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Argh.

I hate AOL (who doesn’t?), but I absolutely loved Perfect Strangers and wouldn’t mind watching Wonder Woman, Alice, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Chico and the Man, Welcome Back Kotter, Eight is Enough, Growing Pains, Pinky and the Brain and even Freakazoid. I watched all of those shows at one time or another, and I liked them. Maybe I wouldn’t now that I’m older (in the case of some shows, a LOT older! :lol:), but I don’t know because I can’t watch them anymore–they’re no longer aired. In a rare display of doing something at least apparently aimed toward the benefit of people outside its own corporation, AOL has made some full episodes of these and other shows available on its In2TV, and although the quality isn’t A-1, they are free (as long as you don’t mind the odd and sundry deafening 10-15 second commercial, which I don’t). Well, let’s say they’re free IF you are using MSIE with ActiveX turned on or FF with the ActiveX plugin, and IF you are running either browser on Windows XP. I have Windows XP (because Adobe doesn’t make Photoshop for Linux), but it’s icky and I don’t use it unless I NEED to use a Win-only application. I saw the “download high quality” link and thought, “Aha–I’ll just buy the episodes of shows I really like and play them with VLC!” No dice–you can’t even buy episodes unless you’re running 32 bit Windows XP. Fuckers could’ve at least made the “buy” option available to non-Winblows users. Then again, this is the company that considers AOL an “upgrade” from using a computer without it. Anyway, nice try, AOL, but you still suck big, fat donkey dicks.

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