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I will never forget M.A.N.T.I.S.

anybody remember fish city and family dog? yeah, me neither.

I wanted to participate in this thread but I can't find a clip of the Family Channel's Baby Races.

I had more ready to post when I started this thread but they've slipped my mind now. Not really feeling this thread anymore, anyway.

The Dana Carvey Show

I remember Fish City. And Capitol Critters starring Neil Patrick Harris.

still one of the best shows ever

Check out the cast and writers for this show sometime - they had no idea what they had

I think they knew what they had. Problem is no one was watching.

Hard to give a fuck about Dana Carvey in 1996.

the problem if i remember correctly was they couldnt keep sponsors because of the raceyness of the sketches...for example the first sketch ever on the show was about live dogs and cats sucking bill clintons nipples...not that no one was watching

regardless i wish theyd release this show on dvd

They did, the tough part is the distribution. My brother in law found it in a bargain bin somewhere out of the blue. I watched 4-5 episodes about a year ago. The comedy is very topical which means it really doesn't age well for the most part, but there are 1-3 sketches per episode that are still good. Like the one with Carvey and Colbert old New England men who are also white supremacists. Excellent lines in that one.

unsolved mysteries was the shit when i was little...i used to be afraid of the sketches of the bad guys and used to cover my eyes

and talk about forgotten shows...millenium...if you would of asked me before i saw the intro to it if i had ever even heard of that show i would have said no...but after seeing it i totally remember it

what about "working" remember that show?

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The first few seasons of Spin City were great. Once Michael J Fox left the show went downhill.

Yea, it was a Chris Carter creation trying to piggyback on the success of X-Files. I actually thought it was a pretty good show, for what it was.

"The Job" with Denis Leary was almost as good as "Rescue Me" is now.

for anyone who was into unsolved mysteries, this boxset is awsome....very good purchase

It was better.


I just bought these:

Nice. That show was incredible. Grabbed a torrent of every episode a while back and had a hell of a time plowing through them.

It just sucks that the complete seasons aren't available on DVD.

Yeah, it's nuts, you'd think they'd realize there's a market for them.

get a life
seems like a reasonable price to me. i can't recall if i bought or traded someone for the entire series about five/six yrs ago (along with the complete dinosaurs series prior to its official dvd release) but it's one of those purchases that will pay for itself ten times over. almost impossible to pick an absolute favorite episode.

Get A Life was pretty great.
I like when Elliot just said the fuck it and had his character die at the end of episodes.

Maybe that's where the South Park guys borrowed the idea to kill Kenny every week.

Awesome, thanks! I ordered that too.

So many great things about this show, including how he wrote in the character of his dad to include the old Bob & Ray delivery.

My favorite aspect of Get A Life is the laugh track. The show was never filmed in front of a studio audience so noticing that, for example, the cheesy one liner exchanges between Chris and his parents are filled with canned laughter at every obvious moment makes the scenes where suddenly there's no laughter at all that much more fucked up, surreal, unsettling, etc.

You're all a bunch of "horse's asses..."

weird. I'd never heard of these guys, but Today this is the second reference I've come acoss in the last hour.

The first was in the first video here
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/pages-for-...-nbsp-nbsp.html

Well worth investigating. Bob&Ray were so dry; so wry. It's almost like a comedy duo where both are the straight man. Then these punchlines come from nowhere and just destroy.

Bob & Ray. After you listen to a few hours of these guys, you know Chris Elliot comes by his sense of humor honestly. Surrealism in mainstream American comedy. These guys did hilarious stuff for decades. There are hours of recordings from the 40's and the 50's on archive.org:
Laughing Eddie Upjohn The Human Fireball
Wally Baloo At The Thanksgiving Day Balloon Factory

Yadda, yadda, yadda...

Their radio/tv shows predate all of us but I remember them from Johnny Carson (Bob mentions Chris here):