Monroe was an American comic strip which appeared exclusively in Mad Magazine.
The strip was first published in "Mad" in their April 1997 issue, #356. Originally "Monroe" was a pure black-and-white comic strip, written by Tony Barbieri and originally drawn by Bill Wray. In April 2006 Wray left the magazine and the strip was continued from October 2006 on by Tom Fowler. Barbieri still wrote the scripts, occasionally assisted by Ryan Flanders. The last "Monroe" strip was published in issue #502, January 2010.
Monroe is a teenage boy with two antennae-like hairs on his otherwise bald head. Originally he was a preteen, but as the series progressed he became a teenager. Most gags center around Monroe failing to impress his schoolmates, the girls he adores and/or his parents. He often ends up being mocked or even beaten up by the local bullies. The style of humor can be described as black comedy and gross-out humor.
Monroe (also Monroe/Dearborn) is a subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line. It is located in the Chicago Loop, Chicago's downtown district.
Although the work on the station under Dearborn Street began in March 1939, the construction of the Milwaukee-Dearborn Subway and the station was suspended in 1941 because of wartime material shortages. Therefore commuters had to wait ten years for the station to open. Monroe opened on February 25, 1951, fourteen years after being ordered by the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in 1937.
In 1969, the stairs to the northwest corner of Dearborn Street and Monroe Street were closed to permit the construction of the First National Bank Building and Plaza (renamed the Chase Tower) after the completion of a new entry was added in the lower level of the tower to the station. Monroe station was completely refurbished in 1982, but was not designed to be accessible to the handicapped.
Monroe (historically French: Poste-du-Ouachita) is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. it is the parish seat of Ouachita Parish. In the official 2010 census, Monroe had a population of 48,815. The municipal population declined by 8.1 percent over the past decade; it was 53,107 in the 2000 census. After a recheck in 2012, the Census Bureau changed the 2010 population from 48,815 to 49,147. Mayor Jamie Mayo, however, maintains that the Monroe population is more than 50,000 and indicated that he will pursue a continued challenge to the count.
Monroe is the principal city of the Monroe Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the parishes of Ouachita and Union. The two-parish area had a total population of 170,053 in 2000 and an estimated population of 172,275 as of July 1, 2007. The larger Monroe-Bastrop Combined Statistical Area is composed of both the Monroe Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Bastrop Micropolitan Statistical Area. The CSA had a population of 201,074 in 2000.
Actors: Kevin Barile (actor), Cody Callahan (actor), Mario Gaitan (actor), Malay Choeung Kim (actor), Thomas Kitchell (actor), Michael Klokow (actor), Thomas Page (actor), Mario Rocha (actor), Stephanus Tedja (actor), Omari Valentine (actor), Shawn Wang (actor), Eric Watson (actor), Xin Sarith Wuku (actor), Johnny Yang (actor), Asher Zivon (actor),
Genres: Action, Drama, Short, War,Actors: Jerry Buteyn (actor), Braxton Davis (actor), Mark Doerr (actor), Tony Elias (actor), Edward Finlay (actor), Howard Gibson (actor), Cody Hackman (actor), Tim Hade (actor), Bug Hall (actor), Charlie Heydt (actor), Steve Holm (actor), Andy E. Horne (actor), Manu Intiraymi (actor), Donnie Jeffcoat (actor), Matt Biedel (actor),
Plot: Based on actual events. When the commander of the crew of a B17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
Genres: Action, Drama, War,Actors: Monte Bezell (actor), Taurean Blacque (actor), L. Peter Clark III (actor), John Crann (actor), Lloyd DeLeon (actor), Fab Fisher (actor), Meaghan Fluitt (actor), Billy Horton (actor), Mel Jackson (actor), Ebrahim Jaffer (actor), Hawthorne James (actor), Robert Kabakoff (actor), Robert Miano (actor), Etienne Navarre (actor), Tariq Alexander (actor),
Plot: People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, the lifestyle and the lingo. The only two words They didn't know were JURISDICTION AND GENTRIFICATION but in their world it was all for one and one for all until an unexpected, mysterious death, forced "The Stick Up Kids"to change their focus from doing crime to stopping the "North Manhattan Project". Now it was up to Santos to pull off one last sting before it destroyed them all. Watch out America. 'The Stick Up Kids" are coming to your town!
