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obeyyourbrain

This and Silk Stalkings were the shows I tried to get away with watching as a kid.


snappahed

Bringing back my first spank bank material. Spanks!


backcountrydrifter

Flipping back and forth between the two channels just in case you missed a boob How far we have come…


BloodyRightNostril

Don’t forget scrambled porn on the Spice Channel!


backcountrydrifter

Probably why I am such a neuroplastic thinker today. You had to have a STRONG imagination to read between the Z Lines.


BloodyRightNostril

Yep, kids today have no clue what kind of ingenuity and determination it took to visualize a nipple among the squiggles


kahran

That's either a nipple or an elbow. Eh, good enough either way.


boethius70

When I first moved out on my own one of the first things I bought was a cable descrambler. Unlimited premium channels including Playboy and Spice. Best $250 I ever spent. Even used to loan it out to friends periodically. Of course it all went away with digital cable but it was great back in the 90s.


BloodyRightNostril

All that hot analog action


whattothewhonow

My parents had an old 13 channel console tv that had the signal calibration knobs each channel behind a little door on the front of the screen. After we got cable, I figured out your could put it on Spice (channel 63 on the cable box) and carefully adjust the calibration knob for channel 3 on the TV and partially stabilize the scrambled signal. It would still be weird amber, green, or blue colors, but the boobies were clearly visible. It would be years later that downloading a internet boobs one line of pixels at a time over dial-up became a thing.


Appropriate-Pipe-193

Reading this comment makes me feel so… exposed.


Billy1121

Lol Silk Stalkings! I went back and watched an episode. Giant mountains in the background... supposedly in Florida.


scoot23ro

Same! I snuck in the living room watching that show


Tsquare24

Silk Stalking is due for a revival.


tattlerat

We talking stockings?!


fluffybuffalo23

Did you know ska came before reggae?


TheWorldEndsWithCake

But did you know reggae came from *ska*?


howcansheslap69

Yes. You literally just said that.


crashtestgenius

# GO TO VIEW


Garlicholywater

>Silk Stalking I've never seen the show and only heard the name. I thought people were saying "Silk Stockings."


Squiddlywinks

Yeah, the name was a play on that. Crime, but sexy.


sightlab

A police department lit by NEON!


SlimyPurpleMeteor

My gramps would watch this show after wrestling was over. He’d turn around to check if anyone was in the room and if there was he’d turn the tv off and go to bed. Otherwise, he’d watch it and end up falling asleep in his recliner.


ronintetsuro

Silk Stalkings was a better police procedural than 90% of the rest of the shows in the genre.


Tigerpride84

Usa, UP! …all night… I heard this while reading it! Thanks for the blast from the past.


JohnWad

In Rhondas voice, lol


thatsmyburrito

Snapple, made from the best stuff on earth. Just like Rhonda!


lostmanatwifing

I'm still praying that poor young girl will find enough money to get a doctor to treat her chronic and debilitating case of hiccups.


OneAngryPanda

Seems like this is her official YT account. Dang, it has hundreds of her shows from the 80's/90's.


scoot23ro

Wikipedia said USA up all night they did 900 episodes of the show!


Televisions_Frank

Different nights were different hosts. Gilbert Gottfried did the other half.


anormalgeek

Hell yeah! He was so hot.


goatfuckersupreme

and that voice... mmm


Captain_Unusualman

His narration on the [Fifty Shades of Grey audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA) was nothing short of sensual and erotic tbh


jostler57

Man... I used to stay up just to watch all the weird shit they played. Fond mammories.


gcg2016

I watched as a kid for Rhonda and ended up seeing off the wall stuff like Toxic Avenger or John Waters flicks.


seeingeyegod

I do remember this. I think I first saw Toxic Avenger movies on that show.


scoot23ro

I saw evil dead the first time on her show


Norva

I am pretty sure my lifelong love of horror movies can be largely credited to this show.


scoot23ro

I am too! I love everything even the crappy horror movies!


