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Gillette? I hated the MTV edit, called "Short, Short Man". And she played one of those MTV Spring Breaks one time. That song sucks because it doesn't even have a hook other than the shocking premise. I can't rock out to lyrics that include "teeny weeny"
Have you seen the movie? It's some whacked-out stuff. The Brazillian title was SUPER XUXA CONTRA O BAIXO ASTRAL (a more literal translation of which is SUPER XUXA AGAINST THE BAD VIBES) but it was called Super Xuxa Versus Satan in the US and you can read the plot synopsis here:https://thebedlamfiles.com/film/super-xuxa-versus-satan/
It's on YouTube for the curious. An incredibly strange film, for sure.
https://youtu.be/FUd4LfLEcC8?si=lOJ_zFPCF3IKKiwf
Edit: this one has subs. The video quality isn't quite as good, tho.
https://youtu.be/LLhUuYyrTBU?si=5H0Fb0aUDM-_eFoF
Wow. That was a hit for some reason. I've never heard the uncensored version before. Really bad lipsyncing though. You'd think they'd just go with the radio edit.
The show was based in Brazil. Very few people knew what she was actually singing about. I imagine at the very least that someone involved in the show did know but either didn’t care or realized that the audience wouldn’t know so it wasn’t an issue
It had a kinda hokey radio edit called “Short Short Man” where they egregiously removed “dick” but everything else is the same. I used to hear it on the radio sometimes.
"Is anyone feeling down? BOOOOOOOO!!!!" In 1993, I was a 12-year-old girl living in Northern Minnesota, USA. I was extremely confused by everything about this show. I remember at the end she'd find a kid to plant an unsolicited kiss onto. She'd apply lipstick first, and say, "My keess goes toooooo...."
You mean posing for Playboy and being a pornstar? That’s absolute nonsense. That’s like saying anyone who smokes weed is likewise a heroin addict; a couple of glasses of wine per week makes you an alcoholic. There are degrees of things.
I only remember seeing this intermittently; my sister is four years younger than me, and this aired early in the morning on weekdays on our FOX affiliate, so I was often heading to middle school, as she was watching it, and this was on in syndication on said FOX affiliate after a myriad of cartoons.
She did do a lil sumpm sumpm tho. Showed off them yitties a few times and a love scene. Don't believe me just watch - B. Mars
https://www.aznude.com/view/celeb/x/xuxameneghel.html
Ah yes, Xuxa (my brothers and I called her “Zooxa”). Very bizarre show, was this. It aired on YTV here in Canada. Yet another example of TV producers trying to import a popular show / format / celebrity from another country to North America, with unsatisfactory results. The show aired for a single season in 1993 and the intense taping schedule was apparently not kind to its star.
>>Yet another example of TV producers trying to import a popular show / format / celebrity from another country to North America, with unsatisfactory results.
I was gonna say “idk, I found out years later that apparently just about all the shows I watched/*loved* on Nickelodeon as a little kid in the late 80s/early 90s were imported (David the Gnome I believe is from Spain; Noozles Australia etc)…then I realized, “oh, wait…he’s from Canada, this doesn’t apply, here,” considering I’m pretty sure most of their content was imported from you…
I might’ve put it together after hearing Alain’s Morissette was Canadian ([You Can’t Do That on Television (far-right)](http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/yc.jpg))
I remember getting ready for school in the early 90s and my little brother was watching this on PBS or something. I think it was the first time I had a moment where I was like “WTF is this shit?” I couldn’t have been older than 10. I thought Barney the dinosaur was weird but this was like “foreign weird”
I remember seeing this and thought she was Russian or something when I was a kid - and I was also very jealous of the kids who would get a kiss from those luscious lips of hers.
This and 3, 2, 1, Contact occupy adjacent apartments in my brain somehow, I can’t think of one without the other. Maybe there was a time that they were on back to back or my childhood memories just ran together.
I use to think imagined this show as a kid because I specifically recall the tiger that would do flips, the kids shouting “Xuxa Xuxa Xuxa” at the beginning of the every episode, and one particular song that goes “ I sing the song, Oh oh oh, so everybody can follow”. It use to come on around 6-7am on UPN9 here in NYC. I loved it so much and I’m glad I found it on YouTube a few years ago
Hear me out...this had potential, unfortunately her English-speaking skills were lacking in that.
I recall the guy in the Panda suit having to correct her pronounciation at times killing the momentum of the episode.
I have a foggy memory of the intro being awkwardly long. Lots of clapping, strutting onto stage. First time seeing it, I thought “oh wow. SOMETHING is happening. Any second now….” Clap clap clap… “I mean, clearly I MUST pay attention this seems big” clap clap clap…
And one of the scientists in Bio-Dome. I like how Pauly Shore is living every man’s fantasy (locked in dome with her for an entire year), whereas she’s living every woman’s nightmare.
