last night, i had a dream i was trying to torrent an old live action nickelodeon sitcom called Uncle Toe. it looked to be from the early 1990s at latest. it was sort of like fresh prince but geared for lightly younger audiences and more "wacky pomo" aligned, like if fresh prince was icarly. the two main characters were referred to only as Uncle Toe and Father Toe, and Uncle Toe was the main character. you could tell who was the Uncle and the Father because Uncle Toe had the nickelodeon foot logo vertically printed on his shirt in green, and Father Toe had it upside down (also in green). anyway, in the process of torrenting Uncle Toe, i stumbled upon a one hour long broadcast recording of it...supposedly. when i played the recording, it was actually a loop of the first 5 seconds of the intro (and some of an episode), which got progressively more pixelated and red and black and distorted as the hour went on. by the end of the 1 hour loop of Uncle Toe intro it was just this horrible mess that looked like peep the horror. from the first few seconds of the episode i could glean that this one was about jumping into a Computer Portal. i kept trying to torrent Uncle Toe from other sources, but they were all just varying episodes that devolved into the pixelly mess. i looked on the internet about it and they all referred to it as simply "The Curse". noone knew what caused The Curse-- just that every single episode aired on a certain block at a certain time, including Uncle Toe, fell victim to the Curse. they only aired Uncle Toe during the Cursed times and there were no DVD rips of Uncle Toe. i woke up with a headache...and bereft of all Toe.
