T.V. Candy
"It's got nougat in it. Folks like nougat."
Once again, when my mind is idle for three minutes, it wanders to cancelled television shows that were good. MTV's Austin Stories was one of those. It was one of the networks ill fated attempts at a sit-com in the late 90s. I watched it initially because it was filmed in Austin and I liked to try to spot all of the places where they filmed. They filmed at lots of places I frequented like Conan's Pizza and an old dollar movie theater where I saw "Good Morning Vietnam". This show was really funny. But MTV only supports funny for so long. Then it's back to the Real World and other tired formulas. Now the stupid, tired, needs-to-be-cancelled Real World is in Austin. And the only place the stupid vapid kids on this show ever go is 6th Street.
Back to the quote above. One of the no job having characters in Austin Stories was named Howard Kremer (all of the characters in the show used their real names including Laura House who had an answering machine that said "This is Laura House's house" and Brad "Chip" Pope). Howard always had some half-baked money making scheme. One of them was dumpster diving behind Zee's Candys, pulling out discarded boxes of chocolates and selling them to unwitting customers. He rakes in the cash until some homeless dude also discovers the dumpster and Howard ends up having to split the take. Then the homeless guy issues the classic nougat line. It all fell apart when the customers started getting sick from eating the candy.
Once again, when my mind is idle for three minutes, it wanders to cancelled television shows that were good. MTV's Austin Stories was one of those. It was one of the networks ill fated attempts at a sit-com in the late 90s. I watched it initially because it was filmed in Austin and I liked to try to spot all of the places where they filmed. They filmed at lots of places I frequented like Conan's Pizza and an old dollar movie theater where I saw "Good Morning Vietnam". This show was really funny. But MTV only supports funny for so long. Then it's back to the Real World and other tired formulas. Now the stupid, tired, needs-to-be-cancelled Real World is in Austin. And the only place the stupid vapid kids on this show ever go is 6th Street.
Back to the quote above. One of the no job having characters in Austin Stories was named Howard Kremer (all of the characters in the show used their real names including Laura House who had an answering machine that said "This is Laura House's house" and Brad "Chip" Pope). Howard always had some half-baked money making scheme. One of them was dumpster diving behind Zee's Candys, pulling out discarded boxes of chocolates and selling them to unwitting customers. He rakes in the cash until some homeless dude also discovers the dumpster and Howard ends up having to split the take. Then the homeless guy issues the classic nougat line. It all fell apart when the customers started getting sick from eating the candy.
posted by john clarke at 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the memories...I loved that show but forgot all about it.
I did too, but it's hard to go back and watch now. There is a lot of yelling. It is very stressful and less funny.
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