Parker Lewis Can't Lose

L31mr0d

Anyone remember this show from the 90's? I think I was reading the "coming of age" thread in the films forum and it popped back into my memory.

I remember it being completely off the wall and crazy in places (like "Round the twist" or "Eerie, Indiana")

Thinking about trying to find a copy of it to see how its aged. I remember it being very current for the time also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk6dZw7wxAw

Basq

Don't remember the show but remember the main character:



** shudder **

Elmo

Yeah I remember it vaguely. I remember Errie Indiana more loved that show.

L31mr0d

basquille wrote: »

Don't remember the show but remember the main character:

** shudder **

True fact, I had a hairstyle like that for a few months as a joke because of that show. It's because of that that close friends who knew me back then call me Johnny Bravo in remembrance of it. Thank god mobile phones with cameras didn't exist back then.

I also have more vivid memories of Eerie, Indiana, than this show. But I remembered really liking it for some reason. It sat between being much better than Saved by the Bell, slightly better than Pugwall but slightly worse than Eerie, Indiana.

For some reason I've always remembered it as being called "leave it to beaver" but that is a completely different show. Perhaps they made reference to it a lot.

As he is now a successful star of Sci Fi original films.

DarkJager

Yeah, iirc it was wedged between Kung Fu and Dukes Of Hazard on a Saturday afternoon? It had some fat bully type guy in at as well.

Jip

It was reshown a couple of years back on one of the kids channels I think on the Sky platofrm. Can't remember what channel exactly but I do remember watching it again. I had forgotten about the hot teacher in it too.

Pop's Diner

I watched an ep of it on Youtube recently. It's quite awful and not at all like I remember. Clearly it was trying to be a sort of Ferris Bueller TV show (yes I know there was one) but it fell very short of the mark.

120_Minutes

Pop's Diner wrote: »

I watched an ep of it on Youtube recently. It's quite awful and not at all like I remember. Clearly it was trying to be a sort of Ferris Bueller TV show (yes I know there was one) but it fell very short of the mark.

I disagree, while ferris made a great movie it was an abysmal tv show, parker lewis was far superior. I too watched one recently and while it has dated, its interesting to see it was doing that "surreal, irreverent comedy with a message at the end" that made scrubs huge almost a decade later. the sly digs it poked at ferris bueller were well done too.

It was ahead of its time, and also of its time.

Synchronise Swatches!!

LowOdour

DarkJager wrote: »

Yeah, iirc it was wedged between Kung Fu and Dukes Of Hazard on a Saturday afternoon? It had some fat bully type guy in at as well.

Yeah, used to be on around 6isj on a saturday afternoon. We would always catch the end of it before going to mass.

Oh, and the fat bully guy is Gerry/Jerry/bearded reception dude in ER....Fact!

lostexpectation

it was brill