The more I look back on the first half of 2021's output I realize that wow so much of it needs to be redone. Do you know how long I spent talking about the Transformers Final Episode? Not enough time damnit! I mention this because there is probably going to be some redo-es coming in the Future. Except The Final Episode #25 which is Webster. I believe, I could never make a perfect review of that episode without going mad. I could send a hundred poets too write hundreds of poems about it's beauty and still never have enough. The reason I bring this up is that you'll probably see a TV YOU FORGOT ABOUT #15 about RADIOACTIVE or something. I'm not too fond of going back to that but I believe it deserves a better shout out. So just another bunch of stuff that I'll have to revisit. It'll be fun though.
Anyway I'm amazed that it took till like 1989 with the creation of Hey, Dude! for Nickoldeon. That was the first Kids/Teen sitcom I can think of. I'm very certain that before that any show that had a kid in it was still made for Family viewing and not just for little Joey and little Tina. Anyway I never watched Hey, Dude!. I don't believe it ever aired up here. It's just a thing I know that exists and I enjoyed watching it. Clarissa Explains It All is something I swear I've seen but I cannot actually find any proof that it aired in Canada. Some AI SHIT said it appeared in Canada on YTV but the YTV Schedule Archives do mention that stuff. And yes I also looked at the Family Channel Schedule Archives too.Yes they had one for Nickelodeon too portnoyd. It's a fun rabbit hole to go down.
Speaking of which, I had to look up to see when this show ended and I looked through the YTV Schedule Archives and I saw that they showed a Hanna-Barbera show called Sneezy and Breezly that I had NEVER heard of before. I think I now have to discuss every Hanna Barbera show. All of them. Show portnoyd that they are all EXCELLENT ANIMATION that JAPAN LOVES. Are you sassing Anime now portnoyd!?!? The weebs will not be happy about that, portnoyd! I felt like taking this pointless tangent because why the hell not. After all this is my blog and I like pointless tangents so SHUT UP. It gives you more time to make your dumb JO-JO BARDIO and LARRY HARDA "jokes"
Anyway Canada got into the Kids/Teens Sitcom genre with Student Bodies in 1996. It was very inspired by Saved by The Bell, but was different enough to make it a fun watch. I very much enjoyed Student Bodies as a child. I have not seen it since then and I also hear that season three changed a lot of things up. I guess I will have to add it to my list of things to watch or rewatch. A list that will never not be a list. In 1997 they followed it up with Breaker High. it took place on a cruise ship like some Nick show I think that appeared a decade or so later. NICKELODEON RIPPED OFF CANADA!!!!!! I never watched Breaker High and I get the feeling portnoyd will be like WATCH EVERY EPISODE AND TALK ABOUT IT FOR ME. I guess I might do that why not?. Then they had Radio Active. It took place in a radio station in a high school. I did not like this show in 1998 and I didn't like it when I re-watched it in 2021.
This show appeared in 2004. 2004 the only TV I really did any watching off was a two hour block of tv shows. Alf, Boy Meets World, Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers and Sailor Moon. I'd also watch like Duckman on Teletoon. Most of the stuff that would show up on my tv would be background noise that I really never payed attention too. I don't know if this show even ended up on my Television or anything. I stopped using TV as a background noise in like 2006 or so when YouTube became a thing. Anyway, I was way too busy watching horror movies/80s movies (and then talking about them on internet forums) or playing NES games (and then talking about them on internet forums/IRC) I missed Fries With That? A teen sitcom about a bunch of goofy teens working in a restaurant somewhere probably in like Toronto or British Columbia. None of these sitcoms took place in Newfoundland. DA B'YS GO FISHIN would be the title of a Newfoundland sitcom.
I've decided since I have four episodes in my possession, I will discuss these four episodes. Fun huh?
The first episode is entitled Metal Mouth and was the second episode of the first season. It starts with the girls talking about who they are going to take to the dance. The weird hippie chick who is into astrology did not take a dates offer due so some wacky reason. She is going to be a DJ. The other two girls do not like that at all. Because she plays WEIRD music you see. It's weird. They can't dance to it. Comedy gold. The thinks too highly of himself guy comes in and talks about his date. Random Girl Whos Name I Refuse to Learn talks to Tess I think is her name about her tooth hurting and having to go to the dentist. We then meet their boss. Who is wacky. Everyones wacky in these shows. It's just hard to come off as geuninely wacky or offbeat. Or offbeat but still likable. I do not really care what happens in this show as of right now but hey maybe that will change.
So while Tess goes to the Dentist. Random Girl, Hippie Girl and Asshole Guy all work and try to find out who is the SECRET SHOPPER. The one who was sent in by corporate to make sure they are doing a good job. The Annoying Assistant Manager Guy Who Was Also In Radio Active... is annoying. He still tries too hard. Comedy may not look hard but man it really is. It takes a special something to be funny on camera. I dunno if he could make you laugh as your friend but he's not a good comedic actor. I am not a big fan, sorry. Anyway it turns out Tess has BRACES and I thought this being a show that was going for WACKY at least it seems to be that she would start causing metalic things to stick to her. You know like in Ernest Goes to Jail. Sadly no, it's all because she'll be EMBARRASSED AT THE DANCE. How many episodes in those shows involved THE DANCE? It had to be like way to fucking many. She refuses to open her mouth EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I was too hard on the Final Episode of City Guys.
