I noticed a few of us admitted our addiction/love-hate relationship with that ever-present *NSYNC song in another forum, so I'm wondering....what do you secretly like that you know other people would chide you for?

"Bye Bye Bye"? Seventh Heaven? Leon on "Fashion Emergency"?

Come on out and be proud of your goofy tendencies.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

Answers

Yeah, I like "Bye Bye Bye." Never seen "Seventh Heaven." I HATE LEON! But I like Emme.

Guilty pleasures: Party of Five. 90210. Sorry, old habits die hard! And I do like "Hit Me Baby One More Time" or whatever it's called, by Britney "Boobs" Spears.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

Long-time lurker, first-time poster and a proud viewer of 7th Heaven and pretty much whatever other crap the WB feels like feeding me today. Popular, Roswell, Dawson's, whatever. I watch it all.

And it's not just my television viewing habits that are a guilty pleasure. I'm on the *NSYNC bandwagon (Justin is my boyfriend!) and I actually own the Britney Spears CD (but I bought it used, so that's OK, right? RIGHT?). Before you know it, I'll be e-mailing TRL to vote for Bye Bye Bye so it'll stay #1 for the 40th day in a row. How old am I again?

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

okay, i watched an entire episode of "angel" last night, and didn't feel like i needed to bathe. it really wasn't THAT bad...? maybe my standards are getting lower.

is it possible to see too many "simpsons" episodes? two a day for two years and i think i've reached my limit... how sad. :(

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

Okay, okay, I'll admit it. I am 30 years old, and I am addicted to The Real World and Road Rules. I will rearrange any and all plans to make sure I am in front of the television to watch those shows, and then I wait impatiently to read the recaps at Mighty Big TV. This is just between us, okay?

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

remember "jon" from the road rules that went to canada? (i think they played hockey or put on a dance show or something...) i used to work with him at a blockreichster in MA, and he didn't make the real world, so they put him on road rules. he was the "sensitive" guy that cried on the show.

is full name is jon holmes, too. that rocks.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

Lisa E.......don't feel bad, I am also a real world/recap freak. It's all Kim's fault. If she wasn't so damn funny, I wouldn't be so damn addicted.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

Lisa, I am also 20's impaired, and I am right there beside you on the couch, watching Amaya try to justify McDonald's sausage as a Kosher food item, and shaking my head at all of them for pretty much everything else.

How bad a guilty pleasure was it to accidently tune in to the Road Rules semester at sea when Veronica got busted for stealing clothing and a term paper?

I am so ashamed. Pass the Ben And Jerry's, wouldja?

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

The N'Sync one is the worst for me. I don't like them in general, but that "Bye Bye Bye" is just so darn catchy! And the fact that I saw it first on TRL ... well that's another guilty pleasure. Actually it's more of a guilty non-pleasure, I find myself watching it even though I hate 95% of the music they play. Not addicted, though, yet :-/

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

I am so addicted to Real World that I finagled a way to justify my addiction by being paid to write about it!

My latest guilty pleasure is WWF. I know it's sexist but it's so damn funny. Best of all -- no reruns! Hey, and I get paid to write about that too!

Next I'll have to find a way to get paid to watch TRL. Then my guilty pleasures will all be justified.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

oh you guys have an almost-legitimate reason for liking *NSYNC (geez, that spelling is lame!). i got hooked on "bye bye bye" because i was watching "making the video." i watched that same episode every time it came on that week -- which if you're a regular MTV viewer, you know is at least 54 times. now every time it comes on TRL, i'm all "ooh, i know how they did that effect because i saw it on the 'video documentary'"! somebody shoot me.

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2000

I'm a sucker for pretty much all bad TV. The worse the better. Ever see 'LA Heat' on USA? How about the syndicated 'Nightman'? My all-time favorite was 'Forever Knight'; before there was Buffy or Angel, this show had everything. I mean, we all love cop shows, and we all love vampire shows, but this was a vampire-cop show! I'm constantly amazed at the level to which the industry I aspire to work in can sink. I'm also constantly given hope that if that crappy show/actor/writing can get on the air, there's hope for all of us.

Oh, and I love all things animated. I'll give every cartoon at least one shot. I even had a dream recently where I was in jail and was concerned that I wouldn't be able to get my Saturday morning fix (you know it's a dream because there aren't any good Sat. morning cartoons anymore).

But I don't feel guilty. Dammit, I'm proud!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

if they ever run re-runs of the ORIGINAL "saved by the bell," i am THERE.

oh, and "just the 10 of us." that show made my teen years. it was so bad and yet just wacky enough...

