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QOTD - Jul 26th, 2013

Greetings.

Today I thought we'd harken back to the days of yesteryear. As a kid, what was your favorite TV show? Not counting wrestling.

For me, it's a tough call between GI Joe and Saved By The Bell. Although I'd probably have to go with The Bell because my love of GI Joe stemmed more from the action figures than it did the actual TV show. I mean, was there a cooler dude than Zack? Or a hotter chick than Kelly? What other group of kids on TV were saving homeless people, and having murder mystery weekends? None. That's who.

How say you?

Also, over at wcwin2000.wordpress.com, I recently updated with a review of what is hands down the worst single episode of wrestling programming I, or anyone has ever seen.

Comments

  1. YankeesHoganTripleHFanJuly 26, 2013 at 10:45 AM

    Thundercats

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  2. M*A*S*H. I was ten when Col. Henry Blake died and cried like a baby, inconsolable to the point my mother opined I might be too young to be watching the show. That shut me up in a hurry; I knew they were coming back for another season and I didn't want to be barred from watching it.

    The final episode took place my first year of college; I didn't have a tv in my dorm room and had to watch on a friend's tiny black and white.

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  3. Either the old Ghostbusters cartoon show or Batman: The Animated Series. Both are all-time great cartoons, especially Batman.

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  4. Debbie does Dallas

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  5. I'm gonna back you up on Saved By the Bell, CW. I never missed an episode, right up through the College Years (but not the New Class, because fuck those guys). I'll still watch an episode if I see a rerun on TV.


    As far as cartoons, it's a toss-up between Transformers G1 and GI Joe, with Voltron coming in a close third. With Netflix now, I sometimes in the morning will recreate a block of cartoons I used to watch as a kid, GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man and Voltron. It's amazing I ever found a girlfriend now that I think about it...

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  6. As a kid? Huge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan.

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  7. You Can't do that on Television

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  8. Duh?

    http://youtu.be/WDQzALOH9iU

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  9. College Years is surprisingly not a horrible show on its own. The original series hasn't aged all that well (nostalgia aside), but College Years IMO is still very watchable. Shame it only lasted the one season.

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  10. Yeah, my bad about that Guest Post. Feel free to delete that, if at all possible. Anyway, this was also a must for me on Saturday mornings:

    http://youtu.be/7IzSGvXc_PM

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  11. Simpsons.

    By a lot.

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  12. Another vote for Saved By The Bell. I'll still watch reruns of it.


    I'M SO EXCITED! I'M SO EXCITED!

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  13. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 11:49 AM

    gi joe
    transformers
    you cant do that on television
    nbc sitcoms
    danger mouse

    as a wee child i religiously watched belle and sebastien on nick before school


    goddamn the 80's was the best time to be a kid

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  14. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM

    doooooooooont encourage your [random family member]


    wait wait! stop the execution!


    iiiiiiiiiiiiiii heard that


    "hey ryan" "hey asshhole" [a joke is told]


    i dont kno--

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  15. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM

    I'M SO... scared

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  16. YankeesHoganTripleHFanJuly 26, 2013 at 12:35 PM

    What really defines "as a kid" though. I watched thundercats religiously from about age 6-9, and the Simpsons debued when I was 10, thus technically still a kid, (It became my favorite show instantly until the spring of 91 when BH 90210 hit my hormones like a tornado and because the MOST AWEWSOME SHOW EVER.) But still I associate the Simpsons with my teen and adult years so it's tough to think of it as a show I watched as a kid.

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  17. I was younger than you when MASH was on the air, but I loved it. One of my not so great moments as a kid was going to a New Years Eve party with my family when I was 5, and absolutely balling because it was almost 11:00 and I had to go home and watch MASH. And yes, I made my family leave a NYE party early so I could go home and watch MASH.

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  18. The Love-Matic Grampa!July 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM

    It's funny, but aside You Can't Do That On Television and Looney Tunes I was a much bigger fan of "adult" shows than ones designed for kids: Cheers, Night Court, Perfect Strangers, The A-Team, etc. And Full House, which was pretty much mandatory viewing for any kid coming of age during that era. Plus, I loved the old shows (and still do) like I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners that run incessantly.

