Skylar (skylar@baynet.net)
Fri, 07 Nov 1997 15:06:31 -0500
At 08:50 AM 11/7/97 +1100, you wrote:
>Roger wrote:
>
>>While reminising about long lost ABC afternoon
>>programing does any one remember You Can't do
>>that on Television?
>
>This is the extent of my memory on that subject. It would have been on in
>Australia between about 1987 and 1990 I think, and had a bunch of Canadian
>kids doing sketches at home, in the studio, at Biff's Burgers etc.
>Whenever someone mentioned the word water they got a bucket of water tipped
>on them, and a bucket of slime if they said "I don't know", so they were
>lots of plans to trick each other into slipping up. They used to have "the
>opposite sketches" in each show, where the opposite of things in real life
>happened - Biff's Burgers were edible, kids ordered the parents around and
>so on. The other bit I remember was a recurring sketch of a firing squad,
>where the commander would go "Ready...Aim..." and be interrupted by the kid
>who was to be shot. The kid would then trick the commander into wandering
>into the line of fire before saying "Fire" and getting shot. I was really
>impressed at the number of different ways they had of doing this (I would
>guess there would have been 50 or more).
>
Because I grew up in Canada, I was subjected to a daily dose of "You Can't
do that on Television". I liked it at the time but now that I think back,
it was quite disterbing. Just another example of crap TV that my country
seems compelled to produce!
~Sky.
>
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