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09/07/2004: Ninja Turtles Bike Safety PSA.

I mentioned this ad in an old article, but figured a lot of you would enjoy seeing it for yourself. It’s an early 90s PSA starring Michaelangelo of the Ninja Turtles, who was absolutely shocked…SHOCKED! Shocked…by the level of bike-related negligence spewed forth by his legions of wish-they-had-a-shell fans. Yes folks, it’s the Ninja Turtles on bike safety.

I can’t tell if the original voice actor was used, but if not, the new guy did his homework. Mikey retains his slimy charm and penchant for calling everything awesome, but speaks in a noticeably subdued manner. His words are uncharacteristically spaced; he even looks a bit apprehensive. The message is simple enough — wear your bike helmet or suffer an unimaginable fate. Click here to watch the magic. Please take note of Michaelangelo’s indisputably apologetic “cowabunga” thrown in at the end of the spot. He knew he wasn’t supposed to do things like this.

New Survey Yay: Recommend a movie you don’t believe many people have seen / would have bothered to see. I’ll start: Mother, starring Albert Brooks. Groan all you want. Where else can you see Debbie Reynolds coin the phrase “bullshit jam?”

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Hey guys, anyone else seen Damnation Alley? Fun little post-WW3 movie with George Peppard from the A-team and Jan-Michael Vincent. It features an awesome tank creation with 4 pairs of 3 wheels. You’d need to see it for it to make sense.

Ghosted by Jeephog @ 09/09/2004 8:31 AM EDT

First off…I am so glad that both Amazon Women on the Moon and Monster Squad are in here….great flicks….

I have been trying to get through Ebert’s Greatest Movies list for quite some time, but my son’s birth got in the way…damn kids! Anyways, that has introduced me to some movies I can’t believe I have never seen…I know they are classics, so the idea of obscurity may not be present, but they are still movies that I am pretty sure are not being watched that much…

The Third Man (great film noir)
The Apartment (Jack Lemmon)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (spaghetti western)
Notorious (very good Hitchcock…maybe not Rear Window good, but good nonetheless)
Grave of the Fireflies (awesome anime)
The Thin Man (an extremely funny detective movie)

Those are some that I have watched on that list…From my own personal stash, I would recommend Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein…It’s high-god damn-larious! Also have to agree with Wet Hot American Summer and anything Kurosawa….Oh, and Teen Witch.

Ghosted by Goody @ 09/09/2004 8:54 AM EDT

All-time favorite movie: Stephen King’s The Stand. It’s about 6 hours long, but it’s definitely worth seeing.

Ghosted by Candice @ 09/09/2004 8:59 AM EDT

Oh crap…thought of one more…remember that movie Runaway with Burt Reynolds and Gene Simmons about killer robots and the robots kill and people get killed by the robots…remember?

Ghosted by Goody @ 09/09/2004 9:02 AM EDT

any movie with the COMEDIC SUPERTEAM Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov

Ghosted by mot @ 09/09/2004 10:50 AM EDT

Drawing Flies. If you are a Jason Lee fan, you must see this movie. You will fall out of your chair during the best and most brief scene…I won’t ruin it for ya. Carmen climbing over the welfare office desk is pretty good too =)

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/09/2004 11:35 AM EDT

Yeah, I remember Runaway. By The way, it was Tom Selleck, not Burt Reynolds, who starred in it. It also starred Joey Cramer as Selleck’s son.

Cramer was also the star of Flight of The Navigator, another fun movie I’ve seen thousands of times since I was a kid (And still watch today on DVD.)

Ghosted by Number 5 @ 09/09/2004 11:43 AM EDT

Click on my name for fun with celeb pictures: morph em into weird alien caricatures of themselves. Not entirely necessary with, say, Michael Jackson.

To give idea about uselessness of South African movie broadcasting: free-to-air private channel is broadcasting Congo now. During prime time. On the weekend. So, will probably end up seeing all these obscure movies quite soon. Then can understand Matt’s strange craving for furry grey gorrilla plushies. Perhaps.

