Ok, everyone stand back. I’m now officially cool because:
I went to school with the girl from Small Wonder. Yeah huh. How you like me now?
Anyhoo, Small Wonder was made for the fledgling Fox station, not TBS. The actress’s name is Tiffany Bissette. She was in 6th & 7th grade when she filmed the show; and attended my junior high. We were in the same classes, we were both 7th graders. Of course, she was rather popular at first, but was really shy, sweet and soft-spoken so she forsook the in-crowd for 2 or 3 girlfriends instead. I always liked her. She was very petite, though, even for a 7th grader. She looked like 5th grader next to all of us. Harriet is the name of the annoying neighbor brat, not the Small Wonder cyborg, I forget the robot’s name.
Ok, that’s all I know. I’ll enjoy my coolness until it fades by the end of this post…
Anyone else remember a cartoon called ‘The Mysterious Cities of Gold’ or something like that? It was about this Spanish kid named Esteban and his two Indian friends flying around the New World in a giant golden condor looking for a lost city.
You’re right about the link, teppei. That was supposed to be a link to the IMDB. But right before I posted a friend of mine sent me a very funny link to the stileproject. Al Gore and Dubya were singing Unclefucker from South Park to a picture of Uncle Sam. I pasted the wrong link, and I imagine that the stileproject took the animation down, leaving the naked woman rubbing herself in its place. Oops.
I think so. Let me try this from memory before I go to IMDB. Wasn’t that the show that lasted for maybe three episodes, and was about a comic-book super-hero who somehow crossed over into our “real” world, a la Tom Baxter (“of the Chicago Baxters”) in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo?
The hero met a woman in our world who was helping him adjust to the uncertainties of living in three dimensions and unscripted outcomes.
Wasn’t David Rasche of “Sledge Hammer!” non-fame on the show?
Okay, now I hit “Submit Reply” and go to IMDB to see how well I did…
I’d just like to inject a bit of, um, higher culture into this discussion by pointing out that the theme somg quoted in the OP is a take-off of Swingin’ On A Star. The original song was sung by such luminaries as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, the latter in the Oscar-winning picture Going My Way?.
I was just thinking of When Things Were Rotten (Once upon a time whne things were rotten…I loved that show, although I think it was around for only a year, and I was probably about 8 at the time.
little*bit: Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings on Captain Kangaroo is my earliest TV memory. I was surprised years later when I saw it being narrated by some English guy instead of the Captain. Leave it to the Brits to create a cool cartoon.
Dangermouse, anyone? The greatest cartoon, period. (Just don’t talk to me of Bananaman or the DM spinoff Count Duckula)
Other forgotten TV classics:
The Greatest American Hero ([singing]Believe it or not, I’mmm walkin’ on air…[/singing])
Why doesn’t Nick-at-Nite pick this one up? I mean, they show A*Team…
Oh. My. God. Dangermouse! Of course I remember that! I haven’t thought of that one in years. Used to watch it with my dad. Thanks, Tygr. The Greatest American Hero was in syndication for a while - you’re right, Nick at Nite absolutely should run it.
Biggirl, I really liked Square Pegs. Sarah Jessica Parker as a nerd! I thought it ran for more than one season, though.
Lolagranola- I remember Throbb (To the beat to the beat to the heart beat) and hated it, even as such a young tyke.
Tygr- A Greatest American Hero movie is in the works.
Reality Chuck- you are indeed completely right. I was going to call you on it, but checked, and sure as hell Anne Ramsey had but one husband, Logan, til her death in 88. I swear to god I remember reading a tv guide article about the two of them when I was nine or so.
Gundy- I remember Beans Baxter. His dad was a spy who dressed as a mailman, and then he had to take over his dad’s work when the dad exploded (or did he really? can’t remember). My only two actual memories of the show are the cartoony logo and opening credits, and some really bad exorcist bit where a kid’s head rotated (very fakely) a full 180 in bed.
see you guys? If TV was your wire mother, don’t lose hope! you can serve a useful, if loseresque, function in society…
Ah, memories. “When Things Were Rotten” was a spoof of Robin Hood, written, I believe, by Mel Brooks and staring (among others) Dick Gauthier, Dick Van Patten and Bernie Kopel.
The Charmings took the cast of Snow White (minus six of the dwarves) and through some sort of plot device landed them in the 20th century. Not nearly as funny and didn’t last more than 4-5 episodes.
As for great shows, anyone ever see “The Tick”? Which is now being made into a live action film with Patrick Warburton (aka Puddy from Seinfeld?) And another bit of trivia, the voice of Arthur from the cartoon was done by Micky Dolenz of Monkees fame.
1 - Heading to the moon in his vehicle, which travelled at “Five times the speed of Mark Twain!”
2 - The world completely covered by custard until DM released the custard mite, which ate it all. My friend’s objection: “Haven’t they ever heard of conservation of mass?” I practically wet myself.
OK, this is probably going out on a limb here, but does anyone rememebr the cartoon about a highschool with monsters instead of people?? It was on maybe early nineties and it was on Fox Saturday mornings. One of the characters was a vampire with a leather jacket whoose locker was a coffin. I had a McDonalds toy of him. Anybody? I didn’t dream this, did I?
Does anyone else remember a show called It’s About Time ?
It was about two astronauts who somehow got transported back to caveman days. “It’s about time, it’s about space, about two men in the strangest place…” No one else around me seems to recall it.
