When Lynda Carter’s Diana Prince transformed into Wonder Woman, the flash of light changed colors from red to white to blue
When I watched Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman on TV every week as a young child in the 1970s, our family’s TV was black and white, so I had no idea that when Diana Prince transformed into Wonder Woman, the flash of light changed colors from red to white to blue.
The show ran for three seasons. The first season took place during World War II, just like in the comic book. In the early episodes, there was no flash of light during the transformation. The flash of light was eventually added during the middle of season one in order to try to prevent viewers from noticing any inconsistencies in the background during the “before” and “after.”
In order to save money on expensive World War II set pieces, the show was moved to the then present 1970s at the beginning of season two. In order to keep Lyle Waggoner on the show, the Steve Trevor character of the 1940s was replaced with Steve Trevor Jr. in the 1970s, who knew everything about Wonder Woman from having listened to stories that had been told to him by his father.
Plot summaries can be read here. The show is available on DVD. My personal favorite season is three, where a huge number of the plots were campy science fiction stories.
Anyway, here’s every instance of Diana Prince transforming into Wonder Woman from the show:
Season one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O2etMo_Yw
Season two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RzfLXzebs4
Season three:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ecux9dlr-I
Archie Andrews and Veronica Lodge cover Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America” – Riverdale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lspw0yvHlg
Steve Harvey Announces The WRONG Winner of Miss Universe 2015
Steve Harvey made a mistake. Who hasn’t?
What I got from this more than anything else is that Steve Harvey admitted that it was his fault. He showed the audience that the correct winner was on the card, and he said it was entirely his own fault that he said the wrong thing. He didn’t make excuses, and he didn’t try to blame it on someone else. I admire him for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmqAjr0xs04
YouTube now has complete episodes of “The Joy of Painting” with Bob Ross
Here’s the Bob Ross YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/BobRossInc/videos
Here’s the pilot episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh5p5f5_-7A
Liberal Rebecca Watson explains why it’s OK that rich kids will get to see new episodes of Sesame Street nine months before poor kids
In this video, liberal Rebecca Watson praises HBO for funding new episodes of Sesame Street, which it will let PBS air for free after nine months. The number of new episodes produced per year is also getting bigger because of this deal with HBO.
I agree with Ms. Watson that this is a good idea. She admits that rich kids will get to see the new episodes nine months earlier than poor kids, but also says that this is not a problem. I praise her for seeing this as a win-win situation instead of as a class-warfare type thing. I wish more liberals shared her way of thinking.
I myself grew up watching Sesame Street, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and other educational shows on PBS, and I am definitely a better person for having done so. Perhaps this makes me a “bad” libertarian, but I can’t think of any practical reason to oppose government funded public television. In theory, libertarians such as myself are supposed to be against it. But I believe that in this particular case, real world evidence proves that the theory is wrong. The financial cost of public television, as a percentage of the federal budget, has always been trivial, and the educational benefits of public television over the decades have been enormous. I am glad that I, as well as millions of other people, watched it when we were children, and if that required the use of taxpayers’ money, then so be it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_6MS3QDnOI
I really like this new sitcom called “Younger”
There’s a new sitcom on TV-Land called “Younger.” It’s about a 40 year old woman who pretends to be 26.
So far, 12 episodes have aired, which constitutes the entire first season. I watched all 12 episodes at YouTube, and I think this is a wonderful show.
Here’s the first episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdAAbKmJGN8
Daryl Hall and John Oates have just uploaded high quality versions of their music videos to YouTube
You can see them at https://www.youtube.com/user/hallandoatesVEVO/videos
These are much better quality than the VHS recordings that many fans have uploaded over the years.
It’s not a mistake that they uploaded “Jingle Bell Rock” twice – one version has Daryl singing, and the other one has John.
My family got cable with MTV in July 1982. I even remember MTV celebrating its one year anniversary a month later. I though I had seen every Hall and Oates video a huge number of times – but I had no idea that they had videos of songs from their X-Static album. What a pleasant surprise!
