childhood on the internet.
i spend about 89% of my work day looking for things to do so that i'm not sitting around, twiddling my thumbs. so today, while farting around on youtube, i ran into a few priceless clips from NINETEEN-EIGHTY-SEVEN. OH. EM. EFF. GEE.
and by priceless, i mean SUPER priceless. the show i've posted below only ran for a few years, and most of the episodes are probably lost. it's never been released on DVD. it's never been re-aired. it was amature at BEST and the stuff the talked about and covered THEN would be torn to pieces today. there were firing squads, pinko commies, corrupt adults who talked about which kid was their favorites, a cafe owner who put rats in his burgers, and lots and lots of green slime.
of COURSE, i am talking about You Can't Do That On Television. the episode posted here is about adoption. awesome.
i realize this is a shitty second post for NaBloPoMo, but i used up all my creative powers writing my angsty private/friends-only entry from earlier. c'est la vie.
ps: for those of you with writers' block (ahem. me.) - i suggest picking up a copy of maggie mason's book which is pretty much a whole fuckton of writing prompts for bloggers (i hate this word, i can't even tell you how much i hate this word. it ranks right up there with "panties" on a list of words i don't like. it makes me feel icky.) who can't think of anything. when it FINALLY GETS HERE, you can bet your sweet collective bippy that i will be using the hell out of it.
AND. AND. if you're curious as to how freaking massive NaBloPoMo has gotten, it's now listed among the NaNoWriMo spinoffs on wikipedia, which is more than slightly badass.
and by priceless, i mean SUPER priceless. the show i've posted below only ran for a few years, and most of the episodes are probably lost. it's never been released on DVD. it's never been re-aired. it was amature at BEST and the stuff the talked about and covered THEN would be torn to pieces today. there were firing squads, pinko commies, corrupt adults who talked about which kid was their favorites, a cafe owner who put rats in his burgers, and lots and lots of green slime.
of COURSE, i am talking about You Can't Do That On Television. the episode posted here is about adoption. awesome.
i realize this is a shitty second post for NaBloPoMo, but i used up all my creative powers writing my angsty private/friends-only entry from earlier. c'est la vie.
ps: for those of you with writers' block (ahem. me.) - i suggest picking up a copy of maggie mason's book which is pretty much a whole fuckton of writing prompts for bloggers (i hate this word, i can't even tell you how much i hate this word. it ranks right up there with "panties" on a list of words i don't like. it makes me feel icky.) who can't think of anything. when it FINALLY GETS HERE, you can bet your sweet collective bippy that i will be using the hell out of it.
AND. AND. if you're curious as to how freaking massive NaBloPoMo has gotten, it's now listed among the NaNoWriMo spinoffs on wikipedia, which is more than slightly badass.