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Shout it loud and clear!
By Carrie | May 13, 2008
Today NotMartha posted this Metafilter link about a crazy Mannequin in a department store TV show from the 80s. Well, this is the second time that the show Today’s Special has come across my thoughts in the past few weeks. My mom also forwarded this email that had a list where you were supposed to add “little known TV shows” and of course this show is what I would have added.
At the time, I had no idea how odd the premise of this show was. The woman that sets up the displays in the department store learns that one of the mannequins in the store can come to life at night. These two human characters have some puppet “side-kicks”, like the mouse that lives in one of the walls and the crazy puppet security guard. I’m also not embarrased to admit that I probably watched the repeats of this show well into my high school years or whenever they took it off the air. That and Full House apparently never grew old for me.
I love one of the comments someone left on the metafilter page: ” And why don’t computers talk? My childhood promised me talking computers…” Well, if I remember correctly, the computer also had a conveyor belt on which sandwiches would come out. Wouldn’t that be amazing?? I’d much rather have my laptop produce a sandwich on command than talk to me!
Topics: blog, culture, humor |
May 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
It sort of reminds me of Are you Being Served? though the manequins didn’t talk. actually, now that i think about it, i’m not really sure why …i guess just because there were manequins in the department store! lol.