First Episode 8: 魔幻手机 Magic Mobile Phone

[imron]

Hopefully it won't suffer sequelitis.

[rob07]

Finally finished this! The last third was heavy going.

Woo hoo.

[imron]

Congratulations!

[renzhe]

Yeah, great work! It's a long series, and not always very easy.

Now off to another show

[renzhe]

Bump for the vocabulary list in post #6. Perhaps it can help somebody who is interested in watching this.

[Loriquero]

Do you guys know the name of the opening song? I was trying to unsuccesfully find that song Is so sticky...

[imron]

It's called 《穿越》by 王亚民、胡晓晴. A google search for 魔幻手机主题曲 should provide you with various download links.

[imron]

Opening theme.

Closing theme.

[Loriquero]

Thanks a lot admin 先生。

[imron]

No worries, I agree the tunes are definitely very catchy! Listening to them again brought back lots of memories of the show

[roddy]

Anyone got an mp3 link that works. Baidu's are all dodgy, or painfully slow. I want a new ringtone

[Loriquero]

useful tip:

Load the song from Imron's link on Internet Explorer (maybe you can do that with other browsers, but I haven't tried, wait for the tune to load completely and then go to the cache folder (temporary internet files) on your hard disk... You will find the file there.

[imron]

The Baidu Zhidao article on it has a download link on mofile, but the site says it's down for maintenance Wait another day

[renzhe]

The ringtone I really want is that ringtone that one of the main female characters has (Xiaoqian's girlfriend at the beginning, forgot her name. Not Chuchu's Mike Oldfield one). That weirdo melody.

I did try recording it using my mobile phone, but the result wasn't very good.

[Sun Wu Kong]

This series was awesome! I have one question though...

What happened to Dong Dong, the little kid? And the kid who became mentally ill after eating some bad food o_o (He was chanting something about wnating to go see monkeys)

I remember Dong Dong was diagnosed w/leukemia, and got some transplant but did he ever get better...and what about hte monkey kid??

[renzhe]

the writers probably forgot about them

[Gleaves]

I'm back watching this after an extended absence.

On the subject of music in the show, anyone know 王天霸's （the cigar chomping one) ringtone? It's a cheesy ballad of some sort. You can here it a few times at the beginning of episode 18 (about 1:50).

[imron]

傻妞 is now one step closer to reality.

[jbradfor]

At episode 12. Not sure what to make of it, except I'm not bored yet! At this point I can't say it's helping my listening skills, but I still have some 30 episodes to go. While I know it's dangerous to judge a culture by its mass-media, I do feel I am learning a bit about modern Beijing culture.

Wish 傻妞 had more screen time. I like that skin-tight midriff-baring outfit. But let's just say she obviously wasn't hired for her acting skills....

The part I remember best was when 黄眉大王 just arrived in 2006, and was trying to find 陆小千 . But couldn't, because (a) the signs were read left-to-right, not right-to-left, and (b ) the 陆 was simplified. [Oh, I just noticed renzhe said the same thing in post #12.]

I also liked that Chinese-speaking 老外 doing the negotiations. And 猪哥 going crazy over the "sexy" clothing. And 黄眉大王 hitting the phone because he was told to make a phone call.

Are his [黄眉大王] powers limited in shows 3 and 4 or is his culture shock just so bad that he is willing to be an errand boy?

I thought he lost his powers in a fight with 傻妞 in some episode, and didn't recover them until he was shocked at the asylum? Then it took him a couple of episodes to get his mojo back, but after that he took command.

[rob07]

Apparently the sequel 魔幻手机2傻妞归来 is just about to come out - maybe it already has? 陆小千's son comes back from the future looking for his mother. A evil sorcerer wants to destroy the world, and he has a later model magic mobile phone.

http://baike.baidu.com/view/1564331.htm