Funday Furkids: I Want My MTV

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I used to never miss Ricky Rackman and the Headbanger’s Ball. I still wish it was on.

Another masterpiece. Thanks Michelle.

{{{Michelle}}} I laughed all the way down. Let’s say MTV wasn’t exactly my thing – but my sons loved it. Still laughing. Skritches to Ms. Loula. Healing Energy & moar {{{HUGS}}} to you.

I bow to your genius, Michelle. Many thanks, as always, for all the work you do to put these posts together!

Very Good! I really liked the original MTV, but not after it became RAP/HipHop TV!

You forgot Max Headroom

Those were Good Times
Damn Good times

Michelle, I would have really preferred you using a different song. “Money for Nothing” was a good song but Mark Knopfler really has never fully or formally apologized for that one certain, repeated slur. I know he’s claimed “the song was written from a working-class guy’s view” (he even said he overheard some real guy saying it) but that does NOT excuse the use, then or now (especially the repeated use). You damn well know that Knopfler would NOT have used the n-word slur (even if a real working-class guy had said it; its use in the UK was deemed offensive even before 1985–a certain Agatha Christie novel had its original name changed even for the UK market more than a decade earlier).

Seeing all the cute animals does NOT minimize the disgust of the word. (Now, I’m just waiting for the Furkids to honor John Lennon and Yoko Ono with “Woman Is the N—- of the World.” Somehow I don’t think the edited word would make it through uncensored–not even if the Furkids choose it.)

Another odd little thing I noticed was Jake’s tweet. He names the original VJs and even RIPS J J Jackson in the tweet and yet Jackson is missing from the picture. (Kind of odd that the oldest member of the group–he was 40 when the network debuted while Blackwood and Goodwin hadn’t turned 29, Hunter was 24 and Quinn was just 22–and the only Black face on the network would be missing from the picture in the Tweet. People saw Jackson more often on the network than they’d see any other Black person for over two years. Prince, Rick James and the Busboys did make occasional appearances as did a few random Black guys in some UK outfits like Madhouse and the Specials/the Special AKA but Jackson was the most reliable and common Black face on the network until that other Jackson guy–what was his name again?–turned the video world on its proverbial ear with his very “thrilling” videos.)