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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: andalucia on August 23, 2004, 10:41:52 pm
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That is delightfully geeky, and very very true.
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I guess. It's very well targeted towards 'stad's demographic and obviously a cathartic for him.
Otherwise it's just more last minute comic-a-day nonsense. Boo.
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The alt text was funny.
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What actually happened to the Mc DLT? Is that what became the McLean Deluxe? And where is the damn McRib? it ain't food, but it's good as hell.
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it keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool!
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it keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool!
or else it get's the "Special Hug" from Ronald again!
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What actually happened to the Mc DLT? Is that what became the McLean Deluxe? And where is the damn McRib? it ain't food, but it's good as hell.
The McRib comes around here about twice a year. I usually get one. It's about the only thing I halfway kinda sorta like at McDonalds. Except for Egg McMuffins. And Sausage McMuffins (w/Egg). They are tasty. Everything else at McDonalds is screamingly mediocre. Which is, I suppose, intentional.
On the strip -- sure is ironic to see the 20 something get all crotchety and generational. These kids today! They don't know nothin'!
Whatever, Pap'aw!
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As a generational dividing line this is priceless to me.
Seconded, and I'm younger than you are. Maybe I just never liked teenagers. (Another good dividing line would be calculator watches.)
"Recipes" for the late, relatively unlamented McDLT (not something that can really be pulled off without the gimmicky styrofoam packaging, as far as I'm concerned) and the hurts-so-delicious McRib can be found here (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/zartan00001/mcmenu.pdf). Bear in mind that I just found this on the web about two minutes ago and make no promises. I'm just a sucker for copycat recipes (thank you, William Poundstone) and this document is almost charmingly quaint in its compulsive usage of the very special character mapped "trademark" symbol.
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The Subway in my rinky-dink college town has exactly one reigning virtue: it serves basically-just-McRibs all year. I am not sure why they do this, but being able to go in and get six kinds of nasty on a foot-long McRib makes up for the fact that the place closes at 9:00.
Anyway, I just now read the strip. I'm a bit perplexed as to why Beef is still wearing the wig and glasses. Low budget?
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I'm a bit perplexed as to why Beef is still wearing the wig and glasses.
Gravitas.
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I actually had to google what a McD L.T. was... after seeing the timeline, I can see I was a bit young when it debuted, but yeah.... hm. the slogan did seem somewhat familiar.
At least I know what a McRib is though cause yeah, they do bring it back over here sometimes.... usually many commercials are shown when it does.
I've been staying away from McD's for a few years though... once their fries lost the lard and I don't eat meat, so.... heh.
The strip was pretty cool nonetheless... I think it is the wig and glasses...
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"Recipes" for the late, relatively unlamented McDLT (not something that can really be pulled off without the gimmicky styrofoam packaging, as far as I'm concerned) and the hurts-so-delicious McRib can be found here (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/zartan00001/mcmenu.pdf). Bear in mind that I just found this on the web about two minutes ago and make no promises. I'm just a sucker for copycat recipes (thank you, William Poundstone) and this document is almost charmingly quaint in its compulsive usage of the very special character mapped "trademark" symbol.
Whoever clown spent all that time putting togther a 30-somethin' page recipe book on McD food hella has a boner pointing in so many wrong directions. McDonalds sux teh coq.
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Behold, Jason Alexander's McDLT commercial (http://www.permutation.org/videos/McDLT.mpeg)
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seriously, though, if you are going to cover a song, DO A BETTER JOB.
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Behold, Jason Alexander's McDLT commercial (http://www.permutation.org/videos/McDLT.mpeg)
I am without words.
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Behold, Jason Alexander's McDLT commercial (http://www.permutation.org/videos/McDLT.mpeg)
Wow, he's so enthusiastic. It's like, he'd been waiting all his life, unsatisfied with other burgers and their limp, sad lettuce, and then the clouds parted. And then he had to tell everybody about it.
Really, for me the generational divide is defined in two ways:
1) did you collect Garbage Pail Kid stickers and own a Cabbage Patch Kid at the same time?
2) did you watch Sesame Street when Snuffie the Snuffleuppugus was only Big Bird's imaginary friend, or after when everybody knew he existed?
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1) did you collect Garbage Pail Kid stickers and own a Cabbage Patch Kid at the same time?
