1968, I was twelve years old. A lot happened that year. Dennis McLain won 31 games, The Mod Squad hit the air, and I graduated from Hillcrest Elementary and entered junior high school...but we'll get to that. There's no pretty way to put this: I grew up in the suburbs. I guess most people think of the suburb as a place with all the disadvantages of the city, and none of the advantages of the country, and vice versa. But, in a way, those really were the wonder years for us there in the suburbs. It was kind of a golden age for kids.

Damn, I loved that show.

"Do not attempt to adjust your TV set..."

Right. And how many kids today even know what the horizontal and the vertical are, far less how to adjust them?

The A-TEAM cracks my shit up!

Hey, guys, I'm trying to remember famous opening monologues, voiceovers that started shows. Here are three I know of:

Well, the obvious one - "Space, the final frontier..."

Also - "Steve Austin - astronaut - a man barely alive..."

Also - "Where am I?" / "In the village." / etc.

Oops. We're late.

"In the jungles... of Peru..." Okay, not that famous. I just needed to say it.

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two seperate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate the crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories."

Dum dum.

And how many kids today even know what the horizontal and the vertical are, far less how to adjust them?

Well, it doesn't matter, does it? Because we control them!

Oh, damn. That was a good one, Aimee.

Sad that I know it by heart.

"And now for something completely different..." / "IT'S..."