Big O= Sexual marketing?

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"The name is an obvious play on a sexual reference that might be controversial on network prime time, but here seems like clever marketing. "

**pause**

*ponders*

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA *gasp-choke-wheeze* HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-
HA *swoon*

[THUD!]

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After recovering consciousness ...

I am NOT taking this seriously.

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Originally posted by Zola quote: Originally posted by K the Wanderer Yeah...I had no idea that it could be a sexual reference. Weird. Now I guess I see it... LOL! I was talking to a dude I know, telling him how good the show was and he said something about his wife liking the Big O and it took fully 5 minutes for me to get it! Until that day, I didn't see it at all.

Same here, similar story same outcome.

I've heard the "Big O" as a saying before, but I never even thought of it when I heard the title of the cartoon.

If you see the show because of Sexual stuff you might be midly dissapointed!

Unless you are a sick and demented fan boy/girl of Angel & Dorothy/Roger...

I hope there's none here. *Looks around in a paranoid fashion*

Well, slanting the show *that way* would certainly fill 26 episodes .

Pygmalion

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Originally posted by Prince-Consort Tesser quote: "The name is an obvious play on a sexual reference that might be controversial on network prime time, but here seems like clever marketing. " HA-HA-HA *gasp-choke-wheeze* HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-H *swoon* [THUD!] ----------- After recovering consciousness ... I am NOT taking this seriously.

Could you cut back on the "ha-has," it's messing up my browser.

[Edit: Fixed. --Krang]

[Edit: Thanky! --Me]

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Originally posted by Mega Dominus Unless you are a sick and demented fan boy/girl of Angel & Dorothy/Roger... I hope there's none here. *Looks around in a paranoid fashion*

mmm Angel...

eh what?

I never heard the sexual referance till afterwards. I have also heard Big O in referance to Ohio state football. Im pretty sure it wasnt ment to be some kinda sick marketing tool though.

I had been aware of the American slang for a long while, but when it came to reading about the anime, I could not identify the slang with the title. The first pics I saw of Big O in Animerica or some anime mag was Roger and Dorothy standing in front of the Megadeus, so I automatically knew it was some robot battle show (although my initial misconception about who Roger and Dorothy were was wrong - I thought both were Robot pilots, she the daughter of the designer [at least I got that right] and he the smartass pilot she has to put up with [partially right]).

Anyway, when I went to look up the anime on the web, I remembered the American slang and carefully typed in "Big O anime" in the search engine. Results were all anime-related.

That's how I found Paradigm City.

And I'm still under the impression the O stands for a whole word, but shortening it to a single syllable letter is much punchier.

Its rather amusing....I knew the term "big o" as it doesn't apply to the show, but I never made that connection in my head. It was just like "Well this is Big O the show with robots." In fact, the thought never occurred to me until I read that article some time ago - while searching for Big O related sites - and they drew the comparison there. I thought it was hilarious that I hadn't seen it myself earlier...I usually have a pretty dirty mind, hehe.

I also really doubt its a marketing technique or some other...simply because it doesn't fit. And I don't think the Japanese have a strong enough grasp of American slang to come up with something like that.

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Eeeeee! I just noticed! This was my 100th post! I feel cool.

haha... i didn't knnow about that slang until i started searching for the manga...

uhg... so mnay pics... so many horrible pics.... blast you google and amazon!!!

Well, I will admit that that was the reason I did originally check it out.

It was when Big O was on midnight run, it was late, and I was curious what kind of show on Cartoon Network was called that.

Big O - come for the (supposeded) pr0n, stay for the a**-kicking giant robot action.

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Originally posted by CChaos Well, I will admit that that was the reason I did originally check it out. It was when Big O was on midnight run, it was late, and I was curious what kind of show on Cartoon Network was called that. Big O - come for the (supposeded) pr0n, stay for the a**-kicking giant robot action.

damn girl where do you live lmao j/m, i knew what it was about but i saw the commercial couple months before season one and i was like " g-d@/\/\n" but searching for it on yahoo and all that was annoyin.

I will tell you with no regret that if I had not know it was on Cartoon network, I would have stopped to "see" what it was. Hey co'mon Im a guy...