Retro Vision

dncsky1530 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports: It babysat generations, distracted countless teenagers from homework and, as Homer Simpson sagely observed about television, became our 'teacher, mother, secret lover'. Sure, the shows may have been ludicrous - think Webster, The A-Team, Charles In Charge - but they became part of our lives nonetheless. So what do you do when they end? Immortalise them online. At least, you do if you're a diehard fan - and there are plenty of them out there. Look up a show, any show, and the odds are there'll be at least one fan site, possibly with a tinny version of the soundtrack playing in the background and certainly with photos galore, plot lines, trivia as well as 'where are they now?' information on the actors."

Comments

This story brings to mind fat, lonely nerds

[ObviousGuy]

Worst story ever.

Obligatory quote.

[monstroyer]

We need the wisdom of Herman's Head now, more than ever.

- Comic Book Guy.

Just wait a while

[Anonymous Coward]

Someday someone will come up with a fansite for Slashdot, remembering when it used to be about news for nerds, stuff that matters.

um nice example

[Anonymous Coward]

'"Full House still lives in the hearts of many and, therefore, the show will live forever. As long as there are people who like the show, they will keep it alive in their hearts and in their thoughts and that's why I started Full House Forever."'

jesus christ someone actually liked full house? are they blind and just read the scripts in brail or something? even bob saget had to admit he "sucked dick for coke" because of what the show did to him..

sad.

Alternate article title

[nametaken]

...why the internet should be destroyed.

Re:What...?

[identity0]

"Hey, there's a Simpsons quote in it! I've never seen that on Slashdot before, it must be newsworthy!" - michael

thank you Mister Rogers and Gi joe

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, I spent my early years watching Mister Rogers and Gi Joe. Then came Webster, the A-Team and Dukes of Hazard. Then came Gi joe and Transformers. Then came Duck Tales and Saved by the bell. Then came Porn and the Screensavers on Tech TV. Thank you for making me so messed up.

Retro Mental Images

[Ray Radlein]

One day, at a science fiction con, I was glancing across one of those large tables full of videotapes of, shall we say, dubious provenance, when I noticed, at the left edge of a box full of old TV shows, a tape labelled "AIR WOLF / THE A-TEAM".

I'm somewhat ashamed to say that my initial thought was, "That has got to be the worst bit of slash ever written."

A-Team rocked!

[tylernt]

Ludicrous?! A-team was a darn sight better than the crap on TV today. Young whippersnappers... Why, when I was your age we were lucky to have a color TV!

Re:A-Team rocked!

[Brandybuck]

I remember once getting bored and channel surfing. This was before the days of remote controls, so I surfed the old fashioned way by turning the dial.

Anyway, I stumbled across this bouncer competition. It's not every day that you get to see a televised competition of big ugly dudes hoisting drunks out the saloon door. I can't remember if this was the nationals or internationals. Anyway, this especially ugly dude named "Mr. T" won.

That was his fifteen minutes of fame. But that was too short for him, so he stretched that fifteen minutes into half a decade. First he fights Sylvester Stallone in Rocky. Very cheesy. I was thinking, "Hey, your fifteen minutes are over!" Then he shows up on A-Team. Come on! This guy couldn't act his way out of a paper bag!

His career finally stuttered, stalled, and crashed into Florida swampland after a particularly atrocious Barbara Walters interview.

Epilogue: I thought the ghost of Mr. T had been laid to rest. But I was wrong. An CS professor with a bad sense of humour was describing an algorithm to my class, when he suddenly jabbed his pointer at the chalkboard, right at a meta-variable, and loudly announced: "I pity da foo!"

Damn good thing

[Spytap]

Damn good thing this story was put on the front page of /. otherwise i would have never known about this "internet" that you speak of.
Man, so much more to this world than I ever knew ;)

I pity the fool

[doormat]

who posted this story....

Land of the lost

[Anonymous Coward]

Recently saw cable reruns of Land of Lost which was quite an influential show from my childhood. I was worried the cheesy production values would betray my found memories, but I've since developed a crushing addiction to copious amounts of hydroponics, and found the special effects really held up quite nicely after all those years.

Re:I don't watch TV

[Basehart]

"idiot box"

I prefer Shit Pump

Re:What...?

[haydon4]

It's a living testimony to an entire generation of children with sub-standard social skills.

That's nothing...

[Magus311X]

A while back, a bunch of us, for whatever reason, were arguing what the Hamburgler used to say. Whether is was "robble robble", or "rabble rabble". We debated this for 5 minutes, no fooling. Just kept going on and on, until someone suggested, "Why don't you just find out at a Hamburgler fan site?".

After that sentence, we all just fell silent. It was an absolutely strange suggestion when you thought about it, but we also realized that they probably do exist.

And lo and behold, Google didn't just find one, it found about a dozen. We laughed, both at the idea of googling for it, and the sad truth that there are Hamburgler fansites out there.

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Re:That's nothing...

[Scurrilous Knave]

We debated this for 5 minutes, no fooling.

Only five minutes? Clearly the weed was better back in the 80's, if nothing else.

I defy you to find this show on P2P.

[Blaede]

COP ROCK

Yes, Cop Rock, a show where the characters would break out into song at key moments. I believe only five episodes were shown before the show was fed to the shark. In fact, this show's concept was so bad it jumped before one single line of script was written. I seriously don't know what Bochco was thinking, as well as the execs who green-lighted this. What piece of blackmail did Bochco have on them to get this aired?

Anyway, if you can find some video of this (as well as Mexican wrestling movies from the 70s), you would be the king of Googling.

Work the lock

[uberdave]

Work the lock. Work the lock. Don't look at the dogs. Work the lock... You looked at the dogs.
Magnum - To himself while picking the lock on the Ferrari.

What a start to a show!

Re:Jump the shark

[dmaxwell]

I'm just waiting for jump the shark for websites.

"Remember that funny website all the tech nerds used to hang out on? I think it was DotSlash or Slashthroat or something like that........"

"Yeah it really JTSed when they started moderating trolls down. The trolls were the only good part of the site....."

In other news...

[Rexz]

Internet contains 'web' 'pages' on various subjects.

Re:What...?

[general_re]

Why is this newsworthy?

Because someday retro-80's fashions will be what the cool kids are wearing once again. It's just a matter of time, I figure. And then I'm calling my mother and sending her up to the attic for my old clothes, so that all those parachute pants and "Members Only" jackets and Izod shirts can command top dollar on eBay, as actual period garb. Remember, Youth Of Today, when that day comes, demand authenticity! Don't settle for cheap knockoffs of the classic originals!

Re:One thing I've discovered...

[aonifer]

Yeah, but the A-Team is still awesome.

The Dukes of Hazzard, though. Wow, I feel shame for ever liking that show.

Re:This is a great topic

[jkubecki]

Really, what else would it be?

Max Power?

Re:Jump the shark

[doc_traig]

Slashdot jumped the shark when we started seeing the OSDN Personals ads.