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[just plain rob]

I was watching "Dexter's Lab" tonight and saw Dexter go through some typical cartoon metamophosis in his lab, but what was interesting was for one moment he was floating inside a green liquid-filled tube.

I HAVE seen other references to the green tube--can't recall right now, but if anyone else has seen this in other forms of pop culture, etc., or knows the history of where the green tube actually came from, please chime in. Apparently, it's a standard alien device.

Maybe someone can contact one of the artists on the game... ?

[awarner]

I'll contact Stan Fukuoka (sp?) by e-mail tonight and ask him what he knows. He mentioned at Expo last year that the tube dancers were in the game from pretty much the beginning and looking at his early art, that seems to be true. Incidentally, I'll be including the slides he used at expo last year along with an audio track of him talking on Pins & Vids #2 coming out in October!

-Al-
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[nworker]

The first video played on MTV "Video Killed the Radio Star" had a woman dancing in a tube.

Perhaps a play on the idea that video killed the pinball wizard. Doesn't seem to have the same ring...

[awarner]

I asked Stan Fukuoka about the Tube Dancer and he had this to say:

[just plain rob]

Thanks for digging Stan up, Al.
Sometime between the go-go dancer cages of the 60s and the mid-90s sci-fi rage, someone thought to put women in bubbling tubes. I think I saw one in Futurama, but I have to recheck...

I did recall an episode of X-Files where Mulder goes into the sewers of--I think--Newark NJ. At one point, the persued toxic sewer-dwelling beast is seen flushing by in a green-ish liquid-filled tube, bubbles and all.

I'm just wondering where this concept came from, is all

Cheers,
Rob