Do you remember these weird TV shows from 1990?

[@TheReviewStudios]

Do you remember watching any of these?

[@PREPFORIT]

I am Canadian yes I remember Maniac mansion. Btw. Get a Life was a fantadtic show!

[@bassman8144]

I definitely remember staying up late at my buddies house to watch Dream On😏

[@dublev78]

Get a Life still holds up. Funny show.

[@BadAxeEntertainment]

I remember watching Get a Life with my parents.

[@RomanesEuntDomus.]

No

[@wvu05]

I love _Get a Life_ ! So glad it is getting some recognition for others to discover it.

[@mikerohlfs2836]

I love how you referred it as a "purging of the leftovers from the 80s". I've never herd it described like that, good job sir!

[@inwyrdn3691]

I don't know why this popped up but I'm so grateful it did. That intro of the guy delivering papers, along with a bizarre handful of odd and bizarre shadows of memories, has been stuck in my head for ages and I could not recall what the show was called. Thank you!

[@TheReviewStudios]

No problem, I love rediscovering these old shows I've mostly forgotten about.

[@jakestorey457]

Get a Life was really funny and way ahead of its time. Would’ve fit in with modern Adult Swim humor.

[@matthewverostek5567]

The title card with this show is why i watched the video

[@keithjones1129]

@@matthewverostek5567 me too

[@sbprime2483]

remember how they cooked and ate that [ self basting ] alien

[@beaglenash4317]

The greatest!!!

[@bassman8144]

I LOVED Get a Life!!! I remember the episode where they get toxic poisoning and really smart fondly😁

[@TheReviewStudios]

Yes, good episode

[@azraelle6232]

The episode where he finally learns to spell the word "pants." There is no K after all!

[@WesMoast]

My favorite episode is a toss up between Handsome boy modeling agency and when Chris is going to be replaced by a robotic "paperboy"

[@KyleRDent]

USA and Canada: Aliens and puppets and talking dogs are funny! Britain: You wanna know what's reeeaaaally funny...

[@TheReviewStudios]

😆

[@keithtorgersen9664]

@KyleRDent, I am afraid I am not catching on to the clue here

[@gabepollock1641]

@@keithtorgersen9664Heil Honey, I’m Home was produced by a British broadcaster.

[@AnthonyHutson-i5s]

@@gabepollock1641 what a great intro... a head of its time with ASIP

[@justindenney-hall5875]

I think Brad Jones put it best when he said that "Heil honey I'm home." could only work as a five-minute sketch not an entire series.

[@sza3434]

This channel is awesome. I remember Get A Life. Chris Elliot is majorly underrated.

[@TheReviewStudios]

Thank you

[@WesMoast]

Get a Life was one of my favorite shows of the 90s (along with Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Eerie, Indiana)

[@TheReviewStudios]

Pretty solid list

[@BronwynMcGuckin]

Same. All of them ended too soon!

[@HappyCabezonFish-je4tk]

I remember watching eerie indiana that was a good show.

[@theoriginalkrabbypatty]

Yup!

[@bluntdavinci2139]

Eerie, Indiana was the best!

[@geologyjoerocks]

I did watch the Chris Eliot show, I was only 11 that year but loved the early 90s kind of humor; still do

[@beerdrinker_6930]

I think "Heil Honey, I'm Home" is absolutely brilliant. It's not a parody of Hitler, it's a parody of sitcoms! The creators asked and answered an amazing question: what would happen if we took the classic sitcom formula, and built it around the most ridiculous possible choice for a main character? I think the idea is hilarious and they actually executed it really well, they perfectly captured the 1950's sitcom feel. I really hope the un-aired episodes get released!

[@DownUpwards]

I remember watching Maniac Mansion up here in Canada. Fun Fact: The big toddler man did the voice for Beast in the X-men animated series.

[@steeltownbrown52]

Only other time I've seen George Buza was on SCTV: playing the bartender in the Nutty Lab Assistant, and a studio audience member in Just For Fun; where he socks Pierre Trudeau (Martin Short) for kissing his wife.

[@brianwalker8465]

He was also in the Adventures of Sinbad, and pretty much everything in the 90's that needed a scary looking biker dude. George Buza is the Canadian Danny Trejo! 🤣

[@jasontodd8071]

He was also the Truck Driver that dropped off Rogue at the bar at the beginning in Xmen (2000)

[@John_Locke_108]

Nothing weird about Get A Life. It's a gosh darn masterpiece.

[@charlottecorday8494]

Easily one of the funniest shows ever made. That episode where he's stalking a woman while another woman in stalking him who is in turn being stalked by another guy is sheer brilliance.

