Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/13/unhealthy-coping-mechanisms.html
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Everyone should have a Twiki
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Trying to remember who did the voice but drawing a Blanc.
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This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen
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I prefer to imagine they just folded M.B. a few times to squeeze him into the costume.
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I was watching the show the other day and they had a female version of Twiki.
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I don’t know what I was expecting to see in that second video but I watched the whole thing intently expecting something.
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Did you see it?
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All’s Mel that ends Mel.
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You know what!!! I have been trying to wake up all day long. I actually replied while in line at Starbucks to get a triple shot to snap me out of the sleepy haze I’ve been in.
NOW I GOT IT.
I blanc’d on that one ok! OK?!?
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Recently, I keep seeing shows from around the time I was born but never saw because I was a baby and/or they weren’t syndicated on the one channel our antenna could pull in when I was old enough to watch TV. And all I can think now is “holy shit, was everyone high on cocaine while making these things?”
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Booty Booty
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Buck Rogers was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. After having not seen it for 30+ years, I recently saw it on one of the “retro TV” stations. It… doesn’t hold up well. I still love it, though, and my crush on Colonel Wilma Deering remains strong.
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Narrator: “Yes, they were.”
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What’s WRONG with YOU ALL??!?!
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I was around eight when these came out. Perfect age. Watching reruns, I’m amazed at the “futuristic” late 70’s going into 80’s fashions, and how much of the plots were just rehashed 1950’s adventure/crime tropes. I mean, in how many episodes does Buck go to a space casino and falls in love with a woman in trouble? And what does a space casino entail, you ask? Just like a regular casino…in space…with robots. I spit out my beer when I saw one of those episodes was actually called “Vegas in Space.” So lazy. So essential to my formative years. Also, the remastering reveals how much of the set and equipment were just balsa wood. You can see the glossy brushstrokes at times.
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It was difficult for me, at the beginning of the “Buck Rogers” project. I was of two minds; it had enabled me to get out from under a martinet in my previous workplace, and it promised me a long period of employment as a shop supervisor. On the other hand, I recognized this show for what it was…another attempt to catch and ride the wave of enthusiasm unleashed by the dazzling popularity of George Lucas’ recent mega-hit. It was a wild time, because every studio in town wanted to do as Lucas had done, but I doubted Universal was willing or able to give their products the same magic, the same classically-rooted appeal that made “Star Wars” work.
That movie had definitely raised the bar, and several clones and “wanna-be’s” that soon appeared couldn’t come close to it. The very premise on which my new project was based looked quite shallow to me, so I found it a bit of a stretch to somehow invest it with sincere and total dedication. Looking back on it, the choice I’d faced, upon leaving Magicam, had been between “Buck Rogers” and “1941”, so if ratings and box office are the criteria, I probably made the right move.
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