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The Critic (1994)
I hate this show.
I mean, I really HATE this show. All it does is recycle old "Simpsons" jokes in unfunny ways. It even ruins the original "Simpsons" jokes, because when you see them again, it's just a painful reminder of what "The Critic" did to them.
Degrassi Junior High (1987)
No, I'm not related to Linda Schuyler.
The characters on this show had some of the worst problems you could ever imagine... and there weren't that many characters, so everyone had at least 2 or 3 horrible things weighing on their minds. There was the bulimic girl who's mom was an alcoholic. And the guy who fathered Spike's baby and eventually jumped off a bridge because LSD made him do it (this happened on Degrassi High, actually). Then, of course, there was Wheels. It wasn't bad enough that his real parents died in a car accident and his foster parents hated him so much that he ran away. Next thing you know, Wheels is jumping from a moving truck because the driver tried to molest him. But Wheels did co-write the song "Everybody Wants Something", so you know he's had some happy times. Anyway, I love living vicariously through other people's misery, and nothing delivers quite like Degrassi Junior High.
Big Brother Jake (1990)
Sing along with Steinfeld
The episode where Loomis goes away to college (series finale? -- it has that feel) is pretty amazing... it's a musical. It's hard to think of something more disturbing than Jake Steinfeld singing earnestly to Josiah Trager. By far the best episode (of Jake) I ever saw, and I'm proud to say I saw a lot (it came on after Degrassi Junior High, another classic show -- definitely one of my favorite back-to-back hours of TV of all time, though they were on different channels). Anyhow, it's hard to explain why I loved watching this show so much. It had bad acting, unlikable characters, a cliche premise... hey, I guess it wasn't so hard to explain why I liked it after all.
I'm Telling! (1987)
I wish I lived in the isozone
I couldn't agree more with jsdarman. The show is beyond fascinating. Laurie Faso's obvious hatred of children just adds to the fun. My favorite contestant, however, would have to be the boy that said his sister had a "big face" and looked "fa-a-a-a-a-at" in a bikini. Runner-up: the boy who spouted: "My knees?! What's on my knees?!"