(This is why I read a lot.)

PS, how do you do "crazy" smiley? 88 8B ?

Ghosted by childlike empressnessness @ 09/09/2004 11:46 AM EDT

Saw Airheads quite recently – Kramer had a role! Seinfeld Kramer! Never knew that….

Ghosted by childlike ...... you know the rest @ 09/09/2004 11:50 AM EDT

Tapeheads- A film by Mike Nesmith about two guys breaking into the early days of music video. And one of the coolest ugly cars ever seen in any film.

Battle Beyond the Stars- another low budget flick with Peppard in it. A low-rent sci-fi Seven Samurai where the only surviving good guy is John Boy Walton! A meal and a place to hide.

Wagons East!- About a group of pioneers who get fed up and go home. John Candy’s last role. Don’t piss off a gay gunslinger.

The multi-terrain vehicle in Damnation Alley is called a LandMaster. It even guest-starred in an episode of "Get a Life!" as a automated paper delivery system.

Actually, in I Spit on Your Grave, She sliced off his whole block-and-tackle. I also like the outboard evisceration.

Glad to see titles like Over the Edge, Trancers, Return of the Killer Tomatos (it had an even better stab at product placment than Wayne’s World), and Kentucky Fried Movie mentioned. I recommend that you take down the names of the films you haven’t seen from the above, and take time to watch a couple.

Ghosted by kingklash with a video tape @ 09/09/2004 1:14 PM EDT

The Other White Meat:

My Life as a Dog was a critically acclaimed movie internationally but, of course, not here in the states b/c we’re too busy with shit like Win a Date with Tad Hamilton type of crap.

I thank my lucky stars every day that I live in NYC, (among other reasons) so I’m not relegated to the trash at the local multi-plex.

Ghosted by Pedro @ 09/09/2004 1:16 PM EDT

Gozer — glad to see I’m not the only one! I hit IMDB after posting and someone has a review titled "Dry hair is for Squids"… we could get a support group going.
How about the movie "A Boy and His Dog" — with a young Don Johnson. The are in a post apocalyptic world looking for food and tail (no doggie pun intended!) He can hear the dog talking to him in his mind, and he finds survivors living underground trying to recreate the good old days. Kind of a "Pleasantville", "The Village", "Mad Max" stew of a story.

Ghosted by Mike @ 09/09/2004 2:10 PM EDT

Matt-I’ve seen Mother. It’s pretty damn funny from what I remember. Love the PSA as well. Wish I had that free sticker.

I don’t think there’s any movie I could think iof that the readers of this site haven’t seen. We’re all a bunch of weirdos, so we’ve all seen some of the strangest and most obscure flicks around. Hell, some of us (such as me) even own some of these flicks.

Ghosted by Nate @ 09/09/2004 2:47 PM EDT

i’ll throw out amazon women from the moon also, you never know if jack the ripper was really a giant dinasaur or not…
also, the legend of boggy creek 2. well, not so much the movie, but the mystery science theater take on it. and if you’ve never seen boggy creek 1, don’t waste your time. that’s 90 minutes of my life i’ll never get back thanks to my mom claiming it scared the shit out of her when she was a kid.
at the same time, i’ll wonder if anyone will even read this post. hmmm.

Ghosted by Big Jerm @ 09/09/2004 2:54 PM EDT

Have any of you seen this crazy post-apocalyptic/drugged up monster movie late night on HBO?

It was about a bunch of cavemen in a post-apocalyptic world who discvoer a city. The city is filled with these high-tech human dudes. The high-tech human dudes get the cavemen to do all these drugs, drink, and get them to have crazy sex all the time. But the high-tech human dudes are really monsters and go wacky and do coke all the time.

It’s friggen insane.