    But you know what my favorite show was for years and years? As strange as this will sound, especially for a kid growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I LOVED Are You Being Served?, which aired every week on PBS. I know that for most American youngsters, their indoctrination into British multimedia is usually Doctor Who or Monty Python or even Benny Hill, but I didn't really appreciate their merits until I became an adult.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Being_Served%3F

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  19. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:42 PM

    It's OK, Your_Favourite_Asshole. Remember that time we snuck out to see ET? And when we had to ride our bikes home we were so scared?

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  20. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:44 PM

    I love watching the old episodes. It's purely nostolgia, but there are a few jokes that actually hold up, and it's funny to analyze it in all it's ridiculousness. I do entries on my website called The Saved By The Bell Archives where I review/recap an episode. So far I've done Rockumentary, Screech's Spaghetti Sauce, and Drinking & Driving. Next up, Murder Mystery Weekend.

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  21. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM

    i like how over the summer they decided where to go (not in the spring when acceptances are due), happened to find rooming together, and then happened to share a bathroom with chicks



    its almost like it was planned out that way...

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  22. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM

    Honestly, I define being a kid from birth until about age 13 or so.

    I had a babysitter that was OBSESSED with 90210. Her room was literally wallpapered with photos of the cast and such. I'm not kidding, there was maybe an actual foot of wall that wasn't covered.

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  23. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM

    'there are a few jokes that actually hold up'


    screech you can't elope!

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  24. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:48 PM

    Yeah, as a kid I loved Nick At Nite. So I grew up watching I Love Lucy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart, Superman, Partridge Family, Brady Bunch, I Dream of Jeannie. I loved all that old stuff.

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  25. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:50 PM

    How about TGIF? Anyone else get down with that? I loved Perfect Strangers, still do, and totally dug Step By Step. Especially the episodes where Cody would kick major ass, he was the definition of cool when I was young. I was so mad when he was let go. The rumor was he beat his wife, but the truth of the matter was one night his mentally disturbed wife flipped her shit, and he had to defend himself and the kids. He was finally brought back in the last season, but it was too little, too late.

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  26. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:50 PM

    i like your moxy and the way you think


    i turned 4 in the middle of '80, so that plants me squarely at 13 as '89 rolled into '90, so i am by damn sure a tried and true 80's kid

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  27. I was a huge Power Rangers fan as a kid. No other show came close.

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  28. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM

    Mr. Dewey: You make light of algebra now, but when you're all grown up and your
    friends are making logarithm jokes at cocktail parties, you won't have a
    clue as to what everybody's laughing at.

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  29. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM

    see, i never really was into tgif since i didnt watch abc that much. i mean i knew full house and perfect strangers and family matters and all that, but i think of tgif as something i associate with bein' a kid moreso than anything i extensively experienced as a kid, if that makes sense

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  30. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:53 PM

    you were s'posed to give the punch line to my 'elope' joke :(


    i made it just fer you

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  31. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:54 PM

    aaaaaaaaaaaand youre a young'in

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  32. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 12:55 PM

    Who're you calling a cantaloupe, you melon head?

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  33. Nicktoons line up: rugrats, doug, ren & stimpy. I was so happy when I got my happy happy joy joy shirt.

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  34. I came home every afternoon before doing homework to watch Power rangers. Sure it was corny and stupid but it was awesome.

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  35. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM

    one of 'ems dead


    the asian chick, i think


    who was the yellow ranger?


    real subtle

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  36. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 12:58 PM

    i associate ren and stimpy with bein' a teen

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  37. Cody was brought back for one episode in the final season, the penultimate episode actually.

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  38. Problem I had with Saved by the Bell (yes I watched all of the original series, miss bliss, Hawaiian movie, and college years) was that a person would show up in one episode and never be heard from again like Slater's kid sister. It was also weird watching the senior episodes with Jesse/Kelly and then the next episode with Tori.

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  39. well the black ranger was african american

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  40. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM

    'It was also weird watching the senior episodes with Jesse/Kelly and then the next episode with Tori.'


    i think the out was that we were seein' them on different days of the week


    true story

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  41. YankeesHoganTripleHFanJuly 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM

    YOU FAT...BLOATED...IDIOT!!!

