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!

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Disney Channel sucks!

Hey, have you ever heard of the Disney Channel?

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Yes Disney Channel, what is Disney Channel? I guess I better explain.

You see, back in 1983, Disney had this great idea- an entire channel dedicated to Disney animation and family-friendly programming (something this world desperately needs, shows that don't feature sex and other gross shit that isn't even HALF interesting.) Of course Disney Channel has never aired innapropriate shit like that (besides that one incident when some cable system fucked up and PLayboy TV's signal mixed in with Disney's), but with this world going downhill like a tumbleweed, who knows when they will? Anyway, let us start with the time period when Disney Channel was good.

Back in '83, the channel consisted of classic Disney features, Mickey, Donald and the like- as well as family programs like the game show "Contraption", "You And Me" etc. It stayed this way for many years. It was a safe haven for kids and their familys with all the Disney there was and more, no commercials, 24/7. It stayed this way for quite a few years-until in 1997, Disney became regular cable instead of premium. Which also meant- old shows were retired, and the new live-action and cartoons came pouring in. You'd think this is when they started sucking, right? Well, actually, no. You see...Disney Channel still believed in good quality programming. As such, they came out with some really memorable stuff. The Famous Jett Jackson, Boy Meets World (I think that was Disney), Even Stevens, Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The Series, Recess, Buzz Lightyear of the Star Command- and those are just a few.

Fast forward to 2003. This is when the gap between good and shit began. Most of the older shows were gone. Disney came out with some pretty "Meh" shows. That's So Raven and Phil of the Future came out during this short era. Neither were bad or good. They were just...okay, but disappointing. I thought Disney could do better than them. Little did I know the surprise I was in for.

2005 came, and with it came the wrecking ball that would smash Disney Channel to pieces. What wrecking ball am I talking about? Why, this of course:

http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/suitelife/index.html

Ah, the Crap Life of Zack and Cody. Here's the lowdown: Two spoiled, rich brats named Zack and Cody have a mom who gets a job offer to sing at the Tomptin Hotel or whatever the flaming piss it's called. So their overpayed mom is announced to be the hotel's full-time performer. So Zack and Cody now live at the hotel with their overpayed, and I guess irresponsible mom consider she's never around and, as a result, her bratty kids can cause messes and play football in the hotel with no supervision. These are your typical bratty "Wahhh my allowence is only 5 bucks" kids. This show was sadly extraordinarily popular and spawned a line of shows just like this one. Bad acting and all.

So the next crappy show was Hannah Montana. This show doesn't have bratty spoiled kids like Zack & Cody, but it sucks because it turned Disney Channel into a crap fashion channel that spits out low-budget TV movies and shows that over 17 million kids in America watch. Hannah Montana is a show about this girl name Miley Cyrus, your average cheesy live-action kids show character, as a normal girl with an alter ego of rock star Hannah Montana. Of course, only her friends know this, making Hannah Montana the 133242344234342 millionth show about a normal kid with a big secret. All sorts of cheaply produced Hannah merchandise can be found at stores.

Then there's High School Musical, which really established Disney as a fashion industry channel. Just look it up on wikipedia for the description. I've seen this movie before because I wanted to see what all the hype was about. It was really nothing special. Just your average high school movie with all the drama you can get and more. Plus some shitty songs to boot! Words can't even explain this piece of fuck. Now I can't go anywhere without seeing a huge-ass HSM booth with HSM-themed useless, overpriced crap like diaries, a fake yearbook for "East High", pencils, erasers, whatever. I also hate this movie because of it making kids increasingly fascinated with live-action kids shows while cartoons take the back seat-a story for another blog.

Anyway, my hands and back hurt from typing for about an hour. Thanks for reading- see you next time!

Welcome!

Hi! I'm sure some of you know me as AsdfTheRevival
on Youtube. My first full post will be up tommorow. See you then! ;D

-AsdfTheRevival