I was reminded of the terror that was Camp Candy today on Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5lH8amv7c4
I watched that show. But I’m older than a lot of people lumped into my generational demographic. I remember watching these two shows religiously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zxN2sXtDQ
What’s the difference between this thread and most of the content in all the anime threads?
I missed the Teddy Ruxpin show by a few years, but I remember the video rental place we went to as a kid had a VHS of a couple episodes and I would always either rent that or Jurassic Park. I haven’t thought about that in years!
Zoobilee Zoo scared the ever loving shit out of me as a little kid. Too much like clowns.
Australian Children’s tv Shows when I grew up were something else, man.
Cybergirl - an alien robot in latex trousers fights other aliens in cheap fetish gear with the power of cyber and cheap composite effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKnJl6biOjI
Pig’s breakfast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYN1XnF3-Y
Thunderstone: A little after my time, but it was basically Mad Max for kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60d_xm9U0I
Plasmo: http://i.imgur.com/GBMuLDV.gif
Ferals - Basically shit muppets that lived in a sewer and/or TV studio.
And of course, the best of all children’s TV for all time, Round the twist.
We had Round the Twist here too. I remember it being kinda for kids a little older than me so I don’t remember much about it.
If you’re interested in revisiting children’s entertainment, Abby Howard—who you might remember from PA’s Strip Search—and her sister Maddie watch and review half-remembered shows in their Sistertime Podcast. (Currently hosted on soundcloud, so download them quick.)
They covered Round the Twist, which I hadn’t heard of.
Children’s television also consists of live-action.
Interesting tidbit: if you hook it up backwards, it inserts extra profanity.
And that’s a rock fact!
Gonna save everyone 25 minutes.
It looks at the closed captioning. If it sees a bad word it mutes the video for the duration of that caption and displays an altered caption with replaced words.
I do want to thank this video for reminding me that Mystery! was a show on PBS. I rarely watched it, but my parents did. I saw the opener many many times, though, and it always stuck with me. I completely forgot it existed until just now. Thank you Edward Gorey.
