Quark

[red-beard]

Wow, I haven't seen this show in years.

Was TV that brain-dead in the 1970's? It all seemed better back then...

[red-beard]

But the Barnstable twins are worth watching! Wow!

[968rz]

That's because you/we were younger then.

[wdfifteen]

Ooops. I thought you were talking about the page design program that is legendary for bad customer service.

[Embraer]

I bought the Riptide series dvd set...i remember it being totally awesome when i was little. after watching it now, it's just mega cheesy...although, they did have a lot of cool cars that randomly showed up on episodes.

[red-beard]

I thought Riptide was cool, but it was a ripoff of Simon and Simon. I was a pretty serious hacker back then, and thought the robot was stupid.

The really bad movie "The Losers" has a much better class of techno-nerd-geek.

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Ooops. I thought you were talking about the page design program that is legendary for bad customer service.

And nobody uses anymore. God I hated it when we used it back at the newspaper.

[varmint]

Originally Posted by targa911S

And nobody uses anymore. God I hated it when we used it back at the newspaper.

it's still in use at my paper. everyone hates it.



i have a vague memory of the series. did it involve a space garbageman? and how are you watching it? is it on hulu or something?

[epbrown]

Originally Posted by red-beard

But the Barnstable twins are worth watching! Wow!

Fellow KYans, they were quite the celebs when I was growing up there.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Ooops. I thought you were talking about the page design program that is legendary for bad customer service.

LOL, they had the market cornered and gave it away.

One of my former staff has been their director of licensing for a while now.

He was an ******* so he fit right in.

[epbrown]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Wow, I haven't seen this show in years.

Was TV that brain-dead in the 1970's? It all seemed better back then...

I haven't seen Quark since it aired, but I still remember two funny gags. One where the ship's doctor, a gruff old guy with an eye patch, is asked to look at a sample in a microscope and screams in horror "Oh, god - it's all black, and dark, and-" and Quark says "Other eye, Doc." "Oh. Eh, just typical biological material..."

And another when Quark is infected with something and the sentient plant guy walks up and gives him a shot.

"How bad is it?"
"Fatal. The only cure is to have sex for 48 hours straight."
The clones (Barnstable twins) light up with interest.
"Or the shot I just gave you."
Everyone "What!?"
Plant guy: "What?"

[red-beard]

The first doctor was only in the Pilot. "Ficus", the plant guy, replaced him in the actual series.

This is a Buck Henry show. It definitely reminds me of a lot of the late 1970's Saturday Night Live shows.