The Simpsons marathon on FXX

Beans Baxter was another of the original Fox lineup. It lasted about a season. As an 11-year-old I remember it being kind of cool, but never really saw it enough to give it a proper review.
It was a spy/adventure show. Teenager sees his dad (spy working undercover as a mailman) get blown up in his mail truck, and is recruited to take his place. Adventures ensue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Beans_Baxter

 

Herman's Head and Get a Life were my guilty pleasures.

 

Herman's Head won more battles than it lost.

 

I had a bit of a crush on the actress who was the sensitive voice in Herman's Head.

 

'Get a Life' was great.

 

The actress who was Herman's sensitive side went on to be Sister Roberta in a 'Seinfeld' episode.

 

IIRC, The brilliant "Ben Stiller Show" was on after Herman's Head.

 

A quarter-century ago, the animated comedy “The Simpsons” put the fledgling Fox network on the map as the fourth broadcast network. Now, with a much-promoted marathon of all 552 episodes that ended Monday, “The Simpsons” has repeated that feat, lifting a year-old cable channel called FXX to the top ranks of the 105 cable networks measured by the Nielsen Company.

The 12-day, round-the-clock marathon, which also included the two-hour 2007 theatrical movie, produced ratings about three times as high as executives at the channel expected. It enabled FXX to finish as the highest-rated network in all of cable television among the audience most desired by advertisers — viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 — three nights out of 12. For its full run, the audience for the marathon had a median age of 28, one of the youngest in the television business.

Beyond validating “The Simpsons” as a cultural phenomenon almost without parallel in television history, the marathon will create another significant result, said John Landgraf, the chief executive of FX networks. “We are talking about a radical transformation of asset value,” he said.

http://nyti.ms/Z78U2C