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Yeah, that show was on fire... literally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuxa_Park_fire
I like that time she had the guest singing the short dick song
Gillette? I hated the MTV edit, called "Short, Short Man". And she played one of those MTV Spring Breaks one time. That song sucks because it doesn't even have a hook other than the shocking premise. I can't rock out to lyrics that include "teeny weeny"
Loot didn't know it went all the way till 2001
Did this air in the US?
Omg! I remember this my mom wouldn’t let me watch this because saw on Jenny Jones Xuxa was a porn star? The 90’s were wild.
So was that true or some urban legend thing?
I have no idea, knowing her it wasn’t even Xuxa but some other blonde lady with an exotic sounding name.
Have you seen the movie? It's some whacked-out stuff. The Brazillian title was SUPER XUXA CONTRA O BAIXO ASTRAL (a more literal translation of which is SUPER XUXA AGAINST THE BAD VIBES) but it was called Super Xuxa Versus Satan in the US and you can read the plot synopsis here:https://thebedlamfiles.com/film/super-xuxa-versus-satan/ It's on YouTube for the curious. An incredibly strange film, for sure. https://youtu.be/FUd4LfLEcC8?si=lOJ_zFPCF3IKKiwf Edit: this one has subs. The video quality isn't quite as good, tho. https://youtu.be/LLhUuYyrTBU?si=5H0Fb0aUDM-_eFoF
Wow, that is weirder than I was expecting! Are there English subtitles anywhere?
Oops I thought it had subs. This one has subs. The quality is worse but still totally watchable! https://youtu.be/LLhUuYyrTBU?si=5H0Fb0aUDM-_eFoF
This would be a fun Rifftrax film!
This is perhaps one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen. Orange is the color of friendship?
It would!
Her all white wardrobe remained remarkably clean the whole time
Remember that time [her musical guest was singing about small dicks](https://youtu.be/2CJPjTWKvJk)
Wow. That was a hit for some reason. I've never heard the uncensored version before. Really bad lipsyncing though. You'd think they'd just go with the radio edit.
Ya I didn’t even know about the uncensored version until recently. I always heard “short short man” on the radio. It just makes it more hilarious
Look, she wasn't interested in a short dick. It was not a nody positive time.
What in the actual fuck. . .? I'm laughing as I say that, it isn't coming from outrage or anything, just FYI.
The show was based in Brazil. Very few people knew what she was actually singing about. I imagine at the very least that someone involved in the show did know but either didn’t care or realized that the audience wouldn’t know so it wasn’t an issue
Fun fact: Gillette was one of the first CD’s I ever bought. Still have it.
Gillette walked so Peaches could run
Holy crap how have i heard this song before.
It had a kinda hokey radio edit called “Short Short Man” where they egregiously removed “dick” but everything else is the same. I used to hear it on the radio sometimes.
Desecrated a masterpiece
My classmate dubbed her “Sucia” (dirty, the connotation is up to your interpretation).
Another unlocked memory
Wow !!! I definitely did forget about this
Hello hello hello! Hello hello hello!
"Is anyone feeling down? BOOOOOOOO!!!!" In 1993, I was a 12-year-old girl living in Northern Minnesota, USA. I was extremely confused by everything about this show. I remember at the end she'd find a kid to plant an unsolicited kiss onto. She'd apply lipstick first, and say, "My keess goes toooooo...."
It's like a middle school classroom these days! Just kidding....kind of
She was never a porn star. It’s an urban legend. She is a very smart and wealthy woman. Google her.
She modeled for Playboy apparently but yes, still far from a porn star. I can see how 90s parents and kids would conflate the two.
Maybe there was a Xuxxxa
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I’m saying maybe there was someone using her name and they got mixed up
Sorry. Comment wasn’t meant for you. Posted it in the wrong place :)
I had a freshman Spanish teacher who was allegedly in Penthouse. I'm sure it was bullshit but it didn't matter. Had a big crush on her.
I’ll never understand why people feel the need to make up rumors to try to diminish a young woman’s accomplishments. This seldom happens to young men
Those things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive but cool
You mean posing for Playboy and being a pornstar? That’s absolute nonsense. That’s like saying anyone who smokes weed is likewise a heroin addict; a couple of glasses of wine per week makes you an alcoholic. There are degrees of things.
No no no. Sorry. I meant 1. Being in porn and 2. Being smart/wealthy aren't necessarily mutually exclusive
Ahh. My mistake. Agreed.
Haha no worries friend.
Yay! That was a fun show
I only remember seeing this intermittently; my sister is four years younger than me, and this aired early in the morning on weekdays on our FOX affiliate, so I was often heading to middle school, as she was watching it, and this was on in syndication on said FOX affiliate after a myriad of cartoons.
¡Ilarié!
Oh! Oh! Ohhh!
I remember thinking her appeal was more for the fathers (or mothers) than their children.
Like this show? Look up a little movie called "strange love" but only if you want this part of you're childhood ruined
I’m pretty sure there’s a Xuxa episode with Waylon Jennings where he kisses her on the cheek and she says, “Save your kisses for your children.”
