Chestnuts roasted by BaronKrusha @ 10/17/2003 11:40 PM
Second post!
What store was selling the VCR and the stereo?
Chestnuts roasted by sillygolem @ 10/18/2003 12:45 PM
The thought of Skeletor playing Simon with boys of Snake mountain makes me want to cackle. Good times.
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/18/2003 12:58 PM
The first one is from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Useless trivia: the original poster for that film was a parody of the poster for The Breakfast Club. I love that fact. There’s some great moments in that movie. The guy getting the top half of his head chopped off, the shock of leatherface jumping out of the record storage room, the whole chop-top Vietnman Vet character who’s totally bat-shit nuts with flashbacks, the chainsaw swordfight, that the heroine has the ugliest name in the history of horror movie heroines (Stretch), when Stretch has to wear the bloodied face mask–eh, that’s enough of the movie I ruined. Really weird piece of cinema. I hope someday to see the director’s cut with the scene of Monstervision’s Joe Bob Briggs getting killed with a couple hookers.
What else do I have to say? All hail Serpentor!
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/18/2003 1:01 AM
Yeah, TCM2 is already coded out into an article, half-written, but then I decided that I wasn’t sure what I thought of the movie. Time has sweetened the memory a bit, but I hated it when I saw it. (not hated, you know, but thought it was a bad movie) Now I think it’s a pretty decent (and really twisted) horror/slasher flick, but one that would’ve been best served as its own unique deal and not a TCM sequel. The lore of Leatherface and pals was not important to that movie. Oh, and Chop Top rocked. DJ Stretch waddn’t too bad either.
Enjoy the pics and vids, guys.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/18/2003 1:10 AM
Watermarks? Aww, are people stealing the pictures? Lamers… at least you chose a cool font for the things, Matt. I think I acually have that font on my computer. "Uptown", is it? Kornucopia would have been nicer, ‘cuz then people would have been all like "Dude! This guy’s ‘R’s are all backwards! He must be one crazy mutha! Lets not steal from him ever! Lets just go back to being plain old lamers!". Yeah. But the one there is good enough.
Uhm. Woo. Pictures. Videos. Apparently random letters. Article soon to come. What more can be said?
Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 10/18/2003 1:44 AM
so soft ponies and kid sister.
And some common things with different names like furit corners and slice. Now they are betty crocker’s and serria mist.
Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/18/2003 2:01 AM
My older brother totally terrified his daughter with a Glo-Worm. When she was a baby he’d sqeeze it, so it lit up then put it in her face and yell. I’d bet that to this day if you put a Glo-Worm in her face she’d run in terror, and she’s 10.
Chestnuts roasted by candybar @ 10/18/2003 2:20 AM
Oh my god a Hostess Pudding Pie. …do they still MAKE those? I’ve seen the fruit pies all over the friggen place, but I don’t recall having seen the pudding pies anywhere…
Just trying to see how bodacious I am but…didn’t those fireworks come after cartoons during "Channel 9′s" afternoon cavalcade of shitty cartoons (Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff, etc.?), and weren’t those My Little Ponies kind of Hasbro/Pony/MossMan hybrids?, and weren’t Fruit Wheats just Shredded Wheat with Fruit Roll-Up shit in the middle…for breakfast?, and didn’t you have to squeeze those Glo-Worms’ bellies with vice grips just to make their ugly mugs light up?, and I think I still have three of those AAA battery rings you had to cram into the Thundercats backs but only two compatable action figures (howdizat happen?), and howcome McNuggets don’t have personalized characteristics no-mo?, and if My Buddy is Chuckie would Kid Sister be Courtney Love?, and finally, the only reason to drive ten hours to the Mall of America is to experience the thrill of the General Mills History of Cereal Adventure…featuring a cereal bar and big screen TV running a loop of cereal commercials dating back fifty or so years (including a black and white Trix rabbit)? Yes or no?
Chestnuts roasted by BrianKelly @ 10/18/2003 3:02 AM
surround sound my ass!
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 10/18/2003 3:15 AM
Holy Picture # 3 Batman, I haven’t thought of that (fire safety?) woman with the knitting needle through her hair (or head if it’s more Halloweeny — muwahahaha) forever. She was a staple of my Saturday morning cartoons, and probably the beginning of all my neuroses. ‘Cause really, how can you be forced to contemplate the possibility of your fiery death every Saturday morning and not get a little neurotic?
