migraine dreams
Apr. 23rd, 2009 04:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanI had this dream where my TV suddenly started getting a "Fondest Memories" cable channel. The theme of the channel was "TV shows that everyone else forgot...but you remembered!" and when I watched it, it was mostly showing reruns from the 70's and 80's. (I live in hope that it will return and show me some good 50's-60's bizarreness.)
The shows I watched included:
--"Supernatural," the original. It was from the very early 70's, and chronicled the (generally funny and cheesy) adventures of two brothers who ran an occult private investigation agency with help from their aunt and uncle. The older brother (still Dean) was this genuinely dumb redneck slacker who had lots of skanky girlfriends and vague psychic powers that the younger brother (still Sam), who was very smart and ambitious and a little uptight, resented and felt inadequate over. Both brothers were middle-aged and not all that attractive. The aunt and uncle were the best part; the uncle was a little old Jewish man who was into the ~*mystical powers of the East*~ and knew kung fu, and his wife was this little old Chinese lady who was into Kabbalah and knew Krav Maga. They ran a wizard supply shop that moved around from town to town and always used a different front.
--A show about five Olympic athletes with superpowers who teamed up to fight crime. There was a little German gymnast who could read minds (and later in the series, learned how to telepathically hypnotize people), a Kenyan runner who could speak with all animals, a Russian weightlifter who had superspeed and was invulnerable (but normal weightlifter strength, oddly enough), a Bangladeshi archer with pyrokinesis, and a Brazilian figure skater with precognition. The show was fairly serious and the characters were all pretty well fleshed out, because the characters were based on real athletes who got together one day in the Olympic village and decided they wanted to have their own television show.
--An "afterschool special" show from the 1980's about a high school where the GSA and the Special Ed Department had to be consolidated for budget reasons, so all the queer kids and the disabled kids spent the day together in a trailer and learned Very Important Lessons. It was full of horrible stereotypes and incredibly dumb lessons, like "Strangers with Candy," but it was serious. I've never actually managed to be offended in a dream before.
--A cute kids' show about a little boy with Asperger's Syndrome who created a different imaginary friend each week to help him solve a problem or work through an issue. It was specifically for children with Asperger's and parents who wanted to understand what their aspie kid might be feeling or thinking, but it ended up being a huge hit among adolescent girls as well.
The shows I watched included:
--"Supernatural," the original. It was from the very early 70's, and chronicled the (generally funny and cheesy) adventures of two brothers who ran an occult private investigation agency with help from their aunt and uncle. The older brother (still Dean) was this genuinely dumb redneck slacker who had lots of skanky girlfriends and vague psychic powers that the younger brother (still Sam), who was very smart and ambitious and a little uptight, resented and felt inadequate over. Both brothers were middle-aged and not all that attractive. The aunt and uncle were the best part; the uncle was a little old Jewish man who was into the ~*mystical powers of the East*~ and knew kung fu, and his wife was this little old Chinese lady who was into Kabbalah and knew Krav Maga. They ran a wizard supply shop that moved around from town to town and always used a different front.
--A show about five Olympic athletes with superpowers who teamed up to fight crime. There was a little German gymnast who could read minds (and later in the series, learned how to telepathically hypnotize people), a Kenyan runner who could speak with all animals, a Russian weightlifter who had superspeed and was invulnerable (but normal weightlifter strength, oddly enough), a Bangladeshi archer with pyrokinesis, and a Brazilian figure skater with precognition. The show was fairly serious and the characters were all pretty well fleshed out, because the characters were based on real athletes who got together one day in the Olympic village and decided they wanted to have their own television show.
--An "afterschool special" show from the 1980's about a high school where the GSA and the Special Ed Department had to be consolidated for budget reasons, so all the queer kids and the disabled kids spent the day together in a trailer and learned Very Important Lessons. It was full of horrible stereotypes and incredibly dumb lessons, like "Strangers with Candy," but it was serious. I've never actually managed to be offended in a dream before.
--A cute kids' show about a little boy with Asperger's Syndrome who created a different imaginary friend each week to help him solve a problem or work through an issue. It was specifically for children with Asperger's and parents who wanted to understand what their aspie kid might be feeling or thinking, but it ended up being a huge hit among adolescent girls as well.