Avalon County Entertainment System
Program Listing: THURSDAY, July 22, 2410

WVCL (CHANNEL 39)

7:00 [News, Weather] It's Too Early with Meiko

8:00 [Kids, Education] Sesame Street
Episode 44,072 - Sponsored by the letters D and ▭, the number 百, and the key of C♯ minor.

9:00 [Talk] The Morning Mirror with Luka Megurine
Topics: The state of the galactic aidoru industry; Instrument tariffs across country lines; The ecology of loth-cats.

10:30 [Game Show] What's My Melodic Line?
Schubert, Williams, Silvestri, EmpathP, Brost of Malastare.

11:00 [Game Show] Iron PV Editor
Quarter-semifinals. Secret Ingredients - Ievan Polkka and Sapporo Snow Festival models. Guest Judges: Daft Punk. (Repeat)

12:45 [Movie] ***½ The Hatsune Identity
(Color; 2074) A young girl wakes up with a tattoo on her arm, some mad dance moves, and no memory of how she got either one.

15:00 [News] News 39

16:00 [Cooking] Cooking with Kaito
The Bare Necessities - Belgad and Snabs, Salutech Shyam, Economy Udon Bowl, Buffalo Wings, Fresh and Fruity Popsicles. Special Guest: Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet. (Repeat)

17:00 [Education, Science] The Undersea World of Takoluka
Shipwrecks - Takoluka explores some of the galaxy's most famous sunken ships, delving where no one has ever managed to take a camera before.

18:00 [Education, Comedy] ClassicaLoid
Shopping with Chopin - Beethoven, Mozart, and Liszt-chan prepare to defend the mansion. Kanae and Chopin go on a supply run. Bach moves one step closer in his master plan.

18:30 [Education, Comedy] ClassicaLoid
Discord - Bach deals with dissension in the ranks. Jolly gets a letter from an unexpected source.

19:00 [Sports, News] Sportscar365
Palaven GT qualifiers. Tatooine endurance rally - week 2. Interstellar Formula One predictions.

19:30 [Reality, Comedy] The Producer Whisperer
Pitch Correction - Neru has her hands full trying to keep Masamichi on task long enough to teach him about tuning. Will she succeed, or will SF-A2 be doomed to stay off-key forever?

20:00 [Action Adventure] Road Roller
Poor Life Choices - Rin and Len save a small town from an unscrupulous mine owner and his thugs. Molly: Teto Kasane.

21:00 [News] News 39

22:00 [Culture] Great Performances
The MonCal Ballet Company performs Squid Lake. Host: Meiko. (Repeat)

23:30 [Talk] Late Show with...
Musical Guest: Lúcio Correia dos Santos

1:30 [Music] Galactic Top Forty
Host: KC-K5M

2:30 [Movie] **½ Dango Unchained
(Color; 2217) Director Quentin Tarantino's hyperviolent celebration of Japanese rice flour dumplings and unusual hairstyles. Dango-chan: Mato Kuroi.

4:30 Off air

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Series Spotlight: Road Roller

Road Roller. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a girl... who does not exist. Rin Kagamine: a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law but are generally susceptible to having their stuff flattened.

Action-adventure series in which each episode is basically the same:
- Rin blows rather slowly into some dusty town on her computerized talking steamroller, Len.
- She meets, and not infrequently has an Ambiguous Romance Subplot with, a local (usually played by either Gumi or Haku Yowane) who explains how the people of the town are being oppressed/exploited/terrorized by somebody, usually a corrupt law enforcement official (generally played by Kaito or Gakupo Kamui) and/or manifestation of organized crime.
- The bad guys take exception to her snooping around and send thugs to rough her up and/or find out whom she works for.
- Len crashes rather slowly through a wall to the rescue.
- Rin and Len go rather slowly to the bad guys' headquarters and methodically flatten all their things.
- The town is saved. Rin rides rather slowly off into the sunset, leaving smooth pavement and grateful but frankly somewhat mystified townsfolk.

A strangely slow-paced action show, and outstandingly formulaic, but popular enough that it's now in its seventh season on Channel 39.

