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11/06/09
11/06/09
As a survivor of 70's TV, I can tell you it was more of a Dead Sea of deadly dull. The weed-hazed weirdness coming from Sid and Marty Krofft provided some of the few exceptions. How many bongs were named after H.R. Puffinstuff? #krofftsuperstore
11/06/09
11/05/09
What *was* it with the seventies and conflicting Bigfoots? #krofftsuperstore
11/05/09
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11/06/09
Do not fuck with my choldhood. They were AWESOME. #krofftsuperstore
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11/05/09
I wonder what the holiday parties were like at ABC around that time ...
Now all they need is the Wookie cast of Star Wars Holiday Special to join them and they have a bonafide community here ... #krofftsuperstore
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11/05/09
All this time, I was thinking it was because Regan sold out the embassy in Iran, and the "liberal media" sold Carter out to Regan. #krofftsuperstore
11/05/09
Oh, and of course, there was the vicious crotch-punch that was FootBoy and BigMan or Sasquatch 'n' Friends or whatever the hell that was. #krofftsuperstore
10/30/09
I hate the majority of US televison shows. The actors and actresses with few exceptions are pretty and vapid. They just cannot act. Too many female characters are portrayed as fashion-obsessed airheads. The males are portrayed as douchebags.
The actors and actresses in the UK look more like real people. "Spaced" was the first televison show I could actually relate to as a female geek. I am Black and there are no Black geek characters on US televison except that horrible Urkle character from "Family Matters". "The IT Crowd" is a UK show has a Black geek character named Marcus Moss.
I hate shows like "Desperate Housewives" , "Girlfriends", and "Gossip Girl". "Ugly Betty" is the only US show I actually bother to watch.
I read they are planning to remake "Shameless" which is one of my other favorite UK shows. The very "Britishness" is what makes shows like "Being Human" and "Shameless" unique. Americans know so little about other cultures. We have to "Americanize" everything. This madness has to end! #beinghuman
10/29/09
10/29/09
Siffy, not so much... #beinghuman
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10/29/09
like i have been saying many times we need new scifi not remakes #beinghuman
10/29/09
How about, if something is good, you release it in the states? Doctor Who has found a gigantic following here, so much so that BBC America has started airing things concurrently. So why can't SyFy just buy Being Human's syndication rights and air it here instead of trying to make it over again?
I feel the same way about the Americanized version of Top Gear that keeps faltering here in the states. Top Gear can't be brought over because there can be no imitation of it. It's those three hosts and that format specifically that makes the how what it is.
I haven't seen Being Human yet, but I imagine it's the same way. British networks air American shows instead of making their own versions, don't they? Aside from game shows I mean. I'm sure that they loved Stargate and Babylon 5 just as much even though it wasn't made on their shores. Can't we return the favor?
10/29/09
The pilot/prototype eppisode thing was a lot more fun, imho.
Its certainly no "Jeykll" #beinghuman
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