Gi Joe facts
While investigating facts about G I Joe and G.i. Joe Retaliation, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Ronald Reagan removed the regulation against product placement in children's shows, helping create the 80's cartoon boom with shows like Gi Joe, My little Pony, and Transformers.
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Cobra Commander was a used car salesman in the GI JOE comics. His brother was killed in a drunk driving accident, he became embittered and started a pyramid scheme called COBRA.
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Within a year of being elected in 1980, Ronald Reagan was responsible for repealing restrictions on advertising to children, opening the floodgates for shows like Transformers, GI Joe and Carebears to dominate kids television and toy isles.
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A WWII messenger pigeon named GI Joe was awarded a bravery medal for "Making the 20 mile flight from British 10th Army HQ, in the same number of minutes ... just in time to save the lives of at least 100 Allied soldiers" 31 other pigeons have been awarded for bravery during service.
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In 1993 hundreds of Barbie & GI Joe toys had their voice boxes switched, resulting in Barbie saying "Dead Men Tell No Tales" in GI Joe's voice.
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In the 70's, Kenner had planned to do large scale (12 inch) Star Wars figures, like GI Joe, but cancelled them.
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During World War II British troops had requested air support at Calvi Vecchia but when the city was taken the British sent a message through radio to stop the bombing which failed and a pigeon named GI Joe was sent. He arrived just as planes were about to lift off and saved thousands of lives.
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An activist group once switched the voice boxes of Barbie dolls with GI Joe. While Barbie said "Vengeance is mine!" and made gunshots, GI Joe said "Do you wanna sleep over tonight?" and "Let's plan our dream wedding."
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Hasbro planned to introduce a line of humanoid bears to GI Joe, to capitalize on the popularity of the Ewoks.
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About the Barbie Liberation Organization, a group of artists who swapped voice boxes of GI Joe and Barbie toys, and then put them back on the shelf
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The editor of Tim and Eric Awesome Show also created the GI Joe parody PSAs from the early 2000s
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Darth Maul is also Toad in X-Men and Snake Eyes in GI Joe
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That song the black guy sings in the GI Joe parody video is a real song... and it's awesome.
The Dreadnoks from the GI Joe cartoon and comic books were originally meant to be a race of humanoid bears to capitalize on the popularity of Ewoks - source
Cobra the villains in the "GI Joe" cartoon first appeared on screen in the animated "Godzilla Power Hour" - source
The UK's emergency committee is called the Cobra. (Does GI Joe know about this?)