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

ooh, irene, i forgot about "just the ten of us." i watched that show religiously! i don't watch 90210, but isn't one of those kids on that show now?

around that same time frame, i was a big fan of "mr. belvedere." uggh.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

or maybe i'm thinking of melrose place? the redhead chick?

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

actually, the red-headed chick is now on that NBC show, "profiler." don't ask me how i know that ... i guess from those elaborate trailers they air about their saturday night "thrillogy." i'm pretty sure she used to be on "melrose." my sister watched it, OK? i LOVED "just the ten of us!" is there a channel with reruns? matthew perry was a guest several times, i believe, in his pre-chandler days.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Irene! Another Saved By The Bell cultmember! A number of my friends and I in high school had running conversations/gags regarding Saved By the Bell. We all knew it was horrible, but we'd all seen every episode like 3 times at least! I was even going to submit a Saved By the Bell Trivia Challenge to the school newspaper. I tested it out on several people first, they scored quite well. I also used to watch a lot of Full House and Growing Pains (but hey I still like Growing Pains).

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Megan, her name is Jamie Lunar, I'm so very sorry I know that. She's on Profiler now, was on Melrose Place, all of which I somehow know although I haven't seen her on anything since "Just the Ten of Us," which I'd somehow managed to forget about until just now. Thanks a bunch for the reminder. She was Cindy, I think, half of the duo (with Wendy, naturally) of slutty oldest sisters. How could I not watch it after seeing the spin-off episode on "Growing Pains?"

"Melrose Place" was a guilty pleasure, though I stopped watching in college. Once, I wrote an article about how, despite it being finals week, the TV lounge was full of people watching "Melrose Place." I got hooked because my friends were supposed to have a song in the first episode. As it turned out, there was a two-hour series premiere and the actual "first episode." There song ended up in the final scene of the later, but after watching Melrose for just 3 hours, I was hooked. It got so nasty when Heather Locklear joined the cast, wasn't it glorious?

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Matthew Perry was also a guest star on Growing Pains (the show Just the 10 of Us was spun off of) as Carol's boyfriend who got killed in a drunk driving accident on a "very special episode". What 80's sitcom was that boy not on?

And speaking of 80's sitcoms, I hang my head in shame as I admit to watching Full House reruns on a regular basis. That show and all its cheesy goodness has some weird hold over me. And not only that, but I will actually leave work early so I can get home to see the reruns of the Olsen twins short-lived sitcom Two of a Kind on Fox Family. Is there a 12 step program for this kind of thing?

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Well, I don't listen to commercial radio, so I'm immune to "bad" music. (That's the theory, anyway. Sometimes you learn why certain groups are only heard on college radio! I.e., music that = someone hitting a lead pipe with a stick and shouting "yo! mustard on it!" while someone else plays kazoo and rants about kangaroos...it simply doesn't appeal to a wide range of people.)

I don't watch TV. We have 100+ channels and I never think to turn the thing on. When I DID watch TV, I loved cartoons and "Real World" (last one I saw in original run was London, I think). I watch X- Files, or used to. The love is gone.

I don't like crappy books, though I've picked up what I thought would be a good book and ended up with a romance novel. Yucky. Emo-porn books aren't for me. (They're getting sneakier about cover art and descriptive blurbs these days...I'm having to check the spines carefully and not buy on impulse.)

However...sign me up for Bad Food! I have the worst diet ever and will try yucky candy (gummi cola bottles), odd drinks (blue bubblegum flavored soda), odd meat items (donkey sausage...hey, I thought it was a euphemism) and strange imported stuff (you don't want to know, really).

A well-balanced meal for me might include Flavigny violet aniseed pastilles, Benihana plum wine, a Croissant Pocket and a handful of Twizzlers. Hey, if my meal comes from more than two countries and has more than one color, it must be okay. I do like vegetables--some--as long as someone else cooks them. I have trouble reheating pizza and making toast. (I just don't have the patience to stand still that long, so I start reading something or I wander off.) Since I do not live with my mummy or a cook, no one cooks vegetables for me. I generally eat better when I go out to eat than I do at home.

It's starting to catch up with me these days, though. My energy level isn't what it used to be. I'm not heavy, but I'm going to be if I don't watch it. I'm fair-skinned and if I don't eat right, the resulting transluscent effect isn't terribly flattering.

I have a weakness for Bad Food. If it's cheap and easy and sweet or greasy, it's for me. I'm craving chicken fingers, fries and a coke RIGHT NOW.

