I remember watching with my younger cousin after school. She was a couple of years younger than me. She had her favorite shows. There was one from Japan about some kind of superhero who rode a motorcycle. I can't remember the name but it looked pretty cool. The other one that I remember was "Karate Kat". I actually can't recall specifically anything much about the show or the character's traits and personalities, but I just mostly remember the title and that my cousin seemed to like it. For some reason just right now I'm thinking we also watched "Inspector Gadget" but I'm not too sure. But they were all these shows that I've never heard of before. There just seemed to be a whole world of entertainment available to her that I wasn't exposed to.
Also, I think they had a remote control. I can't remember using it much, but I'm pretty sure they did. I thought it was pretty cool.
In the evenings there were shows from America, like "The Cosby Show". My older cousin said it was her favorite show and would get excited when it would come on. I don't think I got into it much. It just seemed so different, being an English language show. And my cousin would speak Taglish or full English from time to time. I understood it enough and could speak it but I guess I just thought it was kind of showy or phony to speak it instead of Tagalog or our dialect.
Hm, maybe that's kind of why I struggled to socialize when I finally came to America. Maybe I still had that feeling in the back of my mind. That's interesting. I just thought of that now.
Anyways, I didn't know much about Bill Cosby back then but for some reason I somehow remember seeing him in commercials for Kodak with the song "True Colors" playing. Was that him? I think so.
But there were other shows that I got to watch there in Manila. I think my favorite was "Buddy en Sol", about a couple of friends named Buddy and Sol. I remember laughing so hard. I think in every episode it would end with them in their beds talking to each other before they slept and they would tell jokes or something. Somehow I remember I would be missing that show when I would leave for America. I just searched YouTube, and it looks like the episodes are available to watch. Somehow I don't think I would find it as funny now.
There was another show that was kinda funny to me, too. I can't remember the exact name, but it was made up of numbers. "Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen" or "Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen". I didn't understand it at the time, but now I believe they referred to the ages of the girls in the show. Let me try to googalize it.
No luck. I think the search terms are too broad. Anyways, if you can think of the show, please let me know.
One of the last things I remember was late at night right before programming would end. There was some kind of infomercial or PSA or documentary type or something. And at the end, it said it was sponsored by Hyundai. Except they didn't pronounce it like they do in America, not like "hon-day". The announcer pronounced it like "hyoon-die". But I'm not sure I knew Hyundai made cars yet. I don't think I knew anything about the company. Interestingly, my flight to the United States had a layover in South Korea. We got off the plane and rode a bus to a hotel. On the roads there, all the cars were Hyundai.
Yeah, so I just watched a few minutes of the show, and it looks to be a "Perfect Strangers" rip off from the beginning. Should I keep watching?
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