Ghosted by JeremyMac @ 09/09/2004 4:36 PM EDT

Pedro:

Critically accalimed or not, the movie was frigging weird. I couldn’t have been older than 11 when i saw it and being totally drawn in. I can’t say that i remember a full plot, but it was like a train wreck withe the addictiveness of heroin. being the Mature and Educated individual i am now, maybe i’d "get" it (nah, who am i kidding?) but it’s still way weird.

anybody here see spaced invaders?
a bunch of aliens come to earth on halloween. becasue they’re short and weird looking, people just figure that they’re trick or treaters. I remember it being totally cheesey and goofy, but i loved the flick when i was a kid.

Ghosted by The Other White Meat @ 09/09/2004 4:52 PM EDT

Lifeforce: Relatively big-budget (by 1980s standards) cheese with space energy zombie vampires infesting London, created using expensive full-scale sets at Elstree Studios and detailed miniatures, and lots of creature models. It’s from Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the credited director for Poltergeist (though, supposedly, he was high a lot of the time and producer Steven Spielberg had to pinch hit as director). And it’s got naked Mathilda May!

Cloak and Dagger: Staring Henry Thomas and some girl who is a Drew Barrymore lookalike who accidentally get themselves involved in the dangerous, often fatal, world of international espionage all because of a seemingly innocent-looking Atari cartridge. And you get to see a hell of a lot more of San Antonio than you did in the Alamo scene of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, and it’s got Dabney Coleman in a duel role as Davey’s father and as Davey’s "imaginary" friend, Captain Jack Flack! And it’s a lot more unflinching in its portrayal of the consequences of violence than modern kiddy spy movies like Spy Game and Agent Cody Banks. This would be an excellent film for Matt to review, but it’s still not available on DVD.

Gate to Heaven: A bizarre German comedy, though shot in English, about immigrants, legal and illegal, who work menial jobs at Frankfurt airport, and it stars Valeri Nikolayev, who, coincidentally, had a bit part in another recent airport movie, Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (he was the Russian with the knife). The deus ex machinas ending was far too goofy and convenient, but everything else leading up to the ending is sweet and fun. You can read my review of it here, though I don’t think this film has a North American distributor yet.

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer: My all-time favourite anime film, you can read an ancient review I wrote of it here.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: If you’re one of the few people, like me, who found Spirited Away, while still decent, a bit too unfocused, meandering, disjointed, and, often, downright pretentious, where Hayao Miyazaki is trying to say something deep but often missing the mark, then you might agree with me that Kiki’s Delivery Service is Hayao Miyazaki’s best film by far, aside from maybe My Neighbor Totoro, since it’s a straightfoward, focused, and unpretentious story about a girl in a new city trying to find her niche in life and make friends and the film says exactly what it needs to say and, while it would be a mistake to say this film is shallow, the depth is perfectly accessible to the average viewer, and, to me, that’s actually a plus, not a minus.

Project A-Ko: My favourite anime film for straightforward shallow fun. One time on RottenTomatoes.com (where I’m Kiyone), I wrote "This movie is proof that not all anime films are insightful, haunting, poetic, elegaic, or philisophical with deep subtexts on the nature of existence, asking what makes us human. Some anime films are about schoolgirls with powers and big robots and spaceships and panties and wacky mayhem." Sums it up in a couple of sentences.

Blatant Self-Promotion: My 30th birthday is October 2nd, so I’m writing about my whole life, year-by-year, over in my blog. Here’s the introduction and index.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 09/09/2004 5:14 PM EDT

D’oh, screwed up the HTML formatting. Should have hit "preview".

Here’s the link to the index of my bio, not that anyone would care, though I do talk about many TV shows and movies I liked.

Ghosted by Steve Brandon @ 09/09/2004 5:16 PM EDT

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter: I know it’s been said, but it’s definitly up your alley, Matt, if you’ve never seen it. REVIEW!! O_o!!

Or C.H.O.M.P.S about a little robot crimefighting dog. I loved it from the 80’s and tracked down an old VHS on ebay to find it’s still not bad. PErhaps a little sweetened by nostalgia, but worth a look.

