What's the Story, Wishbone?

Why, in this age when every crappy piece of television ever broadcast is pillaged, packaged, and sold, is there no complete Wishbone boxset? I want to be able to watch every adventure of the imaginative terrier whenever I so desire.

so do i, i love wishbone. the first episode i ever saw was based on the prince and the pauper and when he was playing the prince he wore a magnificent cloak and when he was playing the pauper he wore a pathetic torn sack.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/avg/cov200/drv400/v449/v44950g52vl.jpg

god i fucking hated this

found this treasure trove the other day:

http://whynotco.webs.com/wishboneepisodes.htm

the ivanhoe and rip van winkle eps were standouts for me

Man, can we talk about the kids/adults/non-dogs on this show? I hated all of them. The loopy reporter, Wanda, is the only one I grant any esteem.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/88498443/Wishbone_by_HPGirl28.jpg

How can you not respect an adult woman wearing a clearly home-decorated Blossom hat?

i associate this show strongly w/ the migraines i used to get as a child. see also: baby follies

(Tiarnan I saw Duncan the turkey the other day and thought of you!)

lol!

this show btw could be in a hypothetical list of kids shows where the main kid's latent homosexuality is thinly veiled

this would be a p long list i think

that should definitely be a thread of its own

I remember being REALLY IRRITATED with the way the kids interacted with the virtual reality helmet in this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA4DTCRIXDU

"Story: Faust
Contemporary Story: A salesman will give Joe a virtual-reality machine, but only for Wishbone in exchange."

OTOH I remember the Faust part being awesome (of course) so maybe it balances out?

i forgot this even had people in it.

If we're talking afterschool non-cable TV of the late '90s that I was too old to be watching, my vote is for nu-Zoom over Wishbone any day.

watching the clip abbott posted i feel really conflicted. I mean on the one hand this is like a super cute lil doggy but then they give him this super irritating voice and personality and the way he interacts w. all the EXPOSITION is horribly stunted and pointless. i mean why dont they just have a dog who appears in classic public domain copyright free stories every week and cut this shit about the conflicted kid and one dimensional parents. also murder whoever does the soundtrack.

wishbone uber alles

Yes, my fucking God. The problem is I would later read works of literature like The Tempest and would only be able to thing about Sam, Joe and David's stupid teenager problems in the parallel human conflict story (in which the kids are having trouble staging The Tempest).

lol i actually always flash on this show when i think of the tempest!

the one where the kid cuts the sleeves off all his t-shirts

i used to hate it when they did stories i already knew like king midas wtf?

Mr. Natonabah: A Native American who is a college professor in Dances with Dogs. The actor appeared as Dan Bloodgood the mailman in later episodes.

was kind of hoping this thread was going to be about the salad dressing

the one where the kid cuts the sleeves off all his t-shirts

shit i thought most of you were older. wishbone was right around my childhood's time.

the only thing i retain from the show is learning from it where the phrase "open sesame" came from, and then using it to block countless girl's bathrooms from access.

I was 22 when this started, and I watched it every day when I got home from work. It was pivotal to my surviving working at a truck stop.

It was cheesy as hell but not stupid, which puts it ahead of most children's shows and non-cable tv.

I never watched this. It seemed cheesy. In 8th grade kids watched power rangers ironically and I didn't get that, I didn't get having multiple levels of appreciation for something. So wishbone looked sucky and I changed the channel.

idk that watching Power Rangers in 8th grade is some exercise of irony so much as "I didn't want to quit watching this tv show"

I just remember a few reasonably intelligent people enthusiastically repping for power rangers, and in due time (probably too late), I learned what irony was and said, Oh, that makes sense, now.

"Do you know what would make a great idea for a TV series? A dog that can't communicate with its owners than instead imagines itself as the protagonist in works of classic literature! Children will love that!"

I don't understand how this show took off, ever.

I have never even heard of this show.

oh god, yes.

There was an ep of The Time Machine – the Eloi are showing the time traveling terrier their museum of old shit. Which is a bunch of well-documented objects from every century, with 20th c on represented by this matte black rectangular prism. The future of technology! (Reminded of this by watching Wrath of Khan & seeing Kirk's lack of 22nd c antiques such as matte black rectangular prisms.)

I like to imagine it was originally a glossy & colorful rectangular prism but some rockabillies of the 23rd century decided to give it the flat black treatment.

http://www.colemanzone.com/images(3)/BarkFuture/BTTF(18).jpg