Friday Videos Inspire You. Badly.

Need inspiration this bizarre Friday? Want to craft the ultimate in hero? Let Fabio help.

Is the wailing sax the auditory equivalent of the contemporary cover model with rippled abs and a complete inability to button his short? Cliched, tired, and not nearly as sexy as folks seem to think?

[Thanks to Has for the link.]

Now here’s a question: anyone have any good sites for shows that went off the air after a very few episodes? I remember seeing one episode of The American Embassy with Arija Bareikis, and of course it was cancelled the next day. So I wonder, is my mind building the potential of the show higher than the actual quality? Yet I can’t find any copies or segments online to check it out again.

Any suggestions? Where do you go when shows you love go off the air too soon?

 

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  1. R. says:

    Fabio makes my brain hurt.  Stomach, too. 

    Does anyone else miss the series “Key West” or “Pushing Daisies”?

    men77:  oh, honey,….

  2. KristieJ says:

    I watched that in stunned amazement that something like that was made.  I kept waiting for the punch line.
    And as for shows that ended way too soon there are two that stand out for me – The Nine – a show from a couple of seasons ago about a bank robbery – I never did find out what happened because it was canceled mid-season and Blood Ties.  I practically wept when I heard it was going off the air.

  3. Rebekah says:

    Sadly enough, that was a forgotten memory I didn’t need to trudge up from my childhood….
    As a joke my aunt got this VHS for my mom’s birthday. We all watched it with slack-jawed horror. Creepier still? I’m sure we have the VHS somewhere in the house. ::gag::
    My dad claimed “If you saw Fabio walking down the street you’d totally go gaga over him!”
    To which I’ve always said, “DEAR GOD NO.” I would run in the other direction screaming. THAT HAIR….

  4. amy lane says:

    As for the Fabio vid?  Uhm… yeah.  I like P.N. Elrod’s response best—I’d have that guy cleaning out my garage, my kitchen, and my yarn stash in no time!

    As for favorite shows going to die?  You name a show that’s been gone too soon, and I was a fan.  Firefly, Wondefalls, Farscape, The Dresden Files, VR5, Strange Luck, Journeyman, Brisco County Junior, *sob* Pushing Daisies—I was SOOOOOO on board all those trains when they derailed.  And now it’s just my family and Netflix, bemoaning a cruel, cruel world…

  5. Alison says:

    OMG the Fabio video was absolutely hilarious!  I nearly choked on my lunch – who does find him sexy, he’s so creepy.

  6. Leslie H says:

    Here now, be nice to Fabio. Like Boy George, he seems very campy but the two of them broke some serious cultural ground.

    With the enthusiastic support of Romantic Times, Fabio was the first cover model (in fact the first male fashion model really) to carry himself out of photos and into public consciousness. Being the first is NEVER easy. He took a lot of crap for being too pretty, being presumptively gay (nope, straight arrow), and stupid (again no; not Einstein, not dumb).

    He is also not an actor, which is not only obvious in the video; but obvious to him I think. Acting like writing is a spiritual thing. You are one or you are not. Unfortunately once you make a big name in one area, you don’t get to be a beginner in a related one. Instead of a bunch of unseen indies and immediately closed plays, they stuck him in what the Suits perceived as “Romantic” situations. It was yucky from the get-go. 

    Re: The goose incident and George Clooney, how would any of us represent if the only time people talked about us was when something bad or silly was going on? Picture your last binge of liquor or chocolate being filmed and put on Youtube. Just living your life quietly isn’t news.

  7. Kelc says:

    MIA TV shows…

    Johnny Baggo
    Freaks and Geeks
    Arrested Development (3 yrs just not enough)
    Dead Like Me (just bought the movie)
    Rent-A-Goalie
    Always Sunny In Philedelphia
    Nowhere Man

    Shit…I’m the kiss of death for TV shows, as soon as I take a liking the station pulls them. I suck.

  8. I remember the show Legacy, it was such a beautiful show. I don’t watch too much tv these days so don’t recall the others mentioned.

  9. Susan/DC says:

    I’m still mourning the cancellation of Homicide, which only goes to show I need to get a life.  Also miss The Guardian and New Amsterdam and loved, loved, loved Pushing Daisies.  As for Fabio, many years ago there was a summer replacement show called “She TV” (which, come to think of it, I also miss) which did an hysterical take-off on him.  Frankly, there are far more shows I miss than are actually on today.

