Word: maniacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough? Now try switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel...
...Flaherty knows bad movies too; as Count Floyd, the seedy late-night host on the old SCTV comedy show, he used to introduce dreck like Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses. Playing the incompetent mad scientist in Maniac Mansion, Flaherty again shows a flair for sweet dimwittedness. Another SCTV veteran, Eugene Levy, is co-creator of this twisted update of The Addams Family, which was inspired by, of all things, a computer game...
...attractive, petite brunets with shoulder-length hair -- has touched off fears that a serial killer might be on the loose. Nearly 200 local, state and FBI investigators have poured into Gainesville to provide security and hunt for a suspect described by Police Chief Wayland Clifton as a "methodical maniac." Among the visiting sleuths: John Douglas, who helped track such serial killers as Charles Manson, New York's "Son of Sam" in the 1970s and Florida's own Ted Bundy, who was executed last year...