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="Frayed Knot":2xw2x7vk]It didn't seem that way at the time, but sometimes reading this place I swear I must have watched less television than anyone.
Either that or I have just zero recall.[/quote:2xw2x7vk]
I watched tons of television, but I don't remember these shows. They may have come after our time.
Plus I was more of a Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour kind of kid (the opening below was the same, but the show I remember didn't feature Tweety so much) -
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seawolf17
Jun 17 2009 11:35 AM
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Wait! Finally something I recognize! Maybe the rest of you are just way old.
This was more my speed:
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 17 2009 11:35 AM
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I think the emphasis on Tweety came later, once the networks started feeling pressure from people concerned about the awesome level of violence in RoadRunner cartoons (and all those kids dying as a result of strapping rockets onto their backs in an attempt to move faster).
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Swan Swan H
Jun 17 2009 11:45 AM
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This effort may not have had any impact on violence, but it did reduce the sale of anvils by 57%.
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Edgy DC
Jun 17 2009 11:49 AM
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I wan't trying to post my favorite show, heavens to murgatroid, just some cheap odd shit that somebody reminded me of.
Think of how cheap production values had to be on a live action show to compete with the fare Hanna-Barbera was slinging in the seventies.
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metsguyinmichigan
Jun 17 2009 12:12 PM
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I remember "Big Foot and WIld Boy" I think when Big Foot jumped, it made sounds like the Six Million Dollar Man.
Seems like it was cut from the same cloth of "Isis," "Shazam!" and other live-action shows of the day that weren't from the Sid and Marty Kropf, drug-induced puppets with Johnny Whitaker stuff.
HR Puffenstuff, Signumd and the Sea Monsters and the Bugaloos -- Sid and Marty were into some heavy stuff!
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 17 2009 12:16 PM
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Lidsville. Creepiest shit ever.
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soupcan
Jun 17 2009 12:35 PM
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I remember 'Isis' ("Oh, mighty Isis..."), have little recollection of 'Shazam' and absolutely loved 'Sigmund & The Sea Monsters'.
About 10 years ago I went to a comic convention with a friend and among the 'personalities' signing stuff and talking with convention goers was Johnny Whitaker (big, fat and old), the kid from Puff n Stuff (don't remember his name - Jackie something...?), Mike T.V. from the original Willie Wonka movie (looked exactly the same except taller and completely bald) and one of the guys from the original 'Battlestar Galactica' series (could his name have been Dirk Benedict or something like that?).
My friend Fred starting talking up the Battlestar Galactica guy about a book he had written relating to a vegan diet which, according to Battlestar Dude, had helped him beat cancer. Turns out my friend was a huge fan of this guy's book and the highlight of the convention for him was talking to the guy. Who knew?
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Edgy DC
Jun 17 2009 01:14 PM
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Dirk Benedict turned out to be in interesting guy and --- buy his story about the vegan diet or not --- by most accounts was near death's door before rebounding.
Sid and Marty weere so powerful after scoring primetime success with <i>The Donny and Marie Show</i> and then <i>The Brady Bunch Variety Hour</i> that ABC turned over like three prime hours of Saturday morning programming to <i>The Kroft Supershow</i>, featuring heavily repeated episodes of <i>Wonderbug</i>, <i>Electro Woman and DynaGirl</i>, <i>Dr. Shrinker</i>, and, yes, <i>Bigfoot and Wildboy</i>, interlaced with transitional segments from Captain Cool and the Kongs, a kid-flavored glam band fronted by a flambouyant hybrid of Fonzie and Vinnie Barbarino.
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metsguyinmichigan
Jun 17 2009 01:55 PM
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="soupcan":214wa98l]I remember 'Isis' ("Oh, mighty Isis..."), have little recollection of 'Shazam' and absolutely loved 'Sigmund & The Sea Monsters'.
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"Shazam!" had a kid named Billy and some old guy driving around in a Winneabgo, and when Billy needed to do something, he'd say "Shazam!" and turned into a tall, beefy guy named Captain Marvel.
As a young Batman devotee, I dismissed the whole thing as crap. Superheroes do not drive Winnebagos.
I do remember loving a show called "Marine Boy" and have not been able to find out much about it today, other than that it was a dubbed Japanese show.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 17 2009 02:05 PM
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Shazam! always bothered me because it was obvious the kid and the superhero were not the same actor... I don't think there was even any attempt to say they weren't.
I also thought Shazam was a much better name for the superhero himself than the dorky "Captain Marvel"
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themetfairy
Jun 17 2009 02:12 PM
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What about Gigantor (the Space Age Robot)?
