- Wait, you have a TV? - No, I just like to read the TV guide. Read the TV guide, you don't need a TV guide. ♪ Don't listen to me, don't listen to me ♪ ♪ Don't listen to me, don't listen to me ♪ ♪ Don't listen to me, don't listen to me ♪ - Hello and welcome to TV Gaddens Counselor. I am Ken Reed, the Boston Marathon TV Gaddens Counselor. Boston Marathon continues today with my next guest, Chris D, he is not in AA, he is not part of a Kafka novel. He has a very complicated Greek last name that I will not even attempt to pronounce, but he pronounces it in this episode. Really funny guy, one of the best newer comics that's come on a Boston in recent memory. We lost him too to Los Angeles recently, but he is doing very well out there. If you are on the west coast, definitely go out and see Chris D. There's a lot of fun talking this episode. As always, my so-called life comes up if we're talking about 1994. And I love this kid, he's a great kid. I also recently realized that people don't say that about adults outside of Boston calling adults kids. I don't, you know, sometimes I wish I didn't have these Bostonisms, but they're here and I have to deal with them. Speaking of Boston, thank you guys so much for coming out to the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival over the weekend and seeing the live edition of TV Gaddens Counselor. I did with Eugene Merman. Hopefully I'll have more of these live editions coming up. I have at least two in the future. I'll be doing one Wednesday night, April 22nd at Improv Boston as part of the Women in Comedy Festival with Mary Mack. I know I'm not a woman. They know I'm not a woman. There are men also in the festival. I've been doing that festival for about seven years now and it's always a great time. And of course, May and May, starting the 7th of May in Portland, Oregon. I'll be doing a live TV Gaddens Counselor for the Bridgestown Comedy Festival. So at least those two and we'll see if people want more after that. But definitely come to an event if you have the means. I love seeing you guys, I love talking to people. It's always fun to see people listen to the show. So anyway, speaking of listening to the show, as the TV Gaddens Counselor Boston Marathon continues, here is my episode with Chris Dee. ♪ Dee dee dee dee dee ♪ ♪ Dee dee dee dee ♪ ♪ Dee dee dee dee ♪ ♪ Dee dee dee ♪ ♪ Dee dee dee ♪ ♪ Bria ♪ ♪ Bria ♪ ♪ Bria ♪ ♪ Dao ♪ ♪ Dao ♪ ♪ M-B-N-Y ♪ ♪ Bria ♪ - This is a very Greek name, Chris. De Litra Copolis. - Perfect. - Perfect. - Yeah. - I got it. - You may professionally know him as Chris Dee. - Yeah. - I like to do his full name so that you don't think he's an alcoholic. - It's anonymous. - Yeah. - Or Chris Dee from The Bend, The Flesheaters. Welcome to my home, Chris. - Hey, thank you for having me. - It's your first little lovely home. - Thank you, thank you. We supplied Chris with British candy, and he has a lion bar. - Lion bar. - Which he had previously never had. - Yeah, never had a lion bar, it's great. - The verdict, what would you give it like out of 10? - Oh, nine? - Nine, that's pretty good. So this is turned into the candy review. - Lion bar. - Lion bar from the UK. Highly recommended by Chris DeMitra Copolis. So, Chris, you picked a TV guide. It's a very special edition. It is the fall preview special, which is usually everybody's favorite. This is from September 17th to the 23rd, 1994. What drew you to this particular issue? - That I would remember the shows. - You're a little bit younger than this, yeah. So you were looking for 94s about the earliest you could go. - I probably could have gone earlier. - I recognize most shows. - And the other interesting thing here was that in addition to having a lion bar for the first time, this is actually the first time you've ever flipped through a TV guide? - I've flipped through them before, but the first time since elementary school. - Okay, 'cause you didn't get them in here. - Not regularly, you got an elementary school, maybe I only did it like three times 'cause my friend had it at his house. - So you got a rich friend who got TV. How did you guys pick what you were gonna watch on TV in your house without a TV guide? - Ah, that's a good question. - Well, my parents really didn't watch TV. They didn't care, so it was whatever I wanted to watch and I just flipped through the channels. - You just flipped till you found something. - And I also had a really good memory, so I just know when the shows I liked were gonna be on. - So it was like a search and destroy mission. You just kind of searched, found what you wanted, and then you were like, "This will probably be here tomorrow at this time." - Oh, exactly. - All right, well, interesting. Very pioneering of you. Your parents never watched TV? - Like very rare, like my dad would actually occasionally, but like he just wouldn't care what's on. My mom really, not a TV watch. - Interesting. - Both Greek immigrants? - They watched Seinfeld. Yeah, both Greek immigrants. - Was there any like Greek shows they would watch or like talk about? - No. - Nothing. There's no like version of like Greek Three's company or anything like that? - No, there isn't. - Well, I'm saddened by that. - Yeah, well, I mean, there is Greek programming, but we didn't have it when we were kids. - Well, I assume they have programming. - Actually, when the satellite dish first came out, my grandparents lived with us. - Okay. - Until they passed. - Right, my mom's back. - Nothing to do with you. - No, no, natural causes. - Okay. - I'm not a murder. - All right, that was like to ask. - But yeah, they requested to get like the dish so they could get Greek programming like straight from Greece. - And I just imagine it was like all soccer. - It was, no, it wasn't. It was a lot of soccer. - But mostly soccer. - But it was like Greek soap operas and stuff like that. - Did you ever watch them? - Wait, I'm like very rarely. Like I would watch like five minutes of it and be like, this is just cool. - Yeah, I'd check that out. - I'd like to see like a Greek sitcom or like a Greek 18. - I think that would be really funny. - Yeah, I'd watch other than my big fat Greek wedding. - Yeah, oh yeah. - It's not in Greece. So, Saturday night, eight o'clock, what'd you go with for your first pick of the week? - I went with a movie, Saturday night movie. One of my favorite movies ever, Teen Wolf. - I knew it was an ABC family movie that night, Teen Wolf. Fantastic movie, the original, not the second movie. - Not the second one. - How many times do you think you've seen Teen Wolf? - Oh, 15 to 20. - I think that's a good move, Teen Wolf. - Yeah. - Did you see Teen Wolf too? - I saw that once. That's with Jason Baeman. - Jason Baeman, yeah. - I saw that one once, I think. And I just, no, this one is the one. - I always thought that Boof, played by Susan Arciti, who I've never seen in anything else, over in Teen Wolf, was pretty alright looking. - I thought so too. I was like, what's the problem? - She's so into you. - Yeah, the whole movie. - Do you know the penis story about Boof? - Oh, I know the penis story. - Yeah, have you ever seen it? - Yes, I have. - Yeah, I just asked you if you know what I'm saying. - Oh, glad you brought that up. 