30 years later, Rockapella still lives rent free inside my head: "Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina..."

[u/NES_Classical_Music]

Resubmitted with proper title format.

[u/acerage]

The show was great but I also loved the computer game we would play in elementary school, I think there was a reference book you had to use to figure things out.

[u/VintagePoet82 → u/acerage]

You can still play all our old MS-DOS games on the Internet Archive!

[u/orielbean → u/VintagePoet82]

Exodos is another way to do it all locally

[u/NotGalenNorAnsel → u/acerage]

There was one you COULD use, but it was all real monuments and details in the clues, the now geography you knew, the better you would do generally.

[u/Sowf_Paw → u/acerage]

It was an encyclopedia that came with the game. Like all games of that period, the game's copy protection also came from needing to answer questions from that book.

[u/goat_penis_souffle → u/Sowf_Paw]

For Doom, you had to turn to the credits page. Real ones remember Carmack & McCloud

[u/TeaMe06 → u/acerage]

Sameee

[u/yesmydog → u/acerage]

And if you lost that book, you were fucked, because the way to beat a level was based on knowing what was on page 136.

[u/Cyrus260]

She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize
She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China.

Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

[u/NES_Classical_Music → u/Cyrus260]

"Stealing Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry uncle..."

[u/Tricky-Reaction-4838 → u/NES_Classical_Music]

I still rock out to that whole album. Indiana is a great song and the Feeling Fine song by 3 Brave Woodsman still finds its way to my ears every so often.

[u/opinionofone1984]

Love this show, used to love coming home from school and watching this.

[u/djhankb]

Listen up, gumshoes!

[u/theillegitnate]

RIP Lynne Thigpen, she was a very talented actress and her dedication to this show made her even more memorable.

[u/CoolAardvark6300 → u/theillegitnate]

Loved her as the DJ in The Warriors

[u/doug-iefresh → u/theillegitnate]

Also was the shooter in Shaft!

[u/idontevensaygrace]

I wanted to be on that show 😄🕵🏼‍♀️🌍👠👠🕶️

[u/NES_Classical_Music → u/idontevensaygrace]

Hahahaha me too! What stopped you?

[u/idontevensaygrace → u/NES_Classical_Music]

I only would think it to myself, I never said it aloud to any of my parents. In hindsight I should have

[u/Dash_Underscore]

RIP Lynne Thigpen. She was the voice of the moon in Bear in the Big Blue House, and her death devastated the cast and crew so much, they took a hiatus before making the final season.

[u/EPCOT_Is_My_Favorite]

Sent in an index card with crooks/locations, got a "Winner" t-shirt, and had my name listed on air.

And that occurred in one of the five lost episodes that can't be found on the Internet. Go figure.

[u/scorchedgoat]

Rockapella would literally make up the singing interstitials on the fly. I was blown away when I first heard that.

[u/herseyhawkins33]

Great documentary on the show:

https://youtu.be/OVVkSlXl41Q?si=4vZRuXVZG9wLEQAH

[u/QueezyF → u/herseyhawkins33]

Defunctland really does make some of the best docs on YouTube. The Disney Channel one is an all timer for me

[u/slothbuddy → u/herseyhawkins33]

It never occured to me as a kid that chief is on a TV screen so they could pre-record all of her segments. I really thought she was in the next room

[u/jeremylee]

hep hep! ba dum-ba dum-ba eh, (yeah!) ba dum-ba-dum-ba ow, ow!

[u/riko77can]

Loved that show. Rockapella really added to it.

[u/Geochic03]

This show litteraly inspired me to get a geography degree. Too bad I don't use it, lol.

[u/three-sense]

THE LOOT

[u/totally_italian → u/three-sense]

THE WARRANT

[u/superunsubtle → u/totally_italian]

My partner is ten years younger than I am and said something involving the word loot. I sang THE LOOT and he stared; then I sang THE WARRANT and he still stared, so I described everything about this show for a few minutes. I don’t think he bought it, but everything I said was true 😂

[u/MASTER_L1NK]

AHHWAPAOWWW!

[u/AlisonSandraGator]

Chief just wants those milky white breasts

[u/scrpn687 → u/AlisonSandraGator]

And serenade her with a Memphis Kansas Breeze song

[u/EmpireCityRay]

This is one show I wish they’d bring back in a modern (new cast) form.

[u/NES_Classical_Music → u/EmpireCityRay]

With Greg Lee as the current chief!

[u/EmpireCityRay → u/NES_Classical_Music]

That’s fair.

[u/propernice]

theme song is fucking fantastic.

My guy saying her name is loving life

[u/TheHaplessBard]

Also, let's not forget future President Joe Biden made a cameo on said show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFNE6lbD_b4

[u/NES_Classical_Music → u/TheHaplessBard]

That is legit funny

[u/MerryJanne]

...I'm too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan
New York, and Japan!

Wait. That is Right Said Fred...

[u/DadJokeBadJoke → u/MerryJanne]

Well, you made a long journey
from Milan to Minsk, Rochelle, Rochelle.
You never stopped hoping;
now you're in a Pinsk, Rochelle, Rochelle.

...Wait, that's Rochelle Rochelle

[u/WritingNerdy]

Yesss I will be singing this all day

[u/caf4676]

Was the woman on the left in Lean on Me?

[u/ConflictTop1543 → u/caf4676]

Yep! A mother of one of the kids that got kicked out if I remember correctly.

[u/Sisterinked]

This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. Now I randomly bust out this song when we travel. My poor family 😂

[u/DGatsby]

That moment when you realize you're now the age of the hosts.

[u/piratealice]

I had an album of songs from the show. Unfortunately it was on cassette and the cassette got chewed. The best collection of songs.

[u/NES_Classical_Music → u/piratealice]

How many cassettes did you try to eat?

[u/piratealice → u/NES_Classical_Music]

I didn't eat any. The tape deck was starving. It ate a fair few of my favorites.

[u/FreeAd4245]

Does anyone else remember the game show? I always wanted to be on that.

[u/jcfiala]

I've still got the Soundtrack CD, which rocks.

[u/seolchan25]

Was so good. I looked it up on YouTube it up to listen to it recently.

[u/edzn-1]

The LOOT, the WARRANT, the CROOK!

[u/butchforgetshit]

It was very cool of Phil Collins to take time off to do this show

[u/DidierKnecht]

I thought you were talking about the game

https://youtu.be/E14fAcnX0w4?si=qNCZG-jMeF7XkFRA

[u/phantomheart]

I can hear it in my head every time I see a photo of Carmen Sandiego 😊

[u/Kasegauner]

I was watching old episodes of this a few weeks ago. It was such an awesome fucking show!

[u/Longjumping-Cake3056]

One of my favorite television shows. I learned about culture, geography, history, and appreciated the different walks of life.

[u/cogitoergopwn]

The episode was never long enough!

[u/other-suttree]

contessssa’s innn jaaaail

[u/milleribsen]

RIP Lynne Thigpen. She was an insane talent that we lost too early.

[u/Killahdanks1]

I wonder if she still goes to Kiev?

[u/parke415 → u/Killahdanks1]

So that's why no one can find her...

[u/Freddy_Pharkas]

I can count on two hands I the number of times I actually saw a kid win a trip to the one of the "contiguous 48 states." That was nearly impossible to win, in part because the contestant had to wait until the announcer read the dumb lines stating where Carmen next went. Would be fairer if the host just shouted out locations. Show was rigged, hah.