Fan Page: The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

PERSONAL FAVORITE!!! The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was the last "New" cartoon I ever made a point of waking up early enough to watch. Martin Short's "Ed Grimley" character was all the rage with my nerdy little friends and I, we impersonated him all the time and were ecstatic to see a weekly show of his adventures. And of course, the cherry on the top of this totaly mental misadventure every week was the bonus live-action COUNT FLOYD!!!

(The back-story of Count Floyd, as loyal viewers of SCTV knew, is that he was an anchorman for the SCTV Evening News Team who made money on the side by hosting the late-night horror movies and, later, bringing the B-movies to Saturday Mornings for the kids).

Love, love, LOVE this show! Share the love in the comments below and then go vote for Ed in our Best Of 1988/1989 Poll!

Comments

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

Cartoon Planet, which was a Space Ghost Coast-To-Coast spinoff, did manage to use the Count Floyd shorts by the end. Totally awesome, especially the one 3-D movie episode.

A lovely insane series with top-notch voice talent from Jonathan Winters, Catherine O'Hara and others. Not to mention, can any other SNL character, past or present, say he or she had a Saturday morning cartoon show?

And I doubt we'd ever see anything like it again. At least, we had this.

[mizra.livejournal.com]

Holy Cow, I remember this! That's been so long ago to me.

[calliopes_pen]

I vaguely remember that when SCTV aired on Nick at Nite in the 80's, I loved Ed Grimley's hair and wanted mine to be just like that. I was 6. The good news is I never actually tried to make my hair stick up like that.

I never encountered The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, however.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Elmers Glue. Takes a bit to wash it out but it's totally worth it :)

[queeberquabbler.livejournal.com]

Loved this show. It was a great character on SCTV and SNL, and it made a great cartoon! And yes, the Count Floyd bits were totally awesome extras :)

[venus2869.livejournal.com]

God, did I loved this show! The entire show kept me entertained! You forgot to mention the 2 mad scientists that were in the show! I think it was Jonathan Winters & maybe Arte Johnson as the voices? they were a hoot! The one ep I remember was when Ed was on a alien planet & he stops a war by making the alien queen's tuna casserole better with paprika!!