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Tag Archives: Gimme Some After School Specials
A Very Special Roundup
As both of my readers are no doubt aware, I take the week of Comic-Con off. Why? I’m at Comic-Con! Seriously, I thought we’d covered this. Instead of just not posting anything, I’ve decided to post a roundup of the … Continue reading
Gimme Some After School Specials: In Conclusion
Since October of 2010, I have now watched almost eleven hundred minutes of hopelessly dated television and written over thirty thousand words trying to make it relevant. I’m fairly certain I took away all the wrong lessons. For example, I … Continue reading
Gimme Some After School Specials: Picking Up the Pieces
Television is a window into the past, and one of the goals of this project was to look through that window. These twenty-six After School Specials would show me what concerned the audience in the fifteen year period spanned by … Continue reading
Gimme Some After School Specials: Face at the Edge of the World
I’ve never known anyone who took their lives willingly. I have had a couple friends who killed themselves accidentally. I knew one of those kids you hear about who found some grown-up’s gun and shot himself in the head. He … Continue reading
Gimme Some After School Specials: Ace Hits the Big Time
While watching an After School Special I usually have the relevant IMDB page open, in order to confirm character names or determine if someone looks familiar because I’ve seen them in something else, or if they were the clown who … Continue reading
Gimme Some After School Specials: The Dog Days of Arthur Cane
When I started this project, there were a number of problems I expected the After School Specials to tackle. Substance abuse. Teen pregnancy. Sexual predators. Cheating on tests. Clowns. You know, the standard array of threats that form the basis … Continue reading
Gimme Some After School Specials: Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?
Perverts ruin everything. No, not people who like to tie up a consenting partner, or pretend to be Batman and Catwoman, or who are Quentin Tarantino. I’m talking about perverts. Pedophiles, rapists, and serial killers. Okay, and maybe Tarantino a … Continue reading