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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.240.4 |
Knight Rider syndrome n. disillusionment upon re-watching a beloved pop-culture touchstone of your youth and having to confront its hand-puppet characterization, magnetic-poetry dialogue, jury-rigged plots and undisguised pandering to its audience, all of which—by the power of Grayskull—makes you wonder what else in your mental fridge is past its expiration date. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
AKA A-Team Syndrome | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.240.4 |
My most recent case of this was with The Incredible Hulk... I used to adore that program. I bought a season of it on DVD and fucking hell it's bad. He will always turn into the Hulk twice per episode. at 23 minutes in and again 5 minutes before the end. He always manages to be hidden as he changes... depsite the fact that this happens mid fight on a semi regular basis. In one episode he saves a politician from being shot (in a very rare case of the first person he befriends turning out to be the bad guy) by using himself as a hulky shield - he doesn't really count as a human shield. As he pushes the politician away from himself, we can clearly see green make-up all the way down the politician's suit. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.1.172 |
Maybe that's just his tarnished reputation. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
I've had this experience with innumerable once loved sitcoms from the 1970s - what I used to call the golden age of the British sitcom. Apart from; 'Steptoe & Son', 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?', 'Rising Damp', 'Porridge', 'Reginald Perrin' & 'Fawlty Towers' (apologies to any greats I've forgotten) the rest of them are embarrassingly unfunny, to a degree that makes me wonder about people's intelligence in those days. My most depressing disappointment in this respect was 'The Goodies'. A TV show that used to reduce me to tears of laughter rather than just tears. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.107.130.149 |
>>>embarrassingly unfunny, to a degree that makes me wonder about people's intelligence in those days. Whereas of course in our own day, the likes of The Vicar of Dibley and My Family are shining beacons of sophisticated comedy . . . Apropos the thread: as the man said, you can never go home. He's right (whoever he is) - you never can. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.107.130.149 |
I had this experience with The Twilight Zone, I'm afraid to say. The 19-year old me lapped it up. The jaded old fart saw how flimsy much of it was (but on song, it was still pretty awesome). | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...not the Twilight Zone... "This is Gary Fry, it's Sunday evening, and he's just finished his day's writing...but tonight is no ordinary night, and that was no ordinary comment he left...because, yes, doubters, disbelievers, profane sackers of the temple of Rod Serling...Mr Fry has just parachuted in behind the enemy lines of what constitutes a very dark journey back home through the territory of regret, shame and hindsight which lies at the heart of the Twilight Zone. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Not going off topic too much, but the Prisoner seems to keep on getting better and better with age. No matter how young the person I show it to, they automatically become hooked on it. And many of those people are Polish. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>I had this experience with The Twilight Zone, I'm afraid to say. The 19-year old me lapped it up. The jaded old fart saw how flimsy much of it was ..<< Gary, I'm coming right over to your house to kill you after that comment!  But seriously, I guess I get "Knight Rider Syndrome" in respect of classic Doctor Who - but I still think it's absolutely brilliant. In fact I wonder, do we love these things when we're kids, get to an age when we realise it's rubbish, and then get to another age (second childhood, perhaps?) when we start to think it's brilliant again? If so, you guys are in for a treat when you start to enjoy these programmes again.  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
A TV show I never really got to see the first time round was Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I bought it about six months back, and was appalled at how unfunny it was. I got through one episode. Then again, one episode of Eastenders dates before the credits roll. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.240.4 |
Did you know they paid more for Zaphod's second head than they paid Mark Wing-Davey to play the role of Zaphod? And it's brilliantly funny - stil!!! If you don't want the DVD I'll take it off your hands for you... You know my email addy don't you | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.238 |
I think the Hitchhiker's Guide is better heard not seen... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.131.198 |
The TV series is also the only place you will ever read the worst poem in the universe - worse even than Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent's (of the Azgoths of Kria) epic poem Ode to a Small lump of Green Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning - I refer of course to the poetry of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, Essex. This is scolled across the screen as the book tells us about the worst poets in the universe just before Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz reads his Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly poem to Arthur and Ford. The sad thing here is that the only thing I had to look up there was the name of the Azgoth whose epic poem anmed above caused 4 of his audience to die of internal haemorraging and the President of the Arts Nobbling Council to gnaw his own leg off in a desparate attempt to survive. I can also quote Prostetic Vogon Jeltz's poem at will - or anyone else who might want to hear it... Yes i am a sad geek. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Weber - sure, mate. Send me your address and I'll post it to you. Be the 30th of August though. I'm going away. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.145.131.198 |
*Prostetnic | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.202.42 |
I enjoyed Sapphire and Steel, Armchair Thriller, The New Avengers, Hammer House of Horror and Max Headroom at the time and even more on re-watching them decades later. Things I hadn't seen at the time but am amazed at their quality today: Colditz, Quatermass (1979 with John Mills), I'm wondering how Masada will stand up. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.18.103 |
By pushing with her hands on the sofa and rising to her feet? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.68.126 |
Just watched series 1 of HOT METAL. By gum, that's a great series. Maybe Robert Hardy and Geoffrey Palmer's best work. The little sprinkling of thriller worked well in the sitcom format. "He's very old". "Oh, he'll grow out of that." and the headline: LOVE TUG BUDGIE IN POISON MILLET RIDDLE |