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Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

twistedmentat posted:

Was Andy Richter Controls the Universe around the same time too?

I remember really enjoying Working, it also had amazing promos. Too bad Working TV Promos is still way to generic a search term to find them. I do remember one had a guy who's job was to test how painful bandaids were when they were pulled off, and he kind of enjoys one of them. Working! Its like your job just funnier!

Going back to chain resturants in the 90s, when we visited the US, normally the east coast, that would be one of the treats, getting to go to Bennigans or Fudruckers, Chi-Chis , Denny's, Olive Garden, Sizzler or TGI Fridays. We didn't really have many chain restaurants in Canada at the time, it was Swiss Chalet and that was about it unless you wanted pizza or fast food.

I remember the 90s most because i was a teen then so I remember ordering from the adult menu. Also remember a Denny's in Savannah Georgia were the waitress was about the same age as me and was very openly flirting with me, which embarrassed me horribly but amused my dad to no end; "you could go back and marry her and become an American citizen. I can send you your stuff" he told me.

Thanks dad.

Working was the mid to late 90s, I remember the reviews constantly mentioning that they'd settle for the show until the Dilbert cartoon premiered that coming winter. I think it ended up getting a third season on USA? Or it might have just been syndication. Andy Richter premiered in 2001, the very same night Scrubs did. They weren't counter programmed so that was a good tv night for me.

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Ferrule
Feb 23, 2007

Yo!
Herman's Head

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy
Heavy Weights is the best movie about fat kids. We regularly yell out, "BUDDDDY" in my friend group. It's a system that works and is about 60% reliable in most situations.

PhotoKirk
Jul 2, 2007

insert witty text here

Ferrule posted:

Herman's Head

That show was awesome.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

PhotoKirk posted:

That show was awesome.



This is probably the only mention of that show. I've never seen it. I don't think any Canadian channels had it.

Negostrike
Aug 15, 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJxJxr9RlKM

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost

twistedmentat posted:



This is probably the only mention of that show. I've never seen it. I don't think any Canadian channels had it.

It was broadcast by Canadian Fox affiliates and definitely aired on the west coast. 14-year old me thought Yeardly Smith was kind of cute in a weird way but I quickly grew out of that mindset when I saw Erika Eleniak in Under Siege.

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

Dillbag posted:

14-year old me thought Yeardly Smith was kind of cute in a weird way
It's possibly because she looked like a 14 year old in a 20 year old's body. She was a good part of Herman's Head, though.

KingBomber69
Feb 25, 2018

by VideoGames
Kurt Kobain, N64, Innernets! HAHA FBGM

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Dillbag posted:

It was broadcast by Canadian Fox affiliates and definitely aired on the west coast. 14-year old me thought Yeardly Smith was kind of cute in a weird way but I quickly grew out of that mindset when I saw Erika Eleniak in Under Siege.

I saw Rocky Horror when i was like 13 so it was Columbia and Magenta for me. That an Magik in New Mutants.

And that reminds me, we didn't have fox until fairly late in Eastern Canada, like X-files season and Simpsons were unknown until MITV picked them up. Now there is a 90s thing I remember, your local stations becoming National Stations. MITV was literally Maritime Independent TV, but it turned into Global after a while, which is hilarious. ASN was still ASN but became more and more blatantly CityTV over the years.

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost
I guess we were lucky in Vancouver to get Seattle stations like KCPQ-13 and KOMO-12 for all our American broadcast needs. Almost Live! was peak 90's PNW viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQRuNwOMzW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlDVmBLibg

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Dillbag posted:

I guess we were lucky in Vancouver to get Seattle stations like KCPQ-13 and KOMO-12 for all our American broadcast needs. Almost Live! was peak 90's PNW viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQRuNwOMzW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlDVmBLibg

That first one is a little uuuuuuuh, but I get what they're going with. It reminds me of the Jackalop shorts that would pop up in crummy comedy shows a lot in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ36VMt6GHs

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


YALL REMEMBER BOSTON COMMON


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svtLZ7m61i4

MeatRocket8
Aug 3, 2011

Here’s a good youtube playlist of forgotten 90’s alternative songs. Lotta Blur, Nirvana, and Weezer sounding clones.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYi0kd1PnVASrUGjeIXl4vULucfyVWrar

ZDar Fan
Oct 15, 2012


Hell yeah I do. I totally had a thing for the dopey protagonist's sister. Come to think of it, I've been heavy into women with southern accents ever since Rogue off X-Men.

