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Apr. 15th, 2005 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosI called my brother before to wish him a happy birthday just in case I didn't get a chance tomorrow, and he's got a Super Mario Brothers ringtone on his cellphone. Damn, I'm going to have to get one just as soon as I pay off my GINORMOUS phone bill. Then we compared notes -- and when I say "notes," I mean that in a puntastic spontaneous sing-off kind of way -- and realized that we both remember most if not all of the Super Mario Brothers soundtrack music. I can't decide if we're sad or cool, but all I know is that I now have a desperate urge to dig up my Nintendo ROMs.
Also, I told him I bought the first season of The Greatest American Hero on DVD, and he laughed at me. Okay, a good-natured laugh, but still. Damn it, that went off the air, like, six years before he was even born. Curse that plucky, memorable theme song! It brings me shame even twenty years after it got cancelled.
Anyway, you know what it made me think of? Remember in about the mid-'90s, when the Sci-Fi Channel used to do this thing during the summer (actually, I think it was all year, but the summer was when I got to take advantage of it) where every weekday at noon, they'd play the entire run of these absolutely cheesy, stupid cancelled sci-fi shows that only lasted on the air six episodes or half a season or whatever? I used to love that. In a week and a half, you could see the entire run of Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Starr, the Spider-Man show, Misfits of Science ... you know, stuff like that. Ooo, you know that MST3K episode where they watched this awful '70s movie about a guy who could go invisible? I nearly shrieked when I first saw that, because it started out as a dumb TV show I saw during that midday Sci-Fi Channel run and they just jammed two episodes together to make the "movie." And the only reason I watched the show at all was because the lead actor looked like Marjoe Gortner from Earthquake. (Hi, I was born in 1977, but you can't really tell sometimes. ;))
Also, I told him I bought the first season of The Greatest American Hero on DVD, and he laughed at me. Okay, a good-natured laugh, but still. Damn it, that went off the air, like, six years before he was even born. Curse that plucky, memorable theme song! It brings me shame even twenty years after it got cancelled.
Anyway, you know what it made me think of? Remember in about the mid-'90s, when the Sci-Fi Channel used to do this thing during the summer (actually, I think it was all year, but the summer was when I got to take advantage of it) where every weekday at noon, they'd play the entire run of these absolutely cheesy, stupid cancelled sci-fi shows that only lasted on the air six episodes or half a season or whatever? I used to love that. In a week and a half, you could see the entire run of Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Starr, the Spider-Man show, Misfits of Science ... you know, stuff like that. Ooo, you know that MST3K episode where they watched this awful '70s movie about a guy who could go invisible? I nearly shrieked when I first saw that, because it started out as a dumb TV show I saw during that midday Sci-Fi Channel run and they just jammed two episodes together to make the "movie." And the only reason I watched the show at all was because the lead actor looked like Marjoe Gortner from Earthquake. (Hi, I was born in 1977, but you can't really tell sometimes. ;))
