Talk:Alvin and the Chipmunks/Archive 2

Theodore
Theodore is often left out of the picture by his older brothers! Being the baby of 4 kids I know what its like to be left out of the group!!!!!! So like Simon in the movie it is mostly about Alvin but it has 2 other maine charcters in this movie!!!! Signed Danielle! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.76.202.114 (talk) 20:37, 21 February 2008 (UTC) Same for Simon! I feel you, honey... I'm the oldest and sometimes left out of the picture because I'm not as cute as my little sibs. Btw, don't blame Simon for the issue- it's all Alvin's big ego taking up the spotlight! -thegreatandpowerfulsimonseville —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegreatandpowerfulsimonseville (talk • contribs) 20:23, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Witch Doctor
In the 25th anniversary album, it is explained that the seemingly random lyrics actually part came from the town of Walla-Walla and the Tang part was from the astronaut drink. Should this be on the page? --Mynameisnotpj (talk) 13:46, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Small Errors
There are small errors related to the age of both Simon and Alvin, in Alvin's section, its written "The oldest by 5 minutes before Simon". While on Simon's section, it written he's the oldest. Anyone can resolve this confusion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.245.208.131 (talk) 14:49, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I guess it says that because the movie says that alvin is the oldest. Stryper101 (talk) 16:43, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

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Imitations
The Grasshoppers came out with an album in 1959, featuring "The Chipmunk Song" on "Sing Along with The Grasshoppers", on Spin-O-Rama records.Their names are Dennis, Archie & Rickey. The Grasshoppers "Sing-A-Long With The Grasshoppers (Twinkle TW 12, also Diplomat 2215, Spin-O-Rama MK 3074, and a number of other labels, first issued ca. 1959)

Photos: http://bp2.blogger.com/_yeFd03qS6ys/SAO26tR7RvI/AAAAAAAAAGw/7CTuvA2Ts0Y/s1600-h/cover.jpg http://bp3.blogger.com/_yeFd03qS6ys/SAO2y9R7RuI/AAAAAAAAAGo/aDAqrGNQ2Hs/s1600-h/back.jpg

Featured with the Grasshoppers is Eddy Maynard. Known for his conducting big band tribute albums and Conductor for "The Sound of Music" and "Pal Joey".

Besides personal knowledge of this ( I own the records ) online reference: http://www.roctober.com/roctober/chipmunks.html http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/sections/people/index.php?var=43016 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kipple (talk • contribs) 11:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Origin
I fail to understand why or how the Chipmunks originated in Atlanta. I've done a lot of research and I can't find any references between the Chipmunks and the city of Atlanta. The creator was from California and the film takes place in California. Other than that, I fail to see any reference to the origin of the show or the characters anywhere, especially Atlanta. Can someone please clear this up or remove the reference to Atlanta? It's misleading at the very least. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.131.220.19 (talk) 17:49, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

New albums
Where is this information coming from about a self-titled "Alvin and the Chipmunks" album and the new Christmas album "Home For Christmas"?? I can't find any info on this other than the internet. I know the new album "Undeniable" just came out yesterday, but I see no sources to validate these two albums. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.225.167.179 (talk • contribs)

Apparently hoaxes, along with a couple of hoax singles. Started the deletion process on all of it.&mdash;Kww(talk) 04:27, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

List of DVDs
I know the all of the DVDs. They are the following:


 * Alvin nad the Chipmunks: The Chipmunk Adventure
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies: Funny, We Shrunk the Adults
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies: Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: Trick or Treason
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: Alvin's Thanksgiving Celebration
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas: 25th Anniversary Edition
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: Holiday Collection
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Valentine
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Alvinnn!!! Edition
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: Scare-riffic Double Feature: Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein and Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman
 * Little Alvin and the Mini-munks
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks
 * Alvin and the Chipmunks: Christmas Edition

This will be added to the article. And additional releases will be added when they come out on the article, and this page!


 * You needn't add it to the talk page, only the article itself. Carl.bunderson (talk) 21:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shirley, Squirrely and Melvin: LIVE
FYI. Ikip (talk) 21:51, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Orphan chipmunks?
If they we're abandoned by their mother they will techncially be orphans-unamed user —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.136.180.245 (talk) 14:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

They re-united with their mother, and she's still alive. So they are not orphans. WikiLubber (talk) 14:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Fine let's go w/ fictonal child abandonment-unamed user —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.136.180.245 (talk) 22:36, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

List of DVD's Mess
User 12.176.204.140 just doesn't seem to stop ruining the list by adding episodes that do NOT exist! Someone report him! WikiLubber (talk) 13:52, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and someone protect this page. WikiLubber (talk) 15:37, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel DVD
Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakqeul comes out March 30th on DVD and Blu Ray as well. Just thought I would let everyone konw since it is missing in the DVD section.--Marchbaby 18:14, 17 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchbaby321 (talk • contribs)

Nevermind
I added it. Feel free to make edits to it if I forgot something or if anyone can word it better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchbaby321 (talk • contribs) 18:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

history trivia
Prior to the internet I had read in a printed article that Ross Bagdasarian, Sr planned to have a singing group of rabbits but everyone who heard the demo called them chipmunks due to being familiar with Disney's chipmunk duo so Ross relented and changed them to chipmunks. I am not sure where this should be added and I have no clue as to the details of the print source I read that in. Ann Vole (talk) 16:07, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Comic books
Alvin and co starred in at least one comic book, I may still have it. It includes the awesome dialogue:

"We've almost got you, Theodore."

