And maybe slightly a matter of living in Houston after the Energy Crisis oil boom went bust. The only good that came of that was it taught the city the importance of a diverse economy, and it is much better for it now. Well, and maybe my mom (who voted for Reagan in '80) deciding "Reagan did more to make me a Democrat than any Democrat ever did."
Strangely my mom once said something similar, now she hates the democrats with a fervor, and she voted for Clinton because of Gore and she absolutely loathes him now. People are strange... anyway I think we got cable by '83 or '84, possibly earlier but my memory is pretty questionable pre-84 and reruns make it pretty hard to remember if you actually remember something, like I 'remember' all the fuss about 'Who Shot J.R.?' in spite of having been born all of about a month or two before it was revealed, meaning I actually remember various reruns of people making a big deal about it or people mocking it being such a big deal a few years later but I do remember the 'all a dream' crap firsthand.
I miss Carson; late night just has not been the same without the king. Been a while since I watched any of it much, but it seems like Letterman started phoning it in as soon as he got a 10:30 slot. Conan was about the only one I liked, and NBC managed to screw that up as well (Craig Ferguson still around? He seems OK.)
I recorded his final episode and still have it lying round somewhere, we'd just gotten our first VCR not long before that, I think it also has G&R's November Rain and Janie's Got a Gun on it. It's a pity in someways that talk shows don't really have a shelf-life, the jokes get stale and there's so much of them.
*returns from tangent*
We're BSing about nostalgia, that's pretty much all tangent
Really, we should consider ourselves lucky, because free-TV is still a wasteland in the wee hours many places. I still have a scar on my right index finger because my pocket knife slipped while stripping antenna wire so I could try to pull in Houston stations from 200 miles away in Austin. Twelve year olds can only endure just so much Charlie Rose.
31 year olds can only stomach so much Charlie Rose... I do remember that awful twinge of despair when younger during sans-cable phases when the anthem would start playing and I knew the late night crap was about to be replaced by static, but usually I did have cable and even then a lot of the stations would rerun Leno or whoever at 3 AM before the 5 AM 'absurdly low budget and abstract news' came on... farm reports or someone literally reading from a sheet of papers.
I remember invasion of the bee girls, but the memory seems more of a recent flavor so I probably watched it some time mid-90's or later, sort of thing they'd have had on USA up-all-night, though the plot of those are always pretty generic, be the chicks aliens, vamps, or zombies so its pretty easy to fill in the mental blanks. I'm like 3rd generation geek so I got raised on a lot TV weekend afternoon matinée crap
Yeah, pretty formulaic; boy meets girl, girl is a supernatural horror Hell bent (often literally) on global domination and/or mass murder, boy loses girl. Alternatively, boy must save girl from aforementioned horror. In my case, the best ones were actually late morning, when one of the local independents would do week long blocks of genre films, so I got to see all the Planet of the Apes films, Godzilla etc.
I hate every ape I see, from Chim-pan-A to Chim-pan-Z, no you'lll never make a monkey out of me... Oh my God! I was wrongm it was Earth... all along....
Yeah, I think I saw every poorly dubbed Japanese movie of turtles fighting rabbits with weird crap on in a train set that ever existed from those days.
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Test Your Geekdom, Vol IV: Name That Toon
13/03/2012 08:15:13 PM
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13/03/2012 08:18:27 PM
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These seem to be getting increasingly obscure... I suppose that makes sense in a way.
13/03/2012 08:49:04 PM
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Mostly a byproduct of why this quiz appears so soon after the last
13/03/2012 08:58:43 PM
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On this one more than all the rest, nationality will tell, I guess.
13/03/2012 09:03:12 PM
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That's probably a bit unavoidable
13/03/2012 09:24:39 PM
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Really not as unavoidable as you'd think, I would be inclined to say after that reply.
13/03/2012 10:26:42 PM
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Re: Really not as unavoidable as you'd think, I would be inclined to say after that reply.
13/03/2012 10:40:01 PM
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Re: Really not as unavoidable as you'd think, I would be inclined to say after that reply.
13/03/2012 11:02:18 PM
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I think you're being a trifle unfair
14/03/2012 12:19:41 AM
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From where I'm standing, you're the one who started taking things too seriously.
14/03/2012 07:26:53 PM
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16; not bad for a non-comic geek, IMHO.
13/03/2012 10:58:48 PM
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A lot are eponymous
14/03/2012 12:31:17 AM
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Do be a Do-Bee (DO, DO, DO!)
14/03/2012 01:08:49 AM
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Re: Do be a Do-Bee (DO, DO, DO!)
14/03/2012 01:14:50 AM
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Nostalgic parody, perhaps?
14/03/2012 10:51:14 AM
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That's probably as good as any other
14/03/2012 12:32:16 PM
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We never had cable; it was a matter of principle my family refused to pay to use our own airwaves.
14/03/2012 03:56:48 PM
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Weird principle since cable comes in on... a cable
14/03/2012 06:36:18 PM
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