What Piece Of Pop Culture Did You HATE As A Kid?

 

Archie Wood And Friends

 

You know what I am talking about. These are shows that you were forced to watch either against your choice or because of circumstance. I grew up at a time when I didn't watch TV for five years because we had no English language TV where we lived. I listened to a lot of Armed Forces Radio instead. You got a good education on every kind of music and talk just through all that exposure to variety.

 

 

When we returned to Canada we only had 13 channels. But one of the programs that was still on Winnipeg CKY TV was a kids cartoon show called Archie Wood and Friends. There was a bad ventriloquist and his freaky puppet and a dog puppet that he manipulated and did the voices, badly, for. Worst ventriloquist EVER.

 

They camera guys would fuck with Uncle Bob and show his lips moving all the time. He actually put out an album of him doing his signature song 'Doggy In The Window'. Well he wouldn't sing but would have the puppet lipsynch the original song. It was a nightmare.

  

He also had a mouse puppet that would sing along to Glen Campbell's 'Rhinestone Cowboy' (don't ask). The Mouse puppet even wrote with a marker in his mouth. Kids copied him and one child had a pen go through the top of his mouth...or so was the urban myth in my childhood circle.

The only redeeming feature about this abomination of a kid's show was that they played Hanna-Barbara cartoons - the good ones - like Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. But they sure put us through a ton of shit just to get to the good stuff.

 

They would also show gruesome safety films about looking both ways before crossing the road lest you die. I am not kidding, they showed a bloody kid being taken away by an ambulance. The 'cautionary tale' about not playing on roadside snowdrifts was particularly gruesome too.

 

There was NOTHING fun about FUN TOWN.

 

The Banana Splits

 

 

Oh Lord don't get me started on The Banana Splits. They were the weakest ass characters on the weakest ass show EVER! Their segments were lame, the live action serialized drama was weird, the cartoons were weird. Everything felt OFF. Even their names are stupid and right now I am thankful I can't remember what they were. 

 

 

 

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny (funny? That is debatable) animal characters. The costumed hosts of the show were Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects).

 

I never had the illusion that any of these NUMNUTS actually played their own music. Their songs made the Archies look like The Beatles.

 

 

The series was produced by Hanna-Barbara Productions, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968 to September 5, 1970.

 

The series costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft and the series' sponsor was Kellogg's Cereals. The series featured both live action and animated segments and is Hanna-Barbera’s first foray into mixing live action with animation.

 

What kind of fuckin' creatures were The Banana Splits anyways? I think one is suppose to be black and if that is true it's a racist portrayal even for the 70s.

 

 

I know what a Teletubby is supposed to be but these guys leave me clueless. I had a cousin who loved this show especially the bad pirate show and would control the channels. I hated to have to sit through this crap to get to something else, ANYTHING ELSE.

 

I also hate the overenthusiastic laugh track to cover the lame jokes.

 

I would rather eat the thrirty cents than use the coins to purchase these comics.

 

The Banana Splits - GAH!

 

 

I put this out as a suggestion to a future League of Extraordinary Bloggers post topic but I just did one so I will let someone else have a turn. I just know I would be interested in what answers other people would give to that question.