>Road Roller. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a
>girl... who does not exist. Rin Kagamine: a young loner on a crusade
>to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in
>a world of criminals who operate above the law but are generally
>susceptible to having their stuff flattened.

Response: Oooo-kay?

>Action-adventure series in which each episode is basically the same:
>- Rin blows rather slowly into some dusty town on her computerized
>talking steamroller, Len.
>- The town is saved. Rin rides rather slowly off into the sunset,
>leaving smooth pavement and grateful but frankly somewhat mystified
>townsfolk.

I think I just ruptured something.....ow....

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

>>Road Roller. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a
>>girl... who does not exist. Rin Kagamine: a young loner on a crusade
>>to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in
>>a world of criminals who operate above the law but are generally
>>susceptible to having their stuff flattened.
>
>Response: Oooo-kay?

This entire entry is a Knight Rider reference. I assure you, the show was precisely this formulaic, and it took itself seriously. Which is half the joke. XD

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

>This entire entry is a Knight Rider reference. I assure you, the show
>was precisely this formulaic, and it took itself seriously. Which is
>half the joke. XD
>
<announcer voice>
Road Roller... Smashing evil FLAT

I find myself envisioning Edward Mulhare playing a blue collar, road crew chief version of Devon Miles, complete with rhyming Cockney slang (or perhaps Irish, given that Mulhare himself was from County Cork), as the provider of exposition and mission briefing in every episode.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

Thank you Eb. Couldn't remember who Devon's actor was and it was bugging me.

>This entire entry is a Knight Rider reference. I assure you, the show
>was precisely this formulaic, and it took itself seriously. Which is
>half the joke. XD

Well, yeah, thus my reaction. :D

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

>
>This entire entry is a Knight Rider reference. I assure you, the show
>was precisely this formulaic, and it took itself seriously. Which is
>half the joke. XD
>

Now I'm imagining this being pitched as a rushed midseason replacement with the premise, "Road Roller is to Knight Rider as Police Squad! was to Dragnet."

Peter Eng
--
"Somebody doesn't understand what we were aiming for."
"We can't afford to get another script. We'll just have to roll with it."
"That was terrible, Len."

Hahaaaaa, ClassicaLoid, and Road Roller!

Also YAY, HAKU!

>Molly: Teto Kasane

I'm glad she's still around, and still getting work. I wonder if she'll show up in an FI Eyrie work.

I imagine getting work is a necessity - gotta pay for server hosting and power bills somehow, right?

It seems likely that by the time Teto meets up with other Vocaloids again, she'll have a fairly steady life as a studio musician on some planet, if she hasn't become a star in her own right.

Peter Eng
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"You may not have heard of Teto Kasane, but if you listened to TomoPop between 2284 and 2370, you've heard her. She was to Tomodachi's pop music scene what Nile Rodgers was to 1980s pop music..."

Len and Rin fan that I am, I am curious as to what 'Road Roller' is about exactly. I'm sure it's been mentioned somewhere before.

>Len and Rin fan that I am, I am curious as to what 'Road Roller' is
>about exactly. I'm sure it's been mentioned somewhere before.

If you hit "view all", there's a synopsis in one of the follow-up posts.

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LAST EDITED ON Jun-07-22 AT 01:17 PM (EDT)
 
lol oops, read the f'n thread tsukai

EDIT: Although one wonders how Len feels about playing a piece of industrial equipment rather than himself.

>...one wonders how Len feels about playing a piece of
>industrial equipment rather than himself.

"Well, it does mean that I don't get any extra attention walking down the street, and Rin will tell you that the risks of getting mobbed by autograph hunters went up. On the other hand, smaller paycheck because I'm only doing voice-overs. It all evens out."

Peter Eng
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"Unless he loses a bet."
"I still think I look better in that dress than you do."

Was there MAD SCIENCE involved in creation or reconstruction of Len the Steamroller, so it ended up actually performing in realty as it does on screen (except without talking, because Len refuses to go inside)

Can crush potato beetles from the field of potatoes without harming a single plant! Main roller can ground lasers, plasma, blaster bolts and phasers in ground! Transdimentional vibroengine allows the Len to compact substrate in variable densities!