Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Deep Thoughts

What was your favorite TV show when you were growing up?

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  1. Full House
    Charmed
    Buffy
    Angel
    Smallville
    Facts of Life
    growing pains
    Family matters
    Martin
    The Parkers.

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    1. How could I forget Facts of Life! ugh I hated The Parkers though "Heeeeyyy boo!" ugh

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    2. Really? awee I liked it more than Moesha!

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  2. Hmmm. When I was a kid we watched a lot of Nick at Nite and reruns on TBS. I loved The Monkees, The Simpsons, Sanford & Son, The Carol Burnett Show, and Friends, Seinfeld, X-Files, and Mad About You (shut up) when I was in high school. Then in college, MST3K all the way, baby. Still my absolute favorite show.

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    1. Oh, yeah. Buffy, Just the Ten of Us, and Mama's Family. I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid which is why I'm a socially awkward land whale.

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    2. P.P.S., You Can't Do That On Television, Turkey TV, and Out of Control.

      Jesus.

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  3. Roseanne
    My so called Life
    Growing Pains
    Degrassi Jr High (the original!)
    and lots of bizzare TVO shows that only Canadians would understand: DearAunt Agnus, Read all about it, Todays Special

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    1. I loved Today's Special! Nickelodeon showed a lot of Canadian TV in the early to mid-80s.

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    2. I still get the Growing Pains theme song stuck in my head!

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  4. Facts of Life
    Mork and Mindy
    Happy Days
    The Carol Burnett Show
    Sha-Na-Na

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  5. I can think of a few, growing up. Rin tin tin( yoooo Rinnie!). Circus boy. Skye king. Then smothers brothers, david suskind, mid squad, (god, how I wanted to BE Julie!!) , dick cavet, all the talk shows, because they were really off the cuff and funny as hell then. Oh and Shindig and lesser degree hullabaloo. I lived that shingid commercial, when jimmy wld ask teenage couple, is your face clean? Really clean? Oh yes they'd say. Then the used the product that was being sold, and ewww! The cotton ball showed they were filthy! Lol. And they looked properly upset too, like, ugh, i was gonna kiss him/ her??!! Dodged that bullet!!

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    1. We must be close to the same age auntliddy. I watched all of those shows too and I wanted Julie's (Peggy Lipton) hair. I danced around the living room watching Shindig and Hullabaloo. I never missed Bandstand and Soul Train too. I also remember the dirty cotton ball. LOL.

      I really loved the Saturday night line-up with Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart shows. I also loved That Girl. Marlo had the best clothes, hair, and make-up. My Mother had to go and ruin it by saying that wasn't all Marlo's real hair. Boo.

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    2. I'm around the same age too. I LOVED the Man from UNCLE. Robert Vaughn was my first crush. It's on ME tv now and I still feel tingly watching him. But I forgot what a silly show it was.

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  6. The ORIGINAL Star Trek.
    Aka, the ONLY REAL Star Trek.
    And Merv Griffin - especially if Totie Fields was on.
    I also watched Shindig and all that tommyrot, like Aunt Liddy.
    No one wanted a dirty cotton ball face - or wax build up on their floors,

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    1. Dick Cavett was one of my first crushes.
      There were three, simultaneously:
      Dick Cavett
      Jimi Hendrix
      Yul Brynner
      I was a weird kid.

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  7. There are just so many:
    Kids Inc.
    You Can't Do That on Television
    Double Dare
    Jem
    The Jetsons
    The Monkees
    The State
    Golden Girls
    The Cosby Show
    Who's The Boss
    Facts of Life
    Different Strokes
    Solid Gold
    The first Real World
    And of course, 90210

    There are so many more.

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  8. Jem, Are You Being Served?, Mr. Ed, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Dallas

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    1. Are You Being Served! Thanks for reminding me of my first introduction to old British sitcoms. I loved Keeping Up Appearances, too.

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    2. And Ghostwriter and Square One TV on PBS! How could I forget those? Mathnet FTW!

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    3. Was Ghostwriter the show about the kid who put on sparky gloves and a cape and peddled on a bike? He had to use reading skills and context clues to beat the bad guy? (I'm going to sound insane if it's not.)

