Comments on: The Day My Kid Went Punk, ABC After-School Special http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 07:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: jfrancis http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723712 jfrancis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723712 wow. that's right. I always remembered him as The Craw all these years, but he wasn't. wow. that’s right. I always remembered him as The Craw all these years, but he wasn’t.

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-724231 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-724231 Hmmm..."The Poised Punk". Sounds like a name for a pub to me. Hmmm…”The Poised Punk”.
Sounds like a name for a pub to me.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-724239 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-724239 Yeah, the boy who could fly develops a bad attitude! I always liked Jay Underwood. I guess he still works a lot, but I always thought people underrated him. He actually played Sonny Bono with a prosthetic nose in a weird made-for-TV Sonny and Cher biopic one time, and he also played Ernest Hemingway on another TV show. That's range for you. Yeah, the boy who could fly develops a bad attitude! I always liked Jay Underwood. I guess he still works a lot, but I always thought people underrated him. He actually played Sonny Bono with a prosthetic nose in a weird made-for-TV Sonny and Cher biopic one time, and he also played Ernest Hemingway on another TV show. That’s range for you.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723473 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723473 What do you expect when you raise the kid on a cruise ship? What do you expect when you raise the kid on a cruise ship?

]]> By: southside http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-725012 southside Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-725012 Does anyone remember the punk episode of Night Court? Was that Wendy O. Williams? Does anyone remember the punk episode of Night Court? Was that Wendy O. Williams?

]]> By: PixelFish http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723477 PixelFish Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723477 This makes me sigh with nostalgia for my specially handcrafted and illustrated masterpiece from fifth grade: My Brother the Dork. The titular brother was dressed similarly to the "punk" in this afterschool special. He too sported a mohawk...and yet strangely had never listened to the Dead Kennedys, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, NOFX, or the Ramones. Alas for my poor little unpunk of yesteryear. Truthfully, he probably was more dork than punk. This makes me sigh with nostalgia for my specially handcrafted and illustrated masterpiece from fifth grade: My Brother the Dork. The titular brother was dressed similarly to the “punk” in this afterschool special. He too sported a mohawk…and yet strangely had never listened to the Dead Kennedys, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, NOFX, or the Ramones. Alas for my poor little unpunk of yesteryear. Truthfully, he probably was more dork than punk.

]]> By: chimpushrm9 http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-724761 chimpushrm9 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-724761 What, Captain Thrash is the new avatar of Jughead? LOL! What, Captain Thrash is the new avatar of Jughead? LOL!

]]> By: yupgiboy http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723482 yupgiboy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723482 http://vimeo.com/7677521 Watch it here; warning... the sound is horrible. http://vimeo.com/7677521

Watch it here; warning… the sound is horrible.

]]> By: Terry http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723483 Terry Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723483 Don't forget Quincy: "I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It’s a killer of hope. It’s a killer of spirit." Don’t forget Quincy:

“I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It’s a killer of hope. It’s a killer of spirit.”

]]> By: Xeno http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723485 Xeno Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723485 Billy is not [state societal convention for norm here]. Should I...? a) Have an intellectual conversation with him about topics in which he is concerned engaging him as as a concerned equal? b) Have him committed where he will most likely be put on medication, receive electroshock therapy or be treated in some other way so as to make him be more [state societal convention for norm here] May [your deity] be with you. Billy is not [state societal convention for norm here]. Should I…?

a) Have an intellectual conversation with him about topics in which he is concerned engaging him as as a concerned equal?

b) Have him committed where he will most likely be put on medication, receive electroshock therapy or be treated in some other way so as to make him be more [state societal convention for norm here]

May [your deity] be with you.

]]> By: cowbell http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723498 cowbell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723498 Don't forget the Quincy Punks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SwkApvMBE Don’t forget the Quincy Punks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SwkApvMBE

]]> By: BadIdeaSociety http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723757 BadIdeaSociety Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723757 Yeah. Nickelodeon used to show it during their "Special Delivery" programming block in the early 90s. Not to ruin the ending but his music teacher gives him an ultimatum that leads him to deciding which way to take his punk ways. The strange thing is that I think this was the only ABC After School Special that Nickelodeon picked up. Usually, they would just show Saban-owned Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics and the odd Canadian-owned After School Special clones like "The Paper Route" and "The Wilder Summer" (With J.D. Roth). Yeah. Nickelodeon used to show it during their “Special Delivery” programming block in the early 90s. Not to ruin the ending but his music teacher gives him an ultimatum that leads him to deciding which way to take his punk ways. The strange thing is that I think this was the only ABC After School Special that Nickelodeon picked up. Usually, they would just show Saban-owned Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics and the odd Canadian-owned After School Special clones like “The
Paper Route” and “The Wilder Summer” (With J.D. Roth).

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723511 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723511 Strange- I actually think I remember that show. Strange- I actually think I remember that show.

]]> By: idontwant2liveinoprahsworld http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723513 idontwant2liveinoprahsworld Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723513 C.H.I.P.S. had a punk episode? Sure, I never watched the series but it's the first I heard of it. Quincy I saw, I watched that series and it was funny whenever he came close to cracking a case. I would yell "Go Quincy Go!" in response to the over dramatic acting of Klugman. The kid in the ad has a faux-hawk, poseur! C.H.I.P.S. had a punk episode? Sure, I never watched the series but it’s the first I heard of it.