2) did you watch Sesame Street when Snuffie the Snuffleuppugus was only Big Bird's imaginary friend, or after when everybody knew he existed?
Yes and yes. I guess I fit in your arbitrary classification. What was it again?
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Jesus, Jason Alexander has been a professional fast food asshole for as long as I've been alive.
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1) did you collect Garbage Pail Kid stickers and own a Cabbage Patch Kid at the same time?
2) did you watch Sesame Street when Snuffie the Snuffleuppugus was only Big Bird's imaginary friend, or after when everybody knew he existed?
Yes and yes. I guess I fit in your arbitrary classification. What was it again?
Congratulations, you win a prize!
Eeek! Yet another contemporary who's having a wee bairne! Thank god I took the batteries out of my maternal clock!
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Behold, Jason Alexander's McDLT commercial (http://www.permutation.org/videos/McDLT.mpeg)
I literally cringed in my chair with empathic embarrassment watching this. It's so hard to believe that this was actually considered A Thing To Do within my own lifetime. This video is an ampoule of cultural humility. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Having said that, I love that open-mouthed, sassy-pointing "hot-cha!" face he does whenever the chorus kicks in.
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1) did you collect Garbage Pail Kid stickers and own a Cabbage Patch Kid at the same time?
2) did you watch Sesame Street when Snuffie the Snuffleuppugus was only Big Bird's imaginary friend, or after when everybody knew he existed?
OK, I owned a Cabbage Patch Kid before I remember my friend collecting Garbage Pail Kid stickers. I think I had outgrown 'Ralph' by the time the stickers started showing up. What does that mean?
And yes on two.
Apparently I'm old enough to remember the McD.L.T. or whatever it is, at least according to a few slightly younger friends. But I don't.
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While we're at it, anybody want Arby's pepper bacon (http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/article.php?columns_id=1609)?
And I thought it was Bill Bill Maher who pimped for the McDLT for some reason.
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Having said that, I love that open-mouthed, sassy-pointing "hot-cha!" face he does whenever the chorus kicks in.
Yah, I can't stop saying "Hot Beefy". The scary thing is, Jason's clothing is the least "I'm embarassed for you" inducing. BTW, anybody know if that's a toupee? Seems he was full on bald not that much longer after this was made.
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As a generational dividing line this is priceless to me.
(Another good dividing line would be calculator watches.)
the dividing line is 1983. that was the year I taught my sister to hunt for mice...
with a fork...
in the electrical outlet...
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So I googled it, and the McDLT was apparently premeired in 1985. That would mean I was born in the year of the McDLT, so which side of the divide do I fall on?
Not that It really matters, as I have no intention of stomping around acting all punk rock any time in the near future.
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Behold, Jason Alexander's McDLT commercial (http://www.permutation.org/videos/McDLT.mpeg)
Wow, he's so enthusiastic. It's like, he'd been waiting all his life, unsatisfied with other burgers and their limp, sad lettuce, and then the clouds parted. And then he had to tell everybody about it.
Really, for me the generational divide is defined in two ways:
1) did you collect Garbage Pail Kid stickers and own a Cabbage Patch Kid at the same time?
2) did you watch Sesame Street when Snuffie the Snuffleuppugus was only Big Bird's imaginary friend, or after when everybody knew he existed?
1) No.
2) I watched Sesame Street in its first season, pre-Snuffy. Herbert Birdsfoot was still around, as was the first Gordon.
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Dear God, I just watched it again. It's like a train wreck, and I can't stop gawking.
OK, I owned a Cabbage Patch Kid before I remember my friend collecting Garbage Pail Kid stickers. I think I had outgrown 'Ralph' by the time the stickers started showing up. What does that mean?
Oh yes, I was the same way. The Garbage Pail Kids stickers were riding the Cabage Patch Kid backlash wave. Constace Rachel was already on a dusty shelf when I started collecting the stickers. There are new Garbage Pail Kids for sale at the local 7-11, we bought some just a little while ago, but they're not quite as detailed as the originals.
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I recall being really repulsed by the Garbage Pail Kids, which means I was probably way too young for them. (Not that I was ever super-in to Katie Libby, despite the fact that my aunt FOUGHT OUT AND SWEATED BLOOD FOR THIS DOLL SO YOU HAD BETTER BE GRATEFUL, but still.) I have very few memories of Sesame Street, but I think Snuffy was real by the time I watched.
