Maybe if do-gooder Drummond would've let those kids fend for themselves and grow up among their own social class Willis wouldn't have served time and Arnold wouldn't be going around being a caricature of himself. Also, something about a rich pedophile cruising Harlem and enticing random kids to hop in his limo. posted by Burhanistan at 8:57 AM on April 20
I saw this last week and though it was fantastic. posted by roomthreeseventeen at 9:05 AM on April 20
I saw this last week and though it was fantastic...
...I couldn't help thinking that I'd seen it before, on a Usenet newsgroup... posted by Mister_A at 9:08 AM on April 20
It seems like sitcom opening credits that show how the main characters came to live where they do was more common in the old days. (i.e. Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is the most recent one I can remember... but I stopped paying attention a while ago. Are any shows still doing this? posted by Joe Beese at 9:10 AM on April 20
Maybe if do-gooder Drummond would've let those kids fend for themselves and grow up among their own social class Willis wouldn't have served time and Arnold wouldn't be going around being a caricature of himself. Also, something about a rich pedophile cruising Harlem and enticing random kids to hop in his limo.
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Burhanistan, he made a promise to their mother on her deathbed! What, was he just going to leave them out there to fend for themselves on the basketball court? You can't really blame Willis's anger issues on Drummond, I mean he was older when their mom died, more entrenched in the culture of his home community. Arnold on the other side was too young to have become entrenched, he was however old enough that he never really fit in with the Park Avenue set. He therefore grew up trying to please and developed a cartoonish personality. posted by Pollomacho at 9:11 AM on April 20 [3 favorites has favorites]
It seems like sitcom opening credits that show how the main characters came to live where they do was more common in the old days. (i.e. Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is the most recent one I can remember... but I stopped paying attention a while ago. Are any shows still doing this?
I can't think of any fish-out-of-water sitcoms that need this sort of opening anymore. posted by fatbird at 9:20 AM on April 20 [1 favorite has favorites]
Elaborate opening credits cut into time that could be sold to advertisers. posted by box at 9:23 AM on April 20 [1 favorite has favorites]
I used to watch a live simulcast of this with the original show on pirate cable in 1981. posted by gompa at 9:25 AM on April 20
fatbird: "I can't think of any fish-out-of-water sitcoms that need this sort of opening anymore."
Does The Mary Tyler Moore Show count as a "fish-out-of-water sitcom"? I can see an argument for either side. posted by Joe Beese at 9:26 AM on April 20
The Different Strokes titles with alternate music, and slightly edited in terms of colour and ageing filters... This has turned out far more creepy than I thought it would.
I watched it with the sound off on an old monitor with poor color, and it was creepy enough. posted by KokuRyu at 9:38 AM on April 20
Actually, the Disney Channel's new sitcom, Sonny With A Chance, has exactly this kind of "how did we get to this point" opening credits.
Are your kids obsessed with this show, too, chococat? posted by Rock Steady at 9:51 AM on April 20
I heard fictional monster Ed Gein was based on actor Conrad Bain. posted by codswallop at 9:51 AM on April 20
Is bragging about how long ago you saw something a new meme or have I just not been paying enough attention? posted by christhelongtimelurker at 9:54 AM on April 20
Perhaps on the Disney Channel.
Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP does it! posted by headspace at 9:55 AM on April 20
What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willard? posted by pracowity at 9:56 AM on April 20
I saw Lord Chamberlain's Men perform this as Dyfferent Strokkes at the Globe in 1606.
I like the parallels between the Fresh Prince of Bel Air title sequence and the actual life of Ice T. posted by Artw at 10:26 AM on April 20
I first saw this at the end of the universe, then traveled back to post on MeFi, but someone beat me to it.
It's beautifully done. I want to make a call for a new genre of mashing up the endless optimism of tv sitcom themes with ominous compositions, but it would probably ruin it. Thanks for making my day. posted by holycola at 10:28 AM on April 20
The TV show is actually called Diff'rent Strokes
The scary version is an appropriate commentary on how child stars are corrupted, in particular now we know how Gary Coleman's life turned out. The evil villain is not the old man, it's us the viewers who were complicit in enjoying it. posted by stbalbach at 10:34 AM on April 20
It seems like opening credits that show how the main characters came to live where they do was more common in the old days. Are any shows still doing this?
The tradition of the Nottowegui or Five Nations says, "that in the beginning before the formation of the earth; the country above the sky was inhabited by Superior Beings, over whom the Great Spirit presided. His daughter having become pregnant by an illicit connection, he pulled up a great tree by the roots, and threw her through the Cavity thereby formed; but, to prevent her utter destruction, he previously ordered the Great Turtle, to get from the bottom of the waters, some slime on its back, and to wait on the surface of the water to receive her on it. When she had fallen on the back of the Turtle, with the mud she found there, she began to form the earth, and by the time of her delivery had encreased it to the extent of a little island. Onto this island she was delivered of two sons, and she gave to them the names The Fast-Burning Star and The Man-Child. Before expiring in the pangs of childbirth, she entreated a spirit of the air, He-Who-Lives-In-The-Sky, to watch over her children and to raise them as his own flesh." posted by Horace Rumpole at 11:03 AM on April 20 [6 favorites has favorites]
What you think of as quantum effects and probabilities are merely artifacts of limited mechanical consciousness. But to a perfect meta consciousness every time does not branch into different potential universes rather it follows the single trajectory of the is through it's path at the horizon of now as surely as one can divine from the vector of a missle it's origin and termination by glimpsing a single moment. So it was that at the moment when the void surrendored and nothing was made something that this juxtaposition was authored because it's potential and necessity are one and the same and all that shall come was is as inevitable to the ... I suppose one must call them eyes... of the perfect meta consciousness for it is carried by the current of destiny on the return to the unmaking, and know that there is no lottery and the jackpot is ash. posted by I Foody at 11:08 AM on April 20
I saw this when it was performed in Charlesmagne's court as Plagas Diversus. Only when the limo appeared, everyone started screaming and attacking it with crossbows. And then Conrad Bain was drowned for witchcraft. posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 12:29 PM on April 20
...Conrad Bain was drowned for witchcraft.
I never thought I would see those words in that order... posted by Mister_A at 12:33 PM on April 20
I love this kind of thing. I've seen happy movies or tv shows done as scary, but has anyone done scary turned happy? I haven't come across one yet. I wonder if it would have the same effect. posted by Belle O'Cosity at 9:39 AM on April 21
Belle, the re-imagined trailer that pretty much kicked off this current trend was "scary turned happy": Shining. posted by Ian A.T. at 10:03 AM on April 21
I exist outside time and have always been watching this video, throughout eternity. Ceaselessly. posted by tehloki at 12:14 PM on April 21 [1 favorite has favorites]
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