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Joe. Interests are sci-fi, sketch, soaps, old movies, comics, and VCR repair. I'm of the mid-to-late-stage Facts of Life generation. I have a blog I don't update often enough. http://soapssnlscifi.wordpress.com
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As Thanksgiving approaches a reminder that CBS aired a pilgrim based sitcom called Thanks for six episodes in the summer of 1998 and yes this was a real thing that happened.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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chrisanstey74.bsky.social
Highlights from tonight’s #Corrie.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I still can't quite believe they did this. #Brookside
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from @wonderville.nyc it's FORT90TV!

Since it’s Thanksgiving week and all, I’ll be doubling down on the focus on food, tho instead of turkey, will be deep diving... burgers? Stream starts at 8:00PM EST…

www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from @wonderville.nyc it's FORT90TV!

Alongside 'burgs from McDonald's, I've got some FORT90 FILM CLUB leftovers from last week, in the form of HAMBURGER DAD (trailer courtesy of @spectaclenyc.bsky.social); stream starts at 8:00PM EST…

www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from Wonderville, via Twitch, it's FORT90 TV!

To counterbalance all the food related content on tap, I'll also provide a "workout" tape of sorts, by Late Night With David Letterman's most iconic bit player; stream starts at 8:00PM EST…

www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"I Love Lucy" by Lawrence Nadel and Bob Oksner, 1952-1955
April 16th, 1954 as seen in the Standard-Star
Comic strip "I Love Lucy," based on the sitcom of the same name. Lucy is trying to sublet her apartment, but her friend and landlord Ethel objects. As the two argue, a man walks in, and the two start fighting over him, thinking he's a potential tenant. In reality, he's the exterminator.
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"Billy Bounce" by C. W. Kahles, 1901-1905
November 16th, 1902 as seen in the Sunday Tribune
Sunday comic strip "Billy Bounce." Subtitled "Billy Bounce and Fuzzy White Have Some Fun With Old Hay Rube." Billy Bounce, a boy known for wearing round inflatable suits and his polar bear friend Fuzzy White decide to pull a prank on the local farmer Hay Rube by filling one of his suits with rocks and sand, putting a pumpkin head on top. When Hay Rube kicks what he assumes is Billy Bounce trespassing on his land, the head falls off, and the farmer runs away, fearing he just killed a man. Billy and Fuzzy laugh.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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"Noahzark Hotel" by Raoul "Varb" Barré, 1913-1914
October 19th, 1913 as seen in the San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday comic strip "Noahzark Hotel." In a world of anthropomorphic animals, the titular Noahzark Hotel is hosting a baby contest for the best baby. The judge passes over cubs, puppies and chicks, until declaring a baby hippo as the winner. However, a baby ostrich has eaten the trophy!
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"O. Henry's Short Stories" by John Hix, 1928-1928
July 12th, 1928 as seen in the Brooklyn Eagle
Comic strip "O. Henry's Short Stories," adaptations of the works of O. Henry. Part three of "The Skylight Room," in which a woman falling on hard times names a star she can see through her skylight Billy Jackson. Full text: "There came a time when Miss Leeson lost her job and she went out in the morning, from office to office and let her heart melt away in the drip of cold refusals transmitted through insolent office boys. Then there came an evening when she wearily climbed Mrs. Parker's stoop after dinner time but she'd had no dinner. In her skylight room she lay on her iron cot, fragile, starved. 'Good-bye Billy Jackson,' she murmured to the star through the skylight, 'you're far away.' Next day at 10 they found her faint and had to call an ambulance. 'Her name's Elsie Leeson,' Mrs. Parker told the doctor, and he was gone up the stairs, four at a time. When he carried her down his face was that of one who bears his own dead. That is all. But in the next day's paper there was a news item, and the last sentence of it may help you (as it helped me) to weld the incidents together. It told of the young woman removed from Mrs. Parker's rooming house to the hospital. 'Dr. William Jackson, the ambulance physician who attended the case, says the patient will recover.'"
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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"Navy Bob Steele" by Wilson Starbuck, 1939-1946
March 10th, 1940 as seen in the Macon Telegraph
Serialized Sunday comic strip "Navy Bob Steele." Lieutenant Bob Steele has been kidnapped and tasked with navigating a ship by his kidnappers. After meeting the daughter of the this ship's former captain, Steele used a sextant to pinpoint their location. The first panel displays the parts of a sextant, and encourages young readers to cut the panel out and put it in their Navy scrap book.
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"King Aroo" by Jack Kent, 1950-1965
March 20th, 1953 as seen in the Chicago Tribune
Comic strip "King Aroo." The titular king has temporarily taken over the job of mailman, but is stumped on how to deliver mail to himself, especially air mail. "Maybe if I tied a balloon to it..."
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"John + Jess" by Wayne Daigrepont, 1969-1971
April 22nd, 1971 as seen in the Cottonport Leader
Comic strip "John + Jess." A bird wakes up and looks out the window, only for the sun to stick out its tongue at them. The bird says, "I get the hunch this is gonna be 'one-of-them-days!!!'" Originally called "Sam & Sue" and published exclusively for The Cottonport Leader. Cartoonist Wayne Daigrepont started the comic when he was fifteen and a sophomore.
May 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"Big George" by Virgil Partch, 1960-1986
January 19th, 1981 as seen in the Detroit Free Press
