Crap TV Flashbacks: Blossom

As embarrassing as this is to say…I actually used to watch this show every week. Why? No idea, but I did. Maybe it was her hot friend Six played by Jenna von Oÿ. Yeah her name was Six. She has some strip dance in a movie I saw here (no nudity). Some low grade crap movie.

Blossom was extra uggo by comparison. Made Six look even hotter just because of the law of hot girl with ugly friend. Blossom was a play on words because she had a huge nose and looked like a mutant.

Oh and those stupid, stupid HATS. They both wore these weirdo country style moron hats that people in weirdo towns wear.

Uggg…either those or some sort of Cat in the HAt hat with a flower on it. Repulsive.

Blossom was broadcast from 1990 to 1995 on NBC. The series stars Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers.

Her brothers were teen heartthrob Joey Lawrence who played…wait for it…Joey and some other guy that had a funky nose too.

Joey Lawrence was like a huge star back then. Teen girls loved him. HE even had his own ridiculous catch phrase: “Whoa!”. Yup…that was his goddamn catch phrase. “Whoa!”

This show touched on a lot of teen subjects like pregnancy. Six was a little slut I think IIRC. Blossom even got laid on this show somehow. Dad was all “dun touch me daughter” and all protective when some dude had her in his barska sites. So were her dimwitted brothers. Should have been like “You go Blossom. I am shocked someone wants to do you!”

So yeah…Blossom was a nerd. Six was a whore. Joey was an American Idiot. Her other brother was a drunk I think. Dad was a dad.

Blossom Intro

Latest Youtube Subscribes

I’m always on the lookout for some new Youtube people to subscribe to. Mainly only ones that are funny. I might subscribe to the occasional “thinker” here and there if they are putting out videos that cover science for the idiot, or they have some decent arguments for logic and debating, but overall I stick with the laughs.

So…if you got some funny Youtubersersers you want to recommend by all means go for it. I will check them out. If they suck ass I will troll the hell out of their lame videos.

So let’s get on with it. Not to many, but these are the ones I’m watchign and catchign up with right now. Not sure if I like them all, but it is what it is.

JaboOodydubs is back! Finally. They do a lot of infomercial parodies. Mainly Billy Mays ones that are awesome. Quite a few vids up now again. Maybe you will even find the most effective weight loss pill and not be fat anymore.

MisterSharp I’ve mentioned him before, but still want to mention him here. He does a lot of 50s parody sorts where he uses sarcasm to mastery and is hilarious. Watch his old vids too of his cartoons like The Mr. Men Sessions.

edbassmaster this guy uploads vids every couple days and they are short sketches of absurd acting. Good quality low brow laughs.

nqtv This is Remi Gaillard’s channel. He’s more or less a French Jackass clone. Seems to upload frequently, but when there is a lull they continue to upload “Best of” videos at the very least.

Those 4 I am positive are great. These ones I’m just checking out and seeing if they have lasting appeal, or at least I want to watch their archives.

Man in the Box This channel caught my eye as it has an Office Space appeal to some degree. About a guy in a cubicle and dumb stuff they do at work. They have 3 years of vids and close to 300 of them so I subscribed just to watch them all.

GoodNeighborStuff This show reminds me of Always Sunny In Philadelphia. At least from this being the first video I saw.

JackValefllms this was recommended to me and he has 100K subscribers. I haven’t watched much, but he does a lot of pranks and has a couple hundred vids it looks like.

I think that is good for now. Probalby a good 1000 videos here to sift through. If you have more let me know.

No auto-tune hack trash like schmoyoho either. These guys lasted about 2 videos for me and I’m done. Auto-tune is gay. In fact Youtube seems to be screwing me over on my sub with them. No matter what I do I can’t get their damn “Likes” and “Favs” off my damn front page. Even after clearing my cache and unsub they still show up like they are one of my top subscriptions.

So…Ricky Gervais

A lot of people talking about him this week after his Golden Globes hosting. Bunch of uppity old folks are upset that he was “mean” to some people. While anyone with a modest sense of humor probably wouldn’t be offended. I didn’t find him all that funny personally since everything he said was basically a rehash of jokes people have been using the last 10 years.

He took some shots at celebs that really haven’t even been that relevant in recent years for what he was talking about. Guys like Charlie Sheen picking up hookers, Robert Downey Jr. being a drunk and drug addict, etc. This stuff is so OLD! Can’t see how anyone would be offended except maybe that the jokes were too old for them.

