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Dave Coulier answers your questions. I found this because I wanted to see what I'd hit with a Google search for "Diz McNally". Dave admits not knowing where Diz is these days, but I nonetheless always like to see a teevee personality putting personal effort into making their webpresence, even if they don't all obtain Wil Weatonesque levels of geekery.

I obtain extra enchantment from the domain name. It's the meaningless catchphrase of "Out of Control", a crazy comedy teevee show featuring Dave, Diz, and other strange and quite possibly Canadian people doing silly things, and surely one of my favorite things when I was wee. It and everything else that was on Nickelodeon after school circa 1984 did much to turn me into the person I am todaaaay. If I recall correctly, Out of Control was on before Mr. Wizard, and after You Can't Do That on Television and Dangermouse.

Lo, I am drifting through Yesterdayland, when I should be brushing my teeth. Good night.

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[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

hooray for someone else that remembers out of control. BLESS YOU, J MAC, BLESS YOU. do you remember the one where he built a treehouse? or the one where we got to tour his house and he lived with his mom?

For some reason we had cable when I was still living in NH and that was the most kickass tv lineup ever. Do you happen to also remember Turkey TV? I think it was from some country more foreign than Canada, and my fuzzy recollections of it indicate that it was kind of a Benny Hill for the younger set (it makes me shudder to type that but it's really quite true). the best part about that show, at least the two most enduring bits, involved a guy on a bicycle, usually sped up, and A Day In The Life Of A Food. ('a dayyy in the life, a dayyy in the life, a dayyy in the liiiiife OF A FOOOOOOOOD!') This last segment was always centered around one food item sitting happily on a plate and then screaming torturously when being eaten, all live action and everything. The jelly donut one

80 I say again. WOW no wonder we're friends.

Re: 80

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yes, child, lettuce dance...

Turkey Television was, IIRC, mostly a collection of bits from various European variety shows, what I'm now guessing was public access TV from around North America, and obscure music videos (at least one of which was wholly in Japanese) all spliced together in half-hour chunks. At first they tried to tie the bits together with bumper spots featuring kids commenting on the content, but they went away shortly after the show launched, leaving this glop of uttertly context-free whatthehell? in every after-school afternoon. It was a beautiful thing.

Also, the corn on the cob was the best one.

Re: 80

[leahleaf.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE CORRECT I had forgotten about that one. the jelly was so visceral though.

I wonder if it's available anywhere?

hmm, not really. :( says in a number of places that it was a spinoff of/produced by the same people who did You Can't Do That On Television. It's all very fuzzy, i'm realizing I was only 5 and 6 when I watched this stuff regularly but my siblings also seem to remember to lesser degrees the stuff I talk about.

http://www.shocking.com/~particle/turkeytv.html

http://www.johnsrealmonline.com/classicnick/turkeytv/main.html <-- his page is lame but exhaustive, if you go up to the Classic Nick index page. I had sort of forgotten about Count Duckula. also blech, Noozles and David the Gnome.