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To whom it may concern: if you’re reading this document, it means you are about to learn of the greatest kids show ever made.

I am talking, of course, about Eerie, Indiana, a show aimed at roughly the nine-to-fourteen year old market, which aired nineteen episodes between 1991 and 1992 before being stolen by aliens because it was too good for this world. Or maybe it was cancelled because the idiot network didn't know a good thing when they saw it.

If you liked Twin Peaks, if you liked Carnivale or American Gothic, or if you liked the movie The 'Burbs (and seriously, why would you not like The 'Burbs?) you will like Eerie, Indiana.

The premise of Eerie, Indiana revolves around 13-year-old Marshall Teller and his nine-year-old best friend Simon Holmes. Prior to the start of the show, Marshall lived in New Jersey, “just across the river from New York City. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime… I loved it. But my parents wanted a better live for my sister and me, so we moved to a place so wholesome, so squeaky-clean, you could only find it on TV.”

Are you intrigued yet? You should be. Shortly arriving in Eerie, Marshall begins to notice that his new home town is… different.

“What’s wrong with this picture? The American Dream come true, right? Wrong. Nobody believes me, but Eerie is the centre of weirdness for the entire planet.”

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People on my FList keep posting pictures of Kingdom Hearts II and Advent Children and I don't always stop to check the community name and then it leaves me all like, OMG RIKKU IS IN ADVENT CHILDREN WHY?!?! and then I think of how much I hate Sulky Squall and how David Boreanaz did his voice in KHI and I was all like, "Oh great, now you're whiny and voiced by Angel" and I secretly thought he might have an evil alter ego but NO, there was just Squall. Being sulky. Getting his ass kicked by Haley Joel Osmond. And... it's very confusing to me.

Also, shut up Amazon I do not want Sharpe's Challenge! Stop being all temptifying with the promise of Sean Bean only to deliver Ye Olde Sean Bean because it hurts my feelings! Besides, I need the Sentinal and Gargoyles and the Moomins and so many other things and oh my God why does everything have to cost money? People should buy me stuff just for being awesome. I'm going to take it up with Liamneeson at the next staff meeting.

I love Tony Dracon. I can't help it; I think it's the eyebrows. Logically I know he's nowhere near the danger-levels posed by Demona or Macbeth or Xanatos; hell, he's not even the equivilent of the Pack or Puck in a snit. But I love him. He's not immortal or super-rich or cybernetically enhanced or any kind of mythical creature; he's just your average, run-of-the-mill crime boss. And something about him makes me smile every time he shows up, even though Deadly Force is quite possibly the worst episode out of the entire three series, including the unbelievably dire Goliath Chronicals, and even though all he ever really manages to do is annoy Elisa. And he has nice hair, in a show where everyone else has mullets or dodgy beards or those weird little ear-tufts that make me think of Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho or is totally bald.

Of course, nobody can compete with Demona for my affections, except possibly Mystique, on account of my weakness towards blue-skinned red-haired villianesses with skimpy white outfits. And as much as I like Eliza, there comes a point where, like Buffy and Duncan McLeod, she's going to have to learn that dating an older man usually means dealing with at least one of his psychotic exes.

Aww man, Rollo Weeks was in the Little Vampire. Now I really am going to kill myself. Or maybe go back in time and stop him from starring in shitty movies that I watched because I had a crush on various leading actors (Richard E. Grant, you freaks, not that stupid little brat from Jerry Maguire). But then it would be like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer keeps going back in time and changing the course of history in unexpected and disturbing ways, and when I got back to 2006, Scipio would be played by Daniel Radcliffe and Jake Lloyd would be playing Bo, and I'd be like, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and Hayden Christensen would cry because everyone gets to say that line except him. You want some ointment for that burn, Hayden Christensen?

In other news, whenever I hear that Darren Hayes song, "Creeping Up On You", it totally reminds me of Pietro and Sp-ke from X-Men: Evolution. I'm not sure when Sp-ke made the transition from "annoying X Tard with lame powers, stupid hair and stupider name" to "stalker", but there you go. Man, I love that show. I wish the WB had released all of it on DVD - I want to see Lance randomly bitchslapping Pietro with an armchair and Pyro watching that video of Magneto bite it over and over while giggling psychotically and that old guy glomping Toad in the subway again. Sigh. I bet it'll be like Gargoyles or EI and it'll get released when I'm like, forty, and I'll be all, "I remember when this first aired" and my many cats will be like, "Whatever. Feed us tuna now plzkthx."

Woo! Am finally back in Leeds after journey of hellacious proportions. My body still thinks it's on a boat and is rocking back and forth gently, making me look like some kind of traumatised sobbing thing. Once it stops, I am off to eat delicious Chinese food (delivered to my door, in your face inbred inhabitants of Todd!) and perhaps watch the first season of Gargoyles which my delicious brother gave me for Christmas.

Oh Goliath, you so studly.

Squee. Fucking. Cubed.

Gargoyles on DVD. The.. I... because...

Oh, fuck it. I am incoherent with glee. I must go sit in a dark corner and avoid all stimulants until I calm down.

Ooooooooooh, Goliath, you so studly.