*sigh* A few years ago, I was a strict vegetarian and I didn't touch preservatives or sodas or processed foods. It was VERY DIFFICULT but I did it. I felt better for a while, buit anythignto excess is a bad idea. (FWIW, Bacon was my downfall. An evil friend came by when she thought I was getting too thin--and she was right, actually--with a bag of fresh, hot bacon, egg and cheese McBiscuits and I was a goner. *drool*)

M

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

I wasn't going to go here, but since you people are bringing up freaking Full House and Saved By the Bell...........

Hi, my name is Misty and I am a Dawson's Creek Freak.

Yeah, I tape it(while I'm watching it), yes I have been known to watch the same episode over and over and over. Yes, I like to pretend that I am Joey and that Joshua Jackson is in love with me. Shhhhh....

But I really shouldn't feel ashamed. I mean really, at least I don't like Full House.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

hey- full house was pretty good, at least before the twins could talk. (you know, "tv kid talk: like, totally awesome, dude!" cue audience cooing.)

i guess in a way, it was like the brady bunch was great before cousin oliver started showing up and the boys all got perms.

anyone remember how great friday night TV was? full house, perfect strangers, family matters, NOT step-by-step, though.... now i cringe that i sit through lame-ass questions on "who wants to sell their soul" game shows on friday night.

or, i could go out, but i'm broke. how sad. *sniffle* time for a growing pains moment...

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

High Fives to all my Sistahs! Hey, these things we like can't be too dorky if so many of us like them, right! We can MAKE them cool just by supporting them in large numbers!

I thought Matthew Perry was a hunk o' burning love when he was Sam's boyfriend on Who's the Boss, and was thrilled when he showed up on Growing Pains. However, it was so weirdly edited when he died that I didn't even cry, which was a waste because I am such a sucker for 'special episodes'. The way Carol saw him in the hospital and he was fine, then she gets home and finds out he died...it just felt too detached, too much like a sitcom script (they did the same thing when Bailey's girlfriend overdosed on Party of Five, now that I'm thinking about it). I remember that Growing Pains episode vividly even though it's probably been 15 years since I've seen it. Of course, I don't recall what I had for dinner last night, but can practically recite every episode of the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, if anyone is in the market for such a thing. Useless information and long term memory = my specialty. Short term memory = shot to hell.

Irene, I do remember Jon. (Jon Holmes - ha! that's great! I wonder if that was intentional, maybe his parents thought the name would give him a little boost with the ladies) He seemed to be nice, albeit a little TOO sensitive for my taste. He got crushes so easily, and my husband and I used to joke around and say he had good stalker potential. (Don't tell my husband I just ratted him out - he watches these shows with me, but says he's not paying attention. yeah, right. That must be why he makes comments every time they show Veronica in a bikini top. He doesn't even seem to care that she's a paper pilfering, shirt stealing egomaniac, because her boobs evidently cancel out her flaws. Men!)

Another example of useless information: I also saw Jamie Lunar on another nighttime soap called Savannah. I was surprised to see how much weight she had dropped since Just the 10 of Us, not that she was huge by any means, just had a little baby fat left I guess. She got really skinny for Savannah - she was walking around in a corset and garters and it took me a little while to realize it was the same person.

Mis, I hear ya, girl. If Pacey had been at my high school, I would have been his biggest stalker. He's a doll! What is up with the director of his movie Skulls saying he's not the best looking actor out there, but he was like Tom Hanks and did a good job, or something along those lines. What an insult! Has he not looked at the guy? Joshua Jackson can feel free to call me anytime!

Kristin, I'll see ya next Monday night at 10:00, and I'll have the Cherry Garcia and Chunk Monkey ready.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

perfect strangers! ha! balki....wow, those were the days. they just don't have fine programming like that anymore. i remember sitting at home on friday nights in middle school watching that show with my mom. man, was i a geek.

there is something terribly transfixing about the olsen twins. they act SO badly that i can't turn away, it's like a car wreck.

i may get kicked out of my own forum for admitting this, but i think the new celine dion song is kind of catchy. and after someone mentioned in another forum that she's saying "leurve" instead of "love," i laugh hysterically every time i hear it.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

okay, my FAVE episode of saved by the bell was when jessie got addicted to "pep pills" and passed out (or something) during some sort of dance routine thingy... she was so damn leggy it's no wonder she was in that strip-tease movie years later...

jamie lunar. i think i had a crush on her. i wonder what happened to the other "kids" on that show... i swear the dad did more tv, but there have been a lot of fat, balding men on sitcoms in the last 15 yrs.

