Welcome to the first(last?) in a new feature where I talk TV*. I’d like to explore some lesser-known or forgotten TV shows*, not just because they are shows* I like but also to see what impact they had on the industry.
Today’s Episode: Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987)
Captain Power was a 1987 live action toy commercial TV series set in a distant future after the ‘Metal Wars’, and the machines have won. A group of rebel soldiers let by Captain Jonathan Power use Power Suit armor to take on the evil Lord Dread and his robot army.
It’s a little ham-fisted, to be sure, but it was a children’s show meant to sell toys. It was about watching future soldiers use cool armor and weapons to fight evil robots, but there are a few things that make it stand out today when looking back on it.
First of all, even though it was a show designed to sell toys, the creators sought to make something more compelling:
Captain Power, to the public at large, is perceived as just another excuse to sell toys. It is a notion that rubs story editor Larry DiTillio the wrong way.
“We’re not writing stories with the idea of turning each episode of Captain Power into a video game,” declares DiTillio. But DiTillio, a first season staff writer who became story editor when J. Michael Straczynski (Starlog #111) left the position for a similar post with the revived Twilight Zone, claimed that ramrodding the script side of Captain Power hasn’t been easy.
“This show has definitely not made my life easier,” chuckles DiTillio. “This is not just another kid’s cartoon show. The writing is always to an adult level. There is the interactivity which has been centered mainly in the battle sequences but we aren’t in a position of having to write X amount of animation and interactivity into each episode. I want to make it very clear that around here, we’re working for the story.” –Starlog #128
Indeed, the story of Captain Power deals with the horrors of war, human relationships and what it means to be human. In one story line the villain, Lord Dread, is confronted with the pain his war has inflicted on the woman he once loved. The story was written as much for the parents watching as for the kids.
But, I bet you’re wondering what DiTillio meant by “animation and interactivity into each episode”. Well, as stated the show was created to sell toys, the toys in question were a way for Mattel to use a new technology they had developed, a light sensing technology like that of Laser Tag or the NES Power gun. The play feature was that the vehicles for the action figures could interact with each other, if you ‘shot’ another jet with your jet it was a hit point, enough hit points and your pilot was ejected from the jet. This same technology was built into the show, allowing kids to interact and with enemies on the TV by shooting them as well as being shot. It was an interactive game built into the TV show, and pretty innovative for the time. You could also buy VHS tapes that had longer sequences on them to play the game any time you wanted.
This wasn’t the only innovation the show had on it’s side. Remember how the army of bad guys were robots? Well, the show runners decided to use a new technology called ‘computer generated imagery’ to create the robots instead of opting for guys in costumes. That’s right, they used CGI to create characters for a TV show in 1987, they were the first TV show to do it.
Impressive but, yeah it didn’t look too great back then and really doesn’t hold up well today. They may have been the first, but it was something that was on it’s way without them, eventually. The last great innovation Captain Power made probably had the most impact on the film and TV industry as we know it today.
Film and TV have been shot all over the world for many different reasons, but a staple of the industry for the last three decades has been shooting in Canada for that sweet, sweet government lucre. I bet you’ve already guessed it, Captain Power was one of the first major US television shows to entirely move its production to the great white hat of America. The show runners had to build the resources there from scratch and retrain local canooks to be able to shoot and edit an American Sci-Fi Action TV show.They leased an old bus terminal and converted it into a film lot. The writers from Hollywood would ‘modem’ the scripts to Canada and the rest of the production process was done there.
So what happened to such a fun, inventive, and successful TV show? Guns killed it! Well, not guns, but fear of guns. This was the 80s when busybodies started trying to get rid of violence on TV. The show had high ratings at the onset, but because of controversy surrounding the violence on the show it kept getting moved around time slots, which can kill just about any show. Also the toys weren’t selling as well as Mattel wanted. Also CGI was very expensive back than (a lot more so than today when it is still expensive.)
It is a show I remember fondly and when I started looking back on it I was surprised to learn how innovative the show really was. I’m currently re-watching it. There is also a good documentary on Youtube that goes into more depth of what I’ve talked about if you’re interested.
