It was brought to my attention that the Men Behaving Badly intro used in the video was for the British sitcom series instead of the US version. A slip-up.
As a TV obsessed kid in the 80s and 90s, I have to say that your compilations are some of my favorite things on the internet. Takes me back to poring over issues of TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly and eagerly awaiting each new fall season. Have you ever thought of doing a compilation of those old musical season showcases ("Let's All Be There", "Share the Spirit", etc)? Keep up the great work!
How, how, how have so many years passed and I never once heard about _Homeboys in Outer Space_ ? That intro is the epitome of SNL or MADtv sketches parodying bad sitcom premises, and yet it apparently made it to air as a series.
at can we infer about 1996... X-Files was the Popular "IT" show Fresh Prince was ended UPN Existed and a LOT of Talent was within 5 years of finding their 'fame'
MEMORIES. It amuses me so deeply to see Clueless and 7th Heaven premiered the same year because Rachel Blanchard ended up on the latter in a regular role. I remember watching so many of these shows as a teenager, especially 7th Heaven. Back then I couldn't help comparing the Jamie Foxx show to the Fresh Prince, did anyone else get that kind of vibe? (Speaking of which, I forgot James Avery had other shows after FP. ) Also I kept making comparisons between Nick Freno and Welcome Back, Kotter, even though thinking back there weren't really any outside the "teaching misfit kids" gag. "Party Girl" was meant to cash in on Christine Taylor's stardom as Marcia in The Brady Bunch movie, it didn't last long. SUDDENLY SUSAN'S THEME SONG, that never left my head, especially when the reruns started airing at like, 2am and I'd end up watching because college me had the worst sleep habits. Finally, my cat at the time looked almost exactly like Salem only with a stubbed tail.
Show still can’t be found on streaming. Not sure if I can get the girlfriend to watch it, and I honestly don’t remember if I liked it enough to spring for DVDs.
Ahh, Nick Freno. Don't remember much about it outside of that kid in the picture wound up getting his own show that next season- "The Journey of Allen Strange" on Nickelodeon.
Thanks. I'm trying to get back into doing more of these more often (my last one was about 2 months ago), but it seems to require a little more will power these days. I can get a bit lazy sometimes.
@@RwDt09 I was going to say the plots seemed awfully similar, the movie doing much better of course. Seeing the intro I was wondering if it was an attempt to redeem the TV series lol
@1:05 Talk about a show that *never* airs anywhere anymore. The American version of "Men Behaving Badly had Ron Eldard, Robb Schneider, and Justine Bateman.
Awww man Millennium was Friday-night must-see TV b/c if you missed anything you hadta ask around and find out else you'd be lost. Also, I made dang-sure my 9yo didn't see any of it because I was fairly sure at the time it would've scarred her for life. Now she's in 34 and would probably think Millennium kicks ass. The phrase(s) "Wait....worry....who cares..?" in later seasons was followed by "5-5-2000" and I didn't want the kiddo to spend her wonder-years scared-shitless of a global apocalypse the way us Cold-War kids were.
It's helpful to bear in mind, now that I think about it, that there were a couple of fledgling networks and one of them was shaping itself to be a sort of over-the-air BET.
jockadoobee That was the problem. I liked it a lot, especially the first season, but it did have a problem with sticking with a central premise. It started as a serial killer of the week thing and ended as an X-files rip off.
It was really about Frank Black and the Millennium Group. Season one was Black consulting on cases. Season Two was all about the Group, it's members and history and it's burgeoning civil war. Apparently the showrunners were upset with Fox for cancelling their other show and wrote the second season into a doomsay corner.
I was perplexed by the clip for Men Behaving Badly, I don't recall Martin Clunes ever being on US TV in the 90's. I think you may have mistakinly included the intro for the ITV (1992)/BBC (1994) show Men Behaving Badly, I don't believe that version ever aired on terestrial TV in the US, it eventually made it to BBC America. It was remade in 1996 for NBC with Rob Schneider et al. Completely different cast and crew. That being said, your channel is great! I appreciate these compilations!
yeah The Pretender. loved that show as a kid. Its kinda interesting to see just how many 1 season losers there were. People like to complain about Netflix cancelling shows but the Networks seemed to have a similar fail rate.
I remember Goode Behavior and it was sad that this time around Sherman Hemsley wasn't in a good show. The problem was his co-star Dorien Wilson. He didn't come across good here, as he did as Juggles on Fresh Prince. And I didn't remember that Joseph Maher was in this show.
Suddenly Susan was actually a pretty good show. That's where I first became aware of Kathy Griffin. Also I liked Dark Skies about aliens and cover-ups.
I can see why that Dangerous Minds flopped because of that laughable intro. The movie sucked enough and only the track plus Michelle Pfeiffer made it money at box office!
I could have sworn NBC had a 3rd show (about undercover cops) also starting with a 'P" on Saturday nights along with Pretender and Profiler or did that come a year later - what ever it was it lasted a season or less, while Pretender and Profiler each had 4 seasons (only to be killed by/for XFL 1.0)
The third show you're thinking of was likely The Pretender. Generally it was a Saturday 9 pm series, but it would switch to 8 pm when NBC needed to make changes at mid-season or in the summer. In '96-'97 Dark Skies paired with Pretender and Profiler, but in the summer of '97 Pretender took over 8 pm followed by movies at 9, bumping Profiler off the schedule till the fall, when the Saturday trio became Pretender at 8, the new but short-lived Sleepwalkers at 9, and Profiler at 10. When Sleepwalkers got quickly cancelled, the lineup for the winter became TV Censored Bloopers '98 at 8, Pretender back at 9, followed by Profiler at 10. And so it kept going back and forth like that. It even aired briefly on Wednesday at 8 pm in the summer of '98 as well as 10 pm on Saturday in the summer of 2000.
I don't think i watched a single one of these shows. i was pretty busy in 96 though and was watching a lot of cable tv and movies, not network shows. at least not new ones.
1:57 I never was able to get a grasp of how to pronounce Donald Faison's middle when I first saw him in the "Clueless" series, which I think was the only series where he was credited by his full name. I thought it was pronounced "Ad-ee-o-sun" then, but now I think it's just pronounced like "Addison". Correct me if I'm wrong.
But it tells you something about how desperate she was that she's in the TV version of the movie. Usually when they make the corresponding TV show for these things, the people who were in the movie are too big to get for the show.
All this crap about diversity and "POC" representation these days.... the 90's had a ton of black and ethnic shows, a lot of them good and people were hire based on talent... imagine that.
@@sexysadie2901Which network aired The Jeffersons? Which network aired The Cosby Show? Which network aired Benson? Oh wait, EVERY network had shows for everybody starring everybody, including the dreaded black people, at least since the 70s.
Whoever ran UPN during the mid 90s is extremely racist.HOMEBOYS FROM OUTTA SPACE Really?!!!!!! Plus the slavery comedy The Diary of Desmond Phieffer.That was too over the top when it comes to degrading sterotypes
As a TV obsessed kid in the 80s and 90s, I have to say that your compilations are some of my favorite things on the internet. Takes me back to poring over issues of TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly and eagerly awaiting each new fall season. Have you ever thought of doing a compilation of those old musical season showcases ("Let's All Be There", "Share the Spirit", etc)? Keep up the great work!
Man... mid 90s.
I started driving in 96. I was 16. TV and girls were all I cared about
How, how, how have so many years passed and I never once heard about _Homeboys in Outer Space_ ? That intro is the epitome of SNL or MADtv sketches parodying bad sitcom premises, and yet it apparently made it to air as a series.
It was awful AND ridiculous LOL
I once bought a steve harvey branded belt. it fell apart in two weeks. i will never forgive him for it.
So, trying out for Family Feud is out of the question?
Thanks for the work that you do in putting these videos together!
No problem. Glad you appreciate them.
What was in that cocaine that UPN exec was taking when he greenlit Homeboys in Outer Space?
at can we infer about 1996...
X-Files was the Popular "IT" show
Fresh Prince was ended
UPN Existed
and a LOT of Talent was within 5 years of finding their 'fame'
MEMORIES. It amuses me so deeply to see Clueless and 7th Heaven premiered the same year because Rachel Blanchard ended up on the latter in a regular role. I remember watching so many of these shows as a teenager, especially 7th Heaven.
Back then I couldn't help comparing the Jamie Foxx show to the Fresh Prince, did anyone else get that kind of vibe? (Speaking of which, I forgot James Avery had other shows after FP. ) Also I kept making comparisons between Nick Freno and Welcome Back, Kotter, even though thinking back there weren't really any outside the "teaching misfit kids" gag.
"Party Girl" was meant to cash in on Christine Taylor's stardom as Marcia in The Brady Bunch movie, it didn't last long.
