VL & camp rerun nostalgia

[Tim Strzechowski]

Yeah, I'd probably say my own personality quirks, sense of humor, and
overall posture were influenced by countless hours of The Munsters, Three
Stooges/Little Rascals Hour, and a little known Saturday morning cartoon (7
a.m.) called The Houndcats (anyone remember that one?).  Not to mention
heavy doses of Mel Brooks flicks, Marx Brothers flicks, and the ol' '40s
Universal Studios monster films.  Come to think of it, that probably
explains the hair on my back ...

Interesting that Seinfeld would become such a postmodern cultural barometer.



> A longstanding fascination of mine, such postmodern
> self-fashioning.  I can trace several of my own
> idiosyncracies to the first few seasons of "Saturday
> Night Live" (esp. Dan Aykroyd, esp. Dan Aykroyd as
> Richard M. Nixon--"well let me just say this about
> that"), and, likely, "Star Trek," Planet of the Apes
> and "Monty Python's Flying Circus" as well.  But I do
> suspect that, along such lines, we are indeed living
> largely in a post-Seinfeldian era these days ...
>