[@TheReviewStudios]

Hilarious

[@Noslack412]

Facts. Like an Adult Swim show

[@INFERNO95]

​@charlottecorday8494 I remember that episode. It was wild cause it ended whit his own stakes killing him. It was a show perfect for the 90s It just air in the wrong years and fox was not watch that much before they bought the rights of the NFL. If air in mid or late 90s or air on USA network it might have lasted longer.

[@TheReviewStudios]

It was just a few years too early i can agree with that.

[@NinjaCthulhu]

I did watch "Dream On". I remember back then that it was talked about how the show was one of the first cable shows to achieve mainstream success. I do think its largely been forgotten nowadays. I only other show I remember "Get A Life", but never watched a show.

[@petewillson205]

Dream on is a weird one in that you remove the nudity and cursing and it's a rather tams show

[@vortexoverdrive9385]

I watched a LOT of Dream on as a kid. I also loved Nick at Nite which was like a primer to the humor on Dream On.

[@Wythaneye]

Get A Life was so stupidly funny. Thanks for including it.

[@aaronsakulich4889]

This channel is always such a surprise... I did nothing but watch TV 8 hours a day from roughly 1985 to 1999, and I don't remember any of these!

[@TheReviewStudios]

Filling the void 😌

[@RobD-jq7ry]

I watched a lot of TV during the same period. Only child living with a mom who worked hard and partied harder...so a lot of time alone. Sitcoms and movies got me through.

[@mindcrome]

I saw an episodes or two of Dream On.

[@rizeorfall]

I was thinking this before I even started watching this video. There’s always some shows I don’t remember or something I didn’t know about shows I liked. This channel has some quality content!

[@TheReviewStudios]

sometimes I only remember the theme songs to some of these

[@gabepollock1641]

The Get a Life producers were ahead of the curve. I don’t know how “big” REM were by 1990 but hearing Stand in the intro absolutely caught me off guard.

[@mysticwolf75]

R.E.M. were quite big by then. "Green" came out in 1988. I was in 8th grade and "Stand" was on the radio all the time, as was "Orange Crush". When I briefly tried to learn guitar in high school, "Orange Crush" was one of the songs I tried to play! 🙂 "Out of Time" came out in 1991, which was their biggest commercial breakthrough, but "Green" came very close.

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

I saw Get A Life and clicked. That show was twisted genius, and it's a shame Adult Swim wasn't around then. They would have gotten it. "Spewie and Me" is one of the greatest things to ever be shown on TV. (By the way, your dad sounds awesome.)

[@TheReviewStudios]

😆 thanks

[@BatmanPops]

Man I miss the 90s we had the best of everything.... Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Toys R Us, K.B Toys, RadioShack, Circuit City, Eckerd Pharmacy, Discovery zone, The Original Tamagotchi's Gen 1 and 2, Pokémon Pikachu, Giga Pets, Gameboy color, Bopit, Chia Pets, Simon says, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Goosebumps, Salute Your Shorts, Street Sharks, killer tomatoes, Pete and Pete, Mighty Max, Gargoyles, Bonkers, Goof Troop, Gummy Bears, Darkwing Duck, Doug, Hey Dude, Gulla Gulla Island, My brother and me, Bill and Ted 2, the sandlot, Airborne, Clifford, Drop Dead Fred, The Ladybugs, Sidekicks, 3 Ninjas 1 2 and 3, problem child 1 and 2, What About Bob, Hook, Jumunji, Jack, The Mighty Ducks, 1 2 and 3, DuckTales, I can go on forever 📼📺😁

[@TheReviewStudios]

I can definitely agree

[@pureblood3388]

Eerie Indiana too.

[@BatmanPops]

@@TheReviewStudios 🙂👍

[@BatmanPops]

@@pureblood3388 That definitely should have been on my list 🤦‍♂️ lol

[@edprado30305]

35 cent sodas at Eckerd got me thru man.

[@keithtorgersen9664]

You spoke my thoughts aloud when you said the dummy looked like it was straight out of a horror film, it exactly reminded me of the dummies they used on the Goosebumps TV show

[@rickwj324]

DREAM ON is probably my most wanted show that hasn't come to dvd/blu-ray. I would pay anything for an HD release of this.

[@Tyler_Solomon]

Get a Life was funny when I was child.

[@MichaelWhitmire-v6j]

Get a life was hilarious

[@devinpaul9026]

Herbie The Lovebug got his own sitcom. Let that sink in.

[@dantheman8103]

Which was re-run in the early days of Disney Channel... so it actually got seen by two different generations.

[@INFERNO95]

In the 80 a talking car name Kitt got his own TV show too. So what the big deal?

[@devinpaul9026]

@@INFERNO95 Herbie wasn't KITT, "that" the big deal.

[@josephrusso4828]

I fail to see the significance of that. People liked herbie, so what?

[@devinpaul9026]

@@josephrusso4828 Well, how's ten likes? Significant enough for ya?

[@The_Mimewar]

90 and 91 were weird years…

[@mysticwolf75]

Still my favorite 2 years of my life.

[@shushymcsecret993]

Yeah I was going from kid to teenager

[@mysticwolf75]

@@shushymcsecret993 I was 15 going on 16. 1990-1991 were the last 2 years my life was "normal" as I remember it. From 1992 onward, everything started to change, and not all for the best. There were still some good years, but I feel like 1991 was the last year of a significant chapter of my life, the best chapter of my life.

[@AlexUSAF]

1991 was one of the most remarkable, intense, & best years of the 90's in my memory. The second Terminator came out that summer too which was one of the biggest events.

[@HardRockMiner]

A sitcom about Hitler ?? How did this ever happen??

[@AlexUSAF]

I loved HBO's "Dream On" as a 90's kid for obvious reasons ( o )( o ). But "Get a Life" was hilarious. I could have sworn that show came out in like 1993, but I guess not. That talking dog show looked funny.

[@j.rileyindependentproductions]

I vaguely "remember" some of them, but didn't really watch them aside from a few episodes of "Maniac Mansion" out of order. I turned 10 in 91, I was often pretty busy with homework at the time and the only exception I could really get my dad to make was to allow me to watch Star Trek TNG/DS9?VOY episodes (new/reruns) during homework breaks in the 90s.

[@cashflow3790]

This is a fantastic channel! Subscribed!

[@TheReviewStudios]

Awesome, thank you!

[@michaellutcher214]

Dream On by far is one of my favorite old TV shows wish I could find some episodes

[@thomasdr08]

It was the reason I got a Netflix account when Netflix first came out. It was the only way I could find the originally-aired episodes

[@charlottebats2893]

80’s and 90’s had awesome shows. Nobody took themselves seriously, it was fun and nobody was offended

[@GLBizzie]

Only decade that was better with humor and shows were the 60‘s.

[@AlexUSAF]

The movies of the 80's, & 90's were also the best too. Films today are terrible, so PC'd up & Woke because people today are imbeciles.

[@steeltownbrown52]

4:51 Turner is a toddler but mutates into an adult after going into a chamber (trying to retrieve a ball). The uncle (played by John Hemphill) goes in after his nephew but is mutated into a fly.

[@knelle1114]

I loved Dream On. Those writers would go on to create Friends.

[@TheReviewStudios]

oh wow thanks

[@bigyellowplumes]

Stephen Dorff was in "What a Dummy". I wonder how often he gets approached about that?

[@SynthMusicWorld]

You didn't even mention that "Dream On" was created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane, who would go on to create a little-known sitcom for NBC four years later called "Friends."

[@GLBizzie]

Yeah but who remembers friends, right? It wasn’t really popular or well known 😢😂

[@thomasdr08]

Dream On was kind of the R rated version of Friends😊, imo

[@user-zn7tj3xc7k]

I remember watching "dream on" and thinking, "how this guy can date so many hot chicks?"

[@thomasdr08]

Editor in NYC seemed to be prime time for singles 😂

[@randomreviews4278]

Thanks for more shows i love watching old shows

[@TheReviewStudios]

More to come!

[@devinpaul9026]

"Idea for a sitcom; we make a Family Guy cutaway gag a real thing!" "Who...?" "WHAT...?!" "Well, maybe you guys aren't quite ready for that one yet. But your kids are gonna... like it... until they don't...?"

[@chazzanschutz6096]

Thought they did that in Scrubs a few times.

[@thomasdr08]

Dream On did it perfectly, imo. It’s probably why I enjoy how Family Guy did it in the beginning. Eventually, it became the actual joke instead of the follow up to the job

[@Drew791]

I remember watching “Get A Life” when I was a child, and for a long time I thought it was a weird fever dream that didn’t exist when I was older.

[@brianwalker8465]

Maniac Mansion and Doghouse were both favourites of mine! I actually got to meet George Buza (Turner) a few months ago at Comic Expo! ❤

[@11679MRT]

I remember Dream On the best. What a Dummy is a show I know I've seen but have little memory of. The rest of them I never watched at the time.

[@jamesriley007]

Maniac mansion all of its episodes can be watched on KZbin not sure about get a life but probably alot of shows from the past can be found here and maniac mansion is definitely one of them used to air on Saturday mornings along with the cartoons

[@frequentuser360]

Amazing video!

[@TheReviewStudios]

Thanks for watching and for commenting too!

[@Jupiterseason]

I am truly shocked to NOT see Woops! and Herman's Head on this list.. I watched those, along with Get A Life religiously as a kid.. I wonder if I can watch them somewhere 🤔

[@TheReviewStudios]

Herman's head was featured on the 1991 video

[@bluesbulletin]

I relate to Dream On because I was raised by the tv 📺 too.😅

[@jasonmohning1708]

The three that I remember are Dream On, Get a Life and What a Dummy. I remember Dream On started out airing at 830pm on Friday nights right after Tales from the Crypt. What a Dummy I remember airing on Saturday mornings usually right after cartoons.

[@franzfleur7472]

Jfc I remember Maniac Mansion, only in bits and pieces though. GOna have to find it again =]

[@stephenfernald2490]

Loved Get A Life. Never missed an episode

[@Novakane78]

I loved Dream On as a kid. Yes I had no business watching it lol.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I saw bits of Dream On on Comedy Central and I remember the sexual content a lot more than the old clips.

[@dimethedude]

Maniac mansion was like a weird dream I thought I had a child Get a life I only recently became a fan of Had to get it on dvd So great

[@darksideofthemoon488]

I saw Dream On as a kid. I also remember Get a Life. Then I remember watching Maniac Mansion after I played the game.

[@abdulsmith9298]

Get a life was my show! That mess was funny for real 😂😂😂

[@Daring2Win]

I didn't think I'd know any of these, but i LOVED 'Get A Life' in the early days of Fox as a kid! Fox's Sundays were do 🔥 in the 90s

[@TheReviewStudios]

Early days of fox was great

[@AJ72281]

I just bought the complete series of Get A Life on DVD….. I remember watching when I was 10ish….. I thought it was funny back then, but I’m sure most of the real jokes went over my head. Looking forward to revisiting it now that I’m 40+ years old……

[@timothydurkan]

Get a Life was so rad.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

Literally, the ONLY one I remember is 'Get A Life'. And I think if I had seen any of those others as a kid, I would've had Permanent Nightmares. XD

[@jamesmoss3424]

I remember Dream On I never saw the show but it's great. 😀👍

[@AFCManUk]

They used to show 'Dream On' Friday nights on Channel 4 here in the UK. It was great! The b&w daydreams of old tv shows were a really clever idea.

[@beardoodle9835]

Dream On and Get a Life were great shows! I loved them, I totally forgot about them until now! 🤩

[@industryauto1767]

Good video 👍

[@TheReviewStudios]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks

[@nicktaylor2657]

Dream On was a great show I like how the main character used cutaways from old TV and movies to go along with his real life Even the edited syndicate was so good 😊

[@tiananesbitt7156]

I suppose someone powerful dismissed it or sold it off due to scandal?

[@dadevi]

​@@tiananesbitt7156 Dude, it lasted 6 seasons. That's a long time.

[@HappyCabezonFish-je4tk]

I never heard of any of these shows.

[@brandonpage7087]

I only really remember Get a Life. Used to watch that all the time, with my parents. I think i may have seen Dream on, but am not sure. I would've loved what a dummy, if i'd seen it back then.

[@TheReviewStudios]

Thanks for sharing

[@shushymcsecret993]

Forgot Dream On. Damn I love my KZbin subscription more and more because of these type of videos

[@williamnoonan7380]

Freakin' loved Get A Life! Own the DVD. Chris Elliott has never gotten the respect he deserves.

[@TheReviewStudios]

He really could've had a bigger career.

[@williamgiesen4910]

@@TheReviewStudios He’s had a very solid career

[@scottvincent184]

I loved Dream On, started watching it for the obvious a 12 year old kid would, because I knew I wasn't allowed 😂, but it turned out to be a well written show, I stuck with it till the very last episode! I really wish Max would make the series available for streaming, I tried collecting the dvds years ago but only found season 1 and 2.

[@TheReviewStudios]

I think it has something to do with either music or clip rights

[@Sweetpeasworld]

Get a life definitely watched it

[@MizzahTee]

Dream On and Get a Life were amazing to my 12 year old mind! Great memories

[@woofy680]

I only remember knowing of one of these shows. Where did the rest run on cable, Canada tv?

[@TheReviewStudios]

I'm not sure about that

[@thomasdr08]

Dream On aired on HBO

[@richardstanley7661]

I LOVED get a life. I would watch it with my family every week as a kid!