POWER ON!
*Probably some movies as well.
Comments
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Very interesting! Nice write up.
Next, do an article about how ground beef is used to make hamburgers.
Nope; listening to a hockey game.
Which must include fat ratios, pluses and minuses of each, and how to properly cook each one.
Hamburgers, or disc-shaped meatloaves?
That requires eggs and bread crumbs. Way to get in Suthen’s face.
Anyone watching Captain Zero’s townhall?
Pitfall taped in Vancouver for syndication to both the US and Canada, but I think it counts as a Canadian show.
And Alex Trebek still had his white afro.
Thanks for the write up, CPRM!
Holy Shi-ite Muslim. I think I put a couple too many roasted jalapeños in my chili. Good thing I’ve got sour cream.
Reaper peppers or gtfo, kartoffelkopf. ?
I have happily outgrown that kind of stupidity.
Although I did eat a small piece of ghost pepper that I grew a couple of years ago.
Yeah, the bag of dried peppers is still on the shelf.
I have a co-worker who supplies me with a myriad of hot peppers from habaneros to reapers. It’s glorious. He also provides a dried pepper ground mix of them. Ohhhhh…so good.
I did do a fermented hot sauce that had a number of different chili’s, including ghost peppers in it. It was pretty damn good.
I bought fermentation gear to make hot sauce, can’t wait to plant peppers this year.
Habaneros make good seasoning. You can taste the habanero flavor. Anything beyond that is masochism. Or maybe it’s like some people taste cilantro like soap suds, I just can’t taste anything flavorful about a mouthful of fire ants. It just tastes like fire ants.
Ants really don’t taste like much if you tear of the abdomen. Otherwise, they’re pretty sour.
Lemony. Citric acid.
The judicious use of scotch bonnets in jerk is one of my favorite things.
Yep, I love hot and can taste habanero fruitiness when others are gasping.
My favorite cookies are hot lips from here https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/hot-lips-cookie-crisps-307140
Guy I worked for would make “chili”.
It was really more of a pepper paste, with a little beef mixed in. He’d cook down a variety of reapers, habanero, and other peppers and decant the oil off of them.
It wasn’t hot.
It was so far beyond hot, the first time I tried it, it made my ears ring. It really did give a euphoric rush. It was like taking a good drug.
I once made the mistake of cutting it with a mild chili that someone brought in. Terrible mistake.
The Chili fell into the range of incredibly hot, and became almost unbearable.
Sealab 2020 or gtfo
Sealab 2020 < Sealab 2021
And now that I think about it, you kinda remind me of Captain Murphy
Mustache on or off?
Off, please.
Too bad.
I like the way you did that TV logo, CPRM. Very clever.
‘Fraid I wasn’t watching TV at all in ‘87. No TV to watch.
Seconded on the logo, pretty cool.
Thirded on the logo.
In college in ’87. If it was on the tv in a bar, I might have seen it!
Yeup, same. Holed up in a little dorm room at BYU.
Dittoes!
Ditto to the ditto. I didn’t buy a tv until 1995. Didn’t get cable until 2004, and now I’m back to no cable.
Nah, my ditto was for the logo. I have always watched a lot of TV and still do. Though what I watch* has changed dramatically over the years.
*Most of it is for background noise, TBH. There is very, very little that I actively watch and not do something else at the same time.
The number of skilled visual artists and writers here boggles my mind.
Drunk gf is amusing. She’s talking to her sister about random topics. She’s getting drunker and more random. Zombie apocalypse plans were a topic. ?
Aaaaand she’s out. *sigh*
Would you say she appears “zombie like”?
Hey! Zombie apocalypse plans are important.
I collect academic papers that feature zombies. Lots in the epidemic literature.
“Captain Nice”
Saw the pilot on a B&W Packard Bell TV.
Beat that one, old guys.
Also “My Mother the Car”
Also Space Angel
Loyd Bridges and Sea Hunt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Hunt
Flipper.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper_(1964_TV_series)
https://youtu.be/mf9jJx0NSjw?t=50
No love for Heil Honey I’m Home?