This McDLT commercial is... holy shit. Jesus God. JASON ALEXANDER'S BEAUTIFUL ICE CREAM SUIT. JESUS!
(It scares me to think that Jason Alexander has been a fast-food shill for almost as long as I've been alive. Wonder and terror.)
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The key to Garbage Pail Kids was that you never, ever, removed the sticker from the card backing. Lest the other children mock and spit upon you.
When I watched Snuffy was indeed real his timing was just bad so that nobody but BB ever actually saw him.
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The key to Garbage Pail Kids was that you never, ever, removed the sticker from the card backing. Lest the other children mock and spit upon you.
When I watched Snuffy was indeed real his timing was just bad so that nobody but BB ever actually saw him.
Wow, Cort, I always thought you were somehow much older than me, but you are indeed my contemporary, and I tip my hat to you.
And Gunn, if you were born the year the McDLT was invented you are one of them, not one of us. Sorry dude, it's the line in the sand.
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Wow, he's so enthusiastic. It's like, he'd been waiting all his life, unsatisfied with other burgers and their limp, sad lettuce, and then the clouds parted. And then he had to tell everybody about it.
Really, for me the generational divide is defined in two ways:
1) did you collect Garbage Pail Kid stickers and own a Cabbage Patch Kid at the same time?
2) did you watch Sesame Street when Snuffie the Snuffleuppugus was only Big Bird's imaginary friend, or after when everybody knew he existed?
1) No.
2) I watched Sesame Street in its first season, pre-Snuffy. Herbert Birdsfoot was still around, as was the first Gordon.
August wins simply for remembering Matt Robinson. He died in his sleep in 2002 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. In addition to Gordon, he was also the voice of Roosevelt Franklin, my favorite apparently ethnic muppet. He was also one of the original writers for the Cosby show, Sanford and Son and Eight is Enough. Roscoe Ormond has been Gordon since 1972.
Sesame Street was an exhibit at the Chicago Children's Museum a few years ago. They set up the 123 Sesame Street Stoop and Oscars Garbage Can and Big Bird's Nest. There were cameras and monitors around so you could see yourself on Sesame Street. It was awesome.
There was also history of the show, and scripts and the curricula that went with the scripts. Sesame Street is still, 30+ years later, considered ''experimental television'. It started out as a head-start funded program to prepare 3-5 year olds for kindergarten.
Pesonally, my line in the sand would be if you watched "Family Ties" regularly. What the hell ever happened to 'Skippy', anyway? Is he sharing an apartment with the guy who played Long Duck Dong on Sixteen Candles, both waiting for their next big break?
My answers would be
1) Hell no and no
2) Yes, and thanks to the wonder of human procreation I still do.
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I've found that nobody even my age (which is 25 for those of you who thought I was a geezer) remembers the Electric Company or 3-2-1 Contact. Not even the live-action Spider-Man shorts or the non-boob-related Bloodhound Gang.
I'm I the crazy one who's making shit up or do my friends just have crap for memories?
Also: Square One represent!
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*ahem*
I am one of the younger ones here (almost 21 -- go me), but I distinctly remember the Bloodhound Gang before "Bad Touch." I sort of liked it. Also, 3-2-1 Contact and Square One ruled my childhood, although I hated Mathman because he never, ever won.
Man, I wish I knew where my old Mathnet poster got to. That was the shit.
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*ahem*
I am one of the younger ones here (almost 21 -- go me), but I distinctly remember the Bloodhound Gang before "Bad Touch." I sort of liked it. Also, 3-2-1 Contact and Square One ruled my childhood, although I hated Mathman because he never, ever won.
Man, I wish I knew where my old Mathnet poster got to. That was the shit.
Mathman totally won sometimes. He's do a little flip and the tornado would get all dejected. The voiceover announced a free game.
And just to be anal, The Bad Touch was off their 3rd album. Besides, Fire Water Burn got ca-razy radio play when it was new.
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*ahem*
I am one of the younger ones here (almost 21 -- go me), but I distinctly remember the Bloodhound Gang before "Bad Touch." I sort of liked it. Also, 3-2-1 Contact and Square One ruled my childhood, although I hated Mathman because he never, ever won.
