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Together, we've made to another Friday. Who know what magic and intrigue await us for the upcoming week? Who? Ponder that, and look at a bunch of scratchy pictures. Have a nice weekend, but not so nice that it makes all future weekends appear sucky by comparison. Have a debatably awesome weekend. Here's the pics, from various ads of the 80s, 90s AND TODAY. Who?

Almost forgot -- someone e-mailed in asking if I'd swayed opinions on my previous "perfect pet," the Siamese Fighting Fish. Tough one. Well, the hermit crabs are certainly more fun to watch, but they also require more attention to keep alive. I dunno though, I'd go with the crabs. I've been sent some pics of readers' hermit crabs today, and god damn, some of them were the size of rats. Others weren't so rat-sized, but there's always hope 'cause the things never never ever stop growing. Yeah, I'd say crabs over fish, unless the fish is a sharky.






Here's some weekend reading material from the X-E archives: Within the Woods movie review, a tribute to Clowny Crayons, and oh yeah -- TMNT's Sewer Playset. Enjoy. Who?

Posted by Matt on 07/25/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 70 comments

Okay, moment of truth: If, y’know, his girlfriend, and Dorothy Zbornak, and Corey Haim (?) weren’t in the picture, who wouldn’t want to take Matts home to your mom?

Oh yeah, and never had the Sewer Playset but the Technodrome was all ‘dat, a bag o’ chips, AND a Dr. Pepper. With a 7/11 hotdog. Take THAT youze toitles!

Chestnuts roasted by Artemis @ 07/26/2003 1:51 AM

"Maybe for Molten you could have Teela, The Baroness, and Rainbow Bright."

Just for Molten? I wouldn’t exactly be complaining about that scene either. Though I’d replace Rainbow Bright with Jem.

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 07/26/2003 1:58 AM

Grah, those Nut n’ Honey Crunch commericals. It took me the full run of those things to actually get the joke (how long were they on, 6 or 7 years or something?), and then like a week after I actually got the joke, they stopped airing them.

I miss Little Ceasers way too much. Only pizza that even reselmbled it was the forzen President’s Choice stuff, and they don’t sell that here anymore either. I hope whoever runs the pizza cartel around here gets run over by a giant pepperoni. Jackasses >:

Chestnuts roasted by Lim @ 07/26/2003 2:15 AM

Footloose, Footloose (kick off your Sunday shoes.) Was no one else but me into GIJoe back then?

Captain Planet did indeed suck. The very notion of replacing Bugs Bunny or Kissyfur or Dungeons&Dragons on the Sat. morning lineup with some piece of tripe about the environment is blasphemy. Maybe that’s why King Kong or whoever that is, is spooge-ing all over him

Chestnuts roasted by Krappy Kat @ 07/26/2003 2:21 AM

aedghsg – True.

I think it’s time we all pitch in and buy Matt a bigger pad.

Hey, my brother used to have that Hulk. Ahhhh, good memories.

Chestnuts roasted by Melanie @ 07/26/2003 3:05 AM


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Chestnuts roasted by 12345 @ 07/26/2003 3:07 AM

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Chestnuts roasted by 12345 @ 07/26/2003 3:07 AM

that heman pic is freaky. shouldnt heman have long hair like me though?

krappy kat: capt planet really did suck. especially the kid with "heart" he was crap

Chestnuts roasted by little james @ 07/26/2003 7:07 AM

I’d figured the kid in 22 forgot his lines…but I like JC’s theory better.

Chestnuts roasted by Captain Cid @ 07/26/2003 11:34 AM

Haha, I remember the Simpsons Ad and Captain Planet. Terrible show, that was.

Is there any chance we’ll be able to download the SMB2 commercial?

Chestnuts roasted by BaronKrusha @ 07/26/2003 2:40 PM

Thanks for suggesting some weekend reading Matt, but I’ve read them already. What was your first article for X-E? I’d really like to dig super deep and find super old stuff =)

Chestnuts roasted by jjgoreha @ 07/26/2003 3:16 PM

AAH! JELLYBEAN BUNNY! I remember those things! My brother had the bunny, and I had Peppermint Kitty! They smelled like real jellybeans and peppermint! :q Mm…

Chestnuts roasted by Xanthe @ 07/26/2003 3:41 PM

OMFG, I just found a Jesus Christ pog in my closet…… Is this a sign from God, ording me to purchase Testamints?! Which are, BTW, sacriliciously good! (And thus we laugh like maniacal people from Heaven! XD)

Chestnuts roasted by Dio @ 07/26/2003 6:52 PM

I think what may have annoyed me most about Captain Planet was the sheer stupidity of the kids on the show. They shouldn’t have needed Captain Planet anyway, since as far as I could tell he couldn’t actually do anything they couldn’t do on their own.

