Wonder Woman

This is just plainly, fucking cool.

The Wonder Years

Remeber when the world didn't suck? No, me neither. You realise that the world has always sucked quite a bit right? Probably even the pond slime that started this whole 'evolution' trip was like 'remember when all thiss was just pond slime? Now there are plants, DAMN PLANTS RUINING MY LAWN. They have no respect for us, their elders, WE CREATED THOSE PLANTS! Now look at them, just growing all over the show, them plants need to remember where they came from!' etc etc ad infinitum throughout time. My point is; the future is always better (as a general rule) and yet we always eulogise the past, thinking that their was some golden era that occurred *just* before this new generation of whippersnappers took hold and RUINED EVERYTHING. It was all fine and dandy till the kids showed up, amirite? Well, if that's true everyone stop creating new life. There's your answer. Or maybe, just maybe, stop being scared of change. We've got the reins now, there is very little chance of us messing up worse than you did so chill the fuck out.

Having said all that, remember The Wonder Years? Tuesday's at 6. A plate of chicken kiev and chips in front of you, ready to bust out a slow jam to this kickass tune. Those were the days right? The world justs pales in comparison to what it was back then.



Isn't weird when nostalgia becomes nostalgia? What's also weird is that Kevin (aka Judge Reinhold's kid from Vice Versa) now directs my new favourite sitcom? I find that weird.

MacGyver

You know how you can guarantee a show will be kickass awesome?

When the protagonists name shoots out of a space (?) explosion.



You've got mullets, frosted tips, running, jumping, climbing, chillaxing by the wings of light aircraft. More running, jumping off ships (small but important distinction), ice cream cone enjoyment an finally a sigh. A well deserved sigh Richard Dean Anderson if I may say so.

I bloody loved MacGyver and yet I remember little about the show itself. I more know it through pop culture references of the 'well if you've got two elastic bands and a pen then MacGyver will fix it for you' variety. Which seems a shame becaue the titles would indicate this is a show of breathtaking exhileration from start to finish. With frosted tips as an added incentive. Can't get better than that.

Ellen

Ok, look, I know alright? Seriously, trust me, I know. So you really don't have to say anything but, in a very real sense, I don't care. I liked this show, I probably watched every episode of this show at least 3 times on Paramount (and I'd probably still watch it now if I didn't know how to download my televisual entertainment these days). I laughed a little *too* heartily when, in Veronica Mars, Logan said 'the best thing about being in jail? Four days worth of Ellen on the Tivo' because I was like 'Yes! that WOULD be the best thing about being in jail'. But anyway, this still makes me laugh. And if my life were made into a sitcom (which I'm still not entirely unconvinced it hasn't been already and I'm living out my days in some kind of wacky Truman Show existence) this is the titles I would have. But maybe with me in the funny hats pulling faces and not Ellen Degeneres.

Neighbours: Retro

*WARNING: CONTAINS HIGH LEVELS OF MULLETUDE*

Christ. It makes 5 minutes last forever. If you manage to sit through the whole thing then you did better than me (I have things to do, I can't sit in a Neighbours titles time loop for, what feels like, seven thousand years). After a while it gets a bit Lynchian and surreal. Just like a standard episode of the show then.



The jazziness levels go like this:
very high
higher
little lower
low
more like soft jazz

I wonder if there's some kind of correlation between western socio-economic levels and the jazziness levels of Neighbours titles? I'd be surprised if there wasn't. Art and economic cycles tend to run in parallel.

Sazz' final thought: Rick Alessi, to this day, would get it and get it hard.