TNBC- you so good to me

I've been doing some serious reminiscing tonight. My buddy Troy sent me a link of the Jimmy Fallon show with guest Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who as you may know was/is Zack Morris. He did his interview as Zack Morris. Pretty epic I'd say. This made me revisit the shows that have helped shape me in my most formative years.

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There came an age where it wasn't cool to watch cartoons anymore or at least talk about it with your friends. You no longer wanted to get up at 7am to watch yet another rerun of Garfield & Friends and Bobby's World was a world you became all too familiar with. The ThunderCats animation was falling behind and seriously who could stand to watch Animaniacs for longer than three minutes at a time. During this time some fell into the hapless world of Power Rangers and VR Troopers. Shows I saw as loser shows. Why? Because my friends said so. So what was a pre-pubescent, post-cartoon lad supposed to do? Luckily, the good folks of NBC knew exactly what market they were targeting when unleashing the furious TNBC lineup that couldn't have arrived any sooner. This lineup was the lineup to end all lineups in the lineup world, forever.

If my memory serves me correctly your Saturday morning began at 10am with Saved by the Bell. Do I really have to say anything about this show that hasn't been said already? It was the greatest show with the greatest characters in the world, forever. It was followed up by Hang Time.

Now I never really liked this show but ALWAYS ended up watching it. I remember hearing the intro and singing along to it wondering why the heck this was on. And now I think it was the catchy intro that hooked me into the show. I thought Julie was pretty but of course she was a mere poop in comparison to Kelly Kapowski. And I thought Teddy was a cool dude. But other than that I think I just watched it because I didn't want to miss any of California Dreams.

What a show that was. Tiffani was insanely cute. Sam Woo wasn't. I hated her for replacing Jenny. That "Don't give it uuuup, don't wanna stop" was her part and Sam took it. I wanted to work at Sharkey's because of Tony Wicks and I wanted to sucker punch Sly every episode. I fell in love with each of them for different reasons but most importantly I learned that multi-ethnic bands could exist in a television world full of white people.

Then came NBA Inside Stuff which is a show they should seriously still have. That's all I'll say about that one.

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I was supposed to go to bed early tonight. Ugh.. I still can't believe this all went down 15 years ago. Nuts. Goodnight loves.

PS

I forgot to thank all those who made it out to EURYDICE. Seriously thank you guys SO SO SO much for supporting what I'm doing with my life. Your attendance, feedback and encouragement only pushes me to work harder at what I'm doing. I really love you guys and know that I won't be taking any steps backwards as long as ya'll are always standing behind me.

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