"Almost doesn't count. That big hole almost got me, too."

Hence what I call Theodore's Theorem: Almost Doesn't Count. Very applicable to applications development... well, it should be, anyway... Perhaps I should say competently managed applications development... but is there any such thing? Andrewa (talk) 12:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed merge
Alvin Seville, Simon Seville, and Theodore Seville should all be merged into this article. There is no reason why these three characters need their own articles; their personalities, physical descriptions, and voice actor history can be covered easily in a paragraph or two each in this article. Powers T 15:10, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It's a fine line, but IMO there's plenty of material for an article on each. Andrewa (talk) 02:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you give an example? Powers T 13:48, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Unless adequate third person sources can be supplied for the individual articles I support a merge. Dwanyewest (talk) 22:06, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree with the merge. WikiLubber (talk) 13:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Agree with the merge. Not enough separate information to justify unique pages. lafon 20:45, 9 October 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lafon18badr (talk • contribs)


 * Done. Powers T 00:45, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Subsequent
The redirects I put in place after the merge were reverted without consensus, so I have restored them. Powers T 01:07, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

First Alvin and the Chipmunks in print?
Has anyone looked to verify this book illustrated by Richard Scarry as the actual first printed publication of Alvin and the Chipmunks? It certainly looks quite authentic and appears to have been released earlier than the Dell comic.

http://danalexanderdizmentia.blogspot.com/search/label/Richard%20Scarry

Robert Brown 208.82.1.20 (talk) 23:28, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

A timing problem
The Recording technique section tells us "The technique was frequently imitated in comedy records, notably "The Ying Tong Song" by The Goons". However, The Ying Tong Song was released in 1956, two years before the Chipmunks' first recording. I suggest that text be removed. HiLo48 (talk) 07:15, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * There have been some edits to the article since I wrote this, but nobody has commented here. I will be bold and remove the seemingly incorrect text. HiLo48 (talk) 22:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Incorrect Facebook Page
I recently took a look at the facebook page referenced in the article and I noticed it is not the same one that all of the official sites link to. The one liked to by all the official sites makes no mention of a fourth movie at this time. As much as I would like to see a fourth movie right now there is no official conformation from any reliable source. Here is the link to the facebook page and the official sites that link to it. I do not want to mess up the article so that is why I am hoping someone who knows what they are doing can update the page for me.

http://www.facebook.com/AlvinAndTheChipmunks

http://www.munkyourself.com/us/

http://www.chipmunks.com/

--75.163.245.31 (talk) 19:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

The New DVDs
Does Paramount still make them? Amazon lists the studio as Bagdasarian Productions. Could someone who bought a disc check if it has Paramount's logo? 24.56.77.200 (talk) 05:41, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed #section link as requested
I am removing WildBot's template, after fixing the link as it requested. (The Chipmunks Go to the Movies apparently used to redirect to List_of_Alvin_and_the_Chipmunks_episodes, but no longer does.) PC-XT (talk) 01:10, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Box offie
Can we add box offie total — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.167.114 (talk) 11:34, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Release date for fourth film
The source cited says December 11, 2015. If you wish to change the date, you must cite a reliable source for the change. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 18:07, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Terribly written
I'm sorry but this article is terribly written. It is very unencyclopedic (it's as if it was written to appeal to very young children), and seems to have been written by a fan. It also, as has already been brought up, treats the Chipmunks as if they were a real band (it says they're fictional at the beginning but still). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.9.137.110 (talk • contribs) 12:02, January 23, 2016‎
 * 86.9.137.110 is currently blocked for vandalism/trolling. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 15:49, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Should we continue the discussion in his absence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.255.232.96 (talk • contribs) 12:08, January 24, 2016‎
 * Nope. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 19:39, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Why not? S/he may be a vandal, but that IS a good point. I have read through the article and what s/he says is true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.156.219.61 (talk • contribs) 15:15, January 24, 2016‎
 * Because you are currently evading your block. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 01:01, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I promise I won't sockpuppet again. I'm sorry. I promise all that happened was I went home from a day out, didn't realise I was still blocked at first, noticed I was, and panicked. I am sorry for the vandalism but what makes you think that this particular edit is trolling? I genuinely think this article is poorly written. I have made further points on my sockpuppetery investigation page. 109.156.219.61 (talk) 17:20, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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