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The Snobs Versus the Slobs

9/10/2018

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So, I recently watched - or, re-watched actually - one of my all time favorite shows from the nineties: Babylon 5.  It's streaming now on Amazon.  All five seasons, in all their sponge-painted glory.  With its themes of racism, gender identity, and expolitics, I'd forgotten how solid the show was - definitely ahead of its time.  Sure, the early-CGI is rough, the Vorlon's costume looks like a Full House window treatment, and the sets rival those of (decent) community theater, but the show was extremely well-written, in a way similar to the Galactica reboot.  I'm kind of sad that nothing came of Babylon 5 after its TV run ended, but when you research the show's history, it's amazing it lasted as long as it did.  Action figures yes, movies no ... and absolutely no chance of revival, considering that half the cast is dead from diabetes and alcoholism.  A reboot?  Maybe, but that would take the mother of all fan-writing campaigns, and as the show never quite reached Star Trek fame, it's highly unlikely.  That's a pity.  I was also hoping for a reboot of Richard Benjamin's Quark.

Speaking of Richard Benjamin,
  I recently watched Diary of a Mad Housewife on YouTube.  YouTube is an amazing place for time wasting, and in the last few months as I've finished The Saturday Night Everlasting, I've lost count of the YouTube rabbit holes I've fallen into ... from Amanda Sings to Rodney Dangerfield.  Rodney was a particularly fun topic to research, as the guy was incredible - a total rags to riches story.  I remember seeing him on the Tonight Show growing up, but I definitely remember him from 1980's Caddyshack.  A conservative friend compares Donald Trump to Dangerfield, so I've decided that my next cartoon - a parody of Caddyshack, with elected officials as the characters - will feature Trump as "Al Czervik," in a country club based off of Mar a Lago. Chuck Schumer will be the unhinged groundskeeper, and Nanci Pelosi will totally be "Mrs. Smails"...

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