They each had a ring that allowed them to control the four elements, plus the one kid who’s ring allowed him to talk to animals. And that isn’t enough?? "Ohh, bad guys are cutting burning down the rain forest…oops, the earth swallowed up the bad guys, water from the river doused the flames, and when the last few tried to get away in a helicopter a tornado knocked it out of the sky. And then monkeys ate them."

See? It’s the reverse of the Voltron syndrome, where the idiots tried to fight the Robeast with the individual lions, only to transform into Voltron and defeat the stupid thing in 3 seconds. In this case they didn’t NEED Captain Moron, but they called him anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 07/26/2003 6:55 PM

BTW, Matt, do u know where i can locate a list of roles Michael Bell has done? Ever since the early days of GI Joe, and the recent Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver games, I have been a fan of this man’s work. Bell fscking r0x0rs.

Chestnuts roasted by Dio @ 07/26/2003 6:57 PM

Matt’s first article (under #3, for some reason) was, not suprisingly, about cereal.

Cap Planet is a total faggy dork. The plots were so freakin’ preachy. That & Pup named Scooby were like Hanna & Barbarra’s public service announcements. That heart kid was totally screwed. Of COURSE the Brazillian gets heart, they’re always last when the cool shit gets handed out. We Americans got the bitchin’ FIRE! The one that works EVERYWHERE! Because We’re the BEST! By the way, did anyone else notice there were no Limeys or Aussies on the shoW? Yet the Goddes Naiu (whatever) thinks America, leader in pollution and natural resource consumption would save the world. Dumbass. Good thing she didn’t choose Bush to save us all.

Not as good as the one with Screech or that scary Twizzler’s kid.

Little Ceaser’s is still around. I saw one when I went to Vegas at the Luxor Food court. It’s where we ate breakfast.

Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 07/26/2003 10:44 PM

Nice to see that you’re a fan of New Order, Matt… Or at least had (the best of) album booklet lying arround to scan for a neeto-keeno little blog graphic.

Chestnuts roasted by Kou Hotaru @ 07/27/2003 12:05 PM

Dio:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bell,%20Michael%20(I)

Chestnuts roasted by Patrick N @ 07/27/2003 5:26 AM

"See? It’s the reverse of the Voltron syndrome, where the idiots tried to fight the Robeast with the individual lions, only to transform into Voltron and defeat the stupid thing in 3 seconds. In this case they didn’t NEED Captain Moron, but they called him anyway."

Samurai Pizza Cats anyone? That show ALWAYS ended with wossname doing the katana trick. Of course, SPC could kind of get away with it for being so ludicrous in the first place. And for having a character in the show called Al Dente, which may very well be the coolest name ever.

Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 07/27/2003 12:12 PM

i remember samurai pizza cats, i never really got into it, i found it a bit dull, but iremember the theme song:

samurai pizza caaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaatss!

Chestnuts roasted by little James @ 07/27/2003 1:56 PM

To take a different stab at the Captain Planet nonsense:

Not 20 feet from where I sit are five Captain Planet Environmental testing kits.

My parents purchased them some years ago, and use one every once in a while in my dads Kindergarten class. Mostly, because they were a cheep source of litmus paper.

So while the show was horrible beyond compare, his products still live on in my basement.

-Blayne

Chestnuts roasted by ernie@bungie.org @ 07/27/2003 2:18 PM

Captain Planet, he’s MY hero!

Chestnuts roasted by Bettie-Boo @ 07/27/2003 2:49 PM

POGS!!!!!!!

7-11!!!!!!!!!

….POGS!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Dumass @ 07/27/2003 3:31 PM

Yeah. Matt needs to do something on pogs so I can pull out my pogs and giggle insanely.

Chestnuts roasted by Melanie @ 07/27/2003 6:46 PM

Hmm… for a minute there, I thought the Simpsons screencap was from the commercial for Vizir-brand detergent from France wherein Bart is shown completely nude, and I do mean "completely". You see his little yellow… *ahem*… "Butterfinger", by which I mean one of those very small "fun-sized" Butterfingers you get at Hallowe’en.

And, no, that commercial is not an urban legend… Matt Groening himself showed it to us last year at a live Simpsons script reading at the Just for Laughs comedy festival here in Montreal. "It" is only on the screen for a second, but enough time for your brain to register that you are indeed not seeing things.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 07/27/2003 8:04 PM

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