Im going to go off some faint memory here, but this is a list of my favorite Dr. Seuss books! I loved these books as a child. I remember being so proud of myself as I was able to read them faster and faster without a mistake and I thought I was a pretty pro reader.
This week will be a post on my favorite scams on the CartoonNetwork show, Ed Edd n' Eddy.
1. Eddy's Creek Cruise
Yep, this episode is my all-time favorite episode of Ed, Edd, and Eddy. The guys decide, after a fail attempt at making a super tire swing ride, to use this inflatable raft to create a luxury cruise. This cruise however, is setting sail on a small creek rather than an ocean. They manage to attract Jimmy and Johhny onto their raft at a small price of 25 cents each. The cruise involves sightseeing, sailing, refreshments, and the soothing sounds of 88-Fingers Edward (which is one of the reasons why this episode is my favorite!). As the cruise floats downstream, they float past the Kanker Sisters who spots them and creates there own raft with a bed mattress and sheets. They are interpreted as pirates as they try to ruin the Ed's scam by destroying their raft in hopes of some kissing action with the Ed's.
2. Ed's Tire Swing
This scam lead to the creation of Ed's Creek Cruise after the swing was destroyed. Both were part of the episode Avast Ye Eds. The idea was basically to build an epic tire swing and charge the kids in the culdesac a quarter for a ride. When they decided to test the tire swing, Edd involuntarily volunteers to be the test rider. Ed pushes the tire swing to extreme levels with insanely hard pushes. When the swing reaches unbearable heights, the tire swing breaks off and rolls down the road into the creek with Edd still inside. This episode is of my favorites because of the terror Edd goes through on the swing and the excitement Ed has pushing it.
3. Gelatin Pool
Its a hot day out and the Eds have an idea to build a giant pool in the middle of the culdesac. For some reason they decide to fill the giant pool with gelatin to help keep cool. The problem is, Edd messed up the gelatin formula and when Ed tested the pool he basically just sank to the bottom. Ed, on the other hand seems to enjoy the pool anyway. Ed sucks up all the gelatin in the pool. Some going in his stomach, the rest out the gaps of his teeth. At least someone enjoyed the pool...
4. Ed's Hot Air Tours
So this scam begins with Double-D's (Edd's) new invention, super bubble-brewing bubble gum. The only person able to handle the incredibly dense gum, of course, is Ed. Ed blows up a HUGE bubble and starts lifting Ed off the ground. Eddy had the idea to create Ed's Hot Air Tours! They manage to drag Johnny into a tour ride. So they stuffed Johnny into one of Ed's coat pockets and off they went. When Kevin spotted the giant bubble balloon, he hits a baseball into the bubble and blows it up. The fall actually sent Johnny through the ground all the way to China!
5. Gerbil For A Day
Personally, I think this is one of the best ideas they came up with! I mean who wouldn't want a pet Ed dressed up as a gerbil? He even had his own cage complete with water bottle, salt lick, and exercise wheel. Once in a lifetime opportunity right? This hilarious scam with scenes of Ed acting as a gerbil (which he was really good at) ending up being a failure after Sarah makes Ed babysit Jimmy for the day. Jimmy actually starts to learn from Eddy how to scam the rest of the kids. Jimmy takes his talents and becomes a rotten scammer as he creates his own scam and doesn't share with Master Eddy.
6. Ed's Hive-Bee-Gone
This scam was actually in the second episode of Ed, Edd, n Eddy ever made. The goal was to have people pay them to remove bee hives form their lawns. The Eds, being themselves, don't think the project through too well. they decide to basically beat down the bee hive with golf clubs and baseball bats. Of course, they started getting attacked by the bees and tried to run away. Eddy, who was sitting back and watching the project from a safe distance, successfully made it back inside his home. Ed and Edd tried to get inside the locked and were unsuccessful. Eddy opens the door only to find them both stung and swollen like crazy.
7. Rent-a-Clown
The guys thought up the idea to make a rentable clown circus hosted by themselves. For 25 cents you could rent your very own clown. My favorite scene is when they pull out a small car about the size of basketball. Edd wonders how him and Ed are supposed to fit in. Eddy manages to squeeze them in, but only their large heads are sticking out of the top. The picture of a small car driving around with the Ed's heads sticking out was priceless. Sadly, the scam failed as the kids weren't impressed, especially Kevin.
8. Triple-E Driving School
The Triple-E Driving School offers "professional" instruction on driving. Their classes offer a state-of-the-art driving course. The teacher is, of course, Double-D, and Ed is the cars motor. What do you mean by that? Well the car is basically a cardboard wagon, and the driver isn't even driving! Ed is doing all the work pushing and steering the vehicle. Once they sucker Nazz into their driving classes, Ed is distracted and stops driving the car. This leads Nazz and Edd to crash along with the driving school scam.