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  42. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM

    damn that shit is whack


    (think 'not another teen movie')

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  43. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:03 PM

    Me too, man. I remember running to school and screaming to my best friend "OH MY GOD! There's this Green Ranger, and he's all evil, and a total bad-ass, and he DESTROYED the Command Center! Zordon & Alpha are DEAD!"

    I even bough the Green Ranger's karate tapes. He was so school. He's still a bad-ass.

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  44. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 1:04 PM

    you know who tygra was?


    she was the thundercats' ho

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  45. One of my other favorite shows! I still do the "dooooon't encourage your [whoever]" line. No one gets it.

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  46. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:07 PM

    Did you write a book about ABC family programing or something?

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  47. Now we are so happy, we do the dance of joy!

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  48. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:11 PM

    dada, dada, dada, da-dada, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY!

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  49. Something else to throw on the hopper here:


    Duck Tales. Really, the whole Disney Afternoon block of shows was great, even into my early teens. Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, TailSpin. Absolutely great television.


    And it was countered by Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. The 80s were awesome, but even the early-90s had some good shit.

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  50. No, but I probably could.


    Also, the final season of Step by Step aired on CBS as part of its ill-fated Block Party lineup.

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  51. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:12 PM

    Oh man, I loved Doug. I use to wait for the episode where Doug & Skeeter form a band, because I loved their song Bangin' On A Trash Can.

    VERY expensive.

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  52. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:13 PM

    Darkwing Duck is a great one that usually gets lost in the talk of Duck Takes & Tail Spin. I was never much of a fan of Tailspin really. I loved the Tiny Toons movie about what they did on their summer vacation.

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  53. I read yesterday that Patti Mayonnaise is the yoga chick on Orange is the new Black

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  54. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:13 PM

    Did Family Matters & Step By Step jump to CBS at the same time?

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  55. Yes. It was Family Matters/Meego/Step By Step/Gregory Hines Show.


    The Block Party only lasted one season and all shows were cancelled. Gregory Hines Show did receive critical acclaim while it was on the air. Meego was atrocious.

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  56. Animaniacs was great as a kid. However, there was all these in jokes that I didn't get just because I was a kid. However, I watched all the episodes again about 5 years ago and I laughed even more because now I got all those in-jokes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd8yzE2Xggg

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  57. Also, I met Bronson Pinchot and he's a major cunt.

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  58. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:18 PM

    Meego. Was that about a doll? Or a guy who was like Joey from Full House?

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  59. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM

    Shit. Really? I always thought he'd be one of the nice ones

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  60. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:20 PM

    What is this Orange Is The New Black show? I've seen it on netflix, and Scott just talked about it...

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  61. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:23 PM

    It was also great how Saved By The Bell is one of the worst shows in history regarding continuity. Everybody was suppose to be going to different colleges. I mean, Zack got a 1502, and was accepted to Yale, and Slater was suppose to go to Iowa State on a wrestling scholarship.

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  62. Just came onto netflix a few weeks ago. 13 episode first season. Straight upstanding white engaged female who used to be a lesbian goes to jail because she was with a drug ring with her girlfriend 8 years ago.

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  63. Meego was an alien played by Bronson Pinchot who crash landed in a widower's home and helped him raise his kids. Two of them were Michelle Trachtenberg and Will Estes (I think), but I don't remember the other.


    Hilarity ensued.

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  64. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:26 PM

    Oh yeah. SBTB was God-awful with continuity. Like Jesse's step brother, Eric, who got a 2 parter dedicated to him and then was never heard from again. Or in the beginning Jesse's last name was Murtle. Or that Bayside was in the mid-west for the Miss Bliss days.

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  65. Me too. Who gives a shit about Bronson Pinchot?


    He was doing a play with Richard Dreyfuss (who was cool, if not totally loaded) and would not sign autographs or take pics with anyone and was a dick about it too.


    You're not famous enough to douche me, Bronson Pinchot

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  66. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 1:27 PM

    Man, it was like every show in the late 80's and 90's was about some widower, or some adopted kid, or some giant family, or something that needed help from someone in raising the kids & taking care of the family.

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  67. Ed Begley, Jr. was the dad. Electric cars aren't cheap apparently.