Man, I wish I knew where my old Mathnet poster got to. That was the shit.
Mathman totally won sometimes. He's do a little flip and the tornado would get all dejected. The voiceover announced a free game.
And just to be anal, The Bad Touch was off their 3rd album. Besides, Fire Water Burn got ca-razy radio play when it was new.
Well, okay, even pre-"the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire." You know, the Bloodhound Gang who were on PBS and solved crimes? Them. Not the ones who sang Fire Water Burn.
I think I recall maybe one episode where Mathman won. However, keep in mind that after a while I had the habit if hiding behind the recliner and closing my eyes real tight when Mathman came on, so I probably missed a few.
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Well, okay, even pre-"the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire." You know, the Bloodhound Gang who were on PBS and solved crimes? Them. Not the ones who sang Fire Water Burn.
I think I recall maybe one episode where Mathman won. However, keep in mind that after a while I had the habit if hiding behind the recliner and closing my eyes real tight when Mathman came on, so I probably missed a few.
I know which BHG you meant.
I had this same reaction whenever that damn singing group from Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego came on. God I hated them. I want to hurt things just thinking about that damn song.
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I've found that nobody even my age (which is 25 for those of you who thought I was a geezer) remembers the Electric Company or 3-2-1 Contact. I'm I the crazy one who's making shit up or do my friends just have crap for memories?
I remember those! Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact, that is.
My parents were cheap, they would never get me a subscription. I had to read them at the library.
Your friends have crap for memories...they need a meatspace CortJstr'ing.
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You know, the Bloodhound Gang who were on PBS and solved crimes? Them. Not the ones who sang Fire Water Burn.
I vividly remember the Bloodhound Gang, who were always part of a PBS double feature with the Edison Twins. I even remember part of the Edison Twins theme song: "Well up the street, and around the bend, you'll find the Edison Twins." Using your knowledge of science to solve crimes? Roast Beef would approve. Also, that show with the guy in the leotard that made him look like we could see his internal organs, except he had a genital lump that always distracted me in my precocious youth. Some kind of a health show. Someone help me out here, what was that show? I seem to have a memory of him living inside another human body, which makes no sense since he was a sort of see-through human himself.
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I'm 27 and I used to have a subscription to the Electric Company magazine. I remember the original Bloodhound Gang (Whenever there's trouble, we're there on the double) and I thought Dirk Niblick and the Math Brigade was some funny stuff.
I had a Cabbage Patch Kid because my parents probably thought I'd be stunted emotionally if I didn't get one the year all my cousins did. If it turns out that they got me some yarn-haired, plastic-headed teddy bear instead of the Transormer construction equipment that could all join together to make one big *****, I'm going to be hell of pissed.
On topic, what bands have made themselves famous simply by covering songs from Disintegration? Am I missing something? I agree with the Tears for Fears thing, though. That Mad World cover is six kinds of lousy.
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You know, the Bloodhound Gang who were on PBS and solved crimes? Them. Not the ones who sang Fire Water Burn.
I vividly remember the Bloodhound Gang, who were always part of a PBS double feature with the Edison Twins. I even remember part of the Edison Twins theme song: "Well up the street, and around the bend, you'll find the Edison Twins." Using your knowledge of science to solve crimes? Roast Beef would approve. Also, that show with the guy in the leotard that made him look like we could see his internal organs, except he had a genital lump that always distracted me in my precocious youth. Some kind of a health show. Someone help me out here, what was that show? I seem to have a memory of him living inside another human body, which makes no sense since he was a sort of see-through human himself.
You mean Slim Goodbody? (http://www.slimgoodbody.com/)
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So did you guys just get the magazines and not watch the shows or what?
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Never seen the shows, me.
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So did you guys just get the magazines and not watch the shows or what?
I vaguely remember the 3-2-1 contact tv show, but I did have a magazine subscription during the "Time Team" era.
Now, who here remember's The Polka-Dot Door?
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Now, who here remember's The Polka-Dot Door?
Now that is within my time.
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The Polka-Dot Door owned my very early childhood. I remember virtually nothing about it except that I loved it.
God, nostalgia!
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Man, Square One Television.
I CAN'T be the only one who sees glimpses of courtrooms on TV and wants to jump up and yell, "That is NOT George Earnest Frankly!"