Ghosted by Blaine @ 09/09/2004 5:25 PM EDT

Oh yeah… or "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died", written by Ed Wood and starring Billy Zane.

Ghosted by Blaine @ 09/09/2004 5:27 PM EDT

Stay Tuned. Starring John Ritter (God rest his soul) as a lazy couch potato who buys a television with 666 channels on it from a salesman who is actually Satan. This is a great movie, you should definitely watch it if it’s on any movie channels on TV.

Ghosted by Meat Pöpsicle @ 09/09/2004 5:47 PM EDT

how about "THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION"? it’s really obscure and came out in the early 80’s. about a kid who goes into a haunted house (perfect for halloween) and see’s the fright! Causing him to lose all his hair. Then after days or weeks trying to fit in at school with a wig it is pulled off during PE. Later that night he has a dream where in old people are in his house eating his food and the tell him of the peanut butter solution to grow his hair back. he wakes up puts the magic potion together with to much peanut butter and his hair does not stop growing. Enter Villian. An evil painter that wants the kids hair to make magic paint brushes that paint pictures you can walk into. And talk about a child sweat shop. I guess you have to see it I wont give anymore away….. blah.

Ghosted by Azriel Sin @ 09/09/2004 6:29 PM EDT

A-Ko can be used as a reference point if you are just starting to get into anime. As you get to know more and more , you can go back to Project A-ko and get more and more of the jokes. And it has B-ko in the Akagiyama 23. But I like A-ko better.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/09/2004 6:53 PM EDT

Killer Clowns from Outer Space: this movie consumed my life at one point, but noone seems to know about it.

Ghosted by s0fa @ 09/09/2004 7:16 PM EDT

Killer Clowns from Outer Space: this movie consumed my life at one point, but noone seems to know about it.

Ghosted by s0fa @ 09/09/2004 7:16 PM EDT

Well…as a clown hater, I do know about KKfOS. Unfortunately. EEE…I hate clowns.

Here’s a movie NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN. It’s called…

Ghosted by Walks @ 09/09/2004 7:50 PM EDT

I’m glad to see some obscurites I recognize, from "The Peanut Butter Solution" (which I actually saw a couple of times as a kid, both on cable and – in all places – at school) to "Mother" (my dad has it – Debbie Reynolds is a riot), as well as "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" (which I thoroughly enjoyed when I rented it earlier this year) and "Care Bears In Wonderland" (extremely out of print, but we taped it, and my brother STILL goes around singing the Mad Hatter’s crazy hat song to this day). I’m also glad to see reletively unknown classics like "The Thin Man" (try the whole series – Nick and Nora ROCK) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (I grew up on John Wayne movies – Dad worships him).

My additions that I haven’t seen listed yet include….

"Radioland Murders" – Very long but very fun comedy/mystery if you don’t mind the retro setting and the extremely fast and confusing pace. Brian Benben and Mary Stuart Masterson lead a cast that ranges from Joey Lawrence imatating a young Frank Sinatra to comedianne Anita Morris as a hormonal Mae West-esque vamp. Might be best for old movie and/or radio fans, who will catch the references, but a lot of fun if you can scrape it up.

"The Road To…Series" – Satire at its silliest, the "Road To" series were the "Airplane" of their day. Each movie was the same in outline – immortal crooners Bing Crosby and the late Bob Hope insult each other and chase starlet Dorothy Lamour across some exotic setting, stopping long enough to get a few songs and non-sequiters in – but the frequently ad-libbed scripts made up for the feeling of sameness. My favorites are "Road to Morocco" (Bing sells Bob to desert Princess Dorothy – what’s not to love ; 0 ) and "Road to Bali" (only color "Road" picture), but I recommend the whole series, most of which I believe are on DVD.

If you get a kick out of Hope in the "Road" flicks, try two of his lesser-known vehicles, "The Princess and the Pirate" and "Casanova’s Big Night," both hilarious swashbuckler spoofs.

