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New on the Countdown: Little Drac, GB Cereal, Spider Rings & More!

Whoa oh oh, hey hey hey. The Countdown's back up to date with four new entries; a good mix of old and new crap. On the new side, we've got Mummy candies and plastic spider rings. Okay, so the rings are technically old, but I just bought 'em, so there. On the old side, check out this glow-in-the-dark box of Ghostbusters Cereal, and a look back at the mostly unpopular but still happily monstrous Little Dracula toys. The latter two entries both include commercial downloads, hooray. Time for me to get mah groooove on with the next movie review, so I gotta get going.

Posted by Matt on 10/27/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 43 comments

First post yay! Matt those downloads were great! You rock :)

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/27/2003 3:29 AM

We bought a shitload of bat and skull rings to give out in the treat bags this year (I’m sure they’ll make some little girl dressed up as Princess Barbie very happy), but not spider rings. We even got a bat-ring on a Hallowe’en cake that I bought. Still no spider ring. In fact, I’ve never seen a Hallowe’en spider ring. So I guess my Hallowe’en has been stapleless all these years. Woe to the dearth of staples that plagues me. . .

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/27/2003 9:45 AM

Make out with me. Seriously. . . right now.

Chestnuts roasted by megan @ 10/27/2003 10:15 AM

I am personally more frightened by the Growing Pains ad at the top of this entry. That could be a new horror monster–the ghost of careers gone by; "I’m Kirk Cameron…OOOhhhh!…I used to be a heart throb…Now I linger in quasi-religious crappy movies…beware…".

Anyhoo…

Molten, it is so sad that you have never partaken (partook?) of Spider Rings. If you have a local WalMart, you shoul dbe able to buy a bag of 100000000 (no exageration) for about $3. Canadian (I pay attention).

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 10/27/2003 10:15 AM

Speaking of rings, how many of you remember those power ranger rings? You know, the ones you could punch people with? Yeah, THOSE power ranger rings.

Still, I never really got my hands on some halloween toys while trick or treating. Most of the time, the best I got was candy, or maybe a couple of dollars in the Unicef box. Still, no toys.

Chestnuts roasted by Cliff Turkish @ 10/27/2003 11:50 AM

Did you ever get toothpaste or a toothbrush? I got those a few times. I also got a few baggies full of pennies. I always hated those people.

Chestnuts roasted by megan @ 10/27/2003 12:00 PM

heheheh pennies?? seriously? thats hilarious (pobably wasnt to you at the time but you know…)

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 10/27/2003 12:03 PM

I seem to have mislaid my alien mummy. This sarcophagus should contain the remains of Emperor Nimballa, who ruled Zubin 5 over 29 million years ago.

Hey Professor, great jerky!

My God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 10/27/2003 12:11 PM

Stupid optic mouse.

I saw a girl credited with being on growing pains on "I love the 80′s Strikes Back" and she looked pretty hot. Was that the fat nerd girl, or did they have a baby at the end of the run? I watched the show, but I don’t remember.

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 10/27/2003 12:16 PM

Little Dracula…Oh…My…Gawd. You had to bring that back from the dead, didn’t you, Matt? Way back in the days of ’91(I think), that lil’ show and Darkwing Duck were premiering around the same time. I was opting to oust my bro by saying DW would premiere first, seeing as how he is indeed way cooler. I was wrong. Cue corny blood-thirst music. I like Darkwing Duck. I’m dressing up as a Necromancer for 31. The End.

Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/27/2003 12:44 PM

Im dressing up as richard simmons, all i gotta do now is find and oversized wife beater with rhinestones and some canola oil. Oh yea and some of carrot tops pubes.

Chestnuts roasted by shoesalesman @ 10/27/2003 1:02 PM

A bag of pennies, you say? I do believe I can top that :) My brother and I were the only kids living on my street when we were lil…everyone else seemed to be 80+. Maybe one or two houses would keep their lights on, but the rest would hide out inside so they wouldn’t miss Pat Sajak and have to deal with any "damn kids". Anyway, one year this old lady answered the door looking absolutely terrified. She said she had forgotten what day it was, and after waiting like 5 full minutes (of potential candy gettin’ time) she smiled and dropped a gourd into my bag :)

Chestnuts roasted by Applesauce @ 10/27/2003 2:04 PM

Klats, that was Tracey Gold, the sister from Growing Pains. I forget her name, but I know she struggled with bulimia and anorexia during the shows run (she was "away at school" or something for a while). Anyway, Kirk Cameron in quasi-religious movies? Like what? I know Buddy (what was his name Willy Ames or something?) from Charles in Charge is now Bibleman, and that’s just scary, considering how he was all about the getting laid (but never did).

Chestnuts roasted by Nemesis @ 10/27/2003 2:54 PM

I hated the toothbrush people. They were worthy of egging. Which I never did. But one can always fantasize.

Luckilly, the house next to the toothbrushers gave out King Size candy bars. That’s like the motherlode right there.

Chestnuts roasted by Tony @ 10/27/2003 3:24 PM

Nemsis,

Kirk Cameron got all weird and religious toward the end of the show. Then he started doing the "Left Behind" series which is a series of books made into movies about the end of the world or something like that (hence, the quasi-religious label). If you look him up on imdb.com, his career looks very…strange.

