Comments | swimtech: I might be a sap, but I know good TV when I see it

swimtech

I might be a sap, but I know good TV when I see it

Feb 12, 2007 09:53

Warm-body duty again, this time in another office, down on Wall Street. As cubes go, this is pretty nice, because I've got a window that looks out onto a slice of the river. No one expects me to do much except for answer the occasional phone. Which is fine. I'm really glad I've got freelance work I can do simultaneously ( Read more... )

british science fiction, tomorrow people, karaoke

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oracne February 12 2007, 15:29:00 UTC

I remember seeing a few of the new TP (unfortunate acronym!) eps, and liking them...but not sure if they were GOOD, or I just liked them.

swimtech February 12 2007, 16:07:48 UTC

Well, here's the funny thing: the characters on the old show ALSO referred to telepathy as "TP." My friend and I definitely made the obvious jokes.

I actually did sorta like the remake. There was one where William Hootkins was a Texas cereal magnate with a terribly contrived accent and he built a weather machine. And then there was another one where Danny John-Jules was a possessed rock star. Can't really remember the others.

jendaby February 12 2007, 16:56:25 UTC

I love karaoke and would be happy to go out and sing with you sometime if schedules permitted!

I remember thinking John was cute when I watched TP back in the day, but always thinking that their clothes were horrible. I don't remember the shows dragging, but then we had commercial breaks, didn't we? I don't remember if early Nick did or not.

swimtech February 12 2007, 17:02:01 UTC

The clothes are dreadful. Those jaunting belts are definitely not fashion-forward; I remember they exchanged them for somewhat attractive bracelets a few seasons on.

Early Nickelodeon did not, in fact, have commercials. They also had about 4 shows: Pinwheel (a deadly boring show for young children that ran for 3 whole hours in the morning), Tomorrow People, You Can't Do That on Television (and why is that never rerun?), and The Third Eye (which, again, apparently no one watched but me).

jendaby February 12 2007, 17:27:03 UTC

My sister watched Pinwheel. There was another show called Today's Special that came on after it and was about a mannequin who came to life - it was a little kids show, too. I remember watching Paddington, Black Beauty, and Danger Mouse on Nick as well at that time. I would have watched The Third Eye, but my mom thought it looked scary and wouldn't let me.