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Originally posted by Mr Sleep
Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men....need i go on, actually there are many other shows of this Ilk that i can mention, but this is a good example. One question on the subject of Bill and Ben, how gay were they?

LOL, but how many children's shows could get away with a character that says nothing but "weed" the whole time?

@CE The Wonder Years was an 80s (I think) US coming-of-age drama type thing, starring Fred Savage. I don't really remember much about it.

Originally posted by Georgi
@CE The Wonder Years was an 80s (I think) US coming-of-age drama type thing, starring Fred Savage. I don't really remember much about it.

And it's awful. 'Nuff said

Im returning from the link that Weasel posted and I think I have been traumatized for a while.

Well, in the best TV thread, Tybaltus just reminded me of a really bad show... Robot Wars - I guess building the robots does take some skill, but the show itself is moronic.

There was a truly horrendous children's series called Diver Dan, back in the 1960s, I think. It was all about a guy dressed up in what looked like a basic diving suit with a helmet, badly superimposed over something like water with a bunch of talking fish puppets, whose strings were very obvious. Each week, Diver Dan would get into danger, usually because Baron Barracuda (with a Dracula-like voice) had done something to him. Other fish would help free him.

It was truly as stupid as it sounds. I've since seen elsewhere that it received some kind of negative award as being among the least imaginative kid's series of all time. I can believe it.

@Georgi Ah. Im heart-broken you say that. Oh well. Again, I am more in favor of the destruction and the robots rather than the set-up of the show and the announcers.

@Tybaltus Even the robots aren't that interesting... from what I've seen, a certain design is obviously the best, and so variations on that one are always the ones that win, it's not really gripping...

Originally posted by Tybaltus
Im returning from the link that Weasel posted and I think I have been traumatized for a while.

** World Domination**


"Are you ready kids?
Aie aie captain..
Ohhhhhh who lives at the bottom of the sea?"

"Are you ready kids?
Aie aie captain..
Ohhhhhh who lives at the bottom of the sea?"

NOOOOOOO!!!! Stop! Stop the insanity!

UGH! Those evil, evil lines.

Originally posted by Kameleon


Imagine what could happen if they ever managed to get out of those flowerpots...oh scrap that, just check this out

' "Weed!" said Weed.' has become a favourite catchphrase of my friends and I...

What makes Robot Wars worse is that it's hosted by Craig Charles. Every time I've seen that show I've thought back to Red Dwarf and said to myself "How can one man sink so low from such heights?"
It almost makes you weep for humanity.

EDIT-"Absorbent and yellow and porous is he?"WTF?!

Any quiz show that plays mind games on contestants. When my wife and I hit the fitness center a few months back I saw something called "The Weakest Link," in which the contestants actually chose to throw out those among themselves who performed the worst. The MC meanwhile put on an ice-persona and asked demeaning questions meant to make the idiots look even poorer. IMO, that stinks: if I want a dose of believing the worst about the human race, I'll go watch some Bush Administration spokesperson.

Bump!

Well just thought Id bump my first thread that I created in SYM. Its a good topic, really.

Way back when....I had friends who made me sit through both "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed game*

*shudders at the memory*

Originally posted by dragon wench
Way back when....I had friends who made me sit through both "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed game*

*shudders at the memory*

ROFL I never really understood the point of having those shows even put on the air to begin with. I mean were listening to secrets of the lives of people we dont even know.

Originally posted by Tybaltus
ROFL I never really understood the point of having those shows even put on the air to begin with. I mean were listening to secrets of the lives of people we dont even know.

I know...I mean...I'm no prude...but IMO one's "private life" is exactly that....and in those situations the phrase, "too much information" comes to mind.....

Actually, it really amazes me, the kind of stuff that people are willing to publicly disclose on game shows or talk shows...or for that matter on forums.... but I guess some are less private than others

Originally posted by dragon wench
Actually, it really amazes me, the kind of stuff that people are willing to publicly disclose on game shows or talk shows...or for that matter on forums.... but I guess some are less private than others

Well its good for entertainment, the people think. And so they actually go out there are persuade people to talk about such things.

@Jae Survivor got old REAL fast. Days of Our Lives and Big Brother, I have never seen. As far as the sitcoms you mentioned before-yeah. Theyre real bad too. I think theyve been mentioned on the thread somewhere, though.

You all have seemingly glazed over

THE 80'S.

Small Wonder.

(The one where the girl stoped time by clapping her hands together forgot the title)

Pictionary?!?

Come now you have to recall the horrible horrible 80's..

thug

Re: You all have seemingly glazed over

Originally posted by RandomThug

Come now you have to recall the horrible horrible 80's..

Yeah. TV culture was bad then, I think. But at least the music was good.