'Cause I'd heard about it and never actually like, seen it while watching the movie. - So now you know what like a 13 year old girl feels like? - Yeah, that was so ridiculous. - Yeah. - I don't know how they miss that. There was a, speaking of three's company, there was an episode where one of John Ritter's balls fell out of his shirt. - Oh yeah. - And they didn't realize it until 2002. - 20 years after the episode, yeah. Dated it out later. - But they still didn't let out the dick from now. - Well, that's part of the movie. A lot of people go just to see that. What do you like so much about Teen Wolf? - I don't know. Well, first of all, Michael J. Fox. - So your big Michael J. Fox, man. - Who would you make Michael J. Fox? - Do you think Teen Wolf's a better movie than Back to the Future? - No. - What if? - In fact, the Future's like my favorite movie. - What if Marty McFly was a werewolf? - Oh, wow. - Did I just blow your mind up? - Yeah, I think you did blow it up a little bit. - I'd watch that movie. - That would be incredible, yeah, absolutely, he could only travel at night. - That's Back to Teen Wolf. - Yes. Have you ever seen the Teen Wolf cartoon? - No. - It was pretty good. It was on CBS. It lasted for two seasons. Teen Wolf from I think about '86 to about '89. I have it if you ever want our copy of it. It's pretty entertaining. - Oh no, but I don't know, just Teen Wolf's great. Like I just think that so many, it's funny. - Yeah. - There are really funny lines. Styles is just a ridiculous kind of thing. - Everybody like Styles. - I was just ridiculous. - Yeah. - And the surfing, the car surfing. Would you ever try that? - I would, I think. - I would. - I would. - I would talk you out of it. - Only in a residential area and going like, like, I'd be like, don't even touch the gas. - You know what I mean? - Just like, let the car roll. - So you just want to stand on top of a van? - Yeah, I just want to stand on top of a move. - All right, fair enough. I think that's a good move. Now, normally on a Saturday night, I would go with cops. That's my go-to. I still watch it 'til this day. I always mentioned it. This episode in Indianapolis, Sergeant Mike Himmel investigates a woman who reportedly tried to cash a stolen check and deputy Mark Miller arrested a man suspected of abusing his wife and daughter. So, I mean, that sounds lots of fun. But Teen Wolf was the good pick here. The other movie, though, that I would have difficulty deciding which one to watch was on a UHF station they were showing back to the beach, speaking of surfing, which is one of my favorite movies. Great movie to end the summer. Frankie and Annette, it's Pee Wee Herman's in it. It's a great movie. It's a great summer beach movie. We showed it here at the Reed household in the summers. We do outdoor movie nights. Oh, yeah. I have a projector and a big screen out there. And we did "Back to the Beach in One Crazy Summer" last year as a double feature. Oh, that's awesome. Highly recommend it. So, yeah, I think you made a good move there. You missed out on the second episode of "Cops" at 8.30, but you also missed out at nine o'clock on "The Miss America" pageant hosted by Regis Filman and Kathy Lee Gifford. And I don't want to make you feel too bad. Oh, wow. The special musical guest was Kenny Rogers. So, you missed out on that by watching and you also missed out on "Baywatch." Yeah, but I got to see a penis on ABC. That's true. Well, they probably would have cut it on. Yeah, basically. No, maybe they didn't know they do. Yeah, maybe they didn't know. We'd never know. We'd have to get that broadcast. We'd have to see the '94. So, if someone says, "Has ABC ever broadcast a penis?" The answer is probably yes. Mate, yeah. September, what was the date? It was September 17th, 1994. Yup. A day that would live in it for me. You did miss "Baywatch" at nine o'clock. I watch "Baywatch" every week. I'm just gonna tell you what that episode was just so you feel bad yet again. And encounter with an octopus helps Summer untangle her feelings for Jimmy. Oh man, now I feel bad. You're right. (laughing) Where do you hear the B story? Mitch has forced that gunpoint to treat and escape convicts wounds. And this is part one of two. You couldn't contain both those stories. Oh, my God. And just one of the episode. I think that anyone having relationship questions should have an encounter with an octopus and an octopus. Yeah, I did like "Baywatch" back then. Was that, like, Yasmin Bleith? She was a little bit later. I think she's doing it about '96. Yeah, I think we still had Nicole Eggert in this particular era of "Baywatch." When was Pamela Anderson on it? The whole time. Just in the exact time. CJ, yeah. When we were in LA a couple weeks ago and we were in a costume store in Burbank and they had her original bathing suit from "Baywatch" in a frame. Wow. Very faded, very faded. You also did not go with "Snick" at the time, which was Nickelodeon's "Saturday Night." Yeah. So you missed out on Clarissa, "The Adventures of Pete and Pete at 8.30," which is in my top five all-time favorite shows. This one's really, really great. This is during "The Brothers" last week in school before summer vacation, big Pete and his friends rushed to complete their science papers. Excellent episode. We've been quite a great segue way back into the school year. You missed Ren and Stimpy, as I mentioned, and are you afraid of the dark? Man, that's actually, yeah. That's why bad there. You could have watched "The Wanted Deep" and watch "Snick" all the time. "Snick" was great. There's very few people I know that did not watch "Snick" regularly. Yeah, "Snick" was awesome, yeah. "Pete and Pete" was great. Still is great, yeah. All right, let's just move on to Sunday so we don't have to, I think I made you feel too bad now. Not feel horrible, but I'm still solid on "Teen Wolf." These are the choices we had to make, you know? You went with "Teen Wolf" and you got to live with the consequences. Sure. "Sunday Night," eight o'clock, what do you got? The Simpsons. You went with "The Simpsons," did you watch it every week? Yeah. So this was a repeat of one from 1992. Lisa's "Pig Skin Procrastination" prowess provides a bond with Homer and gifts from gambling gains until she realizes that the Super Bowl will end daddy-daughter days. I don't know, what is up with all the alliteration in this-- Wow, that's a weird synopsis. Yeah, it's a Super Bowl episode, which is a rare thing to air. I would have gone with an "Unsolved Mysteries" special. I love "Unsolved Mysteries." I don't know if you ever used to watch it. But this is a special of just alien beings segments. So "It's Mysteries of Alien Beings" reports on four men who say they were abducted while on a fishing trip in Maine and includes research by Harvard for this psychiatrist, John Mack. Also, a pilot's alleged UFO sighting is Kazakhstan, efforts to locate a nurse who reportedly helped with autopsies on an alien being that emerged from the wreck of a UFO. All true stories. Wow. Have you ever seen a UFO? I've never seen one in real life, have you? No, do you believe that UFOs exist? Yes. Do you believe that they have visited the Earth? Here? Yes, not my house, but just-- The Earth? The Earth? Probably. So you're going to go have problem? I'm not so sure. Do you think they have soap operas and soccer matches that they watch via satellite dishes? I don't know. No. We'll never know. Yeah, we won't know. We'll never know. Now, one thing you didn't pick, I noticed, at a clock that you commented on earlier, is on channel 25, this is a New York-era TV guide. So channel 25, there's something on for three hours at 8 o'clock, and the whole description just says Greek programming. Oh, yeah. I'm going to tune into that from 9 to 10. Just to check it out, what it is. It's 9 to 10, I'm just going to check it out. I don't know what it is. It'd be funny if you're going to have to check it out. If you turn around, it was just, who's the boss? If you're the son, you're like, why is this Greek? I don't understand how this is Greek at all. I don't know what it could be. But it's here. What's there? It's a Greek programming. So I got to give that a watch just for the-- Just to feel at home. Just to feel at home, yeah. 8.30, what do you go with? Lowe's and Clark. The second half of Lowe's and Clark's and Clark's. Did you used to watch that when I was on it? Yes, I did. It was a very female-centric Superman show. I didn't even realize that. I just loved Superman when I was a little kid. Well, I think that's why I watched it, so maybe that's why. Yeah, well, let's be so good to like, yeah. Mother, son, bonding experience. Yeah, Superman, this is awesome. Terry Hatcher, always watchable. And I thought Terry Hatcher was like, gorgeous. I think everyone does. Superman, The Adventures of Lowe's and Clark has kind of a forgotten Superman series. No one ever really mentions that now. Dean Kane. Dean Kane, who I think-- He's now hosting that big foot show. Oh, is it a big foot show? Yeah, he was hosting the Guinness Book World Records show. No, Ripley's Believe It or Not. That's right. With a former Baywatch actress who is also on California Dreams, who's name I can't remember the blonde girl. He's that blonde girl, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember her. Yeah, so there was Superboy in the late '80s, which was terrible. Superboy. Is that-- did you have like a leather jacket? No, no, no. In the '90s in the comics, though, there was a leather jacket. You remembered that. A little round by the jacket is Superboy. But there was a syndicated television series that ran for like five seasons from '87 or '88, I think, until the early '90s, called The Adventures of Superboy that they shot at Universal Studios, Florida. That's absurd. And as soon as that ended, they went with Lois and Clark, which ran for most of the '90s, and then you had Smallville, which started in 2000s. So there's pretty much been a Superman show on the air for the last 25 years. But like secretly, so-- Yeah, it was kind of there. It's just kind of there. It's just been there. Well, Superman The Animated Series started in 1996, and that was fantastic. That was, I think, the best Superman series. Yeah, if you're a Superman fan, and you've never seen The Animated Series, I highly recommend Superman The Animated Series. I said, I'd seem like the Justice League. Yeah, Justice League Unlimited, Justice League. The Superman Animated Series is in that same universe. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's sometimes called The Timmaverse, because Bruce Tim produced Batman The Animated Series. That talks about it constantly. I'm sorry. It's not supposed to watch it. Is he really annoying? Yeah, he gets really annoying. He's constantly like, you should watch specifically Superman. Specifically, well, he's known like, I love Batman The Animated Series. Yeah, oh, then how have you not watched Superman? That's about the Justice League. And then, yeah, that's amazing. Did you skip over Superman? I'll let you borrow him. I have extra-- actually, believe it or not, I have extra copies of the box sets so that I can let people borrow Superman The Animated Series. But, yeah, yeah. It's a weird thing. Wait, are you serious? Some things that I really like I buy multiple copies of if I find them cheap so that I can have like a lending copy. Wow. Is that weird? That's like-- You never did that with like a CD? No, that's really weird. I think. And that's-- well, I think that's weird. That's really nice. Like, I think that's weird. Is that why it's weird? Maybe, yeah. Is that weird? Because I was like, you already have your own copy. But you're like, OK, somebody else wants to borrow one. I'll just get another copy. Well, see, here's the thing. On the surface, it seems nice. But really, it's from my own benefit so I don't have to loan my copy to be potentially lost. Yeah. And if my friend likes it, then I have someone to talk to about it. So it's really from my own-- All right, so it's like-- Yeah, so deep down, it's really for your own. Yeah, pretty much. Selfish benefits. Now, at 8.30, what you passed up on was the show Hardball on Fox, which was a very short-lived sitcom about a baseball team. It did have Joe Flaherty in it, who's one of my favorite people of all time who was on sc-TV. He's in Freaks and Geeks. He played the dive in Freaks and Geeks. And this was, I believe, the first sitcom for Joe Rogan, pre-news radio. Really? Yes, so he played Frank. I just never heard of that. Didn't last very long. It wasn't a great show. Hardball. Interesting. Hardball. See, I would have gone with the real world at 8.30. I was a big real world fan. Oh, the real world. I think this was either London or Boston in '94. I'd have to check. But it's either London or Boston, either one I was a fan of. I would have gone with that. Yeah. 9 o'clock, what do you go with? 9 o'clock at Greek programming. You went with Greek-- Yeah, that's just an hour of Greek programming. So you're embedded with the Greek programming? Like a good little Greek boy. You know, it was very intriguing. I was like, yeah, I'm going to check it out. Let's just see what it is. Just see what it is. Now, you passed out "Marin with Children" was the season premiere. That's fine. This is the episode where Peggy-- I mean, not Peggy, Kelly gets a "Pipple Cream" commercial, which is not a great episode. I also would have said that really the only move at this time probably would have been a documentary on the Disney channel called "The Twist." "The Twist." History of the dance craze and the tune of "The Twist." Wow. That's what I would have watched. Have you ever done "The Twist?" Oh, yeah. Yeah. I love "The Twist." Even without seeing "The Documentary." No, yeah, I didn't need it. It's natural. "The Twist" is natural. Do you prefer the "Fat Boys" and "Chubby Checker Version" or the original "Chubby Checker Version?" You've got to go with the original. What dance do you think you'd do the best? In general? Just generally. Like, if someone was like, what dance, are you the best staff, who would you go with? I'll probably go with "Pop Locking." "Pop it and Locking." Yeah, "Pop Locking." Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, like the robot type stuff. OK. The pop type moves. All right. I'm not going to make you do it because I don't believe you. You don't believe me? No, no, no. I'm really good at it. Yeah, I'm really good at it. Now, before we get to Monday night, I just want to mention that at this time, this was at the height of "Toxio Mania" during the day. So as I'm flipping through this, I'm seeing all the ads for daytime talk shows that are on, and there is an insane amount. So Gordon Elliot has a talk show, Suzanne Summers, Susan Powder, Donahue's still on, Sally Jesse Raphael. Oh, there's literally like 15 talk shows. And a friend of mine's brother went to NYU film school at this time, and they really had a hard time getting audience members for all of these talk shows. So they would kind of go to the colleges and just get anyone who wanted to go. And he used to go and try to get kicked out. That was his thing. So he would ask a ridiculous question. So he'd get up and be like, yeah, I had a question for that guy in the glasses. And they'd be like, Chris, and be like, yeah. Why so ugly? And then he would wear disguises and things. Keep going back. Keep going back. Keep getting kicked out. That's hilarious, but did he ever make it on there? Oh, yeah, yeah, a few times. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Monday night, as I always say, the saddest night of the week, you've gone back to school, you've gone back to work, you need it to take you away. What do you get eight o'clock? Eight o'clock Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Everyone picks Fresh Prince of Bel Air. This is an hour long special season premiere of Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Oh, yeah. Now, in this episode, this is the expanded fifth season opener finds Hot Shot Will, living high on the hog as the manager of Ashley's budding singing career, but the rising star herself, AKA Tatiana Ali. Let's start 'em, get to her head after getting an enthusiastic response from a big time record producer. That's a good one. I remember that episode. Specifically, yeah. Did you think that they would go their separate ways after having a falling out when he tries to manage and he never mixed family and business? Exactly, he don't mix family and business. Would you? Oh, I saw that coming. Yeah, she went to Harvard, I think, Tatiana. Tatiana Ali? I believe so. I remember when she put this song out because it came out in conjunction this episode with her actual single. Oh, yeah, I actually found an album. Did you do a singing career? It didn't, like, Will Smith actually, like, have so many produced it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't too bad. I never, like, I don't, I think she was a bad singer, but I never heard, like, her actual album. But like, that-- You should pick it up. You can get it. You can get it on Amazon, really cheap. Oh, yeah, yeah. Tatiana Ali. A lot of penny. (laughing) She probably saw there herself. What has she been doing these days? I don't know, I don't think she acts very much these days. Yeah, I always thought Hilary was, like, really hot. And then, but then that episode? Tatiana Ali did it for him. Like, wow, like-- He became a man. She, yeah. She grew up. This same year, Jennifer Love Hewitt tried to put out an album, and it's one of my favorite things ever because the album, Speaking