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7GmolHTd4

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

burial posted:

Yep. Was autocorrect.

Anyway, I really think I must just‘ve been the target audience for every horrible sitcom that immediately or almost immediately failed. God knows I remember a lot of them, if only in name.

Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane and Working come to mind. No idea how good or terrible either one was (though I think those two might actually be on youtube.) I only know that every once in awhile I’ll remember something like that and no one ever knows what I’m talking about.
Like NBC's City Buds?

Vanagoon
Jan 20, 2008


Best Dead Gay Forums
on the whole Internet!
God, the devil, and Bob, was aired in 2000 sometime, but it was most certainly a product of the 90s.

edit: Duckman was the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSLOseqoK24

Grraarrgghh
Feb 12, 2012

"Bernard, float over here so I can punch you."


Vanagoon posted:

God, the devil, and Bob, was aired in 2000 sometime, but it was most certainly a product of the 90s.

edit: Duckman klasky-csupo was the 90s.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

Vanagoon posted:

God, the devil, and Bob, was aired in 2000 sometime, but it was most certainly a product of the 90s.

edit: Duckman was the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSLOseqoK24

I couldn't help but pick up a box set of the first two seasons when I saw it at Dollar General not long ago. It was the right combination of gross and edgy for the 1990s and on rewatch, surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be.

burial
Sep 13, 2002

actually, that won't be necessary.

Tunicate posted:

Like NBC's City Buds?

Wasn’t it City Guys? Either way, it counts as a show I was aware of, probably watched, and can’t actually remember.

Unless there really IS a City Buds. In which case you win?

Cat Hassler
Feb 7, 2006

Slippery Tilde

Dillbag posted:

I guess we were lucky in Vancouver to get Seattle stations like KCPQ-13 and KOMO-12 for all our American broadcast needs. Almost Live! was peak 90's PNW viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQRuNwOMzW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlDVmBLibg

I watched Almost Live every week back then.
Pat Cashman was awesome.

Later on the Seattle public access channel came on and it would be Richard Lee hosting his “Kurt Cobain was Murdered” show, “Goddess Kring” who would end her show dancing naked in body paint, and sometimes a couple of guys who would show amateur porn or shock videos (i saw the Bjork stalker suicide on their show)

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

RC and Moon Pie posted:

surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be.
There's a lot of political schtick that is perfectly Gen X conservative (the long rant King Chicken and Bernice have about how to fix schools is mostly ok but caps off with 'and a return to Capital Punishment?!!) that I can't quite figure out if it was genuine or satirical. But overall they straddled the line between Duckman being an irredeemable slimeball and a broken widower who was made better by his love for his late wife.

Kind of like a Bojack Duckguy, really

ZDar Fan
Oct 15, 2012

Remember that show, Saved By the Bell? That was a pretty good show, but it was missing something...what was it? Oh yeah, basketball!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHnajecQPuY

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

ZDar Fan posted:

Remember that show, Saved By the Bell? That was a pretty good show, but it was missing something...what was it? Oh yeah, basketball!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHnajecQPuY

The autocaptions read "sharing a tweet so fine" and it took me a minute to realize the lyric is treat. loving TeeNBC was the worst

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

FilthyImp posted:

There's a lot of political schtick that is perfectly Gen X conservative (the long rant King Chicken and Bernice have about how to fix schools is mostly ok but caps off with 'and a return to Capital Punishment?!!) that I can't quite figure out if it was genuine or satirical. But overall they straddled the line between Duckman being an irredeemable slimeball and a broken widower who was made better by his love for his late wife.

Kind of like a Bojack Duckguy, really

Kind of the point of Duckman was that at his core he's an alright guy driven a bit crazy by the world as a whole. He's more bitter and cynical than actually malicious. He isn't perfect but really, who is?

