I do ... and if you don't remember pure joy like this I really feel bad for you .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R28b8XXoXs

Take Idol, America's got no Talent, and all that shit, and incinerate anyone associated with them.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Hmmm..."The Gong Show" featuring an always wasted Chuck Barris as host and executive producer, along with Jamie Farr from "M*A*S*H" at the time, Jaye P. Morgan & Arte Johnson as "judges"...I'm surprised GSN, DIRECTV 309, doesn't air this classic, cutting-edge at the time spoof of talent shows, circa 1976...

Chuck Barris...That guy who sips pop on TMZ (Levin?) looks & acts like his son.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Hey, old guys! There's always been shitty TV: The Brady Bunch, T.J. Hooker, and Knight Rider are just a few examples.

Yes, but there's such a dearth of anything as pure (and/or arguably puerile) as The Gong Show.

On a side note, the shows mentioned are making very healthy syndication money .... I doubt in 30 years we'll see such winning shows as "The O.C." or any of the faggoty vampire shows.

i.e., Count Fagula = good ... The Vampire Diaries = shit.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Could you get away with this on network TV today, ya puritanical bastards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkzIx382mM

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So what you're saying is that there was never really a time when tv was actually worth watching?

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

It's a shame that you can't get away with stuff like that on network tv.

The shame of everything is that kids today have no understanding of how funny Looney Toons are.

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Colonel, the original "Knight Rider" had a cool theme and a cool Pontiac TransAm back in the '80s. They NEVER should have made an updated version of the action series, complete with a Ford Mustang!

Waiting for Jimmy Pasta reply.................

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

Yeah, the car and theme music was cool, but the "lead" is a complete tool.

I just bought season 1 and 2 of this fine show. I think I was 3 when it originally started airing, but I got the fever from some reruns a few years back.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Let's just say, you had to be a kid to appreciate either Knight Rider. I wasn't, and I didn't. But I enjoyed cringe-worthy shows of my era...

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

Simon and Simon was outstanding

Personally, I was partial to The A-Team

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Don't know if it's been mentioned, but it was "must see TV" for me when Cheers and Night Court were on back to back in the 80's.

By the way, can any guy (or girl maybe?) actually say that he/she hasn't rubbed one out to Markie Post back in the day?

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

Centric, DIRECTV 330, now airs the original "A Team" weekdays at 6a & 8p. If you have WMEU 48, the Weigel-owned independent known as MeTOO, you can find reruns at 4p weekdays as well.

If I had not read who started the OP, I would have sworn it was Jimmymeatball.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I know it's on METOO Comcast channel 247 on Saturdays at 3, thats when I get my fix.

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Only he could appreciate my newest DVR pain ..... I started a series recording of Rockford Files, and such as my luck goes, it went from daily M-F to only on Sundays ... shit.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

"This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name & message." (BEEP) Every single episode of "The Rockford Files" started with that answering machine message from 1974-80.

Am I the only one who wanted a robot like on Riptide?

That Stephen J. Cannell production hasn't aired ANYWHERE since USA Network aired reruns of it in the late '80s...

A television series you should see "if you choose to take this assignment"(?) is Mission Impossible. I thought it a far superior show to A-Team from a few years earlier.

For the same period MacMillan and Wife, and McCloud were pretty decent mystery shows.

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