of Dances, the album is called Let's Go Bang. (laughing) What? And now it says that the producer told her the bang was a new dance. So the album's called Let's Go Bang by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Is she really that stupid? She must have been, oh, she might have been teen or something. Yeah, I guess, oh, oh. She was probably 15, I think so. I think so. Let's go bang. Now, I did like Fresh Prince, but at eight o'clock, just because I already committed to it this week, I would have had to go with Baywatch again so I could watch the second part of the two part of it. That's who, yeah. This is the conclusion Mitch learns that his captors plan to kill him whether or not he saves Brady. Stephanie investigates a diving accident in quotes involving the fiance of her sister. Doesn't sound as exciting as part one. Scandalous. It is pretty scandalous. It was a scandalous show. Oh, it was. You passed up Dave's World at 8.30, which was-- What is that? Dave's World was Harry Anderson from Night Court's follow-up series. It was the second series in the '90s. He plays Dave Barry, who's a humor writer. It's a real guy. He plays Dave Barry, Shadow Stevens was in it. It was kind of a family sitcom. It reminded me of a non-southern home improvement in a lot of weird ways. A non-southern home improvement? Yeah, I don't think a home was based in Detroit. Yeah, but it seemed really southern. Although it's said Detroit, it felt Texas to me. So you passed up that nine o'clock, what do you go with? I love Lucy. Really? Yeah. I love Lucy. Are you a fan of "I Love Lucy"? Yeah, I like some episodes. I actually didn't go in to see what specific episode it was. You just figured you'd like it. Yeah, I was like, I'll put that in there. 'Cause here's what you passed up. The debut of ER, very first episode of ER. And you're a caterpillar, ER. Really? Do you like medical dramas? No. Oh, ER is gripping. Never even seen a single episode of ER. You'd like it. Do you like being sad and surprised and occasionally nauseous? No. I like dramas. I like dramas. Are there any soap opera type shows you got into? Soap opera. Like nighttime soaps, not like as the world turns around. I don't know, like current dramas? Or even like drama. Yeah, like "Man, Man." But before that, you know, like before that, you don't ever get into like Melrose Place. No. Chicago Hope. Nope. Sisters, 30 something. Nope. I'm like Beverly Hills 902 and I'll never-- No, I never got into that either. But I would say ER is pretty good. Yeah? Well, it's like still going, isn't it? No, you are ended about five years ago, Chris. You did? Yeah. No, I thought like John Stamos was on that. Yeah, about five years ago. That was five years ago? Yeah. Yeah, it ended probably maybe even more than that. No way. I mean, it was on for like 12 years. But it ended quite a while ago. After they killed everyone off. So you passed up that, you passed up Murphy Brown. It was the season seven opener. Have you ever seen Murphy Brown? I've never seen Murphy Brown either. It's a good show, probably would have been a little old for you. Yeah. This episode featured a cameo by Captain Kangaroo. Bob Keishan. Yes, yeah. You didn't even know about it. I heard somebody mention a Captain Kangaroo, but I don't really know what that is. Have you ever watched any-- did you watch like Mr. Rogers or any of the kids? Oh, Mr. Rogers, I watched all of them. Captain Kangaroo was a bitch. Oh, like one of those-- Pre-Mr. Rogers, yeah. I like how he said that very accusatory, one of those. Yeah, one of those. One of those, Mr. Rogers. You also passed up, exactly. You also passed up Party of Five, which, as you know, star Jennifer Love Hewitt in it around this time. Again, wasn't it? Not into that. And a new show called Sirens, where three female rookie cops patrol the streets of Pittsburgh. Pretty exciting. Wow. Yeah, I don't think I would have watched that. But I would have gone with Murphy Brown. And at 9.30, I probably would have gone with Love in War, which was not my favorite show. It didn't last very long. Had Jay Thomas and Annie Potts in it. This was Annie Potts's follow-up series to Designing Women. I love Annie Potts. She's one of my favorites. And I definitely would have gone with that, even though not a good show. And I should mention, 10 o'clock, Northern Exposure was on. If you're going to watch a one-hour comedy drama, I highly recommend Northern Exposure to you. Yeah. Great, great show. Haven't seen that, either. But I thought we weren't picking until-- We weren't, but I just wanted to mention it. Just because it was just a great show. It's not a great exposure. I went with WWF wrestling at 9.30 for the rest of the night. Just, yeah. Who was your favorite half-off? Who were you into at that point? At that point, I wasn't really even into wrestling, yet, at that point. How old were you at that point? I was only into wrestling for like two years. 10 to 12? Yeah. Like, exactly. That's exactly-- Those are the two years. That's exactly the time. So in the times I was 10 to 12, my favorite wrestlers were stolen colds, Diva. Triple H? Yeah, I hated Triple H. Well, he was the villain. I always hated him. Yeah. Oh, I liked the rock. Did you have a John 3/16 shirt or whatever that was? Yeah, never liked it. You ever got the t-shirts or the pair for the day? I just watched the pay-per-view specials at my friend's house. Is this the TV guide friend? No, it's not. It's a different one. No, did Steve purchase the pay-per-view's or did he have a black box? I believe he purchased them. Or like, he didn't purchase them. His parents did, yeah. His parents just didn't. Fair enough. I had a black box. Did you? At one point. Did your dad pick that up? My dad, yeah, my dad got one. It's a certain point. Nice. I built a couple of black boxes and we had in our house. Really? Oh, yeah, yeah. I had to have the black box. Oh, yeah. It was like a-- it was a de-scrambler, so the channels that were scrambled, I remember you just hit a button and it would just come in clear. Yeah, yeah. Did you ever get in trouble for watching things you weren't supposed to watch on that? No. I got away with everything. You did watch it. They just never fell out. Oh, yeah, yeah. Did you ever catch your dad watching anything like Skinnamax? No, there we go. I caught my dad watching a pay-per-view of Foxy boxing once. Really? On the black box. Yeah. One time during a sleepover, maybe in like sixth grade or something, like a kind of friend of mine just watching like a hardcore, like in the middle of the night, just by himself, like I woke up. And it was just like on hardcore porn. Is that you sure that's not a dream that you had? What? You sure that's just not a dream that you had? Oh, I'm sure. When I lived in England, I went to school there and I had a television and I stole cable from the pub that was behind our building. And so I did get scrambled pornography on there. And I was the only one with a TV. And in England, you need a license to have a TV, which a lot of people don't know. Yeah, you need to get by a television license. And it's cheaper if it's black and white. And they actually have guys and fans that drive around with television detectors. And if you have an unregistered TV, you can go to jail and be found. Oh, that's crazy. Well, it's because they only had originally only one channel, two channels, BBC, which is completely publicly funded. It didn't have any commercials. So the TV license is what funded the programming, which is pretty good. But I got scrambled pornography and there was this kid who lived below us, this frat dude. And so people would just kind of comment, I'm in my room and watch TV. If I wasn't there, I'd leave it open. And one day I went in there and this kid was sitting on my bed watching scrambled pornography. And it looked like he'd been crying. And he said, I don't know if that's a tit or an elbow. I just don't even care. And he wasn't even joking. Like that was a sincere, sincere confession that he had to me. That kid-- That's a sad point that kids live. He also tried to tell me he was, quote, like the Ferris Bueller of his high school. [LAUGHTER] And everybody just loved him? Yeah, and he hated London so much. And he came in one day and confessed to one of my female