love  - 2014-05-17
I loved the hell out of mathnet.
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jreid - 2014-05-17
Me too.
I also had a huge boner for Kate Monday, which was probably spillover from my huger boner for Markie Post in Night Court.
Heck of a puberty, that was.
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infinite zest - 2014-05-17 I was boners for Shelly Duvall and Fairy Tale Theatre.
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infinite zest - 2014-05-17
This was always my favorite part of Square one. I hated Mathman. Stupid mathman sucks and gave me nightmares. Kermit the frog with a football helmet that's all I tell ya what.
When I first started watching this show I thought Mathnet was real. Like not a show, but actually a real documentary or something. :(
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Jet Bin Fever - 2014-05-17 Yeah, Square One. So many great parts. So many bad ones.
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Old_Zircon - 2014-05-17 Infinite Zest you're nuts, Mathman ruled.
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infinite zest - 2014-05-17 No it didn't. It scared the shit out of me! The tornado thing seemed like a nice guy, usually with something funny to say and then it's like MATH MATH MATH MATH MATH and then he kills him.
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Cena_mark - 2014-05-17 Mr. Glitch (The Tornado) was the bad guy. Math Man rocked and was the good guy. You're like those jerks who boo Cena.
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EvilHomer - 2014-05-17 Mathman was the Pacman loking guy, right? He was OK. Nowhere near as scary as the Mathnet creepers.
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infinite zest - 2014-05-17 I think it was just the one creeper. But he was funny. Just didn't know a lot about math. There's one where the tables are turned and Glitch has to identify pentagons and stops at a hexagon. Wrong answer. Mathman murders him.
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Nominal - 2014-05-18 If you want to blow a young person's mind, tell them about how you HAD to watch a show every week when it aired, or else you would be forever lost on the storyline unless you got lucky and the one you missed just happen to be on a rerun you caught. But then how would you catch up on the rest?!!! No streaming, no internet downloading, no eventual DVD release, MAYBE an odd episode or two on VHS at a pop.
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EvilHomer - 2014-05-17
Oh yeah, shit, these guys! I totally forgot about them! Or, rather, repressed them. I don't know what it was about this show, but it scared the hell out of me. I was convinced that the Mathnet agents were going to try and kidnap me.
Am I crazy? Did anyone else get that sociopathic-pedo vibe from these two?
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sasazuka - 2014-05-17
Did this one actually ever air? I know it wasn't the one that aired the very first week of SQUARE ONE TELEVISION in January 1987, that was the one with Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson) and the gorilla. Yes, I was watching.
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sasazuka - 2014-05-17 Oh yeah, Wikipedia said this one did air, second week of SQ1TV.
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BHWW - 2014-05-17
A couple of ones I remember, from watching Square One as a youth back in the day:
The "Rear Window" storyline, where Monday is wheelchair bound with a broken leg and thinks one of her neighbors is the "mad bomber" targeting local banks.
The episode where MacLean Stevenson played the host of a beloved detective show-for kids-that was cancelled due to low ratings, supposedly losing out to a terrible new kids show hosted by Dick Sargent as an evil Emmett Kelly-style clown.
The episode from the later New York City period where the Mathnetters help a lady locate a sunken ship near Bermuda and clear the name of her naval officer ancestor, and meanwhile discuss and debunk some of the "weird" stuff about that whole Bermuda Triangle business.
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infinite zest - 2014-05-17 Hehe Dick Sargent. Way to go Square One, raising a generation of kids who might get the joke 20 years down the line.
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Nominal - 2014-05-18
Beverly Leech was the prototype Dana Sculler.
Joe Howards was...not the prototype Mulder.
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