Way Back When…
I am the sound operator for a show that the Union House Theatre is doing at the moment called Rage Boy (I would link it, but I can’t seem to get the Union House site to work…) [I know, it’s just a blatant plug, but it is related, really]. Whilst at a technical rehearsal yesterday I started quizzing some of my fellow techies on late 80s and 90s pop culture.
I truly felt old when I mentioned shows such as Charles in Charge, Step by Step, and Jem and the Holograms and I found a sea of blank faces looking back at me. What happened to early morning reruns of bad TV shows? Now all we get is Dr. Phil, Oprah and Days of our Lives!
These terrible, and yet timeless, shows made us who we are. The youth of today are being brought up on DragonBallZ and Pokemon, instead of the most wonderful Samurai Pizza Cats and Power Rangers. By lasting through these hard times, we came out mentally hardened for our lives ahead. The road would be hard, we would have to fight pollution and suffering. But we realised that with our powers combined we could captain this planet through the worst of it.
We were prepared for unexpected shenanigans and wealth by The Beverly Hillbillies; given valuable life-lessons about school and growing up by Saved by the Bell; and the world was made ready for the Olsen twins in Full House. Not only that, we were informed about the evil wrong-doings of KAOS, and the way was paved for mobile phone technology by the repeats of Get Smart.
Those were the days…
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:20 pm
It’s Jem and the Holograms Will (but I’m outrageously honoured all the same!)
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Oops, typo, all changed now, sorry GeM!
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 am
all i got to say is “Woah! A Canadian penny! Now I can buy bubble gum! That is, if I go to Canadia. ”
thank you step by step… thank you Codeman… i am a balanced individual because of you
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:57 am
While, i’m here, just because I love 90’s nostalgia (tv or otherwise), the best bits from an email forward entitled “Growing up 90’s style”. :
> You know you grew up in the early 90s if:
> Cabbage patch kids were legitimate members of your family.
> You can sing the rap to the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
> You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you
> exchanged friendship bracelets.
> You were seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
> You pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
> You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
> You still get the urge to say “NOT” after every sentence.
September 3rd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Now this is the story all about how
my life got flipped, turned upside down
and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air
In West Philadelfia born and raised
on the playground where I spent most of my days
chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
and all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
when a couple of guys said “we’re up in no good”
started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
and said “you’re moving with your aunte and uncle in Bel-Air”
(Only the first three episodes of season one)
I begged and pleaded with her the other day
but she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way
she gave me a kissin’ and she gave me my ticket
I put my walkman on and said I might aswell kick it
First class, yo this is bad,
drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
is this what the people of Bel-Air livin’ like,
hmm this might be alright!
I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
licensplate said “Fresh” and had a dice in the mirror
if anything I could say that this cab was rare
but I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
and I yelled to the cabby “Yo, home smell you later”
looked at my kingdom I was finally there
to settle my throne as the prince of Bel-Air
yeah i’ve seen that e mail too
September 4th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Anyone remember DangerMouse?
September 4th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Clearly not in context.
I do remember Dangermouse in the context of the Grey Album though, wich will one day be classic…
And don’t tell me it’s because I’m youngun. It’s more likely because I was busy watching Speed Racer and Home Improvement.
Plus, I thought I asked you not to tell me that. Heh.
~SST
September 7th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Face width is to be randomly picked – it of course needs to be of a value that is logical
Welcome to my life…
September 8th, 2006 at 12:09 am
6 perhaps… it is 3^2 accroding to someone i know…