#television series

I wanna know

What tv shows are you watching now?

What are your favorite tv shows of all time?

What tv shows did you never finish watching but want to go back and finish?

What tv shows are you interested in watching but haven’t started?

What tv genres are your favorite?

Who’s your favorite tv screen duo or duos?

Do you prefer Netflix or Hulu or neither?

One of the most off-the-wall moments in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film was when Donatello and Casey Jones have an argument over who Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island would end up with, the Professor or Gilligan.

And their positions are pretty interesting, when you think about it.

Casey: …And the Professor and Mary Ann, happily ever after.

Donatello: No way, atomic mouth! Gilligan was he main man. They’d be married and have six kids by now.

Casey takes the side of the Professor, who is more traditionally good-looking, while Donatello sides with the more awkward Gilligan. You’d think Don would go with a fellow intellectual…or was he projecting on physical appearances?

Either way, the scene led to this priceless image;

[The original post got taken down for mysterious reasons]

“I used to be fat” was one of those MTV weight-loss shows with a simple premise. Each episode followed an obese (or morbidly obese) teenager, paired them with a special trainer in order for them to lose all their extra weight, and everyone ends up happy, tralalala you know the song. Was I the only one that watched it around? 

A long time ago, years and years ago, before I had my blogs, I actually watched a handful of episodes (those featuring male teens of course) back when MTV had the episodes on replay on their website. There were very nice shots of shirtless fat bodies, good before and after comparisons (since the show was about losing weight), it explored a wide panel of why and how people could end up to the sizes they were… And I notably remember one episode that quite stood out because in this one the teenager supposed to lose weight (by “teenager” they also included college students and young adults, so they were all pretty high up in the age ranks, there wasn’t one fifteen years old for example, I think the youngest was 16, but most went from 17 to 19 maybe more) - in this one episode the teenager, encouraged by his girlfriend (who actually had gotten a bit chubby herself), actually refused to lose weight and ended up deciding to work on living with his current body and appreciating it. While the audience clearly criticized him as being “lazy” and his girlfriend as toxic/manipulative, from my point of view and seeing the awkward way things were done in the episode, I did end up wondering if this couple wasn’t a bit… on “our” side, and that the girlfriend and/or boyfriend ended up realizing it while filming the episode. I don’t know… 

 Anyway lot of good memories and nostalgia associated with this show. Trouble is… MTV has taken down its replays. A few episodes can be found scattered across Youtube and Dailymotion, but they are rare, all about the girls, and often fragmented and/or of poor quality. The only way one seems able to watch this show anymore is to buy it from iTunes, Amazon Prime or Microsoft. AND even bigger problem… these websites only hold two third of the actual episodes. Both show you “volume 1″ and “volume 2″ of the series, around ten episodes each - but there was a third set of ten episodes. Not only are they listed on Wikipedia, I also actually watched a few of these missing episodes on the MTV replays, and there are still articles online about them. But you can’t buy them anywhere else… 

So I am wondering: does anyone remember or know about this show? Has anyone kept the episodes stashed somewhere or recorded them? I tried to see if there were other streaming websites or some torrents out there, but I could find nothing… If you have any info, or have kept some of the episodes (especially the ones that are “lost” for now) don’t hesitate to share here or to contact me!