Badly remembered pop culture

[Dr. Nick]

I thought I might use the community here to track down a couple of things from my childhood I have the vaguest of recollections of. I guess others can use this thread for the same purpose, if anyone else has these nagging pop culture memories.

Firstly, there's this American TV show the basic premise of which was that the authorities were tracking down this guy who didn't want to be found (fabulously descriptibe, I know). It was like The Fugitive, except more comedic and far more outlandish. One episode involved the fugitive guy meeting Elvis, who was still very much alive. Elvis might have been a lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest, or that might have been a different episode altogether. I think the protagonist's ex-wife might have been tracking him down as well, and I also think the final episode involved preventing the launch of a nuclear missile.

The other thing I'd like to find after all these years is a movie about a group of friends tracking down a legendary bottle of booze. I think the band Doors might have been involved somehow with the bottle. The two standout scenes that I remember involve a Jackass-style fireworks fight in a graveyard, and a parachuting accident that almost goes horribly wrong. The guy who's about to jump doesn't actually have his parachute with him. His friends on the ground realize this and try to warn him, but for some reason using the radio is out of the question. In desperation, they resort to writing giant letters on the ground using whatever items they can grab, their clothes and ultimately their naked bodies.

[child of Lilith]

This is freaking infuriating. I know what show you're talking about in that first paragraph but I can't remember the name or who was in it! I've spent the past twenty minutes trying to find it but I've gotten exactly nowhere. . . Looks like we're both going to be left out in the cold on this one. :(

[Dr. Nick]

B-b-bump. I finally found out what the film was, by searching Youtube for "skydiving scene". Bam.

Now only the TV show remains unidentified.

[Firetrout]

Time to sift through all this junk


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_television_series

[child of Lilith]

I tried that already.

[The Eva Monkey]

Now only the TV show remains unidentified.

Have you tried Reddit? It's boggling how people can figure shit like this out with such limited information.

[Catamari]

Have you tried Reddit? It's boggling how people can figure shit like this out with such limited information.

[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue[/url]
They will find anything.

[soul.assassin]

The other thing I'd like to find after all these years is a movie about a group of friends tracking down a legendary bottle of booze. I think the band Doors might have been involved somehow with the bottle. The two standout scenes that I remember involve a Jackass-style fireworks fight in a graveyard, and a parachuting accident that almost goes horribly wrong. The guy who's about to jump doesn't actually have his parachute with him. His friends on the ground realize this and try to warn him, but for some reason using the radio is out of the question. In desperation, they resort to writing giant letters on the ground using whatever items they can grab, their clothes and ultimately their naked bodies.

[s]The Last[/s] Fandango.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandango_(1985_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089126/

[Dr. Nick]

I did some more sleuthing, and I finally managed to identify the TV show as well, thanks to tvtropes.org and their disturbingly detailed Elvis sub-pages. It's Johnny Bago, a very-short lived series from 1993. It appears to be a surprisingly obscure show despite being produced by Robert Zemeckis. It doesn't have a DVD release and it doesn't look like I can even pirate it, so all I have is this intro on Youtube.

[Chuckman]

I remember Johnny Bago. It was on the UHF channels at one in the morning. I can't believe anyone else even remembers it exists.

[child of Lilith]

I did some more sleuthing, and I finally managed to identify the TV show as well, thanks to tvtropes.org and their disturbingly detailed Elvis sub-pages. It's Johnny Bago, a very-short lived series from 1993.

Yes! Thank you. It was really driving me nuts not being able to remember the name of this damn show.

[Blue Monday]

Anyone able to help me track down a song from the 90s? All I recall is the music video which featured a stuffed toy that was misunderstood by all the other toys in the room. In the end, the stuffed toy performs a play and then commits suicide after leaving a note. I remember really liking the song but only saw the MV once late one night years and years ago on TV. Google's never been able to help me with this endeavour sadly.

[Dr. Nick]

Is this it?

[Blue Monday]

That's the one. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Thank you kindly.

[Sailor Star Dust]

I got one driving me nuts for so many years.

A '90s PC game (from my childhood) where humanity's long extinct/disappeared but various animal tribes exist. A fox (?) and 2 other members of different tribes have to complete different quests to find some kind of artifacts.Think it had something about stars or space travel mentioned in the game's opening, like the tribes gazing at the stars.

[Guy Nacks]

I recently had my own memory jog of sorts while surfing youtube videos the other day. When I was very young, I remember waking up early on weekends to catch shows like Family Double Dare or Nick Arcade on Nickelodeon and Masters of the Maze, Family Challenge, and some other kid game show that involved racing different types of vehicles on The Family Channel (what ABCfamily is now). I never could remember the name of that racing show until I saw this in the youtube sidebar for related videos. The show was called Maximum Drive and aired for only one season in 1994.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR2ibPf9W-E[/url]

[ChaddyManPrime]

^
The one game show I remember the most is the Carmen Sandiego one, I even remember the animated show she had.

[Guy Nacks]

^
The one game show I remember the most is the Carmen Sandiego one, I even remember the animated show she had.

Used to watch that too, but it was usually on during weekdays after school on PBS. I remember the endgame being almost impossible to beat in the time limit they gave. The early to mid 90s had the best kids game shows. Orange Iguanas 4 Lyfe.

[Dataprime]

It's a shame that most of my childhood TV shows just don't hold up anymore
and I can barely watch them now.

Only a few selected ones are still really enjoyable to me today

[Ray]

There was this old black and white Sci-Fi movie I really want to watch again, but I can't seem to remember the name, or names of the characters. It was from the golden age of cheesy 50's-60's era of Sci-Fi movies, but unlike others you may remember from MST3K this one is actually one of the better ones.

The plot is, Aliens crash land outside of a small town and shapeshift/impersonate humans in order to get supplies to rebuild their ship. The townsfolk of course, go crazy and become paranoid of each other.

Ultimately the story is about overcoming prejudice and was clearly an allegory for something I can't quite remember.

I remember this particular scene in it that almost seems like a scene out of an entirely different movie. Where the main character and the towns sheriff are talking to each other and the hero points to a tarantula on the ground and asks him why he's afraid of the spider. He compares the aliens to it, and asks the sheriff what he'd do to the tarantula if it could talk. The sheriff responds by silently walking over to the tarantula and stepping on it.

It aired on TCM a couple of times, but I don't have cable anymore. If anyone here could help me I'd greatly appreciate it.