if u are scared or worried or stressed please just remember that even if you mess up super badly, doggies on the street will still tug on their owners when u walk by because they wanna say hello to u so badly
One of my favorite things to see is random people trying to interact with unfamiliar outdoor cats. Just standing there with a hand out, making kissy noises, maybe meowing at the cat while it ignores them. Mankind at its best and least dignified
Again, this is even funnier if you know what a fucking production nightmare, with a possible curse attached to it no less, this robot prop was for the Doctor Who crew…
I want to know about the cursed robot
So the robot isn’t a guy in a suit, it’s an animatronic/puppet thing, and it wasn’t built for the show. In fact, no one knows who built it, one of the producers just FOUND IT ONE DAY in a building near the studio. It had apparently been built for another production that was cancelled and then just left to gather dust. So they thought “oh cool, let’s make this dumb robot the Doctor’s new companion, it’ll look neat and weird, everyone will have a gas with it.” NOPE.
Kamelion was incredibly complicated to operate, so they assigned a guy named Mike Powers to figure out the best way to go about it. Apparently he did a great job streamlining Kamelion’s operation, and then he promptly died in a boating accident (which is where the “curse” idea comes from.) He didn’t leave any notes or instructions, and the show was already behind schedule, so they had to rush Kamelion’s scenes into production with no idea how it worked. It was a gigantic pain in the ass to use, took forever to set up, and needed constant upkeep and repairs. Everyone hated working with the prop, to the point that before Kamelion’s first episode even aired, they had already decided to kill him off later in the same season.
Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor, had the most scenes with Kamelion, and absolutely hated it. When Kamelion dies, the Doctor is really sad, but Davison said later that it was one of the best acting jobs of his career, because in reality, he was absolutely giddy with joy at being rid of the thing.
tl,dr: In the 80′s a Mystery robot prop built by unknown hands caused chaos on the Doctor Who set.
finding an abandoned mystery robot and bringing it home, leading to death, is the most doctor who plot ive ever heard
the appeal of buzzfeed unsolved is that it’s not just a wacky believer and a strait-laced skeptic bc the skeptic is much weirder as a person than the believer. obviously the classic scully/mulder dynamic is very entertaining but there’s just something about a man who firmly does not believe in ghosts but does believe that it’s ok to eat a pickle floating in a pond “if it’s fresh”
At this point I don’t click on clickbait articles to find out the disappointing answer to the headline but to find out just what the website is going to make me slog through to find out. The sheer nerve they sometimes have is so much more amazing than the actual topic.
“YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT THIS CAT DID!” (click) “We begin our story in Australia, where kangaroos live, here’s a picture of a kangaroo" (click) “But this is a story about a different animal! A cat! You won’t believe what this cat did!” (click) “We all know what cats are, right? They’re not kangaroos and they’re also not bees.” (click) “Here’s what cats look like when they’re not doing the thing at all!” (click) “But you won’t believe what this cat did! Here’s the lady who has the cat!” (click) “It was just an ordinary day when she was born to a poor family in London, never knowing she was going to one day have a cat who did this unbelievable thing.” (click) “Fast forward a few years to the day she got married.” (click) “This is her husband, who had a different cat which didn’t do the thing.” (click) “His grandpa lost both of his legs in the sandwich war of 1812, and passed away before he would ever know his two beautiful grandchildren and what their cat did…..
Gay Hell 