Slashdot Mirror
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."
What exactly is this story supposed to be about? Why is this newsworthy?
Sigs are for the weak.
the popularity and fanaticism of family guy on the web contributed to it getting put back on the air.
http://www.tvtome.com/list/all.html
Very extensive site for tv shows animated or otherwise includes episode lists & guides as well as all people accociated with them.
It's not my site but one I consult regularly.
The GEEK shall inherit the earth...
To answer the question "So what do you do when they end", one only needs to look at the ending of Truman Show.
People just find the remote and switch channel.
Funny enough though, Truman Show itself has plenty of fan sites immortalizing the show.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
I'm just waiting for jump the shark for websites. Then there can be retro fan sites about retro-tv sites. "Remember that A-team site..."
01100010 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101
I haven't had a TV for almost 20 years...have I missed anything?
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
We live in a world where some people are literally obsessed with TV (Probably a fair deal of \.ers. People actually go home on Friday nights to make sure they catch the new episode of whatever. It's really sad when a website dedicated to saving the TV show Angel (http://www.renewangel.com/) is considered a charity! Maybe it is a great show (try not to laugh...) but honestly...that money could be used to...I don't know...fight cancer?
Every windows user is a sadomasochist.
For a lot of classic shows you can find them on kazaa if the dvds not out yet (eventually every show ever will be avalible on dvd). I've got old Doctor Who episodes, Quantum Leap, every episode of Sliders, some A-Team eps, along with Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and a few dozen other shows. And before anyone starts a flamewar, yes it is copyright infingment, but where else am i going to find Daria or Greg the Bunny or Roswell with the original soundtrack intact. It all evens out since i own the first 2 seasons of Farscape on DVD, both Family Guy sets, Chappelles Show, Clerks the Animated Series, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop (i do feel a little guilty because my cowboy bebop set is a bootleg, but i bought it from amazon, so i blame them.) and some others...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Cartoon Network was playing GI Joe late Saturday nights for awhile. I remember thinking it was kinda corny but still fun as a kid. The "still fun" must have worn off somewhere in the last 15 years. It was just incredibly bad.
I came across a site with Transformers episodes once. I was able to watch a few of those. I liked Transformers a bit better that GI joe as kid..might have had something to do with it. I loved the way Transformers could ravage several conservation laws at least 20 times an episode. Optimus must have a pocket dimension or something that he kept his trailer part in when he was a robot. For that matter, where did Omega Supreme keep his friggen body when he was robot? Then we have Astrotrain carrying around several Decepticons the same size he is in shuttle form, with scads of personal space for each one I might add. Come to think of it, damn near every action cartoon is incredibly bad. I still think Transformers is the king of implausible topology.
When the autobots fire a laser beam, decepticons really get it up the ass.
It still severely lacked in the fatality department. The Autobots and Decepticons must have been piloting non-lethal weaponry for UN peacekeepers. If it was really necessary for the plot, someone would be knocked down with a smoking hole in him until the next scene. Otherwise the consequences were "Hey! That really scorched my paint!" or something.
The movie had some fatality it but only characters from the old line of toys bought it in the first twenty minutes. I think the idea was you were supposed to throw your dead Transformers in the trash and go buy some new ones. Well, Starscream died a bit later but they trot his ghost back out in afternoon programming so you could go buy Starscream again.
What do you do when one of your favorite show ends?
That's a good god-damn question.
I'd like to hear from some Quantum Leap fans after they were left with their mouths gaping open, speechless after watching the last episode, thinking to themselves simultaneously, "WTF?!"
Sure, some people change the channel. But there are times where you're just left ALL SORTS of screwed up, not knowing what the hell just happened.
...but I stopped watching television regularly at the ripe old age of 18.
I got a summer job in the woods. When I came back home after three months and sat down in front of a television I simply could not believe that people could watch such inane drivel. I lasted 15 minutes.
It was nearly ten years later that I actually bought a television set, and that so I could watch movies on HBO. I no longer even have cable. Once in a while at a friends house I will see what is on the tube today and as far as I can tell, it hasn't improved.
I know, I know... How will I ever function in society without having seen a single episode of 'St. Elsewhere', 'E.R', or 'Survivor'?
A.
...bringing you cynical quips since 1998
we were talking at work about crappy tv and I remembered an episode of happy days, plot was similar to a step by step show,they just happened to show the repeats a couple of days apart.
I used tv tome to check it out, season 1 episode 20 (Daddy's girl) was an almost an exact ripoff of season 2 episode 29(fonzie get's married) of happy days.I think they even ripped off some of the dialogue.
I knew that the writing on step by step was crap but didn't think they had to resort to plagarism,especially the first season. wonder how many others doing this?