Although the part where he pulled off the latex facemask from the head of the criminal was a little freaky for me.
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I hope I (and my hosting) doesn't regret this...
Yeah, this "internet" sure works fast. Less than twelve hours after you posted this link ("Behold, Jason Alexander's McDLT commercial") - you uploaded the video to your own space (http://www.permutation.org), yes? for this thread? - and suddenly you're on Metafilter (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35172).
So yeah, your bandwidth is probably already fucked. Welcome to the board.
EDIT: The Hot-Steppin' Solid Rold Gold Miami Sandwich Singers can also be found here (http://www.retrojunk.com/media/mcdlt.wmv). Give Richter a break, people.
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I've found that nobody even my age (which is 25 for those of you who thought I was a geezer) remembers the Electric Company or 3-2-1 Contact. Not even the live-action Spider-Man shorts or the non-boob-related Bloodhound Gang.
I'm I the crazy one who's making shit up or do my friends just have crap for memories?
Also: Square One represent!
I'm also 25, tend to have crap for a memory, and can't remember the Electric Company or 3-2-1 Contact. As far as the live-action Spider-Man shorts, no, and no on the Bloodhound Gang. But the live-action shorts sound pretty cool.
But wait, 3-2-1 Contact, that does sound familiar. Or maybe I just want so badly to fit in. I just can't place the concept with the name.
Square One kicked all kinds of ass though.
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All I have to say to people my age is Fraggle Rock represent, yo.
Anyway, I not only remember when the McD.L.T. was introduced, but I remember McDonald's food before the chicken McNugget, and also finding that the McNugget was disturbingly unrelated to actual chicken in both texture and flavour.
I did really like the sweet and sour sauce, though. Still do.
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This is a post containing three shameful confessions. I'll cut right to 'em:
Shameful Confession #1: Fraggle Rock absolutely terrified me as a child. Even more than Mathman. I'm still not comfortable with the goddamn Fraggles.
Shameful Confession #2: I have not enjoyed McNuggets nearly as much since they recently started resembling actual chicken.
Shameful Confession #3: Although I was born after the advent of the McDLT, until viewing that commercial, I was profoundly confused by the entire concept. When I heard jokes about it, I assumed that it was somehow referring to hot and colds sides of the actual hamburger, and thus I was gobsmacked by confusion.
(Bonus Shameful Confession: For all of its silliness and Jason-Alexander-in-a-white-suit shillingness, I actually don't think the McDLT is such a horrible idea. I think the cheese should be added to the "hot" side, so that you get a nice meltiness, but I think the basic idea of "lettuce separate from the hamburger so it remains cool and crisp when you start to eat" seems entirely valid as a burger gimmick.)
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Shameful Confession #1: Fraggle Rock absolutely terrified me as a child. Even more than Mathman. I'm still not comfortable with the goddamn Fraggles.
If I remember right, there was an episode of Fraggle Rock where one of those mute little greenish builder-drones got straight-up killed because one of the Fraggles was being Young, Wild, and Irresponsible. This upset me so much, I never watched the show again.
(Bonus Shameful Confession: For all of its silliness and Jason-Alexander-in-a-white-suit shillingness, I actually don't think the McDLT is such a horrible idea.
It was such a not-horrible idea that they brought it back as the "Big N' Tasty", which is basically the McDLT minus the Soviet Space Program packaging and the extra "construction" step. For fast food burgers, they're really quite good indeed. I don't know if I'd be all jumping over hedges and leering at strangers about it; our love affair ended with Nature's one-two punch: I got (relatively) health-conscious and they took it off of the dollar menu.
WHITE SUITS ARE THE 1980'S GOLD STANDARD OF ADVERTISING CREDIBILITY
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To fill people in, Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact were also made by the Children's Television Workshop (who does Sesame Street) and were intended for the next age group up.
I believe EC was for like 5–7 and 321 was for 8–10 or so.
My problem with McNuggets is that I prefer dark meat. White meat chicken is dry and sucky but every food corporation loves to cram it down our throats. So when McNuggets were dark meat that was bleached white they tasted better than when they started making them with actual white meat.
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What, am I the Old Man of the Board at 34? I remember all that crap y'all are talking about and then some.
