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Please help me I.D. this show!
All right, so I don't remember a whole lot about this show and some of my memories might in fact be false memories, but I'll give explaining it a shot. I'm pretty sure this show aired in the early '90s or possibly late '80s. The show was about a family in some suburban setting, and the dad had created a robot that they treated as a child/maid. I don't remember much else except when she cried it would be this real frantic crying and water would just spurt out everywhere like a sprinkler. I also think the robot's name was Vicky, but I have no clue about that. So, please help me identify this show. I've been racking my brain and doing a few searches with absolutely no results.
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Did each episode start out with some dude going "downstairs" on some really, old woman? If so:
Small Wonder http://imdb.com/title/tt0088610/ |
Thanks, <b>dick_grayson</b> you are officially my new personal savior!
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Sounds like either The Shield or Bosum Buddies.
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Was it Good Times?
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Please tell me you wanted to know the name of this show so you could track down and destroy every remaining copy of it. Please.
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
Please tell me you wanted to know the name of this show so you could track down and destroy every remaining copy of it. Please.
She's a small wonder, a girl unlike other girls. She's a miracle, and I grant you She'll enchant you with her sight She's a small wonder, and she'll make your heart beat twice. She's fantastic, made of plastic, Microchips here and there. She's a small wonder, brings love and laughter everywhere. |
I could have sworn by the description it was M.A.N.T.I.S.
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It's gotta be Lone Star.
Wait, wrong forum... |
Tracer Bullet, I must now kill you - if I can't destroy that brain cell with beer.
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Small wonder is sooo infameous, its mainstream.
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I think I've seen parts of this before. Is this the show were the little girl who is supposed to be a robot talks in the stereotypical way humans imitate a robot talking?
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Originally Posted by Grimm1
I think I've seen parts of this before. Is this the show were the little girl who is supposed to be a robot talks in the stereotypical way humans imitate a robot talking?
Just imagine Full House with a creepy robot girl instead of a creepy troll baby. :p |
Was it Manimal?
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Everybody loves Raymond?
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hmmm. i think it may have been coprock.
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Originally Posted by Jonny2k1
So, please help me identify this show. I've been racking my brain and doing a few searches with absolutely no results.
Searched? :lol: My first try at google: robot girl tv 80's pulls up plenty of info about the show. |
I liked the episode where Vicky went Westworld and tore her fat brother's arm off and beat him to death with it.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
Searched? :lol:
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Man, I think I watched three minutes of that show back in the '80s and was literally floored by how bad it was. In fact, I'm still scarred.
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I can't tell if this site is an elaborate joke, or the very real work of a very frightening person.
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/2460/ Just a snippet from one of the dozens of the site's pages on the show : There's perpetual hunger in the sci-fi community for android/robot characters in top billing and Small Wonder could've sated this built-in audience rather than largely squandering it. These scripts would've significantly altered the tone of the show to a "reality feel" along the lines of The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes, which wasn't impossible since Small Wonder's creator was a principal in those projects too. One of Small Wonder's hallmarks in TV sci-fi was its close adherence to current technical feasibility, and one of its main failings was not exploiting its unique social and science-fiction niche to the fullest. By the episodes aired, over 40% can't be transported to another sitcom because of Vicki's role alone. Were the "gem" scripts that would've pumped up her role and potential used than discarded, it could've easily been 90%. In a nutshell, the producers couldn't see Small Wonder's larger sociological sci-fi potentials. |
That is a great site. Check out this passage from "Vicki in Jamie's Bedroom":
The question foremost in storing Vicki in Jamie's room is whether she poses too perfect a human replicate for a young pubescent boy with perking hormones to simply dismiss as an appliance or a toy. Like the perfect hypnotized subject, Vicki presents to any young boy the ultimate "play doctor" partner (primarily as a petting object since she's only externally anatomically correct); totally docile, obedient, and obliging. She has no will, conscious, sense of morality, shame or modesty. She doesn't blab and will permanently keep and encrypt or delete an experience if so ordered. The knowledge that Vicki's non-biological and has no "mind" or true feelings to bruise or traumatize or have qualms about adds a notch of guiltlessness that'd encourage Jamie's response to Vicki's affect. Also, that she's physically very comely can only exasperate Jamie's pose of brotherly disinterest in her. So would he or does he? Jamie certainly has ample opportunity and privacy to carry out any wanton whimsy in his bedroom, so the question is, assuming he is like most boys his age, would he willfully and spitelessly move on his own "sister" or does he regard Vicki enough as one not to? |
Can anyone help me find the show about this urban family where the father is a doctor, and the mother is a lawyer? I'm pretty sure this show aired in the early '90s or possibly late '80s. I also think one of the kids was named Theo, but I have no clue about that. So, please help me identify this show. I've been racking my brain and doing a few searches with absolutely no results.
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rabbit77, the show you are thinking of is Good Times.
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