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The B-Side blog has uncovered something of note in NBC's short-lived, 1985 series Misfits of Science (starring a young Courteney Cox): The show is about "a group of young, attractive people with supernatural powers," and features the mantra, "Save Adele, save the world." Adding to the intrigue: Heroes creator Tim Kring was a writer on Misfits! This would have been highly scandalous in Season One, when that catchphrase was a little more timely. Now it's just interesting background trivia for hardcore indestructable-cheerleader fetishists, who'll all but certainly hop onto the internet to see if this Adele person looks as inviting in a pair of heavy-duty spanky pants. [B-Side Blog]
11:46 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Seth
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I flippin' loved that show. My favorite Misfit was the cool guy in the leather jacket and sunglasses who could shoot lightning out of his hands. (For some reason, I recall his name as "Johnny B. Goode"--or, at the very least, he was obsessed with the song of the same name; the clip appears to support this theory.)
Unlike the linked blog, I don't have a problem if the fellow is fleshing-out concepts that he's used in the past, but one of the things that really struck me about the clip (besides "Lincoln") was the fact that Eric Christmas must've always seemed old.
It was a 100% perfectly awesome freaking powerhouse of a show, actually. It salved the psychic wounds I developed trying to see the Wonder Twins as role models.
There was no Adele in the show.
The line is "Save it, El... Save the world." "El" was the nickname of Dr. Lincoln, the shrinking black doctor.
But what struck me watching that clip, Johnny B is Reid Janssen from Ski School! There was no continuity between my childhood and my adolescence until now.
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