Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2002 6:20 AM
From: "NeuroManson" <1llabruf@tsewq.ten>
You know, what show hit a nerve, what inspired your
path, what drove you to
who you are now?
For me, it was Lost In Space, where at 3 years old,
I was stomping through
the house chanting 'Kill, Crush, Destroy!!!' (circa
1972)... That, and Space
1999 when I was 5... Star Trek was too cerebral and
boring when I was a kid,
I liked gritty, get to the skullfuck shows... 6 Million
Dollar Man was a
fluke later on, since I was a relatively powerless kid
with a bunch of
asshole adults that I wished I could decapitate with
the flick of a
finger...
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From: "Col. Sphinx Drummond" <sphinx@subgenius.com>
The Classic Jerry Van Dyke, er, vehicle, My Mother The
Car, was of monumental
importance in my early developmental stage. The fact
that someone could get the
green light on a project about a guy whose dead mom
is reincarnated as a 1928
Packard was profound in nurturing a keen sense of bulldada
in the young Sphinx.
I can't remember a single episode and there were few
but somehow knowing that
someone actually got it on the air at all, I was led
to believe that anything
was possible. Of course there are many others, few though
were more
underwhelming.
Supercar was the coolest show when it came out because
it wasn't like a regular
cartoon or claymation but instead it was puppets, marionettes
rather. However, I
was never really into the Sid and Marty Kroft stuff
that much... it was okay but
not cool like Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation stuff.
-Col. Sphinx Drummond TWSR
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From: "Ricky Nielsen" <rickyn@lor.net>
Green Acres, Get Smart, Outer Limits & Twilight Zone
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From: Kopi Luwak <kopi@plopmail.com>
i blame 'monty python's flying circus', 'soupy sales',
and some
concert i saw on teevee where iggy pop [then stooge]
jumped off the
stage and started smearing peanut butter all over the
crowd.
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From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)
Steve Allen, Joe Pine, Twilight Zone, Ed Sullivan (with
Topo Gigo AND the
Beatles, how could we lose?), World of Disney (Davey
Crockett - he smoked a
corncob pipe and grinned a raccoon out of a tree - every
kid needs a hero).
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy was on Canadian
tv in the 70's, as was the
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
Now, I like the Simpsons, King of the Hill, and sometimes
South Park. There may
be a pattern there...
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From: "Pater Nostril" <hotfoot@inamenospam.com>
A formative show for me was Col. Bleep
What kind of mind formed a universe saving team headed
by a bubble helmeted
alien assisted by a living marionnette and a caveman?
Those were the days!
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From: YarkMeaty@Bahooga.com (yard man)
>You know, what show hit a nerve, what inspired your
path, what drove you to
>who you are now?
we had a lot of cars. They were all pretty shitty.
And they all
seemed to come back to the same place, even when that
place was a
different place, and least when we were lucky enough
to have them run
long enough to keep the old man from kicking stuff and
calling a
wrecker, just so we could get home in time for the Bell
Tellerphone
Hour. I liked "Sea Hog" myself. But it wasn't
in colour, so it didn't
count.
Might now. But I haven't checked.
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From: bctimes@hotmail.com (Forrest)
Does early TV exposure to "The Magic Christian" count?
"Oh, no!"
"Oh, yes."
"Out! Get out of my galley!" *crack*
"I say! -- Do that again!"
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From: mshotz@aol.comnospam (James T. Rex King of the Monsters)
Three Stooges, Get Smart. Monty Python, Gilligan's Island, 60 Minutes
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man
"Just think, the next time I shoot someone I could get arrested!"
Lt. Frank Dredin, "The Naked Gun"
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From: Reverend DJ Epoch <nunyabiz@noway.com>
The Ernie Kovacks Show, Soupy Sales and Monty Python.
Anything so
totally "outside the box" of the deathly-boring
normalicy that resided
inside the insipid pinkness that was my parents' abode.
Damned cocktail
parties, mom playng the piano, dad playnig his oh-so-hip
drum set
(snare, top hat and base drum) and of course their overly
embalmed
friend who had to sing along in total disharmony at
a DB level
sufficient to shatter glass and a kid's psyche. Martinies
and scotch on
the rocks spilled on so much furniture I never worried
about getting s
disease as all the alcohol had likely killed any germs
(benevolent or
otherwise) inside that house.
Gawd the place during a party looked like a bad adaptation
of "The Dick
Van Dyke show" crossed with "An evening at
Hugh Hefner's" durnig the
60's. All it needed was Bobby Troup on piano and Julie
London singing
torch songs to make it into a passable entertainment
series, but my
parenal units didn't know anyone that cool. I had to
settle for
"Smothers Brothers" rejects.... feh.
LONG LIVE THE NAIROBI TRIO!
--
Rev. DJ Epoch
"This Church is so big on titties that it's almost
mandatory for all our
front doors to have knockers." - Paul E. Jamison
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From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>
1) "Fireball XL5." I was too young to understand
quite why Venus gave me a
stiffy. I sure wanted to fuck her, but didn't grasp
it yet. In retrospect, I'm
relieved to realize I wasn't on the road to being gay
because Howdy Doody did
nuttin' for me, but that green foil-y suit and that
Nordic, blond-haired
marionette hair....unh unh unh unh...!
Guess that really phallic spaceship had something to
do with it. Scary, too,
though, because the HEAD OF IT CAME OFF once in a while.
2) Having a high fever and seeing "Ren & Stimpy"
25+ years before it actually
existed.
3) A 1965 special on the Atomic Bomb, the last thing
on before TV went OFF at
MIDNIGHT. When it ended, there was a Nestle's commercial:
"Nestle's makes the
very best, chooooclaaate!" Then the test pattern
with the Indian chief in the
center of it, in full headdress.
Back then, nukes, candy and the genocide of indigenous
peoples didn't go
together casually like it does now.
SO! Early sci-fi, insane cartoons, ironic socio-political
horror and BOOM, the
budding young "Bob"Gland is triggered. And
it keeps gettin' BIGGER ALL THE TIME,
EIEIEIEIEI!!!
HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Get on, get in, get off, get out
"Years ago, authors predicted that information
would become so plentiful
that we would no longer pay for it..
instead...we'd pay to be shielded from it
"
- Paul Lehrman
"What I look forward to is
continued immaturity followed by death."
- Dave Barry
"Plain women know more about men
than beautiful women."
- Katharine Hepburn
How to Diaper a monkey. No, really.
http://mommensj.web2010.com/
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From: "glassgnost" <dlindnerSPAMBLOCKED@socal.rr.com>
The Adams Family. I loved *everything* about that show.
> For me, it was Lost In Space, where at 3 years
old, I was stomping through
> the house chanting 'Kill, Crush, Destroy!!!' (circa
1972)...
I watched that one a lot too. I didn't get into Star
Trek until later in
life, I grew up in a rural area where nobody ran the
show.
FWIW, I think that Lost in Space got as much right regarding
technology as
Star Trek, but quite by accident. I remember one episode
where Mr. Robinson
was joking with the Mrs. that his only real job on the
ship was to cut the
lawn and change the lightbulbs, to which Mrs. Robinson
replied that the yard
had no grass and the lights were all *transistorized*.
Well, LED clusters
are getting to be commonplace on L.A. city vehicles
and traffic signals.
--
What would you do if the people you knew
Were the plastic that melted
And the chromium too? - Frank Zappa
- dlindner (at) socal (dot) rr (dot) com -
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From: iDRMRSR <alex.i.thymia@depression.org>
Dr. Frank Baxter from the
Science Fiction Theater!!!
http://swapsale.com/newpage17.htm
Down the page a spell...
[*]
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From: wbarwell@starbase.neosoft.com (William Barwell)
>Supercar was the coolest show when it came out because
it wasn't like a regular
>cartoon or claymation but instead it was puppets,
marionettes rather. However, I
>was never really into the Sid and Marty Kroft stuff
that much... it was okay but
>not cool like Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation
stuff.