I must watch that some time. Might pair well with Fawlty Towers?
It’s one, not especially overwhelming episode… sadly.
Then again, the fact that Hitler and Nazism have become tokens of modern politics, as if there’s any real analogue… eugh. I guess I can’t decide if the Third Reich is given too much credit, or not enough.
You know what, maybe we should have lost our taboo about it decades ago. Maybe they should have gone ahead with a full run of Heil, Honey. Because maybe we’d be treating modern accusations of Hitlerism with the same seriousness we do British imperialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I'm_Home!
I remember when Nazis were ridiculed, not feared.
The Rifleman.
Best father son relationship ever.
If your old man is a mass killer
“Beat that, old guys”.
Pish Tish. I had a Winky Dink Magic Screen. and helped Winky Dink escape the evil bad guy.
The “Magic Screen” was a clear piece of plastic sheet that clung to the screen via static electricity. You’d draw doors or bridges with the provided grease pencil by following the “Magic Dot”.
Search “Winky Dink” = it’s GAF.
I remember when Packard Bell was a revived corporate brand, to capitalize on confusion with Hewlett-Packard and the lingering reputation of the Bell System (the technical part, not the indifferent one ringy ding).
We didn’t have a color tv in either of my divorced parent’s houses until I was 8 or 10. That old B&W would be the tv for playing our used NES on, complete with curved edges that didn’t quite show the entire game play.
Captain Power looks like Simon Cowell.
Interesting stuff, even if the show (I’d never heard of it) was a little after my time. ’87 was all senior year grind and work for me.
Same here. Do remember when Pong came out. Super cool at the time and probably gave us as much pleasure as Call of Duty or whatever gives kids their thrills today. It’s all relative.
My dad was a gadget junkie, so we had the original pong. Unfortunately, he thought it was stupid, so that was the end of video games.
But it was ping pong ON THE TV. I fully admit it mesmerized my 6 year old self.
Me too, but Dad, not so much.
I was probably still in diapers when this show was on… Feel old yet?
Nope, but I’m skinny and good looking.
Bulemic and woke?
You and OWMC?
Sigh. Yes, whippersnapper, I feel old.
goddamn clouds!
Good write up, CP. I never saw that particular show, but I just got reminded a couple weeks back of a forgotten tv show that I loved as a kid. They only did one season if Streethawk, but it was pretty sweet, great theme song by Tangerine Dream as well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsMA-K5pFM
Excellent! They definitely rocked that theme up from the album version I’m used to. But damn I love me some TD from that era.
PS. Here is the version I know.
Yup, that’s the theme song all right. Pretty awesome ?
Also, if you like TD, have you seen the film Sorceror? It’s got the guy from that rubber fish movie in it. Really good 70’s suspense that is a remake of an equally good Frenchie 50’s movie.
Nope, but I have the soundtrack 🙂
Best part of the movie.
I don’t remember this show either, though it should have been relevant to me too.
I think they cancelled it after the first year because even though it had good ratings they didn’t want another show to compete with Airwolf and Knight Rider with the computerized vehicle thingy.
Don’t forget Blue Thunder!
The Thunderbirds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)
The 80’s really loved their high tech vehicle shows.
I remember that one as well.
The ’80s were all about technology, computers, and the Japanese taking over the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdpOjletnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA1NT4I0s34
Tron as a police story.
The 80’s were a special time. I remember that opening credits but don’t remember the show.
God, I was wondering if anyone would mention Automan.
Someone kiss Not Adahn*.
*right between the cheeks!
So yeah, Knight Rider.
*hides scrapbook*
For Mo’
*fans self*
Even before Bandstand, the Philly area had “Action in the Afternoon,” a live cheesy Western shot on a cheesy set behind the Ch. 10 studios on City Line Ave. So one day, the cowboys ride out from behind a hill of dirt just as an airplane roars overhead. Show didn’t last much longer; replaced by some cheesy cartoon show shot inside the studios.
BREAKING NEWS
Satire – yep, still dead.
