Not ever hyperbole, 14 iterations plus I believe there was a tv show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time_(franchise)
-Curt
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OK guys it's time to grow up
The Lethal Weapon franchise is the adult equivalent of the "Land Before Time"
kids series. Massage the story line to make it marginally different and spit
out another to cash in.
I kid you not, there must have been 20 or more iterations of "Land Before
Time", and my kids had to see/own every one...
-D
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> On Mar 22, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> You want implausible? Watch Lethal Weapon 3 with Renee Russo as a martial
> arts expert with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as buddycops.
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm given to understand they went to great lengths to make everything
>> plausible. For instance maybe you could do the thing but it would take an
>> implausibly long time or be ridiculously difficult or require a tremendous
>> about of the stuff you were doing it with but it COULD be done.
>> Unlike the A-Team that could make ANYTHING bulletproof with a gas torch
>> and a couple trash cans.
>> -Curt
>>
>> From: Curley McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 1:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OK guys it's time to grow up
>>
>> McGuyver was immensely popular with urbanites who have no clue about how
>> things really work. for the working people who make products repair,
>> or install products, it is goofy as anything from hollyweird.
>>
>> The premise is good, but it needed to be realistic.
>>
>> Mission impossible (original tv) had some similar premises, but was a
>> good show, not hokey like mcdumber.
>>> Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>> March 22, 2017 at 12:23 PM
>>> The first season is pretty good but as it went on they were clearly
>>> grasping for ideas. The longer Richard Dean Anderson's mullet gets the
>>> farther you are into the series and the lamer it is.Remember that the
>>> '80s was a baaaad time for TV. That said I still like it.
>>> -Curt
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