and what's up with screech being on the "new" (or whatever) saved by the bell: the new class or something? that poor, poor kid/man is DOOMED forever. maybe not doogie-houser doomed, but pretty damn close.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

about "my" jon holmes... i only caught an episode or two, as cable was short-lived in the house, but he was the same as always... just imagine him in khakis, a button-down blue workshirt, and a yellow and blue nametag telling you when your movies are due back. that's him. really sweet. (i was TOTALLY surprised he auditioned for the real world, boston. really surprised. maybe that's why he got knocked down to road rules.) if i was on either of those shows, i'd bitch slap some of those princesses so fast i'd get kicked off.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

i remember the youngest girl on "just the ten of us" was on another short-lived series back around that time. i think her name was micki on one of the shows, she was about 9 years old and wore glasses, had dark hair. anyway, she was on some horrifying hour-long series that was a *MUSICAL* every week about these orphans who got adopted -- "rags to riches," i believe. she seems to pop up every now and then in a "hey, it's that girl" fashion, but it's been years.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Matthew Perry was also on '90210' as Chad, the suicidal golden boy/ Big Man on Campus who (whom?) Brandon talked out of killing himself.

Speaking of Brandon, my husband can't tell Brandon and Dylan apart and refers to them as BranDylan.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

it's easy: brandon looks like he's 30 and really constipated, and dylan looks 45 and really bitter.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Lisa E.

What the hell does that director know. If he loved Joshua like I do, he would understand that it has nothing to do with LOOKS, and everything to do with being a fucking SEX GOD!!!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Irene, I totally agree with your constipated description of Brandon. I never thought about it before, but his furrowed brow affectation definitely does look like he's trying to give birth to a big brown baby boy. I will never look at him the same way on the weekend reruns again! I used to call Dylan 'Fivehead', which simply means his is bigger than a forehead. Now I call Dawson 'Fivehead'.

mis, you speak the truth! And since the writers were kind enough to make him have the affair with that teacher on DC, I don't have to feel guilty for drooling over an 18 (possibly as old as 22?) year old kid. I've never wanted to be a teacher so much in my life, and for all the wrong reasons. He gives off more sex appeal with one smoldering smile than Dawson could ever have even if he showed up at the door naked with a whole steamer trunk full of sex toys and Godiva chocolates! Get rid of Dawson, and make it Pacey's Creek! WB - are you listening? The women of America are talking to you!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

i only saw "dawson's creek" once, the episode involving some girl taking grandma to a movie theatre or something. it was really boring. the girls were all bitches (but not as bad as "popular"-eekkk!).

i think dawson was a waterhead baby. really.

was pacey the one on SNL last week (yes, i still watch it)? he was really pretty amusing. so were those pretty boys singing that awful byebyeybe song. i'm sorry, i long for the days when really GOOD musicians were on that show. at least they only let them perform once now, not twice.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

If you're going to bring up Rags to Riches (which was one of my favorites), we have to discuss Punky Brewster. Punky Power! I have to admit, if someone were to airing reruns of this show, I'd be watching them faithfully.

Back on Just the Ten of Us, my favorite character was the oldest sister and future nun Marie played by Heather Langenkamp. I actually cheered out loud when she got a boyfriend on the show, played by the guy who was Blossom's older brother Anthony. And I know that the blond sister Wendy later showed up on an episode of 90210 as the bitchy sorority girl who tells Andrea to be "less Jewish" so she can become a pledge.

Is it just me, or did we just invent Six Degrees of Matthew Perry?

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

ooh, erin, you are giving me a run for my money here. i had the biggest crush on michael stoyanov in high school (anthony from blossom). i didn't remember him from just the ten of us. but that oldest sister has shown up all kinds of places, and she's irritating as hell. specifically, her star turn as nancy kerrigan in the tv movie not so long ago.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

check it out

http://www.twomoons.simplenet.com/theeclipse/gallery/justthetenofus- 01.htm

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

ack! leigh- can't get the link to be found! i HAVE to see it!!!

punky had breast reduction surgery and got married a few years ago. her dad (adopted dad) on the show was so CREEPY.

Oh! PUN-kee! (shakes head)

BTW the cartoon with the flying whatever was so lame.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Hey, did you guys see Soleil Moon-Frye on Friends? She was Joey's tiny girlfriend who used to beat the crap out of him with 'play punches'. Finally Rachel kicked the crap out of her and when Joey didn't defend her, she peeled out (tm Gwen).

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

uh, sorry, try this and it should get you there. i'll test it to make sure this time.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

omigawd. cannot thank you enough.

i do have to question... is that REALLY jamie in the picture of the three girls in black underwear? it *sorta* looks like her, if she lost A LOT of weight...

the just the 10 pics were pretty funny. i think i missed that episode.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

punky also did a guest spot on the wonder years before all her surgeries. she was quite the temptress for little kevin arnold.

random trivia (erin, you can't play, i know you know this one): can you name punky brewster's dog?

i once stayed up with two friends all night long trying to remember this. after finally figuring it out, i will never forget it.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

okay, i know her best friend (the hyper black girl) was "cherry," right?

this is going to kill me, the dog's name... arg.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

BRANDON THE WONDER DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(okay, tracey, who is a bored as i am, came up with that...?)