[@Unagodd]

The only ones I clearly remember are Dream On and Get a Life, though Maniac Mansion is ringing some bells very faintly (especially the fly with a human head). Now it's time to see if there's a video on '92!

[@briansthingsthatarecool]

Get A Life and Maniac Mansion were two of my favorites!

[@kristiwallace2089]

Wow I had completely forgotten Maniac Mansion, only after seeing the fly man did my memories return.😂❤

[@russellst.martin4255]

I really wanted to watch Manic Mansion when I was a kid since it was one of my favorite games, but we didn't have cable. I looked it up on youtube a few years ago and was disappointed at how different it was, but it was interesting enough that I ended up watching a season or two.

[@RoyStiffey]

Loved Get a Life!

[@mikez.6309]

You were definitely right about the USA morning syndications on Get a Life. I have a vhs recording of some. I hated not hearing the REM classic. They would air right after either John Laroquette show reruns or Wings. Dont remember which one.

[@pureblood3388]

Dream on was amazing! So was Get A Life. Have both series on DVD.

[@wondergranny2299]

The 1990s , that's when the gentle slope of everything in general began to speed up.Every 20 years there's another shift to a new chapter in our history. It's mind-bogglin.

[@Plaprad]

Heil Honey was a urban myth in my High School. Someones relative lived in Britain and happened to have seen it. They even got a couple Polaroids IIRC. We spent the next few years debating it. Then I enlisted and met a guy who was stationed there who also said he knew about it and the controversy when it aired. Didn't believe either of them until I saw it on KZbin a few years ago. Just one of those "huh?" moments.

[@carloshill]

I remember dream on mainly for the intro the show wasn't bad considering how weird it was probably one of the first original series on HBO I ever watched

[@TheReviewStudios]

Thanks for sharing

[@maverickx1221]

Dream On was a staple of my childhood. I still maintain that show invented the reaction GIF

[@TravelVideoJourney]

Dream On is an incredible show. It gets no love at all and isn’t available anywhere. It’s really sad that you can’t watch it.

[@MaxStax1]

The Hitler one seems insane, but of coarse the 60's hit show Hogan's Heroes was a comedy about a German concentration camp that somehow worked. i loved Get a Life!

[@TheReviewStudios]

Excellent point

[@handsomeX]

True

[@divinedelaware7541]

Dream on was most definitely a classic. I was only 8, but my mom loved it. And get a life was one of those reckless fox series' we all watched.

[@DavidB45Mustard]

I loved both Dream On and Get A Life. Both hilarious in their own way.

[@Alfazil]

I vaguely remembering watching Dog House, but I loved Maniac Mansion.

[@matthewverostek5567]

Heil Honey didn't even finish airing. The broadcast was cut in the middle of the show after the station was innundated with phone calls complaining about it.

[@TheReviewStudios]

Oh wow

[@dansmith16]

I was laughing the whole time when it aired. It worked for Hogan's Heroes.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

Also; does anyone else think 'Get A Life' was kind of reminiscent of the cult-classic 80s-movie, 'Better Off Dead'? =\ =)

[@stevereber3358]

Dream on is how half the guys I know experience life. I had a friend who constantly referenced Caddyshack, so much that I proposed a bingo game where we took turns trying to get him to do whatever quotes were on your bingo card. And Star Trek TNG had Picard trapped with an alien captain who only spoke in analogies.

[@phuckerpower]

Maybe Chris Elliott played two paperboys, because I remember that show being called "Paperboy" 😅. Maybe it's because when this aired, GameBoy was still in retail and maybe I was just playing "Paperboy" at the same time.

[@JanetDax]

Dream On was great. I have a very associative style of thinking, so I do sometimes randomly think of TV and movie lines.in my head.

[@starlightrocks7]

I was mad they canceled "Get A Life."😂

[@hthrun]

2:30 I didn't catch Get a Life often, but I always thought it was funny when I saw it.

[@stevejones6247]

i remember Dream On

[@theaccursedj.e.2723]

The Tippy Top episode of Dream On is comedy gold!

[@toddgaak422]

"Dream On" and "Get a Life" were great!

[@harbosonius]

Dream On was so awesome, I watched it religiously but is now impossible to find streaming anywhere

[@charlottecorday8494]

They made a TV show off one of my favourite computer games of all time?!?

[@John_Locke_108]

I thought the same thing. Crazy that I didn't see the show back then.

[@charlottecorday8494]

​@@John_Locke_108We never had cable when I was a kid, but it's still wild I've never heard of it until half an hour ago!

[@John_Locke_108]

@@charlottecorday8494 Same. Our street didn't have enough houses for them to justify installing cable lines.