I remember when I was kid-Iwas hooked on the old crappy Hopalong Cassidy shows on channel 56-most of the time they played religious rant prechers-but on Saterday they played hours of Hopalong Cassidy.
Golf and s**tty local tv waere on the other channels.It would be blizzarding outside.
My dad and Mary Jo would either be drunk playing cards or gone to Kalamazoo at the bars.
I had the tv.
Yeah-it was crap. But I loved it.They didnt even cut out the old ads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i35X7WwLo08
With a peanut butter and bananna sandwhich-I was in little kid heaven.
This is pretty much everything I grew up on that I either loathed even at the time and only watched it because of one aspect (usually the fact that it featured a cute dame), or I was innocent (or foolish) enough to mistake it for something resembling watchability. I also grew up on Barney, but I refuse to even consider listing a video alongside these. These three are bad enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Uwu8bZ9RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDHhPdHlBNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74HZHWGZUY
I hate myself.
As far as movies go, I recall liking the 1998 Godzilla dreck as a kid (likely because as much as I grew up on B-monster movies, I saw and knew little of Godzilla beforehand). That thing did however encourage me to seek out the Japanese films. So it was good for something.
My kid loved "My Life as a Teenage Robot!"
Poor, poor kid. :tongueout:
This ad from the early '90s, found on Paramount VHS releases, was super-annoying. I would always use the time to stock up on snacks or go to the toilet while this was playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5puvXKUh7w
Still, I miss renting videos :bluesad:
That is quite possibly the most boring ad I've ever seen.
IT GOES TOO LONG!
Most people pinpoint their generation by decades. I can be much more exact than that, withing a range of +/- 2 or 3 years.
Everybody my age has seen every episode of Saved by the Bell, despite the fact that it is one of the worst shows ever put on television. If I can sing the opening chords of "I'm So Excited" and get an immediate laugh, I know I'm well in my age range.
Don't feel bad for me, feel bad for those a bit younger than I am. Their show is Full House.
There were a couple of programs that kept me glued to the seat as a kid....and now I simply cannot believe I liked them. Lancelot Link-Secret Chimp....The Bugaloos....sad reminders that I sometimes had very bad taste.
Could it get any worse than THIS....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r23qjclPdYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlUIms7C08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go4L0A3jV-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpV19Ko1EK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pUFWumxo7Q
Quote from: tracy on April 23, 2012, 01:45:43 PM
There were a couple of programs that kept me glued to the seat as a kid....and now I simply cannot believe I liked them. Lancelot Link-Secret Chimp....The Bugaloos....sad reminders that I sometimes had very bad taste.
Yup. I remember these shows very well. I'd watch them on Saturday mornings, then go out and meet my friends and we would recite funny lines from the episodes or pretend we were the characters and re-enact that morning's show.
Quote from: The Burgomaster on April 23, 2012, 03:23:55 PM
Quote from: tracy on April 23, 2012, 01:45:43 PM
There were a couple of programs that kept me glued to the seat as a kid....and now I simply cannot believe I liked them. Lancelot Link-Secret Chimp....The Bugaloos....sad reminders that I sometimes had very bad taste.
Yup. I remember these shows very well. I'd watch them on Saturday mornings, then go out and meet my friends and we would recite funny lines from the episodes or pretend we were the characters and re-enact that morning's show.
LOL...I remember I wanted to look just like Joy when I grew up. Suprisingly that didn't happen. :teddyr:
Bad nostalgia? This is bad. Really bad. I love it; this is an example of why I frequent this site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9XIq8Ud2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBgk41vKZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZq6KH2ruQ
Frequently when there was little else on Sunday when I was a kid, I'd stumble across this - The Mighty Hercules.
I also recall watching these quite a bit...
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sky4JISh-k
Tales of The Wizard of Oz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqnui9dV9o
The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mkEHFeyzM0
Alongside these sometimes, one would find the classic late 60s Spiderman cartoon and Rocket Robin Hood but I consider those two shows much better than those above yet I have a soft spot for these because I grew up watching them. On rarer occasions I'd recall catching the following (when I visited my cousin who had cable)...
The Centurions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szjcCB8m3G8
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 24, 2012, 12:39:05 AM
Bad nostalgia? This is bad. Really bad. I love it; this is an example of why I frequent this site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9XIq8Ud2I
BTW... the music playing at the beginning of the scene is
"No.1 At The Blue Whale" on the TV soundtrack album (I have the soundtrack on vinyl and CD). Love Bad movies, Bad TV, and Bad music.
Quote from: JaseSF on April 24, 2012, 05:47:37 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBgk41vKZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZq6KH2ruQ
Frequently when there was little else on Sunday when I was a kid, I'd stumble across this - The Mighty Hercules.
Ack!
The Benny Carle Happy Hour, a ultra-cheapo local kiddie show only showed those awful
Hercules cartoons and the equally terrible
Sinbad, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9ChLFklk8
American International later turned the series over to Hanna-Barbera to produce, but it was still pretty terrible, even with its spiffier theme song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP4cf4Zn00E&feature=related
On Sunday Benny Carle showed us
Jot cartoons to try to teach us little heathens some morals. They came on right before the Sunday morning repeat of Shock Theater, allowing us to be throughly corrupted again before church.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-mXKe-mcs
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Alabama circa 1971:
George Wallace was governor and Channel 19 showed Little Jasper cartoons to us kiddies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxnDrs_Djnw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatMIFT4OjY&feature=related
For years I've had vague, disturbing memories of scary singing watermelons.
Now I know the source of this particular nightmare.
:bluesad:
Meanwhile... back at The Blue Whale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUt_7k9l3Ps
Back in 1970,my dad yanked us kids out of the foster home and moved us all into an old farm house on a dead end street in the boonies of Michigan.
In the upstairs bedroom me and my brother Mike shared was an old school desk-and in the drawer under the seat was a big stack of Superman comics from the 50's and early 60's.
Now old Superman comics had some of the stupidest,cornyiest storylines EVER.
Yet I read and reread this cheezy stuff alla time.
You would think stuff like that would entertain an 8 year old kid-and it did.
But you gotta remember-I was already starting to read more intelligent stuff-like Castle of Frankenstein magazine and the Warren line of comics.
But dam-they were just plain old fun.
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