violachic

So some weeks back, when I was sitting on a hillside in the Southern part of the West Bank waiting to monitor the kids' escort to school, it hit me how fucked up everything was. Okay, I mean, not like it was the first time I had this little epiphany. But whatever. It entered my mind.

And as I was thinking this, the phrase "see you on the flip side!" kept running through my head. It seemed somehow indicative of the situation over there. Nothing like you think it is, from a distance. Everything seemed up-ended.

I couldn't figure out why I kept thinking that. It was obviously a catch-phrase of some sort that was floating around in the depths of my subconscious, but from where?

And then I started to have memories of watching TV at a friend's house in grade school (we weren't allowed to watch TV at home- raised by wolves, after all) and seeing some cartoon they used this catch-phrase in.

In this cartoon, I remember that it was live-action to begin with, then they went through this... this... thing... and ended up as cartoons. While they were going through the aforementioned "thing", someone would cry out "See you on the flip side!" Or maybe it was "catch you on the flip side". I'm not sure. But that's all I had to go on. I think I only saw it twice- I don't know if I was watching TV with this particular friend more than once, or if there were two episodes in a row on, or what.

But then it started to torment me. Because I had no idea where I'd gotten this tidbit from, and by golly, I was going to track it down. And nobody I asked seemed to know. I even made a point of asking people my age and older, rather than younger people. It was clear to me that I was probably seven or eight when I saw this, as the friend I remembered watching it with was in my second-grade class.

But nobody knew. Nobody.

I even got a few funny looks. But I'm used to those.

Finally, I had a breakthrough at

pam and

spot's Christmas party, when someone actually corroborated my story- at least the part where they remembered something like this existed.

It gave me hope. A little tiny spark of hope.

So I used that phrase to wrap up my last post, and got a couple interesting comments about it. None were accurate- or at least what I was looking for- so I decided to grow a brain.

I googled it.

And this is what I found.

*dances*

I got it!

This also explains why I periodically have a song called "Video Romeo" run through my head. That, too, has been there for years. I've never before put the two together.

Then it gets kinda weird.

According to trivia, "The show was promoted extensively in Israel, so much that the show's stars actually went on tour there as the Kidd Video band. The American show's only soundtrack album was also an Israeli exclusive release."

Oh yes, that lovely Divine Presence sure does have a sense of humor.

Put that in your hookah* and smoke it.

*...combination hookah and coffee maker, also makes Julienne fries! Will not break, will not br...

It broke.