Image Credit: DisneyI’ve always been a fan of cartoons, and I think it’s because of their innocent, fantastical qualities — be it talking ducks swimming in a vault of gold coins, flying houses, or adorable Jewish mice that make you cry. They’re full of things you’d only see in your dreams. Well, that’s usually the case anyway.
Enter the National Geographic Channel’s new series How Hard Can It Be? (That’s what she said.)
The show recently recreated the iconic scene from Up in which Carl’s little house is taken into the air by a mass of multi-colored balloons. In real life, NGC’s team created a special, hollow house in its likeness and reportedly used 300 balloons (each one filled with an entire tank of helium) to lift it up. (Amazing video below.)
The little kid in me squealed when I first watched it happen — and if I’m being honest it sort of made me a little teary. It was like watching a dream come true, as corny as that sounds.
So that got me thinking: What would I want to see next? Since the Mythbusters already ruined my dreams of seeing a house demolished by popcorn (like in Real Genius!), I’d have to go with a vault of gold coins you could swim in, like on Duck Tails. Realistically, I’m not sure how possible that would be because of the coins’ viscosity and density, but this is my fantasy.
I posed this same question to team PopWatch. Surprisingly, 66 percent of the three responses I got were related to Willy Wonka. Annie Barrett said, “In grade school (and occasionally in EW meetings, JK people!), I used to glare at the people who thought they were smarter/cooler than me and envision them blowing up like blueberries a la Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka.” Kate Ward, meanwhile, said she “always wanted to walk into a giant room made of candy.” Hillary Busis had a simpler request: “I always wished that I could take part in a real food fight, like the ones that appear in just about every comedy aimed at kids ages 7-12 (It Takes Two, Hook, countless Nickelodeon series of the ’90s…). It never occurred to me that being covered in cafeteria spaghetti and mashed potatoes might actually be disgusting and uncomfortable”…and amazing.
What about you, PopWatchers? What amazing TV or movie moment have you always wanted to see in person?
i always wanted to make the kessel run in less than a parsec
LOL!
A transporter tube for people like on Futurama.
OMG, THIS!! I really want them to invent this, not only because it looks fun, but most especially because it would eliminate traffic!
Not me. Can you imagine what it’s like if you’re behind someone with chronic gas. Yuck.
I always wanted to be in a restaurant and have everyone burst into song like in My Best Friends Wedding.
Those ewoks in “Return of the Jedi” look like they know how to have a good time. Always wanted to join in on that “victory” celebration at the end.
SAME. I always dreamed of hanging out with the Star Wars gang…when I was about 5 my dad broke the news to me that they were really just fictional characters. I was crushed.
I have always wanted to see a man make a suit out of the flesh of his victims. That would be cool!
It will stop saying scary things now.
Um, ick? So not necessary….
It rubs the lotion on its body or else it gets the hose.
Not everything in Futurama is a good idea i.e. Suicide Booths.
House made of cheese.
definately talking ducks swimming in a vault of gold coins
Well, when I was a kid I always wished that my real parents would be a King and Queen and my parents and siblings were really just nice fairies who would take me back to the castle on my 16th birthday like in Sleeping Beauty. That…didn’t happen.
Other than that, I’ve always wanted a hover board like in Back to the Future Part II.
Hoverboard, okay, but the DeLorean was this sci-fi girl geek’s dream machine (Marty McFly and Einnie the dog, included).
I am always saying, before I drive 300 miles to visit my family,”When are they going to perfect beaming technology, like in Star Trek?” I’m still waiting.
Holodeck!
I am in the Willy Wonka camp. I’d want to go into that landscape made of candy, and take just a swallow of the chocolate river.
Oh yeah, Gene Wilder-era Willy Wonka candy room and factory! I loved the yellow daffodil teacup that he sipped from and then bit off a bit of the edge. Made me so happy and jealous as a little kid!
-The Holy Grail, or any other mystical artifact (Indiana Jones)
-Full-size mobile Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Ghostbusters)
-Any number of superhero-inspired powers: wall-crawling, web-shooters, invisibility, super-strength, super-speed, teleportation, telekinesis, etc. Most of all, flight.
-Hoverboards (Back to the Future 2)
-Dinosaur Theme Park (Jurassic Park)
Probably more that I’m not remembering right now.
I’ve always wondered what soylent green tastes like.
Well, you could always ask a certain Jonathan Demme character….
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!! Probably ‘tastes like chicken’.
Jump a car across an opening draw bridge (2Fast 2Furious)
There are days when I wish I was Drew Barrymore in Firestarter and had the ability to make people catch fire by staring at them. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an anger management class to attend.