We were sitting down last night, chilling out after dinner and flipping channels.  We landed on the John Jon and Kate Plus 8 Christmas episode, one of the kids was singing “Joy to the world, the time has come” and I finished it with “for Lisa to recieve her slime”.  Which was what Lisa had sung once on the old kids TV show You Can’t Do That On Television following her sliming.

First, I marveled at the fact that I even remembered the song, then at the fact that I remembered her name.  Then I went further and remembered some of the other characters, Moose, Vanessa, Doug and Alex.  Alex was wrong, I was actually remembering Alasdair, but I was close.

Of course this prompted me to lunge for the lappy and hit YouTube, ya KNOW there’s got to be some YCDTOTV there…  I wasn’t disappointed

• Show opening
  
• Clip: Barth and the Health Inspector
• Clip: Barth and the Health Inspector II
• Clip: Locker Jokes
• Clips: Divorce Episode: One, Two and Three

That’s just a few, there’s more with sliming and water dumping and all of the other fun junk they used to do.  It’s amazing how much I remember from this show, it was like sitting down with an old friend.

If you were a fan as a kid, check out http://www.ycdtotv.com.  It has a lot of history about the show and other good stuff.  Good times

Not much to talk about, just killing some time and I thought I’d share…

Movies

In the movie dept, I have some ones to see and ones to avoid.  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is certainly worth checking out.  You don’t walk away from this flick feeling good, but it’s a helluva story.  Owning Mahowney is another unhappy tale that was told VERY well.  I’ve been a huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman lately, he was great in both of those flicks..  Worthy rentals.  Oh and Cloverfield should get a mention, I really liked the way that was filmed and how it ended.  Well done!

I’ve seen some REALLY bad ones lately.  The three that come to mind are Diary of the Dead, Teeth and The Mist, I’m not even going to link to them, rubbish if you ask me, but easy to google rubbish.  I knew Teeth wouldn’t be amazing, but I had some hope for it, there were a couple of moments that I enjoyed, mostly scenery.  Other than that, I can only sum it up with “blah”.  The Mist is yet another King book that just didn’t translate to film.  It started off great, right up until the lame-ass tentacle pulled the Sherminator to his death I was enthralled.  After that I was paying more attention to my stale popcorn.

TV

Not much happening on the TV front, we just finished watching season 1 of Californication.  What a GREAT show!  Do yourself a favor, rent it from where-ever you get your videos and spend a weekend day on it.  You won’t regret it

That’s enough for passive activity…

Fishing

Been doing a good amount of fishing this year.  I can’t say that I’ve caught a lot, but I’ve been having a ton of fun out there on the Atlantic with Cap’n Jim.  You just haven’t had Striper until you’ve pulled it in yourself, and eaten it ultra fresh.  Damn fine eating.

That’s all for now, gotta jet, hope you’re having a kickin’ summer