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Frayed Knot
Jun 17 2009 02:17 PM
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Gigantor I remember. I don't remember anything about it, but I remember it existing at least and that intro.
Other than that I'm totally lost in this thread.
Sometimes I think there are shows whose intros I watched but not the show. Drew Carey's show was like that.
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Triple Dee
Jun 17 2009 02:18 PM
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For the greatest word to orginate from Saturday mornings;
unglamor-rays
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 17 2009 02:19 PM
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One year ago yesterday.
We're really making progress here.
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themetfairy
Jun 17 2009 02:23 PM
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="Frayed Knot":34w0jwfi]Gigantor I remember. I don't remember anything about it, but I remember it existing at least and that intro.
[/quote:34w0jwfi]
That's about all I remember of it as well.
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Farmer Ted
Jun 17 2009 03:38 PM
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The Magilla Gorilla-Grape Ape Show.
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MFS62
Jun 17 2009 07:10 PM
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| ="soupcan"]I remember 'Isis' ("Oh, mighty Isis..."), have little recollection of 'Shazam' and absolutely loved 'Sigmund & The Sea Monsters'.
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What red blooded American boy who saw her doesn't still remember Isis?
IIRC the actress who played the title role was named Johanna Cameron, and she was HOT!
Anybody else remember Sky King, Caotain Midnight (no, not Steve Sommers, but he used the intro) and The Lone Ranger? Those shows were my Saturday morning viewing.
And, wasn't Land of the Lost also on Saturdays?
Later
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Willets Point
Jun 17 2009 07:23 PM
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I remember a show called M*U*S*H, a parody of M*A*S*H set in the arctic with all the characters being huskies. One of them was named Cold Lips. It was run in a show with other cartoons, one of which was called Fraidy Cat.
I'm pretty sure I'm not hallucinating this.
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Frayed Knot
Jun 17 2009 07:33 PM
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="Farmer Ted":1x7g3ky4]The Magilla Gorilla-Grape Ape Show.[/quote:1x7g3ky4]
I remember when Magilla had an afternoon "show" with not only his cartoons but also those of 'Ricochet Rabbit and Deputy Droopalong' plus 'Mushmouse & Pumpkin Puss' (a blantant countrified Tom & Jerry rip-off).
Have no memory of 'Grape Ape' though. Or 'Isis', or 'Sky King', ... 'Captain Midnight;, ... or 'Land of the Lost' ... or 'M*U*S*H'
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Vic Sage
Jun 18 2009 12:26 PM
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with regard to GIGANTOR and other saturday morning (and weekday afternoon) anime, see the SPEED RACER thread in the movie forum.
| ]In the mid-60s, US broadcasters starting buying Japanese "anime" (cartoons), and dubbing them into English, for domestic audiences.
After their initila runs, these shows, including Astroboy (1963-66), Gigantor (1964), Tobor the 8th Man (1965), Kimba the White lion (1965) and Speed Racer (1967-68), went into syndication on weekday afternoons from the late 60s into the early 70s.
They were unlike anything else i'd seen, and they had a huge impact on me, especially Speed Racer. The show had a subtext about family and honor that marked it as particularly Japanese in its cultural viewpoint, and a level of violence uncommon in u.s. kiddie fare. The Mach 5 was the coolest car ever, Spritle had a monkey for a playmate, and oh, that song! |
| ]Battle of the Planets (1978-1985) was part of the second wave of anime, cashing in on the SF craze caused by STAR WARS. This second wave washed over the US in the 1980s with shows like Gundam (1979), Starblazers (1979), Transformers (1984), Fist of the North Star (1984), Robotech: Macross (1985), Lensman (1987), Ranma 1/2 (1988), and Dragon Ball Z (1989). |
| ]The Third Wave of anime, if anyone cares, can be seen in the invasion of Pokemon and YuGiOh in the late 90s, through the present day. |
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jun 18 2009 12:48 PM
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Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics, anybody? Actually, my cousins and I used to actually bet on this... eventually incorporating lines/spreads (I was really good at backalley math as a kid, apparently).
There was a moment in the early-to-mid 80s where they pretty much reran everything from the early-to-mid 70s. Not only do I have most of this stuff in the memory hopper, but a weirdly sharp recall of most "Schoolhouse Rock" and the stuff from the House of Krofft as well.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jun 18 2009 01:01 PM
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The problem with the Laff-A-Lympics was that it wasn't really funny, in the same way that a Battle Royal in pro wrestling sounds like a good match but isn't usually good either.
