yoopi!

So like... for YEARS now I've been thinking about this old TV science show I used to watch as a child. I could remember the music, and the voice of the male host, and the format, but not the name. I just knew they always ended each segment with a little phrase like "isn't that amazing!" or something like that. When I described it to my family, no one remembered it.

Then I was watching a Kotter episode today and Epstein said: "What'll they think of next" obviously quoting from a show of the time. And I was all: EUREKA!

That's the show! What Will They Think of Next! It was a Canadian show, but also showed in the US. But there are no clips on the internets anywhere. I'll hum you the theme song:

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WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT aired weekly, I think Nickelodeon aired it on weekends. It was basically the two of them talking about what the future was going to be like. They would talk about new technologies, innovations, and that sort of thing. At the end of each segment, if I remember correctly, one of the two would state “What will they think of next?”

I remember one episode talking about how one day, you would be able to go on your computers and look at the showtimes at your local movie theatre, or see what stores were in your local mall. I watched this in amazement, not knowing that computers would be able to do such things. This was in the days even before the Commodore 64, where they were just hooked up to your TV to type text in.