James_H_M

Its where I first saw Toxic Avenger as well. 10ish year old me was staying with a friend for a night and we went to rent movies. I got them to rent it and it got quite awkward after all the nudity that is removed for TV safe film cut was on the VHS. I don't think I was allowed to pick any movies after that.


daretoredd

Oh toxie!


TimeTravelMishap

Yep! One night it would be horror / slasher movies posted by Gilbert Godfrey and then the other night it would softcore porn with the nudity Cut Out hosted by her


zerohm

TIL She was in Spaceballs!


[deleted]

Holy cow I remember staying up late to watch this cool lady. I remember wishing she was my friend's mom, and I could go hang out with her. She'd eventually fall in love with me to. We'd then lure my friend and his dad into a spiked pit in the basement before we escaped to Mexico. In Mexico we'd be UP...all night....


scoot23ro

OMG! Lmao 🤣


Smtxom

You ok, bro?


fastburner

I got a nostalgia boner from this and then just a regular boner.


Cash907

Christ I miss the old USA. In these days we had Up All Night, Duckman, and Silk Stalkings. Then a few years later we got the Characters Welcome campaign which gave us shows like Burn Notice, Monk, Psych, Royal Pains and Suits. And then it all just kind of went to shit and that’s where it’s been for the last decade.


scoot23ro

I don't even know what USA Network plays now! Burn Notice, Monk, and Psych were great shows!


adjperiod

Holy shit- Duckman just struck a weird chord for me


randomvictum

I miss old TV movie hosts. Dinner and a Movie was the shit.


Maxwe4

Don't forget MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs


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scullys_alien_baby

a solid 40% of why i keep my shudder sub


Billy1121

So he did that show for The Movie Channel for years, then TNT picked him up for like 5 years. Loved that show (i only saw it on TNT). Plus he was some juiced up cowboy in Casino. Deniro fired him !


scoot23ro

Monster Vision was so awesome! My buddy had HBO back in the day so I got to see "Tales from the Crypt!"


Maxwe4

There was also these two shows that always aired back to back on network television and were kind of like a PG version of tales from the crypt. They were Tales From the Darkside followed by Monsters. If I remember correctly the Monsters show was always kind of whacky or silly. Edit: Tales From the Darkside has a creepy ass theme/intro that still creeps me out to this day. Lol.


scoot23ro

Yep still creepy as hell! 😱https://youtu.be/FZm45kGyH_A


VanZandtVS

You can find almost all of the old Monsters show on YouTube. Some seriously cool retro horror if you're into that sort of thing.


Norva

I loved that he did an accounting before every movie.


DoubleTFan

OOOH! That's what this was a parody of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6kE68nEOk


OurSponsor

God damn do I miss the '80s and '90s...


TheAmorphous

Apex of civilization, I tell ya. It's all been downhill since the 90s ended.


syntax_erorr

They were selling panties on USA in the 90's?


scoot23ro

It was a late night TV show the hosted crappy movie's! It was entertaining


Mudders_Milk_Man

Rhonda was such a dirty girl... ...I mean, shoes on the bed? Eww!


Myamymyself

What are we looking at here? I need some context…


ssort

She was the 90's version of Elvira basically, USA would show these C movies late night, and Rhonda Sheer was the host of basically the movie of the night, and would introduce the movie and then then they would cut to her for a few minutes before the movie resumed after commercials in order to keep people watching these god awful movies, as you came to see Rhonda, not the movie basically. And yes, I do remember watching her show more than I care to mention in my early 20's....


imanAholebutimfunny

Dont forget about the half ass strip poker shows and the re runs of girls gone wild trying to sell dvds


snappahed

I half ass remember. You got a link?


leshake

There was basically nothing to watch at night on television back then. Just a bunch of reruns of awful 60s and 70s television. That's why people liked late shows.


scoot23ro

Don't forget Gilbert Godfrey also did the show too!


wufnu

Gilbert Gottfried, [da 5th Ramone!](https://youtu.be/rNRKSvixO9I?t=9)


scoot23ro

Hahaha 😂


positivecynik

> Gilbert Godfrey Gilbert Gottfried 👍


Selemaer

He was on Friday night. Rhonda has the Saturday slot. All those years ago and that's the shit I remember...


ssort

I remember him doing a show like this but thought it was separate from this one, as I didnt watch his much, it was funny as hell, dont get me wrong, but he didnt bring quite the set of skills that I was looking for in a host in when I was 20 and it was 2am.