But the oldest obscure movies anyone will probably recommend on this list go back to the dawn of sound, ie 1929, when the movies began to talk…and didn’t know what the HELL they were doing. This is amply demonstrated by one major hit and one major flop from that era, both musical and both on video, "The Broadway Melody" and "Glorifying the American Girl."

"Melody" is a wee bit creaky but still fairly enjoyable if you don’t mind the shaky technique, especially in Bessie Love’s bravura performance as the elder of a sister act that tries Broadway…with disasterous consequences. The only real problem today with "Melody" is its attempt at big stage-style numbers, none of which work – the smaller, more intimate numbers are also much better. "Melody" was the first sound film, the first MGM film, and the first musical to win an Oscar…and if you put the film in the context of its sound-crazy time period, you’ll understand why.

…And you’ll also understand why "Glorifying" was and remains something of a flop. It was intended as one of Parmount’s big productions for 1928, but it wasn’t until a year later that anyone even got a tenuous idea of what the plot should be about. Someone eventually concocted a very melodramatic story about a store clerk named Gloria who is so desperate to get on the stage, she drops her boyfriend and shacks up with a sleazy vaudeville dancer…and eventually loses both. It’s depressing but interesting for glimpses of New York in 1929 (it was shot in Long Island and on what was then Paramount’s New York studio) and of several 1920s celebrities.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 09/09/2004 8:25 PM EDT

i wold have to say the movie donnie darko…its such an underrated movie

Ghosted by bri-guy @ 09/09/2004 8:57 PM EDT

I just thought of a obscure film I remember watching on cable all the time: The Invisable Kid,with that one guy who was Alan Thicke’s android son in those one movies. He invents a invisability potion,but it has a time limit of thirty minutes of use,then twenty,then ten,and it starts back at thirty again. You also had to be completly naked for the total invisablity effect to work,which led to much naked hirlarity.

Anybody remember seeing this?

Ghosted by Overlord @ 09/09/2004 8:58 PM EDT

Hey I know this is a little off topic, but does anyone know which movie I’m talking about? It has to do with some kids going to some alternate dimension and somehow finding a warp out or something, but theyre being chased by something bad. I know this is such a vague description. It reminds me of the Ghostbusters episodes featuring the Boogieman where theyd be in this alternate world. I know it starred some of the typical 80’s child actors. I believe there were three of them… not too sure. Anyways, umm as for a movie no one has bothered to see? Can we say Double Team?? Jean Claude Van Damme and Rodman. Hahhahaha, I love it though.

Ghosted by David @ 09/09/2004 10:35 PM EDT

Donnie Darko is underrated? Are you kidding me?! That’s a cult flick if I’ve ever seen one. Anyway, as far as my choices go:

C.H.U.D. (stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers) Stars the dad from the Home Alone series and some godawful, yet wonderful, puppets.

They Came from Within – THE best crappy horror flick I’ve ever seen. It is a MUST SEE for those who haven’t and enjoy this type of movie. Leach-esque alien things who cause mass orgies…what more could you ask for??

Ghosted by 1drland @ 09/09/2004 11:03 PM EDT

I know a lot of people who would kill me for mearly uttering this, but I really liked "Freaked." Well, I thought it was funny.

Ghosted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 09/09/2004 11:34 PM EDT

Pootie Tang!

Ghosted by ToeKnee @ 09/09/2004 11:36 PM EDT

Favorite unknown movie is hands down, without a doubt, the excellently and addictively titled "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover." It’s one of the most profusely brutal movies (though not too gory), sexually explicit enough to merit an NC-17 rating, and funny enough that you don’t want to turn it off at any time. Hard to find, but once you do, you’ll be going back again and again.
Other nominations: Joe vs. the Volcano and L.A. Story–positively the most underrated, overlooked movies that have ever been made.

Ghosted by inkmage @ 09/10/2004 12:44 PM EDT

- Mr, Freaked is one of my favorite movies. With Brooke Shields and Randy Quaid in probably their best roles.