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  68. Fuck me, how did I forget the other kid? It was Jonathan Lipnicki and most of the show was Bronson Pinchot mugging for him and Lipnicki saying cute stuff a la Jerry Maguire.


    Legit pissed, I didn't know that off the top of my head

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  69. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 1:38 PM

    similar story for me


    I always in the morning will recreate a series of battles I used to
    have as a kid using my GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man and Voltron figures


    it's no wonder i've never found a girlfriend


    ok... not similar at all.


    fml :(

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  70. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 26, 2013 at 1:43 PM

    The Adventures of Pete & Pete, which I still watch to this day on DVD. Just incredibly absurd and funny, yet relatable and poignant, and the colorful cast of characters is great. Pete/Ellen forever, my little vikings!

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  71. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 26, 2013 at 1:44 PM

    Exactly. I never found the Goodfeathers stuff funny as a kid, but now, with Goodfellas being my favorite movie ever, now they're all funny like a clown.


    Plus, you can never beat the brilliance of Good Idea, Bad Idea.

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  72. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 26, 2013 at 1:46 PM

    Power Rangers was basically LOST to all my friends and I when we were kids. AN EVIL GREEN RANGER?! *mind blown*


    And I totally had the Dragonzord whistle-sword thingy.

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  73. While I watched a good deal of cartoons/kids programming as a young'un, I also was a big fan of prime time stuff. Night Court was a great show, and to this day I wish John Laroquette had more prominent work, because he's awesome.


    I would stay up late and watch reruns of Cheers and the Honeymooners at 11 and 11:30 every night. My dad probably would have been mad, but The Honeymooners was his favorite show, so I think he was encouraging it a bit, too.

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  74. Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, and He-Man, of course not to mention wrestling. I also used to love to watch MTV when they actually showed music videos and before it became all Rap and R&B videos.

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  75. Perfect Strangers has gotten no love in syndication, great show.

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  76. You've got to love the dedication of a principal like Mr. Belding. When three of his students all up and leave Indiana for Southern California, he moves with them to be their principal in high school.


    Having grown up with the Miss Bliss/Saved By The Bell continuity headache, it's no wonder I have no problems reading comic books and watching WWE.

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  77. Star Blazers. Still better than some show today.


    Also, Transformers, Knight Rider, He-Man, Animaniacs, and Batman:TAS (that show is in a class by itself).

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  78. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM

    Oh man, me too. I thought that was the coolest shit on Earth. I remember when those first wave of action figures came out, the 10 inch ones, you had to be at the toystore at opening, otherwise all that was left were Trini & Kimberly;

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  79. Actually dubbed someone at work Zack Attack and it has stuck.

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  80. YankeesHoganTripleHFanJuly 26, 2013 at 2:11 PM

    Dude, Al on Step by Step was EFFING HOT!!! Winnie Cooper had nothing on her. Cody was awesome too.

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  81. +100 for Duck Tales. That show ruled.

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  82. SUCH a great show, and Artie is still probably somewhere in my Top 10 TV Characters ever.

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  83. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 26, 2013 at 2:56 PM

    Oh man, you are very correct. Al was smoking hot in the later seasons. I have no idea why she didn't become more of a bigger deal after Step By Step.

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  84. Mr. Dewey was definitely one of the better parts of that show.

    "I'm so mad, I could spit nails." Pure deadpan, too.

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  85. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 26, 2013 at 3:33 PM

    I dressed up as the Blue Ranger for Halloween three years in a row.

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  86. And in Zeo (the 4th season of the show, when they started changing the suits every year), the Red Ranger was Native American.

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  87. That movie was so great, and it still holds up well (much like the rest of the show, I guess). Babs' and Buster's nationwide water fight is still just so much fun to watch.

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  88. Dragon Ball Z!

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  89. Ill try to find the photo, but I saw an article on her (a random where are they now type piece) and she is now super duper mega hot.

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  90. Your_Favourite_AssholeJuly 26, 2013 at 5:23 PM

    THAT COULD BE ANYBODY!

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  91. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 26, 2013 at 7:36 PM

    I'm too badass in that pic to use someone else's; LOOK AT MY FUCKING KARATE HAND, READY FOR ACTION! HIT SIT HIYAH!

