Scooby-Doo and Guy Fawkes

from JoeUser Forums
In the THQ game, Scooby-Doo Night of 100 Frights, there seems to be an easter egg that I hadn't encountered before... because there's basically a 1 in 365 chance of seeing it.

On November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day, fireworks can be seen and heard in the night sky as Scooby-Doo searches for Scooby Snacks and tries to solve mysteries. It's constant, so it's minorly distracting... it triples the normal amount of noise put out by the game while my kids are playing it.

Still, it's nice to find something new about the game... there isn't a lot of documentation online for kids' games.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
How odd that they would pick this particular holiday....heh, I wasn't even aware it existed until you mentioned it.

~Zoo
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
bonfire night, the noisiest holiday of the year .
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

Ahh yes, Guy Fawkes night, aka Bonfire night.  I LOVED that particular holiday when I was a kid.  Dad would buy a bumper pack of fireworks and we'd stand at the bottom of the garden, past the compost heap and the chicken run, shooting off bottle rockets and making letters and numbers in the air with the sparklers that came with the pack. 

Just because it came to mind, here's the rhyme that we were taught as kids about Guy Fawkes:

'Remember, remember the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.'

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
remember toffee apples

All the family round the bonfire, badly made guy fawkes and all the stuff you didn't like from cristmas.

those were the days.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
'Remember, remember the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.'


Having looked up some info on Mr. Fawkes, I find that the full rhyme gets quite a bit anti-Catholic at the end but I suppose that's understandable given the political backdrop of the original Gunpowder Plot.


The whole discussion (not just with you lot) has stretched over the course of the day... it rather smacks of holisticism, or at least coincidence.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
A penny loaf to feed the Pope. A farthing o' cheese to choke him. A pint of beer to rinse it down. A faggot of sticks to burn him. Burn him in a tub of tar. Burn him like a blazing star. Burn his body from his head. Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead. Hip hip hoorah! Hip hip hoorah!
What do you mean anit-catholic?...............
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nah, I don't believe in any anti-catholic sentiment to it at all. . . I mean, doesn't the rest of the world still burn the pope in effigy like parts of the UK on the 5th of Nov?
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is a holiday for Guy Fawkes didnt he try to blow up parliment?
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
There is a holiday for Guy Fawkes didnt he try to blow up parliment?


That's the guy. Er, the Guy.

It's more of an Anti-Guy Fawkes Day, really.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
honestly, please tell me you guys have seen V for Vendetta... thats where i first learned about the 5th of november, and that rhyme, great movie btw
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
thats where i first learned about the 5th of november


That's odd. I knew about the 5th of November just about around the time I learned about the months of the year. I think I was five.
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
... and that would be the difference between US and UK... funny, what one letter can do!