Someone should have tried to extort some cash from Jason Alexander lest that McDLT ad see the light of day. Ye gods. I share V-Adore's confusion as to what was the point of the McDLT's existence. A burger should be served to you soon enough after cooking that the lettuce and tomato don't get all nasty. One shouldn't need an elaborate two-sided box to pull this off; just cook my damn burger when I order it and don't let it sit around for five minutes after it's done.
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just cook my damn burger when I order it and don't let it sit around for five minutes after it's done.
Please, this was the McDonald's of the 80's we're talking about. The whole reason they didn't do special orders was that you were lucky if your burger was made today let alone 5 minutes ago.
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Ah, Electric Company. Fargo North, Decoder. Easy Reader. Letterman.
Any show that has Mel Brooks, Tom Lehrer, Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman has got something going on.
Noggin used to show old Electric Company and Sesame Street episodes late at night. Now they just show fuck*ng Degrassi over and over and over. Andalucia, if I thought all Canadian highschool kids were really like that, I'd come to Canadia and kick your ass. Thank you for proving that some of you Are..Rad.
Also, how about Mr. Rogers. I never cared much for Mr. Rogers as a kid, as least as I recall. Now, however, I really dig him. He's got a great message, excellent music on the show and every so often you get to take a tour of the crayon factory or the Play-Do works. He was a very very good man and we'd all be happier if we followed his advice.
And how could we forget Captain Kangeroo. The Captain rocked. Mr. Green Jeans. Bunny Rabbit. Mr. Moose. Dancing Bear. Ping-Pong Balls.
I miss being Phillippe.
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Also, how about Mr. Rogers. I never cared much for Mr. Rogers as a kid, as least as I recall. Now, however, I really dig him. He's got a great message, excellent music on the show and every so often you get to take a tour of the crayon factory or the Play-Do works. He was a very very good man and we'd all be happier if we followed his advice.
And how could we forget Captain Kangeroo. The Captain rocked. Mr. Green Jeans. Bunny Rabbit. Mr. Moose. Dancing Bear. Ping-Pong Balls.
I miss being Phillippe.
word up, Mr. Roger's kicked ass when he actually himself went and talked to actual people who did actual things in actual places. that was the bestest, because you actually got to see how stuff worked.
um, i can't tell if that seems sarcastic. i think i need help. i did not mean it sarcastically, i enjoyed that aspect of Mr. Roger's show.
the puppets were annoying, though.
the Cap'n was cool. my sister dug on him a lot, though, so i guess i kind of didn't do much with him.
i'm surprised noone's talked about The Bozo Show, wgn in the hizzouse. to this day i blame my tendency to make fun of people on that show. those stupid... stupid... kids.... how can you miss the FIRST BUCKET?
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You mean Slim Goodbody? (http://www.slimgoodbody.com/)
That's totally him, and he's all learing at me. I was going to mention his curly-fro hair, which he seems to somehow streak with hi-lites now. Ewww.
All I have to say to people my age is Fraggle Rock represent, yo.
Dude, did you know Fraggle Rock was Canadian? Infact, I thought it was only shown in Canada until now. Yes, Jim Henson was a big part of the show, but it was made in Canada, as demonstrated by the embarrassingly Canadian accents of several of the pupeteers, especially Gobo. My SO and I have several video tapes of Fraggle Rock which he watches while doing the dishes, and we're eagerly awaiting the release of the DVD set.
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We used to have a huge in-joke in HS concerning the "secret society" episode of Fraggle Rock.
Linoleum!
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i'm surprised noone's talked about The Bozo Show, wgn in the hizzouse. to this day i blame my tendency to make fun of people on that show. those stupid... stupid... kids.... how can you miss the FIRST BUCKET?
Oh, man. Tbere goes a misconception. For some reason I always assumed that Bozo was a local, Chicago-only thing
...[realization dawns]...
Oh, that's right. Krusty on the Simpsons. I should have realized Bozo was shown nationally years ago.
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Oh, that's right. Krusty on the Simpsons. I should have realized Bozo was shown nationally years ago.
Usually on WGN. Which a few years ago finally broke down and started listing their times as eastern instead of central.
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We used to have a huge in-joke in HS concerning the "secret society" episode of Fraggle Rock.
Linoleum!