friends who I lived with that he was very upset because all his frat brothers chose to study abroad in Australia. And all of them were, quote, fucking strippers. And she was like, oh, OK. Goodbye. What a great kid. So Tuesday night, eight o'clock, what do you go with? Wings. Wings, good call, quality show, one of my favorites. I really, really like that show. Tony Shalub. Does Tony Shalub your favorite character on that show? Maybe it was either him or Roy. He seemed like a Roy fan. Yeah. Which brother did you prefer? You know what, they were both great. They both had the moments, I feel like. Well, let me say, I don't remember the actual names. Joe was played by Tim Daly. Oh, yeah. And then Brian played by Steven, what's Brian's name? Steven-- I forget his last name. Steven Weber. Steven Weber. Yeah, I like the younger brother, I guess. The crazier one. Here, I don't-- The crazier one. Speaking of Superman, the animated series from 1990s, Tim Daly did Superman's voice. Oh, I actually knew that. And he originally had auditioned to do Batman's voice from the animated series, but to get the party. Yeah. He's very good at Superman. Wow, that's awesome. Pulling it all together. Yeah. That would have been the move. But I will say this, there was the premiere of the made for TV sequel to the Omen, the Omen 4, The Awakening, was on that night, which is a terrible movie. Well worth watching, Fae Grant is in it. It's pretty, pretty dire, but it's sort of entertaining in a weird way. And also, Creepshow is on, which is a classic movie. But I probably would have gone with Wings 8.30. What do you go with? Well, Comic View. Comic View on BET. Yeah. Doesn't say who was on it. Did you frequently watch that? No, I just, you know, I'd probably like whoever's on it. Like, I was a huge fan of like the Def Jam comedy of like the '90s. I just think it's funny. For a second. I don't think it's like good bits or anything. I knew you were going to say Def Jam Comedy, but you said, I was a huge fan of The Def. Oh, The Def? Yeah. Big fan of The Def. Like, I enjoyed The Def as well. Yeah. Speaking of Def Comedy, Jimmy, you passed up the debut of Stand of Comedian Steve Harvey's sitcom Me and the Boys at 8.30 with Wayne Collins. Not the best show. Yeah, I don't even know that. I don't like Steve Harvey. I would have gone. I enjoyed him in the original King's a comedy. Oh, I actually-- I never saw that. That's really good. But I heard he had like the best set. He does have a very good set. No, that would be a really good set. It's highly entertaining. He's actually not bad as a family feud host either. Yeah? Yeah, he's-- He's the current host, right? He's the current host. He's seen him a couple times. I think he's better than Louis Anderson. Yeah, Louis Anderson was rough. Yeah. And then there was the guy that hanged himself, also a Stand of Comedian former host of Family Toss. Yeah, I remember that guy. And then there was also Al Bundy. Ed O'Neal? Yeah, he-- No, Ed O'Neal didn't host-- No, not Al Bundy, sorry. Al, not Al Bundy, Al from Home Improvement. Yes, yes, yes. Richard Kern or something. Oh, yes. Yeah, then it's Kern. Yes, he was-- Carn. Carn, Richard Kern? Yeah, that's it. Richard Kern is an '80s underground New York sort of punk pornography film director. OK. God, it would be very weird if he-- What if it's the same guy? Yeah, he directed a movie with Henry Rollins in it and Lydia Luncheon, which you see all of them. Wow. Yeah. So if you ever wanted to see Henry Rollins, Team Ulfed. [LAUGHTER] Richard Kern movie. And then before that was Richard Dawson, who was the best. He's in The Running Man. Have you ever seen that? Have you never seen The Running Man? Oh, you'd like The Running Man. Highly recommend The Running Man. Directed by a former star of Starksky and Hutch. I at 8.30 would have gone with Martin's short show, which was no pun intended short lived. Yeah. This was a great show. I can see it. Steve Martin, guest star. Jen Hooks was on it. Jacey Ann Key and Gene Keesom. Kacey Keesom was on it. I mean, who doesn't want to watch Kacey Keesom on a sitcom? Yeah. 9 o'clock, what'd you go with? Home improvement. Hated home improvement? One of my least favorite sitcoms. Did you like it? Or did you just watch it because it was there? Here's the thing, like for some reason, like, I wasn't even crazy about it, but I always just watched it. Just, yeah, probably just because it was there. Here's the test. If it was on now, would you watch it? No. No. So it wasn't-- No, great. I don't know. Just back then, I would just watch it. I don't know. And at this time, I would have just gone with MTV. So I didn't have to watch it. They would just show on videos. Well, they'd show on 9.30? Yeah, at 9.30, no question. I'm going with the John Larra Cat Show. Yeah, what is it? John Larra, what did you pick, first of all? I picked Korean news and culture. You picked Korean news and culture? Instead of the John Larra Cat Show. It's the broad in my horizons. Do you know John Larra Cat? No, I didn't-- Do you ever watch a night court? No. Have you ever seen Chuck? No. Do you watch the show, Chuck? Like, the current show? Well, it ended about three years ago. OK, yeah. Have you ever seen "Almost Human," the new show, the show that's currently running? Have you ever seen the movie "Blind Date?" Who's in there? John Larra Cat. [LAUGHTER] John Larra Cat's one of my-- What does he look like? He's a tall, very tall guy, very booming voice, very well-spoken silver hair. So what was his show? Was it a talk show? No. The John Larra Cat Show is one of the best sitcoms of all time. And actually, Dan Harmon, do you ever watch community? Yeah. Dan Harmon, who created community, started as a writer on the John Larra Cat Show. I believe it was his first job. And so the John Larra Cat Show was a very dark, very funny sitcom where John Larra Cat, who, in real life, is an alcoholic, former alcoholic, plays a recovering alcoholic who is now trying to get his life back together. And the only job he can get is the night manager of a really depressing bus station. And it's a really dark show. That's interesting. It's a really great show. Lenny Clark was in it as a cop, secretly gay cop. And my theory is, I don't think he knew that the writers wrote him as a gay cop, but they did. And-- [LAUGHTER] Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, that's very interesting. It was a very good show. However, this is the second season where they tried to lighten it up a little bit, because the first season was so grim. And they put them on the day shift. They got rid of the hooker. It's a little less good, but it's still a pretty good show. So I definitely would have gone with that. You also-- It was on NBC, as Night Court was. John Larkett actually won. He may still have the record for the most Emmys for a comedy series, the best supporting role, to the point where he asked them to stop nominating him. Wow, really? Yeah, it's a class act, John Larkett. How long did that last? How long did the John Larkett show us? Two seasons. But for Night Court-- Oh, for Night Court. Which was on for nine seasons, he kept playing. John Larkett. He's in the movie Stripes. You ever see Stripes? He's in that movie. He's a small role. He's also in Meatballs 2, if you've seen Meatballs 2, with Meathead. I think I've seen Meatballs. We've all seen Meatballs. See, Meatballs 2 is the Terminator 2 of the Meatballs movie. It's much better than the original Meatballs. Really? Yeah, oh, I enjoy it much, much more. And I'll-- Terminator 2, way better. See, here's my two unpopular opinions. First of all, I actually think Terminator is better than Terminator 2, because the original Terminator is sort of a scrappy appeal to it. That's much better than the overblown boringness of Terminator 2, and also the plot of Terminator, negates the need for Terminator 2. However, I will say that my two unpopular opinions are Meatballs 2, better than the original Meatballs, and Catty Shack 2 is better than the first Catty Shack. That's crazy, isn't it? That's the craziest thing about that, right? Is that crazy? Would it be crazy if I told you I had two copies of Catty Shack 2 so I could loan one to people? That wouldn't surprise me. That part's actually not true. That part's actually not true, but