I was checking out "Long Live the Message" http://themessageshow.blogspot.com/ when I noticed a post for "What We Grew Up On." It made me think off all those things I miss from when I was a kid. Like this:
1. The Super Friends. I got up early one morning a few years ago to watch my favorite Saturday morning cartoons, and they were gone! Of course, I can't even remember when I last watched them - probably before I got my first job at 15, which was "mmhmm-muffle-muffle" years ago. (Pay attention. If you really want to know my age, you'll probably figure it out)
As an only slightly related aside, did you know that San Francisco has a Hall of Justice? I guess it has a jail and superior court's criminal division, but everytime I pass it, all I can think of is..."Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice." from the Super Friends. It never fails to make me laugh (or at least giggle.)
2. Other Great Saturday morning standbys - Bugs Bunny/Road Runner, and Fat Albert (maybe Fat Albert didn't come on Saturday mornings, but I can't imagine when else I would have been watching it. Maybe Saturday afternoon instead?)
3. The Bionic Woman - as much as I loved Wonder Woman, Jaime Sommers was my girl. She wasn't super cool like some superheros. She wasn't an Amazon. She wasn't born with superpowers, and I loved that she was stronger than she looked. She was just ordinary - if you didn't count the bionic legs, arm and ear and the fact that she was a tennis pro before she became a schoolteacher. Plus, you could make all sorts of sound effects when you pretended to be her. That was the best. "Chhhh-chhhh-chhh."
More later. Blogger's been giving me fits.
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