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Nostalgia: the things you loved as a kid (mostly) sucked
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This didn't suck at all
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Danger Mouse
Thundercats
MTV actually having videos ( ;-) )
Also every time there was a Red Dwarf marathon/fundraiser thing on PBS i'd record each episode. That's why i've seen all the episodes of seasons 3-6 upwards of twenty times each, or maybe more.
The original Dragonball (also Z I think) and Sailor Moon totally aired on WB at some point in the mid-90s, cause I too didn't have cable till like 98-99 and I definitely remember watching a couple episodes of those at home (and even then, getting WB was a rarity with our equipment until like 97 or 98 cause we had mostly 2nd/3rd hand stuff)
I honestly do feel a slight bit of wonderment that my stuff these days is so reliable, and I have access to so much stuff with little to no effort.
My TMNT action figures are still in boxes in the garage and every time my niece is over for a weekend she wants to play with them.
The same year I got my Sega Genesis I got the Technodrome playset and that was pretty much one of the best Christmases ever for me.
and I had heard about Japanese cartoons, and somehow had also heard that some of them would feature naked boobs
so I sat and watched this entire ridiculous movie about superpowered schoolgirls, waiting desperately for it to turn into porno after every commercial break
it never happened
and that was, at the time, easily the greatest sexual disappointment I had ever suffered
like fifteen years later I mentioned this experience to a friend of mine
and described the movie in question
and he was instantly like, "oh yeah, Project A-Ko
that's a good one"
also friends at school speaking in hushed tones about Ninja Scroll
Except Ducktales which holds up reasonably well
Calvin and Hobbes is actually way up there
But I'm pretty sure one episode actually gave serious thought to the theory that aliens built the pyramids, so at least one of the writers was a moron.
all the rest were more shows that I caught other people's nostalgia for, and of those the main one that ever stuck with me was Transformers but that's mostly because I got into the IDW comics more recently and those redeemed a lot of my nostalgia which the Bay films had wrecked
Oh also Asterix, though I didn't own as many of those. Mostly I got them from the library.
Cannot remember it's name for the life of me. Was early 80's iirc
Ty, yep that was it, ya I remember that being a good show even if you weren't also shooting at it with the ships heh.
edit: Iirc it was kinda dark too for a kid's show.
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British kid's TV was pretty weird
Go with this feeling.
A few years back I found the full boxed set, all three series on DVD.
I've only made it through half of the first series.
It may not have been so painful if they had done some editing work, specifically cutting out the commercial lead ins, but trying to watch it now...
Maybe Netflix went the extra mile on that end, I don't know. But it's kind of hard to watch the show when every ten minutes it's "And now, back to Robotech!". Sorry announcer guy, this is 30 years in the future and I don't have commercials on my cartoon recordings anymore.
You Can't Do That on Television
The Third Eye
The Tomorrow People
Danger Mouse
Mr. Wizard
and, bringing up the end of the decade...
Double Dare
More shows need random word punishments tbh.
I liked those but I liked the Robert Aspirin Myth Adventures books more.
Silly digestible punny goodness.
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