The 80s Club

Mr. Belvedere was one of those shows that I remember our whole family sitting down to watch together. My main memories of this show:

Seeing the Pittsburgh sign in the opening credits. I thought it was cool because we had a lot of family living there.
Thinking it was odd that there was a man named “Lynn“.
Thinking that the littlest kid got away with an awful lot for being such a brat.

So, for your viewing pleasure, the theme song to Mr. Belvedere. Scary how well I remembered the lyrics!

And for a long version from later in the series, click here. …read more

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Did you know that Fraggle Rock is now on DVD? I had no idea!
I used to be so jealous of all of my friends who had HBO because they would always come to school talking about the latest funny episode of Fraggle Rock. We would excitedly await the next free HBO weekend so that we could catch up on a few episodes.
And we were never disappointed when we finally got around to seeing them, which wasn’t any big surprise. Who doesn’t love any Muppet-filled Jim Henson production? Except for The Dark Crystal. I never did …read more

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Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase–who knew?) is set to appear on an upcoming episode of Law and Order (the regular one, no special letters here).
I think Caddyshack is still one of Bald Man’s favorite movies. He’s shocked that I’ve never actually seen it. I’m shocked that he could actually sit through the whole thing. We often have different ideas of what’s funny. Annoying gophers? Not so much for me.
However, it should be fun to see Chevy Chase on L&O. I think I’ve seen every other 80’s star appear on it at some time …read more

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Really? Are you kidding me? Yeah, I’m feeling really old now. I remember the beginning of WrestleMania, when it was still a production with WWF members, not the WWE.
Why did I even know about it? My brother made me watch it. It’s the only reason I was so familiar with Hulk Hogan, The Iron Sheik, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Koko B. Ware, Jake “The Snake” Roberts, and all the others. I even saw a few of them in person. How many of us can say we saw Bobby Heenan wrestle? Or Miss Elizabeth …read more

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Man, I had a HUGE crush on Brian Bloom growing up. I didn’t even watch As the World Turns all that much, except to catch glimpses of him. His blue eyed, dark haired mug shot was one of the first to adorn my bedroom wall. Wowza.
Anyway, I was shocked to see him appear tonight on an episode of Cold Case. Sad, sad episode, but still a treat to see Brian all these years later!

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I miss shows like Night Court. Shows where you could just jump in any week and enjoy some laughs. No need to TiVo because one episode wasn’t dependent on the next.
A little drama, mostly just humor, a big scary baliff, a crazy judge, an irreverant attorney, and a bit of a Mel Torme fanatacism. Who knew that would be a perfect mix for a hit show? I can’t think of another show that’s quite duplicated whatever brand of funny they gave us. I miss Harry Anderson at the bench, and the circus that …read more

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Apparently, our shows of yesterday are finding audiences in the Russia of today. The idea is to take the premise of shows such as Perfect Strangers, Suddenly Susan, and Step by Step, but to reshoot with new actors.
From CNN:
…the first episode of the Russian version of “Perfect Strangers” debuted a week ago on Ren TV. Mismatched roommates Larry and Balki have become Ivan (Artem Semakin) and Andrei (Anton Eldarov). Andrei arrives from his remote ex-Soviet republic and moves straight into the flat of his Moscow cousin, Ivan, where cultures clash between the two dissimilar characters.
I’m not sure how good …read more

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Bob Saget is set to host the new game show “1 vs 100“. It’s the next show in line from the creators of the mega-hit game show, Deal or No Deal hosted by comedian Howie Mandel. The show will air on NBC and premieres Friday the 13th of October.
The premise is that one person matches wits against 100 audience members over trivia questions. Sounds like fun to me! As long as we don’t have to sit through any Danny Tanner (so sad that I remember that name) bad jokes, I’m up for it. Bob …read more

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Okay, so everyone loves Joey Lawrence and Mario Lopez, at least when they’re dancing. They did an awesome job again last night on Dancing with the Stars. Apparently, there was some “rule breaking” going on with Lopez and his partner last week, but a clean performance this week. And one that made my friend say, “You know, Mario Lopez is really hot.” I think it’s the dimples, myself.
Joey’s not looking too bad, either, even without the hair (I happen to like bald guys, though.). Bald Man and I were discussing whether or not he actually …read more

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Quantum Leap’s Scott Bakula will be showing up on the CBS show, The New Adventures of Old Christine.
From their website:

Christine is in denial when the new man in her life reveals that he’s a grandfather.

He’s looking a bit goofy in the promos for the show, but it will be fun to see him again. I’m not so much a fan of most sci-fi shows (except, of course, for Quantum Leap), so I didn’t care to watch him in “Enterprise.” But I couldn’t miss an episode of Quantum Leap. I need to get my hands on those …read more

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