Holy Chickens! That's All Peanut Butter? - The Voyage of the Mimi Discussion

[–] flange_523 20 years ago

Holy *beep*! Me too!

"You lock the door, throw away the key. There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

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[–] Jeffrypike 20 years ago

That was so funny. Thats the only thing i remember from the whole show

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[–] forgetyourmeal 19 years ago

yeah, i remember the saltwater thing, "Holy chickens!" and something where the captain had to sleep with another guy so he didn't get hypothermia... ah....

good ol' voyage.

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[–] doozer18 19 years ago

the captian didn't just sleep with anybody- he slept with a NAKED Ben Afflek (who played his greandson) and the male intern (also naked)

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[–] slayer1982 17 years ago

I remember that. Its actually the way to stop someone from dying of hypothermia.

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[–] mhsdawgs 18 years ago

i remember them using the tent to clean the salt water so they could drink it somehow

The tent collected dew, not salt water.

Come on, talk to me so you can see what's going on...

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[–] vermin2005 17 years ago

No, I remember this, the scoped up salt water, and put it in a container lined with a piece of a black tent or something, and then made a clear plastic tent frame over it so the sun would boil the salt water, and the plastic would catch the steam, and it would drip back down the sides into waiting containers. The end.

man, that was about 10 years ago, when i saw it.

Insubordination Rules!

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[–] Ankhet1056 15 years ago

Me too! The tent and the peanut butter. I remember I watched it in science class.

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[–] adk12 18 years ago

I love PINK FLOYD. Now for the real part: I watched this in 6th greade in my PA middle school. It was cool. Kinda boring, but better than writing. That peanutbutter looked like crap! LITERALLY!

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[–] milesg 19 years ago

I remember something about one of the dudes (maybe Ben) carving the word "MIMI" on the side of a stone that was going into a building and conjecturing how someone may notice it if the building was ever torn down and wonder what the mysterious meaning of it meant.

Unfortunately I don't really remember the Holy Chickens line.

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[–] plaidrabbit487 18 years ago

Yeah, it was Ben, and it was on the back of a block for St. John's Cathedral in New York. I think the best part is during each educational segment, there's this 12-year-old Ben Affleck saying in a 12-year-old voice, "Hi, I'm Ben Affleck!" Classic.

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[–] mman12-2 19 years ago

the thing i rember was when one of the guys get hypothermia and ben afflec realy eager to warm him up im serious

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[–] DingleDootie 19 years ago

I remember all of the above, plus the theme song. I can sing it via acapella to you right now, in fact. How sad is that?

Damn you, 6th grade!

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[–] mungvacume 19 years ago

yea i saw this in 5th grade

like 7 years ago it was soo funny

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[–] adk12 18 years ago

Sadly in PA they cancelled the showing of it! We were the last class to see it. Now they say it doesn't fit the education needs of out growing criteria. WTF?! so wat?

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[–] maiira 18 years ago

Wow, everyone's either seen it in sixth or seventh grade. I saw it in third! The only thing I really remember is the hypothermia episode, and the one hispanic guy getting a nasty cut on his hand due to rope burn (what was his name...Ramone? It's been awhile). There were also the featurettes afterward that showed Ben Affleck and friends explaining about all this science-y, educational stuff. To think that I have heard Ben Affleck's voice changing...it's priceless. Just priceless.

I also remember seeing the previews for Armageddon, hearing Ben Affleck's name, and thinking "HOLY SWEET CHRIST IT'S THE DUDE FROM VOYAGE OF THE MIMI!!"

"Oh, sugar...you just gone and done the dumbest thing in your whole life..."

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[–] Steelersfan0820 18 years ago

To the dude who was wondering about the tent thing making fresh water, check it:

They gathered up salt water, put it in the pot. Most of the time, a small amount of water like that will evaporate over a period of time. So, they put the dark trash bag (i think that's what it was) over the pot in a tent-like fashion deal so two things happened: 1.) dark materials absorb heat, so it sped up the evaporation of the water ; 2.) when the water evaporated, it rose into the air, hit the trash bag, and condensed on it, then drained down the sides of the "tent" into a different container. That water was fresh water, since the ::insert scientific term for salt in salt water:: doesn't evaporate and is too heavy to be carried by water vapor.

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[–] gthenning-1 18 years ago

I hated this this thing. In or classes my friends an I reffered to "Mimi" as a bad word. I hated the worksheets they sucked so bad. I really didn't learn anything but I really don't care. Does anyone remember the part where ben afflec rubbed the cow poop on the walls of that celtic hut? that is classic.

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[–] shootingSTARdncr 18 years ago

How funny that I was just explaining this concept to my father the other day because I remembered it from Mimi. It's one of the few things that I remember from the videos, (considering I saw them back in 4th grade.)

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[–] AK-18 18 years ago

Yeah, I remember the water thing...I'm glad someone explained it 'cause otherwise I was going to. I actually saw the show when I was four and it aired on TV the first time. I watched it with my mom. When I found out we'd be watching it in 5th grade I got excited because I remembered liking it. I know some people are resistant to educational stuff and won't like it just for that reason, and then there are the juvenile reactions to the whole "warm-up Capt. Granville so he doesn't die" scene, but all in all it was fun and a good break from class. I wonder how many classes still show it. It's dated and kids are so resistant to older things these days (even though they're all copying our hairstyles anyway). But to those of us who grew up on shows like 3-2-1 Contact and Square One TV, this was among the entertaining educational shows.

"To do your thing's the hardest thing to do; You gotta make your own kind of music, sing your own special song...even if nobody else sings along" -Mama Cass

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[–] TheHypnotron 17 years ago

sodium chloride i suppose? (that's actually table salt. not sure if sea water salt is the same. anyone?)

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[–] sweet_brownie 17 years ago

i am watchin that now i am in 6th grade.... ha ha its really gay. lol yea at that part wen ct is climbing the tree wen there stuck on the island me and greg were like ha ha that kid is gonna FALL and KILL himself! woo hoo! lol

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[–] magnesium_mellow 17 years ago

I came on here thinking about that line, in my sixth grade class for 9 weeks we watched this show everyday and took tests over it, and still all I remember is that line

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[–] tsanderscluck1191 17 years ago

haha! I don't remember that line, but I wish I did it's hilarious.

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[–] SVDoctorD 17 years ago

Oh man, 4th grade's coming back to me way too fast...

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[–] thecorduroysuit 17 years ago

some of the scenes i remember:

The Mimi getting shipwrecked on an island, and the crew having to make a new bow-sprint out of a log

I remember a guy saying "What is she, mute?" and the other guy saying "She's not mute!"

When they were on the island, they ate a rabbit that they caught, but the teenage girl had a moral dilemma about eating it.

In the first episode when they all join up on the Mimi, I remember the captain saying to the black guy "What's this?" "It's my radio!" "STOW IT!"

And I remember most of the aforementioned scenes as well, but the one aspect of the show that has haunted me my whole life was the theme song. I find myself humming it all the time!

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[–] Tri-State_Skater 10 years ago

Diddo. My fifth grade class laughed so hard.

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