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Here's a couple from my childhood.

 

Video Jukebox.  When my parents got us HBO around 1982 or so, that's all the cable we had at the time.  We didn't get the multi-channel package that included MTV until a couple years later.  So HBO's Video Jukebox was my first intro to music videos.

 

Also, HBO got me hooked on comedy as a kid.  The "On Location" series with Robin Williams, George Carlin, Buddy Hackett, Sam Kinison, and others.  And the Young Comedians Special, introducing us to people like Bob Saget, Bill Hicks, Andrew Dice Clay, and Louie Anderson.

Going to someone’s house with HBO or Cable even was always looked forward to as a kid. (I did go to grannies in town a lot for cable access) We lived in the country and had an antenna until I was 15 when my dad finally got direct TV. We weren't poor, my dad just saw no point in getting one of those huge dishes. Then I finally talked him into Direct TV.  

Jim Harbaugh’s cameo on Arliss

 

I don't know if it's my favorite, but the first couple seasons of Boardwalk Empire were good enough to merit a mention here.

Boardwalk is one of the few HBO shows I never watched at all. Worth it?

4 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

Boardwalk is one of the few HBO shows I never watched at all. Worth it?

For sure. I wouldn't rank it above Deadwood or The Sopranos, but it's a good series.

11 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

Going to someone’s house with HBO or Cable even was always looked forward to as a kid.

There was a stretch where it seemed like Die Hard was constantly playing, and my friends with HBO would get annoyed when I was over at their house and insisted on watching it. One of my friends that had it, it was hooked up to a TV in den, across the house from the parents bedroom.  When I was staying over for D&D or whatever, I'd ask to watch whatever late-night smut was one. 

He would tell me "Somebody could walk in on you watching that" and my response would be:

Tommy Lee Jones I Dont Care GIF

One time he said "yeah, but what if it was my mom?"

Not Bad Kind Of GIF by MOODMAN

20 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

Going to someone’s house with HBO or Cable even was always looked forward to as a kid. (I did go to grannies in town a lot for cable access) We lived in the country and had an antenna until I was 15 when my dad finally got direct TV. We weren't poor, my dad just saw no point in getting one of those huge dishes. Then I finally talked him into Direct TV.  

Same situation, but prior to satellite so no option but antenna. I house sat my boss's apartment for a week for free just to watch HBO and order food delivery.

As a kid, i remember the first family on my street getting HBO and i was like..

Wait? What? No commercials?

i literally couldn't fathom it.

On 11/13/2025 at 6:00 PM, Zepol87 said:

Boardwalk is one of the few HBO shows I never watched at all. Worth it?

I put in two viewings of the series.

Very good imo.

Band of Brothers

Flight Of the Conchords

Tenacious D shorts

 

 

I did like Boardwalk a lot.   I knew Chalky before I knew Omar...

It might also  change the way you view Steve Buscemi, with regard to his range.

I know most of us were too young to know but does anyone have a clue what HBO cost back then, say 1980ish?  

 

 

$10-15.  the same price as your basic cable subscription in many cases.

On 11/11/2025 at 4:25 PM, yoladu said:

no taxicab confessions?

 

fun fact Todd Phillips of Old School, the Hangover, the Joker fame was one of the featured taxicab drivers in Season 1.

So, he was there for the gang bang?

On 11/9/2025 at 1:00 PM, Underdog said:

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The Hitchhiker 

Taxicab Confessions

Real Sports

Not Necessarily the News

Kids in the Hall

 

 

 

Correct answer

Surprised nobody has mentioned the documentary Pimps Up, Ho’s Down. Y’all be slippin. 

Edited by HornPhD

No John from Cincinnati? Kai wants to bone!

On 11/13/2025 at 10:32 PM, atomheartbevo said:

There was a stretch where it seemed like Die Hard was constantly playing, and my friends with HBO would get annoyed when I was over at their house and insisted on watching it. One of my friends that had it, it was hooked up to a TV in den, across the house from the parents bedroom.  When I was staying over for D&D or whatever, I'd ask to watch whatever late-night smut was one. 

He would tell me "Somebody could walk in on you watching that" and my response would be:

Tommy Lee Jones I Dont Care GIF

One time he said "yeah, but what if it was my mom?"

Not Bad Kind Of GIF by MOODMAN

1994.  Ohio State sophomore "Parliament" has his first apartment.  A $660/month (Total.  For four of us.)  Spliced into our neighbor's cable, paud like $150 with a box with one of those illegal chips and bam.  ALL the channels free.  The Fugitive had just come on to HBO that month and I watched it literally 20 times.

 

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Remember when cable companies would have free HBO weekends and you would record all the free movies you could?

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