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Sidekicks
Sidekick primarily refers to: *Sidekick, a close companion who is generally regarded as internship/subordinate to the one he accompanies *Side kick, a martial arts kicking technique Sidekick may also refer to: Media related * ''Sidekick'' (film), a 2005 independent movie directed by Blake Van de Graaf * ''Sidekick'' (TV series), a 2010 cartoon on YTV, Cartoon Network, Disney XD and CBBC * ''Sidekicks'' (1974 film), a 1974 TV movie starring Larry Hagman and Louis Gossett, Jr * ''Sidekicks'' (1992 film), a 1992 movie starring Chuck Norris and Jonathan Brandis *''Quick Step and Side Kick'', a 1983 album by Thompson Twins Thompson Twins were a British pop band formed in 1977 in Sheffield. Initially a new wave group, they switched to a more mainstream pop sound and achieved considerable popularity during the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Ki ... which was released in the USA and Canada under the title ''Side Kicks'' *Sidekicks (album), ''Sidekicks'' (album), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidekick
A sidekick is a slang expression for a close companion or colleague (not necessarily in fiction) who is, or is generally regarded as, subordinate to the one they accompany. Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes' Doctor Watson, The Lone Ranger's Tonto, The Green Hornet's Kato, Shrek's Donkey and Puss in Boots, Mickey Mouse's Donald Duck and Goofy, Mario's Luigi and Yoshi, Sonic's Tails and Knuckles, Donkey Kong's Diddy Kong, Daffy Duck's Porky Pig, Captain America's Bucky and Batman's Robin. Origins The first recorded use of the term dates from 1896. It is believed to have originated in pickpocket slang of the late 19th century. The "kick" was the front pocket of a pair of trousers, believed to be the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.Morris, EvanWord Detective(December 20, 1999). One of the earliest recorded sidekicks may be Enkidu, who adopted a sidekick ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidekicks (1992 Film)
''Sidekicks'' is a 1992 American adventure action comedy-drama film directed by Aaron Norris and starring Jonathan Brandis and Chuck Norris. Plot Barry Gabrewski is a troubled and bullied asthmatic boy who lives with his widowed father, Jerry (Beau Bridges), in Houston, Texas. A loner, Barry has vivid daydreams about being Chuck Norris' sidekick, battling against Norris' movie enemies, who are often personified by Barry's everyday bullies such as Randy Cellini (John Buchanan). Noreen Chan (Julia Nickson-Soul), his favorite teacher, often plays the damsel in distress in these daydreams. Barry wants to learn martial arts, but is rejected by the arrogant dojo owner Kelly Stone (Joe Piscopo) for being too weak. Instead, he is taken on as a student by an old Chinese man called Mr. Lee (Mako), Noreen's sly uncle and the owner of a local Chinese restaurant, "Frying Dragon". Mr. Lee finds creative ways to teach Barry to defend himself from his bullies. Lee devises training methods tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidekick (TV Series)
''Sidekick'' is a Canadian animated series created by Todd Kauffman and Joey So for YTV, and produced by Nelvana. The series ran from September 3, 2010 to September 14, 2013 with 52 episodes produced. The series is based on the original shorts originally titled ''The Not-So-Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick'' aired as part of the 2005 TV series, ''Funpak''. It currently airs reruns on YTV, Cartoon Network, and Disney XD in Canada. Premise The series is about an orphan boy named Eric, with his best friend Trevor and his two female friends, Vana and Kitty, who are training to become superhero sidekicks at the Academy for Aspiring Sidekicks (though in "Graduation Daze", supervillains can send their henchmen to the academy) in the Canadian city of Splittsboro (based on Scarborough, Toronto). While dealing with intense sidekick training, Eric must also contend with his strict guardian Maxum Brain, his grumpy teacher Professor Pamplemoose, the evil Master XOX and keeping secret the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidekicks (1974 Film)
''Sidekicks'' is a 1974 American made-for-television comedy Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Larry Hagman and Louis Gossett Jr. The film was a pilot for a proposed television show as a continuation of the 1971 theatrical release '' Skin Game'', with James Garner and Gossett. Plot Quince and Jason (played by Larry Hagman and Louis Gossett Jr.), two grifters traveling the Old West, are arrested by Prudy Jenkins (Blythe Danner), the zealous, rifle-wielding daughter of a small-town sheriff (Harry Morgan). The charge: They look like typical criminals. She delivers her quarry to the sheriff, but he orders her to release them. Later, though, the sheriff witnesses the two in a gunfight outside a saloon. This time, he locks them up. Then he makes his first blunder. He leaves Prudy in charge of the prisoners while he goes on an errand. Sure enough, two outlaws, Sam and Ed (Gene Evans and Dick Peabody), break into the jail, tie up Prudy, and abscond with Quince and Jason, mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidekicks (album)
''Sidekicks'' (also known as ''Rainbow Carousel'') is an album by Tom Fogerty and Randy Oda (who previously worked together in the rock band Ruby). The album was recorded in 1988 and released in 1992 on Fantasy Records, two years after Fogerty's death in 1990. Due to its posthumous release, ''Sidekicks'' stands as Fogerty's final album. Background During spring 1988, Fogerty and Oda reunited to work on new material for the album that would become ''Sidekicks''. Recorded at Studio D at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, additional overdubs were recorded at Chaton Recording in Scottsdale. The project saw Fogerty's son Jeff and Oda's brother Kevin on bass and drums respectively. After completing half of the album, Fogerty and Oda agreed to return to the studio at a later date so that Fogerty could spend more time with his newly-born daughter. However, soon after, Fogerty fell ill with pneumonia and was diagnosed with AIDS; believed to have been from an unscreened blood transfusion during F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side Kick
