Screw Earth Day – Celebrate Aaron Spelling

Miscellaneous TV

By admin | Friday, April 22, 2005 | 11:30 am | 7 Comments

spelling.jpgAs much as people like to celebrate Earth Day, now in its 35th year today, it is hard to imagine that it was put into motion by none other than Dick Nixon himself, who also signed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. Just think of all the good he could have done if he wasn’t so paranoid about spying on the Democrats. Yeah, that’s it.

Anyway, Earth Day has now been taken over by hippies. Hey, I’ll recycle and conserve water, and even compost if I had a back yard, but I am not going to switch to soy milk(although I must admit Rice Dream ain’t half bad) or feel guilty for eating apples that didn’t come from an organic farm. I am also sick of getting cut off by assholes driving their Prius hybrids like they own the road. Bastards.

Luckily, April 22nd gives us another occasion worth mentioning – the birth of Aaron Spelling. Spelling was born in 1923, and my parents were barely 10 years old before he started producing his first work for television in 1955. Over the next 50 years, Mr. Spelling has given us many, many, many TV series, television specials, and even feature films.

Listing all of my favorite works produced by Mr. Spelling would go on even longer than a B-side recap for an Amazing Race four hour special. But I have to name a few including Charlie’s Angels, Hart to Hart (and all of those wonderfully bad TV movie follow ups), T.J. Hooker Starsky and Hutch, and the Mod Squad. Unlike most of my generation, I never got into Melrose Place or Beverly Hills 90210, but those series were equally as entertaining without a doubt. And B-side would never let me talk about Aaron Spelling without mentioning Soapdish.

Let’s hope Mr. Spelling has another 50 years of making humorous, overdramatic, semi-scandalous, and derivative television and features that our children and our children’s children will learn to love.

[And if you are still looking for something to do on Earth Day, Adopt a Puffin]

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  1. 1
    brett
    Posted April 22, 2005 at 11:53 am

    I’ll never forgive Spelling for all those lame-ass anti-drug eps of 90210 and Melrose. Like the one where Brandon is slipped some “Euphoria” and ends up losing his shit.. Spelling was probably on the take from the government — they had some program where they would pay TV shows to include anti-drug plotlines. Dammit, just give me my Ecs- I mean U4EA, and leave me alone.

    Besides, let us not forget that the loins of this man begat the demon known as Tori Spelling…

  2. 2
    sg-dub
    Posted April 22, 2005 at 12:17 pm

    I was going to simply comment on his 1990 TV movie, “Satan’s School for Girls,” starring Shannon Doherty.

    Then I checked his most impressive career history and found that “Satan’s School for Girls” was apparently so good that he did it twice – the original in 1973. Awesome.

    BUT, and I’m proud to be the first to mention this, he is also responsible for bringing us perhaps the greatest TV movie of all time. A pre-Barbarino John Travolta starring in 1976′s groundbreaking work, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.” There’s gotta be a torrent out there of that somewhere – make the effort and thank me later.

  3. 3
    Ashes
    Posted April 22, 2005 at 12:44 pm

    Mr. Mom, Love Boat, ’nuff said.

  4. 4
    HP Lovecraftnstuf
    Posted April 22, 2005 at 5:07 pm

    Hey, it’s Lenin’s birthday too. That means … something. Right?

  5. 5
    jash
    Posted April 22, 2005 at 11:04 pm

    soapdish? THATS HOT.

    but seriously, i have GREAT CONCERNS about tvgasms desire to celebrate the man responsible for the detritus that is tori spelling.

    awful.

  6. 6
    Stefanie
    Posted April 24, 2005 at 8:58 pm

    seriously, picture’s really starting to creep me out.

  7. 7
    Genevieve
    Posted April 25, 2005 at 1:37 pm

    Thanks for the puffin link. Those guys are cute.

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