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Thursday, October 2, 2008
TV Why TV Was Better When We Were Kids
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM
I liked television more when I was younger. Most likely because I had 8-14 hours of free time every day to watch it, but still, even with fancy gadgets like TiVo and hi-def screens, it's just not the same. Plus, I'm convinced there is nothing currently on television more appealing than this glorious show (from the mind of Sid and Marty Krofft) from 1977:
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Oh Joseph Butcher, where are you now? Y'know, I watched as much teevee as anybody in those days -a lot of it being Krofft material- and I don't remember this one at all.
I like how Bigfoot jumps just like The Six Million Dollar Man.
I like how Bigfoot jumps just like The Six Million Dollar Man.
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Seeing as they're trying to resuscitate The Partridge Family and stuff, they should bring this back too. Here's the pitch:
Late in his teens, Wildboy becomes rudderless when Bigfoot dies (cardiac disease brought on by a rich diet of game). Bewildered, he enters the military where he's sent to any morally-ambivalent modern war of his choice. Utterly broken by that experience he returns to the hills where he was born, buys a used Ford F-150 and subsequently realizes he can mine his own past for a living, and becomes a bigfoot hunter and researcher. Sadly, though, strip mining has caused his big furry aunts and uncles to go into hiding/become extinct/move to the city to work in call centers and he can no longer find them, so he has to stage hoaxes.
His moral dilemma about having to stage bigfoot evidence is complicated by his difficulties in forging a relationship with the son he had by that hot young babe in the opening above. Kind of Mutt from the last Indiana Jones movie mixed with Two and a Half Men.
We can self-limit it if it gets too stale by having Ted McGinley do a recurring role as Erich VonDaaniken in seasons 3 or 4. But there should be at least two or three good seasons in this one.
Can I get anyone to green light me on this?
Late in his teens, Wildboy becomes rudderless when Bigfoot dies (cardiac disease brought on by a rich diet of game). Bewildered, he enters the military where he's sent to any morally-ambivalent modern war of his choice. Utterly broken by that experience he returns to the hills where he was born, buys a used Ford F-150 and subsequently realizes he can mine his own past for a living, and becomes a bigfoot hunter and researcher. Sadly, though, strip mining has caused his big furry aunts and uncles to go into hiding/become extinct/move to the city to work in call centers and he can no longer find them, so he has to stage hoaxes.
His moral dilemma about having to stage bigfoot evidence is complicated by his difficulties in forging a relationship with the son he had by that hot young babe in the opening above. Kind of Mutt from the last Indiana Jones movie mixed with Two and a Half Men.
We can self-limit it if it gets too stale by having Ted McGinley do a recurring role as Erich VonDaaniken in seasons 3 or 4. But there should be at least two or three good seasons in this one.
Can I get anyone to green light me on this?
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