More bad TV
Mar. 8th, 2008 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
derekl_1963Following links from a discussion on Usenet, and apropos to the discussions here this week (and well worth a read)...
The Six Freakiest Children’s TV Rock Bands.
It's pretty sad they had to reach into the 80's for the sixth, surely there must have been another truly freaky one in the same (early 70's) timeframe as the others? I seem to recall that such 'Prefab' bands were pretty popular among Saturday morning fare back then.
Ah, the poor kids of today with their entertainment available 24/7 on cable. They'll never know the joy of waking up on Saturday mornings and knowing that today is cartoon day! OTOH, they'll never know the annoyance of being yanked from their one day to do chores, or because Mom and Dad had plans for the day, etc...
Growing up in a big family was fun on Saturday morning though - it was ever an argument over who got to pick the cartoons. My mom, ever practical, solved this be creating a chore list we rotated through on a weekly basis and whoever was on dishwashing duty that week picked the cartoons on Saturday morning.
I almost typed 'controlled the remote', but remotes were pretty unusual back in the early 70's and we never actually owned a TV with one while I was growing up. I don't think I/we (that is Brenda and I actually owned one until the mid-late 90's.
The Six Freakiest Children’s TV Rock Bands.
It's pretty sad they had to reach into the 80's for the sixth, surely there must have been another truly freaky one in the same (early 70's) timeframe as the others? I seem to recall that such 'Prefab' bands were pretty popular among Saturday morning fare back then.
Ah, the poor kids of today with their entertainment available 24/7 on cable. They'll never know the joy of waking up on Saturday mornings and knowing that today is cartoon day! OTOH, they'll never know the annoyance of being yanked from their one day to do chores, or because Mom and Dad had plans for the day, etc...
Growing up in a big family was fun on Saturday morning though - it was ever an argument over who got to pick the cartoons. My mom, ever practical, solved this be creating a chore list we rotated through on a weekly basis and whoever was on dishwashing duty that week picked the cartoons on Saturday morning.
I almost typed 'controlled the remote', but remotes were pretty unusual back in the early 70's and we never actually owned a TV with one while I was growing up. I don't think I/we (that is Brenda and I actually owned one until the mid-late 90's.
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Date: 2008-03-08 11:34 pm (UTC)I'm surprised that there was no mention of my kid sister's favorite back in the day: the Banana Splits. There was weirdness for ya.
Or how about the live action Kids from C.A.P.E.R.?
Or The Archies, who actually had one of the biggest hits of 1969? ("Sugar, sugar")
Back in the day, it seemed like half the Saturday morning shows out there had a band, or like Scooby Doo, featured a big musical number in the middle of each show.
As a piece of "For what it's worth" trivia, that big nasty poleaxe I've fought with for years is named Long Tall Sally after an episode of The Beatles cartoon show that aired back when I was but a wee berserker. In that cartoon, they do a medieval bit, and before a duel, one of the boys (John?) says "Bring me Long Tall Sally" and he's handed a massive poleaxe. Cue music and hilarity ...
Gawd, I'm old ...