TV Guidance Counselor

April 17-23, 1993 This week Ken welcomes writer, comedian, Jon Rineman to the show. Ken and Jon discuss how long they've known each other, living in New York, old souls, prom comedy, Late Night TV, monologues, combating Twitter, replacements for the Tonight Show in 1993, Alan Havey, Dana Carvey, not knowing Conan is from Mass, the Toaster/Toaster Oven theory, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Empty Nest, Joe Izuzu, why "A League of Their Own" is the greatest baseball movie of all time, Pete's rage, TV shows based on movies, Mad About You, looking for shows that reflect your own situation, Everybody Loves Raymond, the magic of three camera sitcoms, Sisters, Wayne's World: The Best SNL Movie, Ken's intimate knowledge of New England cinemas, New Hampshire, Fresh Prince of Bel Aire, Dana Hersey's the Movie Loft, Bob Newhart, WWF, Monday Night Raw, Full House, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Soul Man, Roseanne, your parents' sense of humor, Charity Concerts Vs. AIDS, Nick at Nite, Wonder Years, disappointing endings, The Celtics, Mathew Perry's early work, Cheers, Love/Hate Wings, Fraiser, dating Seinfeld, Family Matters, strings vs. stings, loving the dumb guy, kicking the weekend off with TGIF, hating Step by Step, The Ultimate Driving Challenge and confusing President Bill Cosby with President Bill Clinton.

May 3-9, 1997 This week Ken welcomes his second couple to the show (not counting The Walsh Brothers and Veruca Salt), real life daters and comedians Ted Pettingell and Christa Weiss. Ken, Ted and Christa discuss the pleasures of tandem, sad tales of dogs, bad tattoos, 'lics vs Cathys, pre-marriage counseling, Lucy Lawless, dating people younger than you, blood, SNICK, Keenan & Kel, birth order, Teddy's love of 19 year old burn outs, Cops, Providence's sordid history of institutional crime, Jumanji, insulting Reel Big Fish, dating Jewel, KaBLam!, Simpsons as autism diagnosis, The Weather with Al, April Fools Day Blizzards, Upstate New York, The Hotel Coral Essex, Third Rock from the Sun, being enraged by Beavis and Butthead, Laughing at alcoholics, sad characters, X-Files, Daria, Unsolved Mysteries, ghosts, tales of theft, living Ken's dreams, aliens, sex Tommy Pickles, Home Improvement, suppressing popculture crushes, Coolio, Comics Come Home, Homeboys in Outer Space, Spin City, favorite fashion designers, Isaac Mizrahi, Newsradio, Sister Sister, Necronomicon, Dave Barry, Ellen vs. The Waynes Brothers, The US remake of Men Behaving Badly, Arachnophobia, flaming spiders, children's love of Julian Sands, Harry Connick Jr's murder spree, Puppet Master, leeches, why "Tourist Trap" is the scariest movie of all time, West Coast Video, The Halloween series, 3-D Week, Sliders, Sabrina in Boston, Millennium, soap opera laziness, and the media covering made up stories.

