I Can’t Believe They Cancelled Ferris Bueller

Friday, February 8, 1991

Don’t you have it when they take a great movie and then turn it into a sucky television series? So many times, the series is terrible and it gets cancelled before anyone knows it was ever on the air.

So imagine how I dreaded the idea of NBC turning Ferris Bueller’s Day Off into a series. As it turned out, I had nothing to worry about. The television series, Ferris Bueller, did the movie justice. Never mind that fact that Ferris and his family lived in Chicago in the movie, but lived in Los Angeles in the series. Maybe the family relocated. I think there’s some law that says networks must place the settings of most of their series in Los Angeles. Oh, and Ferris’ parents obviously chose to change their first names sometime after the movie and before the debut of the television series. Hey, parents legally change their first names all the time. But I still can’t figure out how his sister, who was younger than Ferris in the movie, is now older than Ferris. Maybe his sister was murdered and his parents adopted another teenage girl soon thereafter who happened to be a year older than Ferris and, coincidently enough, have the same first name as his deceased sister. That wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.

Well, they cancelled Ferris Bueller in December, after only 12 episodes, but I’m just now finding out. I don’t know why the show’s cancellation didn’t get much press coverage. I found out when I turned on the TV Sunday and found that some stupid show named Blossom had taken over Ferris Bueller’s time slot. I think Blossom will get cancelled even sooner than Ferris Bueller. I’m sure we can get Ferris Bueller back on the air if enough of us write in to NBC and complain! Let’s do that!

Iraqi Troops Are in Kuwait and My Fiancée Wants to See Silence of the Lambs

Tuesday, January 15, 1991

Operation Desert Shield is in full force and I’m very worried.  It looks like Sodom Hussein (or however you spell his name) isn’t going to abide by President George H. W. Bush’s  deadline to withdraw his troops from Kuwait by midnight tonight.  I hope we don’t go to war, but if we do, at least we’ll overthrow the Iraqi government and we won’t have to worry about Sodomy Hussein anymore.  Bush will be seen as a hero and his reelection will be guaranteed.

I hear that the U. S. Post Office wants to raise the price of postage to 29 cents.  Damn, can mailing a letter get more expensive?  I wish there were a faster, cheaper way to send mail.

My fiancée wants me to take her to a movie that opened last night called Silence of the Lambs.  Great, I’ll have to sit through another chick flick.  With a name like Silence of the Lambs, it’s probably like Little House on the Prairie for the big screen, with a love story subplot added to draw adults to it, also.  We’re going to see it tonight.  I’m taking my pillow because it will probably put me to sleep.  I don’t like my fiancée.  I’d rather take my six-year-old niece to see Silence of the Lambs.  Kids her age would probably appreciate that kind of a movie.

I’d rather see Nothing But Trouble, which opens today.  Dan Aykroyd is in it, and he also co-wrote it, so I’m sure it’s brilliant.  It features an all-star cast that includes Chevy Chase, John Candy, and Demi More.  I’m sure Nothing But Trouble will receive nothing but laughs and critical praise.

Return to the Blue Lagoon, Showdown in Little Tokyo, and Dick Cheney

Wednesday, January 9, 1991

I’m very disappointed.  My finacée and I went to the movie theater last night to watch Return to the Blue Lagoon, but they had already stopped showing it.  It opened on New Years Day and I can’t believe they’ve already stopped running it.  That doesn’t make any sense.  The first Blue Lagoon movie was such a huge hit and I could have sworn that the sequel would have been even more successful.  I didn’t read any of the reviews, but I’m sure they were sensational.  My finacée threw a big fit, so we saw saw Showdown in Little Tokyo instead.  I don’t like my finacée.  I predict that Dolph Lundgren will get an Oscar nomination for his role in the movie.

I got a call this morning from a friend of mine who works for McDonnell Douglas and he’s worried that he and many others will lose their jobs because of the Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney, terminated their defense contracts.  Apparently, no one in Cheney’s family or in Pres. George H. W. Bush’s family work for McDonnell Douglas.  I understand Cheney has some connections with Halliburton.  Too bad they don’t make planes.  Oh well, maybe Cheney will have a chance to use his connections with Halliburton in the future.