After writing the previous entry, I dug around in the Sunbow archives and came up with the theme song to a rejected pilot for a series detailing a European special missions group and its adventures in the 21st century. Without further adieu, allow me to present the lyrics for GI Euro:
(voice-over) Go Euro!
He'll fight for Europe wherever there's Americans; GI Euro is there!
GI Euro! A real transnationalist hero, GI Euro is there!
It's GI Euro against Rumsfeld and George Bush, fighting to sing 'Marseillaise'
He never gives up; he's always there, being a nuisance over land and air.GI Euro! A real transnationalist hero, GI Euro is there!
(voice-over) GI Euro is the code name for the European Community's brazenly left-wing bureaucratic apparat. Its purpose: To defend Islamists against the United States of America, a superpower nation-state determined to live in freedom.
He never gives up; he'll protest until the war's lost; GI Euro will dare!
GI Euro, a real transnationalist hero!
GI Euro!
Although the program tested well in San Francisco and parts of Boston, the toy line was not so successful. Hasbro found that parents wouldn't buy their children toy rifles designed to be dropped or white flags to be waved, and kids weren't very fond of wearing turbans and burqas. The Teenage Suicide Bomber playset was also canned; Hasbro had trouble getting anyone to return the things intact. As a result, the series was shelved.
Yes, I stole this from an old 1980s cartoon show. That's the tune it's to be sung to.
Posted by Country Pundit at May 28, 2004 04:36 PMmaybe they had to shelve the series because the new Eurofighter (you know the one that is currently banned from flying in clouds) will never work?
Posted by: Mr Free Market at June 4, 2004 09:31 AM