Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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I’m right there with David. I’ve never heard of Halt and Catch Fire, but I don’t watch much TV. I assumed it was something recent, but apparently it premiered 12 years ago?
HaCF is a top 5 all time TV show for me. And Donna in S3/S4 is probably a top 5 TV crush for me, too.
The sites current popup animated ads continue wiping the comment pages, changing to a FAIL page saying
– failed to load content-
No longer even linked to the same article.
There was some sort of error. Ads are going off for all stories today and this ad is being removed. It was a test, clearly it failed.
I’ve had it happen a few times. Never happened before that.
I wanted to let you guys know.
If you can fix discord, please let me know.
I am super late to this, but what things would be in Davids notebook?
Watch TV, learn pop culture, be able to say I caught that reference, and learn who Captain America is.
Honestly I’m an old but Rocky and Bullwinkle was the only reference in this whole post I got.
“I’ll get you, moose and squirrel!”
I’m most surprised to learn that Rocky and Bullwinkle was only made for three years. Yet it managed to stay on-air for at least another three decades.
Same here! But then I remember that most kids cartoon shows were like that, with a few years of episodes and then just run them in repeats forever. I have read that producers of kids shows used to think that kids were so simple minded that they wouldn’t notice the same episodes over and over again, which, as a kid, drove me crazy since I wanted new, fresh stories that expanded the characters and world. But also that the episodes couldn’t be watched/binged on a phone whenever I wanted and I was locked into the TV guide it lessened the frustration I suppose.
I thought it was less “they won’t notice” and more 50% “they don’t mind, they like watching the same stuff over and over” and 50% “within 4 years they age out of the target age group and then this stuff is new to the younger kids”.
I never aged out of my childhood
I’m not saying it’s a good philosophy. But in my experience, it was the very real perspective of the execs in charge of children’s programming in the time period being discussed. Shows aimed at 2-6 year olds were regularly not renewed beyond 4-5 years because by then the original 6 yos were 10-11, and the 2s were 6-7, and presumed to no longer be watching.
Yea I think you said it much better
Or “in six months they’ll be obsessed with something else”.
My nephew went through Spider-Man, Hulk, and Buttercup from Powerpuff Girls phases in rapid succession when he was about 3 or 4.
It’s right up there with the Greatest American Hero. Also on for only three years, it wasn’t particuarly popular, but it ended up having this oddly outsized pop culture impact, possibly for the song alone.
Well, the song and Robert Culp.
Honestly, is there anything not made better by adding Robert Culp?? When perusing the channels on the weekends, I’ll always stop to watch a Colombo where he’s the killer.
He was always watchable–elevated the material, for sure. I’m still surprised nobody cast him as Rumsfeld. That was right up there with Patrick Stewart as Xavier; like, it’s automatic, unanimous, slam dunk. I guess we’re fortunate to remember him for his portrayals of fictional characters rather than sullying his legacy/rep by playing a real (shitty) person!
The only thing that gives me pause is that he and Bill Cosby were buddies for decades; Initially, it was amazing – they were the coolest guys around, but now, I do have to wonder if he knew about things at all. I sure hope not, as at least one of them should be the icon we thought they were.
Great post. Keep ’em coming!
It’s been long enough since I saw Halt and Catch Fire that I don’t remember whether it was Donna or one of the guys we were introduced to by their morning commute, powering through the then almost empty Texas freeways in a black Porsche 944.
For some reason I imagine Boris and Natasha being issued a Moskvich 402 to chase down Moose and Squirrel, in Wisconsin. I guess there would be parts from an Opel or English Ford they could make work if they ever broke down.
944 was the guy. I can’t remember his character name, but he’s the one in the picture above announcing something.
Wisconsin? I thought Frostbite Falls was in Minnesota.
Oof, or should I say “uff”, forgot that. At least I was only off by one state…
Most importantly, zero people were injured or died because of the error. 🙂
At least use the cartoon version for the your story thumbnail. Happy to be a member, but wouldn’t push articles like this as being a benefit so hard without a little more substance. Def reads like a reddit mod chat. Take that how you will.
Some people enjoy silly things in addition to substantial things.
Halt & Catch Fire was so great!
Totally agree on late era, mean Donna.
Thanks, I was tearing my hair off staring at the Kerry Bishe that who she was.
Damn the first season was awesome.
This is my first TFTS since becoming a member, and I gotta admit that I’m very confused.
Yep, as an accountant, I can say creative people confound me too.
Some of the more daring people I’ve known have been accountants.
Seems like a pattern there.
Did they work at Enron?
(Edit: who am I kidding, the entire US is Enron now)
No, not enron.
Very conservative firms.
I suspect a reaction to being responsible all day.
It surprized me at first.
Welcome to the dark side
So you have caught up to the rest of us, or just me. Except for the cartoon reference I’m lost
Most are fun. This was indeed very confusing
But would David get the “I understood that reference” reference?
“you wanna be happy for all your days, find a woman who kinda hates you to marry you” – MH
We’ve found you can let the hate grow over the years and it works out just as well. /S/
I heard it as marry a woman who hates you because it feels so good when you divorce. And by then you think it is worth half your stuff to be rid of her.
‘”When we last left our intrepid duo…” So which one of you is Snidely Whiplash?
I don’t know, but I think Jason’s the narrator.
SWG must be Dudley Do-Right. And every TMD is a lesson from Peabody’s Improbable History.