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04/16/2006: A Very X-E Easter, 2006.

Happy Easter to all! Hope it’s a good one, if you celebrate it. If you don’t, you’re only really missing having to reach for the 2-liter Pepsi over a gigantic lamb body part. We’re spending this Easter with the woman’s family, which secretly depresses me, but not to the point where I’d once again use the excuse of this probably being some sick old person in my family’s last Easter and thus getting a pass to stick with what I know. Whatever, Sopranos is on tonight.

What you see above is the official giant inflatable Marshmallow Peep, which I’ve now left plugged in outside of my parents’ house as a sort of reminder to all my siblings who will be visiting there today that I am much cooler than any of them could ever hope to be. With the Peeps People now realizing the cultural phenomenon they’ve created, it’s opened the floodgates for more Peeps Action than anyone would’ve ever predicted — and I think that a 3′ inflatable yellow chick Peep just might lead the parade of new products. Bought this beauty for just fifteen bucks at Party City, and to be honest, I would’ve paid twice as much because, Jesus Holy Mary, INFLATABLE GIANT PEEPS! At fifteen bucks, I only expected the barest of bones, but was happy to learn that the official Peeps seal of quality extends not only to their many edible products, but all of the toys, doodads and INFLATABLE GIANT PEEPS of Peepsdom.

Thing comes with a plug that keeps your I.F.P. perpetually bursting with air, and it’s the kind of decoration that’ll make even the lousiest Kraut at your party flash bright teeth.

Between the Peeps, the fact that even Mounds and Almond Joy have created Easter versions of their chocolate bars and my unending obsession with split-apart plastic eggs, I think I’m going to toss aside any reservations I had about the holiday and spend more time writing about it next year. When I started the site, there wasn’t a terrible amount of truly interesting Easter candy — now it’s right up there with Christmas and Halloween, if not even more so. Somebody’s been paid off.

Course, there’s one tradition I’d never skip out on — the coloring of the Easter eggs. Last night was spent making eggs pretty with two of my visiting nephews, and we were charged with making eggs for every child in the family who is going to be at my parents’ party this afternoon. I’m kind of glad I won’t be there, because we made some seriously sick, ugly and vile Easter eggs. Almost every egg is dark and monstrous, abstract, cracked and appearing like we-the-artists had channeled Edvard Munch. I can’t say I’m proud of the fact that my four-year-old niece is going to receive an Easter egg based on Freddy Krueger this afternoon, but Will Smith don’t need to Fred eggs to Easter them, so fuck him, and fuck you too.

I did make a few prettier eggs…

Found a few packages of “Nerds Shrinkles” several months back, and they’ve really been the only reason I’ve looked forward to Easter since. Based on the candy brand’s big-nosed mascot creatures, the kits provide an easy method of winning every Easter egg art competition in the country with as little fuss as possible. Each kit comes with an assortment of plastic egg slipcovers that perform very Shrinky Dink-esque magic tricks when placed in boiling water.

The package suggests letting them sit in the boiling water for three seconds, but they shrink down and glue themselves to eggs the second they hit the hot steam. It’s a lot of fun, but I’m wondering how fruitful this is since most kids aren’t allowed to fuck around with pots full of boiling water. At least, that’s what Bugs Bunny used to say in that old commercial.

End result: Mega awesome Nerds eggs.

With one experiment marked as a success, I went after another. The backs of each Nerds Shrinkles package included a cutout coupon for a forty-cent discount on any regular sized box of Nerds candy. The coupons are from 1986, but they’re clearly marked with that heavenly “no expiration date” tag. So, while at the grocery store picking up all the things we promised our families we’d bring today, I gave it a shot, and…it worked! Easter really is a time of miracles, or time for miracles, whichever sounds righter and corrector.

I hope your Easter is merry. Discuss your own celebrations in the comments.

I work at CVS,and someone gave me a "no expiration" coupon from 1982. It was 20 cents of a box of Kleenex, and unlike your coupon, it was cut from the Sunday paper,and VERY obviously 1982, i.e. graphics, logos etc. The back was an ad for household cleaners, such as "Mr.Muscle" oven cleaner. The coupon worked, so it was an Easter miracle. You have no idea how much I wanted to keep and scan the coupon, but I dreaded explaining it to my superiors, so I let it slip away.

Awesome. I, too, work at a CVS, but I haven’t come across magically immortal Easter coupons.

I ate a hard boiled egg this morning for the first time in years. Not exactly as I remember them and hopefully I’ll remember this over the days they tasted good for next easter.

I’m sick.

Every Easter I get little gifts, and plenty of candy, but this year I got all of the new Gi Joe comic books from Devils Due publishing.:) But still, I’m sick.

I agree that Easter is a lot more pumped this year. It feels a lot more like Christmas. I’d say more but my Grandma just got here and my mom is SCREAMING about it.

I’m happy because my mom finally got the hint that I hate ham and made me a turkey for Easter. The Easter bunny came through again this year, and I got a nice basket full of goodies. There were a lot of loose M&Ms and Cabury mini eggs which I have since sealed in my Peeps candy containers.

I’m going to some friends’ for Easter Dinner in a couple of hours. They are, of all things, barbequeing (?sp?) a ham. It sounds really weird, but I’m trying to keep an open mind.

I didn’t go to church today, and I’m feeling kind of guilty about it. Still, I haven’t really gone to church regularly in a long time, so I would have felt like a hypocrite. Catch-22, and it sucks.

On the plus side, I finished the Slave I and Arc-170 Lego kits. They look pretty cool.

Sorry for the double post, but I think this is kind of funny. I live in a four-plex, and I think my neighbors all go to church. It is Idaho after all, and the heart of Mormon country.

I just went to turn on some music. My computer is hooked up to my living room entertainment center, so I can REALLY put out some noise with all my digital music if I so choose. My computer is on shuffle, and I forgot that the system was cranked from yesterday afternoon when I watched a movie. Pantera’s "Use My Third Arm" was the first song that came on, and it was BLASTING out. I couldn’t find my universal remote right away, and for some reason my computer froze except for the audio output. So basically I blasted out almost an entire hard-core metal song on Easter Sunday at 11:45. I finally found the remote, but I should have just walked over to my stereo. Anyway, I’m pretty sure my neighbors probably think I worship the devil.

I can’t wait to get a house. I hate having to be courteous to my neighbors. If I want to vacuum at 11:30 at night or listen to heavy metal at high volume, I shouldn’t have to worry about whether it will annoy the neighbors.

I’m sure you can secretly dread something you announce on a widely-read Website.

What is with Easter this year? Since when does the Easter Bunny give out Death Cab for Cutie CDs? But if that wasn’t surprising enough, the old basket also contained some kind of smelly toy. My specific toy was named Monster Mouth, but I can’t remember what the brand was and I’m not going to check because the package reeks in a big way. I’m going to have this smelly toy package on my floor for the rest of my life. The thing has a stink-lasting rating of 13 or something. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I think it means the stank will never leave my house. Apparently, if you squeeze it, it breathes pure stench into the air, but I’d say it’s doing quite fine without any assistance. It was alright when it was securely locked away in its little plastic chamber, but the second I tore him out, I heard Taps play in my nose. They included a plastic container for him to hide inside, but it’s definitely not strong enough.

It’s not Easter here in Romania for another week (Orthodox church) but I just wanted to say that egg on the left looks just like it had brain surgery. Best Easter egg I’ve ever seen!

We typically wake up and do a hunt for our Easter baskets (yes, I am an adult…shu’ up).

Then church, family dinner (always ham), and a visit to the graves of my deceased grandparents. Also, in a relatively new tradition, work. Damnit.

We’re not really Easter people per say, although my mom is making Easter dinner: Conrish game hens (never had them before), mashed potatoes, biscuits, some veggie (which is ignored), and PEANUT BUTTER PIE.

Did anyone see Easter Unwrapped on Food Network? They had a guy who makes sculptures like the flag with Peeps. The company even gives him FREE PEEPS when he needs him.

Just two things to say:
the eggs Matt, they’re beautiful, man.
The other thing is this, there are protein bars in my easter basket this morning. In the words of Cliff Claven, "What’s up with that?"

So far my celebration has consisted of praying that the rental and sib units will go visit relatives so I can watch Sopranos in peace for once. Every week I have to put up with the most inane running commentary…Speaking of inane commentary, the current Best Week Ever did a bit on Sopranos that was utterly lame, but still somewhat amusing because I never get tired of people talking about Paulie Walnuts and Bobby B. as if they were as real as you or me.
Both sets of eggs are cute, and I like that you’ve left your presence at your family celebration in giant Peep form.
Happy Easter everyone!

That giant Peeps thing scares me. Is that your security precaution? That would scare me straight.

And here’s a funny story, I was in the library years ago (2002) going through the used books for sale, and on the top of the case, there was a coupon for Burger from 1986. And one of them was used allready. I still have it. Its funny as hell. I wonder if I should use it. I have it scanned on the computer and use it as my background.

Best Easter Candy though? Reeses Eggs! You’d be a fool to pass them up. A FOOL!!!

Can I (never mind, I’ll do it anyway

) usurp the board for a moment and ask everyone a fun question:

Easter egg hunts were so great for exploring those unappreciated corners of the house, and finding them decorated with a pretty-colored egg. My most memorable find was an egg in the cockpit of my Lego Aquazone submarine. It was almost a perfect fit…

My family always has a easter egg hunt for the kids and adults, and of course the Golden Egg is the main objective. You hold the Golden Egg for a year. My relatives have a pond in their back yard and a couple of people didn’t want to get their hands dirty. Of course I dug right in and I think I got bit by something.

Didn’t do much for easter. Went to church, had easter dinner with family, then opened up our baskets. I got Reeses Eggs, a lollipop with a zipper (They are called Zyppers! How kooky is that?), M+Ms, jelly beans, and a $15 iTunes Gift Card. Yay easter.

I would have to say that the best hiding place I’ve encountered is the tall grass under the faucet next to the dog’s watering pan. I say "best" because none of us kids found it, and the adults didn’t find it after the hunt, and basically nobody found it until it had been stinking up the entire yard for a week. And that’s the year we stopped hiding hard-boiled eggs.

Oh, I totally decorated easter eggs with Shrinkles about 20 years ago. Made with Mickey Mouse Shrinkles and love, everyone in my family got one. My grandmother thought they were beautiful and took hers home and put it on a little egg stand on her bedroom nightstand.

Last summer Grandma went in the nursing home and I had the nasty job of cleaning out her house before we sold it. About the only moment of humor was coming across that damn Shrinkle Egg still sitting in its place of honor. Yes, the thought of 20-year-old easter eggs is disgusting, but somehow my eight-year-old Shrinkle making self was proud all over again.

Once I was hiding Easter eggs for my brother to hunt for, and I hid one in the bottom of his Easter basket under all the grass. lol, he never thought to look there and was SO MAD because he couldn’t find the last egg.

I’m alone in Boston while my family is in upstate New York, so today is just another day of not getting dressed and finishing up the last disc of Ducktales. We used to have massive egg hunts outside at my house with everyone. It was great and they’d stick money in the eggs. Sometimes five bucks! Bah! stupid growing up. Like I said yesterday, Kingdom Hearts II is waiting for me when I get home. go Jesus!

First of all, Happy Easter to all who celebrate it; for everyone else, I hope you at least got to enjoy spring.

Other than somehow getting a huge headache half-way through the day, I had an enjoyable Easter, too. I went over to my uncle’s. He, my youngest sister, and my biological father visted our older cousin and her husband, baby daughter, and two sons. The boys were fun. We got to watch them hunt candy-filled plastic eggs in the backyard while everyone cooed over the baby in the huge, frilly pink dress who prefered her plastic keys to the company. After we came back, the four of us had turkey breast, peas and corn, broiled potatoes and carrots, and home-made cole slaw and stuffing. Not a traditional Easter dinner by any means, but quite tasty. We had the cookies I baked last night as an Easter surprise (and a thank you for the birthday dinner at Applebees) for dessert.

In between the visit and the meal, my sister and I dyed eggs (not much better than Matt and his nephews). Later, we played "Mario Kart" and the first "Mario Party" on her Nintendo 64 and watched a few episodes of the original Japanese "Sailor Moon" she got off some friend or the other; she’s a HUGE anime fan.

I’m glad to see Matt getting into Easter. I’ve always liked Easter, maybe because it’s close to my birthday.

And, being non-religious, and using Easter solely as a food holiday, I have dubbed Easter "Green eggs and ham day". It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out why.

My immediate fam doesn’t speak to a lot of the extended fam, but we see some of mom’s side on holidays more out of tradition and guilt than anything. This year we just decided we didn’t feel like going, so yay I got to stay home and hang out with my cat all day eating candy and napping. I’ve been writing about Peeps for 3 weeks now, so I’ve been crashing all day. I don’t have any Easter specials so I’m watching Follow That Bird instead.

Happy Easter to all!
Spent the day with the wife’s family. E.Claire did a pretty good job picking up the eggs and putting them in her basket (they weren’t hidden but she is only 15 months old). Easter Bunny brought her some good stuff including a PEEPS stuffed bunny thing. 3 dollars at TARGET. How could I say no?

Easter memories-Found the prize egg Kindegarten through 2nd grade.
Once painted eggs camoflagued for an Easter party (?) at my house when I was in the 4th grade. I won.

I had a good Easter, probably the best holiday I have had in awhile truthfully. I went crazy putting stuff together for my daughters Easter basket (who is 15mo old btw). Unfortunately she likes the pink "medium size" beanie bunny Peep that my husband got for me more than anything I bought for her. Figures! Her grandmother had a big dinner of some Easter sausage thing and other rich stuff I couldnt eat so I just watched. LOL We watched Narnia and I took her over to her grandfathers house all dressed up. I colored a Peeps coloring book page while my daughter "helped" too. We didnt do the egg hunt thing this year…next year we will though. Trying to move in the middle of a holiday kinda puts a damper on some things.

Big family get-together, ham and rolls for dinner, celebrated two birthdays, and the Sunday sermon was done in the format of Howie Mandel’s "Deal or No Deal." It was certainly different.

Inkmage: I’m glad I’m not the only one who uses that wonderful Cliff Claven complete with credit!

I got home late last night after six hours on the road, and basically crashed out without turning on any lights. When I finally got up this morning, I went into the kitchen to make coffee…and to discover The Horror.

One of my dear good friends bought me three packages of Peeps for Easter, since the influence of you people has me mentioning them constantly. Since I know that bringing my own Peeps within four hundred miles of my ravenous cousins would be a disaster, I left them on my kitchen counter over the weekend. This morning, I discovered that all four boxes in all three packages of marshmallowy goodness were swarming with ants.

Dammit, this means war. I’m going to go blow my entire paycheck on raid, contact poison, and bait traps. My apartment WILL be reclaimed.

It is at this point that I would ordinarily make a strained pun as to how my Peeps be buggin’, but I don’t think I could get it out past the desolate, wrenching sobs.

Easter was good. I think for the first time in my life I didn’t make it to church. I had out of town guests comme in Saturday really late and service was at 9am. Then we did the ham dinner thing with family. Then another ballgame.
I ate absolutely no Easter candy this year, though. I think I’ll fix that after work today.

Easter was good in Topeka. Church was nice, and there was a free Easter Breakfast at our church… by the way, is it ok to assume that when the sign says "Free Breakfast", but then when you get in there it asks for donations, its ok to just go by the letter of the law… that being the word "Free"?

Anwyay– Tax day today. Wondered if you had any comments on paying Taxes, or better yet, any funny articles.

Well, you guys completely blew my theory out of the water. Yesterday afternoon, I was just doing the typical Sunday afternoon thing after church and thinking how the fun aspects of Easter disappear once you hit adulthood. I guess that only applies to me. I remember the first Easter we didn’t get baskets. My parents had decided that my sister and I were probably too old to care anymore (they were wrong) and when I got up on Sunday morning and rushed to the living room, there was nothing. I thought maybe my parents had just forgotten to put them out and we’d get something after church. I waited all day. Nothing. They didn’t even mention it. I like to tease my mom with that story about how she broke my heart and scarred me for life. I still miss that aspect of Easter. After I graduated from high school and had a job, I bought my sister (only three years my junior) an Easter basket for the remaining years I lived at home to relive the joy of our shared childhoods. She always appreciated that.

One of my favorite pictures my mom has is of me hunting Easter Eggs in my grandmother’s back yard. In the background is my sister (probably about 2 years old), basket in hand, looking up the backyard spigot. When I think of favorite hiding places, I think of that, even though there’s no way it would ever be possible.

Hey, everybody. I’ve been on a hunt all week for something that my friend picked up at Walgreens. It’s a fairly large chocolate egg with a Peep inside. It has a pink foil wrapping with that magical yellow Peep just sitting there mocking me. I think my friend found the last one in Seattle. I’m jealous.

First Easter in years I didn’t go to church, but Ma said there was a really big amount of visitors there, so I dodged a bullet there because our church is kinda small. She cooked a turkey for supper, and I realized that I could have stapled paper rabbit ears to it, just for festivities, sake, but it was too late. Spent Saturday evening checking out the annual Ratttlesnake Festival the next town over. Wasn’t as good as usual, most likely because of Easter/Rattlesnake conflict. But it does mean the unofficial start of the County Fair-Carnival season. Bring on the fried cheese!

I didn’t know Doc Hinkle made the shrink things too. I thought he only made the egg-paint.

Anyway, my Easter is more of a "Family Fun Day" than a religious holiday since I’m Buddhist.

It started with a Green eggs and Ham breakfast. Then, I found the hidden Easter-Basket my Mother made for me.

Then, I took a walk and it was a BEAUTIFUL day outside. With all the tulips and sunshine, it really looked like Easter. (I usually don’t leave the house on holidays).

Then we had a Turkey Dinner and watched movies based on cartoons the rest of the night.(Spongebob, Fat Albert, Scooby Doo).

Interesting parralel that folks here might appreciate is that the first TMNT toy I ever got was a Michelangelo figure that was a prize at an Easter egg hunt. And, the first TMNT toy from the NEW line was a Mike fig in my Easter basket.

Woke up at 3. Dinner was at 1 at my parents’ house. Got there by 3:30. Ate cold dinner in front of the TV and continued watching TV until 8. Best Easter I can remember.

Well, the time spent with my family was happy on Easter in that I got to be asked to be a bridesmaid in my cousin’s wedding next June. Unfortunately this past weekend was also the weekend I decided to break up with my boyfriend of 3 1/2 years. Sometimes you gotta just walk away from the bullshit and that’s all I’ll say.

Just to remind everyone, Svaed By The Bell starts tonight at Midnight on Adult Swim!

Yes! Indeed SBTB is now on Adult Swim! Why? Search me, but I can’t wait. My fave was always the one where Zach, Slater and Screech defy there women and in the end realize their mistakes when Mr. Belding is hanging out witht hem in Zachs room. It was such a great show dammit!!!!

Ah, the Bell. They should it every day here at 4:00 on the local FOX affiliate. They just showed the ep you’re talking about, Rixliss.

I hate to see the Cartoon Channel start diversifying their programming by airing live action shows, though. I’m torn. The more BEll the better, but this could be a slippery slope where Cartoon Channel starts looking like TBS.

Did you see yesterday in the corner of the screen during AS it didn’t say
[adult swim]
it instead said
[dumb 1980s live action show channel]
or something pretty close. Is Cartoon Network forcing Saved by the Bell into Adult Swim against their wishes? Thank God I have Tivo and I can avoid it completely.

I just got Follow That Bird on DVD at Walmart for $5.50. Is that where you got it? I actually screamed when I saw it in the bin!! That was one of my all-time favorite movies. I started watching it the other night but didn’t finish, and now you’ve inspired me to finish watching it tonight.

Quietest easter ever….took a road trip and missed the whole thing being on the road! No gifts, but bought and ate chocolate along the way with some friends.

I stopped watching Adult Swim when it went to every night of the week instead of only on Sunday nights…but why Saved by the Bell?

Muppet Baby: Adult Swim is a block of shows on Cartoon Network at nighttime. Back in the day they aired Space Ghost on Sunday nights, then they added similar cartoons to the lineup and made it Adult Swim. Now it’s on every night of the week.

Me, I watch Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and now Justice League Unlimited is on now, and waiting for SNL. (at the time I wrote this)

Speaking of SNL, the 4/29 show is gonna be The Best of TV Funhouse, hosted by the Ambiguously Gay Duo themselves: Ace & Gary. What’s everyone gonna be looking at? Nothing!

Anyways, easter was ok, basket was NOWHERE as impressive as last year, Oh well, I still got my cadbury eggs & marshmallow things, so I’m happy

And on this Saved By The Bell crap, the ads for this didn’t start until after last week’s Robot Chicken, which had Dustin Diamond save Corey Haim & Corey Feldman thugs in a Brazilian bar, so I think that this is one huge elaborate joke. At least, I hope so…

My average Saturday night I update the site and watch porn. Not too exciting. This Friday I’m going bowling with some girls at the office, and frankly I’m kinda scared. It’s been yeeeaaaaars since I had like… a girls night out. o.o

If Adult Swim really DOES air Saved By the Bell, all of Williams Street must die. That’s all there is to it.

I didn’t do anything for Easter. We don’t go to church, no one wants to cook anything elaborate, Mom just flat out hates the holiday itself and my Brother and sister in law took their kids up to her mom’s house. So, it was like any other day for me.

If my memory is correct, Adult Swim has always been on at least 2 nights a week, Sundays and Thursdays and Sunday was just a repeat of Thursday or vice versa.

I remember my church selling religious-type Shrinkles when I was a little kid. I’m not really sure what to think of such things.

You should hire an exterminator. Just spraying raid and similar products won’t get the root of your problem, which is probably outside. You gotta’ take out the anthill those bastards are coming from.

Actually, there’s a good chance you can talk your landlord into paying for the exterminator, since the other tenants in your building probably have the same problem. Get your neighbors involved too, and all of you ask the landlord to do the right thing. This is like having your water heater go out or any other major problem. Of course, this all assumes that your landlord is not an asshole or a slum lord.

Saturday is poker night. If it’s a good night, I don’t come home until late, and totally ignore the SNT. If it’s a bad night, I come home early and the SNT consoles me. Either way, Saturdays rock!

I am sorry man about the ant peeps. Saturday I had easter dinner, about 7, way too late, it started at 5 but I was asleep (I am naturaly a night owl it seems, I stay up usually until 8 in the morning, and sleep in until about 5 at night, I can work anytime I want from home so usually I don’t feel guilty about it) But my family was pissed. I had to nuke some leftovers, ham, mashed potatoes, I had some coleslaw too, and some other stuff. I washed it down with some C2, and then I had some pumpkin pie after my grandma yelled at us for not affording our bills. I just bought a guitar and DDR ya’ll so she was pissed. Anyway, I haven’t really gotten my easter fix yet. I only have had a chocolate bunny and it was good but I didn’t feel eastery eating it. My grandma obviously didn’t want to hook us up with candy

If I’m not catching up on neglected homework on Saturday night, I am either wasting time on the internet (just like every other night of the week!) OR attending my friend’s prayer circle that she leads (she is pagan but the prayer circle is mostly sort of a discussion group/meditation thing). If I go to the prayer circle we usually end up at a bar or club after.

Saturdays I always monitor the SNT, even if I don’t have anything of interest to say (as was the case this week). I watch Little People, Big World and Cheaters (quite a disparity between those, I realize) and whatever else has been recorded during the week, and maybe get inebriated in some fashion. Thanks to work and school I prefer to spend what free time I do have couch surfing, though I feel guilty about it.
Sopranos wasn’t quite as good as last week, IMO anyway. I do however love Melfi as consigliere and Carmela’s return to form. Thoughts?

One of those kids beat up Horshack, one became a stripper, and one co-starred with Dennis Franz’s byew-tocks.

Maybe Saved by the Bell was an animated show all those years. Maybe Mark Paul Gossaoihghag; and Tiffany Amber Theioagh;gahg never really existed but were conceived of but highly photo-realistic cartoonists who devised a pitch perfect plan to trick us into believing they were real, in order to follow up on their careers, buy magazines with them on the covers, etc etc.

It goes into my theory of the fabricated celebrity. News Flash! Jessica Simpson doesn’t exist. Never existed. Just created to sell magazines. Prove me wrong people.

Did anyone else see the underapprectiated movie Simone? It was truth merely disguised as a comedy.

I can’t believe what a lame ep they’re playing (hasn’t aired yet but I checked the guide)…Screech’s psychic sneezes? Boooooring. At least air the Hawaiian eps where Zack bangs the single mom (It’s in the subtext, I swear to you) or any number of the "greatest hits" eps…Jessie and the uppers, the death of Slater’s beloved lizard Artie, Kelly can’t afford the prom, Zack drives drunk, Screech dyes everyone’s face red, the subliminal message tape that makes everyone fall in love with Zack, Jessie’s stepbro is a dick but in love with Lisa, Zack joins the ballet to graduate, the Zack Attack fantasy ep, the list goes on…actually I’m sure they’ll get to at least one of those, I just felt like betraying the fact that I watch way too much SBTB. Sheesh, what an awful show.

Aaaand after checking the [adult swim] site I see that they’re airing five eps that immeadiately came to my mind (House Party, Jessie’s Song, Rockumentary, Drinking and Driving, and Snow White and the Seven Dorks, which aired on TBS this very morning) as greatest hits, although they’re calling it "a best-of look at the Boys and Babes of Bayside High".

I heard this amazing story today. Apparently Amazing Stories is coming to DVD in 3 months. Amazing. Do you have to eat Amazin Fruit when you watch Amazing Stories?

Adult Swim blows in my opinion for different reasons. If the boy wakes up in the middle of the night, Nick is playing "Mad About You" and Disney has on some awful made for Disney movie and Then we go to cartoon Network that Has something like BoBo BoBoBoBoBO. Which is just weird for a 4 year old. I think he’d end up scared for life watching that nose haired freak. At least, he freaks the hell outta me.

Ants regrouping again. Defenses in ruins. I’ve lost the kitchen and the living room. I think they got the exterminators. I heard screaming a little while ago. I’m in the closet now, but I’m almost out of Raid. Sooner or later a scout will get away, and then I’ll just have to smash as many as I can with my laptop.

Oh, god. They’re in the bedroom. Tell…tell your mom I love her. Oh, and that she should probably get tested. Sorry about that.

They keep shoving bait traps under the door. I think they’re laughing at me. If anyone gets this message, get out. Get out and nuke the whole place from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

They’re here. Eat synthetic pyrethroid, you motherless sons of *****CARRIER LOST*****

WARNING: MINI RANT
Nothing against SBTB, but I hate when networks betray the point of the network. Cartoon Network should play cartoons, AMC should play classic American movies, VH1 should play video hits, MTV should play music, MTV2 should DEFINITELY play music, TV Land should not play original programming, and I shouldn’t have to wait 30 minutes to get the weather on The Weather Channel because they want to tell me the story of some tornado that hit a small town in 1962. What’s next? Sex and The City on Noggin?

Jedoc! Come in, Jedoc, what is your situation? Do you copy?
It is irritating how they censor the anime they show but let Aqua Teen get away with some nasty shit. I am a fan of the likes of Bebop, Champloo, Bleach and Blue Gender but if I had my choice I’d rather have the option to watch with the subtitles, violence and sex intact.

JessicaMarie- Thanks for explaining. I don’t get Cartoon Network anymore… :0(

But I agree with LORI- they should stick to cartoons- it’s what the people want, dammit!

Jedoc, can you keep your channel open? I’m using my Portal to lock on your signal. A rescue pod is being loaded with Dryer Sheets, Chalk, Peppermint Oil, Cayenne Pepper, and a stoned aardvark with the munchies. Just hold on, man! Help is on the way! Don’t you die on us, you magnificent bastard!

Yea saved by the bell on cartoon network sucks, at least anime is actually cartoons. I say play another episode of the boondocks or athf or some anime instead of that crap. The only reason I used to watch it when I was younger is it was the only "funny" thing on tv after school. Oprah is not funny, and we didn’t have cable back then. Stoopid tv.

And now Im pissed off at Cartoon Network. They treated Bell like it was a filthy plague. WTF Williams ST? They posted Sarcastic messages all throughout the show, showed clips in slow motion and distorted color, and changed it’s name to "Crappy 1980S Live Action Network". I’m pretty sure no one twisted their damn arm to purchase the show. I’ve been losing my patience with Cartoon Netowrk lately, but this is the final straw. I was actually excited. I wanted ot see the episodes. Now, I’m just dissapointed

As for sticking to Cartoons, they’ve been acting very weird in the past couple months, airing the Goonies, Dumb and Dumber. I don’t know if they’re trying to get kicked off the air or not…Sad.

Sorry Matt for using your board as a venting ground. I figured anyone who would understand would be the readers on this board.

It’s so weird that Saved By The Bell came on before Full Metal Alchemist tonight. Those are two shows that shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence, much less appear next to each-other in the same line-up!

Lori, I said something similar a while back on another thread. Just about every gimmick channel has lost their gimmick, no one does what they’re suppose to be doing. I remember watching Newsradio on the Biography channel.

Avon Skin So Soft missiles have been deployed! Hand is on the button for the borax powder warheads, but you’ve got to give us the word!
The bumpers they played during SBTB were horrifying, particularly slowmo Jessie. I think the whole thing is a dumb idea, especially since this morning TBS aired another one of the eps they’re showing on swim. I haven’t watched Cartoon Network much in awhile (though I’m incredibly sad that the Powerpuff wallet I’ve been carrying for years is falling apart) and can’t say that many of the current or upcoming adult swim shows are that appealing. The Devil’s daughter one sounds interesting but that’s it…I won’t even get into the vortex of suckitude that is The Boondocks…I know adult swim is trying to attract female viewers, did they think SBTB was the way to do it?

Jedoc
I too, once had an ant infestation in my apt. Those nifty little houses fixed it. Sounds like you may be past that though. And you have to remember to change them every three months, or they just come back in full force. Good luck, stay strong.

I can’t imagine Adult Swim doesn’t have tons of female viewers already. Just curious as to where you got that info, squee.
This kind of makes me glad we can’t afford cable at the moment. I can just watch my Home Movies on DVD and in peace, and not be plagued by SBTB and bad anime.

Regarding adult swim and Cartoon Network, Cartoon Network should only show cartoons, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force should be as censored as the anime, not that I’m saying that they should censor ATHF. What I do is, every so often I’ll watch adult swim and if there is a new show on, and if I like it, I’ll wait until it comes out on DVD. I can’t stay up that late every night just to watch Robot Chicken, speaking of which, I purchased the DVD the day after it came out. It rocks my socks.

I can’t tell what’s worse - Cartoon Network showing live action programs, MTV2 no longer showing music videos like it was supposed to or ESPN airing poker and darts just about every night (not to mention telling the NHL to jump in a lake).

Hm. A rise in ant takeovers and live action shows on Cartoon Network. These two must somehow be connected.

Whew. I think I’ve got the little bastards on the run. They seem to have decided that the poison in the bait traps is marginally more delicious than my now well-protected sweets. Also, at the last minute, an aardvark with bloodshot eyes showed up, slurped up a ton of ants, stole my Cheetoes, and left. Still don’t know what that was all about. Anyway, I should be able to fight a rearguard action until the replacement exterminators show up, which should be next Tuesday. Now all I have to contend with is the disturbing news about Adult Swim and SBTB. I’m afraid I’ll have to watch it tonight. Now I just need to fortify myself with enormous quantities of brandy and laudanum for the experience. Thanks for the advice in the merciless ant-slaying.

Cartoon Network needs to play the following Pryde of the X-Men.My favorite X-Men of all time.

I still don’t know why they aired those shows. I would go to the Message Board, but for some reason my login hasn’t worked since they revamped the AS site. Meh.

Rixliss - It’s Adult Swim. Did you really think they would air them without some sarcasm? That was the only redeeming thing about it all! NOT that I forgive them for even THINKING about airing such non Adult Swim crap.

Maybe they did it for that reason - to show us how all of their shows are gold compared to ye old Saved By the Bell. Yes, I would even watch Super Milk-Chan or some shit over SBTB.

Yeah Saved By The Bell was crap. It was meant to be, that show was purely stupid and it didn’t care. I’m still pissed about how they handeled it though.

AS shows vs. SBTB? Only one can win. Place your bets folks! I still take SBTB. I think AS has sucked for years. Just me though.

While I do feel that airing live action shows and movies on the cartoon network wears at the integrity of said channel, I always considered SBTB as part of my "Saturday morning cartoons," and as such, I don’t feel as personally attacked as you all do.

I hate Adult Swim playing sbtb. I hate Boomerang playing cartoons from just yesterday but I’m going to have to be a hypocrite for just a second. I just found out that starting next week the Justice League is going to air everynight at 11:30m joining the current line-up that’s airing an hour of Batman:TAS and Superman:TAS. These are 3 of the best shows of all time, I don’t care if they were airing on BET.

I don’t relaly feel attacked, I just don’t understand if the channel is gonna put a show on why would they waste precious air time and money to just belittle it. Thats the whole I was making.

As far as live action on CN. thats nothing new. They used to play The Bannana Splits on Cratoon Network around 1994-1996. And that damn Carrot Top show. I’ll second the comment about it should be played on Boomerang. That seems a bit more reasonable.

In their defense though, the did put a funny image of Jesse screaming the famous "Im so excited, I’m so scared" and distorting. I found that funy, I will confess.

One show they belittle all the way, is that horribly shitty Wildc.a.t.s cartoon. That pure shit. Or that Mortal Kombat direct-to-video cartoon. I cryed for hours after watching that crap.

Jessica Marie, from USA Today:
Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil, due late this year, is an attempt to attract more young women. As a child of Satan dating the potential Second Coming, she has issues.
"We would see more of a bump in ratings if we could attract more women," program chief Mike Lazzo says. "Guys just tend to like stupid a little more."

To be fair, MST3K has been off the air for several years. There is an entertainment vacuum begging to be filled by mocking older forms of entertainment. While both Cartoon Network and Saved by the Bell seem to be slightly off-kilter sources to choose, I think I can see the string of logic which led up to the decision. If Williams Studio was protesting live-action material being shoehorned into their own lineup, I’d be bang alongside this decision. As it is, I’m afraid I don’t quite understand.

Jedoc, I have some words of wisdom for you regarding your coming battles with the ants, which will surely occur before the exterminator comes “next Tuesday”. These words were first spoken to me by my master, Pai Mei. May this knowledge serve you well.

JEDOC-You know I really didn’t think of it that way. I guess your right. I guess I was taking it a little hard, and not understanding it from different standpoints. I owe you a beer I guess or that damn Mindbender I found under my couch last night.

I just wanna know why in the fuck they would waste a half hour on that?! Are they really that desperate or something? Probably just wanted to stir things up.

I am an Adult Swim fiend, I will admit. Well, ok, I used to be, but when everything became a rerun and stupid shows started taking over, I lost a little interest. I still look to see if anything is new, but if not, I don’t bother.

I’m more of an anime fan, but I do like ATHF and Sealab was good. Brak annoying after a while, I like The Boondocks, and The Venture Brothers. Robot Chicken was good though I didn’t see much past the first season. *sigh* I just want a block of anime.

I don’t care as much if those are reruns, though.

Super Milk-Chan was … kind of indescribable. Definitely stupid as hell, and pretty pointless, but somehow, you end up watching it, whether you like it or not. I thoroughly despised it, but yet I have probably seen every one of them. Grr.

Darth: I am curiously grateful for the words of Hatori Honzo. He seems like a guy who is serious about his tea, and I can respect that. And he seems like a guy who would be really dedicated to wiping out the ant population in his apartment.

Rixless: That’s why I make the big bucks. The librarian is the bartender for teetotalers. Making people see the opposing view since 1983.

Jedoc- Hatori Honzo said that if Beatrix kiddo met God, he(God) would be cut. Pai Mei was the martial arts master who had the sexy beard.

I didn’t have an Easter. I had to work all weekend. But I’ll never forget last year’s Easter. I was in Iraq… I wake up to a knocking on the door, and I hear Lt. Maine’s voice, "Some big-ass rabbit left these at yer door…" He was holding a handfull of plastic eggs with candy in them.

No Easterfest here. Lots of sitting around. But I can’t recall doing anything on Easter in well over 10 years anyhow.

As for SBTB on AS, I could well be entirely wrong as I’m basing this on an IRC comment I heard, but apparently either some exec at CN, some exec responsible for the creation of Adult Swim, or someone at Williams Street (I was given a name at the time, I just don’t remember it) was the one responsible for bringing SBTB to NBC originally as his first project, and its appearance here likely has something to do with that. Or it was someone on IRC talking out of their ass, could be either one.

But here’s a scary thought - SBTB’s entrance into Saturday morning all but began the death of Saturday morning cartoons as we’d known them up to that point. And now it shows up on AS - gasp! (cue ominous music.)

Estimated number of Marshmallow Peeps that will be consumed around Easter this month: 800,000,000. (Source: Just Born.)

Darth: The quote you posted was actually from Hattori Hanzo, not Pai Mei. I don’t think Pai Mei would be speaking Japanese after his rant about the language/people. =P

what???when did Artie die on Saved By The Bell?? I somehow missed that episode…..it was cute when Artie would give Slater a “nosie”…but it sucks that they called him a chameleon, when Artie was a Green Anole. =[ what is the name of the episode that Artie dies in?? =’[

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