I do enjoy Catty Shack 2. Why? It's just stupid. It's so dumb. But so is the first one. It's the first one, but the first one I feel like is-- I don't know. They're both not great movies. The second one has some pretty funny stuff in it. It's the first one is just like, I don't know, like Rodney Dangerfield and the first one is just classic. You don't think he's funny in that? Yeah, everything he says. I don't think that the first one isn't funny, but I just prefer the second one. I almost argue with people that Catty Shack the first one might be the best comedy ever. No, absolutely not. What do you think is? The best comedy ever? Yeah. Probably my favorite comedy of all time is "Real Genius." "Real Genius"? You ever seen "Real Genius"? You need to see "Real Genius." Yeah, that'll take a look at that one. See "Real Genius," it's fantastic. Great movie. Moving on. Catty Shack 2, though. I almost can't get over that. It's a pretty good movie. Oh, no, it's not. Well neither is the first one. It's like that horrible Italian guy or whatever he is. That's like-- Jackie Mason? Yeah, what was he supposed to be in there? He's the most Jewish person of all time. He's not-- he's Jewish in that movie? He has less times hard tuning. That's Jewish? I don't know, it sounds Armenian. Yeah, that's why I thought he was like some kind of-- But Jackie Mason can't play someone not Jewish. It's Jackie Mason. He had a terrible sitcom called "Chicken Soup." That was really, really bad. Let's just move on, because I don't think we're going to agree on anything here. "Wednesday Night," 8 o'clock. What do you go with? I went with Cosby Mysteries. Cosby Mysteries, not a very popular Cosby series. Yeah, I actually never seen it before. So this was "The Debut," a lighthearted hoo-donut focusing on retired forensic specialist Guy Hanks, played by Bill Cosby. What a name. Yeah. Guy Hanks. Who's easily lured back into action. In the "Opener Hanks" probes of multi-million dollar lottery winners, a parent's suicide, James Naughton and Rita Moreno were guest stars in this episode. Not a great show. Cosby didn't have the best track record in the '90s. I liked all of Cosby-- the original Bill Cosby show. The Cosby show is great. Cosby show is great. I loved the original Bill Cosby show. I loved-- what was the spy show that he was on? It was a cop show. Oh my god, I'm blanking. But that was in the '60s. And I didn't like Cosby Mysteries. I didn't like just Cosby Mysteries. Was that like-- did you say that was the premiere? That was the premiere of Cosby Mysteries. Didn't last very long. It was a one-hour-- it was a really emergency road. Father Dowling Mysteries. I would have given it a chance. Yeah. The premiere, Bill Cosby. I mean, I don't know. Check it out. I would have checked it out. I love Bill Cosby. Oh, I love Bill Cosby. Because he says it's funny to me. Yeah, I love Bill Cosby. I could watch him do anything. That being said-- What did I miss? What did I miss? Because shit, I always miss something. I would have gone with Creepshow, too. It was episodic, so I could have watched the first hour of it, seen two of the sections, and not missed anything when I switched over at 9 o'clock. So 8.30, you didn't have to pick anything, even though Japan's business weekly was on. If you wanted to watch that, to complete your occasion. No, I just want to learn about Korea. Fair enough, fair enough. 9 o'clock, what do you go with? A diehard. Diehard. On the USA network, it was the basic cable premiere of Diehard. It's not a bad movie. It's more of a Christmas movie. It is a Christmas movie. A little weird to watch in September. Yeah, gearing up for the Christmas season. Shocked, that you passed up Roseanne. Really? Yes. I don't know. I wasn't crazy about Roseanne. It's one of the best sitcoms of all time. You really like it? I love Roseanne. See, I didn't like it as a kid for some reason, so I never gave it a chance as an adult, but I saw like five minutes of it. Maybe when I like-- Joss who years ago was a writer? Judd Apatow was a writer on that show. Two men that pretty much were in charge of all movies and television that are good in the last 15 years. None of that. It's a great, great show. This is the seventh season opener. Crowd conditions in the Connor house have Dan itching to give Becky a mark the boot so he can have some privacy. But Roseanne is news that complicates things. She's pregnant. That's what it is. It doesn't see it in here. Wow. But she did have a baby. This is sort of the downside of Roseanne for the last three seasons, but still a pretty quality show. I definitely would have watched that. However, I would have been very tempted by the debut of a new show called Models Inc. What is that? It was about models. That's pretty much it. That's about a bunch of models. Julie Frigos Europe to help David form his own agency, but Sarah is excluded from their raid on Hillary's models. Adam hires Eric for his bar and Monique for an evening. Linda gets an offer from Chris's father, Kerry visits a plastic surgeon, and Sarah visits the pokey. Yeah, a lot going on. Isn't that an hour? That's an hour show, yeah. I love models, but not in a lecherous way. I was a huge fan of House of Style. I used to follow who the fashion models were. I had subscriptions to Vogue and Interview. Why? I just love models. I don't know why. No idea why. Like, you love their beauty, or you just love what they do? Both. I don't know. The world of high fashion supermodels was very intriguing tonight. That's crazy. It is a little weird. Yeah. I'm 100% straight, but for some reason, it was obsessed with models. Did you watch, like, America's Next Top models? I did for the first season. And when they had it, actually, I was working at a local TV station at the time that was in a UPN affiliate, and we had the tryouts in our building when I worked there. And I just felt so bad, because I was like, you, you, you, you, and the next 100 just leave. Yeah. Yeah, you're going to-- you set yourself on time. You got no chance. You got no chance, no chance. So at 8, I mean, 9.30, at the very least, I would have watched the second half of "Model Zinc," because the only other choices were, rerun to the Bob Newhart Show, or Ellen. But what did you go with? Nothing, because you're watching die-hard. I'm still watching die-hard. You're watching die-hard. So you missed out on Ellen. Not one of my favorite shows. This is when Jolie Fisher joined the cast. I liked it sort of towards the end of the series, where Bruce Campbell was in the cast. Very, very cool. I've never seen Ellen. It's not a bad sitcom. The Christmas episode, again, with Joe Flaherty, one of my favorites. What's interesting is they'd grow Zann and Ellen back-to-back. Because they were stand-ups, is that right? Because they're like female stand-ups with the first names being the titles. But that was, at this time, there were so many sitcoms based around stand-up comedians. The '90s was the absolute ground zero for stand-ups. Su Costello had our own. Oh, yeah. It was something called Costello. Seinfeld Tom Rhodes had a sitcom called Mr. Rhodes. There were so many people-- Grace Under Fire was a sitcom with Brett Butler. There was a lot of stand-ups, especially female stand-ups at this time having sitcoms. That's a good point. Yeah, it was just-- Mad about you. Mad about you, Paul Reiser. Paul Reiser. A little bit later, everybody loves Raymond. Yeah. It was Drew Carey's show. Yeah. Yeah, there was a lot. The '90s was very stand-up-centric for sitcoms. Man, that's too bad. That happened, or that doesn't happen anymore? That doesn't happen anymore. Well, you know, there's other good TV out there. It was like, if I was to stand up in the late '80s, they would have given me some great tune. Oh, you're absolutely right. I would have had a craft show when I had the show. Well, let's pitch your show. What would have been the premise of your show? Pitch my show? Yeah. It probably would have been like, I'm like a slacker stoner that works for my dad's Peach of Shop or something. OK, OK. So it's a reality series? Living in a Greek family. Yeah, basically. Why did you do a reality series before reality TV really? You could pitch that as a reality show now like it might get made. Yeah. You just need to come