The Entire Cast of Family Ties to Reunite for the 9th Annual TV Land Awards

[EricMontreal22]

I really don't know why the pervasive laugh track finds all this so funny.... (No, honestly as an adult I really *don't*)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMgaTZ5ku2g

[EricMontreal22]

I was a true scaredy cat--and our parents kept us away from horror movies (oddly they had no real prob with sex or nudity in movies--which was the reverse of nearly every other family we knew). Even the tv ads for Kruger would give me nightmares--I remember once being at a slumber party and we watched the opening credits for that Freddy Krueger tv show, and I had to leave the room for the whole time. Another party the kids rented Pet Semetary--I think I went home. LOL It wasn't till Iw as liek 14 that I watched a bunch of the movies--and became a horror fan.

[JackPeyton]

Oh wow.

I wanted to be Freddy Kruger for halloween when i was like 5 but my parents wouldnt let me. It was one of the only things i remember them ever telling me no on, i guess because of school.

[Soapsuds]

Do you still like the reddy/blond guys?? Here is a pic of Mackenzie now...he's on the left...younger brother on the right

[EricMontreal22]

Ha actually I don't really anymore--I mean I don't really have a type I guess, but reddy/blond isn't them. I had NO idea that Sean was his brother!

Yeah in the 80s it became a controversial issue, I remember our school wouldn't allow Freddy costumes one Halloween--I think the issue was that Freddy was a child killer (with implications that he had been a child molester as well--implications I think the remake emphasized too much), so I can kinda see the issue with schools I guess.

[All My Shadows]

Sean's older than MacKenzie. Patty Duke had Sean with some random guy she was married to in the early 70s, but everyone thought his dad was Desi Arnaz Jr. She divorced the guy and married John Astin, then she and John had MacKenzie. John adopted Sean, so he considers John his father.

Nothing really scared me when I was a kid. We mostly found horror movies hilarious (Child's Play, Pumpkinhead, Halloween, Carrie, etc), but there was one that scared the [!@#$%^&*] out of me, and that is Candyman. It still scares me when I watch it now in the daytime. Tony Todd is just creepy as hell.

[Bright Eyes]

I guess you never tried out the Candyman calling to the bathroom mirror, eh?

[EricMontreal22]

Candyman is particularly scary I think--it holds up. Bernard Rose (who I'm sure the Lost crew were payign hommage to when they had their couple with those names) is a particularly gifted director (and vastly underated--he has a great, bizarre early "kid" horror film Paperhouse that's a forgotten classic) and Clive Barker when he actually commits can be brilliant. I never bothered with the sequels though.

[jcar03]

Geez, Andy has a rap sheet and I didn't see any jail time. How long before he ends up on Celebrity Rehab?

[EricMontreal22]

From all I've read he seems to be doing decently well. I had no idea he was on Lost (back when I still watched religiously even...)

From wiki:

He appeared as a regular in the short-lived NBC legal drama First Years with Samantha Mathis. His character was openly gay, and Astin told The Advocate magazine that he was hoping for some "same-sex smooching" in the show.[1] Recently, he appeared on Lost as Kate's love-interest Tom, in a flashback, in the season 1 episode "Born to Run."

[cct]

Ohmigod, I know I'm late-jumping in this thread, but I had to comment on this. I thought I was the only one who watched this show (and maybe was since it was cancelled after only half a season I think). I used to crack up that the Daddy Warbucks figure's name in real life was Joseph BOLOGNA.

Remember the TV movie that kicked it off. It had the older girl, Nina, I think that it centered around, but by the time the show started, she was gone. The other girls were Rose (vaguely Asian-looking if I recall, not unlike Tina on Glee), Molly (the young sax player, who later went on to Just the Ten of Us, hello Jamie Luner), Tisha Campbell, the blonde girl, and also the tomboyish 11 year old.

In fact, I'm still pissed the night the show was interrupted so they could pull Baby Jessica out of the well. I've still never seen the ending. The last thing I remember is Tisha Campbell singing in the rain. I think that ep centered around her. LOL.

I was surprised to later see Tisha in Little Shop, School Daze, and of course Martin. Didn't she also do the Damon Wayans show? I really liked her.

And, Eric, since this thread has evolved into a horror movie thread and you talk about being scared of goofy things, I always was particulary scared of a Fantasy Island episode about Vampires and remember them showing the victims' necks with two tiny red drops of blood that reminded me of Pearl Drops toothpaste, so that toothpaste scared the [!@#$%^&*] out of me too. LOL.

Also the band KISS always freaked my $hit out too.

[EricMontreal22]

HAHA Both me and my twin sis (who oddly don't share a lot of memories) can remember being in a hotel room in Calgary and finding the initial tv movie. And then one time we had family friends over (which always meant we got to stay up late to watch tv with their kids) and realizing it was now a tv show.

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Watching it now, the dad kinda seems a creep, and I'm embarassed it was the first place I heard classics like Everyday, but it's not actually as cringe inducing as I expected.

And the sitcom I meant with Tish Campbell was Martin--which I found unwatchable.

*edit* ok this is kinda cringe worthy, but no more than a lot of Glee... (and from clips away they seemed to use Tisha a LOT)

[All My Shadows]

I think jcar03 meant Andy Keaton (FT), now Andy Moffet (FOL) lol. MacKenzie Astin's doing very well for himself and always has.

[cct]

LOL, it was funny how as soon as I started watching the theme song, I suddenly remembered the character names I couldn't recall upthread. I think the blonde's name was Diana and the little sax player (Ziegler; Just Ten of Us) was Mickey. I still can't remember who the tomboy was (Bianca Degarr?)

I think it seems like they used Tisha a lot because she became the most famous later, so someone probably posted more "hey look at this" clips of her. Although, no one can deny from watching the show, she has the best voice of the five. I actually remember the blonde girl not being half bad.

And I agree Eric, I don't think it's any worse than Glee, save the fact that its clearly an eighties show despite being set in the fifties.

[cct]

McKenzie Astin has that "heroin" look about him. Or maybe he's ill? He is extremely gaunt, and not in a I-lost-the-baby-fat kinda way.