Keywords: gentrification, harlem-manhattan-new-york-city, independent-film, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city, urban-settingActors: Todd G. Bieber (actor), Juliana Brafa (actress), Bingo Gubelmann (producer), Benji Kohn (producer), Jeffrey V. Mandel (producer), Tamar Simon (producer), Austin Stark (producer), Dana Adam Shapiro (writer), Dana Adam Shapiro (director), Todd G. Bieber (editor), Bianca Bezdek-Goodloe (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Animation, Romance, Short,Actors: Jay Bernard (actor), Mormon Tabernacle Choir (actor), Robert Conder (actor), Stephen Cracroft (actor), Frank Gerrish (actor), David Jensen (actor), LaMarr Nielsen (actor), Jerold Ottley (actor), Ryan Roberts (actor), Nancy Borgenicht (actress), Susie Goebel (actress), Star Herrmann (actress), Celeste Holm (actress), Lisa Ann Pearson (actress), Karen Roberts (actress),
Plot: When her husband dies, an elderly lady named Nora faces blindness and hearing problems and feels sorry for herself around Christmas time. She and a friend Madeline reminince back to good times they had in the past, going to basketball games, the Tabernacle Choir concert, and planning for the Christmas Pageant. Nora is in charge of the Christmas Pageant and she goes blind while she is preparing it. On Christmas Eve, Nora makes english butter toffee for the Christmas Carolers and it turns out bad. She feels sorry for herself and almost loses hope. Nora recieves a special Christmas gift at the Pageant that Jesus Christ does live and loves her.
Keywords: aging, bible-quote, blindness, bus, character-name-in-title, christian, christmas, christmas-pageant, christmas-tree, concertActors: Joel Bennett (actor), Dan Bradley (actor), Richard Cox (actor), Cliff Emmich (actor), Marjoe Gortner (actor), Tony Lopez (actor), James Paola (actor), Ray Sharkey (actor), Curtis Taylor (actor), Martin West (actor), Robert Z'Dar (actor), Lynne Bell (actress), Lorraine Blanc (actress), Lorraine Blanc (actress), Martin Beck (actor),
Plot: An unlucky woman's mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She's committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk's only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Keywords: amnesia, cult-film, exploitation, female-frontal-nudity, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, female-rear-nudity, grindhouse, independent-film, lesbian-sexActors: Christopher Babers (actor), George Ball (actor), Charles Barkley (actor), Cameron Barnum (actor), Beau Billingslea (actor), Harry Blackstone Jr. (actor), Earl Boen (actor), Gil Brenton (actor), Alex Briley (actor), Mitch Brown (actor), Michael Burkhardt (actor), Joseph Cali (actor), Stephen J. Cannell (actor), Harold Cannon (actor), Craig Austin (actor),
Plot: In Santa Barbara, California, the fascinating and tumultuous life of the rich Capwells around who gravitate other families, from the Lockridges, the rival family, to the Andrades or the Perkins, more modest families but which destinies know the same torments.
Keywords: barbara, nun, santa-barbara-california, soap-operaActors: James B. Douglas (actor), Kip Gilman (actor), Danny Higham (actor), Alf Humphreys (actor), Jack Jessop (actor), Allan Katz (actor), Bill Lake (actor), James Lokley (actor), Angus MacInnes (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Nick Nichols (actor), Lawrence K. Philips (actor), Roy Wordsworth (actor), Paula Barrett (actress), Al Bernardo (actor),
Plot: A young businessman, out joging one night, sees a beautiful woman undressing in her bedroom window and he is compelled to return every night to watch her, until one night he witnesses a murder in the same apartment and soon becomes the prime suspect because of a variety of circumstances evolving from his voyeurism.
Keywords: canuxploitation, cigarette-smoking, female-nudity, independent-film, leg, lesbian, lesbianism, male-to-female-foot-in-crotch, menage-a-trois, murderActors: Joe Andrade (actor), James Bacon (actor), Liam Dunn (actor), Joonee Gamboa (actor), Ben Gazzara (actor), Jojo Juan (actor), Stacy Keach Sr. (actor), Richard O'Brien (actor), Bruno Punzalan (actor), Alejandro Rey (actor), Hernan Robles (actor), Paul Winfield (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Britt Ekland (actress), Rita Gomez (actress),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Danny Arnold (actor), Walter Barnes (actor), Merritt Blake (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), 'Butch' Bucholtz (actor), Tim Buckley (actor), Chuck Childers (actor), Louis De Farra (actor), Rusty Durrell (actor), Theodore J. Flicker (actor), Harry Frazier (actor), Ed Geldart (actor), Larry Gelman (actor), Larry Gordon (actor), Allan Arbus (actor),
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Keywords: cameos, decadence, glamorous-lifestyle, independent-film, success, tennisuh uh uh uh uh uh uh
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[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[Verse 1:]
Sometimes I wonder if i'll ever make it through,
Through this world without you,
I just wouldn't have a clue.
Sometimes it seems this world's closing in on me,
And there's no way of breaking free,
And then I see you reach for me.
Sometimes i wanna give up,
I wanna give in,
I wanna quit the fight,
And then I see you baby and everything's alright,
And everything's alright.
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[Verse 2:]
Baby there's nothing in this world i can ever do,
That the touch of your hands can't do,
It's like nothing i ever knew, yeah.
And when the rain is falling,
I can feel it,
That you're here with me now,
I wanna ask you baby if everything's alright,
If everything's alright.
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[MC/Rap Section]
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
Oh baby,
I'm your number one lady,
You know that I'm your only baby.
[Chorus:]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
[Chorus to fade]
When I see you smile,
I can face the world, ohhh,
You know I can do anything.
When I see you smile,
I see a ray of light, ohhh,
I see you shining right to the way now.
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