Pretty much any Scooby-related show that wasn't the original was a complete pile of steamy fresh crap.
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seawolf17
Jun 18 2009 01:18 PM
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| ="John Cougar Lunchbucket"]Pretty much any Scooby-related show that wasn't the original was a complete pile of steamy fresh crap. |
Well, that's not entirely true. Any Scooby-related show that attempted to deviate from the Original Five as part of the "gang" was a complete pile of steamy fresh crap.
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Edgy DC
Jun 18 2009 01:27 PM
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="Farmer Ted":2ysz47de]The Magilla Gorilla-Grape Ape Show.[/quote:2ysz47de]
Magilla was never paired with Grape Ape. It would have been a redundant ticket.
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Kong76
Jun 18 2009 01:28 PM
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Edgy DC
Jun 18 2009 01:33 PM
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="Frayed Knot":1velzazf]Have no memory of 'Grape Ape' though. Or 'Isis', or 'Sky King', ... 'Captain Midnight;, ... or 'Land of the Lost' ... or 'M*U*S*H'[/quote:1velzazf]
Amazing. Like 30% of the ROM in brains of males 30-55 is devoted to <i>Land of the Lost</i>
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jun 18 2009 01:39 PM
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="Edgy DC":25kcr6si]="Frayed Knot":25kcr6si]Have no memory of 'Grape Ape' though. Or 'Isis', or 'Sky King', ... 'Captain Midnight;, ... or 'Land of the Lost' ... or 'M*U*S*H'[/quote:25kcr6si]
Amazing. Like 30% of the ROM in brains of males 30-55 is devoted to <i>Land of the Lost</i>[/quote:25kcr6si]
Something like 30% percent of my nightmares as a kid involved Sleestaks.
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Edgy DC
Jun 18 2009 01:50 PM
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There you go.
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Frayed Knot
Jun 18 2009 02:31 PM
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="Edgy DC":cfvxl127]="Frayed Knot":cfvxl127]Have no memory of 'Grape Ape' though. Or 'Isis', or 'Sky King', ... 'Captain Midnight;, ... or 'Land of the Lost' ... or 'M*U*S*H'[/quote:cfvxl127]
Amazing. Like 30% of the ROM in brains of males 30-55 is devoted to <i>Land of the Lost</i>[/quote:cfvxl127]
Y'see, this is what I mean.
I'm hearing about Will Ferrell's new movie - which I guess involves a remake of this thing which simply EVERYBODY LOVED back in the day - except that I never heard of it or am drawing a total blank.
I got similarly lost in last week's discussion of 'Saved By the Bell'. I was totally unaware of that show until its run had been over for several years.
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Vic Sage
Jun 18 2009 04:04 PM
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saturday morning cartoons:
1966 is considered the beginning of the "golden age" of saturday morning network kiddie fare. The period theoretically stretched to 1988, by which time activists had declawed the shows of any violence, and video and 24 hour animation cable channels made the model more or less obsolete. My own "golden age" ended in 1978, when I went off to college, but 1966-78 is probably the richest period of this material anyway.
By 1966, networks realized that, in addition to rerunning theatrical, prime-time and syndicated cartoons (including the shorts of Jay Ward, Terrytoons, Warners, Fleisher, MGM, disney), they could also produce "limited" (i.e., crappy) animation and low-budget live action stuff for the undemanding kiddies in this time slot, and so turned to Hannah-Barbera to fill the niche. After H-B's prime time success with FLINSTONES, TOP CAT and JETSONS (not to mention their other hits HUCKLEBERRY HOUND, QUICK DRAW MAGRAW, MAGILLA GORILLA and JONNY QUEST), the H-B studio started churning out trippy superheroes for saturday morning consumption:
ATOM ANT, SECRET SQUIRREL, SPACE GHOST, FRANKENSTEIN JR/ THE IMPOSSIBLES, SAMSON & GOLIATH, HERCULOIDS, SHAZZAN, BIRDMAN, and MIGHTY MIGHTOR filled the schedule from 1966-68, mostly on CBS. As superheroes fell out of favor, they turned out their "racing trilogy": THE WACKY RACES, PENELOPE PITSTOP and DICK DASTARDLY & MUTLEY, before stumbling the perennial goldmine otherwise known as SCOOBY DOO. Their 70s output also included the kinky JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS, but the awful SUPERFRIENDS was the beginning of the end, marked by stuff like HONG KONG PHOOEY, JABBERJAW and CAPTAIN CAVEMAN.
