It’s Friday night and the moooood is right!
Remember back when Friday nights meant something? No, no I’m not talking about a night to go out and  party or hit up a high school football game or anything zany like that, I’m talking about television. Growing up, there was nothing more exciting than the end of the week because it meant a solid 2 hours of great sitcoms on ABC. TGIF is what they called it, and it was home to classic shows over the years like Full House (my personal favorite of the group), Perfect Strangers, Dinosaurs, Step By Step, Boy Meets World, Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper,  and Family Matters (which i didn’t realize was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers).  I can remember so many Fridays spent watching these shows with my brother or my friends (like BEP’s own Jay Moore). There was nothing else that was able to get a bunch of 10+ year olds to turn off Contra or TMNT: The Arcade Game or whatever the Nintendo flavor of the month was like TGIF could.
Years passed though, as years tend to do, and the TGIF well slowly started to run dry. Newer shows just didn’t have the same pizzazazazzzz as the old school ones did eventually ABC did away with the block of programming.  I’m sure by the time that happened I was too old and cool to care anymore, but somewhere deep inside, I’m sure I was mourning that loss. To this day, every time I pass Full House on my journey though the channels I stop and watch for a bit and remember a simpler time in life, a time when tv was tv and Uncle Jesse was the coolest dude in the world. Have Mercy!

What was your fav tgif show?

2 Comments »

1. 

   I’d have to say Family Matters was my favorite. Snick was better than TGIF though.

   Comment by foolofgold — September 6, 2008 @ 8:02 pm

2. 

   man youre crazy.

   Comment by brandon — September 7, 2008 @ 4:32 am

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