TGIF - balki explains “full house” to you
written by geoffrey on 07/18/08 leave a comment


gonna have some fun, show you how it’s done - TGIF!

in this TGIF bumper, balki explains the plot of full house and declares his love for the show. larry seems more or less indifferent.


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“meego”: don’t mind-rape girls with time-stopping watches
written by geoffrey on 07/15/08 1 comment


in 1997, bronson pinchot (perfect strangers) went from foreigner alien to outer space alien in the retarded, (mercifully) short-lived series meego.  the good news is that the show taught us one important lesson, as demonstrated in the following clips:

meego’s watch helps a loser kid score with a hot girl.

the kid realizes he shouldn’t mind-rape girls with meego’s watch.

it’s important to be liked for the right reasons, and apparently being liked because you hypnotized a girl with alien technology isn’t one of them.  meego, we respectfully disagree.

the theme song after the jump…

continue reading…


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jack black does the late show top 10
written by geoffrey on 07/14/08 1 comment


here’s some classic jack black schtick from david letterman’s program: “top 10 things you don’t want to hear in a music store.”  later on, he’d perfect his take on seal.


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monday internet super links (7/14/08)
written by geoffrey on 07/14/08 leave a comment



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TGIF - mr. cooper meets mr. seaver
written by geoffrey on 07/11/08 leave a comment



gonna have some fun, show you how it’s done - TGIF!

the pilot for hangin’ with mr. cooper featured a very 90’s meta-opening, in which alan thicke (aka jason seaver on growing pains) grudgingly gives his set over to mark curry.  apparently, part of alan’s growing pains is to let go and allow a new age of hangin’ to begin. an age which would dominate the television landscape for years to come…


filed under TGIF, crossovers, tv comedies: 80's, tv comedy: 90s

TGIF - the mad world of full house
written by geoffrey on 07/04/08 leave a comment


gonna have some fun, show you how it’s done - TGIF!

this black and white full house clip show helps us get inside the “mad world” of danny tanner.  what’s it really like to have troublesome kids, incompetent friends and an insensitive co-host?  watch this intimate portait dissect danny’s existential crisis.


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