Andy used to work for AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) and brought the “something different every hour” format with him.
Because our parents hired him to be our live-in nanny.
Punky was named after a real-life childhood friend of NBC programming head Brandon Tartikoff. They had to get permission from the real Punky to use the name. I’m not sure if the real Punky was actually Penelope, although the televison one was. The in-joke was that Punky’s dog on the show was named Brandon.
What about the daughter on Boy Meets World? Cory’s sister. She disappeared for a season or two, I think, then reappeared, telling her mother that’d been alseep for a LONG time.
One, she had no musical talent whatsoever. Two, every escapade she gets into ends in hilarious disaster. So he was saving himself a heart attack by not letting her perform but giving himself an ulcer by having to hear about it daily.
I thought he was the building’s landlord or super. I seem to remember him collecting rent a time or two.
I believe that Agent 99’s real first name was “Karen”. I just saw this episode a few nights ago on TVLand.
Also, I do remember the cartoon “Shmoo”. I loved him! He was so cute! I believe that Shmoo was a spin off from the cartoon that had the rock monster, a taradachtyl (sp?), two shmoos, and a human family living in a cave or something. Does anyone remember what that show was?
Also, on “Magic Garden”, where did Paula and Carol live? And where did Flapper come from?
The Herculoids, as seen here…
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1087.php
Larry Mudd
Just reviewed the DVD. The characters enter the forest and look in a vaguely upward angle. Cut to a shot of two owls sitting on a branch. The Lion turns to leave and the Scarecrow and Tin man grab him and haul him back. There is no lightning flash. They characters look in what appears to me to be a somewhat different upward angle. Cut to a shot of two vultures. The sound track includes separate calls for the owls and the vultures and the trees on which they sit look like different trees to me. So I don’t think the owls turn into vultures.
I have also never seen a canon TP reference indicating that the owls were a reference to this scene. Do you have a cite?
Lagomorph
There was a DJ named Bucky who worked some of those hours (I think he worked the shift before Johnny’s). And of course at least some of the airtime was alloted to Brother Ed (or was it Brother Little Ed?) who sold John the Baptist shower curtains and such. Plus the station may have gone off the air at night.
Lyllyan
Gloop and Gleep were not Shmoos. They were, as your cite notes, “shmoo-like creatures.” The original Shmoo is from the comic strip “Li’i Abner.”
Who doesn’t anyone remember Automan. (Or liked it, for that matter?)
Come on…this car and chopper were cool! (Ok, it only lasted 12 episodes…)
The mom (what’s her name, Devin?) got some disease, she got put into cold storage and then the series ended. So we don’t know if they got a chance to leave the planet and the kid/alien contact was never explained.
Did Ubu ever sit?
Automan turns up on Sci Fi Channel’s “Superheroland” programming every couple of months. I can’t believe that I don’t remember it from its original airing because it would have been just the sort of thing I’d have watched in the mid 1980s. But MAN, does it ever suck.
Oh, another unanswered question I had was, why didn’t Jarod (the Pretender) ever just expose The Centre to the media? He had boatloads of evidence of all sorts of illegal chicanery, not to mention being able to testify to his own kidnapping and wrongful imprisonment, so why not just go to the cops too? I bet if his mom saw him on the news she’d probably give him a call.
She had her own show for a season and a half.
I heard that Columbo’s first name was Philip, but I can’t back that up by any means.
Dr Who?
In Mercia? The coconut’s tropical. Mercia’s a temperate zone!
Not only that, but how is it that the government doesn’t know anything about The Centre? My guess is that the federal government would want to shut down any organization that threatened their monopoly on horrible experiments and information hoarding.
The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
I’m pretty sure they never did give it. In one episdoe she was going to quit to get married, and used the name Susan Hilton. WHen Max said he never knew her name was Susan, she said “You never asked.”, but at the end, when the groom-to-be was revealed as a nefarious KAOS operative, Max called her Susan, and she said it wadsn’t her real name.
IIRC, there was a brief Flintsones cartoon from the 80’s, probably, in which Fred and Barney were police officers partnered with a Shmoo. I have no idea how they came up with that one. (Then again, what was a shmoo doing in Dogpatch?)
Also, the TSR sci-fi game (Star Frontiers, I think) allowed you to play various races, one of which was very shmoo-like. I never played the game, but I did create a shmoo character.
As for Twin Peaks, several characters discuss what BOB is in the episode after the incident with the sprinkler system. (That sentence is very vague, but hopefully spoiler-free.)
As for “Invitation to Love,” I think it was partly based off of the SCTV soap parody, “The Days of the Week.” The bad guy character on ITL, Montana, was IIRC dressed exactly the same as the bad guy character on DOTW, Rocco.
–Cliffy
Ah, but do we believe them? Are any of them right?
Are you suggesting that cokey-nuts migrate?