Some good replies. My favorite:
I sent them thoughts and prayers.
Surprised no one has mentioned
TV or Not TV yet.
but a staple of the industry for the last three decades has been shooting in Canada for that sweet, sweet government lucre.
HEY!
There was also an anemic currency, which made all of non-main cast and non-vital crew expenses up to 40% lower than in US!
I watched some pretty good Canadian sci-fi shows (Continuum, Orphan Black, etc) and apparently the CBC requires you to draw from the same pool of nine actors.
Heh I notice the same thing with German TV/movies.
There’s a great German police procedural that I get via my roof antenna.
Hit post too soon. It’s set in Constantinople/Istanbul
I was going to guess ‘Tatort’ – which has been running for decades – but I don’t think that’s set in Turkey.
Can you see Germany from your house?!
Sadly, I can’t get anything outside DVD’s (or one co-production on Sundance).
I didn’t see that show, but the technology is damned familiar. I had one of these bad boys as a wee lad. I was also big into Laser Tag at that age.
Tangential to the topic, it would be interesting to do a “What are we watching” feature. I thought about this last night mostly as an excuse to pimp The Expanse’s third season, but also because, as I was watching it, I was musing on just how much really good television there is these days. Golden Age of TV my ass, there has never been a better time for television now.
I know, right?! They all SUCK!
/Roseanne Barr
Yeah, true. It’s all about the streaming and the cable series.
Streaming is why I stopped watching The Expanse at the end of S02. If I can’t (eventually) hold it in my hands, I’m not going to bother.
True Detective mercilessly has me by the balls right now. I can’t believe how good this season is.
^QFFT^
Don’t you just hate it when you run out of mixing bourbon?
So, you tell us what is going to happen in our lives each week, but you can’t foresee something so simple as running out of bourbon? I can’t even.
I know, amirite? Your week is going to be full of pain and fail. Oh shit, it’s Tuesday and I’m out of mixing bourbon.
ALOL. Exactly.
Hey, the cobbler’s children go shoeless.
The Hyperbole lives in a 300 square foot shed.
600 and it’s more of a shack.
Oddly enough, the stars have never manifested to me as a grocery list.
Also, I really need to find a liquor store near here. I’ve been drinking down my collection since the move.
Also also, I’m not out of bourbon, just out of Jim Beam.
I don’t know if I should be proud or dismayed that after… five months? I still have at least one bottle of every Scotch genre. Oh well, more room in the cabinet to try new stuff!
Have you tried Dickel 12? An amazing bargain. It’s one of my “daily drinkers”. Beats Beam on taste and price, IMO. Rittenhouse Rye is another bargain.
I will have to give it a try. There was always a social aspect to drinking “Brother Beam” as purportedly one of them was in my fraternity.
And it comes in handles.
The mocking will not end here.
Try Larceny bourbon. It works straight, and as a mixer.
Mixing Bourbon? Banker’s Club or Very Old Barton.
I’ll drink either of those straight up with no complaint and they’re less than $15
I have to switch to vodka.
Speaking of
whiskeywhisky, I ended up getting “Talisker” single malt 10 year because I couldn’t find the particular rye whiskey that I wanted.The Talisker was pretty damn tasty anyway.
I was going to ask you what you ended up with and plum forgot. Did you happen to see High West Rendezvous Rye at your store? Keep it in mind for future shopping excursions.
I haven’t had Taslikser’s 10, but I have a bottle of their “Storm”. Not bad.
Talisker is my favorite.
https://glibertarians.com/2018/06/a-tasting-of-taliskers/
I had forgotten that post. Excellent whisky. And not all smokey and peaty like that shit made in Islay.
SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!!
Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition is lovely. And Islay is the best Scotch. Bigly.
I’ve written it down and I’ll look for it next time. Thanks brah!
You bet. And despite the differences in taste we have regarding Scotch, I think Spud will back me up on it being top notch rye.
Rendezvous Rye is absolutely top notch. And “A Midwinter’s Night Dram” is a seasonal release that is Rendevous Rye finished in Port barrels. Both are highly recommended.