February 18-24, 1984 This week Ken welcomes musician, comedian, podcaster, writer and all around personality Dave Hill to the show. Ken and Dave discuss pizza parties, Double Tree logo issues, Hong Kong prostitutes, inviting yourself on your friend's family vacation, Cheers, Sweeps Week, letting things go, Rebecca vs. Diane, Three's A Crowd, The 1984 Olympics, Figure Skating, Hockey, barrel jumps, Silver Spoons, silent credits, Very Special Episodes, Love Sydney, Paul Lynde's Halloween Special, Variety Shows, adding Glenn Campbell, Siskel & Ebert, hating Mama's Family, Dave's beef with Vicki Lawrence, Airwolf, questioning Jan Michael Vincent's living status, Stacey Keach, Monty Python as palette cleanser, hanging out with Terry Jones, sports, evil twins on Knight Rider, questioning Ken's place on the Autism spectrum, Baywatch Nights, Craig T. Nelson, Super Nights of Rock N Roll, The Boston Bruins, The Who, Mod culture, Roger Daltrey's acting career, Black Emmanuel, scrambled soft core, The Playboy Channel, judging Gallagher, the A-Team, Dudley Moore's concept of time, The Man With Two Brains, O Madeline, The Pee Wee Herman Show, Gary Panter, Mr. Bungle's Giant Cake, Barney Miller, Jack Soo, talking to Abe Vigoda on the phone, Real People, Fred Willard, Baby I'm Back, Sandford and Son, The Facts of Life, Jerry Jehl's filthy stand up comedy, people with disabilities on TV, hot saucing, Ken's connection to the Sausage King of Cleveland, Night Court, hockey player autobiographies, WKRP, Molesting Dudley, Neptune King of the Sea, favorite Friday the 13th movies, Bloopers, Elvira, Dom DeLouise special, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Taxi, Dean Martin's celebrity roasts, the horrors of 20/20, KISS vs. Menudo, peeing the bed/couch/floor, having someone else pee your bed, Little Caesar's Pizza Pizza, the wonder of chocolate raviolis, Floyd the Barber's stroke, the advent of ironic t-shirts, Hogan's Heroes, Bob Crane, not wanting to be murdered by Willem Defoe, Dukes of Hazard mix ups, Benson, Guillome Emmanuel, Solid Gold, loving Groucho, Webster, Wet T-Shirt contests, Kitten Natividad, getting Indian food with Ronnie James Dio, Sean Penn's stripper, just resting your eyes, literal calendars, military time, and being completely destroyed by a comedy festival.

December 11-17, 1982 This week Ken welcomes sex educator and podcaster Sandra "Sex Nerd Sandra" Daugherty to the show. Ken and Sandra discuss Air BnB, impromptu flea markets, Christmas Week, Ken's "One Netflix Account to Rule Them All" theory, 1930s wrestling, growing up in Santa Monica, bullying, A League of Their Own, TV Series based on Movies, Weird Science, Dirty Dancing, the business of show business, the wonderful gift of head injuries, Out of This World, teenage girls with hidden super powers, the 1980s as the new 1950s, questioning the sexual nature of The Hugga Bunch, wheel chair hatred, the creepiness of Small Wonder, Sally Struthers, why it's not all sex stuff, high school parties, Janet Jackson's "janet." as music porn, crush volumes, My So-Called Life vs. Beverly Hills 90210, sibling TV bargains, Barney and Friends, sharing bunks with siblings, Paternal hatred of David Letterman, Leno, Fallon, Ken's amazement at Mystique turning into him, hi-fivin', Dick Cavet, Graham Norton, "the News", not having cable, forbidden Simpsons, Who Shot Mr. Burns, enjoying the house on Step by Step, Ken's volume of Opinions, TGIF, porn parodies, ET and Friends, aliens, Mork & Mindy, the Red Headed kid from the Sandlot, penis breathe, Sci-Fi, keeping your interests to yourself, Doctor Who, hunting down punk rock clothing at sex shops, Hubba Hubba in Cambridge, MA, cultural hobo codes, time travel, college wrestling vs. pro-wrestling, Sex: Teenage Style, "Someone I Touched", Christmas Comes to Pac-Land, Packies, why "Family Man" may be the greatest Christmas movie, Ken's Christmas special Excel spreadsheets, Facts of Life, The Twilight Zone, why life is nothing without challenge, Deadwood, The Magic Schoolbus, PBS, BDSM, iZombie, falling off the Masters of Sex wagon and Dr. Ruth.

In this second Halloween Special Ken welcomes returning guest Lamont Price back to the show by popular demand. Ken and Lamont discuss Halloween strategies, trick or treating of years past and finally they watch the 1985 Made for TV movie "The Midnight Hour"