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  92. Somewhere in the recesses of the internet there exists a dubstep remix of "Bangin on a Trash Can".

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  93. somewhere in the jump to CBS they lost the original Harriet, and replaced her with some broad with a really white sounding June Cleaver voice. Like we weren't gonna know it wasn't the original Harriet when she doesn't sound like Whoopi Goldberg after ripping a G-bong.

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  94. Google "Gayed by the Bell" to read the "Tori was Lisa's lover and Jessie & Kelly wouldn't hang out with them" theory.

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  95. For kid stuff, definitely Ninja Turtles, and also the glory days of Nickelodeon: Salute Your Shorts, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Clarissa Explains it All, Roundhouse, Hey Dude, Welcome Freshmen, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Nick Arcade, Guts, Ren & Stimpy, Doug, and of course the still-awesome Adventures of Pete & Pete.

    For grownup stuff, I liked The Simpsons literally as far back as I can remember (I would have just been turning 5 when it debuted) and watched reruns nightly. Another favorite on the rerun train was Home Improvement, even 20 years later I can practically recite some of those episodes. And Roseanne was always huge in my house, because it hit so close to home and because we were distantly related to Sara Gilbert.

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  96. just read it; very interesting read

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  97. You can't do that on television! I couldn't get enough of that fucking show as a kid

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  98. Step by step was loaded with hotties for the young kids. Never missed an episode

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  99. Salute Your Shorts, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), and Transformers

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  100. I'd say there's a difference in being a child and being a kid. I'm to the point now (I'm 31) where I call 18 - low 20s "kids."


    gag.

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  101. Me, Transformers, GI Joe, Masters of the Universe, even Bravestar. Yeah, I went there.

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  102. Transformers, WWF Superstars, and Jem and the Holograms.

    YEAH THAT'S RIGHT- JEM! DON'T JUDGE ME!

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  103. I saw Larroquette live on Broadway in "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" as the boss. Most people were there to see Daniel Radcliffe as the lead, but Larroquette RULED IT. Great stuff from him. It made me sad I never watched Night Court.

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  104. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 27, 2013 at 5:35 AM

    I completely agree, man. Completely.

    I'm about to turn 30, and looking back on myself, it's funny. At 15, I thought I knew EVERYTHING, and I was an adult. Then I turned 18, realized at 15 I didn't know shit. But now at 18 I knew the world. Nope. At 21 I realized I didn't know shit at 18, and so on.

    I honestly don't believe people should really be considered adults until at least their late 20's. If that. I'f caught a few "sirs" as of late, and no fucking way. I'm not a sir. I'm an idiot 29 year old.

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  105. Rita's dead too

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  106. Me too Caliber, I was a big fan of Nick at Night as a kid, so many awesome shows. Dick Van Dyke, MTM, F-Troop (such an awesome often forgot about show), Welcome Back Kotter, Taxi (the Christpher Lloydd "yellow light" gag still cracks me up), etc. It's sad what Nick at Night has turned into with Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, etc on there now. Nothing against those shows but they aren't the classics I associate with Nick at Night.

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  107. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 27, 2013 at 6:13 AM

    Man, that reminds me of when I was a kid and was a ninja for 5 Halloweens in a row. As well as a ninja for everyday inbetween those Halloweens. That's why Power Rangers were right up my alley. There was nothing cooler to me as a kid than martial arts.

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  108. Caliber_Winfield_The_3rdJuly 27, 2013 at 6:17 AM

    Oh man. I literally laughed for a good 10 seconds when you mentioned that yellow light joke. I need to find that on youtube right now.

    Taxi was awesome. I remember when they'd get the rights to a new show, they'd do a marathon. I was stoked for the Kotter marathon. And yeah, Nick at Nite is nothing like it use to be. There should be all sorts of shows from the 80's on there.

    I loved The Dick Van Dyke Show. It's still insanely funny to this day. F-Troop is a show that probably only you and I remember, and a few people may know from the Married With Children episode that had Larry Stortch.

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  109. That maybe my favorite gag done on television. My favorite part about it is the jokes been going a while and I'm down to little chuckles. Then Lloyd's asking "what...does....a.... *looks down to read paper* that part always gets me cracking up again.