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

yup!

here's another link for ja mie luner, but it's not very good.

yeah, i'm getting a lot of work done today.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

i just forgot how i LOVED "family ties."

mallory!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

See, Soliel Moon Frye was on Friends, which stars...MATTHEW PERRY! And David Schwimmer also guest starred on the Wonder Years as Karen's boyfriend, and now he's on Friends... with MATTHEW PERRY! It all goes back to him!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Jamie Lunar's biography and all of her TV credits just reminded me of the ultimate guilty pleasure: Kellie Martin made-for-television movies! She's been a drug addict, a murderer, an abused wife and a kidnapped child. Is this girl versatile or what?

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

gawd, i am SUCH a sucker for "monday-night-disease-of-the-week" movies. the one that sticks out the MOST was that guy who became "parker lewis" (can't lose) in "i know my first name is stephen" about this kid that gets kidnapped by some chickenhawk freak... i digress...

besides, isn't "satan's school for girls" coming on soon? ;)

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

i can't believe leigh anne has the audacity to badmouth "rags to riches" after admitting how much she likes "just the ten of us!" he he he. i LOVED that show ... there's singing, there's dancing, there's '80s clothes and make-up. and, of course, there's joseph bologna as everyone's favorite, rich daddy warbucks of the moment. my sisters and i totally dug it. i could kill my mother for taping over the episodes we recorded ... yes, we taped the episodes. i was in sixth grade! come on!

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Thanks to everyone for establishing the ubiquity of Matthew Perry. No wonder he looked so familiar to me when Friends started.

... I can't stand "Bye Bye Bye," so there's no need to come out of the closet on that one. Our department used to be on the same floor as Pop A&R, so when they are mixing new singles and remixes you hear whatever is the new song over and over, pretty much 9 hours a day, no exaggeration. If I never hear another Britney Spears or *NSYNC song again, I'll be happy. Unfortunately, when they come on (while I'm in the deli buying a bagel or cashing my check or eating dinner, or, god help me, on hold, I notice I tend to sing along, because I know them all too well. I'm going to need some serious deprogramming now that I'm leaving Jive.

Is it just me or does Justin Timerlake (so, so sorry that I now know all their names, I put it off as long as I could) look just like Screech from Saved by the Bell? ... I don't think I finished answering the question. I love Charmed. It's 90210 with witchcraft, which hyperextends the limits for cheesy dialogue. I've never liked Alyssa Milano and could do without Shannon Doherty, but that show sucks me in. Speaking of which, I've got to get home! ... Oh. My. God. Erin, did you have to bring up Blossom? ... I've never liked Kelly Martin. I saw the stab episode of ER and missed the next one. I was so sorry I didn't get to watch her die, die die. ... I've got a ton of work to do before I leave this job Friday...I should stay away from this thread. But it feels sooooooooo good.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Okay, I have a few confessions on this thread.

Let's start with the most obvious. I love the current wave of Boy Bands. I actually like some of the music. A friend of mine and I have, on more than one occasion, locked ourselves into the student centre until three in the morning, (it closes at midnight,) turned on Bye Bye Bye as loud as the sound system could handle it, put our baseball caps on backwards, and started dancing on the furniture. I sing along when they come on the radio. I'll dance when I'm alone and they're playing. I've seen the making of the Bye Bye Bye video something like six times now.

More confessions...I like wrestling. Actually, I love wrestling. The high point of my week was when I found out that Vince McMahon was coming back. I'm such white trash.

Whatever, though.

Oh, and my MP3 list is about 50% 80s music. The other 50% is boy bands, metal, and country.

I have no taste.

-Meghan

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

Does anyone remember that back in 91-93ish they were showing reruns of Punky Brewster all the time? I remember seeing it every day when I came home from school..

And whenever I turned on TV to watch Punky I always managed to catch the last 5 minutes of GI Joe and it was just enough time to see his life-saving tip of the day where the kids would say, "And now I know!"

He would kindly retort with, "And knowing is half the battle!"

What about KIDS Incorporated? Did anyone ever watch THAT? :)

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

or, 3-2-1 Contact with THE BLOODHOUND GANG?????

oh, public broadcasting used to be so much more than the antiques roadshow (which i really dig).

big charmed fan, too. LOVE the episode when alyssa goes into "heat" like, every 5 minutes, and sweats herself silly. it was too much.