up with a punny title, and you're good. It's true. Like, it's all Greek to me. Yeah. Like, perfect. To have my arm struggling. Thursday night, 8 o'clock. What do you go with? Martin. Hated Martin. Yeah, I had a feeling you were going to say that. But speaking of stand-ups having shows-- Exactly. --is not what we were going to do. We were going to get to that. It's not a funny show. I don't know why I just thought it was like-- I thought it was like so dumb that I just laughed at it. Like, I don't know. I just thought it was funny. So you passed up Mad About You, which is a great, great, great show. Timelessly good, so-- I almost picked Mad About You. But I feel like everybody would pick Mad About You. No, here's what everybody would have picked. And here's definitely what I would have gone with. It's 1994. I'm 14 years old. This show was my exact age group, my exact show, my so-called life, Hands Down, Thursday nights. What is it? Oh, dear God, Chris. My so-called life was one of the greatest teenage television series of all time. What channel? It was on NBC. I mean, ABC, it starred Claire Daines. I would say this, I think that my so-called life captures the feel of where and when I grew up better than any other show. It takes place in a Pittsburgh suburb, but could very well be the suburbs around here. It's angsty without being silly. It's very funny. It's sad. It's well written. It was a former writer for the show "30 Something" which you may have heard of. It was an excellent show. It was canceled prematurely. MTV ran it all summer that year, and it became a huge hit after it was canceled. Really? I loved it a bit less. 13 episodes? Wow, really? So just like one season or two? Not even a full season. Wow. But a great, great, great, great show has a huge cult audience today. And I will also mention, I was a freshman in high school when the show came out. I only had one crush my entirety of high school, and she sat next to me in history class, and we discussed my so-called life every Friday, which I was like the only person watching it, and that made it all the better. Every Friday, so for every Friday, for 13 weeks? I had something to talk about. You had something? Yeah. Exactly. Exactly, it's something to talk to her about. Really great show. I'd be curious to see what you think of it as an adult, having not seen it as a teenager, but it's probably one of the best teenage centric shows. Did you watch "Freeks and Geeks"? Yes. It was like a less comedic "Freeks and Geeks." Interesting. Set in that sort of alt-rock era of 1994. But a very good show. So I spoke to you. Absolutely, absolutely. Still did not kiss a girl until I was nearly 18. It did not help me out there, but it gave me hope at the time. It gave me hope at the time. 8.30, what do you go with? I have to just go with friends. No. Yeah, I don't even really like friends, but I didn't see what else was really on it. There's "Living Single," the show that friends ripped off. Yeah, I thought about putting "Living Single" down, but I never actually seen an episode. Oh, "Living Single" was very good. That was good? Yeah, see, I'd be watching my so-called life, so I wouldn't have watched "Living Single" here. But I did watch it the year before that, and later when my so-called life sadly was canceled. But it came out before "Friends." It was very similar to "Show to Friends," except with an all-black cast. And then I think was pretty much ripped off by "Friends." So let's say that. That's interesting. This is a very good episode. A hard-headed max stews over his less-than-desirable reinstatement at the law firm, while overton in the regime suspects sinister going on involving an elderly neighbor. Richard Grant's in this episode. Queen Latifo is on the show. Yeah, at Kim Fields from "Faxillife," did you ever watch "Faxillife?" And Kim Coles from the first season of "The Living Color." Really great show, far better than "Friends." I think you made the wrong decision here. Twice, 'cause you weren't watching my so-called life. Yeah, all right. "Friends," this was the first episode of "Friends," by the way. So you watched the debut of "Friends." OK, you know. I'm given a chance. Two people from Boston in "Friends," do you know who they are? Really? Yep. He's thinking. I'm thinking his feet. The two mats. Oh, really? That look like a Matthew Perry or both from "The Boston Area." I didn't know that. Yep. I was going to guess Chandler and Phoebe. Yeah, well, you'd be half-right. I'll be half-right. Also, 9 o'clock. What do you got? 9 o'clock, Seinfeld. Yep, I think that's the move. Yeah, it's a half-day. Season 6 opener. This is a great episode. That was the move. That's the only one I would have made. There's really no other choices at that time. 9.30, what do you go with? Now, this was interesting. I couldn't really find anything. So I want to catch this movie I've never seen. So I'll start some of it at Annabelle and Steves. That is a 2T movie. Is it? So-- Well, they're perfect. Yes. Listen as the drama. This stars Maxwell Caulfield, who you may know from Empire Records. He had a short role in that TV guide only gives it one star. Let's read what Animal Instincts is all about. This is, I should mention, on Showtime. Not quite cinemas. Animal Instincts, from 1992, has strong language and sexual situations. Oh, yeah. A couple engage in voyeurism and blackmail. Wow. Maxwell Caulfield, Jan Michael Vincent, Mitch Gaylord, and Shannon Worry, one star, not a good movie. Right, I'll definitely add boobs in it, though. Whoa, that's a pretty good boob. So you chose that over the debut of Dabney Coleman's fourth failed television series, Mad Man of the People. And Dabney Coleman just couldn't catch a break. The guy couldn't break. This was his fourth failed series after Drexel's class. In this series, Dabney Coleman placed Jack Madman Buckner, an egocentric magazine columnist whose new young publisher also happens to be his own daughter, played by Cynthia Gibb, and the opener father and daughter Lock Horns when Meg decides to fire Jack's best friend. Not a great show, really not that good of a show. And also very similar to his show Buffalo Bill, which was two, three shows prior to that, that was also a failure. So Animal Instinct takes you well into the night that night. Oh, yeah. So let's move on to Friday. The final night of our TV guide week, eight o'clock. What do you go with? Family Matters. Family Matters, the linchpin of TGIF at this time. TGIF. An absolutely terrible show, only gotten a lot of spiders. Yeah, yeah. Great, great show. This is a Stefan Erkel episode. The first? No, not the first, even worse. This is when the show became all about Erkel. And became completely ridiculous. Actually, yeah, it started getting rougher. A really, really bad show. Let's say the six season opener finds Erkel still sporting his suave Stefan persona. But when Karl uses the transformation chamber to improve his vision, it's nerd at first sight. Oh, Karl, because of nerd. How awful. There's a transfer, yeah. Once you start doing sci-fi and two sitcoms. There was an episode where Steve Erkel became Bruce Lee. He used to take out other people's DNA and mix it with his own-- That is to get awful. Yeah, go into his chamber. Once a television show uses the plot of getting hit on the head or using science in some way to turn into a different version of oneself, it's a terrible show. But I liked it early on. And also, I'm going to stand by that theme song as being one of the best theme songs. Do you remember what the original theme song of it was? The original theme. Yes. Oh, it was like a well-known song. Was what a wonderful word? Yeah, but I was-- Yes. Yeah. Now, I would have gone with the debut of Mantis, which was an action-adventure show. A crazed genius employs a robot to exact revenge on those who foiled his plans to engineer a race of super-soldiers. I mean, come on. That does sound pretty good. How great does that sound? That was an hour show. At 8.30, I'm guessing you just parked it on TJF all night. Oh, yeah. Four meets world. This boy meets world. Was that here in my social life? Yeah, that was like mine. This is when the show was still good. It was in season two. It started to get really bad the season after that. Oh, yeah. It started getting