Talisker 10 is a dependable standard for Islay. I was able to get a bottle of the Talisker Distiller’s Edition. Very nice scotch.
Talisker is not an Islay! It’s made on the Isle of Skye!
Damn your eyes!
Yep, bourbon induced laziness on my part. I knew that.
One of my cats just swallowed a piece of asparagus like a person slurping spaghetti. I don’t know whether or not to be worried about it.
Open your windows.
/JK, I dunno
You’ll know by tomorrow.
Just make sure it doesn’t pee on your rug.
This
Can’t tell if euphemism, metaphor or analogy.
I have a cat that is just nuts for corn silk. If she figures out you are shucking corn she will howl like an air raid siren until you give her some. We never give her much and have to take the shucking trash out or she will knock over the kitchen trash to get to them.
Thanks for the write-up! That’s pretty darn cool they were going for an interactive TV show.
Also really dig the logo for this series. Good stuff, my man. Looking forward to more classic gems I probably most likely missed (1992 kid here).
You could be my kid, but I was getting high, wearing flannel and not getting laid in 92. *Cranks Mudhoney*
Tddw
Too drunk didn’t watch. That was my freshman year at Buffalo State.
Buff State, eh? I knew some blokes from there – roomed with a couple. Even though I went to UB.
Funny thing is I made both schools but chose Buff State for some reason. I think UBs size intimidated me at the time.
One of my cats is a more symmetrical and minus the hat spitting image of your avatar. It’s really freaking me out for some reason.
Big Cat is watching everyone.
Woo hop! Snow day tomorrow!
I thought this snowfall was going to be a big nothingburger, but it appears to be a somethingburger.
Heh I check the little weather widget I have in my menu bar and it’s gone from 1″-3″, to 2″-4″, and now 3″-6″. Woooo I miss me some snow!
Nice. Half a day in the bar here I come!
Possible snow here too!
Snow here, too, tomorrow. Did global warming cause all of North America to get snow at the same time?
America united! USA! USA! USA!
MASA
Time for a martini!
Prost!
I discovered a brand of olives that are vermouth-infused. I now make what I call “lazy man’s martinis” which consist of a glass of gin over ice with several of these olives.
Excellant. All a real martini needs is the slight taste of vermouth
No. It needs actual vermouth.
Fair enough. I’ve also heard that the best way to provide the vermouth was to add a bit to the glass, swirl it around and discard the excess.
You are correct
Oh I reread that.
The proper way is to mix the vermouth with ice, pour out the vermouth, then mix the ice with vodka and pour
Thanks. I was starting to wonder. . .
Way to harsh my buzz.
My son-in-law declared the olives “inspired” which is proof that daughter #1 chose wisely.
Tulip’s getting dru-unk! Tulip’s getting dru-unk!!
Probably
This lady is going to beat Trump, eh? Think about the way the Orange man handled the fat pig question from Meghan Kelly and How Kamala handled this.
Would
You would do Kamala Harris? You’re as blind as Willie Brown.
Meghan, I’d concur.
Oh yeah. Solid would.
The debates would be a laugh you gotta admit.
Harris muffed that one. Badly.
I have to work from home, but I may make pitas tomorrow. Mmm.
How have I never seen this before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZ1f4ACZBQ
Well, even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
They look like a couple of my high school teachers now.
OMG that’s awesome
So can I graze my cattle on it or not?
I am bacheloring tonight while the wife is off to attend a conference. Have hockey on in the background, am drinking (wine with dinner, scotch for dessert) and will wake up to snow in the morning. Oh and I absolutely slayed my phone interview for a new contract – the last question from the govt manager was “when can you on-board”.
Congratulations! And I’m sorry for your postponement of retired life.
Blues & Maple Leafs tied at 2.
And on to OT. Thanks GL, I have thoroughly enjoyed the taste of retirement, but a couple of more years of prime income will make it a lot more comfortable.
Damn, that was quick. Blues win.
