There have been a lot of shows in my life I made special time for. Throughout high school Friday nights were for The X-Files, and Wednesdays for Sliders. More recently Wednesday became Enterprise night, before that moved to Friday. And so help you if you wanted to do anything that conflicted with The Sarah Connor Chronicles. At the moment, most of my appointments are concentrated onto Thursdays, and lets just say I won’t be doing anything on Friday nights for a while.

Ever since the first day of Pascal in 9th grade, I knew I wanted to program computers, and now I do, and it’s awesome! But before that I had a few other ideas for what to do with my life.

I flew out to California for Comikaze expo late Wednesday, so I didn’t get to put as much thought into this weeks picks as I normally would. Being a single adult with no girlfriend, no kids, and lots of disposable income, I tend to waste a good bit of money on dumb stuff. Be it hundred of dollars of quarter priced comics, or just stuff I’ll never really use. Looks like one thing we all agree on is VIP passes are almost never worth it. And college, be it fancy name brand school or something you saw on the TV, there’s probably a better, cheaper way to go to learn what you need.

There once was a time, mostly back in the 80’s and early 90’s, where a TV show had to have a catchy theme that explained what you were about to watch that played under the opening credits, like the Gilligan’s Island theme. And these opening themes were sometimes very long, the various Star Trek themes were upwards of two minutes each! The average runtime of a half hour show (minus commercials) back then was close to 25 minutes. Nowadays, it’s barely 21 minutes, and rather than catchy songs, they go with descriptive show titles like The Mob Doctor or Animal Hospital that explain the premise. Theme songs have given way to just splashy title cards with a show’s title to make way for more commercials and more profit. The last TV show with a truly good theme was Friends, and that’s stretching it. I for one greatly miss them. I went for themes that to this day I can still belt out. Man, TGIF had a lot of awesome songs, I think the only thing I missed was Step By Step.

I’m going to pick shows that I actively woke up early on Saturdays to watch, and shows that were aired predominantly on Saturday mornings only, so that excludes a bunch of picks from my list like Ninja Turtles, Batman, Pokemon, Animaniacs, Eeek! the Cat and Tiny Toons, which all could have made it otherwise.

A lot of the media I love happens in cool tricked out locales, like spaceships, flying cities, or futuristic pleasure planets. But while some of my favorite stories take place in awesome settings, there are certainly some other ones I would stay far, far away from.

The Expendables 2 comes out today. It stars almost every action movie star of the 80’s, which is great if you like that sort of thing. One problem. I don’t really like that sort of thing, so this is gonna be a very odd list.

To celebrate the successful landing of the Mars Rover Curiosity, for this weeks Friday Five, we discuss our favorite things that happened in space. We promise not to scream too loud about it. Besides, no one would hear us anyway in space.