9. Chez La Sweat
When the Eds had the idea of become a repair crew, I knew nothing good can come from it! The Eds manage to actually break things than repair them. A see-saw, Jimmy's miniature oven, and even Johnny's home. How did that happen? Well they found Johnny stuck in a tree by his giant head being wedged between two branches. So Johnny asks them to grab some soap out of the house to slip him out. Ed manages to grab the entire sink instead of some soap. The Eds were forced to fix the sink. Again, Ed manages to also tear apart the homes furnace leaving the house full of hot steam. They got the idea to turn Johnny's home into a large sauna. They tie Ed extremely tight to the home's support beams for Ed to be a towel rack, and to not screw anything else. Being Ed, he managed to break the support beam to Johnny's house, causing it to completely collapse!
10. Taco Ed's Mexican Cuisine
Sounds pretty tasty doesn't it? It is, if you like taco shells made of paper, grass for lettuce, and grounded orange crayon for cheese! Ed seems to enjoy the blue crayons, as they seem to taste like blueberries to him. Double-D tries a yellow crayon hoping it tasted like a banana, and no, it did not. Also, on top of this super taco, is Eddy's Brother's Armenian Secret Hot Sauce. This hot sauce sets the Eds' mouth on fire and disfigures them. What they looked like: EdEddEddy Thankfully they were able to cool down after drinking water from a sprinkler....
For me, it is no contest on who my favorite movie producers are of all time. Pixar has made eleven famous, incredible movies that have been incredibly popular in the world. Their movies have been a smash hit one after the other. I mean, you see movie companies have at least one bad film. Then after that they just seem to get worse and worse, but not Pixar. They keep pumping out these amazing animated films that have been my favorites since I was a child, and are still my favorite today. I'm excited to present to you the list of top ten Pixar movies...
1. Finding Nemo (2003)
God, when I first saw this movie in commercials and movie previews I was excited. It was by my favorite movie producers and it seemed like a good story, so it looked like a decent film. When I watched it, I was amazed. The movie had beautiful animations of an undersea life and gave it a great ocean-life-to-human-life translation. I mean the story itself can be pretty relatable to a human situation. A clownfish, Marlin, and his son, Nemo, are off to Nemo's first day of school. Nemo gets captured by divers and Marlin, who has a great fear of leaving the reef his lives on, ventures out into the abyssal sea to find his son. That description right there would seem like enough to give the story away, but no, it isn't. The story has so many details and events in Marlin's adventure that I just gave away about 1/52 of the story. This movie is one of my all-time favorite movies because of its animation, story, and humor. Finding Nemo deserves number 1 on my list.
2. Toy Story (1995)
This was Pixar's first animated full-length film and probably one of my most memorable childhood films. I mean come on. What kid didn't have either a Buzz Lightyear or Woody action figure? They were loved idols of most kids my age back then and they still are famous to those age groups today. This story is about a bunch of living toys that belong to a kid named Andy. Woody, the respective cowboy doll leader, gets jealous after Andy brings home a new Space Astronaut Action Figure during Andy's Wild West "playing style". Woody worries this action figure, named Buzz Lightyear will replace him. So when Andy plans on taking Buzz to an arcade, Woody tries to swap with him and accidentally throws Buzz out the window. The rest of the toys, upset with Woody's seeming action to get rid of Buzz. So, Woody must go bring back Buzz to re-gain his friends' respect. This movie is an all-time classic.
3. Monsters Inc. (2001)
This movie is an example of one of the reasons why I love Pixar. This movie idea is simply genius. I love how Pixar thinks of a monster world where they fear humans. They only confront children to dangerously farm their screams, which are used for powering the monster world. It is said by James Waternoose, owner of Monsters Inc, that there is nothing more toxic, more deadly, than a human child. Monsters, such as our main characters, Mike and Sully, work each day to enter the human world through doorway machines and scare children and extract their screams (Which the machines automatically collect). One day, Mike and Sully's rival and competitor, Randal, tries to boost his scream numbers by stealing doors after company hours. The child enters the monster world while Randal isn't looking and follows around Sully, who is motivated to return her. So now they must work to get this "hazardous" child back to her world. Monsters Inc. is one of the funniest animated movies created and its story line is very rich and humorous. Number three in my opinion!
4. A Bug's Life (1998)
Ah, another one of my childhood favorites. This is Pixar's second animated film released in 1998. It is about an ant colony and their job to harvest food for the evil and controlling grasshoppers who pick it up each year. An inventor, Flik, tries to invent ways to make a bug's life easier and ends up causing more trouble than help. I actually remember owning the Playstation game, A Bug's Life, based off the movie. In that time the game was really good. Now, not so much. Still, this movie has a story that can inspire people who want to be different and try to make a difference in the world. It is a movie about individuality and breaking free from the control of bullies, such as the Mafia-like grasshoppers.