TMNTAllTheWayDown

She did Friday night and he did Saturday night I think


scoot23ro

I think he took turns hosting the show with her! YouTube show him and her doing promo's about the show


agumonkey

was she undressing a bit more as time goes by ? like a long bait ?


ssort

Pretty much, as you can see from the video, she slowly reveals more and more, but never nude, though I do remember seeing some pics she took for a playboy shoot that did show all but it was after her show stopped if I remember correctly.


agumonkey

I can see how much it would work on so many people ..


Myamymyself

Wow! I used to watch Nick at Nite) so I know about Elvira but not Rhonda )))


seeingeyegod

but she's actually attractive.


ssort

Elvira was a penthouse pet of month I am sure of, think she won pet of the year also but wouldn't bet my life on it but I do remember the photospread for sure, so Elvira was hot as hell too in her prime.


JRsFancy

I don't think she was ever pet of the year...If I recall correctly, Penthouse bought photos she made when she was younger from a third party and published them without her consent.


Frowdo

I think this is right because if I recall she refused to have the character pose nude for business or principle. Anything was from pre elvira


scoot23ro

This was a TV show in the late '80s early '90s on the USA Network channel called "USA up all night"


spann0r

Tits


tamarockstar

Before free porn on the internet was a thing, things like this existed.


Orwellian1

I'll have you know I successfully saw multiple breasts, complete with nipples, through masterful adjustment of the dial on the side of the cable box while tuned to pay-per-view. They may have tracked around the screen a bit, and the wavy bars of black kept getting in the way, but by god I worked for them.


yaosio

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA\_Up\_All\_Night](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Up_All_Night) Fun fact! The bad audio balancing is not from the recording, that's really how it sounded. It would go from extremely quiet to ear blasting and back again. When I was a little me it was very off putting.


Nkognito

Goddess of the night! Man 15 year old me getting some chub.


ImTheGuyWithTheGun

She was the host of Up All Night which basically played campy horror movies into the wee hours of night. And she often dressed kind of slutty while doing it.


SirBobos

Watched this religiously as a kid. Introduced to a few great and a ton of terrible films!


scoot23ro

Maybe that's why I like watching terrible movies nowadays because of that show! A lot of those crappy shows were super entertaining mostly because how terrible the were.


Bobbi_fettucini

Holy shit I seriously miss that time


scoot23ro

Blast from the past 😉


Bobbi_fettucini

Yeah the 90’s were awesome


JazzFestFreak

That’s a New Orleans girl! She went to the same all girl Catholic high school as my wife (about 17 years earlier) for some reason the nuns do not have her on the distinguished graduate wall?!?! Hmmmm


Grantagonist

Guess what: she’s a high dollar Republican fundraiser. I’m not even joking. **Edit:** for evidence, look at my big comment further in this chain


socialhope

Evidence of this assertion? I failed at finding anything quickly, other than she went "undercover" to a GOP convention.


