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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 20/10/2026

tfw when you look at Uber prices these days (Labeling because I know some of y’all don’t want to see POTUS’ face)

One of those obnoxious I DID THAT stickers with the current president’s face on it

Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 18/10/2026

Wait, you can put the heat on in your apartment? (My one roomie overheats when it's 40 in the house, so the air is on at all times)

The kid from "We're The Millers" asking an obvious question meme

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

Honestly the only other TV announcer I've seen with that type of voice are these "coming up next" bits from American Movie Classics featuring a fake radio announcer... and yes, that *is* JK Simmons as the radio announcer (original by Matt Hinrichs - www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVq5...)

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 17/10/2026

The announcer for PHL 17 here in Philly from 1988 to 1990 has one of the more unique voices I've ever heard from a voiceover guy. Very old-timey radio in a way that network booth announcers weren't. Still haven't found a name, though... (Original from Joe's Video Archives - youtu.be/pbeu8Cik4gE)

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Ah yes, Charlie Brown died surrounded by his hoes

Polygon threads post: “The longest-suffering kid in comics history went out as he lived”

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Remember what Spider-Man told y'all as a kid: go register to vote!

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s a nice day, let’s go for a walk from my work to the subway, be a tourist, take some pictures Starting with this Smoke Shop, which I don’t believe is officially licensed by Nintendo

The Green Broad Smoke Shop. Yes that is an N64-era Mario toking up

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

You know what else Disney owns that explores elements from the original source material of one of their classic films? That stars a beloved anchor who recently passed away and that they can throw on their service for free?

The cover to a VHS of “Fox’s Peter Pan and the Pirates,” which Disney has owned since 2001

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning to everyone in my phone This may be the most Philly image I’ve ever taken

The sign for Broad Street, aka Avenue of the Arts, aka Boyz II Men Boulevard.

A SEPTA bus to Plymouth Meeting Mall flies past.

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

43 years ago yesterday, the first syndicated episode of Wheel of Fortune premiered. I cannot emphasize enough how big Wheel of Fortune was during its first decade. The 80s were when first-run syndie shows REALLY blew up, and Wheel would be my "exhibit A" for this, even more than He-Man and Gadget.

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

I post my selfies on my personal account these days but this turned out nice enough that I’m posting this here as well Pinball fucking rocks y’all

Jess at Barcade Philly in front of Bally’s “Spectrum,” a pinball machine from 1982

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

Checking links as I finish up this piece for the Patreon, and came across this reminder that you do not hate Haim Saban nearly enough variety.com/2020/politic...

Haim Saban, the media billionaire who is a fixture in Democratic Party fundraising, is organizing a $500,000-per-person fundraiser for Joe Biden next Monday.

Saban has long said he is “a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” In a statement supporting Biden, Saban said the former vice president will “ensure that the strong, bipartisan alliance between the U.S. and Israel remains unshakeable.”

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of 9/11, which means tomorrow will be the 25th anniversary of the most insane edit I've seen on kids TV. This is how Fox Kids aired "Ransik Lives" on the few stations that ran it. I cannot stress enough, *this is real* From DLJBFan2009: youtu.be/zM0kfx5T-r8

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's Fox Kids day! 36 years ago, on September 8, 1990, Fox Kids went on the air with its very first show - Bobby's World. The network would be the home of many seminal kids shows, from Tiny Toons to Power Rangers to Digimon. Here's the first promo, sourced by Davin Del'osa: youtu.be/7npUWZ_4aB4

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was normal back in the day! They'd usually do a three or four minute spot during major events or as filler, but :30s or :60s most of the time. It's not even the most over the top one they did, there's a 3:00 ad for *their motherfucking radar* (Original by Kalehoff: youtu.be/i7aUTI2tDJE?... )

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's fall, let's get in the mood... ...by posting old TV promo campaigns original from Edd Kalehoff: youtu.be/O0tz-dlr8mY?... (I've corrected the aspect ratio)

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fox started up shortly afterwards, so you started seeing WTXF downplayed anyway in favor of “Fox 29” Fox ended up buying the station, but not before it was resold to Paramount Pictures, which resulted in this ID that still breaks my brain a little:

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

I always wondered why WTAF changed Its calls, then I saw this old station ID with the giant logo for TAFt and I’m like “ohhhhh THAT’S why” Taft sold it in 1987, and contractually mandated that the calls be changed. WTXF was chosen, and to this day I still frequently see them misspelled.

