# My break-up with Kyan (but I'm OK)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 5, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881 "2004-01-05T21:52:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881/41 "2004-01-08T19:41:38Z")

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Brian doesn’t flame and he is convincing. Hal and Scott Lowell just don’t look comfortable in their parts - especially Hal Sparks. He seems to be reciting his lines in his head the whole time and then blurts out the line when he hears his cue. The love scenes with him are almost painful to watch he’s so stiff - and not in the right way.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881/42 "2004-01-08T21:32:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by LosAdri \*  
> \*\*Ted-boy (I watch this show religiously and have all episodes on my computer, why is his name not in my head?!) \*\*

Scott Lowell. [his website](http://scottlowell.com/) he mentions a play he’s written about John Wilkes Booth (in which he hopes to one day star); since I’ve written some fiction about him as well I’d love to read it.

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> \*\*On another random sideproject: Hal Sparks was one of the co-creators of “I Love the 80’s” and subsequent shows. \*\*

I had wondered. For somebody who got his start in stand-up he’s not particularly witty so I’d wondered why he was always on those shows. (Between him, Mo Rocca and Michael Ian Black, the sarcasm and smug factor of those shows is almost fatal.)

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881/43 "2004-01-08T21:43:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Sampiro \*  
> \*\* . . . the sarcasm and smug factor of those shows is almost fatal. \*\*

. . . Of course, one could say the same about the Eighties . . .

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881/44 "2004-01-08T21:59:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Eve \*  
> \*\*. . . Of course, one could say the same about the Eighties . . . \*\*

True, but the 80s also gave us _Punky Brewster_ and _Smurfs_ , so as Edmund Spenser once observed

_"Thou taketh the good,_  
_thou taketh the bad_  
_thou taketh them both_  
_and there hath thou_  
_the facts that are of life."_

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**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881/45 "2004-01-08T22:16:25Z")

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The Smurfs go back beyond the 80s. Smurfs made their first appearance in a story of Johan & Peewit in “Le Journal de Spirou” on October 23, 1958.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-break-up-with-kyan-but-im-ok/222881/46 "2004-01-08T23:46:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Homebrew \*  
> \*\*The Smurfs go back beyond the 80s. Smurfs made their first appearance in a story of Johan & Peewit in “Le Journal de Spirou” on October 23, 1958. \*\*

There are paintings of Punky Brewster and Brandon on the caves at Lascaux. (They were made by my cousin Norman during a 1989 visit there, but they’re there nonetheless.)

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