>
When's very youngun, it were Andy Devine's kid's show,
"Twang your magic
twanger Froggy! Boinngggggggg!"
Pinky Lee.
Twilight Zone. Ask Mr. Science. Heckle 'n Jeckle cartoons,
in a negative
way. I learned that shlock existed from these losers.
Bugs Bunny taught me subversion.
Cheap science fiction movies on Saturday late evenings.
Frankenstein, the Mummy, The Thing, and Godzilla.
Giant tartantulas and gila monsters.
If it gave you BADDDDDD dreams, it was a GOOOOOODD movie!
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope of Houston
Slack!
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From: priestesspisces@hotmail.com (Priestess Pisces)
when i was a wee little girl.. mama and i used to watch
lots of teevee
together.. mainly twilight zone, and old horror-flicks...
also lots of
mystery movies.. Especially agatha christie poirot stuff..
some
sherlock holmes stuff too... but i recall mostly watching
twilight
zone and horror flicks...
daddy and i watched football and baseball alot on teevee...
but i dont remember much else we watched together..
however i do remember that- whenever something was wrong..
and daddy
and i were out by ourselves.. (like mama was sick or
someone was in
the hospital, or someone died) daddy always took me
to arbys and we
got roast beef sammiches...
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From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>
HR Pufnstuf. Although I can't remember watching it.
My mom tells me I was
glued to that TV so hard I wouldn't even eat breakfast.
The Electric Company: now THERE is a show I can retrodig.
I get all misty
when I see those wonderful hippy cartoons done by small
time animators, and
I remember Tom Lehrer's cartoons like "silent E"
and "L-Y", and of course
"It's a word! It's a plan! It's LETTERMAN!"
and "1-2-3! 4-5-6! 7-8-9!
10-11-12! Ladybugs 12 on the ladybug picnic."
I don't know, I think the
Electric Co. had that Yetigene zapping ability.
Land of the Lost. It wasn't a learning show, but it
was most definite kid
CRACK. I haven't seen it in over twenty years and I
saw the video releases
in the local geek shop...
alliekatt
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From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>
>>If it gave you BADDDDDD dreams, it was a GOOOOOODD movie!
Anybody remember "The Crawling Hand?" Great
BadFilm. Astronaut is rounding
Jupiter and SOMEthing gets IN THE CAPSULE. He's ALIVE,
even though the capsule
is open to space. Aieee!!!
He BEGS them to use the auto-destruct, but noooo....the
ship blows up on
re-entry, turning him into spaceman souffle and the
HIDEOUS, BURNED HAND runs
around like Charles Addams' Thing, strangling people,
creeping up on sleeping
women (so it could maybe fuck 'em with its index finger,
thanks for the
diddling, Superman) and poking out eyes. A guy finally
stabs it with an icepick
and gets the wiggler into a box, which he throws from
the Golden Gate bridge.
And naturally, some kid fishes it out and opens it
so the words THE END can
jump out.
Not the worst flick I ever saw, but back then, it scared
my dumb kid ass as
badly as "Psycho" did. Now if a disembodied
hand running around like a big
silverfish and strangling people isn't a golden bit
of Sub-kitsch, well, then
kill me.
HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Satori: after the pizza & the sex,
but before the ice cream
"Ordinarily he was insane,
but he had lucid moments
when he was merely stupid."
- Heinrich Heine
We are all failures-
-at least, all the best of us are.
- J. M. Barrie
"We're not ugly, we just stink!"
- "SpongeBob Squarepants"
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From: Geoff Bronner <geoff.bronner@dartmouth.edu>
I had a huge Starblazers phase... everyday before school.
Aliens
attacking from space made SENSE to me.
Other things appealed later in life... Star Trek in
all 31 flavors,
Monty Python, the usual geek fare.
-G
--
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~geoffb/>
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From: fossil_1984@hotmail.com (The Anti-Reagan)
The plot thread from "The Six Million Dollar Man"
that revealed
Bigfoot to be a bionic alien.
