![]() I wasn't impressed with the plots so much as I was impressed with the sophistication of the show through simplicity. In 2005, I purchased a public-domain DVD of what episodes existed (twelve). With advent of the Internet, I got the chance to see even more stills.and even hear the theme song. The stills from the show, with their sharp line-work, really caught my eye. In an animation magazine, I read an interview with the animation director Jack Schleh, in celebration of the VHS release. The first color cartoon made exclusively for television in an era dominated by black-and-white sets! Finding the treasure that is 'Colonel Bleep,' was a decade-long trek. It's quite clear that these full-colour cartoons are definitely geared to children, but I still liked them enough to give them a 6-star rating for their nostalgic value. Together this brave trio battle intergalactic villains who pose a serious and immediate threat to the peace & safety of the universe. Bleep's 2 sidekicks in the show are his loyal space deputies, Squeek, the mute puppet-boy, and Scratch, a caveman recently awakened after several thousand years of deep sleep. Bleep has set up headquarters here on Earth on Zero-Zero Island, which is positioned on this planet's equator. With the aid of sound effects, most of the stories were told through voice-over narration from actor Noah Tyler. These decidedly low-budget, limited-animation cartoons contained almost no dialogue at all between its characters. I'll admit that these Colonel Bleep cartoons from 1956 are far from being great, but, all the same, their sometimes-educational stories of interplanetary adventure did have a cute charm all of their own. We have lately enriched our vocabularies in this area, too, with the word bleep (bleeping), which has replaced earlier blank, blankety-blank, not to mention s.o.b. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004 When this was done deliberately to expunge an expletive, it was called a bleep. 1's (WKFS-FM) 'Freak Show' ( 'The only show worth a bleep' is its slogan.) between 7 and 8 p.m. That might explain why on a recent weeknight more than three-quarters of the hit tracks played on KISS 107. You see, my - ing is considerably larger than my - ing brain. noun a short high tone produced as a signal or warning.verb emit a single short high-pitched signal.verb transitive To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb intransitive To emit one or more bleeps.noun music, slang, uncountable A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.noun euphemistic Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.noun A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.transitive verb (Broadcasting) to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning. ![]() intransitive verb To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.intransitive verb To emit a bleep or bleeps.noun A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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