This used to be all TV Club, far as the eye could see…
This used to be all TV Club, far as the eye could see…
So YOU'RE the guy who yells "FOCUS!" at the movies!
The second I read the title, I thought of the New Yorker article and went hunting for it, found it, and then came back and realized it was already linked in the article itself.
Ladies and gentlemen, with his hit "The Opposite of What I Do"… Little Chrissy! https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Where I was, it was Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, The Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact. At some point Square One Television beat up 3-2-1 Contact and took its place.
Holy skeletal slights! (Sorry, just saw something similar: https://www.youtube.com/wat… )
Ladies and gentlemen, singing "Scaredy Cat", Mr. Lou Rawls: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
It gets to me because there's no way we should use the metric system to measure units of aggression. This is AMERICA, dammit!
Technically, in "Beauty and the Beast", they had to replace all the furniture, dishes, clocks, candelabras, etc. that got transformed back into people.
OW! MY EYES!
Thou sayest true - I wouldn't mind some enterprising young programmer to redo it as a crummy video game, but it was a bear to play!
Suggested reading: "Truth, Justin and the American Way", which honors the GAH while quietly doing a hundred '80's TV references in the background: http://smile.amazon.com/Tru…
Now everyone try to find a good hiding place,
This old tree's gonna be the base,
I'm gonna close my eyes and hide my face
And count to 100 by fives.
Ready?
Go!
DuckTales: Scrooge McDuck dresses up as the "Masked Mallard". Best line (or rather the only line I remember): "Resistance is futile! That's why I call this my 'futility belt'!"
My personal favorite from Candidate for Crime: https://www.facebook.com/vi…
I quite enjoyed "Flint the King", which had one of the better covers: an annoyed Flint tied to a throne with some gully dwarves crowning him. It was fun, as I recall, and could probably be turned into a quick fantasy movie for the young'uns what can't stay awake through the LotR films.
No, it's the story of a lady who used to work at the Bar None Dude Ranch but moved to the big city and has wacky adventures that are not as good as you remember.
If we were nice people, we'd assume that Doofus Rick actually knew how to create brownies without an oven, but every time he explains it to any other Rick, they go for the obvious joke.
I had for some reason always assumed that the You've Got Mail guy and the voicemail lady met in a cute manner and eventually got married, after surmounting some obstacles that could've been avoided if they just talked with each other for five minutes.
Syzygy.