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

@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.

@funkula @Taweret When I was a kid I had these edutainment games where Howie Mandel voiced this bear and you'd go around and like solve math puzzles and stuff and for ages that was my only exposure to him in any capacity

So when he started hosting Deal or No Deal I was SUPER confused because he wasn't putting on an absolutely ridiculous voice and I was like "That's gotta be a different guy"

Honestly those games have way more "pretty sure I hallucinated that" energy than any show I remember watching