{"id":2236,"date":"2013-05-17T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2013-05-17T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:46:08","slug":"ive-seen-wreck-it-ralph-half-a-dozen-times-now-and-i-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve seen Wreck-It Ralph half a dozen times now and I keep&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/d71cc4f6f95e8279e58a824d9627b7bb\/tumblr_mmx65mRLUX1qbsuc4o1_500.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen Wreck-It Ralph half a dozen times now and I keep coming back to the idea that when M.Bison asks Ralph, \u201cYou\u2019re not goin\u2019 <em>Turbo<\/em>, are you?\u201d the audience at that point has no context for what Turbo means.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, you\u2019re an old arcade goer, and then the instant association (especially considering the source) is Street Fighter II Turbo.<\/p>\n<p>The way M.Bison says the line makes it clear \u201cgoing Turbo\u201d is a bad thing, and I can\u2019t decide if this is a jab at the Turbo edition of SFII or just a cute little in-joke. I guess in order for it to be the former, it would have to also be the latter.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/ironsoap.tumblr.com\/\">Like a Detuned Radio<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ironsoap.tumblr.com\/post\/50620375881\">May 16, 2013 at 06:44PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve seen Wreck-It Ralph half a dozen times now and I keep coming back to the idea that when M.Bison asks Ralph, \u201cYou\u2019re not goin\u2019 Turbo, are you?\u201d the audience at that point has no context for what Turbo means. Unless, of course, you\u2019re an old arcade goer, and then the instant association (especially considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}