Did anyone else ever watch those After School specials? I don't mean the ones that came on in the early 90's with the likes of Drew Barrymore, since those ones were really just a reworking of the originals that ran in the 70's and early 80's. I don't know why I was thinking about them, but there were certain actors whose names even to this day remind me of After School Specials, and then there are some actors who I could not in a million years tell you what else they did but After School Specials. Like that guy up there, The Boy Who Drank Too Much. I think his name is Lance Kerwin, and although I am sure he featured in Tiger Beat over and over, I have no clue what sort of career he really had. I remember he developed a crack problem in real life in the late 80's.
I always found the ones that dealt with drinking and drugs particularly exciting because those kids always did something really over the top (like jumping out a window on PCP) or funny (passing out and pissing themselves) and it was great to watch. Like a smorgasbord of troubled teen actors showing us their real lives under the guise of acting.
I probably watched too much tv as a child, although I'm not sure how that is possible since I don't remember having much more than 6 channels to choose from. I also remember spending all my time outside playing, so much so that I would get in trouble for trying to eat dinner too fast so I could get back out there again before it got dark.
That's all.
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