TS: The Wonder Years v Oliver Beene

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I dug the Wonder Years. I've been meaning to see Fox show Oliver Beene but haven't yet. How does it compare?
-- oreder some disorder (matt_the_mischievou...), April 2nd, 2003.

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it's like that goddamn American Bandstand dramedy, but with a Fox EDGE!
-- James Blount (littlejohnnyjewe...), April 2nd, 2003.


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I think you're looking for ILe.
But, for what it's worth, Oliver Beene doesn't really resemble The Wonder Years at all.

-- paul cox (pau...), April 2nd, 2003.


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Is there a Winnie on Oliver Beane? Yeah, didn't think so.
Does the boy main character's brother call him "butthead?" Didn't think so.

Was this kid ever in a crazy rad video game-themed movie featuring an INTENSE Rad Racer race scene with the power glove and did it culminate in the exciting world premier of Super Mario 3 gameplay (with contestants kind of randomly deciding to duck down on this block in the first world for a few seconds to kind of randomly find the warp zone without any clues at all)? NO.

-- Famous Athlete (klintved...), April 2nd, 2003.


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was anyone from Wonder Years in Royal Tennenbaums. didn't think so.
winnie cooper went to my college (as did urkel, sean astin and blossom). she was kinda nerdy in real life. she wore a t-shirt that said "I love Math" and even had a theorem named after her. this may or may not make you like her more?

the one episode of Oliver Beane i saw last night was pretty funny. they played with racial stereotypes. funny hearing the mom talk about Jive and cook a mixture of chitlins and matzah balls for the black family that ate at their place.

-- JasonD (jaso...), April 2nd, 2003.


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Wonder Years is one of my all time favorite shows. Oliver Beane is gay.
-- Chris V. (formerlypoopsmcge...), April 2nd, 2003.


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i would respect it more if it was gay. it just sucks.
-- your null fame (awesoma_pow...), April 2nd, 2003.


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furthermore, i can almost hear david cross screaming in pain as his soul is slowly torn and raped from his body as he reads the narration for that show.
-- your null fame (awesoma_pow...), April 2nd, 2003.


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And there is another Lawrence brother on it. And let me tell you he is one ugly mother fucker with his bug eyes and weird lips.
-- Chris V. (formerlypoopsmcge...), April 2nd, 2003.


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>Was this kid ever in a crazy rad video game-themed movie featuring an INTENSE Rad Racer race scene with the power glove and did it
>culminate in the exciting world premier of Super Mario 3 gameplay (with contestants kind of randomly deciding to duck down on this block in
>the first world for a few seconds to kind of randomly find the warp zone without any clues at all)? NO.
Whatever, posuer. The warp zone shown in the movie was in the world 1 fortress where you had to fly in racoon-mario form to a secret room. And the error in the movie was that this somehow boosted his score by a tremendous amount when in fact, merely warping ahead would have got him no points and in fact been a total waste of time.

Best line in that movie - "keep your power glove off her!"

-- fletrejet (fletreje...), April 2nd, 2003.


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-- your null fame (awesoma_pow...), April 2nd, 2003.


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As for Oliver Beene - I saw a promo for it where they had the dad saying something to the effect of "Invest in IBM? Yeah right, like those computer things will ever catch on." (ha ha) when in fact back then IBM was a huge, powerful corporation that made many other things than just computers, and was considered a blue-chip company. Therefore, dud, with extreme prejudice.
-- fletrejet (fletreje...), April 2nd, 2003.


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david cross must really need the money.
can this thread be moved to ILE?

-- j fail (unhalfbrickin...), April 2nd, 2003.


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order some disorder, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...
What the motherfucking fuck are you fucking talking about?

march of the black queen, Friday, 29 August 2003 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...
strangely enough, there is no wonder years thread on ilx! so, annoying schmaltz or classic television? i think whenever i saw it, it was just there, and i never really thought about it,

but ive been thinking about it recently, thuogh i havent seen it in a long time, and i have a feeling it was actually really great. what do you think?

charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

classic - i loved loved loved it as a kid even though it was part of that 'you will be nostalgic for the sixties even if - ESPECIALLY if - you didn't live thru them' boomer thing that was rammed down our throats at the time. HOT girls probably a major factor. i was roughly kevin arnold's age and it rang true enough to me, though in retrospect it doesn't capture 'here's what it's like to be an american kid' as well as freaks and geeks or dazed and confused or the dogtown doc or even pick yr larry clark flick. i didn't watch it the last few years it was on, it seemed like it was on forever but that's probably just cuz it started when i was in junior high and wrapped my senior year. i remember in the later episodes kevin arnold became a bit of a dick, he became his brother sorta.

j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

the brother, wayne, great casting!

charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)


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