Listen to Tim Curry's audiobook readings of them. That makes them infinitely better.

Yes. Or Andrew Daley.

Tim Curry did a fucking amazing Olaf. So menacing and slimy, and he added all these little touches to his delivery of Olaf's dialogue that just made his interpretation perfect.

Plus there's the added bonus of an original song by Stephin Meritt (in his Gothic Archies persona) on each one. That's what got me into his work.

Yes, I recently purchased that for this and the Roches' performances alone.

But you didn't say you weren't downloading it.

Make him stop!

Used to watch that show all the time when I was a kid.

Mary Rodgers herself even went on to do a male-male switch story in Summer Switch, which was about the father and son from Freaky Friday and was made into a TV movie starring Robert Klein.

And eventually, the book's title was changed to ESP TV.

A young starlet recording a DANCE POP song?! Surely you jest!

No sir, that was Carla.

"Thanks, herpes" is a phrase I will probably never hear uttered unironically… unless, as in this case, it's in response to an internet commenter.