  10. Anon76 says:

    My only question:

    Why is the dude in the sword fight with Fabio dressed in something that looks like a woman’s disco top?

    I saw that and thought “man, he really needs a disco ball overhead to show that sucker off.” LOL

    Verification code: Ball66 – Snort, how apropo!

  11. Heather says:

    American Embassy was like crack for me when it aired. I knew it was bad for me and that it wasn’t at all historically accurate but I enjoyed it nonetheless. But then, I think I only caught a couple of the episodes thanks to the combination of school and working retail, so after 8 years of being apart and not really seeing it in awhile… Well, they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder. I’ve never been able to find an episode of it since they took it off the air (in order to put on two full hours of Ally McBeal every week *rolls eyes*)

    Occasionally Hulu or Youtube gets old episodes of TV shows. Most of the other shows I like that were canceled too early (Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Firefly) have shown up on DVD, but I suspect things that weren’t around even long enough to get a fan base or don’t have a director who can go around pushing their creation to everyone who shows an interest (like the director from Repo! The Genetic Opera) are just going to disappear.

  12. Elaine C. says:

    I love Farscape and Firefly as two top sci-fi shows of all time.

    Oh I miss these ones too:

    Veronica Mars
    Wolf Lake
    Kindred the Embraced
    Tarzan tv show (w/ Travis Fimmel, now on Patrick Swayze’s new show)
    Roar
    The Others (short lived tv series w/ Gabriel Macht)
    Drive (Nathan Fillion rocks everything he touches! Lovin’ CASTLE)
    Level 9 (a pretty cool computer geek series)
    Blade: tv series (sexy vamp played by Neil Jackson)

    I enjoyed Buffy &  Angel for the hidden depth to the characters that unfolded as the series progressed over the years. Joss Whedon Rocks, Completely is just a god!

    Oh and for super sexy I found Steve Bacic from Kevin Sorbo’s Andromeda Series to be scrump-sil-itious!

  13. Anony Miss says:

    Joanne Renaud, that was HYSTERICAL. Thanks for the link!

  14. krsylu says:

    Firefly
    Mr and Mrs Smith 1996, with Scott Bakula and Maria Bello
    Freaks and Geeks
    My So-Called Life

    My favorite short-lived shows.

  15. Moth says:

    Excuse me, I have to go send this to EVERYONE I know. Just so they can burn their eyeballs out with the ending scene. *shudder*

  16. Rebecca says:

    Yes to Wonderfalls, Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Pushing Daisies, Blood Ties (Kyle Schmid, *le sighhhhhh*), and Driven.

    Also: Undeclared, Jake 2.0, The Dresden Files, Life on Mars (the UK version!), Deadwood and Oz.

  17. Lori says:

    Cupid. I loved it, they canceled it after half a season and now they’re doing something worse—-remaking it with a cast that includes someone I could happily live without ever seeing on my TV again. Sigh.

  18. Leslie H says:

    Hey Rebecca!!!

    BLOOD TIES out on DVD in June!!!!!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!

  19. beggar1015 says:

    I’m going to admit something here. I was watching the Fabio video and during the first part, when he was sword fighting with the young person, I assumed this was going to be one of those girl-disguised-as-a-boy things that’s so overused in romance. I mean, there was that long hair and poor quality of video to confuse my perception. (Of course, the same could be said about Fabio with his long tresses and mantitties.) Then when the camera finally shows a closer look of Fabio’s sparring partner I thought, geez, that girl’s kinda ugly. Yes, it took a minute for me to realize it was a dude.

    I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who enjoyed Profit. It ran for, what, four episodes? There was a quote of his I used to keep but now I can’t remember exactly how it goes. Something about the worst way to get an honest answer is to ask a direct question.

  20. RandomAnonReader says:

    I heard a rumour that Whedon just sold season 2 rights for Firefly on HBO.

    Browncoats rejoice!

    Firefly and Bruce Campbell fan, reporting for roll call.

  21. Suze says:

    Holy!  A season 2 for firefly?  That would be very, very welcome.  *is lost for words*

    And, mmmmm, Duncan Regehr.  One of the few memories of high school that I haven’t actively tried to excise from my brain involve Wizards & Warriors and The Last Days of Pompeii.  I even kept watching Happy Days for far longer than I ought to have, just because Nydia (?) from Pompeii showed up as Fonzie’s girlfriend.  Which reminded me of Duncan Regehr.  Mmmmm, Duncan Regehr…

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