NationStates Jolt Archive

What tv shows do you miss?

myself?

well thats easy...

Upright Citizens Brigade *lament*

Futurama
Family Guy
Wonderfalls
Strangers With Candy
SportsNight

I have loved you all, and that has been the death of you. Fear me and my voodoo TV powers!

Not the Nine O'clock News

Can't really get it on DVD!

the x-files spin off about the lone gunmen

it was kinda crrepy because on its first episode a few months befor 9/11 the plot was that the government flew planes into the world trade center and then blamed it on terrorists to go to war with countries olike Iraq

Conquest
PaleoWorld
X-Files
A-Team :lol:

You're in luck, Berkylvania--apparently the Family Guy and Futurama have been so popular on Cartoon Network that they're going to get new episodes.

Brass Eye

The Day Today

Spitting Image

Spaced

Blackadder

to name a few

I would say Fawlty Towers, too, but I think if they had made any more it wouldn't be as good as it is...if you can follow that logic.

the x-files spin off about the lone gunmen

it was kinda crrepy because on its first episode a few months befor 9/11 the plot was that the government flew planes into the world trade center and then blamed it on terrorists to go to war with countries olike Iraq

Is this true? :shock:

You're in luck, Berkylvania--apparently the Family Guy and Futurama have been so popular on Cartoon Network that they're going to get new episodes.

I heard that Family Guy was possibly going to have new episodes, but I thought Futurama was gone because it was too expensive to make?

I heard that Family Guy was possibly going to have new episodes, but I thought Futurama was gone because it was too expensive to make?AllI can say is that I read it in Wired a couple of weeks ago. It was more of a side note--they were profiling the guy who started Adult Swim.

Strangers With Candy
Heh, I love that show. Jeri is my hero.

That, and Ren and Stimpy, are my favorite dead shows.

Futurama
Family Guy
Wonderfalls
Strangers With Candy
SportsNight

I have loved you all, and that has been the death of you. Fear me and my voodoo TV powers!


Noooooooo, Family Guy has gone? :cry:

Space above and beyond (I think it was called that)


It was about a whole bunch of space marines at war with an alien species.

Strangers With Candy
Heh, I love that show. Jeri is my hero.

That, and Ren and Stimpy, are my favorite dead shows.

"You make me moist like a snack cake down there." -- Jeri Blank.

the x-files spin off about the lone gunmen

it was kinda crrepy because on its first episode a few months befor 9/11 the plot was that the government flew planes into the world trade center and then blamed it on terrorists to go to war with countries olike Iraq

Is this true? :shock:

si, I watched it and downloaded off kazza

you should too, even if its wierd its still pretty good

it was never very popular but I sitll think it would have kept running were it not for 9/11, yet another reason to kill ossama

Space above and beyond (I think it was called that)


It was about a whole bunch of space marines at war with an alien species.

I remember that, it was sweet

I saw re-runs on the scifi channel a while ago

the x-files spin off about the lone gunmen

it was kinda crrepy because on its first episode a few months befor 9/11 the plot was that the government flew planes into the world trade center and then blamed it on terrorists to go to war with countries olike Iraq

Is this true? :shock:

si, I watched it and downloaded off kazza

you should too, even if its wierd its still pretty good

it was never very popular but I sitll think it would have kept running were it not for 9/11, yet another reason to kill ossama

I just found this article on http://www.davidcogswell.com/MediaRoulette/LoneGunmen.html


November 10, 2002
'Lone Gunmen' Series Presaged 9-11
At the peace rally in Washington D.C. on October 26 I had the good fortune of running into Jonathan Inskeep, who told me about a fascinating TV program aired March 4, 2001, on Fox that foretold the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, with some fascinating twists.
In that story, a faction within the government organized a remote control takeover of a commercial airline, which it then aimed into the World Trade Center. The motive was to stimulate business for the weapons industry, which had been suffering since the end of the Cold War.

In this version of reality, the plot was discovered by a government employee who was not part of the faction, a good guy, a law-abiding citizen who worked for the government and really believed in the laws. To cut to the chase, the heroes of the story manage to thwart the disaster. One of them hacks the Defense Department computers and manages to restore the pilots' ability to manually override the remote control just moments before the plane would have crashed into the south tower.

The climactic scene shows the plane heading into the tower at night from the south, and when the manual override is restored, the pilots lift the plane, just barely missing the Trade Center.

You can see the scene on the Web through a link at the TV Guide website.