Anyways, it almost is like just because of the backlash many people all of a sudden think he is awesome. Dude has been around forever. Not like this is even close to the best stuff he has done. While Americans may not like his ORIGINAL version of The Office as much as the U.S. version he still has quite a bit of other material out there. A lot of standup that is actually “Funny” compared to the Golden Globes rubbish. He was even in GTA IV in the comedy club. He’s also a pretty outspoken atheist which a lot of people may have seen from him too. HE has a few mediocre movies. Nothing memorable IMO. Better than a le creuset cookware infomercial surely, but not a buy DVD type.

I guess I’m more annoyed than anything about all the praise and the backlash he’s getting. It deserves neither.

Anyways, I thought I’d post a couple funny Gervais clips. The first one isn’t really stand up, or anything. It’s just him hanging out with Elmo from Sesame Street and is hilarious. Second one is some stand up comedy to give you an idea of why nobody should be surprised with his GG jokes.


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I’m sure there are memes out there about this awards appearance, but I’m not wasting my time looking for them.

Crap TV Flashbacks: Saturday Supercade

Video games came into prominence more or less in the early 1980s. For argument’s sake I doubt there were video game cartoons for Pong. Some of the earliest video game cartoons featured the classic heroes like Pac Man, Pitfall Harry, Q-Bert, and even Frogger. Yes…ridiculous as it may sound they had cartoons with these character in them.

Saturday Supercade

It feels soooo right…

It ran for two seasons on CBS beginning in 1983. Each episode was composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the Golden age of video arcade games.

Keep in mind this is before Super Mario Bros. This was when we only knew Mario from Donkey Kong! Instead of sleeping pills you got thumped on the head with a hammer in these days.

The debut characters included:

Frogger (from the Frogger arcade game)
Donkey Kong with Mario, Pauline, and Donkey Kong Jr. (from the Donkey Kong game)
Q*bert with Coily, Ugg, Wrongway, Slick and Sam (from the Q*Bert arcade game)
Pitfall Harry with his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda (unlike others, which are arcade games, this is from home console games, which are Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns) The cartoon was simply called Pitfall!.

Pitfall and Q-Bert rotated weekly while the other three were weekly.

During the second season, Q-Bert (now weekly) and Donkey Kong remained while the Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr. and Pitfall Harry segments were replaced by shorts featuring:

Space Ace with Space Ace/Dexter (depending on his form), Kimberly, and Borf (from the Space Ace arcade game).
Kangaroo with friends and the “Monkey Business Gang”. (from the Kangaroo arcade game).

So…weird…

Crap TV Flashbacks: Jem and the Holograms

What is strange about this show is that I never used to watch it when I was a kid. I mean why would I? I’m a guy after all. Of course I did watch She-Ra so maybe I did watch this *cough*

Jem is truly outrageous. Truly truly truly outrageous. Jem! Is truly outrag… Oh sorry (see video intro below). This song is what I remember about this show. It sticks in your head so easily that even if you didn’t want to watch the show you probably would have. I think it held subliminal messages to make you watch it.

That being said I remember almost nothing about this show. In fact if you asked me about it I would probably only remember the song. I think this may be a good sign. Means I wasn’t really a fan, and possibly I never actually watched it. I was a real man as a kid after all. ;)

Jem ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run syndication. The show is about music company owner Jerrica Benton, her singer alter-ego Jem, her band the Holograms, and their adventures.

Read this with a straight face:

The central “secret” of the series is that Jem, lead singer and frontwoman of the rock group Jem and The Holograms, is in fact the alter ego of Jerrica Benton, owner/manager of Starlight Music. Jerrica adopts this persona with the help of a holographic computer, known as Synergy, which was built by Jerrica’s father to be “the ultimate audio-visual entertainment synthesizer” and is bequeathed to Jerrica after his passing. Jerrica is then able to command Synergy to project “the Jem hologram” over herself by means of the remote micro projectors in her earrings, thus disguising her features and clothing and enabling her to assume the Jem persona. She does so to acquire money to support Starlight Music and the Starlight Foundation for Girls, a foster program founded by her late mother Jacqui Benton. Clearly a better option than Most effective diet pills for women. She has the “secret”.

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