Lynnwood Beauty Academy

[@Jeff98177]

No city in Washington was safe from "Almost Live!". I miss that show.

[@blakeyswagswag]

This is actually hilarious to see as a lifelong resident of Lynnwood. You know our motto, "Still not Everett!"

[@Sabbathtage]

Oh god, Everett. I have family there and I agree with that motto.

[@aerodicus]

Ever-rot

[@bobgasm1471]

@@aerodicus Everett, at least we're not Lynnwood....city of lights [stoplights, that is]

[@aerodicus]

@@bobgasm1471 Lynn-hood

[@dbcooper80308]

Omfg😂😂

[@FunSizeSpamberguesa]

*DIES* God, I loved this show so much...I have a friend who lives in Lynnwood now, who I must forward this to. Wall-a-Bangs XD.

[@PeachWookiee]

I have family in Lynnwood now.

[@scottvska]

This hairstyle never went out of fashion in Arlington.

[@dbcooper80308]

😂❤

[@migsmestizo]

loved this show!

[@EminencePhront]

The funny thing is the girls in Lynnwood currently wear the hairstyles that were popular in Seattle when Almost Live was on the air.

[@toddbu-WK7L]

When we first moved to Washington in 1992, Almost Live was how we learned about the region.

[@davidhollenbeck9227]

So things haven't changed?

[@danieldougan269]

I live in Indianapolis, and we have some rough equivalents to these areas of Seattle. Lynnwood and Kent are basically trashy hick towns. We have Martinsville and Speedway (home of the Indianapolis 500). I would guess Martinsville is more like Kent, and Speedway is more like Lynnwood. Mercer Island is for rich people with boats. We have Geist. Redmond is a bland, white-bread place where nothing interesting happens, but everyone is affluent. We have Carmel. Carmel is also home to a number of big businesses, similar to Microsoft being in Redmond. Leavenworth is a tourist trap. We have Nashville. It's not Bavarian-themed, but it's in the hills (the closest Indiana gets to mountains). It is full of gift shops and kitsch. Wallingford is for hippies. We have Bloomington, which is a combination of that and the U-District since it's home to Indiana University. Does that about sum it up?

[@vanpenguin22]

I'd take Lynnwood back then to Lynnwood today any time.

[@seanmcdirmid]

"It was better back when I was young" - every generation ever.

[@vanpenguin22]

@seanmcdirmid There was no fentonyl Smash-n-grabs were fewer and further between. There was such thing as a freeway off ramp without a panhandler. There was an infinite supply of used car parts in the form of a wrecking yard every half mile. You want a V8 Vega? Give me two thousand dollars and three weeks. I drag my feet. I could go on and on, and on.

[@NWguy83]

I had that Super Soaked backpack when I was a kid!

[@kibaanazuka332]

Lynnwood in the 90s: Land of Camaros and women named Barbara

[@seanmcdirmid]

I spent a lot of time in Lynwood in the early 90s before moving on to UW. It really was just the Target and a mall to me.

[@duncanadelaide4054]

Has it changed at all?

[@MyChannel-ct6gr]

And "Donna" 😉

[@ericasebald1981]

The beer can earrings

[@skidder43]

how do you get the 12:00 to quit blinking on my vcr. lynnwood rulz

[@TGADxerPatroni]

That is enough foundation for a warehouse in Kent.

[@GenXorcist1976]

LMFAO!!! You are so right! My city (Tacoma) got its fair share of hits over the years, too. Even the East wasn't safe!! Why was this show ever cancelled?? Just when it was going national and everything! Dammit.

[@psychochicken9535]

I don't remember the details, but I think I had something to do with how the money was being split up, because of the syndication. John Keister was making the most, but he was also the funniest driving force behind the show (and I think part owner), so when he quit, the show continued, but it lacked the same level of humor and the audience shrunk.. Then he started The 206 which quickly fell apart for similar reasons. But I could be wrong, if someone wants to correct me.

[@MokkaMatti]

The worst thing was for it to go into national syndication. It should have remained our special treat to ourselves, a secret handshake, a wink and a nod to each other who knew. The Washington State that I was born into in the early '70s, and have lived my entire life in, is gone forever. There's no way now that a show like almost like what even get to the pilot stage, local TV is also dead; taken over by out of state interests who have imported their unfamiliar on-screen personalities and homogenized content. Bill Gates brought about the end of all that was good here.

[@fortynights1513]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@psychochicken9535Here’s supposedly how it went: King cancelled the program in 1999 (I presume at the end of the 1998-99 TV season) because of a lack of profit (likely because ratings didn’t live up to expectations given budget). Technically Almost Live didn’t continue without Kiester. However starting at the beginning of the 2000-01 season, Kiester would create another sketch comedy series for KIRO called The John Report with Bob (that being Bob Nelson) which aired for two seasons before similarly being cancelled in 2002 also due to lack of profits. And finally in 2013 there was the 206 with Cashman which ran on KING from early 2013 to mid 2015 before being renamed “Up Late NW” for its final season in 2015-16.

[@kutiekatz90]

haha, i live in lynnwood, but i was a little kid when this show aired. were lynnwood people really like that?

[@ChristopherStandardTime]

your comment was twelve years ago, but ya gotta remember these episodes are from the mid-eighties, which is now about THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. the whole area was pre-ama-whatever, pre-tech boom, and was a big industrial area that wasn't doing too well because reaganomics screwed everything up. so... yeah, lynnwood was like that. a lot of the area was. it's less so these days; lynnwood now has people living there who can't afford a house in seattle but can still buy teslas. fewer pickup trucks, but the trucks that are there are clean and cost $85k. although... money doesn't buy class, but gives the illusion it does.

[@maychen]

Is Everett the new Lynnwood?

[@sqwuade]

Everett is the new Seattle, Seattle is the new San Francisco (Too crowded).

[@MokkaMatti]

@@sqwuade Seattle is too fetid with the stench of people pooping on the sidewalks like oversized dogs with diarrhea.

[@stoicathos]

Everett was always worse than Lynnwood. Lynnwood is more like what Everett drains into.

[@PeachWookiee]

I showed my eldest niece this clip. She 💀💀💀.

[@machiwoomiapoo]

Love it!

[@dbcooper80308]

“We’ll work the face”❤

[@Chivalryaintdead]

Actually I moved to Everett last year, and some parts of Everett aren't too bad.

[@seanmcdirmid]

Straight out of Lynhood!

[@dbcooper80308]

Beer Can Earrings.Period.

[@LarryWaldbillig]

...or in Mount Vernon.....

[@rayannfatimah4334]

To funny for words 😄 🤣 😅

[@Jeff98177]

Joel McHale, too.

[@spittle8]

Fucking brilliant.

[@aah3504]

Still true. Don't see as much blue eyeshadow anymore but there's still the long painted fingernails, big hoop earrings, cheap shoes and tawdry clothes.

[@danstromness5165]

Nothing compared to the skits from Almost Live. GENIUSES...every one of them!! Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan and Ballard Driving Academy are among my favorites. Man on the Street never fails to make me LMAO. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXPKeql-ZdmobLs

[@AMonkeyzUncle9000]

a town in Washington State.

[@Willjk89]

Lynnwood isn't that bad...

[@thebrownguy79]

google it.

[@kwong300]

correction, lynnwood picked up where everett left off. everett has taken over the north end in trashiness.

[@felicity4711]

I like her socks.

[@ShipBoMovingPictures]

I am from lynnwood! (which presently is better than forks)

[@exvoxmachina]

@Fairliner At least were not South Park.

[@sqwuade]

Can the Lynnwood Beauty Acadamy help Nancy Guppy grow a chin though..?

[@oxxnarrdflame8865]

😂😂😂

[@GenXorcist1976]

Not nearly as bad as Everett.