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Hilarious new ad for Mentos is done in Monty Python-style!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boWPgICPLQo
Saturday Night Live makes fun of western girls who join ISIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2fazw5Y9k
Bobbi Kristina Brown reminds me of this anti-drug PSA from 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo
Bobbi Kristina Brown Was Using Heroin Prior to Bathtub Incident
February 21, 2015
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the troubled daughter of deceased singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was using heroin and other drugs prior to being found unresponsive and face-down in her bathtub on Jan. 31, People reports.
According to People’s sources, Brown, 21, was “regularly” using heroin, cocaine and Xanax in the months leading up to the incident, as well as drinking heavily.
The bathtub incident bears eerie similarities to Houston’s death at age 48. Houston was found submerged and unconscious in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel prior to her mentor Clive Davis‘ pre-Grammys party. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office later determined that Houston had drowned to death, with heart disease and cocaine use contributing to her death.
Jimmy Fallon impersonates Neil Young, and then the real Neil Young joins him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6otmy3DAK8
Lots of great ideas for new Seinfeld episodes – it if were still being made today
I just discovered this website called “Modern Seinfeld,” which lists a lot of really smart and funny ideas for new episodes of Seinfeld, based on today’s trends, news, pop culture, and technology.
I’m posting a few examples here, but this is just a tiny fraction of what’s available at the link. If you’re a Seinfeld fan, I recommend you click on the link to see a whole lot more of them:
https://twitter.com/seinfeldtoday
George pretends to belong to a gym just to use their bathroom. Kramer “borrows” Jerry’s computer and is offended by his Internet history.
Jerry’s vacation’s ruined by the stress of avoiding Breaking Bad spoilers. Elaine’s never seen the show, ruins a viewing party w/ questions.
Jerry & George discover Kramer’s the subject of an insane number of Craigslist missed connections. Elaine gets a pixie cut. It’s disastrous.
Jerry has to use an old Zune because his parents, who gave it to him, are visiting. Kramer “borrows” J’s iPhone. “Hey, you’re not using it.”
George is briefly implicated in the latest Anthony Weiner scandal because his OKCupid handle is Carlos Danger.
When George’s gf goes out of town he can’t help finishing the TV show they’re marathoning together, then badly pretends not to have seen it.
Jerry discovers his gf still uses her JDate profile. Kramer leaves messages for the NSA in his emails. Newman reluctantly tries SoulCycle.
Lots more at https://twitter.com/seinfeldtoday
Here’s my favorite episode of “Land of the Lost”
As a child in the 1970s, I always enjoyed watching “Land of the Lost” on Saturday morning. As an adult, I like the show even more. This is an intelligent science fiction program that makes you think, and is never dumbed down (except for season 3, which is so horrible that it never should have been made).
Here is my favorite episode – “Elsewhen” from season 1.
Why do people use the word “salad” when what they really mean is “mayonnaise”?
This is from the season 4 episode of “Roseanne” called “Stressed to Kill.” The relevant part starts at 14:28.
Roaseanne: “Can I help you?”
Customer: “Which is better – the tuna salad or the egg salad?”
Roaseanne: “Tuna salad, egg salad, chicken salad, turkey salad, shrimp salad – what difference does it make? It’s all just different words for mayonnaise.”
TV theme songs – part 1 of 4
I was born in 1971. I tell you this because it should help to tell you something about the point of view from which I have watched TV shows. As a child, I watched reruns of sitcoms and cartoons from the 60s, as well as new programming on PBS, and Saturday morning children’s programming. During the late 70s, I also started watching a few shows regularly during prime time. In the 80s I watched a huge number of shows during prime time. During the 90s and later there have been far fewer new shows that I liked, although among those few that I did like, I found them to be excellent.
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Here are some of the dumbest contestants from “Wheel of Fortune”
Let’s start out with this one. Even when almost all the letters are visible, the answer is still too top secret for some people to know what it is:
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