M*A*S*H
MTV, back when they actually played videos.
The last man on the moon. The resignation of Richard
Nixon. The last
plane out of Saigon.
--
The Anti-Reagan.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
That one Ruff N Reddy that had a dinosaur in it, when I was 4.
You didn't see many dinosaurs on TV, ESPECIALLY Saturday
Morning kids'
shows, in 1957. My generation of monster fans fixed
that BUT GOOD.
Actually I think when I was 4, about the same time,
I saw MIGHTY JOE
YOUNG on a tiny TV at my grandfather's place in Connecticut.
The image
of the giant ape horsing around with the cowboys who
were trying to
lasso him stuck with me apparently.
From the age of ? to 15 my life was devoted to learning
to make monster
movies, specifically stop-motion monster movies. THE
CHURCH OF THE
SUBGENIUS taken as a whole is actually the most complicated
stop motion
monster movie in history, it just doesn't LOOK like
it yet.
I met the guy who animated that ape in MIGHTY JOE YOUNG,
Ray
Harryhausen, several times, and the last time, he even
angrily quizzed
me about "Bob" when I tried to get him to
do a station ID for THE HOUR
OF SLACK.
The second monster movie I saw, this time on my parents'
TV, was THE
GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN at age 4. This film opens with
Igor the hunchback
atop the crumbling Frankenstein castle walls, fending
off angry
villagers who are cursing and threatening him for being
weird and
different. He later digs The Monster from some crumbling
sulfur and
uses the shambling undead retard to wreak vengeance
on the normals who
made fun of him. (And hung him, hence his bent neck.)
I don't think television influences children much, do you?
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From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
> I don't think television influences children much, do you?
Not sure. What's your hunch? (Snork.)
--
%
There is no nu-monet there is only Zuul.
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From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infi.net>
Oh, man, people have already mentioned a lot of what
warped my
little brain: Colonel Bleep, Lost in Space, My Mother
the Car,
Supercar, Ruff and Reddy...
Growing up, we seemed to pick the worst shows to watch.
I can
recall the theme to My Mother the Car (and it was a
1928 *Porter*,
Col. Drummond); some of the plots, and the recurring
villain (a car
collector played, by Avery Schrieber, who only needed
a 1928
Porter to complete his collection). Actually, it was
a terrible
show, but not the worst on TV as it's rep makes it out
to be.
There was also "It's About Time" about two
astronauts
traveling back to that strange prehistoric time when
man and
dinosaur supposedly coexisted (one wonders how many
Creationists were influenced by this one). There was
also
"The Baileys of Balboa", which wasted Paul
Ford and
Sterling Holloway. And "My Living Doll",
with Julie
Newmar as a robot. Oh, we watched some real stinkers.
I thought Supercar was cool. Also Fireball XL-5, and
Stingray.
I vaguely remember catching Ernie Kovacs and thinking
"What's *this*?". The German singing "Mac
the Knife"
made no sense to me at all.
And of course there were all those Warber Brothers
cartoons.
Does anyone remember "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger"?
Paul E. Jamison
--
"There's more pressure on a vet to get it right.
People say 'It was God's will' when Granny dies,
but they get *angry* when they lose a cow."
- Terry Pratchett
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From: "SubHadj Pugmon" <oldhob@hotmail.com>
Anybody remember "The Lost Saucer"? Jesus
Christ what were they thinking?
What was I thinking?
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From: "NeuroManson" <1llabruf@tsewq.ten>
Well, later on it was Star Trek, Dr Who, Twilight Zone,
Outer Limits, Lathe
of Heaven, Logan's Run (inspired me to think of my right
hand in a
completely different way, and I ain't talking about
the lifestone, my first
rated R movie), Battlestar Galactica (who here did NOT
root for the Cylons,
especially when BG 1980 aired?), The Martial Chronicals,
everything done by
Sid and Marty Krofft before the 80's/90's, the old Brit
series shown on
Nickelodeon 'The Tomorrow People' (with the interesting
origin of Adolph
Hitler being a shape changing psychopath from Neebor),
Star Trek, the
Animated Series (which for a cartoon by Filmation no
less, had the highest
ranked actors/writers for a TV cartoon), and any dystopian
sci-fi series
(Eden 2, misc other J.L. Coon/Roddenberry spinoffs),
The Invaders, Battle of
the Planets (it was incredibly easy to screen out 7
Zark 7, that fuggin R2D2
wannabe)... At 5 I got to see Bakshi's Wizards as my
first real foray into
adult animation to boot... Cute elves eviscerated with
hails of bullets,
hell yeah!
