This was one of my favourite episodes of Married With Children. Originally airing on December 17th, 1989 this is the trash tv interpretation of the 1946 Christmas film, It's A Wonderful Life. Instead of Clarence the compassionate angel showing our depressed hero the value of his life we have Sam Kinison. How I love Sam Kinison! Our tv hero, Al, the Dad-of-Dads, is down in the dumps at Christmas. After his best efforts at giving something to his much-hated family he wonders what life would have been like without him. After seeing how much happier everyone would have been had he not been born he decides to live. One of the highlights of this two-part episode is during one of Al's last-ditch efforts at earning some money to buy his family Christmas presents. He has agreed to babysit horrible children in the shoe store while their horrible mothers go shopping. While the kids are tied up with festive garland they demand entertainment. Al r...
~ ? ? ? ~ ________________________________________________________________ Nature can be as horrific as it can be lovely. After wildlife officials in Hamburg, Germany, had been notified by concerned locals a full investigation was launched into what appeared to be animal abuse. After exhausting several avenues of possibilities, ruling out various potential sources such as contaminants, poisons, rats, etc.. the cause was traced to crows. Crows living in a park with a small pond discovered that there is a way to harvest the delicious livers from these toads without facing the consequence of touching the toxic secretions from their skin. _________________________________________________________________ Click the link to watch the National Geographic documentary on Hamburg's exploding toads. This segment is approximately seven minutes. _________________________________________________________________ On another note, what's more terrifying than ...
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