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/27/2003 3:33 PM

Yeah, Tracy Gold. God, those Gold kids couldn’t act to save their lives: she’s actually doing things related to pool-safety awareness because one of her children almost drowned in an ungated pool, or something, and only survived because she (or her husband, whose father murdered his mother, by the way) managed to resuscitate the kid before the ambulance got there. And the fact that all of that shit was floating around in my head disgusts me as much as it disgusts you. Kill me now. (But make me make my gym subscribe to something other than stupid entertainment mags before you do). Or make me your Trivial Pursuit partner.

Kirk Cameron, former teen-heartthrob stars in those "Left Behind" movies based on the book series. I know that one because I was raised as an evangelical fundamentalist (don’t worry, I got over it and am now wallowing in scrumptious, delightful sin as a radical atheist) and we had to watch the early non-Kirk-Cameron movies which featured the evil heathens guillotining all of the non-saved-people after Christ took all of the good Xians up into da sky, yo.

I do have a local Walmart. And $3CAN ($0.0000001US). And a bus pass to get out to yon Walmart. Yay to the death of the dearth of spider rings which has plagued me! Yay, I say!

(Too little sleep: too much schoolwork).

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/27/2003 3:40 PM

I never thought Tracy Gold to be fat (considering she was bulemic) and the nerd thing . . . well her character was smart but not really a nerd. I found her attractive when I was a kid. Yes, Kirk Cameron does religous movies now, the Left Behind series which sound (wait for the pun) God-awful. I know they’re trying to do a service by letting people know about the rapture and end-time stuff, but with subtitles like "Tribulation Force" how can you not laugh the stuff off.

I don’t have anything to say about the articles but let’s have three cheers for the Bucky O’Hare mention. I only saw a few episodes of the show, but they were damn cool. Lots of Star Wars style action with odd looking characters (how can you not love a green bunny rabit shooting a lazer at a monster made up of television screens?).

I caught a little bit of a movie that’s right up your alley, Matt. Maybe you already reviewed it and I don’t know. "Troll" starring Noah Hathaway from "Neverending Story." It’s one of those horror movies for kids like "The Gate." You see the half alien girl from V-the Final Battle abducted by a troll, Sonny Bonno acting like a MacDaddy then getting turned into a green garden slug, then there was a dancing mushroom and a whole garden full of hand puppet monsters. Great stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/27/2003 4:19 PM

I’m glad I was able to bring out the dusty career of Kirk Cameron for anyone else who cared.

Armagideon Time: Darkwing Duck would have had to be late ’80s, around 1989, because I remember talking about it with friends in junior high.

Hmm. Bible movies. ArmaGIDEON? Someone is leaving a bible in our drawers, methinks.

Satan, give me spider rings!

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 10/27/2003 7:33 PM

Halloween penny-givers can go to Hell in my book!
We had this strange couple at the end of the block who would give out tennis balls with faces drawn on them & w/ slits cut in them to look like mouths. They filled these lil’ bastards with 10 to 15 pennies.
Grrrrr! Still makes me mad…
I’d rather have a toothbrush. (at least you could use a toothbrush) What the hell are ya’ gonna do with 15 cents? Buy 3 MaryJane’s?

Chestnuts roasted by TheCleaner420 @ 10/27/2003 8:32 PM

i aslo hate people who give out bags of chips. no kid wants chips
they want CANDY!

Chestnuts roasted by Jared @ 10/27/2003 8:47 PM

Really? I didn’t mind the chips. But then, I’m a starch fiend. And if I had my d’ruthers (and wouldn’t rather fit into a swimsuit and still look halfway decent) I would have had more chips and less candy. Mmm. Starchy, sexy d’ruthers.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/27/2003 9:12 PM

I know how many of you felt about trick-or-treating. I grew up in a seaside resort, where half the houses were closed for the winter. It wasn’t that the elderly people who primarily lived there weren’t so desperate to be giving out candy they gave out king-sized bars and bags of pennies and books(and many did). Because so many of the homes were already done for the season, my sisters and I often had to troop around half the town before we could even get a decent haul. We’d be completely exausted by the time we got home. I’d usually end up getting tired early and going home first, much to the annoyance of my sturdier sisters.

My brother is both luckier and not quite as lucky. My parents now live in a smaller, more suburban-esque neighborhood, where people actually live year-round. It only takes my brother an hour to get what took us two or more, but he doesn’t get stuff that’s as good, no huge candy bars or bags of pennies.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/27/2003 10:04 PM

bags of pennies? Lucky kids. There was a house that gave away A penny, as in singular, as in 1 cent,stapled in a piece of construction paper. Why even waste the time to hand something out if that’s all you’re gonna do. Last year one house I took my kids to gave out Jack Chick tracts with a piece of candy.

Chestnuts roasted by candybar @ 10/27/2003 11:52 PM

Ahahaha. I’d give out Jack Chick tracts…. but then I’d get egged. :(

And killed. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Melanie @ 10/28/2003 1:03 AM

Damn those slasher minis are awesome. Legos? And do they only make those three? Granted those are the best three. Jason’s sign was well saved for the end.

Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/28/2003 5:06 AM

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