The program was the pilot in a series that was spun off from The X-Files by its creator Chris Carter. The new series centers around three hackers and publishers of a conspiracy zine called "The Lone Gunmen." Their names are Melvin Frohike, Ringo Langly and John Fitzgerald Byers. according to TV Guide, the story was written by Frank Spotnitz, Vince Gilligan and John Shiban.

Inskeep has a tape of the program and he showed it to me. He said that other than the TV Guide article dated June 21, 2002, he has found no other published report that remarks on the similarity of the story to what really happened. The TV Guide story mentions that the planes were remotely piloted, saying, "Unlike the actual attacks, there was no suicide hijacker in the Gunmen climax; the terrorists attempted to remotely steer the plane into the skyscraper."

Of course since the White House has successfully blocked a thorough, independent investigation, we can't definitely rule out the possibility of remote piloting. In fact, a number of the alleged hijackers whose pictures were released by authorities almost immediately after the incident, were later found to be alive. We don't know who was on the flight, and we don't know if they knew the craft was being driven into a skyscraper.

The TV Guide article neglects to mention another major element of the plot. It mentions "terrorists," but never mentions that the terrorists in the story were Americans, part of the government, and they were doing it to create public support for war in order to fuel the weapons industry. This particular parallel was apparently too too disturbing to mention.

To bundle together two aphorisms, let us remember that while life imitates art, truth remains stranger than fiction. We know that the Joint Chiefs of Staff submitted a plan called Operation Northwoods during the Kennedy presidency, in which they advocated terrorist attacks in American cities in order to stir up support for an invasion of Cuba.

And just this week the CIA carried out an assassination from a drone plane, a plane with no driver, remotely controlled from the ground. And we know that remote control systems are in commercial aircraft now too. (See Drones of Death.)

Funny how a Hollywood series could anticipate the 911 scenario, but the multi-billion dollar defense and intelligence establishment was caught totally off guard. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney say no one ever thought of flying hijacked aircraft into buildings before. And they are honorable men. So are they all, all honorable

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creeepy! now they can't say that noone ever thought of flying planes into buildings pre 9/11

"You make me moist like a snack cake down there." -- Jeri Blank.

"I've changed. People change. Changes… I'm not the same Jerri Blank who informed on those blind orphans. I'm not the same Jerri Blank who revealed the hiding place of those Guatemalans… such as yourself. And I'm not the same Jerri Blank who took a crap in the Fleishmann's holly bushes… last night."

it was the first thing I thought of when I hear there had been attacks

it was too bad for thew show, it was pretty good

"Orlando, you can't be a pilgrim. The pilgrims had snowy white skin to match their pure Christian souls. They didn't sacrifice coconuts to their monkey gods." --Jerri Blank

family guy and futurama might come back? sweetness!!! :P

heheh Strangers with Candy ruled! Jerri was hot!

Schrandtopia, I had seen a couple episodes,and they were okay, but I wasn't all that into it. I'm still shocked by the crazy coincidence though!

Twin Peaks
Wolf Lake
Pasadena
Night Visions
Highlander

My favourite dead show is the Dick Van Dyke Show :oops: I know it's really old and has been dead forever, but I wish they'd put the reruns on again...that show is dead funny.

I can't think of any that I really miss, but I swear I'll strangle anyone who mentions "Friends".

Most shows that I enjoyed pretty much ended when they needed to--they were getting stale. One exception might be "Cheers," but I wasn't watching that regularly by the end either, so I could easily be mistaken.

Speaking of Comedy Central shows that have disappeared, I really liked "Strip Mall." It was just so uber-cheesy.

The Twilight Zone
The X-Files
Happy Days

Family Guy
Futurama
And many failed prime-time non-reality shows...

Futurama
Family Guy
Wonderfalls
Strangers With Candy
SportsNight

I have loved you all, and that has been the death of you. Fear me and my voodoo TV powers!

Those were all good, but I have to add Firefly in with them.

Futurama
Family Guy
Wonderfalls
Strangers With Candy
SportsNight

I have loved you all, and that has been the death of you. Fear me and my voodoo TV powers!

Those were all good, but I have to add Firefly in with them.

Ah, Firefly and Strip Mall. How could I have forgotten those fallen friends?

Anyone notice how few network sitcoms are mentioned here? No "Everybody Loves Raymond." No "Just Shoot Me." No "King of Queens." None of that shit. It gives me hope for the future. :lol:

That IS a good thing Incertonia!

I think they should bring back Benny Hill

I miss that show