A damn good show with some interesting ideas – for example there was MathMan, the PacMan ripoff who had to eat the right numbers or he’d get eaten by a surly tornado. Then there was Mathnet, a show about two detectives with calculators in their holsters (occassionally drawn but never fired) who solve crimes with math.
I really loved that show…but then the number 9 raped me.
The live horse would be thinking of another horse,” said Smith, “and before he could discover his error and see that he had been fooled, the strange carriage would be passed.
South Africa has a new sitcom called “The Coconuts“.
So, why “coconuts”?
“Coconut” is an urban slang term used to describe black people who act “white” – it literally means black on the outside and white on the inside. However, the Coconuts, in the case of this sitcom, are not ‘white-acting’ black people, but a family of white people – the Greenes – who become trapped in black bodies thanks to offending an old man and some ancestors of the little known Zulotho tribe of South Africa.