Single panel comic strip "Big George." An oversized faucet drips water into a sink four feet below it. A man lays awake in his bed, saying he hates Mondays. The correlation between Mondays and drippy faucets is unclear. Garfield was five years old at this point.
January 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"Potash and Perlmutter" by Montague Glass and Joe Irving, 1926-1927
November 27th, 1926 as seen in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Serialized comic strip "Potash and Perlmutter," based on the short story characters created by Montague Glass. Clothing businessmen Potash and Perlmutter find themselves in possession of the Mirovitch diamond necklace, and start calculating what they could get as a reward. A bearded bum comes in and tries to get a vest for cheap, but the two men throw him out. Another bearded man enters, and neither man notices the gun in his hand as they square up to throw him out.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"Robin Hood and Company" by Ted McCall and Charles Snelgrove, 1935-1939
February 13th, 1937 as seen in the San Antonio Evening News
Serialized comic strip "Robin Hood and Company." Subtitled "The Heir to Thane." Famous outlaw Robin Hood has a sparring match with the young hotheaded Lord Rolph, who has refused to claim the estate of Thane. Robin knocks his opponent's hat off, revealing long hair, and as we all know, boys can't have long hair, so Rolph is secretly a girl!
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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"On the Beach" by Ralph Lane, 1957-1957
November 18th, 1957 as seen in the Plain Speaker
Serialized comic strip "On the Beach," an adaptation of Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name. World-ending radiation slowly creeps south. Full text: "Some 4,700 cobalt bombs had sown lethal radioactivity in the northern hemisphere. And in the wake of the fall-out, being borne south by prevailing winds, was a ghostly silence. In Melbourne, Australia, Comdr. Dwight Towers, U.S.N., learned of a flicker of hope for the last survivors of the doomed world. Explained an admiral, 'There's a school of thought that this radioactivity may be dissipating. In that case life might continue to go on down here. Most scientists disagree but it's a matter that must be investigated.' Asked Towers, 'That's the object of my cruise to the U.S.?' The admiral nodded."
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"Junior Grade" by Harry Mace, 1957-1960
September 12th, 1960 as seen in the Abilene Reporter-News
Comic strip "Junior Grade." An elementary school principal gives a lecture to the students on keeping the school clean, "Because it is YOUR school." One of the kids figures, "If it's OUR school, let's close it!"
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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"Luther" by Brumsic Brandon Jr., 1968-1986
May 26th, 1976 as seen in the Tampa Times
Comic strip "Luther." Luther, Hardcore and Pee-Wee walk past some election signs. Hardcore comments on how the candidates never come here (black neighborhoods). Luther says his father will only vote if they come by and discussed "bread and butter issues." Pee-Wee, hungry, asks, "Where is the bread and butter being issued?!" One of earlier mainstream comic strips with a predominately black cast of characters.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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"Pinky Dinky" by Terry Gilkison, 1929-1932
July 22nd, 1930 as seen in the Nogales International
Comic strip "Pinky Dinky." A young boy, the titular Pinky, is visiting a farm, where one of the farmers shows off his cow lick hairstyle. Wanting a cow lick of his own, Pinky approaches a cow, only to get swatted in the head by her tail. The final panel offers a poem: "Mary had a little lamp / She filled it with benzine / She went to light her little lamp / she hasn't since benzine."
May 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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televisionaryzw.bsky.social
So who do we think drew this? Station managers nephew “who can draw?” preachers wife “who’s taking a class?” An Art Instruction School graduate?
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Highlights from tonight’s #Corrie.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Happy birthday Sue Nicholls. Everybody’s favourite flighty piece.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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"Excuse Me" by Myer Marcus, 1913-1915
August 28th, 1913 as seen in the Yonkers Herald
Comic strip "Excuse Me." A man rushes into a barber shop for a quick haircut. The man minding the shop tries to explain something, but the customer tells him to shut up and cut his hair already. When the customer's hair cut turns out bad, the man explains that he's not the barber, he's the butcher watching over things after the barber stepped out, but he couldn't get a word in to explain that. The customer calls out the strip's tag line, "Excuse me!"
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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"The World at its Worst" by Gluyas Williams, 1922-1949
July 19th, 1930 as seen in the Flint Journal
Comic strip "The World at its Worst." Subtitled "Taking Junior on the Train." A woman takes a train ride with her child, who remains fussy and all over the place. Full text: "Puts Junior by the window, and sinks back to rest after strenuous time packing and catching train. Finds Junior is tired of looking out window and wants to play with the man behind. Tries to interest him in passing scenery. Junior decides he wants his picture book. Sighs, reaches suitcase down from rack and gets out picture book. Puts suit case back and settles back to rest. Junior immediately loses picture book under seat and announces he's hungry. Gets other bag from rack and gives him a banana. Junior finishes banana and reports he's like to go sleep in her lap. Almost at once decides he'd like to look out of the window. And so on, until train mercifully reaches destination."
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM