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150 - Saturday Old School

V6

"T-bone back in da' house" "That's right, the original wonder bread" "Poster child for the pigmently challenged" "Not gonna' lie, that droppin' names song about did me in, yo'." "I had more names I had planned to drop in, but my brain vaper locked on me, yo and had me seriously illin'." "So if I didn't work in your name, all it means is I didn't get to you before I crashed out." "If you are one of my mutuals I gots mad respect for you, I hope you know that." "Well, Mr Miracle Whip ain't no giver upper, so we goin' see if WE CAN DO THIS THING!!!" Saturday mornin' wake up' no school means two things lots of sugar and cartoons there ain't be no on-demand, no streaming, no netflix, and you didn't waste Beta Max on toons, so you had two times right after school and saturday mornin' for toons yo so you... had to make it count. You only had three channels with a knob and either rabbit ears or if you had the bling cable, but you had to make a plan and make killer decision between which channel which show each half hour... had to make it count So you watched the yearly specials to plan out your attack or the tv guide or if desperate the daily paper cause you only had one shot at each show so you... Had to make it count People make fun of the Wonder Twins power but at least they had power and they were a hell of a lot better than Wendy and Marvin, someone call CWS and Black Vulcan was a rip off of Black Lightning so they didn't have pay royalties to Tony Isabella, whack! Scooby and gang were always so chillin' but scrappy had that bat-mite vibe that was so illin' scooby and Maynard G Krebs I mean shaggy be secretly token and always snackin' and you can't tell me Fred wasn't hit'n that with Daphne and though Velma be loosen' her glasses she always been pulling rubber maskess "I know maskess ain't a real word, now hush, you're harshin' my vibe" "Now where was I? Oh yeah..." Wasn't allowed to watch the Smurfs because Gargamel was a magician Satanic Panic was a thing back in the day I don't know how the Dungeons and Dragon's cartoon made it and did you know the Smurfs originally came from Belgium and Smurfette was the only girl until Sassette and nanny, what's up with that yo, that goes from menage trois to partouze. Alvin and the Chipmunks were a revival for the modern day by Ross Bagdasarian's son keepin' the squeaking alive ever since the Witch Doctor and Christmas Time they be bringing the rock tunes to Saturday along with Kidd Video, hey is that cousin Oliver? The Chipettes though faired better than that illin' Brady sparkin' kid crushes on Brittany Now you know and known' is half the battle and they need to bring back school house rock cause people don't know how to write and they certainly confused on history and the constitution or how a bill becomes a law Oh, hold up, ah no, for realz, American Band Stand and Soul Train be bustin' everything up they the taps to Saturday mornin' chillin' but wait Grampa Munster Al Lewis and Son of Svengoolie saving the day with rubber monster and B movie madness. Before MST3K that's how we got out bad movie fix yo then you turn your tv off and it go to a little white dot Saturday only came once a week, so you Had to make it count "T-Bone, dropping the mic, I'm out of here, yo!"