Wayback Wednesday: TGIF
This week’s Wayback Wednesday isn’t terribly way back. And it also goes back to Fridays, not Wednesdays. I'm just being all sorts of contrary this week.
All of us wacky Generation Y-ers (or whatever it is they call us) got to watch a lineup of ridiculously cornball family sitcoms every Friday night on ABC when we were growing up. Yup, it’s the TGIF line up. Even if you wouldn’t be caught dead watching some of these shows now, you know you watched them as a kid and you loved them all.
We started out with shows like Perfect Strangers and Mr. Belvedere. Very soon after, came the two big legendary shows. Full House and Family Matters. This was the time that the Juggernaut of TGIF could not be stopped. Week after week of Olsen Twins and Steve Urkel brought down some great ratings for the network. The next big one was Step by Step, which I never really got too much into, even when they had the Urkel crossover episode.
TGIF also brought us the bizarre, but enjoyable Dinosaurs show. Which soon left the lineup to seek its own timeslot. And later on, we got Boy Meets World and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, each enjoying several seasons.
TGIF also saw its share of tremendous flops, such as Hi Honey I’m Home, You Wish, and Teen Angel.
Let’s take a painful stroll down memory lane through the magic of YouTube.
Oh, and Topanga is still smokin' hot.
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