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Ferrule posted:

Herman's Head

Charlie hoover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hoover

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

ZDar Fan posted:

Remember that show, Saved By the Bell? That was a pretty good show, but it was missing something...what was it? Oh yeah, basketball!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHnajecQPuY

Holy poo poo Anthony Anderson. He's the only one on that show that made it.

This Is the Zodiac
Feb 4, 2003

Dillbag posted:

14-year old me thought Yeardly Smith was kind of cute in a weird way but I quickly grew out of that mindset when I saw Erika Eleniak in Under Siege.
The otherwise completely obscure 1989 film Ginger Ale Afternoon is notable for briefly including topless Yeardley Smith.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
There was Stark Raving Mad in 2000 that features Tony Shalub as a horror writer and NPH as his new editor. Mostly it was about how wacky this guy was and that was about it.

The ads were pretty funny.

"Yea why don't you tell me your best friends with Will Smith again"
"sure thing Doogie!"
"shut up!"

root beer
Nov 13, 2005

I was just thinking about that show yesterday and I was going to bring it up. I’d only seen a few bits and pieces but I thought they were funny I guess.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Keith Atherton posted:

I watched Almost Live every week back then.
Pat Cashman was awesome.

Later on the Seattle public access channel came on and it would be Richard Lee hosting his “Kurt Cobain was Murdered” show, “Goddess Kring” who would end her show dancing naked in body paint, and sometimes a couple of guys who would show amateur porn or shock videos (i saw the Bjork stalker suicide on their show)

I used to hang out with the guy who did "Condemned to the Gallows," which was horror movie clips. We saw Motorhead at like 10am at Bumpershoot :3:

Seldom Posts
Jul 4, 2010

Grimey Drawer

ZDar Fan posted:

Hell yeah I do. I totally had a thing for the dopey protagonist's sister. Come to think of it, I've been heavy into women with southern accents ever since Rogue off X-Men.

I believe her voice actor was actually a canadian woman?

swims
May 5, 2014

Waiter, this band keeps shooting pearls at me.

SweetMercifulCrap! posted:

Re: Pizza Hut

80's, but still kinda counts. Something tells me the pizza making process is much more automated these days, and I doubt the ingredients and dough are fresh like shown here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HpCJov3Uj0



I'm the man hands at 8:45. Wait I'm the Priazzo. Actually I think I am the fairy dust.

I watched that Pizza Hut training video is what I'm saying. With volume on.

Dr. Video Games 0081
Jan 19, 2005
Christine Baranski is fine as hell in the Cybil Shepherd show

ZDar Fan
Oct 15, 2012

Seldom Posts posted:

I believe her voice actor was actually a canadian woman?

Yup, and I believe she won some kind of political seat a few years ago or something. I think most, if not all, of the VAs on that show were Canadian. I know Jean Grey was voiced by the coroner from Forever Knight.

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:

Christine Baranski is fine as hell in the Cybil Shepherd show

Hell yes.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

ZDar Fan posted:

Yup, and I believe she won some kind of political seat a few years ago or something. I think most, if not all, of the VAs on that show were Canadian. I know Jean Grey was voiced by the coroner from Forever Knight.

Forever Knight, now that was a cool show. Before vampires were 'cool' and run into the ground.

There was another one with a werewolf who was hunting down the one who made him (I think played by a ridiculously evil Charlton Heston) which was fun as well, but I can't remember the name.

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:

Christine Baranski is fine as hell in the Cybil Shepherd show
Cybil is pretty 90s because theres a plot where she gets an awesome TV gig and its an Xfiles knockoff.

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Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

twistedmentat posted:

There was Stark Raving Mad in 2000 that features Tony Shalub as a horror writer and NPH as his new editor. Mostly it was about how wacky this guy was and that was about it.

The ads were pretty funny.

"Yea why don't you tell me your best friends with Will Smith again"
"sure thing Doogie!"
"shut up!"

The only memory I have of this show is one painfully unfunny scene about a Finnish guy in a coffin.

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