Re: What Did You Watch? 2010-01-08 (Friday)

[Ubiquitous]

et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>> et...@ncf.ca wrote:

>>>>> No, the lottery character was played by Nicole Sullivan, who was
>>>>> on "Mad TV", not "SNL". Maybe not a big difference, but it is
>>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> MadTV was a funny show; BIG difference!
>>>
>>> After the dropped the Mad bits, I actually lost interest.
>>
>> Please elaborate.
>
>In the beginning, there were little animated bumpers of "Spy vs Spy"
>and I'm sure other bits from Mad Magazine. Likely that included
>references to Alfred E. Neumann.
>
>But then that disappeared, and any real connection to the magazine was
>gone.

Ah, THOSE bits! Yes, I agree that a lot of the 'feel' was lost
when they quit doing those. I wonder why that happened? Copyright?

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