Captain Pugwash is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now defunct UK newspaper the "Sunday Correspondent", that ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger (meaning "have sex with") the Cabin Boy – to "Captain Pugwash"'s characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex. The origin of this myth is likely due to student rag mags from the 1970s. John Ryan successfully sued both the "Sunday Correspondent" and "The Guardian" newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact. In May 2017, a live-action film adaptation was announced, directed
Astro Boy (2003 TV series) Bertschy of Anime News Network, receiving a grade of A+ in every category and comments of, "It's perfect." Anthony Brzenican of USA Today criticized the series for not having the same optimistic tone of the color 1980s version of the series and eliminating several or changing the personalities of several major characters. The show did not meet with commercial success during its run on Kids WB! and on Cartoon Network's Toonami block, a fact that is hinted at during the review for the tie-in game "" with comments such as, "Astro Boy [didn't receive any] love here in the States".