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.

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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…

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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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Watching The Fresh Prince of Bel Air reruns always reminds me of how great the show was. Then when I see people doing stuff in NFL games like this guy from my Detroit Lions doing the “Carton” it is time to do an appreciation post. Can’t put this one in the Crap TV Flashbacks section either since it was top quality.

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This is a pretty difficult one to narrow down, and I’m sure these aren’t even my favorite moments of the show, but I have to go with what is available to me in video form to put something together at least. Great thing about the videos though if I select the right titles the recommended vids after will allow endless Fresh Prince reasons to be nostalgia’d.

OK…I’ll admit it. I’m too lazy to watch 50 Fresh Prince videos and do this myself. Others with much more time and patience have already done it so I’m going to let you follow the trail. This jackass disabled embedding so you can call him names in his comments, but he has a top 25 14 Fresh Prince moments set that is rather long and in depth so I will give him his credit. Apparently 25-15 got blocked.

Fresh Prince Top 25 Moments: #1-7
Fresh Prince Top 25 Moments: #8-14

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The title alone tells you that this show sucked. It even has a “…” in it for god sakes. It wasn’t even actual celebrities. Well…none that I have ever heard of. The second season even featured someone that was the SISTER of a celebrity.

Originally developed in the United Kingdom by Granada Television for ITV and first shown in 2002, it is now produced by Granada Productions and licensed globally to countries including France, Hungary, India, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.

The saddest part about this show? It’s still on! It returned for its tenth series on 14 November 2010.

Considering this is a UK show, odds are you haven’t heard of many of the people, but that just makes it worse. This show is so bad….

It has been criticised by the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Tessa Jowell. In an interview with the Financial Times during the second British series, she said, “If they weren’t mostly – save their blushes – has-been celebrities, there might be more interest [...] I think that if we saw many more programming hours taken over by reality TV, I hope you’d begin to see a viewers’ revolt.”

I don’t know who this is, but I love her. Damned straight people need to revolt over this reality TV lollers. These people would be lucky to get gigs selling blackhead remover.

Who are these people?

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It isn’t often I am excited about a Pilot for a new TV show. Most of them fall short if you have any hype at all going in. So many shows have tried to recapture the magic that L o s t had and reel you in right away. They fail miserably because they try to throw out some obnoxious mystery rather than give us good writing and characters.

Until now! The Walking Dead’s Halloween premiere set the tone better than any pilot since Lost for me. High quality effects, filming, and story. It had the feel of an Epic movie. Something that L o s t had almost every single week. The Walkign Dead seems to have this going on as well.

The opening scenes of The Walking Dead told us straight away that we just weren’t going to have our hand held, or give you a club flyer. They were going balls out and showing us violence. The first major kill you see is a girl that couldn’t be any older than 10 years-old getting a bullet between the eyes.

The 90 minute Pilot was intense and had the epic zombie movie feel. While you got some homages to movies like 28 Days Later with a hospital to empty town scene, expectations of a more character driven story seem to be something we can expect. It’s not going to be zombie killing for an hour every week.

Sundays just became the most violent day of the week for me. Dexter and The Walking Dead are going to be the bloodiest 2 hours you may ever get on television in one day.

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