OH hell ~ I may as well stay on the subject at hand for tonight. Since I began the thread last night with nightmare films of my youth, tonight I'll stick with whatever tv shows I remember watching in my not-so-far-away youth.

Let's see ~ what was the one on Saturday mornings with the sea monster with the really big head...or am I confusing him with H.R. Hufinstuf? It was one of those '70's shows ~ I remember that it was on at the same time as Electra (Is that her name?) and her sidekick (Dynagirl? I don't remember). He lived in a cave ~ I remember that...vaguely. I remember that Electra and Dynagirl got around in this thing that looked like a cheap copy of something out of Star Wars.

The shows that I do remember are Wonder Woman - who can forget Linda Carter twirling around? I always had the same question about that show as I did for Superman: How come no one could figure out that Diana was Wonder Woman and Clark was Superman? Were the glasses that good? I vaguely remember Spiderman and Captain America...but of course, there is the Hulk ~ "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

Three of my absolute favorite shows came on well after I had left the 'target audience' for them. One was "Hey Vern! It's Ernest" (I think that's what it was called...) I loved it! It was so insane with 'Matt Finish ~ Photographer at Large'; the Hollywood sound effects expert who demonstrated the same technique no matter what the sound was ("You hook your left thumb and forefinger around your right thumb, put your hands together and squeeze!"), the iguana (Bob? Was that his name?)who was an inventor and his person and of course, Ernest. There was no way that show was intended strictly for kids ~ it was too packed with wonderfully weird stuff.

Another show was on just a few years ago...betcha can't guess...it was the Weird Al show! It was about as kooky as Ernest ~ if not kookier. Al with his twisted takeoff of Mr. Rogers and Harvey the Wonder Hamster. Still ~ you could tell that they wouldn't let him go all out...I guess they figured that it would scare the kids. HA!

The last of the three is, of course, Pee Wee's Playhouse. Who could forget that? It's too bad that they yanked it so fast after his little...uh, escapade in the porno theater. I always thought that it was extremely funny that they let him do a kiddie show in the first place, considering that Paul Ruebens started out doing Pee Wee in comedy houses ~ and it wasn't that clean. One of the acts 'Pee Wee' did in the clubs was that of 'Hypnotist' ~ he'd try to 'hypnotize' a woman and get her to take off her dress so that he could see her slip. Imagine someone trying to hypnotize you while holding a puppet (the puppet was the one who was supposed to do the actual 'hypnotizing') and yelling, "YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY!!! VERY SLEEPY!!!" Another skit he did was one where he and a friend put mirrors on their shoes so that they could see girls' underwear and they were very disappointed when the girl told them not to bother looking at her underwear because she wasn't wearing any. (Can you see that going over on Saturday morning tv?)

Oh lord ~ I'm glad this week is over. I can quit obsessing over tv now.