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/18/2003 5:59 AM
A McNugget dressed as Mrs. Steve is grimacing at me, now even when I close my eyes.
My cousin got that football kicking fellow for his birthday one year. It broke in about 20 minutes. The best part is that we have the whole thing on tape.
Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 10/18/2003 9:50 AM
You should make a documentary about the terrible physical toll that football takes on a man. I’d pay good money to watch an action figure give an emotional interview, especially if he speaks in the third person.
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/18/2003 11:15 AM
I’ve been permanently scarred by that Simon commercial. Thanks a lot, Matt.
Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 10/18/2003 12:54 PM
"We’re talking boring on the level of that cartoon about gnomes starring the voice of Tom Bosley — a show so boring you’ve never even heard of it."
Hmm, you wouldn’t happen to be referencing that old show, David of the Gnomes. I think that was the name, or something close to that. Well, it DID have gnomes, and was pretty boring. I still kinda liked it. I was a weird kid.
Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 10/18/2003 1:30 PM
I always thought those Transformer commercials where the kid transformed into a Transformer were pretty freaky. Now that I see it again after all these years–still pretty freaky. I need to use the word "transform" a few more times before this can be complete. I saw the bird fly onto the transformer and was transformed into fried chicken which was consumed by me and transformed in my stomach into feces which transformed the earth into fertilizer and transformed into a tree, part of which transformed into a bird’s nest. Now you see, Simbah, how the circle is complete.
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/18/2003 8:06 PM
Thundercats of the Damned?
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/18/2003 9:07 PM
Oh, geez, this is one of those nights when I feel old. Old? Ancient. I think one of my sisters might have had the pink fuzzy My Little Pony. (I also had a fuzzy My Little Pony, but she was white with orange-red hair instead of pink.) My youngest sister had her Glo-Worm for years and refused to sleep without him as a small child.
It’s scary to remember VCRs cost that much just a little over a decade ago. I paid $40 for my current one five years ago. I think my stepfather paid $200 or more for our first one. It was this silver-trimmed monstrosity we had for years.
I remember that "See America" license plate contest well. My siblings and I fought over and traded plates. One of my sisters got Kentucky, because it had a horse on it and she adored horses. I think I still have the Florida plate.
We only had two Thundercats toys, and they were both mine – Lion-O and some bird-faced villian. The ring that made Lion-O’s eyes light up outlasted the gimmick. I forget how Lion-O stopped looking like he was possessed – he was broken, or ran out of batteries, or something.
Yes, I believe the fireworks were on Channel 9. One of the things I loved about living in this part of New Jersey as a kid is we got independant stations from New York and Philidelphia, instead of stations from just one city or the other. (All our major networks were Philly, though.) I think the fireworks were used as segways for not only the cartoons, but their entire afternoon’s programming.
I remember the food well, too – that Twix commercial, those fruit bars (I probably still have some stuck between my teeth), the Hostess Pudding Pies (I regret never trying one as a kid, as I haven’t seen them in years). I think I might have that Snickers bar commercial on one of my tapes of "Perfect Strangers" episodes.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/18/2003 9:59 PM
OK, Matt. That Simon commercial was simply uncalled for. Thanks to you, for the next week or so, whenever I use the word "do," I’m gonna be saying it "do-dadoo." And as a result, all my friends will hate me. Well, hopefully I won’t do-dadoo it…shit…
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/18/2003 10:35 PM
Watching that Simon commercial makes me glad I didn’t have to live through it when I was a kid. The Simon commercial I know and love was much more… I don’t know, but it was less painful to the senses. Ahh, it’s good to be young…
Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 10/18/2003 11:59 PM
Ok, someone has to be able to find out who that godawful Simon band is.
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 10/19/2003 1:52 AM
"David the Gnome"! Oh man, I used to watch that too! I guess it was boring, but I still watched it and liked it, too. Oh, and I think it was on around the same time as "Maya the Bee" which was also probably pretty dumb. But I liked it. Mostly because the name is pronounced the same as my sister Mia’s name…
The evocative opening theme is echoing in my brain right NOW… Maaaaaya, Maya the bee… ::clutches head in agony::
Chestnuts roasted by Amanda Swiftgold @ 10/19/2003 2:09 AM
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