*Realises special talent for remembering very weird, old sitcoms.*
Yeah, I saw something that had me flashing back to an old Fox series, Herman's Head (1990s adult Inside Out). I suddenly remembered Whoops! (survivors of a nuclear war try to rebuild civilisation and live with each other on some little farmstead property they find, played for humor as they're all a bunch of quirksters and losers, only ran one season iirc). Get a Life (a sitcom about an immature man in his 30s still living with his parents and working a bike paper-route, couldn't be made today as it hits too close to the lived reality of too many people in today's capitalist hellscape). I remember quite a bit of the TGIF lineup, too, like Family Matters and Full House. I also remember one really awful show about a teenager becoming his best friend's guardian angel after he food poisons himself eating a bad burger - Teen Angel.
I didn't have cable / satelite growing up. Lived rural, too many mountains, cheap / thrifty / poor-ish parents. I was also introverted, outcast and lonely. I had cats and... a lot of shitty network TV when I was a teenager.
I'm just surprised at how much I remember.
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television graveyard (art by @cybervoidgirl on Twitter)
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In a room where television watching is the main event, the television and its surrounding cabinetry can be designed as a sculptural statement, as in this contemporary home.
The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998
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70's/80's/90's 4th of July Station IDs/Bumpers
1. WFAA-TV, Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, 1986
2. WMTW-TV, Poland Spring, Maine, 70's
3. WNBC-TV, New York City, New York, 1993
4. WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1983
5. WABC-TV, New York City, New York, 1986
6. KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1986
7. KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1987
8. WUSA-TV, Washington DC, 80's
9. KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California, 70's
10. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981
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