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Thunderbirds (TV series)

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Fireflash's emergency landing.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The theme tune, which has become a favourite for military bands (see the credits for Thunderbirds are GO! for a good example). Works really well when it kicks in during a particularly dangerous scene.
• Family-Unfriendly Aesop: City of Fire: Never put your wife behind the wheel! Skyscrapers will explode.
• Fanon: The late Mrs. Tracy's first name; Lucille.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Terror in New York City.
• Idiot Plot: In the Nintendo (Hard) game based on the show Hood threatens to bombard Earth with meteors in two months unless International Rescue turns the secrets of the Thunderbirds over to him. Ignoring the overkill of this plan, Brains immediately figures out why Hood's deadline is so far away: he needs the intervening time to gather the resources to make good on his threat. And the Tracys immediately discover where he's doing it and work to cut him off. Oops.
• Memetic Mutation: This gif
• MST3K Mantra: Rick O'Shay is on a space station belonging to a pirate radio station. We never find out how he eats and breathes, or other science facts.
• Nightmare Fuel: The last ten minutes or so of Danger At Ocean Deep. Scott and John are risking their lives on a ship that will blow up at any second, in the middle of ghastly, thick fog....and then the water around the vessel starts bubbling and heaving.
  • Some of the "laughing marionette heads" in the opening scene of Thunderbird 6 could also count...
• Non Sequitur Scene: In Thunderbirds are GO! the musical number sung by Cliff Richard (Jr.) seems out of place with the rest of the film. Even though it did happen in Alan's dream, it's out of place within that context too.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The vehicle effects were among the best of their time, and still hold up well against modern CG animation (also true for other Gerry Anderson projects).
  • Save for anything involving water, where, much like most miniture work done in water, the scale issues were pretty obvious. Fire, on the other hand, was a series speciality.

Thunderbirds (2004 film)

• Retroactive Recognition: In the 2004 movie, Tin-Tin is played by a pre-High School Musical Vanessa Hudgens.

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