BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD (MIKE JUDGE)
Sure, the show was on MTV, but I’m not giving them credit for airing the damn thing. Mike Judge created it and did the voices, an incredible feat when I look back at it. Just hearing Beavis and Butt-Head laugh like maniacal hyper-sexual teenaged boys who just saw the greatest rack they’ve ever seen walk by them. The show is downright crude, juvenile, stupid, disturbing and might hurt you from all the laughing it forces. Butt-Head is the leader, Beavis the super hyperactive sidekick with a nervous tick. Their friendship is perfect, their humor outlandish, the show seamless.
WHERE’S WALDO? (MARTIN HANDFORD)
Remember how silly you thought this children’s book was until you opened it and found yourself excited with the whole childish notion of finding Waldo amongst an enormous crowd? A lot of it had to do with how goofy and likeable Waldo was along with the fact that there were so many diverse kinds of crowds within the pages of the books that you would often find yourself in awe of how easily he fit in without you noticing. You know, sometimes I just wish I was a kid again so I could do things like finding Waldo and not look like a complete jerk off while doing it.
COMIC RELIEF (BOB ZMUDA & HBO)
Our country is desperately missing big comedy events like this every year or two to cheer up the folks that ain’t in the best of moods. Comic Relief used to put on one of the best comedy events every time it through one, and it used to throw this epic stand-up using many different significant comics more frequently. With Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg as the comedy threesome sent from heaven, the show never got boring. Crystal was the smooth jazzy musician, Williams the middle aged kid with severe ADHD and Goldberg as the mediator, keeping the trio heading in the right direction the entire show. If you can, it’s worth picking up some of the ’80′s and ’90′s ones on DVD.