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    4. @Colleen I don't remember that happening on the Ghostwriter I watched, but it's been years, so you never know :)

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    5. My bad...the show I was thinking of was called Storylords. It was ridiculous:)

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  9. dont forget Save by the Bell and California Dreams

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  10. Night court!!! Never missed it! Looooved it!

    Also, Candy! Candy! Saw it four times in a row.

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    1. I loved Night Court but didn't understand most of the jokes, like what did Dan mean when he said he was going home for some "peel and squeal?" Was he going to remove the plastic from Fruit Roll-Ups and make bird sounds? I really thought that's what he meant.

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  11. The Hardy Boys.
    (Parker was mine, Shaun was my BFF's)
    Happy Days
    When I was really little I always snuggled up with my Daddy to watch "Little House In The Prairie"- He loved that show as did I. (My mom and I happened across a re-run the other day and my mom said my Dad used to get tears in his eyes watching some episodes.)

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  12. Three's Company
    Carol Burnett and Friends
    Growing Pains
    Wonder Years
    Mickey Mouse Club - Tony and Kerri forever!
    My So Called Life
    That pretty much rounds up my youth in TV

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  13. Get Smart,
    Wonderful World of Disney
    Rocky and Bullwinkle
    The Dick Van Dyke Show
    Carol Burnett and Friends
    Romper Room and Mickey Mouse Club (younger years of course)
    Captain Kangaroo (same)
    Monkees
    McHale's Navy
    F-Troop
    Hogan's Heroes

    ~ good times~

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  14. I forgot to mention Family Ties and General Hospital. Do soaps count? Kills me how GH has totally gotten all fucked up in recent years. And the 2 p.m. timeslot. For shame!! The Quartermaines. The Scorpios. Lucy Coe. Sonny as a strip club owner. It was BANANAS back in the day.

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    1. I would watch that in the afternoon by hiding behind a chair in our den. I loved everything about it. I had the board game and thought Barnabas was the scariest thing on TV.

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  16. Oh, can't forget My Favorite Martian. Loved that show!

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  18. Ewoks
    Moonlighting
    Simpsons
    Twin Peaks
    I loved NYPD Blue - even though I was eleven when it started.

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  19. When I was really little I loved the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch

    Oh and you can watch the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew on Netflix. Woohoo!

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  20. In order of age:

    Home and Away
    Family Ties
    Out of this World
    Who's the Boss
    Beverly Hills 90210
    My So Called Life

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  21. Serious horror fan from a young age
    The Night Stalker
    Night Gallery
    Creature Features
    Twi Light Zone

    All these programs were after school shows that came on before dinner time:
    Bewitched
    I Dream of Jeanie
    McHales Navy
    Gilligan's Island
    Hogan's Heroes
    Beverly Hillbillies
    The Brady Bunch
    The Partridge Family (had a crush on David Cassidy)
    Star Trek (the original)


    The only video game we had was PONG so we grew up watching a lot of basic TV (no cable). Shit - no remote control on the kid's TV set, just a knob and 3 channels. Yeah, I'm old.

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  22. Tom and Jerry cartoons. I watched them all through my childhood, and I still watch them today.

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  23. Pink Panther cartoons
    Scooby Doo
    Mork and Mindy
    The Groovy Goolies
    Buck Rogers
    Battlestar Galactica
    The ATeam
    Hardcastle and McCormick
    Forever knight
    Buffy
    Still love vampire shows. I've been rewatching True Blood. I REALLY miss Eric Northman. I'd let Skarsgård do some real bad things to me. Hell, I'd probably PAY him to.
    (Sorry Mr. Snarky.)

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  24. Bonanza..especially Little Joe. Ed Sullivan was big because I lived in a town that didn't have cable tv and I didn't get to see BandStand or Hullabaloo, or Shindig unless I went visiting my Grandma, who really wasn't all that into my viewing choices.Mod Squad was huge, and the Monkees. My mom's favorite show was The Fugitive. She had a mad crush on David Janssen and we watched everything he was in.

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  25. Married With Children, love me some Bundys. Four touchdowns in a single game, baby!

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