39,327
edits
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Difference between revisions
update links
(quote cleanup) |
(update links) |
||
Line 2:
[[File:BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand_2569.jpg|frame]]
'''''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command''''' was a 2000-2001 [[Western Animation|animated]] [[Animated Adaptation|television show]] from [[Disney|Disney television animation]], based on the space character Buzz Lightyear from the movie ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. The Buzz in this show is not a toy, but an actual Space Ranger - remember how ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' alluded to a [[Show Within a Show]] that pre-dated the toy line? ("The world's greatest superhero, now the world's greatest toy!") This show is [[Defictionalization|what that show might have looked like.]]
The story chronicles the adventures of Buzz Lightyear ([[Patrick Warburton]]), an agent of the galactic peacekeeping force Star Command, who frequently battles the Evil Emperor Zurg ([[Seinfeld|Wayne Knight]]) and other threats to the galaxy. Buzz is accompanied in his missions by his partners on Team Lightyear: Mira Nova ([[Nicole Sullivan]]), the butt-kicking princess of Tangea; Booster (Stephen Furst), the trademark big lovable lug, and XR (Larry Miller/Neil Flynn), the wisecracking fast-talking [[Robot Buddy]].
Line 89:
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Gravitina has a thing for Buzz.
** Unfortunately for Gravitina, it's not reciprocated, leading to a combo [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] / [[Heartwarming Moment]] in ''Opposites Attract'':
{{quote|'''Buzz''': Yes Gravitina, [[Fantastic Aesop|you may conquer worlds, but you must learn that you cannot bend the will of men]]. Gravitina, you're a very, very [[Beat|...]] [[Can Not Tell a Lie|evil]] lady, but somewhere out there there's a guy who thinks being evil and having a great big head are just about the best two things a girl can have!
'''Gravitina''': Really?
'''Buzz''': Sure! And when they let him out of [[Ax Crazy|that tiny little room they've got him locked up in]], he'll move the heavens to find you, [[The Power of Love|because that's what love is]]. In the meantime, you keep that pretty little nose of yours clean. }}
** In a later episode, she seems have gotten the best of both worlds by getting into a relationship with [[Mirror Universe|Evil Buzz Lightyear]] (though she hints she still prefers the original Buzz).
Line 219:
* [[Love Hurts]]: The look on Mira's face when she realizes that she can't be with Romac as long as he's working for Zurg.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Gravitina
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Hilariously subverted, and an homage to ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''.
* [[Machine Monotone]]: XR, until Agent Z blows him up and the [[Little Green Men|LGMs]] put him back together without the aid of the Unimind.
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Bonnie Lapton, daughter of Professor Von Madman.
Line 238:
* [[Mythology Gag]]:
** In the pilot, the LGMs use "The Claw" to bring the Unimind.
** Also in the Christmas episode, there's a girl who resembles Jessie from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''.
*** From the same episode:
{{quote|'''Buzz:''' Okay, so you're the ''real'' Santa Claus?
Line 313:
** In one episode, Zurg's attempt to clone the heroes results in kid-chibi duplicates with a bad attitude. Naming Buzz's duplicate Zzub, Zzub then sarcastically retorts that all he did was take the hero's name and [[Backwards Name|spell it backwards]]. The episode in question was written by [[Greg Weisman]] and was a reference to the Thailog storylines in ''[[Gargoyles]]''.
** It’s a tentative connection, but, considering all the show’s throwback’s to [[Star Trek]], could there be another such throwback in King Nova, Mira, and the Tangean Royals? Consider:
*** King Nova ''had'' disapproved of the notion of Mira’s joining Star Command. In ''[[Star Trek: The
*** Just like Sarek, King Nova's attitude towards his child's career choice develops and softens over time, to the point where, in the last time Nova gets a speaking role in the series, the tone of the scene is not unlike Spock's brief conversation with his father at the end of ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]''.
*** Mira, like Spock, is different from the rest of her race (though emphatically ''not'' half-human, as Spock is), and she ''did'' join Star Command against her father's wishes, just like a certain half-Vulcan. Furthermore, she ''can'' sometimes play [[The Spock]] to Buzz's [[The Kirk|Kirk]], though she can just as often be [[The McCoy]], as well.
Line 395:
[[Category:One Saturday Morning]]
[[Category:Western Animation]]
[[Category:
| |||