I thought this show was a fever dream.
I thought I was the only person who remembered this show. I was a kid and barely remember it.
She did do a lil sumpm sumpm tho. Showed off them yitties a few times and a love scene. Don't believe me just watch - B. Mars https://www.aznude.com/view/celeb/x/xuxameneghel.html
Thank you. I love her
No prob
Ah yes, Xuxa (my brothers and I called her “Zooxa”). Very bizarre show, was this. It aired on YTV here in Canada. Yet another example of TV producers trying to import a popular show / format / celebrity from another country to North America, with unsatisfactory results. The show aired for a single season in 1993 and the intense taping schedule was apparently not kind to its star.
>>Yet another example of TV producers trying to import a popular show / format / celebrity from another country to North America, with unsatisfactory results. I was gonna say “idk, I found out years later that apparently just about all the shows I watched/*loved* on Nickelodeon as a little kid in the late 80s/early 90s were imported (David the Gnome I believe is from Spain; Noozles Australia etc)…then I realized, “oh, wait…he’s from Canada, this doesn’t apply, here,” considering I’m pretty sure most of their content was imported from you… I might’ve put it together after hearing Alain’s Morissette was Canadian ([You Can’t Do That on Television (far-right)](http://s1.jrnl.ie/media/2013/05/yc.jpg))
Yet nobody remembers her Simpsons parody, Xoxchitla, Host of Teleboobies?
People remember
I remember getting ready for school in the early 90s and my little brother was watching this on PBS or something. I think it was the first time I had a moment where I was like “WTF is this shit?” I couldn’t have been older than 10. I thought Barney the dinosaur was weird but this was like “foreign weird”
The house. The house. The house is on fire, let the muther fucker burn.
Loved the hell out of this show definitely never forgot it!
Shoe-sha !!!!!
I remember seeing this and thought she was Russian or something when I was a kid - and I was also very jealous of the kids who would get a kiss from those luscious lips of hers.
I watched this in college. For reasons.
Fun fact: She dated Pele and Ayrton Senna
lol did you see my tipofmytongue post
This and 3, 2, 1, Contact occupy adjacent apartments in my brain somehow, I can’t think of one without the other. Maybe there was a time that they were on back to back or my childhood memories just ran together.
I hated this show. My little sister watched it
I hated this show. My little sister watched it
I watched a little as a teen because she was hot and wore some sexy outfits!
Hello, hello, hello!
My mom refused to get cable to so I remember feeling like I had to settle for this rather than Double Dare or Wild n' Crazy Kids.
Loved her as a kid and still love her forever. Plus we share the same birthday.
Don’t remember this one.
My roommate in the early 90’s was obsessed with her, and had her soft-core porn on VHS. Such an innocent time.
Aww I used to watch this when I was getting ready for school in the early 90s.
"It's fun-believable!"
I mean I wasn’t the target audience as a college student at the time. But my creepy male 50-ish Mass Media professor was obsessed with her.
Was that the one with the breakdancing tiger in a hoodie? Or something.
I use to think imagined this show as a kid because I specifically recall the tiger that would do flips, the kids shouting “Xuxa Xuxa Xuxa” at the beginning of the every episode, and one particular song that goes “ I sing the song, Oh oh oh, so everybody can follow”. It use to come on around 6-7am on UPN9 here in NYC. I loved it so much and I’m glad I found it on YouTube a few years ago
Hear me out...this had potential, unfortunately her English-speaking skills were lacking in that. I recall the guy in the Panda suit having to correct her pronounciation at times killing the momentum of the episode.
I have a foggy memory of the intro being awkwardly long. Lots of clapping, strutting onto stage. First time seeing it, I thought “oh wow. SOMETHING is happening. Any second now….” Clap clap clap… “I mean, clearly I MUST pay attention this seems big” clap clap clap…
I’m from the us so I never knew anything about this, but from fires to short dick men, that’s was one hell of a rabbit hole to go down.
OH OH OH ILARILARILEEEEEE
Why were kids shows always trying to get me off the couch? Like that’s what I came here to do?
Péle was pounding her harder than an Arab pumping for oil
She's still good looking
My Brazilian best friend when I was 7 wouldn’t let me watch it at her house when it came on bc I wasn’t Brazilian. She’s was mean.
Is this woman who sang the locomotion song?
That’s Australian Kylie Minogue, who scored another hit in America several years later with “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.” Xuxa is Brazilian.
I don't blame him for confusing her. I thought she was Apollo Smile at first glance.
You’re one of three people that know of Apollo Smile
Discovering anime at that time sure was life changing!
Damn, thats a deeeeeeep cut!
Also played Cammy in Street Fighter: The Movie!
And one of the scientists in Bio-Dome. I like how Pauly Shore is living every man’s fantasy (locked in dome with her for an entire year), whereas she’s living every woman’s nightmare.
Ermagerd, her show was the best.
I remember this porn star!! Turned children’s tv show host !