Not to be outdone in the race to the bottom, Filmation studios put out shows that looked even cheaper than H-B, but lacked the humor and cleverness of H-B's better work. They mostly did licensed shows, like DC superheroes SUPERMAN, BATMAN and AQUAMAN, not to mention the live-action ISIS AND SHAZAM. Their most successful stuff was probably ARCHIE and all its various spinoffs, including SABRINA. FAT ALBERT, too, was a decade long hit. The scripts for the animated STAR TREK series made it one of the more interesting things they did, too.
Of course, they weren't the only ones doing superheroes. Marvel Studios was doing EVEN UGLIER, EVEN MORE LIMITED animation of its own titles, including Thjor Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and Sub-Mariner. THE FANTASTIC 4 got a bit better treatment, and SPIDER-MAN was actually a pretty decent show, with a great theme song.
The other major force in the "saturday morning" genre was the strangely trippy live-action shows of Syd and Marty Krofft. First, they did work on the live-action/animation variety show THE BANANA SPLITS. Then, they went completely off the deep end with HR PUFNSTUF, BUGALOOS, LIDSVILLE, SIGMUND & THE SEA MONSTERS and their epic LAND OF THE LOST. but they ran out of steam, with subsequent shows like FAR OUT SPACE NUTS, LOST SAUCER and ELECTRA WOMAN & DYNA GIRL.
And what does one make of a show like LANCELOT LINK, SECRET CHIMP, except that an ABC tv exec was dropping too much "window pane" in 1970?
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Kong76
Jun 18 2009 04:17 PM
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I forgot about Fat Albert, loved that show.
I used to do a mean, "Ib's a wambts to goebs and playbs sum babsketballbs"
to make the brothers laugh in the cafeteria.
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DocTee
Jun 18 2009 04:26 PM
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The Herculoids! Now that was a good show.
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Edgy DC
Jun 18 2009 05:52 PM
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Archie and Josie and the Pussycats were done by different shops? That's just wrong.
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Kong76
Jun 18 2009 06:05 PM
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Reading over the shows and stuff, I have to admit I was an elitist Saturday
morning tuner-inner. I had no patience for fringe shows.
Elitist, hah there's that word again.
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MFS62
Jun 18 2009 06:07 PM
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Nobody has remembered Johnny Quest?
Amazing.
Later
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Kong76
Jun 18 2009 06:17 PM
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Slightly before my time, my wife has mentioned that show a couple of times
but she has a slightly a few years on me.
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Willets Point
Jun 18 2009 06:33 PM
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I don't recollect most of these shows but I mainly watched Looney Tunes, Richie Rich, Fonzie and the Happy Days Gang, the aforemention M*U*S*H, and dare I confess - The Smurfs. Hated Hanna Barbera and their limited animation (and limited humor) even as a kid. Land of the Lost creeped me out. Seymour the Sea Monster creeped me out. Pretty much anything the Kroft Bros. made gave me nightmares. Luckily their stuff was not on Saturday mornings when I was a kid. I only saw that stuff on weekdays when I was home sick. I think it was encouragement to get better.
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Edgy DC
Jun 18 2009 07:24 PM
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If Sigmund and the Seamonsters could make a sick boy well, Lidsville could raise the dead.
That was The Munsters' Butch Patrick as the teenaged longhair tripping through Lidsville:
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Kong76
Jun 18 2009 07:26 PM
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Zero recollection of that.
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Edgy DC
Jun 18 2009 07:31 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 19 2009 10:25 AM
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Not knowing is probably a relative boon to your career.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jun 18 2009 10:39 PM
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How the fuck did any of you guys make it psychologically intact through the mid 70s? (I mean, Lidsville? Really?)
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Kong76
Jun 19 2009 10:24 AM
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LWFS: How the fuck did any of you guys make it psychologically intact through the mid 70s? <<<
I don't know about the others, but I didn't.
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Fman99
Jun 19 2009 08:16 PM
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I was watching scrambled porn on Saturday mornings as a kid.
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Edgy DC
Jul 18 2009 07:58 AM
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Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker reunited --- in the worst way.
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Vic Sage
Jul 20 2009 09:52 AM
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Filmation. Oy.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Jul 20 2009 10:44 AM
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THAT explains the cartoon "Ghostbusters" with the ape. (As an 8-year-old, I remember thinking, "Well, this must be some sort of cheap knockoff version," but being confused as hell as to why there was a gorilla involved.)
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