« Television: May 2004 | Main | Television: February 2005 »

July 18, 2004

Pluck Your Twangers and Play With Your Balls



Rainbow was a British children's show from the Seventies featuring a vaguely muppetesque, zipper-mouthed puppet called, perhaps not surprisingly, Zippy, a pink hippo known as George, a very creepy bear named Bungle, and Geoffrey the token human, who likes to dress up in rainbow-colored jerseys and bell-bottoms.

This hilarious clip was made by the cast as a joke (possibly for a studio party) and is loaded with not-so-subtle sexual innuendo guaranteed to get you in touch with your inner Beavis and Butthead.

via The Museum of Hoaxes

July 7, 2004

Me and My S.H.A.D.O



I found myself with a little discretionary income due to an unexpected windfall of cash, so I decided to buy myself something completely unecessary that I've wanted for a long time...the complete boxed DVD set of Gerry Anderson's short-lived, but utterly amazing live-action series, UFO.

When I lived in Los Angeles during the early Seventies, UFO was a huge hit. Set in the fantastic future world of 1980 (?!), the show was chockablock with cool hardware, bizarre unisex fashions, foxy Moonbase babes wearing aluminum leotards and purple wigs, and an unbelievably catchy theme song by legendary composer, Barry Gray, that has been indelibly burned into my brain for over 30 years.

I watched a couple of episodes last night, I think I'll go watch a couple more right now.