January 18-24,1992 This week Ken welcomes UK citizen, actor, comedian and Probably Science podcast co-host Matt Kirshen to the show. Matt and Ken discuss spring break hotels, passive aggressive maids, the difficulty of accents, growing up top left, the BBC, going to television tapings, Gamesmaster, Take That, Robbie Williams, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, I'm Alan Partridge, warming up sitcoms, 2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps with Ralph Little, Sky TV, the UK's lack of choice, Boys and Girls, UK Gameshows, The TV License, the UK vs. US TV Production system, syndication, Who's the Boss with The Upper Hand, One Foot in the Grave, UK family trips to Florida, SuperStation WTBS, reruns vs. repeats, Only Fools and Horses, Leave it to Beaver, post-WWII UK misery, soap operas, Dallas, Dynasty, Aussie Soaps, Home & Away, Neighbors, Eric Bana, Michael Crawford, Friends vs. Seinfeld, Stephanie Beacham, Trollied, Batman, Eurotrash, John Paul Gautlier, Bad Porn, outTHERE, Adam & Joe, Empty Nest, Peep Show, Tango and Cash, Dogs and Cops vs. just COPS, Two-Fisted Tales, Sundays in the UK, In Living Color, Desmond's, The Real McCoy, SNL in the UK, Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield, Comics Only, Drug Wars, Herman's Head, WWF, Mork & Mindy, Back-Door Pilot, Home Improvement, The Moonies, Roseanne, Look Who's Talking Too, Aliens vs. Kids in the Hall, Unsolved Mysteries, good shows made by bad people, A Different World, Cheers, Boston as Liverpool, Fraiser, Murder Mystery TV series, long UK school days, the post-pub slot, 999 vs 911, Tequila and Bennetti, TV Ventriloquism, and enduring power of Mr. Motivator.

February 2-8, 1985 This week Ken welcomes comedian, writer and improviser Kaitlin Buckley to the show. Ken and Kaitlin discuss unfilied pieces of the Reid Archives, Cagney and Lacey, Robert Urich's magical musical background, Burn Notice, Tales of the Unexpected, Lloyd Bridges connection to rape and murder, Otherworld, Diff'rent Strokes, co-ed sleepovers, awkward creepy sex, Fashion Design, The Love Boat, watching TV with Mom, Telly Sevalis' science skills, Player's Club, Casinos, Knight Rider, the popularity of Toxic Waste, Rockford Files, Used Cars, Crazy Like a Fox, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, TV Horror Hosts, Kate & Allie, Martin Sheen's homosexual history, Badass Abe Vigoda, breaking the toaster oven theory, the art of collages, being a really weird kid, women's backs, sleeping with strangers, dorm room horror stories, The Sad Ballad of "Ham & Cheese", Ken's teenage pie eating habits, "Stabbas", teenage sex, Nadia Comaneci, SCTV, Magnum PI, facial hair deficiency, nudity on Thundercats, Cheers, mis-reading TV Guide, Mrs. Columbo, sitcom pot, Cambodia, Claudia Wells, DeDee Pfeiffer, the terror of Weekend at Bernie's, Jonathan Silverman Watch, Simon and Simon, being scared of Lou Ferigno, Codename: Foxfire, Streethawk, V: The Series, curable diseases, Sky Cam, the sad end of Jon-Erik Hexum, women on TV, gratuitous bondage in the Glitterdome, Stacey Keech's UK Cocaine rap, Friday Night Videos, Guiding Light, The Mexican Wave and the demise of The American Sportsman .

July 31-August 6, 1993 In this episode recorded literally in the mean streets of Central Square in Cambridge, MA Ken welcomes musician Colleen Green to the show. Ken and Colleen discuss Green St, living in LA, being Massachusetts at heart, Dunstable, Fork In Hand Records, The Explosion, going outside the comfort level of your home town, coming for Patrick Stewart and staying for Tim Allen, STNG, Enterprise confusion, Whoopie Goldberg, Paul Wagner and the WLVI Kids' Club, Invaders from Mars, Central Square crazies, losing remote control cars, the lack of progression in California, Los Angeles, Ken's Dad's cruel practical jokes on five-year olds, love of horror movies, The Gate, not having cable, Married...with Children, watching inappropriate content in your cousins' finished basement, Hellraiser, Stephen Dorff, Stay Tuned, Pam Dawber, John Ritter, making all your purchases at the Good Will, The Running Man, America's Funniest Home Videos, Tom Bergeron and Rob Zombie's status as best friends, Archie Comics, America's Funniest People, Tawny Kitaen, The Bee Gees, having a pop culture sherpa, 90s message board culture, the days when the internet was social, Herman's Head, how Colin Farrell ruined Fright Night, Jeopardy, loving Problem Child, Burt Reynolds: American Treasure, controversial opinions on Robin Hood: Men in Tights, loving "The making of", braille Playboy, disliking Will Smith, why The Fresh Prince isn't evergreen, Problem Child 2, Laraine Newman, appreciate the fine work of Amy Yasbeck, loving Jack Warden, Home Improvement, loving Tim Allen's parenting style, JTT's film career, Unsolved Mysteries, finding out "How'd They Do That", Boston's Big Dig, The Simpsons, shoplifting, wondering if diabetic test strips and anti-theft strips are the same thing, disliking Paul Reiser, My Two Dads, the best TV Theme song sung by a cast member, 1987's Summer School, why "Mark Harmon" has the best name for people with Boston accents to say, actually going to Summer School, Simon & Simon, Gerald McRaney, watching "The Nanny" despite hating it, Summer Stock, loving JT on Step by Step, the final episode of Perfect Strangers, A Minute with Stan Hooper and it's theme song, Norm, William Riker's beard based knowledge, jeering pay per view learning and when Disney ruined your peanuts.