5. Ratatouille (2007)
Ratatoullie is a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice. The full name of the dish is ratatouille niçoise. Just kidding! Although that is the definition of a food in real life, it is similar to the subject of this movie, Cooking. A small rat living in the countryside of France, familiarizes himself with a cooking show in an elderly woman's home. The show is hosted by Auguste Gusteau, a world famous chef who inspires others by his motto, "Anyone Can Cook". Remy, the rat, idolizes this chef and desires to become a great cook and does develop a great skill in cooking. Forced out of his home in the country, he winds up in Paris, France. Paris is home to many famous food legends including his idol, Auguste Gusteau. He visits Gousteau's restraunt and finds a young, troubled kitchen assistant, Alfredo Linguini. Remy befriends this man and discovers the ability to control the man to cook marvelous dishes by pulling his hair. They team up and take on the hard cooking jobs and make an impact on the city with their dishes. They catch the attention of a famous, harsh food critique, Anton Ego, who intends to shut down Linquini's rise to fame. This movie is another one of Pixar's masterpeices.
6. WALL-E (2008)
WALL-E is a garbage-cleaning robot left at earth to clean up the humans' mess, who are on a scheduled space-cruise while the inhabitable Earth is being cleaned up. While the humans are in outer space, the programs and robots stop working and all of the other WALL-E machines are shut down, except one. This robot now lives on Earth, cleaning up day by day as he is programed too. Over time, Wall-E develops as sense of human feelings and attitude. When a space probe sent by the human cruise ship lands on Earth, Wall-E is amazed. He is amazed to see another robot and slowly befriends it. EVE, the robot, finds Wall-E's plant he collected while searching the planet and EVE gets sent back to the cruise ship. Wall-E chases after EVE by grabbing onto the rocket and boards the human ship. That is a small description of this widely popular movie released in 2008. The movie tells the morals of friendship, love, fitness, and the importance of saving our environment! It was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the greatest movies of the decade.
7. The Incredibles (2004)
This is a story about two superheroes raising a family after the world asked the superheroes in the world to stop saving people. The government put all superheroes into a program similar to the Witness Protection Program. The program gave all superheroes a regular identity to live by in the human world. They keep their hero identity a secret and ensure that they live a good, normal life. Bob Parr (formerly Mr. Incredible) and Helen Parr (formerly Elasta-girl) are former "supers" and married and raise three children. They also all have super powers of their own, but must keep their powers secret from the world to live regular lives. When Bob starts noticing former supers were being killed, he starts investigating. This investigation leads to an adventure that requires this family to team up with friends and, once again, be superheroes. This movie is one of Pixar's first action-packed comedies. This was also one of Pixar's hardest films to produce. To go for the "action-movie" feel to the movie, they had to use a different style which required a lot more time producing. It my opinion it was worth it. I would love to put this movie up higher but since all of the above films were great, it sits at number 7.
8. Up (2009)
Honestly this movie is one of the cutest movies I've seen. That's not very manly to say, but that's the best word to describe Up. The beginning tells the happy story of a young kid with a love for adventure. He finds a small girl with the same interests as him. He ends up falling in love with her and marrying her. The beginning tells the story of their lives. The story does get somewhat sad and depressing. Don't let this fool you though. There is much more to this Pixar film. After being forced to leave his home, he decides to move away to Paradise Falls, and hes taking his home with him. Over night he manages to rig his house with thousands of balloons and floats away as retirement home staff comes to pick him up. This movie was great, but it wasn't the best. In no way was it bad. The movie was very cute but the story got dull to me in the middle. The idea of the balloon house shows a great example of imagination and dreaming. The whole movie was mainly based on imagination and the wonder of following your dreams. This movie scored very high among critics but I'm putting it as number 8. Even though it is an amazing film, we're talking about Pixar here, all of their movies are amazing.
9. Cars (2006)
This movie, even though it was created by Pixar, is not one of my favorites. Its not a bad movie, but it just doesn't seem like the style of movie I want to see. The movie seemed more like a "kiddie" film, maybe due to its car theme. I do like the story of a famous race car accidentally falls out of his travel truck, Mac. The race car, Lightning McQueen is lost in a desert like environment. He panics, runs off, and ends up in a run-down town called Radiator Springs. He meets a bunch of other characters who own businesses in the town. They want to make locals come back to their town to get business booming again. Lightning decides to help out the town and becomes close friends with the other characters. Mac and the media find McQueen in the town and Lightning must choose between his friends and his career.
10. Geri's Game (1997)
This is one of many Pixar Short Films. I feel it can be placed as number 10 due to the fact its not a movie, but is still one of my favorites. These films were small and no more than five minutes. Some were based off of Pixar's movies. Shorts films like Jack-Jack Attack and Mike's New Car were based off their movies. Other Short Films were based off Pixar's genius ideas. Some of those Short Films are Knick-Knack and Luxo Jr. This film, called Geri's Game, is my personal favorite. Enjoy.
