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  • #16
    Quoth Cia View Post
    1. Supernatural?
    Yep!

    Quoth gremcint View Post

    1: should it have ended in season 5?
    3: Tailspin?
    4: Space Cases?
    1. Pretty much, yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong. Season 6 had some bright spots, but it was mostly a mishmashed trainwreck.
    3. Yes
    4. The fact that you correctly guessed Space Cases made me squee a little bit. I feel like no one else has heard of it.

    I feel like I might have been too vague on questions 2 and 5. I might reword them later, but for now I'll say this- I am the queen of really obscure kid shows that people either love or have never heard of.
    "Things that fail to kill me make me level up." ~ NateWantsToBattle, Training Hard (Counting Stars parody)

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    • #17
      Quoth EricKei View Post
      6. in this show the girl lived next door to her stalker and her family kept letting him come over. -- Dog with a Blog, maybe?
      Family Matters, surely.
      PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

      There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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      • #18
        Well, FM was what OP was going for; the latter is technically accurate, as well

        ----

        Lessee here...These would have been a little more tricksy if not for the average age on this board being a bit higher than most (myself included):

        a- Kid who's the child of a human and an alien gets into mischief using inherited special powers.

        b- Tennis player gets cybered-up, can now crush tennis balls with bare hand.

        c- Borderline-incompetent detective solves cases anyway; has no cybernetic enhancements.

        d- (Forcibly) pacifist teens with gestalt psychic powers saving the day, in secret.

        e- Musicians get sucked into a cartoon world, somehow still able to make live-action videos. (This is an easy one)
        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
        Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
        "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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        • #19
          1. This TV show was cancelled midway though its premier episode.

          (And I did see the premier episode.)
          "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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          • #20
            Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
            1. This TV show was cancelled midway though its premier episode.

            (And I did see the premier episode.)
            Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos?
            The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

            Now queen of USSR-Land...

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            • #21
              Quoth EricKei View Post
              b- Tennis player gets cybered-up, can now crush tennis balls with bare hand.
              The Bionic Woman. Anyone else remember the MAD magazine spoof "The Moronic Woman"?

              Quoth fireheart View Post
              2. Has managed to outlive its original show along with all the other spinoffs.
              Law And Order SVU. Marshall Dillon and Miss Kitty better watch out - 3 more seasons and it'll catch up to Gunsmoke.
              Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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              • #22
                Quoth fireheart View Post
                Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos?
                Not the one I had in mind, although it does qualify. That one did get a full airing 16 years later. The one I had in mind has never been shown again, and was a few years earlier. It was also the reason ABC turned down what became a very popular show for CBS. Now there are two shows to identify.
                "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                • #23
                  Quoth EricKei View Post
                  c- Borderline-incompetent detective solves cases anyway; has no cybernetic enhancements.

                  )
                  Columbo for $100 Alex
                  I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                  -- Life Sucks Then You Die.

                  "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                  • #24
                    Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                    Not the one I had in mind, although it does qualify. That one did get a full airing 16 years later. The one I had in mind has never been shown again, and was a few years earlier. It was also the reason ABC turned down what became a very popular show for CBS. Now there are two shows to identify.
                    The network actually played it up as "that show that got canned halfway through its first airing" and also because by then TV standards were actually a little bit more relaxed, meaning most of the videos shown were actually quite tame. They did have to cut a few sections though because the jokes that the host did were actually the opposite: tame by the standards back then, but horrifying by today's standards.

                    For those who don't want to read the Wiki link, the story goes that Kerry Packer (guy who owned the network) was eating dinner when he saw what was being broadcasted, rang up the network and yelled out "GET THAT SHIT OFF THE AIR!" They promptly acquiesced and pulled it, replacing it with Cheers. Different states vary on how much content was shown at the time. The guys involved were canned.
                    The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

                    Now queen of USSR-Land...

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                    • #25
                      Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                      Columbo for $100 Alex
                      Not what I was going for, but that works, too ^_^ I was thinking of Get Smart (hence my intentional exclusion of the chiba, which would have allowed Inspector Gadget, Maxwell's spiritual descendant)
                      "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                      "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                      "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                      "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                      "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                      "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                      Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                      "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                      • #26
                        Quoth gremcint View Post
                        me and my sister ended up playing a weird trivia game on facebook the other night:

                        1. this show had an actor go on to play santa and another to voice a lion.
                        2. this show had actors that played a serial killer, a hitman, a cyborg and a talking cat on other shows
                        3. one person now has a talk show, another went on to be batman and a third hosts a game show
                        4. in this show kids got trapped on an island and were attacked by monsters and had to fight a devil? then an elvis impersonator followed by a vampire
                        5. this guy's life got flipped upside down
                        6. in this show the girl lived next door to her stalker and her family kept letting him come over.
                        7. this show about 3 guys and one girl running a detective agency one dressed like magnum pi and another like indiana jones.

                        have fun, add your own.
                        we're on page 3 so here's my answers.
                        1. Home improvement (Tim Allen in Santa Claus, JTT in Lion King)
                        2. 3rd Rock from the sun. Dick in Dexter, Tommy in Looper, Harry in Inspector Gadget 2, and Don in Sabrina the teenage witch
                        3. Drew Carey, Drew hosts Price is right, Mr. Wick has a talk show, and Oswald was in Batman the brave and the bold.
                        4. Digimon, they were trapped on an island for the first story arch and the first 3 villains are Devimon, Etemon, and Myotismon
                        5. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
                        6. Family Maters
                        7. Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
                        Interviewer: What is your greatest weakness?
                        Me: I expect competence from my coworkers.

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                        • #27
                          The show that outlasted Chicago Hope was ER

                          IMHO, Chicago Hope was better, of course it kinda went downhill after Mandy left & the guy who played the lawyer left (can't remember actor's name). Then they went through all the cast changes & well that sorta doomed it

                          'Course having 3 NCIS alumni show up didn't hurt it either I'll leave ya'll to guess who
                          "Much butthurt I sense in you, cry like a bitch you should"

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                          • #28
                            Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                            Not the one I had in mind, although it does qualify. That one did get a full airing 16 years later. The one I had in mind has never been shown again, and was a few years earlier. It was also the reason ABC turned down what became a very popular show for CBS. Now there are two shows to identify.
                            They are Turn On (1969) and All In The Family (1971).

                            A list of shows cancelled after one episode.
                            "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                            • #29
                              Quoth El Pollo Guerrera View Post
                              You mean Brandon Lee.
                              5) "Kim Possible"?
                              Quoth gremcint View Post
                              no has been answered already
                              2: Fringe and Lost?
                              5: there's a few for this, Veronica Mars, Kimpossible are two.
                              Alas, though these are good answers, they're not the ones I was thinking. For number 2, one of the main actors in both shows recently played a dwarf. For 5, think ghosts and stuff.
                              "Things that fail to kill me make me level up." ~ NateWantsToBattle, Training Hard (Counting Stars parody)

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                              • #30
                                sliders could be one of them then.
                                Interviewer: What is your greatest weakness?
                                Me: I expect competence from my coworkers.

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