Skinnamarinky Dinky Dink

Mira, the gorgeous photographer/socialite/fashionista tagged me in a very interesting note about herself today where she revealed her love for Sharon, Lois, and Bram's Elephant show and it instantly hurtled me back in time to my days of sitting in front of the tv (which NEVER had clear reception... not for my first 15 years of my life did I have clear television) and singing along to SKINNAMARINKY DINKY DINKKKKKKK SKINNAMARINKY DOOOO



What an awesome show it was. It made me remember all kinds of other brilliant shows I used to watch as a kid.

Oh oh.

WATCH OUT!

HERE COMES THE 80'S RETRO TV SHOW INTRO/OUTRO VIDEOS c/o YOUTUBE!

First comes Fraggle Rock, which has such a... hmmm, lack of a better word... ROCKING theme song.



Next up, Gummi Bears! I used to have a crush on the blonde one. I guess my thing for short haired girls started young, eh? eh?



What about Duck Tales? D-D-D-Danger lurks behind you! There's a stranger out to find you! Actually ah, ACTUALLY AH... why are these theme songs so damn good? Just listen to the quality of the vocals, the instrumentation, everything. These were really good songs. What the hell has happened to the quality TV show theme song? Gone going gone everything gone giveadamn.



StarCom was underrated but overawesome. The big "technological breakthrough" of this sci-fi series used to be... MAGNETS! The toys were so FUCKING COOL.



I will play a linking game with the next three shows. First we'll start with BraveStarr, where both the heroes were in fact minorities. Marshall BraveStarr was Native American and his horse, if i remember correctly, was supposed to be a black guy. Kinda like a Samuel L. Jackson, but equine. So anyway, cowboy/space age, but still very rooted in the spaghetti western kinda feel. The bad guys in this show were really scary.



Followed by SABRE RIDER AND THE STAR SHERIFFS! Another brilliant show. Less free range, more space age, but still very cowboy nonetheless. Here you start to see the unicolor uniform theme starting to show up.



Followed by the ultimate in the unicolor uniform theme, and now not western at all, but totally wild and animalistic and and and... I'LL FORM THE HEAD!



and and and whattabout VEHICLE VOLTRON? Who did you like better, butter? Actually I liked the lions. They were bad-ass... but Vehicle Voltron was a close second.



The ultimate vehicle show though, had to be MASK. This is another great song.



The Visionaries were shortlived, but it was a bloody good cartoon and the intro is really rocking. I remember two of the chants...

"Mist filled pits, dark, dank, unclear. Fill all before me with frost-bitten FEAR!"

"Three suns aligned, pour forth thier light. Fill this archers bow with MIGHT!"



and last, but not least, because Obama is being inaugurated right now... i wanted to remind all of you to, POWER EXTREME.



I'm sure you've got millions more. care to remind me?

K