Last Monday, I took a couple hours off in the middle of the morning to hang out at the apartment and watch a very nice guy tack roughly 5 million miles of cable onto our wall. We finally joined the rest of the world and upgraded our stinky old fuzzy regular cable to digital cable, and then we decided that hey, let's do digital internet and phone too! (Seriously, I kind of feel like an idiot for not figuring out a year ago that hey, it's like $50 less a month to do it that way! Dur.) But since our computer is really as far away from the TV as it can be in our tiny little place, the cable guy had to track cable all the way around our living room and around two doorways. Of course, he's a trained professional, so it looks awesome (and by that I mean it looks like there is not cable tracking all over the house, unlike when I do something like that).
And also, now we have hundreds upon hundreds of TV stations. Just what the pair of us need, with our short attention spans and our tendency to watch syndicated shows until we've seen all the episodes. Between the fact that we've seen pretty much every episode of Law & Order, That 70's show, The Simpsons and Family Guy and the current writers' strike (go writers!), our viewing choices lately have been kind of abysmal. But now they aren't! Because we have a zillion channles!
So what did I decide to watch on Monday night, the first night we had digital cable and a frillion million channels? Why, I watched Thundarr The Barbarian of course! Oh my god, I loved that cartoon when I was a kid. I would pretend I was Princess Ariel, able to cast spells and leap onto horses and in general, be awesome. I happily watched the rest of the episode on Boomerang that night (involving werewolves trying to take over, and a guy with a magic ray gun thing that he stole from the Smithsonian), even though it is not a cartoon that has withstood the test of time. I mean, come on, look at the opening narration:
Reading that, it's really not clear whether this is a cartoon or a soft core porn on Cinemax, really. But either way, it brought back happy, fuzzy memories of building tents out of TV trays and sheets and hiding out under them for the entirety of a Saturday morning to watch cartoons and eat cereal. Ah, the good old days, when the animation was stiff and scratchy looking, the dialogue was simplistic and cheesy, and the men had fabulous Sunswords.
Now if someone would just start running old episodes ofPicture Pages my life would be complete.
And also, now we have hundreds upon hundreds of TV stations. Just what the pair of us need, with our short attention spans and our tendency to watch syndicated shows until we've seen all the episodes. Between the fact that we've seen pretty much every episode of Law & Order, That 70's show, The Simpsons and Family Guy and the current writers' strike (go writers!), our viewing choices lately have been kind of abysmal. But now they aren't! Because we have a zillion channles!
So what did I decide to watch on Monday night, the first night we had digital cable and a frillion million channels? Why, I watched Thundarr The Barbarian of course! Oh my god, I loved that cartoon when I was a kid. I would pretend I was Princess Ariel, able to cast spells and leap onto horses and in general, be awesome. I happily watched the rest of the episode on Boomerang that night (involving werewolves trying to take over, and a guy with a magic ray gun thing that he stole from the Smithsonian), even though it is not a cartoon that has withstood the test of time. I mean, come on, look at the opening narration:
The year: 1994. From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction! Man's civilization is cast in ruin! Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn...
A strange new world rises from the old: a world of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice! With his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword against the forces of evil. He is Thundarr, the Barbarian!
Reading that, it's really not clear whether this is a cartoon or a soft core porn on Cinemax, really. But either way, it brought back happy, fuzzy memories of building tents out of TV trays and sheets and hiding out under them for the entirety of a Saturday morning to watch cartoons and eat cereal. Ah, the good old days, when the animation was stiff and scratchy looking, the dialogue was simplistic and cheesy, and the men had fabulous Sunswords.
Now if someone would just start running old episodes of
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