@binkle I've made a test for this kind of thing. Basically I've taken some common and uncommon pop cultural franchises that commonly change when attempting to translate to a specific timeline fairly close by (it calls itself the "prime" but as soon as they did that a quadrillion other "primes" popped up who were ALSO convinced they were prime so they hade to develop a safe and equitable way to eliminate alternate PRIMEs recursively and non-destructively and merge those tracking concerns, becoming as close as possible to a "unique" entity in the multiverse as it's possible to be but still not truly in any meaningful sense beyond the fact this MASSIVELY reduces the probability we'll need to recalibrate all our measurements to another "prime" at some time in the future though we, as a consequence of the setup, always must accustom ourselves to the possibility our current prime gets usurped but don't worry it's not like a war or anything it's just a way of standardizing standards when it doesn't really MATTER what the benchmark for the standard is, you dig? This has been a huge lore dump here I just intended this to be a post where I listed some funny offbeat or screwed up children's show names under some pretense of it being a serious document oh my fucking GOD) and how you respond to them tells us, or gives us hints as to where you're from.
Rate the items using the following scale
2 - This is something I know about and this looks correct to me
1 - It sounds familiar-- I can't place it exactly, but it seems plausible/correct
0 - I have never heard of it.
-1 - It sounds familiar-- I can't place it exactly, but it seems implausible or wrong
-2 - This is similar to something I know about but it WASN'T this (follow up questions to ascertain if it's a false positive but we choose temporally unique and unforgettable franchises to avoid this possibility)
Garfield - comic strip involving an orange cat who likes Lasagna, Sleeping, and being sarcastic. His owner, Jon, is a perpetually lonely man with brown hair. They have an orange dog named Odie.
Sesame Street - Elmo - Red puppet used in children's segments. Speaks in a high-pitched childish voice.
Sesame Street - Oscar the Grouch - a green monster who lived in a trashcan on sesame street. Elmo and Oscar are NOT brothers and they rarely interact according to most accounts.
Neruto - Anime character. Messy orange hair, headband with metal plate on forehead and leave insignia, usually clothed in an orange tracksuit.
The Rambunctious Rongo - A british feature-length claymation film from Aardman about a dog who has to keep a misunderstood and rebellious teenage rabbit out of trouble.
SpongeBoy - Animated movie from Dreamworks, pitched as an "educational animation" project. Top notch animation, most people remember a scene on the coral reef in the beginning that was extremely well made. Launched a renaissance of 2D animation in the late 90s and early 2000s.
SpongeBob SquarePants - A square yellow kitchen sponge with a high pitched nasal voice. True to his name, he has very angular, squared-off pants. Other characters include an orange starfish named patrick and a blue squid named Squidward.
**There's a post it note stuck to the page here: "If you remember BOTH SpongeBoy AND SpongeBob please contact me or any other acting test coordinator immediately -C.W."
Berenstain Bears - A children's book starring a cartoon family of brown bears. They were never given individual names, only "Pappa" "Momma" "Brother" and "Sister".
Berenstein Bears - Nearly identical to the above save the spelling of the name
I can't think of anything else I kinda got sidetracked and pulled myself in too many directions but whatever it was fun to write and... post
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