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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
644 Posts |
 Posted - 03/25/2007 : 4:41:07 PM
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I'm talking about the wonderfully lousy TV show from the early 80's. First it made me think that it's harder to hate TV shows today than in the past. In the pre and early cable days, most of us were stuck with 3 channels. Any TV show you hated was hogging 33.3% of your available viewing options. Fame was one of those shows that just wouldn't die.
Second, one episode of Fame made me think of the Challenge of X which somehow proves the supposedly outcast group is equal to or superior to the in-group. In this case it was the "talented" kids of Fame showing the Neanderthal football players how superior they were in conditioning. Of course, it would have been interesting to see how long one of the "artists" survived when one of the 250lb linebackers plowed into them.
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2007 : 10:32:12 PM
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Most 80s TV shows have a cheese "quality" to them that is difficult to describe. (The same might be said for many '80s movies as well.)
Take, for example, T.J. Hooker. Even the premise was inane: a veteran police detective quits the bureau and volunteers to be demoted back to being a uniformed patrol cop. Once re-assigned to his new unit (with a rookie partner in tow), he promptly sets out to solve criminal cases... you know, like he used to do when he was back in the detective bureau... the job he claims he hated?
Now add to this ridiculous premise transparently silly plots, corny villains, non-stop car chases and "tonfa" fight scenes, and top it off with William Shatner himself, the master of bluster, in the title role of the preening, self-righteous T.J. Hooker, and now you've mined television gold! |
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