Another classic show worthy of frying your brain, Mr. Belvedere. Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom based on the Lynn Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere. Originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985 until July 8, 1990.. Actually I was never aware that this was based upon a book, but Wiki has a detailed write up on the subject if you are interested here.

This show actually had people you have heard of before so it had that going for it. Like a lot of shows in that era they had washed up athletes taking on roles in a family. In this case it is the infamous Bob Euker playing the part of George Owens, a sportswriter (big stretch eh?). The series stars Christopher Hewett as Mr. Belvedere, who takes a job with an American family as a butler. Of course he was much more than a butler as you can imagine.

Much like every other show in the era some stranger rolls in off the street to fix every family problem that arises in a hilarious way. From finding the best acne treatment for the teenage daughter, to talking to the kids about all the lessons of life that only a stranger could do.

Of course these shows from back then had much better theme music than most you are going to get now. They are happy little tunes that aren’t just jacked songs from recording artists.

Mr. Belvedere Opening Theme and Closing Outro:

You really can’t mention the Mr. Belveder theme without at least mentioning the Family Guy take on the show. Not only am I going to mention it, but I am going to give you the video of Stewie of Family Guy doing Mr. Belvedere.

Now this show was truly terrible. I don’t even know any of the actors that were in it off the top of my head, but I do know that when it was on I thought it was the dumbest show I had ever seen. Of course I probably watched it as re-runs a few times, but I can’t be positive.

This show was about some goon named Ted Lawson, a professional Roboticist and cybernetic architect, has secretly built V.I.C.I (Voice Input Child Identicant), a Domestic robot and Gynoid. V.I.C.I. (Vicki) was engineered to perform house work at Superhuman speed like she was hopped up on diet pills and designed in the guise of a 10-year-old Caucasian female. Ted had originally intended for V.I.C.I. to help out the lives of disabled veterans, but he fears his boss would steal his work so he pretended that she was his adopted daughter. Pervert.

Small Wonder Intro:

Just terrible. Of course the crap television writers back then were still probably better than the writers we have for the rubbish we see on our televisions today.

I was wasting away 12 of my 18 hours awake like I usually do browsing youtube and porn videos and decided that when I saw this video I was going to start paying homage to crappy TV shows. Shows that when I was about 5 were filling the savings accounts of guys like Scott Baio. So when the mood strikes you may see some of the lamest TV shows ever made and their theme songs begin to show up here. The nostalgia will make you cream your drawers.

You can’t help but smile when you hear the Charles in Charge theme can you? His best friend Buddy, and the hot little Nicole Eggert before she appeared on Baywatch. The other 2 kids were lame, but Nicole was the shiznit when you were just realizing you had a funny feeling in your pantalones (Spanish for pants. Not Mexican for pants. Didn’t you read the Emo-Bashing Post?) So with out further a do check out the Charles In Charge Theme and Intro…

Couldn’t really tell you if they made a new one every year or not, but I don’t have THAT much free time.