my favorite cartoon during grade school (until i saw entry #9), and bart simpson was my favorite cartoon character. i had bart t-shirts, bart keychains, etc. i drew bart when i wasnt doing anything else with my pen. there even was a time where a friend and i would "battle" on who knew more stuff about the simpsons. i i liked how in the opening credits of every episode, the family would gather around the tv in a different funny way. i loved itchy and scratchy. i also liked the treehouse of horror episodes a lot. the new cartoon "family guy" may be the in thing right now, but id think they ripped off the simpson in a way. i think the show' still running (i wish i had cable and time), and that a movie is finally on the way. the one i wont miss.

no, not the channel. i liked nickelodeon better way before it became a channel. nickelodeon was only on for an hour everyday and each day had different shows. there was pinwheel, finder keepers, double dare, you can't do that on television (which started the slime dumping when you said "i don't know"), out of control (cut.. it.. out!), and my favorite, mr. wizard. it is where i learned to cut a piece of bond paper in a specia way that a person could fit through it.

the name we say when the door is locked and the keys cant be found and we need to get into the room. he is the genius who can make great things out of nothing, who can come up with simple yet you'd-never-think-of solutions to the most complicated problems. in one episode, he was trapped in an underground room with a high wall and no roof, and he uses a fire hose (or something like that) to propel himself out of there. i like him better than james bond, because james bond had help from his gadgets. while macgyver... he had brains.

i put both of them in one number because, let's face it, they're just two sides of the same coin. no current educational kids' show can equal what these two shows did to me. it was "edu-tainment" at its finest. i wouldnt have enough time and space to type in everything i liked/remember clearly about these shows as there are so many, but from the top of my head: the cartoon dude drawn on the side of a glass (teeny little super guy), pong pagong accidentally swallowing a santol seed and fearing that it would grow inside him, the beetles singing "letter b" (let it be), that big dog on sesame street who chases some kids and they disappear into a tree, the sesame songs having exact tagalog translations on batibot, many many many others. my sesame street favorite: cookie monster. my batibot favorite: kuya bogie. because when he told stories, he does the voices on his own.

whenever quinn mallory would press the button on his remote control-like gizmo and the wormhole to the next parallel universe appears, i was glued. i could never wait to see what the next world would be and what he and his friends would be in it. and they're "sliding" isnt just for fun, they need to get home. the professor was perfect casting in my opinion and is till cant believe that john-rhys davies was gimli. in a great episode, they do get home but leave again because quinn checks the gate at his house (in his true world, the gate squeaked). it doesnt squeak like the others, but after they leave, us viewers find out that the hinges have been oiled.

my favorite live action superhero team back then. my cousins and i watched this together. we even created our own bioman-like team. we called it "the superpowers" a name we got from a car battery. we basically had the same colors as bioman but we represented animals. i was green crocodile. (hey, we were kids) anyways, which of the five were you? i was green two. he had bio x-ray. also, i had a big crush on pink five.

if i remember correctly, this father and son detective series was shown on channel four after mr. bean, way back when i was in high school, one of the reasons i stayed up so late. randell parcon was the only other person i knew who watched this show and we'd talk about the cases at school (we were writing our own murder mystery stories then). some of the cases i can recall are: the one where the killer was caught because he bought the new edition of the knife that was used as the murder weapon, the snake in the car where the victim who usually received flowers from the killer didnt get any on the day of the murder, and the toy that blew up inside a building.

featuring mini-monsters (summer camp of young freaks), karate kat (the lean, mean karate machine, keee-ow!), street frogs (rapping frogs, one of them was moose the loose), and my favorite, tiger sharks (the leader mako turns into a half-human half-shark, and when they are in trouble they go: tiger tiger by the tail...).

these two are the exaggerated representation of the 90's youth, like me. they like rock 'n' roll, they bum around the house, they're a menace to society, and they have fun without a care. all these in stupidly funny episodes of their misadventures which would've been simple enough if they were normal kids. both of them are cool, but i like beavise more, especially when he goes cornholio. beavis and butt-head are the friends i never had. they taught me that nachos are great snacks. in high school, i drew them on them back blackboard in our classroom and the teachers hated it. uh-huh-huh-huh-huh.

the funniest and most fun to watch educational science-oriented show ever. even if i already knew some of the things they discussed, it was the execution that made it seem like new. every topic was tackled in a wacky way, with sound effects in the slighest of movements (a wiggle of beakman's fingers produced tinkling sounds). there was an episode where they placed a brick on top of a rolled up piece of paper, and one where they explained why the little propeller at a helicopter's tail is important. plus, there's a fat dude in a rat suit who is usually the guinea pig (or guinea rat?!) for beakman's experiments.

parker lewis's "trademark" get-up was untucked long-sleeved polo shirt with wild designs. and when i chose that to be my style as well, it was the first time i had a say to the clothes i wear (my mom was my wardrobe manager in grade school). anyways, this show is best remembered for "synchronize watches!", where the 3 main characters, parker lewis, his chickboy friend, and the nerd who had a photocopying machine in his backpack, would make sure they all have the same time in their watches for some plan.

i love good short stories and the only thing i love more than good short stories are good horror short stories. although not all of the episodes were scary, twilight zone episodes were always a great watch. i cant remember one that i didnt like in one way or another. big part why they worked was because each story was entirely different from the rest and you could not predict how it would end just because you've seen a handful of the others. some of my favorites were the alien hiding amongst people in a restaurant, the beautiful lady deemed ugly by the doctors who operated on her, and the guy who travelled back in time before abraham lincoln's assasination.

and the tv show i miss the most and would give anything to see again is....

my all-time favorite tv show. i cannot describe exactly how much i enjoyed watching all the wonderful brilliant episodes done under uncle steven's wing. each episode was like a movie and i dared not to switch channels when this show was on because i really wanted to see the whole thing from start to finish. all episodes were great and i honestly cant pick one that i like most but some of the really great ones that i clearly remember are: the one where a family has weird neighbors who eat flowers, the one with the tv that made the shows in it real, the one with the guy who almost got hit by a meteor and became a human magnet, the one with the guy who plays a mummy in a movie who gets substitued by a real mummy, the one with a guy sees someone out to kill him in the mirror, the one with the janitor who becomes a genius, the one with the toupee that turns the wearer into a killer, the one with the magician who had flying cards, the one with the formula that made magazine pictures real, and the one where a soldier died after drawing a troubled plane's landing gear. like i said, i loved all of them. which is one of the reasons why i consider my uncle steven spielberg a god and everything he touches, holy. if anyone out there finds a dvd copy of this show, hit me back at once please.