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From: "SubHadj Pugmon" <oldhob@hotmail.com>
No 'Prisoner"? I remember watching that and Monty
Python after bedtime with
the sound turned down low on a crappy black and white
T.V.
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From: "NeuroManson" <1llabruf@tsewq.ten>
I was only able to get access to a decent amount of
The Prisoner and Monty
Python once I moved to the west coast in 1988... Otherwise
it was mostly
sporadic viewings, most of my Monty Python fixes were
their albums and
movies... Besides, it took a while for my humor gland
to evolve
sufficiently, I was mostly into stoner comedies like
Cheech and Chong and
the occasional crappy teen film when I was younger,
and trying to fit in...
That asides, being from a poor family as a kid, I didn't
have a VCR until
1987, and TV (rabbit ears) reception in the south Bronx
being shit, couldn't
record any of the good stuff when I was fortunate enough
to catch a clear
broadcast day...
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From: Dr. Codini <Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever>
> Battlestar Galactica (who here did NOT root for
the Cylons,
>especially when BG 1980 aired?),
Damn! now that REALLY makes me feel old...I worked on
that show.
I've still got a model of one of the Cylon saucers that
the guys in
the model shop gave me.
One of my earliest recollections was seeing the movie
"the Beast with
five fingers" the local station would run movies
in the afternoon and
would run the same movie all week, everyday, for 5 days.
I watched it
at a friends house but I all ways missed the end because
I had to go
home for dinner. So I ended up watching it all 5 days
to try and catch
the ending. Scared the hell outa me...it was great.
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From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>
>My first R movie was the Magic Christian, the overall
theme of it had quite an
>influence on me...plus titties.
And seeing people dive into a giant swimming pool filled
with shit for monetary
gain prepared me for a lot of what I would face in the
adult world of both
politics and employment. But at least it was honest
shit and not PINK shit. BTW,
if you ever discover that you've taken a pink shit,
see a doctor ASAP. Fire in
the hole and all that.
HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Composer of
"14 Filthy Scat Rondos No One Wants To Hear"
"Sad what one pound of LSD can do to a human
brain."
- said of Paula Orridge
You have to see the world for what it is
A circus full of freaks and clowns
and you'll never please everybody
its a well-established fact
I recommend a fifth of Jack
and a bottle of Prozac
- "ProzaKc Blues",
King Crimson
With all the resources available to you
as a director, every day is an opportunity
- Ron Howar
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From: "Ricky Nielsen" <rickyn@lor.net>
forgot one used to love "the Invaders" show
when i was about twelve/
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From: "NeuroManson" <1llabruf@tsewq.ten>
Dang... Almost forgot, Americathon!!! AMERICATHON!!!
A dystopic futuristic
comedy written by two of Firesign Theater's troupe,
far closer to predicting
the future today than anything else produced in the
70's/80's hump...
Especially the clown shoe fashion trend and people living
out of their cars,
but otherwise employed and maintaining a living...
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From: wbarwell@starbase.neosoft.com (William Barwell)
Snork! Memories.....
When I was but a small sprat, aged 8, my brother 7,
Mom
would stuff a few dollars in our hands and drive us
to Tulsa's Circle Movie Theater for a double feature
of monster movies and popcorn and cokes.
We saw the great bad films there. The Blob, I was
a Teenaged Werewolf, Creature from the Black Lagoon,
the
works. This'd be back in like 1957 - 59 ect.
