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SKIPPING LIFE STRING

posted 16 years ago by ZAROVE
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WELL, this isn't a busy board, but I thouht I'd ask...

I remember an Episode where some boy wanted ot skip the parts of his life he foudn dull. He wa given a ball of String and if he pulled it, that part woudl skip. He was then shown to pull it every time he had to do any work. He then at the end was sad as his whole life was skipped and he didn't rmemeber nay of it.

Well, what was the name of the story and what was the name of the story it was based upon?

And, if he didn't rmmeber hte skipped parts, who lived them for him?

Just asking.

( And I knwo he lived htem, btu obviosuly not him mentlaly, yet obviosuly the hkm that lvied it worked and spoke to others as if it was him, so it leaves me to wonder.)

[–] gregorychin 16 years ago

Oh, this was from:

Season 1, Episode 6: "Self-Discipline"
Original Air Date: 4 October 1996

The story was "The Magic thread".

At the end, after the guy's wife died, the woman who gave him the ball of silver thread, offered him a chance to undo the harm he did to himself, when he accepted the silver ball of thread.
And he was magically transported back into the past, before the moment happend, and he appreciated his life, from then on.

I worked at FOX Animation Studios, in Phoenix, during 1995 through 2000.
In the Fall of 1995, a few of us artists got to work on some background layouts for "The Adventure From the Book of Virtues", when Porchlight Entertainment contracted with FOX Animation Studios, to work on some of the first 10 or 12 episodes.

I designed some of the school and Springfield town layouts (in pencils) for Anne and Zach's school yard track and field scenes. I contributed to 3 episodes: "Honesty" and "Courage", and one other episode.
I can't take all the credit for it, since many artists worked on it. We drew up the layout artwork, and storyboards, and the bulk of the animation was then done overseas, at different studios.
But it was a very nice feeling, to work on this TV series. A noble cause!
I see that Porchlight Home Entertainment is about to re-release the series on DVD, in a box set.
Now there will be many more episodes, since the initial 10 episodes, in 1996.

Greg Chin
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[–] dogman15 15 years ago

Wow! That's cool. I used to watch this show as a kid.

[–] brainybrailler 12 years ago

You probably got it from the first post to you, but nobody "lived the parts for Her"; it was basically just one-way time-travel. The events occurred in his life, but he'd moved past them and everyone else could remember it but he just remembered what happened before and after.