Quincy I saw, I watched that series and it was funny whenever he came close to cracking a case. I would yell “Go Quincy Go!” in response to the over dramatic acting of Klugman.

The kid in the ad has a faux-hawk, poseur!

]]> By: bklynchris http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723770 bklynchris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723770 Yes, but no. 26, isn't that what happened to the majority of "punks"? That's not condescending but cold harsh reality. In fact, if that was the ending, that in itself was pretty damn punk. Rock on! Yes, but no. 26, isn’t that what happened to the majority of “punks”? That’s not condescending but cold harsh reality. In fact, if that was the ending, that in itself was pretty damn punk. Rock on!

]]> By: ZombieNormal http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723520 ZombieNormal Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723520 Indeed, C.H.I.P.S. had a punk episode, with William Forsythe as an unruly punk criminal. There's a battle of the bands, and you haven't lived until you've heard the "I Dig Pain" anthem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3y4PFCpoOw All the punks riot, and then Ponch comes out and sings "Celebration," which for some reason wins everyone over, and not at all causes more rioting and Ponch-related mayhem, like one would think. Also, y'all, that fauxhawk kid is Jay Underwood. Indeed, C.H.I.P.S. had a punk episode, with William Forsythe as an unruly punk criminal. There’s a battle of the bands, and you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the “I Dig Pain” anthem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3y4PFCpoOw

All the punks riot, and then Ponch comes out and sings “Celebration,” which for some reason wins everyone over, and not at all causes more rioting and Ponch-related mayhem, like one would think.

Also, y’all, that fauxhawk kid is Jay Underwood.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723523 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723523 Aaaalwayys i wanna bee with you and make beliiieve with you and live in harmony harmony harmony oh love!!! THERE WILL BE NO SHAME!!! Aaaalwayys i wanna bee with you and make beliiieve with you and live in harmony harmony harmony oh love!!!

THERE WILL BE NO SHAME!!!

]]> By: Griffin http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723524 Griffin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723524 I gotta say - so far this special is going pretty well! The punk kid is the sympathetic one, that's for sure - and EVERYONE in the story seems poised to learn an important lesson about acceptance. I gotta say – so far this special is going pretty well! The punk kid is the sympathetic one, that’s for sure – and EVERYONE in the story seems poised to learn an important lesson about acceptance.

]]> By: freshacconci http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723531 freshacconci Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723531 The origins of the fauxhawk. The origins of the fauxhawk.

]]> By: redemmie http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723555 redemmie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723555 The FOX show Bones recently had an episode in reference to black metal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8VYUcoTYeo The FOX show Bones recently had an episode in reference to black metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8VYUcoTYeo

]]> By: SL http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723559 SL Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723559 The day my Dad joined Kaos. The day my Dad joined Kaos.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723563 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723563 I remember watching these shows all the time as kid I remember watching these shows all the time as kid

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723564 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723564 I remember this special very well.....the boy is a preppie on his way to some summer camp or day care as a counselor and in the airport bathroom he makes a complete transformation to punk and he is FREE I remember this special very well…..the boy is a preppie on his way to some summer camp or day care as a counselor and in the airport bathroom he makes a complete transformation to punk

and he is FREE

]]> By: jjdaddyo http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723565 jjdaddyo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723565 Don't forget the Punk / Slam Dancing episode on "Quincy, M.E.", here immortalized by Deejay Punk-Roc: http://blip.fm/~lu3xk Don’t forget the Punk / Slam Dancing episode on “Quincy, M.E.”, here immortalized by Deejay Punk-Roc:
http://blip.fm/~lu3xk

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723567 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723567 I saw this as a kid, and loved it. It really complemented my high school German textbook's "Chapter Six: Die Punks" I saw this as a kid, and loved it. It really complemented my high school German textbook’s “Chapter Six: Die Punks”

]]> By: andyhavens http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723571 andyhavens Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723571 Amazine what used to be shocking and scary. Remember when gangs rumbled with knives, bats and chains? How cute was that! Go back and watch "Warriors," for example. The gangs all look like extras from "Xanadu." At the time, though... oooh (shiver). Terrifying. Amazine what used to be shocking and scary. Remember when gangs rumbled with knives, bats and chains? How cute was that! Go back and watch “Warriors,” for example. The gangs all look like extras from “Xanadu.”

At the time, though… oooh (shiver). Terrifying.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723578 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723578 It looks like Brad Douriff It looks like Brad Douriff

]]> By: msiegler http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-725372 msiegler Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-725372 I am reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI I am reminded of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Twre6ItGEI

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723586 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723586 "Punk is nothing but DEATH... and CRIME... and the RAGE OF A BEAST!" ...I guess I watch too many Linkara reviews because that's immediately what I thought of. “Punk is nothing but DEATH… and CRIME… and the RAGE OF A BEAST!” …I guess I watch too many Linkara reviews because that’s immediately what I thought of.

]]> By: nanuq http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/the-day-my-kid-went.html#comment-723595 nanuq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-723595 At least they're not packing the kid off to a Christian boot camp where he can learn "Godly" ways. There's nothing in an ABC after-school special to match the REAL options open to some parents for dealing with their unruly kids. At least they’re not packing the kid off to a Christian boot camp where he can learn “Godly” ways. There’s nothing in an ABC after-school special to match the REAL options open to some parents for dealing with their unruly kids.

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