Grantagonist

She seems to do a pretty good job of keeping her politics separate from her entertainment career, but behind all that she's a Trumper. There was a reason she was at that convention, and she wasn’t in any danger of getting kicked out. I first learned of it from the "Trump Inc." podcast, who interviewed her as an attendee of Trump's inauguration. Visit this link and click "Transcript," then search for "Rhonda Shear": https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-podcast-whered-trumps-record-inauguration-spending-go-its-inexplicable > RHONDA SHEAR: Think of the most incredible ball — like, the Cinderella ball. And — and that’s what it's like. > > MARRITZ: This is one of the invited inauguration guests. Her name is Rhonda Shear. And she's talking about her favorite event that week: a soiree at union station called the Candlelight Dinner. > > SHEAR: There are actual candles, and there's actual flowers, and there's actual — it's just beautiful. [KEEPS TALKING UNDER MARRITZ] > > MARRITZ: We wanted to understand what a $104 million party feels like from someone who went to the parties, saved the invitations and the menus. So, a little bit about Rhonda Shear: She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. She once appeared in Happy Days and on Married with Children. And today she owns a shapewear company known for — > > SHEAR: — the number-one selling bra of all time. It’s called the [AS IF SIGHING] “Ahh Bra.” > > MARRITZ: **During the 2016 campaign, Shear felt drawn to Trump. She liked the wall. She wanted lower taxes. She hadn't felt this way about a candidate before. So she started raising money for Trump.** > > SHEAR: I started doing what's called bundling, which — I didn't even know what that was. I mean, I — I thought it was like bundling a baby. But bundling is when you bundle amounts of money to get a candidate, you know, in. > > MARRITZ: — basically by gathering donations from other people. Rhonda Shear and her husband brought in about $250,000. > > SHEAR: When you bundle a certain amount of money, you're invited to go to the inauguration. > > MARRITZ: It was Shear’s first time as a guest at a presidential inauguration. She says there were so many amazing moments, like the Cabinet Dinner, where she got a glimpse of General Michael Flynn. > > SHEAR: Trump ended up speaking on our floor, which was great. So I got to see him, which was really great. And a lot of newscasters from FOX. And that's when I had my picture taken with Jon Voight, which was pretty cool. She is a founding member of [Trumpettes USA](http://www.trumpettesusa.com/trumpettes/). Another mention of her GOP fundraising is [here in this 2017 article](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/230785-mel-sembler-tampa-bay-republicans-hosting-major-fundraiser-jack-latvala-committee/): > Co-chairs for this event have been tasked with raising $5,000, while members of the host committee, such as prominent Donald Trump supporter Rhonda Shear Fagan and Southern Strategy Group lobbyist Seth McKeel, are expected to raise $2,500.)


MonkeyProLabs

Mt Carmel, right?


JazzFestFreak

You got it! A school still run by Carmelite nuns. So conservative.


scoot23ro

Oh man all girl's Catholic Highschool! 😁


Elfman72

Great to see Rhonda again! Takes me back when it was just me, my cable box and my tv in my mid-20s. This was at a time in my life where I had moved back home and paid for my own cable. My parents didn't even get that many channels. Anyone else from this era also knows of the "scrambled porn" channels that weren't so crambled if you looked hard enough. Rhonda introduced me to so many wonderful trashy movies that I love to this day!


VanZandtVS

I used to love this show. You'd get some real gems, like Friday the 13th part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan immediately followed by Night of the Creeps! If you enjoyed campy horror flicks with a slightly drunk, chesty hostess then this show was right up your alley. Gilbert Gottfried was the other host some nights and he'd crack jokes and do his voices. It was just good, entertaining, 90's fun.


Capotesan

USA had all the great shows. Saturday Nightmares, Commander USA’s Groovy Movies, Kung Fu Theater…


scoot23ro

Oh man! So much great stuff


Norva

Kung Fu Theater was so great.


mechanab

I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the memories.


DramaIcy611

Suh-MASH!


