11/10/2006

It’s Friday- and you’re one day away from the weekly Svengoolie fix generously supplied by our stations-at 9 pm tomorrow night, we’ve got a special “Tales from the Crypt” theatrical movie (unlike the episodes we had last week)- More about the movie tomorrow. People always ask me about the movies- why we don’t run certain ones, why we run some of them so much, why we don’t just do “TV Graveyards” of old tv shows instead of movies, why we don’t just do a show without a movie.But the word “movie” always comes up, no matter what. Sometimes, people ask what the name of a certain movie was that I showed. There are times when people kind of blend stuff from two movies together, and then don’t believe that it’s not all from the same film. There are people who ask about movies I’ve never shown, which they mistakenly think I did. There are even people who may have been “under the influence” of something and describe such a fantastic movie that you wish it WAS real! Recently, a viewer was asking if I knew where to get a copy of a movie I’d shown on the night-time “Koz Zone” on WFLD. The movie? “Kenny and Company.” This movie became the poster child for the hatred of my co-workers and I back then. I remember that our illustrious program director at the time said it was a special movie that we had to run for Halloween. I’d never heard of it, and asked what it was. “It’s a slasher film” he said- lying through his teeth. It was actually a dull movie about a dull kid and his dull friends that took place right around Halloween. No slashers. Barely any plot. Great dialogue like a twelve year old drooling “I like naked girls.” (No naked girls, either, by the way.)One of the highlights was the ever-popular setting a bag of excrement on fire and having the mean old neighbor stomp it out. I personally would have left this movie on the doorstep, on fire…anyway, we made merciless fun of it, using our character of station manager Wilton N. Klystron taking over as host, promising that the film would be about teenagers who…”drink blood!” Eventually, even Klystron lost interest in the dog of a movie. And, NO- I have no idea where to get a copy of it- if I did, I’d get one, just to keep at least one other person from suffering through it. Do you recall a real stinker I’ve shown? E-mail me at svengoolie@wciu.com. We’ll discuss.And, come back tomorrow- I’ll fill you in on this Saturday’s movie, which does NOT stink. It might smell of brimstone a bit, but… # # #