Word: maniacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to have much greater problems in the future." In Jacksonville an insurance agent by the name of George Bush, who is no relation to the President, said, "We have no other alternative but to go in before Saddam Hussein makes it worse. This maniac only answers at the point of a gun, I'm afraid." Insurance agent Bush worries, however: with three nearby naval bases, the Jacksonville suburb of Orange Park has a large number of reservists and military personnel among its residents. Bush wonders how they will pay their bills if they are sent to the gulf...
...right, it's about preventing a maniac from getting nuclear weapons. This lasted for about a week, until it was pointed out by scientists and military experts that Saddam Hussein had no likelihood of possessing nuclear capabilities in the next few years and that anyway, lots of maniacs have nuclear weapons, and it's hardly feasible to fight them...
...Maniac Mansion (Family Channel). Dad (Joe Flaherty) is an amiably incompetent inventor, his four-year-old son is a hulking six-footer and Uncle Harry is a housefly. From such nonsense a group of SCTV alums have fashioned the looniest, sweetest family comedy of the year...
Soon after Iraq invaded Kuwait, U.S. intelligence officials conducted an emergency review of their earlier assessment that Saddam is five to 10 years away from developing nuclear arms by enriching uranium ore to bomb-grade levels. "The sense was, 'My God, this guy's a maniac; he'll do anything. Is there any way we haven't thought of he could get the Bomb?' " says an official. The panel came up with only one scenario: Iraq might have enough bomb-grade fuel on hand to fashion a single low-yield atomic weapon in a period of several months to several...
...Maniac Mansion has the old SCTV spirit, mixing the outrageous and the banal with nary a hint that anybody knows the difference. In one episode, Uncle Harry, who is still buzzing around the house, falls for a female fly, then has to console his jealous (and still life-size) wife. "We've got 20 years -- that's a history," he tells her. "That's something I could never have with a fly. Because they only live for -- what? -- two weeks max." Flaherty, meanwhile, is disarmingly oblivious to the havoc he is creating. When he concocts a serum that turns...