The energy you're talking about is definitely why Growing Pains is the one the Disney Channel picked up to rerun all the time in the '90s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_
It's ironic because Kirk Cameron was IRL the exact kind of little shit Michael J Fox was pretending to be
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
Well, not exactly, Alex P Keaton never got born again
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There was this puff piece that came out in 2008 where the creator of Family Ties, Gary David Goldberg, said he thought that Alex P. Keaton would be an Obama crossover voter (an "Obamican") Arguing that Alex was misguided not evil and would've felt out of place in the modern GOP
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Michael J. Fox, notably, disagreed and gave a simple quote that Alex would probably vote McCain/Palin because "he's an asshole"
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I think Fox disliked Keaton more than the writers did because he had to deal with people mistaking him for the character all the time for a while Also becoming disabled and having Limbaugh mock his disability may have hardened him against "compassionate conservatism"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Fox has always been a pretty outspoken liberal even before his diagnosis so I think he just detested the character (I’m sure being associated with him early in his career didn’t help). Though by the time I saw the show in the early 90s I already knew him as Marty.
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He’s actually really lucky/smart to have nailed such an iconic seminal era-defining role like Marty McFly right in the middle of playing this other much less likable character, it didn’t really define him at all in the end.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @arthur_affect
Conan O'Brien had this funny bit back when Arnold Schwarzenegger got elected governor and a headline ran like "Californians Vote For Conan, Despite Groping Scandal" "Who the hell remembers him for THAT anymore? Why would you pick THAT name, of all things?"
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
When Jared from Subway got arrested for being a pedophile Ken Jennings just posted without comment an Onion article from several years before about how no one could keep track of which one of them was famous for which thing
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"That's the Mormon guy who lost 160 pounds while he was on Wheel of Fortune or something?" (Ironically the article was before they actually implemented the horrific idea of a "weight loss game show")
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