    I remember those week long marathons too, I think I was in the seventh grade during the initial Kotter marathons. I stayed up well past midnight all that week to watch as many as I could. That show was great.

    Youre right though, even when I talk to people really into tv, when I mention F Troop they either don't know it or just know the name but never watched the show. Which is kinda sad since that show was consistently funny.

    Another great scene is from MTM show, the funeral scene in Farewell to Bonzo. Cracks me up.

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  110. No problem, I watched the Strawberry Shortcake specials right alongside my sister.

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  111. Rita and Runt were underrated, I may be saying that cause I really like Bernadette Peters.

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  112. Wow, where do we begin? He-Man and Transformers, were my main two. I also got into a lot of '70s-and-back sitcoms because of how independent stations were run back in the '80s.


    Hey Scott or any other Canucks...do you remember/did you watch a cartoon called "The Raccoons"? Loved it then, love it now. "You can run with us..."

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  113. Oh yeah, that show was awesome for it's time. The theme song is the most epic tune EVER, even if it matches up very little with a show that's mostly about whacky hijinks and learning lessons about the environment.

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  114. Good point, I just remember ABC daytime rerunning it, then N@N or TV Land, and who else....???????

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  115. That and surviving being booked at PWS.

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  116. Mr. Dewey = Paul Bearer

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  117. Yeah, before cable we got the specials on local New York television, and I saw the penultimate one (Lost Star) when I was in first grade. Then, I caught Disney Channel reruns of the series in the '90s and thought hmmmmm, this seems familiar. When they reran Lost Star, it all came back to me and I've been a fan since. I'd love to see Scott's opinion about this show.



    Yeah the music is cool but I admit it has little to do with the plot of the episodes. But then again, so did Scooby-Doo (especially the song about the FRIGGIN' OSTRICH).


    P.S. I got an autograph yesterday from Susan Roman, who was a VA on The Raccoons. You may also know her as Sailor Jupiter and Angel from Rock & Rule.



    Now for other favorites: Inspector Gadget, G.I. Joe (though I always liked the TF much, much more), Bionic Six, Superfriends/Super Powers Team, any of the '80s incarnations of Spider-Man (and the Hulk cartoon of the same time period), Pac-Man, Danger Mouse, YCDTOTV, Out of Control (remember THAT?), Pinwheel, the Disney Channel person-in-a-giant-suit renditions of Dumbo and Pooh, the list goes on and on. Oh yeah, whatever was on the daytime schedule game show wise.



    Like with the sitcoms, I learned a lot about classic animation from indy stations, as they'd have blocks of Looney Tunes, Popeye, Woody, Tom and Jerry, and others. Cable helped that as I got older, with the USA Cartoon Express' glory days and later Cartoon Network when it was good. Then on the Disney Channel, I got all the classic Mickey, Donald, etc. shorts. Nickelodeon introduced me to the UPA and original Alvin Show through Weinerville (remember THAT?)



    Going into the '90s, I was watching the DCAU, Animaniacs, the Fox Spidey and X-Men, Sailor Moon (don't laugh), Power Rangers (up until Zeo, which lost my interest), Beavis and Butt-head, and MST3K.


    Anyone, when you were young, have other elements of television presentation (station IDs, closing logos, continuity) that they were obsessed with? Let's name some...

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  118. The Love-Matic Grampa!July 27, 2013 at 7:39 PM

    "Exactly. I never found the Goodfeathers stuff funny as a kid, but now, with Goodfellas being my favorite movie ever, now they're all funny like a clown."


    What do you mean by that?

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  119. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 27, 2013 at 10:39 PM

    You know....the way it tells the story....

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  120. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJuly 27, 2013 at 10:41 PM

    To admit you watched Jem is truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.

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  121. Sweet- I've been a fan of Susan Roman's for years. Was this at a convention or something?

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  122. No, I wrote to her.



    Yes, SM made me really interested in the anime style and the differences between the originals and the dubs. That and the Street Fighter 2 movie. Which reminds me, how could I forget Voltron?!!?

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  123. the only thing I know, as I get older, is that I know nothing.

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