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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1079196" data-attributes="member: 2292">Part Two: In which the DVD breaks down and we meet our Key PlayersThe music starts to reach it's climax, the psychedelic swirl of colours getting darker and darker as the camera plunges forward into the screen.  The van is back, driving up a windy mountain road.  As the music suddenly dies......everything freezes.  The screen flickering blue for a few seconds, then returning to a freeze-frame of the van interior.  "Crap*," Arwink says. "Lousy cheap DVD player.  Umm.  Look, I can fix this.  Honest.  Just give me a couple of seconds."He looks desperately around the cluttered mess of comic books, dice and kids toys that blanket his coffee table."ah, here," he says.  "Look through this while I get it working."He pulls out a few sheets of paper, clipped together with a rusting paperclip that leaves orange stains on the paper.The Khorjar Castle Caper: The Cartoon Central Cheats and Trainspotters Guide.Hi.  So you've been lured into watching the Khorjar Castle Caper, the last of the stories told about a mythical rock-band and their experiences solving mysteries.  For those of you who have never seen the original series (or those who are so unhip to have forgotten the details), sit back while we give you all the goss you need to know to fake being an obsessive expert.For the truly forgetful, here's a quick rundown of the key players in the gibbon Saga.Kid O.B.One (Vocalist, the Brainy One): if you've ever wondered why the Gibbons cartoon was such a popular phenomenon among geeks around the world, look no further than their vocalist, Kid O.B.One.  In a bold move, the writers of the series introduced this character so they could include pop-cultural in-jokes in varying degrees of subtlety.  At least one star-wars crack per episode for five seasons may seem like a bold choice to hook a character on, but it worked.  Elsewhere in the FAQ, we've got  a comprehensive listing of every joke that was made.  Kid is the character that comes up with plans at the drop of a hat, and largely gets the title of brainy one despite the fact that Mary Jane Angerkitten and the short-lived Mystic keyboardist Bruce Key (see his link under sadly departed characters) both proved to be founts of obscure lore that Kid could never hope to understand or comprehend.  a strange mix of glam and sixties idealism, Kid appears on screen as a long-haired guy in a blue-spangled nike sweat-suit.  He wears a giant, sparkling silver peace symbol and glasses.In the Movie, Kid O.B.One was voiced by Capellan.Alex Van Dyne & Jackson (Guitarist, the Ditzy One): Someone on the original creative team for this show was doing drugs, and Alex is the proof.  Mixing equal parts Keith Richards and a stoned white rastafarian, Alex's main role in the show seems to be looking good in dreadlocks and having an unnatural relationship with Jackson - the trained Gibbon that serves as the bands mascot.Alex is the guy in the rhinestone jump-suit.  He's also the only guy in the entire show that's allowed to have facial hair - and admittedly he does look pretty good with the pointy devil's goatee.  Realistically Jackson does most of the work in this partnership, but Alex's interpretative abilities are barely capable of meeting the highs standards of the gibbon's intellect.Mary Jane Angerkitten (Bassists, the Angry One):  One of the most confused characters in the history of children's cartoons - one part punk idealism, one party angry young woman, one part soul diva on steroids.  In theory Mary Jane exists to give young girls a positive role-model.  In practice, she probably did more to destroy young minds than drugs and Barney the dinosaur combined.  She's also the only band member who is ever allowed to reference being in another band prior to the Gibbons (See Howling at the Moon under Rivals)Often dressed in black, with spiked hair and high heels, Mary Jane is cheerfully aggressive to nearly everything she encounters.  She is usually the first of the Gibbons to offer the threat of violence (despite the fact that no band member has physically harmed anyone since the backlash against the events of the Great Gibbon Banana Caper), but there is no doubt that she’ll has a heart of gold.  Mary Jane is usually the one who snarls at the witnesses and executes Kid's plans to trap the bad guy.  Billy Ray (Drummer, the Sexy One): Billy Rays specialities are girls, pep-talks and leather jackets, an unholy mix that's equal parts Fonzie, Elvis and Fabio.  He's the groups drummer, despite the fact that every drumbeat that's ever appeared in a gibbons episode is obviously synthesised.  Billy Ray exist to get captured by bad-buys, twirl drumsticks in the air and chat up women while playing a drum-solo with his feet.*Why* they picked a drummer for this role is beyond us, but obviously they have their reasons.  The most popular theory is that there was at least one frustrated drummer among the animators who pushed really hard to make his choice of instrument sexy, and certainly the sheer quality of animation that surrounds Billy Ray during music scenes would bear this argument out.  "hey, I fixed it," Arwink yells.  There's a muffled thud as he flops back into the couch beside you, remote in hand.  You put down the paper and look towards the screen again.  It's still paused, but Arwink hits a button on the remote and the screen springs to life again.  The last few seconds of the intro, zooming in to the interior of the van.  Kid in the front seat, looking at a map.  Alex driving, Jackson on his head.  Mary Jane and Billy Ray leaning over from the back, watching through the windshield."Gibbons Rock On," Arwink says.*edited for the sake of Eric's Grandma.</blockquote>

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