This reminds me of the only positive Fraggle-related memory I have: when I was a junior in high school, I had a lot of friends who were in the honor choir. (Mind you, this was actually a prestigious, well-liked organization at my high school, not the Short Train to Ostracization it appears to often be other places.) For their end-of-the-year big show, the honor choir traditionally divided up into groups, each with its own in-jokey name, theme, and T-shirts. Several friends of mine ended up in a group called...
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Fraggle."
Their t-shirts had Wembley (I think?) on the back, totally posed to kung-fu some off-camera dude. It was the best thing anybody has ever done with a Fraggle.
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The Sesame Street aliens (Mooooo! Eep eep eep! Yorp Yorp Yorp! Ray-dee-oh! etc) scared the shit out of me when I was about 3.
The Fraggles, on the other hand, were a reason to have HBO. That and "Braingames."
I think my dad had it just for "The Hitchhiker" though. Or maybe that fuck*ng Bobcat Golthwait special they played a billion times.
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The Sesame Street aliens (Mooooo! Eep eep eep! Yorp Yorp Yorp! Ray-dee-oh! etc) scared the shit out of me when I was about 3.
My friend Vanessa frequently makes use of the term "fascinatingly repulsive" to describe quotidien things that she finds intruigingly appalling, and that is how I remember reacting to those aliens. Their weird puppety necks moved around in disconcerting ways, is all I recall.
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I now have the theme songs of about half a dozen educational or semi-educational children's television programs ricocheting around in my head, the long-dormant neurons in which they were stored reactivated by this thread. I hope you're all happy.
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...the theme songs of about half a dozen educational or semi-educational children's television programs...
Listen to Eleven Twelve (http://www.bracestower.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Music/Braces_Tower-Eleven_Twelve.mp3), by the terrific Braces Tower (http://www.bracestower.co.uk/). You'll like it.
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I now have the theme songs of about half a dozen educational or semi-educational children's television programs ricocheting around in my head, the long-dormant neurons in which they were stored reactivated by this thread. I hope you're all happy.
Let the Schoolhouse Rocks references begin!
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...the theme songs of about half a dozen educational or semi-educational children's television programs...
Listen to Eleven Twelve (http://www.bracestower.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Music/Braces_Tower-Eleven_Twelve.mp3), by the terrific Braces Tower (http://www.bracestower.co.uk/). You'll like it.
not quite as fuck-with-yr-head style as the original. i think if i heard the original, WATCHED THAT TRIPPY LITTLE CARTOON, that would just be...it...all wheelchairs and tranqs for the rest of my life
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I went to college next door to where Mr. Rogers lived. I saw him out on the street one day, and debated whether to go up to him and basically thank him for my childhood. But he was already talking to someone, and I just kept walkin'.
Is his show still on in rerun form? What about Reading Rainbow? Can kids still turn on the television-box and watch that, or what? I think my life would've ended up sucking without Reading Rainbow.
I am 24.
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I went to college next door to where Mr. Rogers lived. I saw him out on the street one day, and debated whether to go up to him and basically thank him for my childhood. But he was already talking to someone, and I just kept walkin'.
Is his show still on in rerun form? What about Reading Rainbow? Can kids still turn on the television-box and watch that, or what? I think my life would've ended up sucking without Reading Rainbow.
When the last Mr. Roger's was filmed the plan was to keep showing them forever. They were made to be as dateless and self-contained as possible so that ones from 1983 and 1990 could be aired back-to-back without anybody noticing.
RR I'm not sure about. I know there was a petition and various stories when the plug was pulled but I don't know if it's still aired.
Correction: According to my TiVo guide it's on 26 times in the next two weeks.
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ferocious j, Reading Rainbow was one of my favorite shows growing up, and we're the same age. I remember in 2000 or so turning on PBS and it was on. I don't know anything more recent than that, though.
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OH MY GOD READING RAINBOW. I agree that, while all of the PBS kids' shows did something to me, Reading Rainbow is the one I remember best and probably the one that helped me most in becoming a functional human being. The first real aspiration I can remember having for myself was to be on an episode of RR, back when I was three or four. It never happened, but it was good to have a dream.
I still have inordinate respect for Lavar Burton, who was a great host and taught me a great many interesting and useful things. Also B. Dalton Booksellers -- yes, it's now been bought out, and even before that it was just a part of the megacorporatebookshill machine, but they sponsored RR, and thus I owe them a debt of gratitude.
