TV Land stylized as TVland (originally Nick at Nite's TV Land) is an American cable television network launched on April 29, 1996. It is owned by MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures, and networks such as MTV and Nickelodeon. Originally consisting exclusively of classic television shows, the network now airs a combination of classic television shows, newer shows, originals and movies.
Building on the success and popularity of Nick at Nite, TV Land premiered on April 29, 1996, delivering classic situation comedies, dramas, variety shows and memorable TV programming 24 hours a day. The phrase "TV Land" was originally coined by The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show[citation needed] in the 1960s, in which Bullwinkle often introduced his "Bullwinkle's Corner" segments with the greeting, "Hello out there in TV Land!" Occasionally a soundbite of Bullwinkle's phrase is used in TV Land promotions.
In 1997, TV Land teamed up with TV Guide to rank the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
So life is different than what they show us on TV
Do dreams come true for everyone
Or just for Barbie and I've been waiting here so very patiently
Well it's been so long
It's been too long
I wonder what's wrong with me
I wanna know how to live the real world
I wanna know cause I'm a real live girl
I wanna live in TV land with Mr. T and the A-team
My problem they could solve before the end of the show
I wanna live in TV Land where they're so thin and pretty
They must be nice people cause they're on 90210 in TV land
I wish I looked like all the nice actors on TV
Sometimes you've got to choose between real and plastic surgery
Just like the people on the television screen
Barbie's not a role model
She's only make believe
I wanna know how to live the real world
I wanna know cause I'm a real live girl
I wanna live in TV land and be one of Charlie's angels
must be fun to fight crime and have new clothes for every show
I wanna live in TV land like Samantha or Dream of Jeannie
My problems I could solve by wrinkling my nose in TV land
I wanna know how to live the real world
I wanna know cause I'm a real live girl
I wanna live in TV land
We can change the world through the TV show
all kinds of people like we have in the real world
I wanna live in the TV land
Make it safe to be ordinary gonna do my own show
It's about us real live girls in TV land
In tv land, in tv land, in tv land
hey, hey, hey, hey
(Yo son, Willie Dynamite said 'He wanna hit you son')
Oh nah, he don't want it with me
Oh nah, shit, I'll bring the Earth, Wind & the Fire
When God made rap, he came to me
He said 'What you wanna do?'
This ain't Parker Lewis but you gon' lose
Cuz I can do karate in platform shoes
Hold your breath till your face turns blue
I'm like Dolemite mixed with Doctor Who
With a little bit of Sonny Chiba
I like to smoke cheeba and keep a fly bird
Then I tie my sneaker
You need to keep ya mouth zipped
If this was pre-school, I got the Cheese Nips
I seen Popeye get done in (Uh-huh)
Survival of the fittest, we will eat yo spinach
I think Olive Oyl tried to mix in
Her ass got broke cuz she was too thin
Did she have a chance? I don't think so
Call Pink Panther - Inspector Clouseau
Let's get 'em for info, see what he knows
And watch the face of grown Pinocchio
No'm'sain, so I ran up there, we hopped in the car
It was like six of us deep, we wasn't having it
I went straight to that nigga's club
Hell up in Harlem uptown Saturday night
Foxy Brown and Claudine had a fight
And even though it was awful
It got a little worse once they jumped Sparkle
Black Caesar fell out the wagon
But he can switch his hand like Into the Dragon
Superfly running shit like a gentleman
Cleopatra Jones smacked Lady Heroin
Bad Ass got mad cuz he lost his hat
That dude's a bad mutha - stop that!
Back flipped her, rocked her world
And then he went for Cornbread Earl
He choked him out, had him in a headlock
We was like 'What Judo does he got?'
You know my style is Bulletproof
Like Clark Kent when he slips out of the phone booth
Yo it was crazy dawg, yo chairs was thrown everywhere
Tables was flipping, I was like let's get the hell out of here
We had to bounce - we did the Hollywood Shuffle
I kissed my girl; she was like 'I love you'
Checking my body for scars
That's when me and my brother saw the Drug Czar
It was Willie Dynamite
He just left the fight
He was like 'It wasn't me, I was here all night'
Then he pulled out, and he shot my brother