So it had that aura, you know? 200 screaming kids,
sticky
floors, the smell of stale popcorn and sugar babies,
old upholstery and empty cardboard candy boxes.
We got a good afternoon out and Mom got an afternoon
free
of us.
And the best part was of course color, which back then
wasn't to be had
on a TV set.
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope of Houston
Slack!
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From: "Col. Sphinx Drummond" <sphinx@subgenius.com>
Our mom used to drop Philo and myself off in front of
the Bellaire Theater,
circa 62-65, to watch some really great crap, The Brain
That Wouldn't Die,
The Gorgon, The Skull, Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens...
It seemed that
every other one had either Peter Cushing or Christopher
Lee, or both.
-Col. Sphinx Drummond TWSR
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From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>
> It seemed that every other one had either Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee, or both.
So did my favorite sitcoms. They were way better back
then, before PBS started
showing those video suppositories full of bumbling British
bad tooth farms.
However, I would kinda like to bang that plumper vicar
on that thing whose name
mercifully escapes me. Yep, hump a vicar, that's the
way to go.
HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
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From: Dr. Codini <Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever>
> Yep, hump a vicar, that's the way to go.
I remember seeing my first tit shot on PBS, in "The
Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie" It was a bath scene I think
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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
The Brady Bunch. That taught me to hate everything.
I came from a
largish family so we all had to watch what the majority
wanted to
watch and we always watched the Brady Bunch. I fucking
hated that
show.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
Spelling I can deal with; I have friends on AOL.
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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
>I had a huge Starblazers phase... everyday before
school. Aliens
>attacking from space made SENSE to me.
I remember that one, that was pretty cool. They had
those big 'wave
motion guns' and they would find some excuse to fire
them off at least
once a show.
I hated the weird anime characters but I liked the big guns.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
"So what if a piece of wood discovers it's a violin?"
-A.Rimbaud
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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
>forgot one used to love "the Invaders" show when i was about twelve
I never saw the show but that was the first book I ever
read, a
novelization of the show or whatever it was.
The idea of this character who is completely alone and
can't trust
anybody in the world and occasionally gets in scrapes
and wastes a few
of the aliens appealed to me immensely.
--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com
No, World War Two isn't a fact.
- Blue Rajah
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From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infi.net>
Do they still do kiddie matinees? I can vaguely remember
going to them
once or twice in the early 60s. The film my brother
and I saw was no
great shakes (something about some Mexican kid with
a pet monkey and
some bad guys), but the previews for coming attractions
were great!
Some live-action film with actors dressed as a skunk
and a wolf, who
were supposed to be good-guy Musketeers or something.
It had to
be a Mexican import like the kind K. Gordon Murray released
in this
country. I can remember seeing TV promos for "Rumpelstiltsken"
(and so what if it's spelled wrong?), "Little Red
Riding Hood" (with
the wolf and the skunk again), "Santa Claus"
and its American
response "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians".
I'm the proud owner
of the last two on video.
*sigh* They don't make cheap, crummy little movies like
that anymore.
Now they make big, expensive crummy movies.
Paul E. Jamison
--
"There's more pressure on a vet to get it right.
People say 'It was God's will' when Granny dies,
but they get *angry* when they lose a cow."
- Terry Pratchett
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From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infi.net>
> I remember seeing my first tit shot on PBS, in
"The Prime of Miss
> Jean Brodie" It was a bath scene I think
For me it was "An American Family". Somebody
was drawing a nude
model in art class.
Paul E. Jamison
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From: "Paul E. Jamison" <pauljmsn@infi.net>
I almost forgot - the old George Reeves "Superman"
show. Like the flying scenes - I was too young to
recognise mediocre special effects. Same thing with
the Commando Cody serials - I thought the flying scenes
were cool.
Paul E. Jamison
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From: "glassgnost" <dlindnerSPAMBLOCKED@socal.rr.com>
> Lathe of Heaven
I just had a look, and reel.com has it for sale on DVD
at $20. Also, IMDB
says there's a new version in production for 2002.
