Friday, April 21, 2006

How I got my dialect name - Wee Li

I've been writing about things that is happening around me now that I practically forgot to write something back in the history. Nah! I will spare your eyes by not telling you when I was born etc.. unless you are going to give me a present. *laughs* But how I got my dialect name - Wee Li. It's a boy's name I tell you..........and only my brother could give me this name... ALL BECAUSE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Wheelie And the Chopper Bunch was his favourite cartoon at that time. And he told mom "call the baby Wheelie" - which the spelling became Wee Li so as to look more like we're siblings. Wee Lin is brother; Wee Zh is sister. I've asked mom, "why is it that you listened to a young boy to name me? Somemore Wheelie is a male leh.... Luckily can name me Wee something.. otherwise I may be called Woody Woodpecker or Elmer."

ABOUT WHEELIE AND THE CHOPPER BUNCH
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Hanna-Barbera's Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch revolved around a friendly Volkswagen bug named Wheelie and his girlfriend, Rota Ree. The two vehicles were constantly being antagonized by a rebel gang of evil motorcycles called the Chopper Bunch. Wheelie could not talk. He expressed himself through his horn and his windshield, which displayed his inner wishes and feelings (a beating heart, an “idea” lightbulb, the word “CHARGE,” etc.) Rota Ree could talk, as could all other cars in the town and the Chopper Bunch

The pilot for the television show, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, took over two years to produce and cost over two hundred thousand dollars. Publicly, the delay was blamed on extensive casting troubles for the voice of the lead character, Wheelie. Finally Donald B. Jones II opted to have Wheelie express himself only through sound effects and images displayed on his windshield. But behind the scenes production was also slowed by constant and furious battles between Jones and the background artist, Fernando "Monte" Montealegre.

Branding Montealegre's work on The Flintstones as "a direct affront to the principles of Futurism", Jones attempted to have him fired and then failing that, murdered, which landed him back in prison for six months where he continued to oversee production of Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch through daily half hour phone calls to the production staff.

He was released from prison on September 7th, 1974, ironically the very day that Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch premiered. After watching it through a department store window -- his TV having long been stolen by his former heroin dealer -- he resigned from the television show and committed suicide, citing creative differences. Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch aired for only one season from 9/7/74 - 8/30/75 on NBC.

Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch Episodes :
1) Get A Doctor
2) A Day at The Beach
3) Ghost Riders
4) Double Cross Country
5) The Stunt Show
6) Razzle Dazzle Paint Job
7) The Autolympics
8) The Delivery Service
9 The Infiltrator
10)The Big Bumper
11)Surprise Party
12)On The Town
13)Black Belt Fuji
14)Our Hero
15)Wheelie Goes Hawaiian
16)The Inspection
17)The Old Timer
18)The Copter Caper
19)Dr. Crankenstein
20)Bulldozer Buddy
21)Happy Birthday Wheelie
22)Wheelie, The Super Star
23)Down on The Farm
24)Roadeo
25)Carfucios Says
26)Mighty Wheelie
27)Camping With a Go Go
28)Lenny Van Limousine
29)Snow Foolin
30)Wheelie In Paris
31)Dragster Net
32)Dragula
33)Boot Camp
34)Dr Cykll And Mr. Ryde
35)Johnny Crash
36)Wheelie and The Smoke Eater
37)Friday The Thirteenth
38)Wings Of Wheelie
39)Wheelie's Clean Sweep

*extracted from http://www.geocities.com/rdeadw01/wheelie.html

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