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It was a Warner Bros cartoon about a bank robber who stole the "portable hole" invented by a little scientist guy. .. He used the portable hole to walk into banks & steal the loot & hilarity ensued, of course.

Anyone know the name of this one and/or if it's on DVD/ internets download ?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe it's "The Hole Idea" (the scientist was Calvin Calculus) and I'm not sure offhand where it's released, but that should help you look -- I'd bet it's on that five-disc collection WB released, on the "neither Bugs nor Daffy" disc.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

damn you Tep! I just found it and you beat me to the post.

golden age cartoons

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks .. the name helps a lot...

.. I want to see it again - i saw it recently on a big screen & noticed that beneath all the newspaper headlines about the robberies, the text of the stories were ridiculously unrelated .. but I couldn't really read them fast enough...

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't there a portable hole at the end of who framed roger rabit?

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Someone told me about a cartoon that was anime-inspired maybe, about this kid in some city or something and a purple box would descend from the sky and "the game" would begin and everyone who the box landed on would have to play this game in order to survive or something? Does any of this make sense to anyone???

― Werner Herr'spotatochips (Stevie D), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

"At least once an episode (game session?), a purple cube crackling with electric power descends from the sky. This is a Game Cube, and in order to get into one, you must be underneath it."

(still don't know where to look, but the quote is from this page: http://www.fox-dreams.com/art/gurps/reboot/ )

― StanM, Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

You missed the clue on that page and the URL. The show is ReBoot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReBoot

― It's a rest day, WE WANT TO SHOP (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks! :-)

― StanM, Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:48 (fifteen years ago)

i don't remember anything like that in reboot.

― Creeztophair, Thursday, 1 July 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

That was the central premise! Every time the User played a game, the heroes of Mainframe had to win, otherwise their sector would be wiped out. It started taking a backseat in the later seasons, though.

― Nhex, Thursday, 1 July 2010 22:39 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah I totally watched ReBoot all the time and never remembered the mainframe/cube/etc.

― Werner Herr'spotatochips (Stevie D), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:46 (fifteen years ago)

The giant purple cube, crackling with lightning, sinking from a vortex in the sky with the announcement "WARNING: INCOMING GAME" was a pretty memorable image every time - It happened in pretty much every episode until the third season. If you only caught the last two seasons you probably didn't see it that much...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHIEGP6O-x8#t=04m30s

― Nhex, Friday, 2 July 2010 03:12 (fifteen years ago)

Didn't embed the timecode, which is 4:30

― Nhex, Friday, 2 July 2010 03:12 (fifteen years ago)

(I was a pretty big fan - it was a painful wait in the US between seasons)

― Nhex, Friday, 2 July 2010 03:14 (fifteen years ago)

I don't think I really watched much of the first two.

― Werner Herr'spotatochips (Stevie D), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

I mean I was 6 when the show debuted.

― Werner Herr'spotatochips (Stevie D), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

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