--
What would you do if the people you knew
Were the plastic that melted
And the chromium too? - Frank Zappa
- dlindner (at) socal (dot) rr (dot) com -
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From: IMBJR <imbjr@imbjr.com>
> the old Brit series shown on Nickelodeon 'The Tomorrow
People'
> (with the interesting origin of Adolph Hitler being
a shape
> changing psychopath from Neebor),
(that series had some of the coolest sig music) I still
remember a
plot involving a painting that was jest plain evil somehow.
I dieted on cartoons, but when I catch them now on Boomerang
(Cartoon
Network's retro limb) I think "Why did I watch
that?".
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From: Lou Scannon <scannon@lmountain.com>
>There was also "It's About Time" about
two astronauts
>traveling back to that strange prehistoric time
when man and
>dinosaur supposedly coexisted
"it's about time
it's about space
It's about the whole darn human race..."
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From: IMBJR <imbjr@imbjr.com>
I hated the Muppets because it was shown on a Sunday
evening (and in
my youth, Sunday was a very dead day) just before I
had to go to bed
with nothing but the thought of school in the morning.
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From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@devnull.ilbbs.com>
Family says, very young, I only paid attention to the
commercials, and left the room when the shows came on.
I don't remember this, but don't doubt it either.
Later, Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes, Batman, Speed Racer.
Once reflected that early favorite cartoons didn't have
any dialogue: Pink Panther, Tom & Jerry, Roadrunner.
Keep quiet and carry a lot of hidden gadgets, I guess.
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From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>
I gotta say, one of my most influential TV experiences
was visiting a pal in
Bellaire, Texas right after he had a big satellite dish
set up, one of the
mega-expensive jobbers before it was real for Normals.
We watched some West
German porno that was VERY influential. I didn't know
Germans could DO that
stuff. Ain't them women got no regular backbones? They
were doin' SNAKE woman
stuff! Yeah, that influenced the FUCK outta ME. I went
home and influenced my
dick until it had a red place over it for a week. Yeah,
YV may rot yer mind, but
it can also lube yer pubes.
I also wanted to bang Alice from "The Brady Bunch,"
in front of that skanky
goody 2-shoes Marsha if possible, but that's another
and much SICKER story.
HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Not always the smoothest lager in the taphouse,
but sincere
"My job requires mostly masking my contempt
for the a$$holes in charge,
and at least once a day,
retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off
while I fantasize about a life
that less closely resembles Hell.
- "American Beauty"
"It was a miracle AND it was gross! Cool!"
- "The Simpsons"
It is not a lack of love,
but a lack of friendship
that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ultimate Net truth, rated R
http://www.poblan
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From: Dr. Codini <Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever>
> I went home and influenced my
> dick until it had a red place over it for a week.
Did you have to rent an engine hoist to lift your gargantuan
belly up
first?
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From: Dr. Codini <Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever>
>*sigh* They don't make cheap, crummy little movies
like that anymore.
>Now they make big, expensive crummy movies.
They still make 'em, they just go strait to video
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From: wbarwell@starbase.neosoft.com (William Barwell)
I am on some stoopid Christian book/CD/Video catalogue
mailing lists, and there seem to be some rather crummy
straight-to-video Christian kid stuff around.
One wonders what a kid brought up strictly on this
stuff by tight-assed Christian parents will grow up
to be. Either a wierd TV preacher or a serial rapist,
I suspect.
Or after a rampant midteens revolt, joining the Church
of
the SubGenius and becoming a nudist and champion of
psychadelic
drugs.
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope of Houston
Slack!
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From: "Ricky Nielsen" <rickyn@lor.net>
> The idea of this character who is completely alone
and can't trust
> anybody in the world and occasionally gets in scrapes
and wastes a few
> of the aliens appealed to me immensely.
occasionally? he wasted a handful every show/ in retrospect
it is kinda
unusual that they could travel all this way and an architech
could
continually outsmart them.
Had pretty good special effects for sixties tv / the
pilot episode is
available on vhs
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