care.

The grandma dies and pretty much everything that this girl knows collapses on itself. Her aunt wants to take her in, and the girl really wants that, but she worries about her parents. Since, her grandma is gone, whose going to take care of them?

She loves the stuff and the life that her estranged aunt gives her, like those puffy, pink, long skirts with those fake diamonds that make the shape of a poodle. I forgot what they are called, but you get the idea, right?

Anyways, it's revealed in the story that the aunt has guilt over an accident that happened to her and the girl's mother (her older sister) when she was like around five. Apparently from what I can recall, the mom tried to get the aunt out of the tree for some reason, possibly thinking that the girl's aunt would hurt herself. The aunt got down safely, but the mom that went after sister: the girl's aunt ended up with some sort of brain injury. In other words, the girl's aunt believed that she was responsible for her sister's retardation. So, it kind of makes sense why the aunt was estranged from the family and felt like she needed to make up for what happened.

Can you see yourself in the girl's place? Can you imagine what it's like to have an older sibling that everybody views as retarded? Can you imagine being the daughter of two such people?

It's a tough situation to find yourself in, especially if you're the grandma, the aunt, the main protagonist, the father or even the mother.

The other story, other than 'My Louisiana Sky' has to deal with a black guy showing up at a white family's mansion's front door. The guy was there, because he was accused of murdering a white man. His mother sent him up to the family, because the mom of that family was a childhood friend. I believe, the story was set in New York City.

Anyways, since it was set in Segregation Times, there was a lot of tension between the black guy, the family that took him and everybody else in New York. The black guy ended up moving from Alabama after the white man's murder. The white man was a cop and for some reason got into his head to harass and hurt the black guy's family. I think the white cop tried to burn the black guy's family's house down.

Anyways, the black guy was in his late teens from what I could gather. He was pretty talented and even fixed the family that took him in's car. The car had a habit of just driving in reverse and I believe there were some other problems with the car.

I really hate what happened at the end to the black teenage guy. He ended up going back to Alabama or whatever Southern State he lived in, because something happened. The friends of the white cop wound up killing the teenager, plus I believe this white cop's friends were in on hurting and harassing the black guy and his family.

It's sad that he had to die at the end. He was pretty likeable.

Plus, I heard this story from my History Teacher in high school (I took an advance history class, but that's aside the point). My high school teacher told me about this black guy that supposedly raped a white, little girl. The people of that town caught this man, cut off his penis, made him eat it and forced him to say, "I like it!"

Vigilantes are pretty scary! I don't know which case that was from.