January 15-21, 1994 This week Ken welcomes comedian Aparna Nancherla to the show. Ken and Aparna discuss the chemical dump that is East Cambridge, sibling discussions, Avery Brooks, Star Trek, DSW Shoes, Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn Medical Woman, evil circuses, Cops, The Mommies, the original House of Cards, Veep, US remakes of UK shows, the evils of cable, SNICK, being into Paula Abdul, splitting Vanilla Ice with your sister, Ace of Base and their international appeal, Mystery, Poirot, Ren & Stimpy's Rubber nipples, Rocco's Modern Life, Comic Relief 6, Shadoe Stevens, The Wonderful World of Disney, Mom Approved Murder, Bats, Married...with Children, Spanish Sean Connery, Sheena Easton:Terrorist, George Carlin, Black Bears, Washington DC, the location of Ford's Theater, The X-Files, renting movies, The Peanut Butter Solution, Evening Shade, The Marx Brothers, Blossom, 90s Homeless, Rescue 9-1-1, Betrayed by Love, The 1st Rule of the FBI, Peanuts, how the death of Monty made Friends, school condoms, Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann, The John Larroquette Show, starting Stand Up, The Words and Pictures Museum, Beverly Hills 90210, Educational Task Forces, Thea, Hater of Lost Loves, Myq Kaplan's obsession with Melrose Place, Kids in the Hall, Grace Under Fire, Baywatch, nobody being named "Hobie", Mad About You, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Matlock, Rule #2 of the F.B.I., Seinfeld, Herman's Head, Wholesome Murders, TFIG, Dick Van Dyke's murder show, never going full Urkel, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Super Bowl ruination of TV, gender switching murder, Picket Fences, Jeering suck, swearing in public, loving Ann Curry, and the local interest of John Wayne Bobbitt.

In this episode Ken welcomes writer/director Eric Green to the show. Ken and Eric discuss Eric's documentary "Life on the V: The Story of V66", The mythical Billrica Mall, the early days of MTV, crowd funding, Ken's status as a serial micro-producer, being in the right place right time, the Cable explosion, the death of UHF, WBCN, moving from Radio to TV, The greatness of the Boston music scene, Extreme, leveling the playing field, filming music videos in your high school, Friday Night Videos, Dale Dorman, the rise and fall of Cable Access, the importance of access to production education, living in a world without instant gratification, getting listed in TV Guide, moving from videos to programs, Evening Magazine, the marriage of sports and rock music, the death of radio listeners, marathons vs. binge watching, spoilers, watching television as social event vs. watching television as social currency, the joy of Video Stores, physical media, archivists, how a year and a half can change the world, The Dropkick Murphys, The Basement Tapes, Karen "Duff" Duffy, Rods and Cones, The Rat, the changing face of local programming, generic "local" news, WCVB 5's "Chronical", Evening Magazine vs. PM Magazine, the evil nature of Infomercials, The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Til Tuesday, Elvira in Salem, MA, Ken's national television debut, Lollapalooza, Great Woods, Nirvana, WFNX, Amoeba Records, Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, visits from Pete, Yo! MTV Raps, ALF, The Dana Carvey Show, Just the Ten of Us, Sketch Comedy and how watching TV together enriches a family.