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

okay, megan, i admit that i watched "rags to riches," but in retrospect i can recognize its supreme cheesiness. did you like COP ROCK, too?

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

Kids Incorporated - I loved that show! I used to get up early every Sunday morning just to watch it. They also aired reruns on the Disney Channel after school when I was in high school. And of course I watched it every day even though I was like 16 - that and the new Mickey Mouse Club (but as I am so very old, this was pre-Britney, Christina, *NSYNC, and Felicity).

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

when i was in 8th grade, a kid from my school, damon pampolina, got picked for the "new" mickey mouse club. he was on tv and all, and years later showed up at the high school, acting all hot shit. it was pretty funny. i think i'd hide my head and NEVER mention that i sang gay-ass songs wearing neon and dancing on the disney channel.

of course,my story might be different if i had talent and was actually on tv...

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

oh! i just remembered! i saw damon p. hawking "marie callendar's" frozen food on tv- usually during the day, when the soaps are on. it was pretty funny. he was getting all into his relationship with marie. c. and all.

i'm bored again. sorry.

on a lighter note... pamie was in a photo in this week's austin chronicle. she looked really bored.

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

I find it amusing that some of you enjoyed the Saved by the Bell television show. I'm friends with the star of the newer season, "Tony Dillon" (The blonde one who replaces Zack) and a few of the extras from that season. He hopes he will live down the cheese factor, some day. Not while I'm alive, heh heh!

As for the "Screech" character, I've been told that Dustin Diamond is extremely serious in person... tends to think he deserves a shot with the "big name" stars. Dream on, Screech.

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

No, Jon! That's just it! We don't really like it, yet we watch it anyway. That's how it is with me anyway. Well, actually it's more of "It's so cheesy, I cannot turn away."

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2000

Well, I used to rearrange my schedule to watch "Dawson's Creek". Oh how I love Pacey...oh how I hate Dawson and his suitcase face. Since I live in hee haw hell, we don't have the WB anymore (THANKS WGN), so I have to get my fix of DC on Mighty Big TV.

I, too loved "Just the 10 of Us". Heather whatsherface was in "A Nightmare on Elm Street", wasn't she? Talk about back in the day.

"Rags to Riches".....wasn't Tisha Campbell from "Martin" on there, too?

Speaking of.....Matthew Perry starred in a TV show waaaay back in the day.....I must have been about 7 or so....his character's name was Chazz...it was like one of the first shows on Fox....or something. He was this really "cool" guy.....and he had a 'thug' friend....damn, I remember the character, but I can't place the guy.

I already aired this dirty secret, but I LOVE "Passions"....and oh geez, it's so lame.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2000

3-2-1 Contact--I remember that! :) (Well, barely, as you'll see...)

Re: the bloodhound gang...'scuse my idiocy, but do you mean the musical group, or did they get their name from 3-2-1 C.? Hmm.

*scritch head*

I didn't know we could claim past TV amours. Liked Perfect Strangers & Too Close for Comfort. Would occasionally have social evenings based around eating 'za & watching 21 Jump Street & 90210 and vaguely recall early Melrose with Amy Locane and Vanessa Williams (not THAT one, I don't think). Whosits Calabro (Michael?) used to be a nice character. Was confused years later happening upon the show w/ Psychomichael and no Amy or Vanessa.

Liked Night Flight a lot, too, and used to watch MTV religiously 1983- 1988 or so. DD videos & the Young Ones rocked!

*grin*

I'm so much more boring these days I guess.

M

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2000

I have so many guilty pleasures that I am convinced I am the cheeziest girl on earth. I love disco and bad eighties music. I used to watch the Young Riders and Seaquest DSV religiously (I still tune into them for reruns). I had the biggest crush on Bronson Pinchot (Balkie) when I was ten. I think I need to have my head examined. I don't even want to start on my Saved by the Bell/Just the Ten of Us addiction. I used to love the cheezy Lubuck Babes episodes. Oh - and I watch Dirty Dancing every time I catch it on cable. I just stop channel surfing and watch it over and over again. I am so lame :)

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

And now for something completely different..... German tv has this 'music shows' (for want of a better word) called 'Musikantenstadl' every few months, filled to the brim with 'Bier und Bratwurst' and the cheesiest kind of 'folk music' you could possibly imagine. You get treated to incomparable acts like 'Die Alpenplayboys' and 'Gitte und Klaus', and once you have seen them, your life will never be the same again. Watching that show has to be the guiltiest pleasure I have - like laughing at a really bad car wreck.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

the bloodhound gang used to solve these really lame crimes... there was a black girl on it was totally poofball pigtails, and they always were wearing sweaters, so i thought they lived in canada...