really bad as soon as like-- It became sort of a "Friends Rip Off" at the moment. Yeah, when they, like, grew up-- Oh, when they were getting married. When they were getting married, college, that was just garbage. Yes. So good. But when Corey was still a little kid, it was good. This is season two. Corey's first day of high school where he faces the wrath of the school bully and meets a cool teacher. Oh, yeah. Cool teacher looks a lot like comedian Gary Elmer. Yes, he does. Who was it, like Jonathan? Anthony Tyler Quinn was the cool teacher. Oh, that's who it was. What was his name in the show? I forget what his name was in the show. But they look very similar. His name was like Jonathan something. Something like that, yeah. 9 o'clock. Who was the bully? Harley Kiner, most of them. The big fat kid? No. It's Danny McNulty. I don't remember what the character's name was. Danny McNulty. That's the actor. I don't remember what the character's name was though. You're letting me down here. I think it's Harley Kiner. You don't have Harley Kiner? Yeah, I'll be looking for him later and make people know. No, I'm pretty sure it was. I had to then. 9 o'clock, Friday night. What are you going with? Step by step. Awful. Yeah, probably the worst TGIF one show. When I was in elementary school, I stapled my weeks around watching TGIF, and I just watched-- Did you meet up with your friends on Saturday and talk about what happened on TGIF the night before? Was it big school? No, I didn't really talk about it with-- Did you talk about TV at school with your friends? No. Actually, to be honest, did you guys talk about sports? No, really, yes, sports. Did you trade lunches? No. You know what I was-- You were like, I got Spanner Copa-ed up. And they were like, I just have a lunchable. No, I'd either buy my lunch or I'd have like a lunch from like the sub shop. So why would I trade that out? Oh, because you'd have an agenda on the sub shop. What kind of sub would you usually get? I like whatever I wanted. So you didn't get like some people didn't pick up or like, day old subs? Oh, no, no, just whatever I wanted that. That's pretty good. Yeah, bring me home like an Italian sub for lunch tomorrow. That's like a Nickelodeon contest. Like, sub shop subs for a year. Wow, no wonder you weren't talking about TV. All the kids hated you, because you had sub shop food up. Oh, actually, yeah, definitely. Did they say anything to you about it? Did they try to steal your lunch? No. Were you in the-- No, actually, yeah. I was never bullied or anything. Like, no, no, no. You were a big kid? I guess I was a big kid. I was like, fat. That's what you mean. I still feel they were like, let the food-- Yeah, but I can't have a sub. I can't eat a sub. Do you think that Italian subs have the same exact odor as BO? That's a good question. As Italian people, BO, baby. So well, because that always felt like BO and Italian subs were the identical smell. Like, they ran out of smells at one point. And I was like, just reuse one. Yeah. It's fine. That's very funny, though. It's a philosophical question. Yeah. It's chicken in the egg. Yeah, I don't know what came first. So at 9 o'clock, you went with step-by-step. This is the season four opener. Mark Fears, he'll never lose his wimpy reputation after a karate instructor kicks him out of class, but Cody steps in to help him. Cody is actually a martial artist. Yes. He was in the kid marks of the movies. Yeah, and I actually-- Yeah, I remember this episode. I like this episode. Well, I like Cody. Personally. Everybody like Cody. I hate Cody. Why not? He was in a van. Oh, he's such an asshole. He's a moron. You like dumb guys? Yeah. Oh, it's entertaining. I know Doug. And he wasn't that-- didn't he have some kind of kickboxing movie? Yeah, he was in kickboxer 3 and 4. And he also beat his girlfriend and went to jail 4. Yeah, I was going to say, is he in jail still? Yeah. I'd like to think he is, but I don't think he is. Yeah. Cody. Cody. I definitely, without a doubt, Friday night, 14 years old, not talking to girls, definitely would have been watching the X-Files, as I did every Friday night. Big fan of the X-Files. This is a great episode. A corpse in a sewer and an attack on a sewer worker who subsequently dies are attributed to a human-sized parasite and the case leads officials to rethink the closing of the X-Files. This is Flukeman. It's a very famous episode amongst fans of the show. The Flukeman episode is very, very good. This would have been a great night. I would have watched Viper and Flukeman. Wow. What a good night. So that is the whole week, Chris. 9.30. Oh, what'd you go to 9.30? Sorry. That's my whole week. The end of that was our Euro week. That's my whole week. The end of T-G-I-F, which is Hangin, Mr. Cooper. Mr. Cooper, Holly Robinson of 21 Jump Street fame. Another stand of comedian, Mr. Cooper there, played by Mark Curry. This is the third season opener. Mark shot at a head coaching job fall short when he doesn't return PJ's phone calls and Geneva and Vanessa wrangle over designer jeans. Doesn't sound too good to me. The X-Files was probably a better move at that point. But you're on T-G-I-F? You're on T-G-I-F? Seven-year-old Chris, like-- Watching T-G-I-F. Yeah, Mr. Cooper is a cool guy. I will also mention that USA, up all night, was on that night at 11 o'clock. I like to just mention what the movie was. It was a pinnacle of boobs. And that is the movie Rush Week, a murderer stocks co-eds. 11 p.m., USA Network. So, Chris, that is the end of the week. And normally, TV Guide, as we know, does not just inform us. It is opinionated. It cheers and it jeers. However, this particular issue does not have cheers and jeers due to the oversized nature of the fall preview, glossiness, and the beginning of the Guide, which has a whole write-up in my so-called life, which I highly recommend you read at some point. So, if you had to write your own cheer, your own cheer based on this week of TV, what do you got? All right. So, like, give me an example of a cheer and a jeer from another thing. So, I would say, like, cheers to my so-called life for being the best show of all time. Or jeers to step by step for being awful. Yeah, all right, all right. So, I'm going to give a cheers. I'm going to give it to wings. Just for being great. Just for being great. All right, cheers to wings. I really think that's an extremely underrated show. It is. It is. It has many people got it too. It's a great show. It's a great show. It's a really great show. And what would you like to jeer? I would like to jeer. It's a lot of power here. It's a tough call. This is a tough call. I might have to go with Cosby Mysteries, because I-- Good move. I had never seen it. And I was like, I'm going to give us one a chance, but then, upon your synopsis of it-- Not worth it. I think it's not worth it. Not worth it. Take that a jeer, though. Take that real Cosby. The Cosby. Take that. Well, Chris. It's about time somebody took Bill Cosby down a couple of pegs. Too good. It's too long. Yeah, oh, yeah. Well, thank you for being on the TV guidance counselor. I appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me. That was great. Thank you. Good times. [MUSIC PLAYING] In there you go, Chris D. Not the Christie from the punk rock band The Flesh Eaters. Although I would happily do an episode with him. He is a film historian and an interesting guy. If you don't own The Flesh Eaters record a minute to pray a second to die, you are doing yourself a disservice. It's a great LA punk record on slash records. But anyway, that has nothing to do with this other than that. It's both Christie's. So that was Christie. This is the TV guidance counselor, Boston Marathon, in which I am releasing many, many episodes today. I doubt anyone is listening to them all in one day. But if you are, let me know. And I will send you a prize of some sort on our system. That's-- I trust you. Anyway, I'll see you again next time, be it immediately if you'll download the next episode or Wednesday or whenever you get to this on TV guidance counselor. [MUSIC PLAYING] Maybe I only did it like three times because my friend had it at his house. Oh, I know the penis. Yeah, have you ever seen it? Yes, I have, yeah. Would you ever try that? I would, I think.
