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froodleSometimes you watch a promo for an upcoming series and think it's been created just for you. That's how I felt in the fall of 1991 when I saw a teaser for NBC's Eerie, Indiana, a family-friendly, comedy-laced horror show about an ordinary kid Marshall Teller (Omri Katz), who moves with his family from New Jersey to a distinctly unordinary small town -- Eerie, Indiana, population 16,661. Like Marshall, I had recently been uprooted as well, leaving downtown Toronto for suburban Virginia. And while the community my 13-year-old self had moved to wasn't home to a still-alive Elvis Presley or an orthodontist who designed retainers that allowed their wearers to read the canine mind, it still seemed pretty strange and alien to me. When Marshall described Eerie as "the center of weirdness for the entire planet" in the show's great credits sequence, he basically summed up how I felt about my new home.
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Tags:
- a: televisionwithoutpity,
- actor: omri katz,
- char: doctor eukanuba,
- char: elvis,
- char: mars,
- char: mister wilson,
- char: simon,
- creator: joe dante,
- creator: jose rivera,
- creator: karl schaeffer,
- crossover potential,
- fanworks: reviews,
- non-canon: explorers,
- non-canon: innerspace,
- non-canon: matinee,
- non-canon: parker lewis can't lose,
- org: canine arrest team,
- org: foreverware ladies,
- org: things incorporated