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

no, i didn't watch "cop rock." how long was that on TV --- two weeks? i remember it failing miserably. yes, tisha campbell was on "rags to riches." man, i loved that show. too bad matthew perry didn't make an appearance!

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

the bloodhoudn gang was on, i think, electric company. There was a girl with afro-puffs (which are all the rage today, if you haven't noticed, even among club-going cosmopolitans). They solved crimes with science. I remember one where some rich guy was boasting that he had a fragment of a white dwarf, and was charging people to see it, and he was proving it was a fragment by having a really strong man try to lidt it. So the Bloodhound gang did some research and ended up proving that the guy was using an electromagnet to keep the "fragment" in one place.. um, the band is definitely named after the show. that band is cashing in on the generation of people who watched the show. references to tv pop culture from the seventies abound in music and advertising.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

Okay, I'm swooping in to settle the Bloodhound Gang problem. They are from 3-2-1 Contact. You may remember their theme song: "Whenever there's trouble,
We're there on the double.
We're the Bloodhound Gang.
If you've got the crime
We've got the ti-iiiiime
We're the Bloodhound Gang."

You don't need to know why I know that much about the Bloodhound Gang, but I couldn't take it anymore. Now if someone could remember that group of kids on Vegetable Soup that built a rocket that could fly, then I'd be impressed.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

Contact, is the reason, that everything happens

Contact!

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

I have a vague recollection of watching Vegetable Soup, but my older brother can expound on it at great length. All I remember is that the puppets were freaky looking and they scared me sometimes (this is the show with the puppets, right?). I think it came on either before or after Davey and Goliath on Sunday mornings (this was pre-Kids Incorporated, of course).

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

I'm a Sid and Marty Krofft whore. I admit it. I almost forgot about them. HR Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, Sigmund and the Seamonsters, Lidsville....all of 'em, baby!! I only got to watch them in syndication, but ahhh...the memories. I wish they would show up on TV Land or something soon.

I also remember a show...vaguely....called "Dr. Shrinker"....there were like 4 kids and Dr. Shrinker was an evil doctor who shrunk them. what a concept! I remember some of the theme song.

Dr. Shrinker, Dr. Shrinker He's an evil man with an evil mind Dr. Shrinker, Dr. Shrinker

I don't know anyone else that remembers it....even my older brother doesn't remember.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

i don't remember dr. shrinker. but what a stupid name for him to choose -- as far as villainry goes, it's so limiting.

i used to watch "the littles" all the time. does that count?

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

Hanson. I own Middle of Nowhere. I paid full price for Middle of Nowhere. I haven't yet sunk to getting the Christmas album, though.

Nash Bridges. I had not the slightest desire to watch Don Johnson when he did Miami Vice, but now I make very sure to get home in time for Nash. I think I must have crossed some kind of age barrier.

Friends, although I can't really tell Joey and Chandler apart, let alone know which one is Matthew Perry.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

okay, joey looks like the lights are on, but no one's home. chandler (matt perry) looks like he placed a bad bet and the bookie is on his tail. all the time.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

my hubby wants to know: THE GREAT SPACE COASTER-?????

"no gnus is good gnus"

(whatever.)

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

Kids Incorporated! I used to *LOVE* that show! AND the great space coaster! That was the *BEST* -- I used to love the animated sequence at the beginning and I think I still remember a bit of the song... I remember not liking the magician puppet guy, thinking Gary Gnu was a dork and realllly boring...

One of the girls from Kids Incorporated actually had a pop career for awhile; her big hit was some song called 'Toy Soldiers'. But I can't remember her name - something with an 'M' and I think it was vaguely eastern European sounding.

Could never stand Saved by the Bell when I was younger, but if I'm home really bored I'll actually get sucked into it.

When I was in highschool, my roommates and I would watch 90210 to make fun of it... and then... well... then we just started watching it! Terrible.

Was anyone else a fan of cheese japanamation/anime cartoons? Like Voltron Force and... oh the one with the bird-like capes and helmets? And what about that cheap Hercules one - with the sorcerer who's cats name was Dido and the 'monstors' always made the exact same scarey noise? And to get strong he held his hand to the sky and this music started with lightening bolts to his 'H' ring!!! *That* was a cartoon :)

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

it was martika! she had a couple of hits, i think. she was great on kids in incorporated. obviously, the general public never watched disney or they would have done a better job embracing her pop career. he he. aren't the other 'kids' girls in a group that's currently putting out albums? erin, i know you know this one.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

Jamie, I understand the feeling exactly. Like how people tend to slow down to gawk at the auto wreck on the side of the road.

