Really?!? :eek:
My memory must be flawed, because I recall him speaking with that accent long before I ever heard of Steve Irwin.
I’ll take your word for it, but I prefer to remember Jim as Australian. Much more adventurous that way! 
I remember when the first toy story came out and because they based buzz lightyear on roger ramjet cartoon network decided to run it for a while …
it was a sort of military based rocky and Bullwinkle parody …tho gary owens narration provided most of the humor (which most would of would be protested today)
Count me in with the “Didn’t like Mr. Rogers” crew. Even as a kid, I knew this guy was a complete square. I used to ridicule him for putting on his “sneakers”. :rolleyes:
A friend of mine came up with a “system” for Scooby Doo. I forget what it was exactly, but something like, “It’s always the second person they meet” that turns out to be the bad guy. I seem to recall it was pretty accurate, for the most part.
This is hilarious! So true! When that show came on, you knew Saturday morning was over, and it was time to turn off the TV and go outside. Like an alarm clock, it was!
No kidding. Those telethons were unbearable!
My sister loved that show. What the hell was that crap about? And The Banana Splits? God, I hated that!
Suffering Psyche and Great Zeus! Wrong again! 
As for Clutch Cargo, I remember hurrying home to watch it in the afternoon when I was in first grade. (It was on Axel’s Treehouse, WCCO, Channel 4.) Even then I knew something wasn’t quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I saw an episode years later and said “Holy shit! That’s a real mouth on that sucker!” :eek:
The theme music is a real earworm, though. Almost sixty years later, I still sing it sometimes while I’m doing the dishes.
… And now it’s used every week on NCIS. :smack:
“Welcome to my neighborhood. God dammit, someone stole my sneakers!”
He sounded like Tony Soprano with his “Whatchgonnado, Herc? Whatchugonnado?” :smack:
The Three Stooges (I was never a fan of slapstick, even as a kid).
Laugh-In (still can’t stand that show. My dad used to watch it. I didn’t see the point as a kid, and now that I’m grown up and *do *see the point, I still think it’s stupid).
At least it helped me understand a gag on one of my favorite current cartoons, Milo Murphy’s Law, though, so that’s something.
Sounds great, like a lot of stations without cable. In 1989 in MD, when we moved from our apartment to a house with land one of the biggest trade offs was no more access to cable. That meant ONE channel - CBS - that came in clearly, fuzzy MPT (PBS), and occasionally very fuzzy ABC when the conditions were perfect and the antenna was angled just so suspended in midair.
So my most hated show was Rescue 911.
Lawrence Welk is an example of how to perform music with great technique, but no passion. I include Liberace in that genre, and Celine Dion to some extent. There’s a definite nostalgia effect at work; partly because that style used to be more popular, but it also conjures memories of big bands that used to play with great technique and passion.
Could you be confusing Jim Fowler with Hank and Roy Spim?
There was an old Dick Tracy cartoon that was cheap in a completely different way. Every episode started out with the same few minutes of animation, and mostly the same dialog. And then when Tracy would contact one of his partners on his wrist radio, the radio would be in front of his mouth. That way they could dub in new dialog and not have to reanimate his mouth. It was sort of clever, in its own way.
Danger Mouse did that quite a lot, too – they frequently reused animation, and would often have the characters speaking while their mouths were obscured (or in the dark). Apparently the creators acknowledged that it was a cost-saving measure.
Didn’t like Sesame Street - reason was basically that I liked cartoons, not puppets, as I recall. My sister says she found it repetitive. I only remember it because we watched it in class in kindergarten, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t like Bozo the Clown, either. I think I was probably grown before I ever heard of Mr. Rogers.
Sister liked Muppet Babies, I did not. I guess. I only remember this because I remember we split up our tv watching for half hour and I watched Jem and the Holograms. So at least I liked Jem better.
Did not like the Three Stooges at all. But all we had of them was one video tape. Don’t think I ever finished an episode (movie? don’t recall). I’m sure being black and white didn’t help me like them.
I mostly didn’t like old crappy cartoons at the time. I liked contemporary cartoons that were mostly equally crappy (early to mid '80s). I did watch Scooby Doo, but it wasn’t a favorite. Don’t know that I watched any other older cartoons (until years later when cartoon network came on the air), but when I saw them, I mostly didn’t like them. Never cared for Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies or the like except an odd fondness for Woody Woodpecker for some reason. I have no recall of what the content was or what era of the character I was watching back then. Not sure how long I watched those.
For my parents’ shows: I didn’t like Hee Haw. Don’t recall why. Same with Magnum P.I. And Equalizer. No idea why - could have just been for being boring, grown up shows that my parents watched. The first grown up shows I recall watching were 1987 and later. But these did run that late, and I wonder if I was just in that phase where I was starting to check out non-children’s tv, but these were some my parents watched that I didn’t, at a time when I only like one or two one-hour shows.
Oh yes, Lawrence Welk made me think I hated Big Band music because he was so treacly and unimpassioned. Some of it is both of those, but not always at the same time like LW, and I avoided big band for the longest time thinking it all was.
What, The Shat?!? :eek: No way!
He was a guest on David Frost’s syndicated talk show around 1970, and they let him conduct the studio orchestra in playing Frost’s catchy theme.
“Dreadful” is the only word I can think of to describe it.
Oh, no. It was definitely Marlon and Jim. I just don’t remember Jim being American, that’s all.
I had a girlfriend whose favorite partner in those cartoons was “the doggie policeman.” After she said that, it dawned on me just how odd Dick’s associates were.*
I wonder whatever happened to little Kim…?
*Kind of like the anthropomorphic dog-faced characters in Carl Barks’ Disney art.
I have The Partridge Family on right now. Back in the '70s, I never watched it much beyond the first season, so I missed the last one with four-year-old Ricky Segall, its version of “Cousin Oliver.”
Holy crap! :eek: What the hell were the producers smoking the day they decided to add him to the cast?!? :smack:
Let me count the ways…
Last evening
I woke from sleep in horror
'Cause I’d had an awful nightmare
That I was just a nameless average kid
Not famous, God forbid
With lots of girls not screaming
I’m glad I was only dreaming
'Cause I dig that I’m so big!
I think I love me!
I think I love me!
I did not like Green Acres. I referred to the actor who played the con man on the series as Pat Butface.
This is one of the gossamer threads that connects me to life these days. 
As far as the rest. Hmm. I remember liking the Cosby Show and Perfect Strangers. I detested Married with Children (I sort of understood satire, but I still hated it). I did, however, like Roseanne.