Bad TV memories, coming back!

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Various TV intros, mainly from the early-mid 80s.

Knight Rider, Gummi Bears, M.A.S.K., Cosby Show, Blossom...etc.

soooo many bad memories here.

disappointing, tho, that they don't have the intro to "You Can't Do That On Television"

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

all the shows you mention were superb

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

esp. Blossom, that Date Rape special, wow!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I miss Blossom even more acutely.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Six was cool in a freaky yah I'd do her kind of way.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't forgive Blossom for Whoa-ey Lawrence, but Mayim Bialik redeemed herself on the Laroquette Show, I guess. So it's all good.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Was the Laroquette show any good? All I know of it is that there was some Pynchon-dealing that never came to light.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, looking at her entry on IMDB, Mayim Bialik guested on MacGuyver! I think I love her.

― Leee the Lee (Leee), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I really, really liked the Laroquette Show, but understand why not everyone did. It wasn't consistent: it was one of those shows where, in order to like it, you had to accept that their response to poor ratings was to tinker with things, instead of waiting for the audience to come to them. But the type and level of humor stayed the same, despite situation/chemistry/cast changes, and Larroquette himself is just great when he's got the right material.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Bucky O Hare and The Raccoons. Holy shit.

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

She was also in Beaches, don't forget...

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever my sacrifices and compromises in dating -- Merchant-Ivory movies, South Beach, Paula Cole, wearing a tie, dancing at weddings, talking during sports, chicks-in-jail porn [that's the good ex] -- I've managed to dodge the Beaches bullet.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, Kingfish (and co.), "WEBSTER"!!! I haven't seen that opening credit bit in SOOOO LONG!! I FEEL LIKE I'M FIVE AGAIN!

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Kirk Cameron
Kirk, who played Mike Seaver on Growing Pains (1985) and is the older brother of Candace, is a devout Christian who starred in Left Behind (2000), Left Behind II (2002), and Left Behind IV (2004), a series of straight-to-video movies about the second coming of Christ.

!!!!!!!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess the attempt to replace him in Left Behind III with Willie Ames misfired.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Laroquette show was great, mainly cuz it was DARK AS FUCK for the first or second years.

then they felt the need to mess 'round with it, and that was that.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

An example is when a robber is holding a gun on Larroquette and Dexter, Dexter says to the robber, "Shoot him (pointing at Larroquette) he's white." Larroquette responds "No. Shoot him (pointing at Dexter). You'll do less time."

That's pretty emblematic of the show's humor, right there, especially if you can imagine it with Laroquette's delivery. (Not that most of the jokes were race-related, but aside from that.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the He-Man intro is so powerful and moving

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

This Larroquette stuff kinda ties in with the interviews Louis CK has given on Pootie Tang, where he sorta blames himself for letting the studio fuck with his movie. He talks about how his job as director should have been to argue more convincingly to the suits to maintain his vision of what the movie should have been.
Because no TV show or movie has ever worked AFTER studio/network tinkering. Remember the good Norm Macdonald sitcom (not the abominable one on FOX).

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ellen did, at least ratings-wise -- it was tanking when it was These Friends of Mine, then did fine when they ditched half the cast and changed the name. But at the most, that'd be the one example people would point to to justify their tinkering, to get them to forget every other show ever.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

How long was it TFOM though, like 3 episodes?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

And even Seinfeld didn't have Elaine in the pilot.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The whole first season, I'm pretty sure -- if not, then the title change might've come before the cast change.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

But its first season was as a mid-season replacement, no?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep, but still -- eleven episodes, then they ditch the "friends of hers," introduce a new cast ...

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting. I have no memory of TFOM, but I do remember liking the first season of Ellen. The portly fellow who worked in her bookstore was supposed to be from Moose Jaw and made jokes about it.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I was mildly taken aback to discover that the Daily Show's Vance was Ellen's brother. I don't know why, but I was briefly incredulous.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I still don't quite accept that, I don't think.

It's weird, I think of Ellen as being a more recent show than this, somehow -- maybe because there aren't dozens of reruns on a day (is it even in syndication?) -- but it premiered the same year as Friends, apparently. (Actually, it would be earlier, wouldn't it? Friends would have premiered in the fall of 1994, Ellen started the previous spring).

I'd been thinking of TFOM as one of the dozen or so Friends clones, but even the tinkering would've come before Friends. Weird.

Oh, I didn't read the whole of that page: they did change the title midstream, for the last three episodes of the first season.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved macGyver. I wanted to be him. His ability to combine James Bond espionage and Blue Peter resourcesfulness with everyday household objects made him a very appealing roile model for me. I say role model, but mean I lusted after his manliness with tools and things and such like, which were the eptiome of manliness, as opposed to brainy type ways of earning a living which were somehow secondbest, weak and a teensie-weensie bit...gay.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Bananaman!! Talk about teensie-weensie bit gay... The little boy ate a banana and became a superhero.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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