Formative TV Experience No. 11: Blues for the Toddler Soul
Here's a clip I remember from when I was a kid -- not one from 'Sesame Street' itself but from the equally wonderful 'The Electric Company.'
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Know Your V History: Sternbergh on the Original Miniseries
Clearly the most ambitious, daring, and artistically successful three-and-a-half-hour Holocaust-allegory-featuring-evil-lizard-people show that’s ever aired on TV.
Formative TV Experience No. 10: The Balls of Leather Tuscadero
Late-seventies television was, with a few exceptions, a wasteland for teen girls.
Formative TV Experience No. 9: The Day After the Day After
Maybe I'm still a little shook up from our long national silver-balloon nightmare yesterday, but I got PTSD-ish flashbacks re-watching this excerpt from The Day After, the Very Scary and Important Television Event of 1983.
Formative TV Experience No. 8: Fuzzy-Haired Creative Basketcases
When I originally watched 'Thirtysomething,' I glossed right over the themes about stay-at-home moms, marital stress, the ad biz, etc. No, I was about to graduate from college, so I consumed the show instead as one massive tone poem about the lives of Melissa and Ellyn, the single chicks in the ensemble.
Formative TV Experience No. 7: Chariots of Eggs
I still love 'SCTV,' but rewatching those skits, many seem oddly airless, parodying things about TV that aren't even around anymore.
Formative TV Experience No. 6: Paul Gross in Slings and Arrows
So, as long as I'm obsessing about how awful 'Eastwick' is, I thought I'd fill you guys in on how great Paul Gross is in 'Slings and Arrows.'
Formative TV Experience No. 5: Magic Is Fun — When You’re Dead!
This terrifying commercial appeared on television when I was at a formative age.
Formative TV Experience No. 4: A Devilish Fantasy
"You are about to lose your eternal soulllll ... "
Formative TV Experience No. 3: Just Dance
I hold a special place in my heart for this ecstatic scene in 'My So-Called Life.'
Formative TV Experience No. 2: Haverchuck Watches Garry Shandling
A clip both both gross and poignant.
Formative TV Experiences: A Confessional
One of the single best moments of my life was seeing Kimberly rip off her wig on 'Melrose Place.'
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