You Can’t Do That on Television. Possibly my all time favorite show growing up. And its still funny today. I recently got a DVD off all the episodes.
Some good quotes from the show.
From the Future Episode (1983)
Newsboy: Did you see my picture in the paper yesterday, sir? I’m carrier of the week.
Man: I never read the newspaper, son.
Newsboy: That’s what everyone says on my route. No one ever reads their papers anymore.
Man: That’s right, everyone gets their news from the teletext on TV.
Newsboy: Then why do you all still get a newspaper?
Man: Cause we haven’t found any way to wrap up kitty litter in a television set.
Shades of the internet, anyone?
Mom (to her son): So you see Dougie dear, as long as we have more and bigger bombs than the Russians, there will never have a nuclear war. So I want you to go to sleep now and tomorrow I’ll tell you another fairy tale.
Commentary on current events? Fairy tale…?
I’d say that first prediction was about 98% accurate. Wow.
YCDTOT was slightly before my time. I remember it, but by the time I really began to watch Nickelodeon about 1987/1988, it was in its first game show era…Double Dare, Finders Keepers, etc. YCDTOT came on late in the afternoon, and I watched it a few times, but never really understood it or got into it.