On another note, I used to watch "Perfect Strangers". I used to do a pretty good imitation of Balki saying to Larry, 'Couseen Laaarry Ahhhpppletohn.' One of my friends has that nickname (Balki) because as a teen, he looked like Bronson Pinchot. I often throw him off his game by doing the aforementioned impression, heh heh. I'm so evil, I know.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

I'd just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Perfect Strangers and don't feel at all guilty, it was a great show! I can do a pretty good Coh-seen Lah-ray Applehton, too, also Balk-eye Bartookamouse hehehe. Oh and my mom likes to make me do some little dance Balki did on the show one time, she finds it extremely amusing.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

Alli!! THANK YOU! I've been trying to remember the name of the Bugaloos for ages. I grew up on the east coast, but live in California now - apparently the Bugaloos and the Seamonsters never aired here, because people always start to back away when I reminisce about those being my favorite shows when I was like, 5. Along with Johnny Quest (what's with this remake crap?!) and Valley of the Lost. Dig those crazy dinosaurs and horrifically poor special effects.

My greatest childhood addiction, though, was Friday night midnight monster movies on WHAS (Louisville? Lexington?). Really great stuff like "City of the Mole People," classics like "Frankenstein," and other less memorable films I'd one day see again on MST3K.

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2000

jamie, are you talking about the bibi bobka dance? when they made those millions and millions of pastries? i think balki called it "the dance of joy." i still remember some words to the song, in bits and pieces. i'm going to go change my name and move to a small island now for admitting i know that.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

Okay, here's one I'd forgotten all about until I started skimming this forum....Totally cheesy PBS TV show from Canada....Degrassi Junior High!! I was completely addicted and would watch it even in high school if I came across it. I'm hoping no one else remembers it so I'm safe from any mocking.

Oh yeah -- and I think this is far, far worse -- two summers ago (as a legitimate grown-up, over the age of 25) I saw the Backstreet Boys in concert. And paid for the ticket. Gads. I won't even admit that I had a blast. Oops. Damn.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

Leigh Anne ... I don't think pastries were involved with my dance ... it was some sort of ritual as I recall, beginning with "Hey Bingy" *lol* BTW, I know the Dance of Joy in full :) hehe

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

wow, jamie, no matter how you look at it. we are two sad, silly sisters. thank you for giving me the strength to admit my past love for balki and cousin larry. i hated when they got married. the show just went way downhill.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

wasn't leigh ann one of the girls' names on "perfect strangers?" something like "jennifer" was the other one...

okay, i'll have to go one further and say "head of the class" AND "21 jump street" (but NOT the booker spin-off) were really the highlights of teen years. man, johnny deep was so damn dreamy...

"you can't do that on television?" i loved the sketches (sp?) in the hamburger place with the nasty old man.

bits and pieces of memories... trivial pursuit anyone?

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

shit- it was MARYANN and JENNIFER.

i feel so lame.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

I went to high school with someone who was on the new Mickey Mouse Club show, too. Small world. I have completely forgotten her name, though. And don't get me started on my love for Degrassi Jr. High. I actually have some of the paperbacks that came out about that show - including the one about Spike getting pregnant. Heh.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

"head of the class" ruled! we need more howard hesseman these days.

sweet valley high, anyone?

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

Because I can't resist... The Great Space Coaster
Get on board!
On the Great Space Coaster
We'll explore!
Come and ride the fantasy
To a place where dreams are fast and free.
With new friends and new things to see.
We'll spin you through our galaxy!
On the Great Space Coaster!
Get on board! Yeah, I think I liked that show too. I remember skipping the bus in the first grade once because I thought that perhaps it wouldn't end if I didn't turn it off.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

Thanks for calling me out on that one, Megan. Yes, there are two other girls from Kids Incorporated who are still around. Stacy and Renee (they played sisters on the show) are in the group Wild Orchid with some other random chick. They also host a show on Fox Family called the Great Pretenders which is a lip-sync show for kids a la the old Putting on the Hits. And JC from *NSYNC is producing some songs on Wild Orchid's next album (have I mentioned I watch way too much MTV?).

I adored You Can't Do That on Television and had a mad crush on Adam when I was in the seventh grade, about the same time I was obsessing over Sweet Valley High books. Have you looked at these books lately? There are hundreds of them now...

And there is no reason whatsoever to be ashamed of seeing the Backstreet Boys, because I paid $90 for tickets to see the Spice Girls for me and my mom and I had the most fun. I'm not even gonna into my collection of Spice Girls memorabilia...

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000

now i totally have the great space coaster stuck in my head for the rest of the day. :^)

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000