How about on Saturday morning cartoons, the weird little animated dustball with a cowboy hat that promoted cheese.

"Look! It's a wagon wheel!"
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I'd forgotten that guy! I think there were a whole series of those -- I seem to remember him teaching me how to make popsicles using ice trays and toothpicks.

You're right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNI4...elated&search=

And more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjBp...elated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjnKz...elated&search=

Some history of the little guy:
http://www.toontracker.com/timer/timer.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_Timer

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When I was a boy, SA was under a cultural boycot from a lot of companies. But it might have been a good thing, as it forced us to mke our own programs, and we had some BRILJANT children's shows, althought, looking back, it was also an National PArty propaganda tool, but it was still cool.

My favourite was INTERSTER (interstar), about South Africa protecting the whole world against an evil alien empire, called Krokon. But it was riddeld with propaganda. There was a human that was helping the Krokon's, a ver y wealthy man, who looked EXACTLY like Michale Gorbatjoff, even with the red birth mark on his head (we were told that we were not fighting blacks, butcommunists in those days).

I also recently saw an episode of the show (man, I miss it, it really was great, if you look past these little incidents) where the robot begs to be allowed to shoot the big laser cannon, as he likes blowing things up, amnd the commander Captain Buks De La Rey (named after a famous Afrikaner war hero) replies :"Pikkie, stop behaving like a black man"

It is shocking I know, and it is sorry that such a great program was misused like that, but still, I miss it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interster

sigh

AH

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There were still weekend horror movie time slots hosted by weird people when I was young. True, I was too young to see the Ghoul or Count Scary or Vampira or Elvira... but there was Grandpa Munster hosting movies on TBS and some weirdo with a cigar and a face on his left hand (Lefty) on USA.
And even better... oh how I long for Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Tales from the Crypt... Hell, even the briefly lived Freddy's Nightmares! Nowadays when we have a horror show on TV, it's a stupid teeny-bopper soap which just happens to have monsters (you wouldn't know it because the people who watch them mostly talk about the same "Oh he/she's hot" crap they do for all their other shows). The last noble attempt was X-Files I guess. But I'll take Tales from the Darkside, thank you.

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Speaking of horror, remember when Freddy, Jason, and Michael Meyers could put out a new movie every other year... and it would make it to the theater... and even though they got progressively dumber, you still looked forward to each new one (though Halloween 3 really irked me).
They were stupid, yes, but they were great. And you sure as hell didn't see the critics saying things like "Hip" to describe them. The horror flicks of the new generation just aren't any fun. You've got the dumb multi-sequel straight-to-videos that try to capture the old flavor of stupidity but don't make the grade. You've got the "hip" theater-makers like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Final Destination", which are stupid... but not worth watching. You've got the ultra-disturbing Rob Zombie movies that are more seventies than the seventies horror flicks (they make "I Spit on Your Grave" seem like a chick flick)... possibly too disturbing (they tend to lack justice... that goes a bit too far for me).

I miss the eighties horror flicks (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*).

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Conjunction junction, what's your function. Remember the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons? Also, Electric Company which featured Morgan Freeman.

I remember the horror stuff too like Tales From the Crypt and Elvira. Loved Halloween! And The Thing. Escape From New York (although not horror, still good fun).

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ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

When was the last time John Carpenter made a movie? Is he still working?

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

(*)(*)(*)(*) you!

Now I'm gonna have that blasted song in my head all morning! "Three more days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Three more days till Halloween, Silver Shamrock"

Now that's some nostaligia! Oh, to live again in the 70's when cheese and popsicles were considered healthy enough to warrant their own animated short.

I bet they never guessed that pomegranate juice would actually become popular.