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I can barely remember this show, but what I do remember is that people used to watch it like Desperate Houswives when it was on. Melrose Place is considered part of the Beverly Hills 90210 franchise, and is basically the same show except the people are better looking and they are in their 20s instead of being teens.

It’s a bunch of hot ass people living in an apartment complex and they do stuff. They have sex mostly. Sometimes they decide to kill each other because someone had sex with someone they shouldn’t have. You know, a prime time soap opera.

The series debuted on July 8, 1992 and was an instant hit, debuting at #19 on the Nielsen ratings with a 10.3/19 share. The series finale was watched by 10.38 million viewers. Yeah…it was big shit. Heather Locklear was even nominated for like 5 Emmy Awards while this show was on.

One character I remember on the show was this dude named Jake. He was the douchiest looking guy ever, and makes me laugh when I see him still. Looks like some dude that would spend all day trying to get rid of blackheads, and then get on a motorcycle and pretend to be a badass.

Oh I forgot…Kristin Davis was on this show too before her Sex and the City Days. Apparently they dumped her because they said the audience didn’t like her character. She was a bitch I think on the show. Completely opposite her Sex and the City role.

The Melrose Place Theme is as gay as the 90210 one. Sounds almost exactly the same to me.

While I was a huge fan of The Cosby Show, one character in particular was probably one of my least favorite characters on any show. Denise Huxtable, played by Lisa Bonet. Lisa Bonet actually only appeared on the show for one season because her and husband Lenny Kravitz were expecting a baby. This was against the morals of Cosby and the show’s audience to be an unwed mother (on the show) most likely and she was taken off for season 2. She took a year off and ended up back on the Cosby Show a year later (Oh joy).

A Different World was a show that was supposed to represent the average black college in America. The first season had a mix of white and black students (including Marisa Tomei in one of her earliest roles), but changed to a majority black cast in Season 2. A couple notable babes were on the show in Jasmine Guy and Jada Pinket (Mrs. Will Smith), as well as the comedian Sinbad.

OF course the show was pretty terrible most of the time. When your main character after Lisa Bonet left was called Dwayne Wayne and he wore flip up sunglasses 24/7 you know the show is pretty lame. HE was like some sort of seo software expert or something. No idea. Maye it was a lunchroom counselor.

While it was a spin-off from the Cosby Show, A Different World typically addressed issues that were avoided by the Cosby Show writers (race and class relations, the Equal Rights Amendment). One episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Yeah…so I’m HIV Positive that I hated this show.

A Different World Opening Credits:

One of the only things better than the show Lost is the list of images that message board users with adult acne have made over the years. Unfortunately there is no real easy way to post all of these images other than to just link to the message boards where they are shown. Obviously one of them is the Lostpedia boards, but another one is the GameFAQs TV board. I am not sure if you can see the GameFAQs board without creating an account, but I am pretty sure you can see them on Lostpedia easily.

Here is the GameFAQs topic. Like I said you probably have to register for the site just to see it. Also, for this type of thing you are going to want the Text to Image Firefox add-on for it because it just makes it a heck of a lot easier to look at instead of copy/pasting everything. Linkification is another nice add-on that will be helpful for this board in particular because it doesn’t actually make live links. Linkification can be turned on and make text into a clickable link.

Now the Lostpedia topic is really long and the first several pages have absolutely nothing on them. Skip to about page 16 or so.

Here are is an example of what these things are:

The new Chuck Norris of the internet is now The Epic Beard Man. Born from a simple phone video cam as he breathes hellfire on his enemies on a city bus. The Epic Beard Man was taunted by a hood rat on an AC transit bus once, and now no one will ever taunt the Beard Man again.

Of course once the video hit Youtube he became a legend. It has spawned many variations from a Techno Remix giving advice, to a Mortal Kombat edition. Pull down your blinds and hide under your bed. The Epic Beard Man is not to be looked in the eyes.

Epic Beard Man Is Born (w/ Subtitles + Bonus Video)
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Epic Beard Man Mortal Kombat Edition (Flawless Victory):

Since the Epic Beard Man strikes fear into all, and you can not get him out of your mind, you will find yourself making doodles such as these.

Not sure if this is funny for you, but I thought it was pretty solid. Nice to see someone rap about shit they actually are once in a while. Obviously it is meant to be sort of funny, but at the same time you can tell this guy thinks he is a serious rapper.

The best part of these videos is that he talks about the Contra 30 lives cheat code in the rap. You can’t lose when you use the Contra 30 lives cheat code in a rap IMO. Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start.

This guy is too normal to be checking out Outer Banks vacation rentals, but I am not.

Original Everyday Normal Guy:

Everyday Normal Guy v. 2:

Everyday Normal Crew: