I was just curious if any of you saw a listing for a TV show when you were a kid (heck, I guess it could happen now, but it seems more impactful when you are a kid) and you thought it would be about something else other than what it was about?

That show for me was The Avengers. When I was a kid and saw that listed in the TV Guide, I got excited that I would be able to watch the adventures of Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, the Wasp and more on TV...EVERY DAY!

Then I turned it on and was wondering....What the Hell?

It was an early lesson that not all things are as they seem.

I still remember expecting to see the "Real" Ghostbusters when I was a kid, and instead discovering the Filmation version. That was always a letdown.

Wow, exactly the same thing, I was a big West Coast Avengers reader, and when the British show came on one day, I was honestly pissed.


My Ghostbusters story has more to do with the second movie completely ignoring the cartoon series. Then!, the made the new animated episodes after the second movie adhere to the changes made in that movie. Probably one of my earliest encounters with being pissed at changes to a universes' "canon".


Edit to add: when Survivor was first announced a few years back, I was a little bit excited: Lord of the Flies meets Gilligan's Island. I was sorely disappointed at what really happened.

Friday the 13th: The Series.

"A Jason TV SHOW? WOW!"

TLC once had a documentary about the seamy underground of cock fighting. Imagine my disappointment when I realized it was about roosters...

That was basically my reaction as well, “WOW!; A weekly series with Jason Voorhees!” Boy did that get me giddy, than I tune in & a big WTF?

What? You mean even after the disappointment of no Jason Voorhees, you didn't become a fan of Robey (Micki on the series.)?

mmmmm Robey

Please post some noodz. Kthnx.

"Real" Ghostbusters !! I remember tuning in to this POS and seeing a monkey and 2 guys

I still have no idea what this show is about and how or why they are the "real" anything? how is a monkey supposed to hunt down a ghost

I loved that series. It

I remember a show in the mid 70's called 'Playboy After Dark' or something like that. It was on a Saturday night I believe, after 11 pm and I thought, "Great, a show with full frontal nudity that I can watch everyweek"

It was a bunch of girls fully clothed dancing around if I remember correctly!

Chris

Just to clarify. Filmation had a live-action Saturday morning show called Ghostbusters in the 70's. It starred Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch. Then the movie came out in the 80's. It had no connection to the Filmation version except for the name.

Filmation decided to capitalize on the popularity of the movie by putting out an animated version of their original live action show. (I think they had rights to the name.)

The one called the Real Ghostbusters was the one based on the movie.

My DVR will record up to 120 hours so I'm constantly recording stuff based on show titles. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I'm completely off in a week.

With that said, I too was very disappointed with Friday 13th. A show about a second hand store with haunted crap? WTF?

Lois and Clark was another show that kind of fooled me.

Nintendo Power magazine announced "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show" like it was going to be a TOTALLY new, ground-breaking concept in entertainment, like nothing you've ever seen before. I wish I still had the magazine, it said something like "it's not just a cartoon show either- it's got incredible live-action segments too!" I somehow expected that the video game's universe would be faithfully recreated to look as it would in real life.

So I eagerly await the premiere date, rush home from school, and get a typical low-budget kids' show set with two fat guys going "Hey kids! I'm Mario!" "And I'm Luigi!" Then it goes into a cartoon with typical crappy TV-quality animation, and it wasn't even in stereo. It was one of a number of screw-ups (including the U.S. getting a retooled Japanese game with Mario characters as its Super Mario Bros 2 game, instead of the REAL version that came out in Japan) that made me lose my enthusiasm for Nintendo. The 1993 movie wasn't great either, but at least it looked like some real money was put into it.

Another big let-down was "This Is America, Charlie Brown!" Billed as the first-ever animated miniseries. I thought "Cool, a Charlie Brown epic!" I'd planned to tape every episode, but quit after the first one showed that this wasn't really about the Charlie Brown characters, just a boring history lesson done in the same style animation with wraparounds of the characters telling the story. The first episode was about the Pilgrims, then similar subjects were the focus of the following shows.

I liked Friday the 13th the animated series. Wasn't there one episode that had some loose connection with Jason though (like an iron hockey mask or something?)

Friday the 13th the animated series?

ha ha, no idea why I typed that. that would be enough to warp a kids mind. hey if they can do a Clerks series why not