SUDDENLY SUSAN'S THEME SONG, that never left my head, especially when the reruns started airing at like, 2am and I'd end up watching because college me had the worst sleep habits.
Finally, my cat at the time looked almost exactly like Salem only with a stubbed tail.
Teaching misfit kids was also _Head of the Class_ (Brainiacs instead of Sweathogs) and, much more recently, _Mr. Iglesias_ .
Townies had a stacked cast.
Good old Billy Burr, no less!
Who were all doing something else the next fall. Fortunately, Office Space came Ron Livingston's way not long after. We're all better for that.
Millennium was so good, but ending the credits with "who cares?" was not a good way to get people excited.
That show kept me company on FX late nights when I was a teenager. When I got married my wife was like "This is dark!"
Yep.
yeah. I kinda wonder if the artist behind the credits threw that in out of annoyance and no one edited it out.
Show still can’t be found on streaming. Not sure if I can get the girlfriend to watch it, and I honestly don’t remember if I liked it enough to spring for DVDs.
Loved Early Edition!!!
I believe they played Clueless and Sweet Valley High back to back early Saturday afternoons on UPN in LA. I'm somewhat sure of that!
Ahh, Nick Freno. Don't remember much about it outside of that kid in the picture wound up getting his own show that next season- "The Journey of Allen Strange" on Nickelodeon.
Greg Giraldo: kills more pilots than flocks of geese & box cutters - Tom Arnold-
Dayyyyyyymn!
"the burning zone" you should ask your doctor for a cream to put on that.
LOL
Lol
Let me tell you about Lucille.
I think the "Men Behaving Badly" intro is from the original British version.
I am thinking the same thing. Ron Eldard and Rob Schneider were on the US version.
You're right. My goof. I wondered why none of the actors looked familiar to who I barely remembered was in the series. The mind slips sometimes.
@@RwDt09 no worries, it happens to the best of us.
So Interesting that David Lascher played a "Josh" both in Clueless and then in Sabrina :O Elisa DOnovan was also on both shows...
Welcome back, RwDt09!
Thanks. I'm trying to get back into doing more of these more often (my last one was about 2 months ago), but it seems to require a little more will power these days. I can get a bit lazy sometimes.
@@RwDt09 We can all be lazy sometimes. ;)
@@RwDt09 Specially this blessed year XD
I don't remember some of these but if these were the intros it makes sense.
I did not know Mr and Mrs Smith was a show, I just thought it was a Brad Pit movie.
I read the film was loosely based on the series of a decade earlier, but don't know that as a fact.
@@RwDt09 I was going to say the plots seemed awfully similar, the movie doing much better of course. Seeing the intro I was wondering if it was an attempt to redeem the TV series lol
The movie was Pitt's take on infernal affairs. He had the rights to it.
@1:05 Talk about a show that *never* airs anywhere anymore.
The American version of "Men Behaving Badly had Ron Eldard, Robb Schneider, and Justine Bateman.
Who’s down for some homeboys in space? 🤣
Another fine list! Some good memories here, some stuff I never saw, and some stuff I wished I'd never see again!
EZ Streets was an outstanding show that sadly disappeared and would be a hit today.
Especially on HBO, Showtime, Netflix, or anything else that isn't broadcast TV.
Awww man Millennium was Friday-night must-see TV b/c if you missed anything you hadta ask around and find out else you'd be lost. Also, I made dang-sure my 9yo didn't see any of it because I was fairly sure at the time it would've scarred her for life. Now she's in 34 and would probably think Millennium kicks ass.
The phrase(s) "Wait....worry....who cares..?" in later seasons was followed by "5-5-2000" and I didn't want the kiddo to spend her wonder-years scared-shitless of a global apocalypse the way us Cold-War kids were.
That's actually the credits for the original UK version of Men Behaving Badly, not the 1996 American version.
I loved Millennium!
Seems like every black comedian on the planet got their own new tv show in 1996
Or in the case of T'keyah Crystal Keymah, got a part in the latest show from a more famous black comedian
It's helpful to bear in mind, now that I think about it, that there were a couple of fledgling networks and one of them was shaping itself to be a sort of over-the-air BET.
I thought I heard the Clueless theme somewhere else--it's catchy. Also, I never understood the concept behind Millennium
jockadoobee
That was the problem. I liked it a lot, especially the first season, but it did have a problem with sticking with a central premise. It started as a serial killer of the week thing and ended as an X-files rip off.
@@archer1949 I guess Chris Carter only had one trick up his sleeve
It was really about Frank Black and the Millennium Group. Season one was Black consulting on cases. Season Two was all about the Group, it's members and history and it's burgeoning civil war.
Apparently the showrunners were upset with Fox for cancelling their other show and wrote the second season into a doomsay corner.
Is this video darker than it should be or am I going blind?
If you are old enough to remember these shows, probably both.
Terrence *DaShown* Howard
I loved Sparks lol
How funny is it that Donal Logue and Megyn Price were each in separate failed sitcoms that year and later went on to co-star in _Grounded for Life_ ?
I was perplexed by the clip for Men Behaving Badly, I don't recall Martin Clunes ever being on US TV in the 90's. I think you may have mistakinly included the intro for the ITV (1992)/BBC (1994) show Men Behaving Badly, I don't believe that version ever aired on terestrial TV in the US, it eventually made it to BBC America. It was remade in 1996 for NBC with Rob Schneider et al. Completely different cast and crew. That being said, your channel is great! I appreciate these compilations!
I didn't scroll through the comments far enough to see this was already mentioned. Thanks again for your work!
or your own video description for that matter, big fail on my part, lol!
You're right about Men Behaving Badly. Seems like I absent-mindedly chose that one as the correct one. A rare slip up.
@@RwDt09 that’s for sure! Thanks for your work!
The Millennium theme has been my ringtone for the past two years. The show got such a raw deal thanks to Fox execs.
How did I know and yet somehow not know of homeboys in outer space
Seeing that, I thought they should've met Pigs in Space.
Homeboys on outer space. Man. Hahaha
10:23 R.I.P. Greg Giraldo.
A lot of these I wouldn't discover until the earlier 2000s when eps got syndicated
Interesting how many shows didn't make it outside of America.
I suppose at least the ones that do are good, like The Pretender & Spin City.
Wtf!?!? Mr. And Mrs. Smith was a damn TV Series!?!? Weird
bakula and bello? i'd watch that.
The Jamie Foxx Show was one of the funniest shows ever made and Nick Freno was tremendous
Billy Burr?!? 😆😆
Everybody Loves Raymond took place in Lynbrook, where I used to live for over 25 years
yeah The Pretender. loved that show as a kid. Its kinda interesting to see just how many 1 season losers there were. People like to complain about Netflix cancelling shows but the Networks seemed to have a similar fail rate.
The Pretender ... God, I Loved That Show
Millennium! Great show.
Lol, I was surprised to see Negan.
Everybody Loves Raymond promised it’s not really about the kids, and they delivered. Smart.
Anyone else have to look away from that constantly zooming background from the Lori Petty show? That was intense.
I remember Goode Behavior and it was sad that this time around Sherman Hemsley wasn't in a good show. The problem was his co-star Dorien Wilson. He didn't come across good here, as he did as Juggles on Fresh Prince. And I didn't remember that Joseph Maher was in this show.
Man, Sabrina the Teenaged Witch, Early Edition, Everybody Loves Raymond, those were awesome! I completely forgot Men Behaving Badly ever existed, TBH.
Suddenly Susan was actually a pretty good show. That's where I first became aware of Kathy Griffin. Also I liked Dark Skies about aliens and cover-ups.
It looked like "Suddenly Susan" and "Common Law" used the same title designer, 'cause the elements of the two sequences are very similar.
@@tmanokc i wouldn't be surprised if they were contracted by the same studio or person.
A Party Girl TV show?! That's so weird. Especially since Christine Taylor is a completely different kind of actress than Parker Posey.
Eeeeh, I'm subbed and none of these recent vids pop up in my feed. I loathe youtube.
That 'Men Behaving Badly' was the British one.
'Life's Work' looked like it had potential
I miss some of the tv shows
Homeboys in outer space is a payote induced dream without the payote. And it had Kevin Micheal Richardson.
I admit I used to watch Sabrina Clueless & Homeboys In Outer Space
I just about died laughing when 7th Heaven popped up
I can see why that Dangerous Minds flopped because of that laughable intro. The movie sucked enough and only the track plus Michelle Pfeiffer made it money at box office!
That may or may not be the pilot episode. But yeah, the song is misplaced.
Was that the movie that gave us the song Gangster's Paradise because that song was a banger.
@@fromthehaven94 just got to the dangerous mind part it do not match at all.
@@vanzy01 yes
@@TheMav41 thanks 😊
I could have sworn NBC had a 3rd show (about undercover cops) also starting with a 'P" on Saturday nights along with Pretender and Profiler or did that come a year later
- what ever it was it lasted a season or less, while Pretender and Profiler each had 4 seasons (only to be killed by/for XFL 1.0)
The third show you're thinking of was likely The Pretender. Generally it was a Saturday 9 pm series, but it would switch to 8 pm when NBC needed to make changes at mid-season or in the summer. In '96-'97 Dark Skies paired with Pretender and Profiler, but in the summer of '97 Pretender took over 8 pm followed by movies at 9, bumping Profiler off the schedule till the fall, when the Saturday trio became Pretender at 8, the new but short-lived Sleepwalkers at 9, and Profiler at 10. When Sleepwalkers got quickly cancelled, the lineup for the winter became TV Censored Bloopers '98 at 8, Pretender back at 9, followed by Profiler at 10. And so it kept going back and forth like that. It even aired briefly on Wednesday at 8 pm in the summer of '98 as well as 10 pm on Saturday in the summer of 2000.
@@RwDt09 Having just watched your next Video (Fall of 97) it was Players...
@@TJ52359 Well, nice try but no cigar. Players aired on Fridays on NBC.
So many shows with a conspiracy vibe as people were warily eyeing Y2K :)
16.24 Ellie from the last of us as the statue of liberty. Crazy times
"not to mention judd nelson" yeah, best if we don't.
Why?
Millennium "who cares?" yeah, exactly
That one was too much
From the same person who created X Files, that's why I cared.
A lot of us cared, actually.
Early edition!
1:14 That show was a cure for insomnia
I don't think i watched a single one of these shows. i was pretty busy in 96 though and was watching a lot of cable tv and movies, not network shows. at least not new ones.
1:57 I never was able to get a grasp of how to pronounce Donald Faison's middle when I first saw him in the "Clueless" series, which I think was the only series where he was credited by his full name. I thought it was pronounced "Ad-ee-o-sun" then, but now I think it's just pronounced like "Addison". Correct me if I'm wrong.
Did he even use his middle name in the movie credits?
I loved early edition
Kyle Chandler!!
Check out the scrubs podcast, they say it there. I believe it’s pronounced adayoshoon
Cosby is the most charismatic r@pist in the world
Billy Burr
“Moloney” looks like the blandest show ever made.
I was 13 years old
Me too.
I remember hearing about many of these but the only one I remember watching was SUDDENLY SUSAN. Read into that what you will.
You also watched any one of the following shows: Friends, Seinfeld, or ER.
At they had early edition
The year pac got shot and didn't live in the fall
Wrong Men Behaving Badly show
Failed American version, even with a second season reboot.
Stacy dash is gorgeous 😍
But it tells you something about how desperate she was that she's in the TV version of the movie. Usually when they make the corresponding TV show for these things, the people who were in the movie are too big to get for the show.
Who else sang the theme song to 7th Heaven? I know I'm not the only one! Lol
I didn't know Dangerous Minds was made into a series. But who cares? Dumb movie anyway.
mostly forgettable
7th Heaven made wanna blow my brains out.... and everyone else's too. Probably the worst TV show in human history.
And still better than how the main actor apparently treated kids in his private life
Aside from "Promised Land", all the other new shows were Zzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!
Early Edition was cute and Spin City was funny - feel like there was at least one other I remember
British Men Behaving Badly was better than American Men Behaving Badly anyway.....
Who cares
Despite the best efforts by NBC to improve their version, that was a failure.
All this crap about diversity and "POC" representation these days.... the 90's had a ton of black and ethnic shows, a lot of them good and people were hire based on talent... imagine that.
Mostly on UPN and WB networks. But that was when the only other options were basic cable or HBO and Showtime.
Only in a few channels, so yeah, there was a huge lack of diversity.
Exactly. There’s never been a lack of representation on tv in all kinds of shows and roles, at least since the 70s.
@@sexysadie2901Which network aired The Jeffersons? Which network aired The Cosby Show? Which network aired Benson? Oh wait, EVERY network had shows for everybody starring everybody, including the dreaded black people, at least since the 70s.
Whoever ran UPN during the mid 90s is extremely racist.HOMEBOYS FROM OUTTA SPACE Really?!!!!!! Plus the slavery comedy The Diary of Desmond Phieffer.That was too over the top when it comes to degrading sterotypes
I didn’t know the actors were forced to make shows by evil white people. Tell me more.