So you guys? Did you know that MuchMoreMusic is running ’80s series Fame like three times every day?

It is a great show. It has all the bad teen drama of your 90210, but with musical numbers! I can’t believe I never watched this show when I was on, even though I was not even born when it premiered. I had a pretty highly developed sense of irony as a toddler.

Luckily, I discovered that there is someone at YouTube called FameChannel, who basically uploads clips from Fame all the time and has Doris as her icon. This person makes me so happy.

To wit:

I’m not sure it’s ever explained why they’re wearing such random insane costumes.

My favourite Fame hobby was making comments about how super-gay Leroy (the one in the tights in the video above) is, despite his character’s supposed hard-knock life beginning, but then I found out that a) Gene Anthony Ray, the actor who played him, was HIV-positive when he died of a stroke a couple of years ago, and that basically his life went downhill after the show, and b) he actually did grow up in Harlem and his character is basically him, and then I felt really bad for mocking the dead.

Also, I can’t believe that Erica Gimpel (aka Wallace’s mom on Veronica Mars) ever appeared in public with hair that profoundly bad.