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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Tales from the Darkside
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“You promised you’d never tell!”

My favorite horror anthology movie.

Oh this is the TV series!

But the film is also excellent.

Frasier, S1

Once in a Bluemoon a sitcom comes along that requires no bedding in. Where the setting is perfect, and the cast chemistry instant. Where from the first episode, it feels like you’ve know the characters for years.

Frasier is exactly such a sitcom. And for me, it works because it’s predominantly skewering Frasier and Niles for the outright pomposity, without making them seem like Bad People.

Transformers Season 3 (1986)
aka The Post-Movie One
aka The Space One
aka The One No One Likes

The Transformers was a toy commercial, and a darn good one.

Until the Transformers Movie came and the heroes they'd sold to millions of kid were casually killed off to make room for next Christmas' toys. Season 3 was the aftermath and it is interesting...

Most of the series is set in SPACE with a lot of time spent on the machinations of the Quintissons (who are not nearly as interesting as they hope, and didn't even have toys to sell) and some funky alien races.

All in all it's like a half notch more mature than Transformers S1 and 2, but ultimately has to chicken out and bring back Optimus Prime to stop the angry letters from kids. But seeing the big guy back did make me smile.

Available for free on Tubi and Youtube.

https://tubitv.com/

Transformers Season 4 (1987)
aka The Once I Never Even Heard Of
aka Three Episodes is not a Season Guys!

So as the Transformer brand began to stall out things became more gimmicky, Head Masters (whose heads turn into littler robots), Target Masters (whose guns turn into littler robots), more combiners, you get the idea. Later Hasbro would just give up on the whole 'transforming' part of 'Transformers' and just make them Action Masters, who yeah, at least you could pose.

For the last season Hasbro for some reason decided that their 30 minute (22 minutes without commercials, 18 when you take out intros, outros and plot summaries) toy commercials were not worth continuing but also, for some reason, decided to do five final episodes. Which were then cut to three.

So you get a crapton of new characters shoved in your face, a whole new alien world, Spike and Daniel get to bond with transformers, and all that in 90 minutes, more like 54 minutes.

Nice they got a send off, with a new Golden Age of Cybertron and Optimus alive again, but it's not really something to hunt down.

After this there were several seasons just in Japan which sound completely bonkers, if I find them somewhere I may give them a look.

As with Season 3, available for free on Tubi and Youtube.

Be wary of the English dubs on the Japanese series.

Completely different voice cast, and nobody sounds even close. And they keep calling Cybertron Cyberton.

If you can get a subbed version I dare say they’re worth watching. But if you can only find the sub? Avoid, avoid, avoid.