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This series lasted briefly (under six episodes?) in the early nineties and it's no wonder. Though the storyline of a Sam Spade like private dick (Bradley Whitford) and his super-competent gal Friday, Cookie was well written and a lot of fun for fans of film noir there was little chance this show would last.

There was no laugh track and the jokes weren't delivered with the heavy handed style television audiences have come to expect. Perhaps viewers tuned in and had no idea what they were supposed to be watching. Who knows.

With a continuing storyline featuring Kate Capshaw as an older, Bacall/Stanwyck type mystery woman this show managed to pay homage to the hard boiled detective genre without lapsing too heavily into parody. Another treasure swallowed up before it had a chance to find its audience.

I can't believe someone else has heard of this show. Bless the internet. The show was about an elite teenage group of "?acroboticlly" enhanced superheros. They had a phoenix type ship they would 'summon' whenever they needed to battle the evil forces of Spectra. And the villain, Zoltar, was one of the best.

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My childhood was forever scarred when they stopped showing these after the last episode *seemed* to reveal an interesting detail about Zoltar...Was that the end of the show?

I just saw Dogma two days ago and I'm still laughing about Chris Rock's line intended to verify that he in fact knew Jesus. This movie is all over the genre map and somehow manages to remain a cohesive work. It is a foul-mouthed, pop culture Kevin Smith flick, a bit of a mystery, a great road movie -without the stale coming of age elements- and, of course, it is a grand religious epic. If you need verification on that last one just reread the bible and notice all the merciless killing and blood and guts. The movie ultimately works because the religious stuff is structured into its own reality and Smith never acts like he doesn't believe that reality. Sure its played for laughs, but he doesn't change the rules midstream. I never got the sense that he was throwing something in just for a joke and leaving the storyline of to the side until it was convenient to return. This is undoubtedly Smith's best film, and for the record I did like Mallrats. . .

I loved the movie but was wondering if anyone else had the same reactions to certain areas. 1- Some of the extras in the many scenes involving audiences were overplaying their delight/outrage. 2- Though all the scenes featuring members of the Taxi cast were brief I still couldn't help but notice how much older they all are. This kind of made it harder to keep my disbelief suspended. 3- The public Andy Kauffman was never as inherently likable as Jim Carrey (I suppose Woody Harrelson was also more likable than Larry Flynt but I bet a sawbuck that Mozart was much better company than Tom Hulce). Those are the only shortcomings of the movie I noticed on first viewing. Loved that wrestling montage!