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I was soooo excited when my cable company first got the Cartoon Network. I was like "Oboy! Cartoons, 24 hours a day!" Well, then I looked at the line up. Dexter's Laboratory? Power Puff Girls? Courage the Cowardly Dog? What are these cartoons? And why are they all played like 12 times a day? Well, I was mostly disappointed by that network.
I just signed up for digital cable, and included in that is Boomerang. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! Yesterday I watched:
Valley of the Dinosaurs! Josie and the Pussycats! Godzilla! Superfriends! Galactic Guardians: The Super-Powers Team! The Arabian Knights! Thundarr the Barbarian! The Herculoids! Goldie Gold and Action Jack! (well, okay, that one was kinda dorky, but I can't believe that I used to watch it!)
And tonight I plan to watch the Fantastic Four and Jonny Quest!
I was so happy I almost did a little dance around my bedroom
Kids today think they got it so good. Give me 70s/80s cartoons in a heartbeat, baby!
Now if I can just get them to play "Drak Pack" and "Tarzan and the Super Seven" I'll be all set
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Ohh I want Boomerang too! What cable company are you using? We're finally getting converted over to digital but no Boomerang, just Cartoon Network.
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We have MetroCast in this area, although there is also TimeWarner Cable and Adelphia throughout Maine. The one thing I'm disappointed about is that we still don't have TVLand. You'd think that EVERYONE would have that one
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TV Land will be included in our new basic package, which will be fun. I'll have to call our company (Castle Cable) and find out why they don't have Boomerang in their offerings.
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Well, I watched Keeping Up Appearances the other night, but we used to get that on PBS, so I was familiar with it (I love Hyacinth).
I also watched Changing Rooms (I love the American version, Trading Spaces, so I figured I would like it too).
I watched part of The Office on Sunday, but I wasn't really getting into it. I saw that there was an Eastenders weekend recap on, but I didn't watch it... not sure if I wanna get hooked on a daily soap.
I saw a few minutes of some kinda talk show last night, with Cher on it. It wasn't So Graham Norton... I can't recall what it was called.
I also saw part of some show that involved a guy that was debating asking his girlfriend to marry him, and his ex-girlfriend was at some party and for some reason was nekkid except for a coat, and the guy's current girlfriend was pretending to be married to some guy, apparently to impress an old friend of his? I dunno... sound familiar?
I haven't really had a chance to really look through the lineup to see what's on. I know that there's a show called Jonathan Creek that my brother likes, but I haven't tried it yet.
You Brits are certainly more liberal when it comes to TV. Cher was telling a story about being at a party with Salvadore Dali, and she was holding some kinda toy vibrating fish, and he told her that it felt better if you put it on the vagina. I just can't see that happening on Oprah
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I adore "Keeping Up Appearances," it leaves me in stitches. It's a tie between Hyacinth and Onslow, frankly, as to who cracks me up more.
Also "As Time Goes By," with (now Dame) Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, and its witty writing about parted lovers who reconnect after four decades.
They're shown one after the other on Orange County's PBS station every Friday night, then on L.A.'s PBS station every Saturday night! Yowsah!
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My other favorite British comedy that we got on PBS was Are You Being Served?, although I have only learned recently that it was called something else in the UK. Mollie Sugden is a treasure, and her run as Mrs Slocum has got to be one of the funniest characters ever, in my opinion. Although it's nearly a tie between her and John Inman's Mr Humphries. Those two crack me up.
Unfortunately, we haven't had AYBS on PBS here for over two years. I miss it. Even though I've seen every episode several times, it never fails to entertain and amuse me
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quote:Originally posted by Princess Crujectra: You Brits are certainly more liberal when it comes to TV. Cher was telling a story about being at a party with Salvadore Dali, and she was holding some kinda toy vibrating fish, and he told her that it felt better if you put it on the vagina. I just can't see that happening on Oprah
I think that I may just remember this ancedote for all time. My only question, is how did Dali know??? I didn't think he HAD a vagina! And how does it feel if you put the vibrating fish on the penis, I wonder?
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From what I remember, Sonny, Cher and Francis Ford Coppala were invited to dinner with the Dalis. When they got there, there were people all over the place in various states of undress, whom Sonny and Francis watched while pretending to look at book about Dali's paintings.
Cher, determined not to look at the nekkid people, reached down in her chair and found a toy fish, with a tube and a hand pump attached to it. She found that working the hand pump made the fish flop around, which she found amusing. Dali spoke to her for the first time that evening, informing her that it felt even better when placed on the vagina. Cher then put the toy down, afraid of where it might have been, while Sonny and Francis were laughing hysterically behind the book
They went to dinner shortly afterwards in a nice restaurant, and apparently Dali's wife was getting too close for comfort to Cher. Cher told her if she didn't back off she was going to punch her. Ten minutes into the meal, the Dalis excused themselves, claiming to have forgotten a previous engagement. They then got up, walked over two or three tables, and sat down with other people
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Oh, btw... I just checked the BBC America website, and the show she was on was called Parkinson.
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quote:Originally posted by Greybird: Also "As Time Goes By," with (now Dame) Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, and its witty writing about parted lovers who reconnect after four decades.
I've seen this a couple of times and it's pretty amusing. And Geoffrey Palmer has the most... distinctive cheeks...
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quote:Originally posted by Princess Crujectra: I also saw part of some show that involved a guy that was debating asking his girlfriend to marry him, and his ex-girlfriend was at some party and for some reason was nekkid except for a coat, and the guy's current girlfriend was pretending to be married to some guy, apparently to impress an old friend of his? I dunno... sound familiar?
That was "Coupling" -- it's a pretty good show, imo. It's basically the British version of "Friends" which is actually being adapted into a new show on NBC this fall (talk about intellectual ping pong).
"The Office" is also very good - it's got that "Larry Sanders" kinda tone where the jokes aren't in the punchlines, but lie within the behaviour (British spelling since we're talking BBC) of the characters.
Way back when, I used to watch a bunch of British shows --- "Dr. Who", "Blake's 7", "Monty Python's Flying Circus", "Dempsey and Makepeace" etc...
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Oh yeah, I forgot -- speaking of "Coupling", "Friends" actually ripped off one of their plots this past season (the one where Chandler finds a tape of Monica and her ex and when they see it, it turns out he taped over her).
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NBC has actually been running ads for Coupling starting here in the new season. I don't know how much it'll vary from the Brit version but I'll probably give it a look.
I also LOVE AYBS and AYBSA. And how could you all forget Faulty Towers? Cleese and Company created one of the mose enduring comedies ever with that series.
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