This weekend, while trying to re-enact that SNL skit for "The Sarcastic Clapping Family of Southhampton", I started to reflect on those fleeting TV moments that you enjoyed at the time, but can rarely find someone else who even knows what you're talking about when you try to describe them. So that you're sitting there, doing the sarcastic clapping in front of a quizzical audience that never saw the skit and doesn't understand why it was so awesome.
The ultimate example of this is Voyagers! (yes, the exclamation point is part of the title, as I guess that they weren't just time travelers, but time! travelers! instead). I have no idea how long this show aired, though I'm guessing the answer is, "not long." But for the short time that it was on the air, it was the most awesome TV show in my elementary school world. Chances are that if you remember it, you already know what I'm talking about, and if you don't then no amount of description is going to help, but it was basically like Quantum Leap for kids. It basically had a time traveller guy with a sidekick kid who travelled through time, fixing history--though I believe that they dealt mostly with famous people. (One of my favorite episodes involved turning Babe Ruth from a pitcher into a home-run hitter.) I also recall that the time travel device looked a lot like a pocket watch, which explains why, when we were visiting family in Hawaii and I accidentally found my cousin's birth control pills , I decided to use the case as a makeshift time travel device. Hey, it had numbers and days on it and everything.
Anyway, if there's one thing that the internet is good for aside from porn, it's referencing obscure pop culture, so if anyone wants to get nostalgic with me, I present to you one of the less annoying Voyagers! fan pages. (Warning, there is such a thing as Voyagers! fan fiction. I prefer to believe that all of it has to do with exciting new historical adventures so as not to sully my childlike innocence.)
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