Has anybody noticed:
Abe=Archie
Gandhi=Jughead
Cleo=Veronica
Joan=Betty
JFK=Reggie
and maybe
Marie=Big Ethel
I have to say that I love this show. I’m going to miss it when MTV cancels it for another Real World/Road Rules or more Osbournes
Clone High is great. Michael J Fox guest-starred on the first episode, it took me a while to figure out who he was. I missed last week, but I’m looking forward to this week’s episode.
Insofar as traits of the original clone, in the “debate” sequence, Cleo first has a t-shirt that says “Go Abe” then in the very next shot, “Go JFK” – a reference to the historical C’s penchant for serial, er, alliances.
Me, I got a kick outta watching Joan punch Ghandi and kick JFK in the face.
“I invahded HER Bay of Pigs, if you know what I mean…”
I have this odd feeling that it may not last long.
And yes, oh how terribly little Daria there was…
Protests over portrayal of Gandhi http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?29950 :
MTV has apologized (!) but won’t change the show.
Can you imagine what would happen if they included a clone of Mohammed?
[insert stupid question]
When is this on? JFK is beginning to intrigue me…
[/stupid question]
~Ferry
Yeah, I noticed it. I told Eve about it in an e-mail. You must be her sock puppet, because no one else could be as clever about cartoon-teens as me!
Fess up! Things will go easier on you!
(Buck: It’s on MTV Mondays at 10:30 PM EST)
It’s on the 'toon network almost every night at 10 pm (in Canada anyway).
Best line ever, uttered by Cleo.
This isn’t working. Love is just an abstract concept, it can’t knock down stuff!
I love trying to guess the guest voices, the episode on MTV last week featured much of the cast of Scrubs. But Michael J. Fox as Gandhi’s remaining kidney in the first episode was funnier than the entire run of Spin City.
The mix of famous names from the past is cool, especially the way some of them are extensions of the original’s image and others are the opposite of how we perceive them. Teenage emotions and immaturity combined with the traits that distinguished the originals.
I’d love to see the show’s take on de Sade, Churchhill, Catherine the Great, Pancho Villa, Evita Peron, etc. Or maybe the band geeks would be all the great composers and musicans of history. But the high school band would be terrible because of all the great talents trying to show off and out play each other. Kind
of like my high school marching band, only without all that pesky talent.
It has potential, which means MTV will kill it off or bury it to make way for another Cribs marathon. “Next up on MTV’s Cribs: Slick Rick’s jail cell! How to be livin’ large in a 9 by 5 hole awaiting deportation! Stick around.”
Nono…that’s a good line, but not the best.
From that self-same episode:
Guest Character: The only dancing fruits anyone wants to see any more are the Backstreet Boys.
Or from the Ponce de Leon episode:
JFK: I’m a Kennedy! I’m not accostumed to tragedy!
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Ghandi: My friend died…he was white and privelidged.
Others: ::Gasp!::
I’m not cool enuff to be Eve, but thanks anyway 
I was also looking for Dobie Gillis parallels, but I don’t remember that show well enough.
Abe=Dobie
Cleo=Thalia
Joan=Zelda (?)
JFK=the warren beatty character
Gandhi=Maynard
not as good a match though, I think
Gandhi asked both Catherine the Great and Evita Peron (as well as Susan B Anthony) to the prom. Both refused. Evita to Gandhi: “Keep your distance!”. Gandhi to Catherine: “Aw, get off your high horse!”
Damn! How many episodes have aired in Canada already?
OK, how about Elizabeth I, since they beat me to the others?
“Was he famous?”
“No”
“It’s still really sad”
G - a - n - d - h - i
Am I just in a bad mood, or did last night’s episode really really suck? At a “I think I’ll give up on this show now” level?
The “receiving radio broadcasts on braces” joke is as old as Marconi, or as old as orthodontia, whichever came second. And the song-and-dance number about ADD was just embarrassing. As was the whole thing about Gandhi shoving things up his nose.
OK, we’ve only had three . . . But those musical numbers and guest stars (Tom Green?!) are getting old. Hope this was just a speed bump, and it picks up again next week . . .
I’m an albatross!
That was good. (I thought it was anyway.)
Here’s a link to the show’s website since I don’t see it here, if anyone is interested.
So who is the class president and who would you vote for class president?
I mean how do you pick between JKF and Abe Lincoln and Moses?
NOt to mention that some members of the class may just try to sieze power.
Zeb: You must have missed last week’s episode. Given a choice between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, the school elected a small dog to the class presidency.
…oh, I didn’t mention the “Big Eyes” thing, did I?
Abe got Big Eyes three or four times last night. Joan got ‘em at least once. Gandhi got Big Eyes about a DOZEN FUCKIN’ TIMES. Christ, that was irritating.
And the running cardigan joke. Stupid, stupid, stupid.