From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Derek Janssen writes:   
      
   >Doug Elrod wrote:   
   >> On Aug 22, 2:16 pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Hm. Well, I suppose there's some relation, although there've   
   >>>been brain-swap stories before 'Overdrawn at the Memory Bank' too. I   
   >>>think maybe an important point of the 'Overdrawn' gimmick is first that   
   >>>it's essentially a 'lost luggage' story -- guy goes on vacation (in the   
   >>>movie, a mandatory one, admittedly), loses something important, has to   
   >>>make do until getting it back.   
   >>   
   >> "The Prisoner" had at least one.   
      
   >As did the Avengers, and just about every Saturday morning cartoon in   
   >recorded history, predating the Flintstones.   
      
    One of the many things I was glad for back when Boomerang was   
   created and was very, very good was that finally I could prove the   
   existence of the cartoon where Yogi Bear gets his brain put into the   
   body of a chicken.   
      
    (I was also surprised to learn just recently that the classic   
   Star Trek slightly embarrassing episode 'Turnabout Intruder' derived   
   its title from Thorne Smith's novel, later movie, Turnabout, which I   
   really should have been able to figure out in the decades I'd had to   
   think about it.)   
      
      
   >> I wonder what the most unlikely TV   
   >> series to have one would be. Punky Brewster never had one, did   
   >> it? ;-)   
      
   >I assume that winky is because they *did*--   
   >Unless you've managed to forget the "Punky forgets to take care of her   
   >dog" episode...   
   >(Don't ask me how I know that, it was just more research for what was   
   >going on with the Shout Factory thread, honestly)   
      
    I must admit that I've managed to forget every Punky Brewster   
   episode, live and cartoon, except for the one where that old guy she   
   was always hanging out finally for the first time in decades *didn't*   
   buy season tickets for the Cubs, only it was 1984 and the Cubs were in   
   the postseason, but fortunately Punky was darned cute enough that she   
   got him into the dugout anyway.   
      
      
   >Derek Janssen (hey, it was the 80's, and brain-swap was coin of the realm)   
   >ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
    We did need some way for the public to finally understand what   
   it was like to be Judge Reinhold.   
      
   --   
    Joseph Nebus   
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