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3 hours ago, odessasteps said:

Kids today prob wouldn’t believe how big Luke and Laura was at the time.

When I was in junior high, dudes were literally running home from the bus stop to catch the rest of that day's GH episode. Absolutely ridiculous but completely engrossing story-telling. 

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9 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

My mom was a CBS soap watcher, so I didn’t watch GH until I was in college and my roommate watched it, 

Started watching in junior high shortly after the infamous disco rape  and through all of the mob and spy story-lines that followed until probably my senior year of high school. Was never a "Luke & Laura" fan per se but of many of the characters in their orbit. Team Scotty.  And Jacklyn Zeman and Emma Samms were enough to keep me watching for awhile after Geary and Francis left.  RIP Mr. Geary.

J.H.

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Luke/Laura was so crazy. I mean, only in soaps would a girl marry her rapist and then there some weirdness about a weather dominator(?)

ABC had weird soaps

James

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odessasteps

odessasteps

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Soap operas are wrestling for women. 😉

(One of the professors at BGSU that ran a soap opera academic conference this year wanted me to something on wrestling, but the scheduling didn’t work out.) 

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Pete

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16 hours ago, J.H. said:

Luke/Laura was so crazy. I mean, only in soaps would a girl marry her rapist and then there some weirdness about a weather dominator(?)

ABC had weird soaps

Oh, you know "Rise" probably still triggers people to this day.

Nice Guy Eddie

Nice Guy Eddie

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22 hours ago, J.H. said:

Luke/Laura was so crazy. I mean, only in soaps would a girl marry her rapist and then there some weirdness about a weather dominator(?)

ABC had weird soaps

James

You know Vince had to always be angry that he didn't come up with a Luke and Laura-like storyline first. 

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Oh man, I loved Buck Rogers WAY too much as a kid. My dad even took me to one of the seedy Times Square theaters for the "movie," which was literally the TV pilot episode with some extra scenes and an opening that won't embed but well... yeah. I was SIX, Dad. 

RIP Gil.

 

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odessasteps

odessasteps

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I just saw the movie open8ng credits the other day. Like a bad Maurice Bender Bond opening.

space disco. 

 

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The Natural

The Natural

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On 12/15/2025 at 6:51 PM, Pete said:

The shithead has made his thoughts abundantly clear. Even Republicans are going "Christ, what an asshole."

A new low even for the Mango Mussolini. I hate the cunt.

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J.H.

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I remember Rob Reiner appearing on The Odd Couple as Myrna's love interewt for one episode. Since Myrnq was played by Reiner's th3n wife Penny Marshall, it makescs3jwe

James

odessasteps

odessasteps

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4 minutes ago, J.H. said:

I remember Rob Reiner appearing on The Odd Couple as Myrna's love interewt for one episode. Since Myrnq was played by Reiner's th3n wife Penny Marshall, it makescs3jwe

James

There’s also that SNL Bees skit I posted with Rob and Penny doing a dramatic avenue. 

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Am I the only one who remembers Gil Gerard hanging out with Ricky Steamboat (and two WKRP alums) on "Sidekicks"? Show aired after "Sledge Hammer" and I was too lazy to change the channel 

 

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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8 hours ago, odessasteps said:

In honor of Gil and Markie Post and DEAN…
 

 

I thought that song said "searching my pants" instead of "searching my past for things that I've seen" and I think that's a perfectly acceptable substitution haha. Actually, make that "searching my paunts"... 😉

The immediate link after that is "Inside Markie Post's Untold Crazy Sex Life" and I have no doubt he would have clicked on that immediately

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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"RIP: BOB BURNS, American actor, gorilla suit actor, consultant, producer, archivist and historian of props, costumes, and other paraphernalia from science fiction, fantasy, and horror motion pictures.

It's a sad day indeed for all Monster Kids and fans of Science Fiction/Fantasy/horror. Burns owns one of the two original armatures from the stop-motion animation models used in the classic 1933 KING KONG (pictured here). As a gorilla suit actor, you've seen him as Tracy the Gorilla in the 1975 television show THE GHOST BUSTERS. Burns also played Kogar the Gorilla in DARK AND STORMY NIGHT (2009). He was the proprietor of Bob's Basement, a massive collection of movie props, particularly from horror and science-fiction movies There, you could see the original time machine prop from the 1960 George Pal film THE TIME MACHINE. Burns has one of the largest private collections of memorabilia from the ALIEN franchise.

Burns was friends with American International Pictures special effects technician Paul Blaisdell for many years, and assisted him with the effects on several AIP films, including INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN (1957). Burns and Blaisdell also co-published a monster magazine together in the early 1960s called Fantastic MONSTERS OF THE FILMS. There is so much more that I could say about Bob Burns, but you get he gist...

Bob Burns was 90 years old, and the definitive embodiment of a Monster Kid.

I raise my Goblet of Gorilla-Rock high in Bob Burns' honour!!!"

- Phil Guinozzo

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