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The Sesame Street aliens (Mooooo! Eep eep eep! Yorp Yorp Yorp! Ray-dee-oh! etc) scared the shit out of me when I was about 3.
I, too was always disturbed by these aliens. It was because of them that I always assumed there were real aliens among us from an early age. I eventually got over that belief, but not before I went through an Art Bell fan phase.
I always liked that animated typewriter that always had bad things happen to him when he typed certain words, like the time he spelled out "glue" and all of a sudden his wheels were stuck in a puddle of glue.
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reading rainbow- yes, good.
WGN has been on cable for a long time as i remember, but i also lived in wisonsin when i first remember watching the bozo show.
eastern time? egads! that's just not right.
braces song- i agree, not as "mess with my head" as the original.
that cartoon for counting to twelve- my main memory of that whole thing is staring at the teevee wondering how in fuck the ball stayed on the corkscrew, since it wasn't BANKED.
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Does anyone remember ghostwriter? or is that too far outside of the years being discussed?
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Does anyone remember ghostwriter? or is that too far outside of the years being discussed?
Ghostwriter, now that was definitely one of the defining shows of my childhood. I even had all the spinoff novels. Unfortunate that it eventually went downhill when they replaced one of the major actors and introduced some illiterate character.
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We all live in a Capital I
In the middle of the desert
In the middle of the sky
And all day long we will polish on the I
Rubbing it here
And buffing it there
And when we're through
With the days only chore
We will go into the I
And we'll close the door.
Stuff like this explains a lot about my mentality.
Also, what about the clumsy chef. You know, the guy who'd walk down the steps and say "Eleven Coconut Cream Pies" and then crash to the floor in painful sticky carbo-loaded mess.
And Grover the Bad Waiter.
Oh well. Mahna mahna.
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Sadly, my childhood was spent doing a lot of Grover impressions. Namesake and whatnot...
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terrifying/majestic Sesame Street nostalgia
Great, guys. Now it's NOT GOING TO LEAVE MY HEAD.
Anyway, Ghostwriter: I think I was just old enough to have contempt for it.
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Anyway, Ghostwriter: I think I was just old enough to have contempt for it.
That'd make sense, since while I was wallowing in childish glee at the sassy adventures of the Ghostwriter team, my sister, who's now 23, could only appreciate it on the level of having a crush on Rob, the show's token dreamy poet. Unfortunately, my Google-fu's off tonight and I can't find a picture of said dreamboat.
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Anyway, Ghostwriter: I think I was just old enough to have contempt for it.
That'd make sense, since while I was wallowing in childish glee at the sassy adventures of the Ghostwriter team, my sister, who's now 23, could only appreciate it on the level of having a crush on Rob, the show's token dreamy poet. Unfortunately, my Google-fu's off tonight and I can't find a picture of said dreamboat.
Ha, funny because I am 25, and kind of enjoyed it. Although I do remember liking the earlier episodes best. I know I was a bit old for it, but I'm probably retarted. That would explain why I've been a fan of Matlock since I was like, um, 8.
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Just to answer a question from some posts back:
1) Reading Rainbow <is> still on. Everytime we meet a man of African descent with a mustache, My five year old daughter tells me "He looks like LeVar".
2) Mr Rogers is still on - I think it was mentioned above, there was no farewell episode for this very reason.
A more recent but really clever and well-done show which my kid sometimes watches is "Read Between the Lions". Anyone seen that?
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Anyway, Ghostwriter: I think I was just old enough to have contempt for it.
That'd make sense, since while I was wallowing in childish glee at the sassy adventures of the Ghostwriter team, my sister, who's now 23, could only appreciate it on the level of having a crush on Rob, the show's token dreamy poet. Unfortunately, my Google-fu's off tonight and I can't find a picture of said dreamboat.
My big pre-teen crush was on Jonny Depp during "21 Jump Street." He's still hot, although I hated that damn pirate movie.
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2) Mr Rogers is still on - I think it was mentioned above, there was no farewell episode for this very reason.
A more recent but really clever and well-done show which my kid sometimes watches is "Read Between the Lions". Anyone seen that?
Yeah, I catch Mr. Rogers on PBS Kids at about 1 in the a.m.s once a week or so. It's a great way to reduce stress at the end of the day.