OT: Roger Waters continuing to compete for the Biggest Asshole in Music Award?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-concert-idUSKCN1Q8223
Pink Floyd is overrated anyway.
Jeebus. You guys are triggering the hell out of me tonight…
Gus and I didn’t coordinate this, I pinky-swear.
“Do we really want Venezuela to turn in to another Iraq or Syria or Libya? I don’t and neither do the Venezuelan people,” Waters wrote.
Not so sure about that.
I thought he won.
Most overrated burger chain? I’m going with In-N-Out.
I can’t even…
I don’t know. They have the customer service thing down. They have (for the price and the speed) pretty damn good burgers. Their fries suck ass, which is a big deduction. Come now, get some decent frickin fries, it ain’t that hard.
You really can’t argue the fries. I mean come on, they’ve got a person dedicated to cutting and frying fresh potatoes. As I’ve mentioned before, run the oil 5-10 degrees hotter, or give them another minute in the fryer. The difference would be dramatic.
Five Guys has good fries. Steal their recipe, whatever it is.
Good if you eat them immediately, not 10 minutes later.
Fries are for suckers.
“Spud” drops his gloves…
The burger is 1/2 good, but then goes soggy and the toasted bun loses it into mush. That’s if eaten immediately. Sitting any length of time and it’s soggier than a Five Guys burger.
What In-n-out needs:
Mustard, ketchup mayo
Hold the Thousand Island
Bacon
Better cheese
Larger menu
Larger menu
I think you want to go to McDonalds.
The worst thing about In-n-Out?
The mouthful of wax paper that happens at least once every burger.
You eat at Burger King, don’t you.
Not completely OT- I remember when Burger King had a decent burger. It was about the time of Captain Power when they used that PA system to call out your order, the patties were flame broiled for the entire cooking process, and the burger was served in a styrofoam clamshell. Fuck Gaia.
I do remember liking BK a lot in the 80s. Something’s changed since then, that’s for sure.
I have a prime candidate I always mention, but I’ll forego it so I don’t trigger any Texans.
5 guys
On topic for once. I remember a great for it’s time TV show from the mid 80’s that was about a family getting thrown into an alternative reality.
CBS had a show called Otherworld. Pretty ahead of its time.
Narrator: Other worlds lie outside our seeing. Beyond the beyond. At the edge… of within. The Great Pyramid: erected by the ancient ones as a barricade. At the portal between two dimensions, two separate realities. This is the story of one family, drawn through a mysterious vortex into the other world — and of their perilous trek homeward.
Now you’re just making shit up.
/seriously, I would have been all over that – how did I miss it??
If you blinked you would have missed it. I think it was barely a season.
I was a sci fi tween at the time. I loved it.
Looks like it was on Saturday nights – which means I was probably watching Brit-coms on PBS followed by late-nite Dr. Who.
Here is episode one on you tube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hfsPmVunuTo
OMG – the commercials.
Whelp, I made it a few minutes in. Hard to believe ST:TNG started only a couple years later. This thing feels like a throwback to the 70s.
Eight episodes in 1985.
(By coincidence, I just mentioned it somewhere else yesterday.)
Any sleestaks?
SLEESTAKS!!!
No waterfall or dinosaurs either.
And, the glibs didn’t disappoint with an Otherworld mention, either.
I may be late to the party, but, I get to see the end results.
You really stumped me with this one, CPRM. I am prime Gen X stock, but I have absolutely no recollection of this show whatsoever. You may as well have invented it out of whole cloth for all I know. Anyway, great write-up. I kinda want to dig deeper into this now.
Don’t recall this one but it was a cool concept. I’m looking forward to more of this series.
I remember seeing this at other people’s houses on Sunday nights (because watching TV was even rarer than candy growing up).
I was addicted to TV as a kid. We were one of the first areas to get HBO and cable TV in the US. I remember when HBO was a box with one switch on it. Turn the TV to channel 3 and switch the box to HBO.
Channel 3 was for Nintendo, old man.
We were a coleco household thank you.
Colecovision predates me by more than half a decade. I did enjoy the system though, my older cousin had one.