BRACES GIRL acts weird in front of a customer and OH MY GOD NO IT WAS THE INSPECTOR AND THEY WILL GET A BAD GRADE. at least thats what they think. You see the Shitty Manager Jerk got a tip that the Inspector had a limp and this guy has a limp. Something will happen and this guy won't be the inspector. I hope. I'm dying for something that isn't the most simple damn story ever. OH NO THE BOY SHE WANTED TO DANCE WITH DIDN'T LIKE HER BRACES!!!!! OH NO!!!! The Asshole Guy gets dumped and then asks BRACES out to the Dance. They go to the Dance. Woo. Oh and I was wrong, the Bulky Inspector really was that guy they made mad. He came back to give them another chance but everyone was gone and he got mad again.
Yeah, I've had enough. I'm not talking about the three other episodes. This show feels a lot like Radio Active. Trying to hard to be wacky but not really wanting to commit to it. This show did not know what Nickelodeon sitcom it wanted to. Sorta wacky but still down to earth like Clarissa Explains it All or CRAZY TOWN BANANA PANTS like The Adventures of Pete and Pete. I dunno if this show gets any better or what. This was the second episode. I just don't really care. Maybe I'll come back to this show when I run out of other shows to talk about for The Final Episode and we will see. Or maybe not. Anyway I'm off to try to find Student Bodies and Breaker High episodes. I'm wondering if they hold up any better.
I'm not going to lie, the second I saw FRIES WITH THAT?, I thought it was a PSUEDO SEQUEL to UH-OH! My favorite game show name ever. Still kinda creeps me out that a bondage guy dumps the slime on the kids. It's like, does he pretend he's melting them with acid? I dunno, it's just kinda off.
ReplyDeleteI watched Hey Dude! all the time. It was very ok. I don't remember much about it except: The main guy was always trying to fuck the main girl with dark hair. He wasn't running around with his dick out but it was more of a WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY horseshit. Then there was the Native American dude with a head shaped like a trapezoid who was just kinda there to ARIZONA-Y. Then the chick who married Ben Stiller. And then MR ERNST and his dork son. The only thing I remember from the show itself is one episode, Mr Ernst gets hypnotized that whenever he hears SNARE DRUM, he howls like a wolf.
If I could hypnotize you to do something, what would it be and what would the trigger word be? This should be a plot for an episode of Hey, Jerk! the PSUEDO SEQUEL to Hey, Dude! where you come to Las Vegas and live next door and the WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY is which one of us will try and kill the other one when we annoy each other too much. I'd watch it.
I am surprised Clarissa Explains It All didn't air in Canada. I watched a lot of that too. I remember her brother FERGUSON who looked like someone named FERGUSON. And the male best friend who climbed through her window every episode. I remember nothing about the parents but I think she had a PC in her room which was AHEAD OF ITS TIME.
Thank you for once again enabling DANTE HANANA and RANDY BANABA jokes. I will never not tire of them. But Sneezly and Breezly sounds like the kind of stupid bullshit they would come up with.
Student Bodies sounds like a porno name. Or a Skinemax flick. Nice job Canada.
Name the three most random kid friendly TV shows possible: Rescue Rangers, Alf, Sailor Moon and Boy Meets World. Btw I like how at the end of that show's run, Fred Savage's brother literally fucks Topenga on their wedding night. Like, HEAVILY implied. It's pretty fucking impressive.
You want to know what's weird? Or maybe it's not because I'm just getting old. When I was in my 20s, I kept something on as background noise all the time. And I would suck up both what I was doing and the background noise at the same time. Now? I am lucky I remember a goddamn thing from the background noise. Like if I had something on now while typing this, I would gather nothing from it. Kinda sucks.
Getting braces and being embarrassed could be the most generic kid friendly plot ever. Lazy... but I guess I can see the appeal and relevance. We're old, you know. We don't know these things.
This show sounds "wacky" but it really isn't. It's good you skipped the other 3 episodes. The name is good and fun though.
the name really is good for a sitcom that takes place in a restaurant.
DeleteI would act in HEY, JERK if only the Native American guy and MR ERNST show up and do nothing. Literally just in the background all the time.
I'd watch it.
DeleteYou'd hypnotize me to write HALLA BARNERA on the old CARTOON NETWORK building. The trigger word would be "gassy tacos"
ReplyDeleteI keep more from the background noise NOW then I did THEN. I dunno. Weird huh?
Student Bodies really does sound like a porno/Skinemax film or a Slasher movie.
Ben Savage IS HIS NAME THANK YOU VERY MUCH. The reruns for whatever reason only went up to season 4. I never watched much of the last two seasons as a kid. I thought it got way too serious.
It's weird. You get the feeling it wants to be REALLY wacky but someone is like no. It's very strange. I kinda want to talk about it's Final Episode but only after watching a few more episodes and I'm not really up for doing that right now.
It's crazy how we change over the years. Maybe I'll get my background noise vision back at some point.
DeleteWell, it did get way too serious because BEN SAVAGE and TOPENGA clearly were going to fuck on their honeymoon.