Posts with tag donkey kong
Posted Mar 24th 2007 4:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV Royalty, OpEd, Animation, Celebrities, Children
This is the first in a 376-part series* in which I try to better myself, and in turn better the rest of you, by turning to the font of information known as television, courtesy of this other font of information known as the internet.
It is my belief that everything we need to know can be learned from television. We have relied too heavily on books for too long, and it's time we stopped reading and started accepting everything TV tells us.
Today, let us all learn about Christianity, one of the three Abrahamic religions along with Judaism and Islam:
Continue reading What TV can teach us: Christianity - VIDEOS
Posted Oct 26th 2006 9:00AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: CBS, Programming, Animation, Retro Squad
Ah, the 1980's, the golden age for many things . . . pop music, hair bands, family sitcoms, and video games. However, it really wasn't a golden age for Saturday morning cartoons. By the time the mid-80's rolled around many of the cartoons on the air were stealing their material from shows that you would see on prime-time television (like the Happy Days gang traveling in time), or from children's toys.
Case in point was CBS's Saturday Supercade. Premiering in 1983 during the height of the video game era, Supercade featured characters from some of the most popular arcade games of the time. For instance, there were characters from Frogger, Donkey Kong (with Soupy Sales as the voice of the barrel throwing monkey), Q*Bert, and Space Ace. Amazingly, the show lasted two seasons on CBS.
Continue reading Saturday Supercade: bringing video game characters to Saturday mornings - VIDEO