I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

Friday, August 22, 2003

Apparently, I'm not the only Canadian out there that could recognize an older-but-familiar face in the current wave of Future Shop commercials. Yes, I did a Google search to confirm my suspicions, and, sho'nuff, the Future Shop clerk is played by none other than... Adam Reid! Who? Why he was Adam (one of 2 Adams, actually) on the Ottawa-produced children's TV series You Can't Do That On Television, for those of you that watched CTV on Saturday mornings (in Canada) or Nickelodeon (in the United States) in the mid-80s, or whom caught the reruns which aired two or three times a day on YTV in the early years. He's also, apparently, currently seen on one of the Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale commercials (with the Scottish guy) and was on the Canada Heritage Minute spot about the creation of Superman.

Speaking of You Can't Do That On Television... my brother, John, almost made it onto that show. He went to an audition in 1989 and was one of the last kids left in the audition, but they chose one of the other kids and the show only lasted a few more episodes before it got cancelled...

Also, since Burger King made an announcement about a Hamtaro-related promotion, so AnimeNewsNetwork.com forum gadfly GATSU started a thread about how it's appropriate that Burger King is doing a Hamtaro promotion, "considering BK's burgers taste like rodent meat". Well, I, as Tenchi, couldn't resist inserting the obvious You Can't Do That On Television reference:

Random kid 1: Didn't Barth say they were having some sort of Hamtaro promotion? I don't see any Hamtaro toys anywhere.

Random kid 2: Oh, but Hamtaro is here... what do you think's *in* the burgers?

Barth: Duh.... I heard that!!!

Yes, someone did get the joke. :P