{"id":12727,"date":"2006-03-29T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/heat-vision-and-jack\/"},"modified":"2006-03-29T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T23:32:00","slug":"heat-vision-and-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/heat-vision-and-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Vision and Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0363668\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Heat Vision and Jack<\/i><\/a> is a Fox TV pilot from 1999 almost too surreal to believe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, directed by Ben Stiller, this series was passed over by Fox despite critical acclaim from those who&rsquo;ve been lucky enough to see it.<\/p>\n<p>The 30 minute pilot is about an astronaut (played by Jack Black) with a medical secret who is on the run from the evil Ron Silver and the rest of NASA, with the help of a talking motorcycle called Heat Vision (voiced by Owen Wilson).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone was kind enough to post the entire pilot episode to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6lWgXDOAJ5s\" target=\"_blank\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a>, which you can view in the embedded player below.  I had heard of this but never seen it, so this was quite a find&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlogsNow<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114367475379474675?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat Vision and Jack is a Fox TV pilot from 1999 almost too surreal to believe: Written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, directed by Ben Stiller, this series was passed over by Fox despite critical acclaim from those who&rsquo;ve been lucky enough to see it. The 30 minute pilot is about an astronaut (played &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/heat-vision-and-jack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat Vision and Jack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}