Fox Kids Part 1

Remember this network? Back in the 1990's, this network and Nickelodeon were THE places for awesome kids TV. I'm going to tell you some stuff about this network and how it met its downfall. This is part 1 of a 2, or if needed 3 part story.

In October 1986, the Fox Network was launched across the United States by the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. This network was barely a network when it launched. The network's only program at the time was some crappy late night show starring that jerk Joan Rivers. This show only lasted a few months to be replaced with another talk show starring Arsenio Hall.

On April 5, 1987, Fox launched primetime with the shows "Married...with Children", "The Tracey Ullman Show", and the rest is history.

But what about kids? What did they get from Fox? Well, from 1986 to 1990, all Fox stations carried the Disney Afternoon block from Disney. This was most likely because Barry Diller, the head of the network, worked with then-Disney president Michael Eisner at the ABC network and Paramount Pictures years back. Then, in 1989, Disney bought a Los Angeles station called KCAL-TV 9, and thus wanted the Disney Afternoon to be shown on it, so they took it away from the city's Fox station, KTTV. Barry Diller was PISSED at Eisner's breach of contract. As a result, Diller took the Disney Afternoon off of all Fox owned and operated stations, and encouraged Fox stations that were not owned by Fox to do the same. Fox then began to create what would eventually become the Fox Kids Network a year later.

In Part 2, we'll cover the launch of Fox Kids and its first initial shows. Keep on reading!

-AsdfTheRevival

Scary logos/bumpers/intros and other scary crap

Are there any logos or station IDs or TV intros that either scared the living crap out of you or were just plain creepy? I can name some:

Logos

Bedford Falls Company: This one scares me because of that friggin' haunted looking house and the haunted sounding voices. "Aaaaand dance by the light....of the MOOOOOOOOON....." 0_0

Starry Night Productions: You might be surprised, but the variant with the legendary Mel Blanc's laughing over the creepy piano note isn't the one that scares me. The version without the laugh scares me because the laugh broke the eerie noise of the note.

Bumpers:

Nickelodeon/Nick Jr: OK, there was this Nickelodeon ident that had a sun going down, then some eerie music began playing, then a huge comet with "Nickelodeon" on it came from the top right. There was also a Nick Jr. version which featured an orange moon with "Nick" and a comet with "Jr." on it coming down from the top, then a cow jumped over the moon. I dunno, most people find this bumper soothing, but the eerie and dramatic music, plus the weird looking sky, just really creeps me out.

Here's a picture: http://www.retrojunk.com/img/commercial-thumbs/nickelodeoninde_429-0003.jpg



That's pretty much it for me, so post what logos bumpers etc. scare you on the comments section.

Happy halloween!

Happy halloween peeps!!! :)

Anyway, to celebrate, I've uploaded a special Halloween special of Random Trash featuring Goosebumps. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/ilikeeatingcheetos.

So, go check out the video, enjoy your candy, and I'll see you tommorow with a brand-new longer post. Thanks for reading, everyone!

-AsdfTheRevival

Fuck you Razor64aAlt

OK, so here's the deal, there is this asshole on YouTube who decided today that he's going to hack into me and JRfan88's accounts. Now first off, he accused me of having no real life friends, the fucking third person to do say. Listen to me when I say this, asswipes:

I DO HAVE REAL FRIENDS, YOU F*CKING RETARDS!!!

The thing is, the faggots who are accusing me of this spend their WHOLE FUCKING DAY on YouTube, spamming and hacking accounts of people who did pretty much nothing to them except give them one minor comment of criticism. I don't spam, or hack, or spend my whole day on youtube. Also, I'm not a total jerk to everyone and anyone I meet with a different opinion than me. Who do you think has no life??? I have a life, I have fucking friends, if I didn't have either of those I would be just like Razor64a. Go ahead and hack into my fucking account, loser. I'll just login to it, close it, and make a new one with a better password.

Ugh....

WTF is up with all these people flaming TVBPoop? There are far worse poopers, like the ones that use clips recorded off of youtube with a crappy quality video camera (like Cheesybob42...) All these big name poopers like MrDrunkenFox and Stegblob are flaming him when he's done nothing to them and his poops aren't even that bad compared to some....also, people keep flaming him because he supposedly rips off MrSimonAlt and Stegblob, when nearly every fricking youtube poop is a ripoff of their videos to begin with??? speaking of stegblob, am I the only one who thinks he is EXTREMELY OVERRATED??? Stegblob gets way too much credit, more than he deserves. I can name like 10 poopers who are better than him right off the bat.

FRIDAY!!!!

Man, after such a freaking long week, it's FINALLY Friday! It's about time!

You know what SUCKS?

You know what I absolutely hate? When 80s children go onto retrojunk and youtube, flame the shit out of any 90's kids, and go rambling on about how the 80s had the best cartoons, movies etc.

There's this one guy on retrojunk named "Caps 2.0" who always says "Never use the words cheesy, campy, and corny when referring to the 1980's." Well, how can I not use those words, considering the 80's were jam packed with them?

About the cartoons, most of the 80's cartoons were low-budget toyline-based cartoons. There were very few original ideas. And even when there was one, they always made this huge hit out of it with toy lines and everything, even if it wasn't all that popular. An example is the Transformers movie (no, not the 2007 live-action one, the 1987 animated movie) which was a total flop.

The 90's on the other hand had some really original ideas, like "Rugrats", "Ren & Stimpy", "Rocko's Modern Life", "Eek! The Cat", etc. The 90's even had some really great original live-action kids shows (in the 80's, there were like, 3 live-action kids shows on the airwaves). But the 90's gave us "The Adventures of Pete & Pete", "The Secret World of Alex Mack", "All That", "Kenan & Kel", and in the later part of the decade, "The Famous Jett Jackson". There are just so many reasons why the 90's had their own unique style from the 80's. So, cubbi1987, Caps 2.0, xreddragonx, and all the other 80's Nazis out there- SHUT UP AND STOP SPOILING THE FUN WITH YOUR 1980'S FANBOYISM!