Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

[Giff]

This is probably the one opinion my wife and I have that isn't shared with anyone else - we actually tolerated Caillou. It got us through a 15-hour road trip with a two-year-old, the holiday special is fantastic (fight me), and my kids absolutely loved it (I guess we're the only ones who live in a house where we can go to other rooms instead of having to watch whatever the kids watch).

[DSafetyGuy]

We also tolerated Calliou with our daughter, but we mostly succeeded in keeping him away from our son. I think there were changes with Sprout, either in their programming or schedule (we had moved three time zones, which probably also contributed), then eventually DirecTV switched out the channel. Of course, we had two kids sharing the TV at the later point, as well.

[sancarlos]

Jeez, what a bunch of cynical, snarky twats. It was a sweet, inoffensive kids show.

[mister d]

Easy to say when home televisions didn't become common until one's kids were already out of the house.

[brian]

Neil Sheehan, who exposed The Pentagon Papers and was one of the great journalists of the 20th century (like seriously up there with Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell).

[Pruitt]

Jeez, what a bunch of cynical, snarky twats. It was a sweet, inoffensive kids show.

15 years ago, my former writing partner (who had written a few episodes of Caillou) and I were called in to pitch ideas on a Caillou movie. We worked like dogs and prepared an outline. We didn't get the job even though they led us on and we made revisions. (a Writers' Guild no-no).

Fuck Caillou. May he rot in hell forever. He may be sweet and inoffensive, but he was a front man for a whole crew of exploitative assholes.

[Johnny Carwash]

Marion Ramsey, aka Officer Hooks from Police Academy

[rass]

Awwww. The driving test from the first PA is such a good scene.

[brian]

Michael Apted, best known as the director of the "Up" documentary series (7 Up, 14 Up, etc.), though he also directed a very, very underrated Val Kilmer movie in the late 80s (Thunderheart)

[wlu_lax6]

The Pope's personal doc...complications from COVID.

Also Thunderheart holds a strange warm place in my heart. Remember going to see it with a buddy which turned into a really fun night.

[Sabo]

ETA: Guess he deserves his own thread.

[Steve of phpBB]

[brian]

Siegfried Fischbacher (of Siegfried and Roy).

Sad that he's passed, but it's nice to think those two are reunited again.

[Pruitt]

Siegfried Fischbacher (of Siegfried and Roy).

Sad that he's passed, but it's nice to think those two are reunited again.

Predeceased by his brother British Fischbacher

[Square Rob]

Sylvain Sylvain, guitar player for the New York Dolls. Honestly surprised any of them were still alive.

[Pruitt]

Sylvain Sylvain, guitar player for the New York Dolls. Honestly surprised any of them were still alive.

David Johansen's still around.

I saw Johnny Thunders perform in a club in New York in the mid-80s. He was in bad shape.

[sancarlos]

I was a fan of the Dolls. A big influence on the music of the mid/late 70s punk bands. I have their first two albums and also one by Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers (pre-dating Tom Petty's band). David Johansen is the only one left alive now of the five. The first three all died years ago.

[wlu_lax6]

Donald G. Tober....Sweet N Low N Splat. Went out on his own terms it seems.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former- ... Insider%29

[Pruitt]

Donald G. Tober....Sweet N Low N Splat. Went out on his own terms it seems.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former- ... Insider%29

The writer Rich Cohen's grandfather invented Sweet 'n' Low, and he wrote a fantastic family saga centred around it. Highly recommended.

NY Times Review of "Sweet and Low"