Tag: CBS Schoolbreak Special

• Happy Now, Anti-Bullying Advocates?

  Bullying has been the cause du jour for a while now. We’ve fixed our collective glare upon victimization everywhere: at school, in the workplace, in the military, on the International Space Station, even online (which I think is what happens when you get sucked into a video game and are forced to do battle in weird…

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  2014-06-20

  Parenting, Rants

  ABC Afterschool Special, bullying, CBS Schoolbreak Special, International Space Station, Lisa Lampanelli

• Wasn’t The Afterschool Special Special?

      There are many relics from yesteryear that I (and in many cases, only I) look upon with fondness. The USFL. Music videos on MTV. Using my phone as, well, a phone. Whatever became of of the Afterschool Special? Growing up is hard, but this anthology of angst set us straight on the whatnots of adolescence, serving up…

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  2010-02-09

  Entertainment, Pop Culture, TV

  1975, Afterschool Special, Amanda Wyss, Beau Bridges, Better Off Dead, CBS Schoolbreak Special, Christopher Knight, Dana Plato, Escape From Witch Mountain, Eve Plumb, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Happy Days, John Cusack, Judge Reinhold, Largo Woodruff, My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel, Pssst! Hammerman’s After You!, Rob Lowe, Sarah’s Summer of The Swans, Schoolboy Father, Scott Baio, She Drinks a Little, The Brady Bunch, USFL