{"id":8298,"date":"2012-06-06T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:53","slug":"tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/06\/06\/tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Tense?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Sorry, Parker Stevenson! The joke was too obvious to pass up!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This was another poster from the FULL COLOR POSTER SPECTACULAR.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This appeared in Marvel Comics’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/strong> No.18 published in 1978. At that time, Parker Stevenson<\/strong> and Shaun Cassidy<\/strong> were pretty popular with the teeny-bopper\/Tiger Bea<\/em>t set being that they solved crimes every week as television’s The Hardy Boys.<\/strong><\/em> I think I caught bits and pieces of the show because it was on right before Battlestar Galactica<\/strong> on Sunday nights. TV was really nuts about their time slot of 7:00 to 8:00PM being The Family Hour<\/em> and the shows airing at that time were generally squeaky clean and fairly bland. The appeal of the blown-dry, silk shirted detective siblings were lost on me and the mysteries were never very compelling. It felt like Scooby Do<\/strong><\/em> without the talking dog, the Mystery Machine<\/em> or the haunted house trappings. It was just there filling up a time slot that had to be endured until Galactica<\/em> came on which was like Methadone for Star Wars<\/strong> addicts. It was no where near as good as the Star Wars<\/strong> movie, but if you got a little of that space opera action, you could maintain until the sequel came out whenever that was going to be.<\/p>\n

After Admiral Cartwright and the crew of the Battlestar Ponderosa<\/em> took out some stock footage of the same banking and turning Cylon raiders and creeped the ragtag fleet a little further across the universe, it was usually time for bed and back to the stultifying boredom of school the next day. Sundays sucked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, Parker Stevenson! The joke was too obvious to pass up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[335],"tags":[233,1338,795,359,495,1660,1656,276,1658,1659,1277,1654,1653,192,1661,1657,1655,336],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-1970s","tag-1338","tag-abc","tag-ad","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-boredom","tag-clebrity","tag-godzilla","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-malaise","tag-marvel-comics","tag-parker-stevenson","tag-space-opera","tag-star-wars","tag-sunday","tag-teenager","tag-the-hardy-boys","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-tense","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6207,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/16\/giant-kristy-mcnichol\/","url_meta":{"origin":8298,"position":0},"title":"Giant Kristy McNichol!!!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"...or make that Giant McNichols! 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