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What show is "Horsin' Around" parodying?
posted by movie_naziSTAFFMOD on October 12, 2017 at 7:01 AM
For some reason I always think of Full House but that was more like an 80s show no?
Reply by lmao7
on October 3, 2018 at 6:39 AM
Feels like Full House and the show with Bill Cosby
Reply by movie_nazi
on October 3, 2018 at 6:43 AM
That would be The Cosby Show but that didn't have adopted kids like Different Strokes did. I think they pretty much took all the tired tropes of TV family sitcoms and just mixed them all up to come up with Horsin' Around .
Reply by Dedoc1967
on September 5, 2020 at 10:38 AM
This. It was a slurry-like mix of all those wretched (mostly ABC) sitcoms of the late 80s and 90s which enjoyed inexplicable popularity despite seemingly written by and for dim-witted children. It makes me think of Full House, Webster, Step by Step, Family Matters (Urkel is even shown in a cross-promotion with Bojack), etc.
BTW, despite the line "Back in the 90's I was on a very famous TV show," Horsin' Around was supposed to have started its fictional run in the late 80s.
Reply by movie_nazi
on September 5, 2020 at 11:40 AM
Yep, and to add to your list of banal and vapid TV shows , I grew up in the 80's so I remember them well, was Silver Spoons, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Charles in Charge, and Who's the Boss? . Had a crush on Alyssa Milano back then. Who'd thunk she would turn out to be a lunatic Catty Daddy, don't turn out like Alyssa Milano. Roseanne actually falls exactly with the started in the late 80's and went into the 90's Horsin' Around timeline you mentioned.