A kick is a physical Strike (attack), strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee (strike), knee strike). This type of attack is used frequently by hoof, hooved animals as well as humans in the context of stand-up fighting. Kicks play a significant role in many forms of martial arts, such as capoeira, kalaripayattu, karate, kickboxing, kung fu, Mixed martial arts, MMA, Muay thai, pankration, pradal serey, savate, sikaran, silat, taekwondo, vovinam, and Yaw-Yan. Kicks are a universal act of aggression among humans. Kicking is also prominent from its use in many sports, especially those called football. The best known of these sports is association football, also known as soccer. History The English verb :wikt:kick, to kick appears only in the late 14th century, apparently as a loan from Old Norse, originally in the sense of a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Oda
Randy Oda (born 1953) is a composer and musician who performed with Tom Fogerty and the band Ruby, recording the albums ''Ruby'', '' Rock & Roll Madness'' and '' Sidekicks''. He composed the 1982 hit song, " Think I'm in Love", which Arnold Schwarzenegger also used on an exercise video. His "BART" instrumental was used by BBC School Music during intervals. His latest band is 'OPO. Early life and education Randall Keith Oda was born in 1953 in Alameda County, California. He attended Kennedy High School in Richmond, California. Oda married Jean Nugent in 1985, and their son Daniel Thomas Oda was born in 1990. In 2017 he married Theresa Michele Barranco. Career Beginning in late 1971, Randy Oda, his brother Kevin Oda, Art Pantoja, and Kyle Schneider formed the band "Oda", producing two albums on the Loud Phonograph Albums label. A local Bay Area band, they played gigs in Berkeley. They also played a reunion benefit at Concord in 2015. In the early 1970s, Oda joined Tom Fogert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Sidekicks
''Super Sidekicks'' is a series of soccer video games made by SNK for its console, the Neo-Geo. Released in the 90's with an arcade-style approach to soccer, the games of the franchise allow players to choose any of the available game modes to compete with AI-controlled rivals or other human players with their preferred team. Though first launched for the MVS hardware, the series were ported for Neo Geo AES and Neo Geo CD, in addition of being re-released through compilations and download services for various consoles. Original Super Sidekicks Published in 1992, the original Super Sidekicks (known as Tokuten Ou, "Goal-Scoring King" in Japan) was SNK's first soccer video game and the second soccer game released for Neo Geo MVS, preceding '' Soccer Brawl'' (1991). Its gameplay uses a simplified two-button configuration. It features 12 teams divided into two groups which compete for the "SNK Cup". The title proved popular among players and garnered positive reception from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzuki Sidekick
The Suzuki Vitara is a series of SUVs produced by Suzuki in five generations since 1988. The second, third-generation and 2022 models are known as the Suzuki Grand Vitara, with the fourth generation eschewing the "Grand" prefix. In Japan and a number of other markets, all generations have used the name . The original series was designed to fill the slot above the Suzuki Jimny. The first generation was known as Suzuki Sidekick in the United States. The North American version was produced as a joint venture between Suzuki and General Motors known as CAMI. It was also sold as the Santana 300 and 350 in Spain and in the Japanese market, it was also sold as the Mazda Proceed Levante. The second generation was launched in 1998 under the "Grand Vitara" badge in most markets. It was accompanied by a still larger SUV known as the Suzuki XL-7 (known as Grand Escudo in Japan). The third generation was launched in 2005. The fourth generation, released in 2015, reverted to the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Mobile Sidekick
The Danger Hiptop, also re-branded as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Mobiflip and Sharp Jump is a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS smartphone that was produced by Danger, Inc. from 2002 to 2010. The Hiptop software was designed by Danger, Inc., which was located in Palo Alto, California and purchased by Microsoft for $500 million in 2008. Danger provided the Hiptop OS software and back-end services for the device. This included a catalog of downloadable software applications, email hosting, instant messaging, web proxies and a cloud service for the entire personal data on the device. The original Hiptop hardware was designed by Danger and manufactured by Flextronics. The Hiptop II, 3, Sidekick iD, Sidekick 2008 and Sidekick LX (2009) are all manufactured by Sharp Corporation in Japan and designed, respectively, by Danger and then Danger in partnership with Sharp. All versions of the Hiptop were developed in close partnership with T-Mobile, although carrier-specific features were either removed or added f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borland Sidekick
Borland Sidekick was a personal information manager (PIM) launched by American software company Borland in 1984 under Philippe Kahn's leadership. It was an early and popular terminate and stay resident program (TSR) for MS-DOS which enabled computer users to activate the program using a hot key combination (by default: Ctrl- Alt) while working in other programs. Although a text-mode program, Sidekick's window-based interface echoed that of the Apple Macintosh and anticipated the eventual look of Microsoft Windows 2.0. It included a personal calendar, text editor (with WordStar-like command interface), calculator, ASCII chart, address book, and phone dialer. According to the prospectus for Borland's initial public offering of stock to the public, Sidekick sold more than 1 million copies in its first three years. Origin According to Philippe Kahn, Borland did not originally intend to sell Sidekick. It developed the utility to assist the small company's employees. After sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