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

This all coincides with the ongoing rollout of “SEPTA Metro,” which has relabeled all their subway and trolley routes with color coded letter designations This is the advertising they’ve been running, and I am convinced it was made by someone in the LGBTQ+ community because it’s obvious as hell

Market-Frankford Line -> [L]
Broad Street Line -> [B]
Subway-Surface Trolleys -> [T]
Route 15 Trolley -> [G]
Media-Sharon Hill Line -> [D]
Norristown High Speed Line -> [M]

GET TO KNOW SEPTA METRO
at SEPTA.org

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

Compare it to the much less legible older design, which uses more colors, various weights of Helvetica, has no large bus icon, and doesn’t label the stop Enjoy the sticker of a well dressed Bugs Bunny checking a SEPTA timetable as a bonus (Philly is awesome)

The stop for the 39 to Richmond-Cumberland, with a dapper Bugs Bunny holding a SEPTA bus schedule and checking their Rolex wondering where the hell their bus is

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

SEPTA has been redoing their signage for about a year now. They’re I think the first transit facility/agency to use Google’s Roboto as their main font and somehow it works well

The bus stop at Frankford and Girard labeled with the three buses that stop there - the 25 and 5 northbound to the Frankford Transit Center, and the 76 to Rising Sun-Olney.

The 25 part is shaded in “frequent red,” as it is a route that runs every 15 minutes or less on weekdays.

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

I wouldn’t say there was bad blood. There WAS litigation between Fox and Disney, but that was about Fox poaching Disney Afternoon affiliates. Still, that was enough for lawyers to make them put this disclaimer at the start of every episode:

A new and independent series inspired by J.M. Barrie’s original novel “Peter and Wendy”

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

It cannot be overstated how important Tim Curry was to voice acting as a whole and Fox Kids specifically He was the marquee name in Peter Pan and the Pirates, Fox Kids' flagship that first year, and his performance as Captain Hook is one of the few things that make it worth revisiting

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name your favourite Disney princess (wrong answers only).

Princess Dierdre from Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, which is likely still rotting in the Disney vaults

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 23/08/2026

Y'all are seeing T2 and not Legend of the White Dragon, JDF's final film that I had no idea was actually releasing until I went to the AMC website to check local showtimes for T2? (For the record I'm seeing Coyote vs. Acme lol)

The poster for JDF's final film, "Legend of the White Dragon." next to the poster for the Terminator 2 rerelease

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 22/08/2026

A documentary about a musical group where the events happen in real time.

White text in impact font “DESCRIBE YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE AS BORING AS POSSIBLE”

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 15/08/2026

We had to have an exterminator in the upstairs bedrooms (not mine) so I had to stay out of the house this afternoon Scrounged up enough money and decided I was gonna party, I was gonna rock, so I got one ticket to the West Philly Cinemark to see Spider-Man It was good!

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 06/08/2026

In honor of trans icon Samus Aran’s 40th, here’s my lock screen (I unfortunately do not remember who the original artist is)

A picture of Samus Aran howling a battlecry holding the Progress Pride flag. Her battle armor bears the colors of both the pride and transgender flags

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 06/08/2026

Uh holy shit Pinball FX I know, but if I can master the physics and get this type of score on the real table or at least on the more realistic VPX...

Jess' high score of 245,289,550 on the Pinball FX version of Addams Family

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

Baby’s first ever game on the Pokemon pinball. Not bad if I may say so myself

Jess' score on her first game of Pokemon Pinball. 69,775,760

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

This one's from a Toonami Duel Masters aircheck. The AI was clearly given a prompt for Toonami Robot and it came back looking like something from tokusatsu. The channel for these is here btw - I don't like giving them any attention, but some of these are... woof www.youtube.com/@GroovyRetro...

A thumbnail for some Toonami commercial breaks during Duel Masters. The thumbnail allegedly pictures TOM, the blue-tinted Toonami robot host, but the head is designed to look far more like something from a tokusatsu series.

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

AI slop thumbnails are becoming a real problem on YouTube. This came up while I was hunting for Fox Kids airchecks. There's *so* much wrong with this one. Not least of which is that WATL is given a hallucinated NBC 36 logo - an affiliation they never had. (This is gonna be a thread.)

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 22/07/2026

So this is a *really* interesting piece from 2006 on KYW CBS 3 about gender affirming surgeries. It's surprisingly respectful for 2006, even if there's a distinct "lookit the freaks" vibe. Would NOT be handled the same way now. Original by Joe's Video Archives - youtu.be/pdvaI2Eqvcc

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 16/07/2026

They didn’t hide that they owned a movie studio, all I’ll say

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 16/07/2026

Also, I appreciate Weather Channel’s retro mode, but one complaint: where are the gradients?! If you are going to evoke the local forecasts of the 90s, you have to go further than just changing the fonts and icons to the WeatherStar 4000 ones. You need to go all the way, you can’t half ass it.

The current conditions screen from the Weather Channel’s WeatherStar 4000 local forecast, with its beautiful orange and blue gradients

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well. Guess we’re gonna see how I handle this with my newly fucked up lungs 🙃

A screen from the Weather Channel app (in retro WeatherStar 4000 style!) showing the air quality is an unhealthy 173.

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 15/07/2026

SilverHawks had educational segments at the end of each episode, consulted on by Dr. William Gutsch. Who appeared in an unlikely place...

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Jess, Festive Kids TV Historian @foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 14/07/2026

While y'all are watching the Home Run Derby I am watching a real sport

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