When I was a young teen in the early 90s, it was the heyday of cable television, and the best channel on TV was Nickelodeon. Not just because it had great tween-teen programming during the day, but because after about 7pm it became NICK AT NIGHT (”Better living through good TV!”) and ran a bunch of old TV shows from the fifties and sixties that it must have bought the rights to for about two dollars. It ran bonkers camp “classics” like Dragnet, F-Troop, Get Smart, Dobie Gillis, and MISTER ED.
Do people under 30 know about Mister Ed? I’m genuinely curious. Do you know the diet of fucking bizarre shit your parents and grandparents consumed?
If you ever think that the crackfic you’re writing is too far out there, I present to you Mr. Ed, the star of a sitcom about a talking horse, and who, in this video clip, not only talks but also reads the newspaper and understands the stock market.
This show ran for FIVE YEARS and 143 episodes.
This sitcom had twice as many episodes as Leverage, half as many as Supernatural.
143 episodes of a sitcom about a talking horse. That’s the whole joke: the horse talks.
This show is possibly why I am the way I am.
He isn’t using the accent, but Wilbur there is played by Alan Young, the legendary voice of Scrooge McDuck from 1974 to his death in 2016.
This is the best new fact I have learned about Mr. Ed in a long time.