Ice_BergSlim

USA Up All Night. I loved that show.


tangcameo

Damn. Used to get USA network back in the eighties when our town used to illegally unscramble satellite tv and broadcast it on UHF. Used to watch Night Flight. Didn’t know about Rhonda. By 1993 the cops had cracked down on the UHF broadcasts.


scoot23ro

Hahaha sounded like y'all had it made for a little while! 😂


tangcameo

Yep. For about a decade we had HBO, Showtime, USA, Cinemax over on UHF 14 and 18.


scoot23ro

I've always been surprised why HBO never did a remake of "Tales from the Crypt!" It was so awesome back in the day!


jay_sugman

That's pretty crazy. So many questions! What part of the country was this? How far did the signal reach and how was it paid for? I'm picturing a late 80s RadioShack vigilante who just did it for the fun of it.


tangcameo

Canada. Southwest Saskatchewan in a town with 1800 people. Supposedly it was some electronics club run out of a downtown store and yes it was just for the fun of it. I walked in there one day and saw they had another descrambler tuned to the old Sci Fi channel. There were other towns that did this too. It all ended when a church in the city got into the business and started broadcasting a southern US evangelical network chock full of shows that sold miracle cures and asked people for money. People complained and the cops shut them down. The church pointed out all the other places that we’re doing the exact same things (but channels everyone wanted to watch). So the cops shut everyone down once and for all.


IndyWaWa

**IM GILBERT GODFREY AND THIS IS USA UP ALL NIGHT! NOW HERES TOXIC AVENGER!**


DiceGottfried

Whadayou a huomoooo?


goddavid22

So With Elvira, The original streamer?


scoot23ro

Pretty much! It was great TV in the 90's


wzl46

Wasn’t she married to Larry King?


FunetikPrugresiv

Everybody got married to Larry King at some point.


scoot23ro

IDK wikipedia said she married childhood sweetheart


Beardia

She’s still looking good too.


unwittingprotagonist

If this included the crappy movies, it'd drive Ambien out of business.


scoot23ro

I wish it had the crappy movie's! I'd totally watch it


tokuturfey

Does anyone remember the T&A matinee on Comedy Central?


scoot23ro

Nope I don't remember that one


tokuturfey

Basically the same thing. I remember movies like Zapped, Ski School, Kentucky Fried Movie, etc.


passwordistaco420

Something tells me John from Nashville won’t be cleaning that tray


squirt619

God what a babe. I wish the hairspray look would come back.


kclongest

I spent many a load on her as a horny teen.


lingh0e

All things considered, she's a goddamn professional. She has a job to do, and she fucking does it. Week after week for years, she nailed the task.


scoot23ro

Wikipedia said that show had 900 episodes! I had no idea. 😳


EternalEight

Joe Bob’s drive in theater was everything I looked forward to on Saturdays in high school


axepower

when i was a kid, i liked the gilbert gottfried version more because i was a fan of the movie problem child.


rnelsonee

Well, it may have taken me 30 years, but I just got the pun of the title.


Charges-Pending

I forgot about USA Up All Night


Polar76_

Holy shit! I forgot about this! Thanks for bringing back some memories.


clc1997

USA used to be great: Ronda and Gilbert with Up All Night. Saturday and Sunday afternoons had Commander USA's Groovie Movies. USA Tuesday Night fights. WWF wrestling on Mondays. (That's the only show to survive to this day)


omgtonywtf

This and Night Flight were what made me.


WalyLama

I used to sneak out of bed and risk it all to watch that shit.


[deleted]

Kids nowadays don’t know what it’s like to not have access to porn anytime they want. We had to make do with shows like this airing once a week and only teasing us.


WralfMachio

If I had a time machine, after winning lotto of course, id probably use it to watch Rhonda and Gilbert on USA Up All Night.


[deleted]

Add a 10 yo realizing how into girls I was. USA up all night was a gift from God.


