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Favourite '90s TV shows?
jhocking:
--- Quote from: keyoung ---Square One.
I actually think this one's late-80s early-90s.
Please tell me I'm not the only one here who remembers Square One. Sometimes I think my best friend and I are the only people who have heard of the show. My favorite segments were always Dirk Niblick and the Math Brigade and Mathnet (Dragnet spoof).
As a kid I was only allowed to watch a half-hour of TV each day and both of my parents are mathematicians so it was pretty much predetermined that that half-hour would be Square One (which was OK with me since I loved the show).
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Oh my god, I do know that show. At first I was thinking "nope, never heard of it," but then you referred to math and it all came flooding back. Back in Korea there was only one channel of American television, the Air Force network, and Square One was shown on it.
Damn, now that I'm thinking of it there were a lot of science nerd shows I liked to watch. Of course Contact is the grand-daddy of the bunch, but my fave was Newton's Apple. Later on, Beakman's World was funny for a few episodes, but got irritating fast.
*suddenly wishes I got TLC*
*is also wondering if Junkyard Wars is still around*
keyoung:
I loved Newton's Apple! It was always on immediately after Square One and once in awhile I could convince my mom to let me watch another half hour of TV. My favorite was the episode where they took appart an escalator to show how it worked.
I only vaguely remember Contact and don't think I ever saw Beakman's World. When my younger sister was little she always watched Bill Nye the Science Guy which was pretty meh compared to Newton's Apple.
Whatever happened to good educational programming? I don't know of any shows like these on today. (Of course, I also watch PBS in the afternoons a lot less than I used to).
jhocking:
--- Quote from: keyoung ---Whatever happened to good educational programming? I don't know of any shows like these on today. (Of course, I also watch PBS in the afternoons a lot less than I used to).
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Just last week I was reading the rotten.com entry on Mr. Rogers, and how he single-handedly saved educational programming/public television with his earnest 6-minute senate testimony.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/fred-rogers/
Once upon a time people cared.
RedLeather:
I dunno, if this counts...but, back when i was living in NZ, my dad had a dish that got exclusively american shows...and i dunno if this was the 90's per say but does anybodyu remember Bill Nye, the Science guy? He made my life so much better...-HIdes back in her box-
Tomservo:
--- Quote from: SpacemanSpiff ---
--- Quote from: ephemere ---
--- Quote from: negative creep ---...but still, there was nothing better in the 90s...
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EXCUSE ME
DID I NOT JUST SAY SAVED BY THE FRIGGING BELL
DID I NOT JUST SAY THAT
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Well, the problem here is: We live in Germany and that stuff never aired here, so there. And if it aired, I have no idea what it was called.
Plus I maintain that Sending mit der Maus is still better.
Also, if Futurama counts, I'm so including it. I don't own all Futurama DVD sets for nothing here.
Edit: Here's why it's better:
The elephant is helping the mouse because the elephant's the mouse's best friend. Can your weird ass American TV series beat that? I THINK NOT.
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I saw that show in my German Class, and there was a part where they showed us how these didlo shaped eggs were made. Do you Germans actually eat those things?
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