They had a great baseball game and some good arcade games.
I mostly remember playing frogger and pitfall.
Intellivision.
Complete with thumb numbing controller.
That was a great series, but one of its most…ahem…amazing attributes was the wild inconsistency in production quality between episodes. Some were absolutely spectacular (for the time), while others were completely cornball. My favorite one was “The Mission”. I just watched it again very recently and was surprised by how well it holds up.
https://www.nbc.com/amazing-stories/video/the-mission/2909096
I can’t watch it. Was it the one with the bomber and cartoon landing gear?
That’s the one.
Missed it. Season 1 was the year I lived abroad – I vaguely remember my mom mentioning it in a letter.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring guest stars Kevin Costner, Kiefer Sutherland, and Anthony LaPaglia.
And the theme music above by John Williams.
Fuck all of you. You trash Pink Floyd, In ‘N Out, and Islay Single Malt.
It’s like I don’t even know you.
C’mon, Spud…Roger trashed PF, not us.
He really is a piece of shit.
My maxim of not knowing too much about artists whose work one admires applies here.
I’ve Gotta Be Me.
Sammy Davis Jr documentary is on at 9pm on PBS. Looks really good,
In the mid ‘70s, when I was doing my advanced swimming classes in the summer, “Candy Man” by Sammy was a staple in the music rotation over the PA. I can quote the whole lyrics.
The man was an unbelievable individual. He took tons of shit from blacks and whites for doing what he wanted. An American original.
And he was a Jooh.
A one-eyed black Jew.
Sammy kissing the Wailing Wall and Kim Novak. What a legend.
O.T.: Since I’m sure all of you are rightly burned out to the point of self harm on Chicago’s MAGA assault saga, I figured I’d regale you with some other local news. We have a mayoral election coming up next week. Our local NPR station just broadcast a debate between some of the front runners (of which there are something like seventeen) during which candidates were asked about what should be done regarding police abuse and misconduct. One of the candidates completely earnestly replied that police need to be “educated on critical race theory”.
So this is where we’re at right now. I think I’m going to start work on my backyard catapult in preparation for my seemingly inevitable move to Indiana.
Don’t bother with a catapult, go all the way and build a trebuchet. Don’t half ass your ballistic relocation device, you only get one chance to use it.
V-2 or bust
Michael’s stuck in Illinois, Nazi tech is verboten.
Well, we all hate Illinois Nazis
Chicago elects a mayor in February?! They really don’t want turnout, do they.
That’s one weird form of voter suppression.
How can you think of old TV when Khloe Kardashian has thrown in the towel, breaking up with Tristan Thompson after she found out her baby daddy allegedly cheated on her with Kylie Jenner’s best friend … TMZ has learned.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/19/khloe-kardashian-splits-tristan-thompson-cheating-kylie-jenner-jordyn-woods/
Good morning Glibs
Jó reggelt, kísértet.
Morning. Am I supposed to ironically feign interest in that? I’m not wearing skinny jeans if that’s where you’re going next.
Nope. That name “Kardashian” is involved. That hasn’t mattered since the mid ‘90s.
It’s ok. You can wear mom jeans if you like.
The question is would you risk your marriage to bang Jordyn Woods?
I’m delighted not to know or care who these people are.
The question is would you
risk your marriage tobang Jordyn Woods?No.
Gustave for the win.
Biden was right – we are an embarrassment. Sorry, Europe.
Also Captain Power was shown on Romanian National TV sometimes in the 90s if I remember correctly. It was part of a show called Science and Imagination that was presented by some dude and then showed TV shows. Besides Captain Power I remember they showed Twilight Zone and Star Trek TNG
3-2-1 Contact. I loved that show as a kid. I think I still have one of the magazines in a box somewhere. It also spun off a couple shows like Square One TV, as well as providing the name for the band The Bloodhound Gang.
I vaguely remember the show. That really is a blast from the past. Great graphic CPRM.
If you are taking suggestions for future articles then consider UFO or Space: 1999.
Just finished the box set. Luvs.
