Question 717: Not a hill to climb any more!

Okay.

Use the two images to connect.

Arrive at something that happened for the first time on this very date, some many decades ago.

Question 716: And there's no reason for it to

Fans would like to believe that __X__ has gone on for the past 23 years.__X__ was given its title when A interviewed B for Q magazine in 1989 [ It actually is "Q magazine"]. The relevant part of the interview was:

A: 'Tell me about this live thing. You've gone straight into this ____ again — one ____ virtually straight into the next one.'

B: 'Oh, it's all the same ____.'

A: 'It's the ______X_______?'

B: 'Yeah, yeah'.

B about __X__, wrote:

"Don't be bewildered by the _______X________ chatter. There was a _________X__________ but it ended in '91 with the departure of guitarist G. E. Smith. That one's long gone but there have been many others since then. The Money Never Runs Out ____ (fall of '91) Southern Sympathizer ____ (early '92) Why Do You Look At Me So Strangely ____ (European '92) The One Sad Cry Of Pity ____ (Australia & West Coast American '92) Outburst Of Consciousness ____ ('92) Don't Let Your Deal Go Down ____ ('93) & others too many to mention each with their own character & design."

Tell me what __X__ is.
Identify B.

Question 715: Get it On

Amongst the most celebrated ads regarding this product, this ad from __X__ who have gone as far as to congratulate the people who don't use their products, bypassed laws regarding lewd behaviour to bring this classic.

ID the company

Question 714: Zap! Finito.

Connect the three images.

Question 713: Chew on that

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(C'mon)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters,
Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(Let me tell you now)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Revolution, Evolution, ____________, Flagellation, Regulation,
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance




Name it. By whom?
What's the word that's been blanked out? What was it originally supposed to be? Why was it changed?

Question 712: Kermit is no Hermit

Robot Chicken as a show isn't known for having a lasting impression, but this character created as an antithesis to kermit is a pun upon the actual character's name. This 80's go getter went on to define a generation, although his later avatar was a huge disappointment as a mere anticlimatic antihero.

SO ID the character here (not kermit) and who he is based upon from the world of cinema.

Question 711:The best of both worlds?

While our hero, __X__ was training with his father in the Bayankala Mountain Range in some province in China, something rather unexpected happened. __X__ and daddy dearest fell into a cluster of cursed springs. Now the scene with these cursed springs is that whenever someone falls into one of them, they turn into whatever died in the springs long ago whenever they're splashed with cold water. They only way they can return to normal is when they're _______________________.

Now __X__ fell into the spring  of the drowned __Y__ which results in his life changing rather drastically. He initially finds himself in various situations that aren't particularly comfortable, but over time he learns to use this to his advantage and often willfully turns into __Y__ in order to complete certain tasks.

Identify X and Y.

Tell me how they can return to normal.

Question 710: Not quite like OZ

What have I blanked out?

Don't cheat here, pleeease!!

Question 709: Thinking outside the X marked box

A rage comic about a very stupid origin of the name __X__, which was first made for __Y__. Otto Berkes, disassembled some Dell laptop computers to construct a prototype __Y___based video game console. The team hoped to create a console to compete with the Sony PlayStation 2, which was luring game developers away from the __Y__platform.

The clue for the name is left in the buttons & is depicted in the following cartoon
SO ID X & Y

Question 708: Scandals all over

Yes, lion king.
No, that isn't the answer.

This scene was supposed to be controversial.
Whyyyy?