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Judge Smails

11-28-2006, 08:57 PM

What was your favorite?For me, I was just glad to get any kind of nudity, however fleeting.  I'm tooling around the internet right now and am in awe at the amount of depraved porn available at my fingertips.  I'm imagining the party that my son's going to have for himself when he's older.  For me, I remember waiting with bated breath for my parents to go to sleep so I could catch some quick glimpse of T&A on HBO.  The softcore R-rated movies were always a godsend.  They also had some interesting specials like Here It Is: Burlesque, or The Unexpurgated Benny Hill.Good times.  Good times.(Let me know if I'm forgetting anything.)

Fallon

11-28-2006, 09:09 PM

Fragglerock was the shit!

spoon

11-28-2006, 09:21 PM

Damn those Doozers!  FR all the way.  Second place, Mr. Show.<img src="http://www.fonopatico.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/doozer%20tower.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="771" />

DreamWeaver

11-28-2006, 09:53 PM

TheMojoPin

11-29-2006, 04:31 AM

DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Correct, but damn, does that DVD suck.  Horrible picture quality, the transfer is hideous and the colors are all washed out...not coincidentally, they've only released that 1st season.  I wonder when they'll get off their asses and fix shit up and release them all.

EliSnow

11-29-2006, 04:47 AM

DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Is this an "old school" series?  I think of "old school" being the '80's, but I may be wrong.

Judge Smails

11-29-2006, 04:54 AM

EliSnow wrote: DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Is this an "old school" series?  I think of "old school" being the '80's, but I may be wrong.Yep, gotta agree.  I'm talkin' more old school than that.

EliSnow

11-29-2006, 04:58 AM

I went with the Hitchhiker, which being Twilight Zone with nudity appealed to the teenage boy I was in the '80's.

reillyluck

11-29-2006, 05:14 AM

Fragile Rock Kicked ass!!!! 

sailor

11-29-2006, 05:15 AM

fraggle rock.  not even close.

Terry0714

11-29-2006, 05:17 AM

Does anyone besides me remember Brain Games it a really cool game show for kids & parents.. I would like to add that to the list..

sailor

11-29-2006, 05:18 AM

reillyluck wrote: Fragile Rock Kicked ass!!!!  careful with that rock...you'll break it!!

reillyluck

11-29-2006, 05:20 AM

bronxmarc wrote: reillyluck wrote: Fragile Rock Kicked ass!!!!  careful with that rock...you'll break it!! LOLOL!  i havent had my coffee yet! i saw fraggle rock and got excited! thanks Fezpaul!

TheMojoPin

11-29-2006, 06:15 AM

Judge Smails wrote: EliSnow wrote: DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Is this an "old school" series?  I think of "old school" being the '80's, but I may be wrong.Yep, gotta agree.  I'm talkin' more old school than that. Tales From The Crypt started in 1989.  Dream On started in 1990.  The Larry Sanders Show started in 1992.  Are the first two really all that more "old school?"

EliSnow

11-29-2006, 06:19 AM

TheMojoPin wrote: Judge Smails wrote: EliSnow wrote: DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Is this an "old school" series?  I think of "old school" being the '80's, but I may be wrong.Yep, gotta agree.  I'm talkin' more old school than that. Tales From The Crypt started in 1989.  Dream On started in 1990.  The Larry Sanders Show started in 1992.  Are the first two really all that more "old school?"Yes

sailor

11-29-2006, 06:49 AM

EliSnow wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: Judge Smails wrote: EliSnow wrote: DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Is this an "old school" series? I think of "old school" being the '80's, but I may be wrong.Yep, gotta agree. I'm talkin' more old school than that. Tales From The Crypt started in 1989. Dream On started in 1990. The Larry Sanders Show started in 1992. Are the first two really all that more "old school?"Yes 2-3 years more so.

TheMojoPin

11-29-2006, 07:12 AM

Exactly.

BeerBandit

11-29-2006, 07:22 AM

Fraggle Rock gets my vote because it's a Jim Henson product and anything Jim Henson kicks ass.the Hitchhiker gets honorable mention because it was the source of my first naked breast.

Cleophus James

11-29-2006, 07:42 AM

Was kids in the hall HBO or Showtites.. I mean showtime?

Fallon

11-29-2006, 08:37 AM

ESDsucks@life wrote: Was kids in the hall HBO or Showtites.. I mean showtime?  Well, it's really a CBC show. But it did air on HBO at one time. CBS too.

Dirtybird12

11-29-2006, 08:48 AM

Larry Sanders - Dream On - I thought it was a pretty clever concept

flyers26

11-29-2006, 09:04 AM

Not necessarly the news was awesome, back in the 80's.. I also loved Dream On.

Crippler

11-29-2006, 12:17 PM

1st & Ten, the complete 80 episode series, quietly showed up in the DVD racks at WalMart last year around this time.  I don't think the price tag was even $20, so I went nutty & bought two copies, one for myself & one for Dear Old Dad for Christmas.Fast forward to early January, my brother & I are hanging at my folk's house & we rip into Dad's DVDs because we spent 30 minutes quoting the old show, calling each other Bubba & Jethro, & remembering how good it was.  We made it through 3 episodes before we took the DVD out & promised never to speak of it again.  I'm sure the production value got better as it went along.  It had to since we both had such fond memories, but it's amazing that the show made it through the first three weeks without being canceled.  Those episodes were brutal.

RapistWit

11-29-2006, 12:21 PM

Tales from the Crypt - Boobs and people being hacked up..totaly blew my 12 year old mind away.  Still does <img src="/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" width="20" height="20" />

Don Stugots

11-29-2006, 12:23 PM

1st and ten.  it had a pre-murder OJ, played up stereotypes, had DR. Death and Shannon Tweed naked.  cant beat that with a hat.

Badinia

11-29-2006, 01:46 PM

TALES FROM THE CRYPT!  I love old horror comics, I love the Crypt Keeper's awful puns, I love the ep where the two brothers kill the ice-cream man who has a parasitic twin.  LOVE IT.<img src="http://www.subvulture.com/archive/psi_crypt_keeper.jpeg" border="0" width="296" height="204" /><img src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2005/09/15/1126788546_3908" border="0" width="27" height="1" />

Kevin

11-29-2006, 01:49 PM

Fragglerizzock

lleeder

11-29-2006, 01:52 PM

Good evening ladies and ghouls. Tales from the Crypt

stinkbud

11-29-2006, 02:40 PM

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Talesfromthecrypt2.jpg" border="0" width="204" height="260" />Yeah,the fraggles were good, but The Keeper was the shit.

docgoblin

11-29-2006, 02:50 PM

bronxmarc wrote: EliSnow wrote: TheMojoPin wrote: Judge Smails wrote: EliSnow wrote: DreamWeaver wrote: <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767847563.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Larry!" title="Larry!" width="326" height="475" /> Is this an "old school" series? I think of "old school" being the '80's, but I may be wrong.Yep, gotta agree. I'm talkin' more old school than that. Tales From The Crypt started in 1989. Dream On started in 1990. The Larry Sanders Show started in 1992. Are the first two really all that more "old school?"Yes 2-3 years more so.  I think "Old School" should go 10 years or more which would allow Larry Sanders, in which case He'd get my vote. Given these parameters however I went with Dream On.