I think all the episodes are online. I have to finish UFO first. 7 year old me wants is dying to see all the episodes I missed.
Then I’m going to find out how moonbase alpha picked up that alien woman.
CPRM, this was an excellent article. Please make more.
Like, right now.
/Do it.
My you’re impatient.
I prefer to see it as…supportive.
Almost like a personal trainer, but, for written works.
Yeah, let’s go with that.
Nothing wrong with being a fanboy.
I prefer devotee…
Lol
2300. Spud is out. Y’all still suck balls. At least until tomorrow.
Because we could all use a laugh.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/02/19/straight-up-boom-were-not-sure-if-babylon-bees-tweet-slams-jussie-smollett-or-cnn-more-you-decide/
Not to get off the comedy track, but, I though he had actually been injured (bruised ribs, or, somesuch). That is to say, I thought that was what got reported.
I can’t be arsed enough to look it up. But, if he did have anything beyond a scrape or bruise, good on him for “taking one for the team”, I guess.
That’s some commitment to a role.
I don’t know if there is any medical documentation of injuries. You can see he took a shot or two to his face. I don’t recall any reports saying he got medical treatment so I’m going to say anything else is more BS.
Bitches be crazy, I guess.
Am I wrong to think that a lot of this comes from Cult of Personality shit for political figures? Regardless of what existed before, What happened with 44 was straight-up worship with some people. Those same people have simply pushed the pendulum to the opposite side with Cheeto. Nothing nuanced, no sir-ree!
Completely agree about the cult of personality. I remain amazed at the utter inability (unwillingness?) to imagine the other might occasionally be right.
Of course, Trumpy Bear got talked about around these parts sometime back. It’s over the top, but, I think it is selling to a degree. Trump, being who he is, the bear might have happened anyway, but–I have the suspicion that it was inevitable given that 44 had some much CoP devotion. That pendulum was bound to swing once an R got the office.
May Creosote Achilles forgive me, I’d like her to tie me up and make me tell the truth.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/19/zach-snyder-gal-gadot-wonder-woman/
I do hope she’s as awesome as she looks…uh, I mean…as she seems.
Then again, Jennifer Lawrence seemed like she was down-home when she first hit. Now, she is almost insufferable.
I’m not talking about a relationship. Just a brief but delightful encounter.
Oh, no doubt. I was just hoping for a hot female star that doesn’t want to shit all over a big section of her fan base.
Of course, I’m sure there are some out there who hope for that encounter, too. Not judging them; just don’t want to be around for it.
/where’s that doo-doo emoji?
I get the impression GG is smarter than that. Being Israeli and an international star would, I imagine, require her to navigate a lot of social cross-currents.
In a weird way it reminds me of the rock. I have no idea what his personal politics are. I can enjoy his cheesy movies for the pure escapism they are because I’m not cringing trying to avoid some political nonsense.
Saw some story that she and her husband own a smaller hotel somewhere in Israel, and that previous guests have seen her helping turn over rooms. Dunno if it’s true, but I do want to believe it.
Also want to see her in military mode (not necessarily WW stuff, which is fine).
Yeah, total babe.
Nelson laugh
http://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/19/kamala-harris-jamaican-father-donald-harris-rips-2/
Enter the Sandmann.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/19/nick-sandmann-files-250-million-defamation-lawsuit-washington-post/
https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1097993224881389568
Does not read like a serious lawsuit to me… But I am no lawyer.
The baby in the GIF below looks like future Hitler. Lol.
Not too surprising that J. Michael Straczynski was involved in Captain Power at the beginning.
He was the writer, producer, father of Babylon 5, the closest thing to a decent libertarian prime-time Sci-Fi series that the US has ever known. He had in mind a 5 year story arc from the beginning, and it shows. Had to adjust a bit along the way due to cast changes, threats of cancellation, etc, but it still holds up extremely well.
Or that Larry DiTillio was involved in something that tried to write for the adults as well as the kids. It really sounds like this set the stage for Beast Wars. I don’t have time to watch the whole documentary — but I have to wonder, was this the genesis of Mainframe Studios?