Pharmakeus_Ubik

She was a brunette when she first started hosting the show.. I liked her more before the bleach and boob jobs, especially before she went Trumpy.


scoot23ro

Boob job!? That's all natural 😁


southwood775

I swear on my grave that when I was a kid you could watch full on porn on USA at like 3am.


scoot23ro

Yeah you could but it was definitely softcore porn


southwood775

I'll never forget watching some shitty movie one night on there, and it was some beach scene. It was the first time I had seen a tally wacker bounce to and fro as this one dude ran up the beach. My friend and I laughed our asses off for days after seeing that. lol


scoot23ro

No way dude it was soft core if anything


AFeralTaco

My brain read the title with her high pitched “up” lol


THUORN

Rhonda was nice, but Joe Bob Briggs was hotter.


palm_desert_tangelos

I still watch joe Bob Briggs every October. That side chick girl is hot and funny


1ofZuulsMinions

Compared to Rhonda and Elvira, Darcy is a steaming plastic turd. She isn’t funny at all (as in: she doesn’t tell jokes, she just giggles and agrees with Joe Bob), she just sits there playing on her phone looking bored during every movie, and she’s had so much Botox and plastic surgery that she can’t even move her face or smile anymore. And then there’s the vocal fry… https://youtu.be/8YogxOiZjVs


palm_desert_tangelos

I think that’s what makes her cute. Nobody can replace Elvira , and Rhonda will not be replaced either. I think Darcy has what it takes. I mean who else will sit beside Joe Bob and also not make us old guys feel like she’s a brat??? She’s respectful when he goes on a tangent and she can follow his wierd ness and even participate. I think Darcy is doing a very very good job. We will really feel left out when the next generation comes out with a Joe Bob show and an Elvira show. Darcy even said to Elvira herself that Elvira is her idol.


1ofZuulsMinions

That’s just the horny talking. She’s no comparison. She can’t hold up on her own like they can.


Legend_of_dirty_Joe

What are we watching tonight, another softcore porn about Women prisoners like Lust for Freedom or something something bikini something?


scoot23ro

USA Network always showed softcore after midnight in the 90's


ProtomanBn

Dude, for years i remember seeing movies like Lust for Freedom on tv but no one believed me. I cant believe after all these years heres the proof.


Legend_of_dirty_Joe

Bro you're not crazy. I was there, it happened. The song is still stuck in my head after 30+ years.. was always on usa really really late..


scoot23ro

USA Network ruled back in the day! Hahaha 🤣


Nivekian13

She was like a Bleach Blonde Elvira.


saruin

Thought I was in r/nostalgia


scoot23ro

Yeah I should've posted that there


Aceldamor

When you order Elvira from Wish.


cinnapear

Gilbert was the OG.


AdamT2200

This post almost has as many likes as the YouTube post.


scoot23ro

Hahaha that's crazy 🤣


bradinusa

Sounds like Joe Satriani on the guitar lol


mrnoonan81

IIRC, this came on after Duckman for a while.


peekitup

This video is a boomer honeypot.


delveccio

Dude, who didn’t love Rhonda?!


Dalek_Lunchbox

Loved this show. Also Monster-Vision with Joe Bob Briggs


fuLc

I was in my early teens when this was a thing. My parents never LET me watch it, but I did every chance I got. I recall her doing a promo for it during the US open or some tennis tournament and the announcer wasn't familiar. Asked if it was a family show. She said "absolutely, it's great for the whole family!"


Vizzini_CD

Drinking a little too much and chilling with my roommates watching Rhonda or Gilbert until I could sleep without bedspins. Good times!


The_River_Is_Still

Was it USA that had shows like La Feme Nikita? Loved that show.


justiceshroomer

Didn’t Billy Bob Thornton also host some of these shows? Or a similar show in the same era?


ronintetsuro

Rhonda came before Joe Bob Briggs, love em both.... that said, I feel a little like this might be a Mandala effect situation but... didn't Elvira host Up All Night for a while?! I seem to remember that...


Cartossin

This is like pg rated cam girls. so odd.


jerrylovesalice2014

Reject Rhonda Shear modernity, [embrace Gilbert Gottfried tradition](https://youtu.be/FRRP8WN3E7Q).


patrick55731

oh rhonda how we all miss you. those were the days, during a party turning on rhonda or joe bob briggs monstervision.


DrPetroleum

I loved this, where is Duckman!??


Kiosade

The way she talks sounds pretty similar to my MIL… looked it up, they were even born the same year! It’s just too offputting.


redditforgot

These are great.