what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated

@wohali @Taweret

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@wohali @Taweret I hope a Popple eats your face!

@Vanalope @Taweret c'mon, we'll explore!

@Vanalope @Taweret look, as far as I'm concerned, no gnus is good gnus.

@Taweret camp candy, where John Candy ran a summer camp

Gravedale High, where Rick Moranis taught at a monster high school

Little Rosie, where Roseanne and Dan from Roseanne were kids

@Taweret I’d say “Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp,” but it’s right on YouTube so I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just some chicken pox dream

https://youtu.be/PdgMq2HVsa8

@Taweret also I saw at least part of the movie Rock and Rule when I was very small (the part where the demon emerges at the end) and literally believed it was a fever dream until just a couple of years ago. I tried so hard to figure out what I could have been thinking of but never found a trace

@Taweret A couple live action shows from the 80s that most people don't seem to remember that I liked were The Wizard, which had the actor who played Randall from Time Bandits (David Rappaport, I think?) as an inventor/toy maker who solved crimes/had adventures, and Adderly, a canadian show about a superspy with a robot hand who was given a desk job... and then solved crime.

@Taweret pretty easy for cancon furry heavy metal knockoff to slide under the radar of a search unless you happen to talk to the right person

@funkula @Taweret They let John Candy be in a kids show??

@srol @Taweret I remember this! 3d glasses didn't work for me at the time so I was pretty confused

@Taweret I do appreciate that some Wikipedia editor was like “I know what your main question regarding this talking ape rock star spy show is going to be: what cars did the apes drive”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Link%2C_Secret_Chimp

@funkula @Taweret I remember Louie Anderson had a cartoon too, I thought that one was pretty good at the time

@Taweret the “Where’s Herb” Butger King contest commercial where Herb will give you a million dollars if you point him out at Burger King

You get a 99 cent Whopper if you tell the cashier “I’m not Herb”

Q: What do you say if your name is Herb?
A: I’m not the Herb you’re looking for

@Taweret
Oh god nobody has mentioned this one and it's a fucking doozy

A show where the protagonist would go into a laser tag arena and shoot a pillar and then be transported to space to fight to save the galaxy.

No, really.

Even at the time it felt goddamn surreal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_(TV_series)

@coriander @Taweret it was awful, but my least favorite "comedian cashes in for a cartoon" had to be Bobby's World, because a) Howie Mandel is so insufferable and b) I felt obligated to watch it because the time slot was something very girly on ABC and turning off the TV on Saturday morning was not an option

@wulfric @Taweret I'll see you and raise you Automan.

@weirdofhermiston @Taweret that one I didn't get to see, but I believe it was actually pulling from his standup about growing up, which was quite good, so I believe it

@Taweret @Mrfunkedude it was still on in reruns when I was a little kid and I never quite knew what to make of it, like, "I guess this was made for someone but I don't think it was me"

@srol @Taweret I freaking loved that show. Can’t tell you why. Or literally anything about it other than his little dance and triangle solo.