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ABC Funshine Saturday Sneak Peek (1974)
psychedelic funshine clown was creepy
is it just me, or does anyone else think that that funshine Saturday clown and the animated bumpers he starred in were creepy? i know it seems stupid to bring it up, but the ABC funshine Saturday was on when i was six, and that thing used to give me nightmares (and i was no wimp, as i had the largest collection of scary movie monster dolls and posters in the first grade!!!) the bumper music and animations were so creepy to me, and yet i'd sit through them every Saturday (..."and Sunday, tooooo!") just to see the coolest cartoons on TV at the time! what does this have to do with the sneak preview special? well, not much, but if they only warned me about the clown, The Clown, THE CLOWN!!!!!!!, maybe i'd have been better prepared for IT.
Seriously, Pennywise, John Wayne Gacy, and Captain Spalding don't even scare me at all, but Funshine used to scare me so bad, i'd rather wet the bed as a six year old to keep from having to go to the bathroom in the dark!
"Can't Sleep! Clown'll Eat Me!" - Bart Simpson, "Maggie's First Word"
Hot Hero Sandwich (1979)
Cool Show for Pre-teens
Cool Rock Music. A sick House Band. Hot Females. Hot Hero Sandwich was the ultimate show for a boy just fixing to get his pubes. they had some pointless comedy, but most of the sketches and songs had some valuable lessons on growing up; a favorite of mine was the song "Puberty", sang by the hilarious Puberty Fairy, an extremely hairy man dressed in a sparkly female fairy outfit, complete with star-tipped magic wand. ("This could be your lucky day ...PYEWW- BERRR- TEE!") seriously, it ruled when I was eleven, and I was so mad when 1981 rolled around and IT WAS GONE!!!!!!!!! My little sister used to make fun of the silly little grin that'd come across my face when the theme song played. First the drums "Bam-boom-Bam! Bam-boo-boom-Bam!" Then the "A" note on the bass "BomBomBomBom..." Then the hook "Yoooooou are my hero!" It's kinda sad that so few people remember it, but after all, it was just a stupid show, and there's more to life than TV. But as TV shows go, this was one of my favorites in my adolescent years, when everything else Saturday Morning had to offer seemed so "gay".
I ain't forgot "Hot Hero", the butt-kicking-est band of 1980 next to the Knack!