Ghosted by Psuedo Bohemian @ 09/10/2004 4:27 AM EDT

Slappy and the Stinkers – a movie about some kids on a mission to save a seal from the bad guys who want to sell slappy to the circus. Slappy practically talks in the movie saying shit like, "no, no, no," and even laughing. Its the shit where the director rewinds and plays back the same five seconds to make it look like he’s really talking. A friend of mine loaned the movie to me, and boy was it awful.

Explorers – Old 80’s flick starring River Phoenix and two other boys who’s names escape me. River, being a scientific genious creates a computer program on an old Apple computer that makes a bubble that can move objects all around. They go to a junk yard and steal an old tilt-a-whirl seat and transform it into a space ship. Of course, they get captured by space aliens, but instead of getting killed, they put on a talent show.

Now I know why he turned to heroin.

Ghosted by Hypnotix @ 09/10/2004 8:30 AM EDT

Glory Daze. I wanted college to turn out like PCU, it turned out much more similar to Glory Daze.

Angst for all the memories…=)

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/10/2004 8:33 AM EDT

Best Title for an old obscure movie "Sssssss" — it is about a guy who turns into a snake! Strother Martin and Dirk Benedict. If you search for it on IMDB use all seven S’s

Ghosted by Mike @ 09/10/2004 10:27 AM EDT

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Simply Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies- Teenage hoodlum becomes undead killer and has a girlfriend who’s a hoochie-coochie dancer at a boardwalk sideshow. It’s got musical numbers.

David, sounds like a vague description of Little Monsters with Fred "Macho Man" Savage and Howie "Where’s My Career?" Mandell.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/10/2004 11:56 AM EDT

Freaked with Alex Winter and Mr. T as the bearded lady? Pretty damn funny and I also remember the Peanut Butter Solution, man that was a weird ass movie….

Let’s see if anyone can figure this one out, it has something to do with aliens, I think the kid is dreaming, but the important part is he has to use an old penny for some reason….is that too vague or what?

Ghosted by whitemale_98/competent soldier @ 09/10/2004 12:15 PM EDT

I loved CHUD one of the greatest movies from my childhood. The one movie I would recommend is an old B flick starring Bruce Dern and Adam Ant (plays a great psychotic badguy). It’s called A World Gone Wild and is your typical post apocalyptic movie setting. Best line from the movie is when the good guys kill some cannibals and the main lady is freaking out, Bruce Dern says "she just had a taste of reality, which is why I spend so little time there and spend most of my time in the land of the mushroom." Great freakin movie definately hard to find.

Ghosted by OldSchooler @ 09/10/2004 12:30 PM EDT

For a movie, I’ll suggest UHF, MST3K The Movie, Frauds or The Specials. All three of them are totally hilarious.
The only thing is that I think a lot of people here have seen said movies
The only one that may be rare would have to be Frauds. Phil Collins as a guy with a Peter Pan complex!

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 09/10/2004 12:53 PM EDT

I remember a couple; The Explorers was a good one. I also liked The Quest (Not the Van Damme one) this one had the kid who played Elliot from E.T.

Ghosted by El Bang @ 09/10/2004 12:57 PM EDT

"X-entertainment isn’t spooky yet?" I thought X-E was always creepy, but in a good way. But if it’s the upcoming Halloween theme you’re referring to, don worry because we still have a while to go before that will become necessary. Or maybe you’re jus havin’ fun. Maybe I’m just readin’ too deeply into this.

Ghosted by Nate @ 09/10/2004 1:21 PM EDT

El Bang, I remember doing a space unit in second grade and the teacher had us watch The Explorers, only to get freaked out that one of the characters used ‘bad’ language while beating another character up.
We ended up watching Jetsons: The Movie instead.

Ghosted by AngeFaitore @ 09/10/2004 1:43 PM EDT

Hypnotix, is Explorers the one where they end up with the rubbery aliens and the girl alien has a crush on the kid? Loved that movie.

Rat Race, Playing by Heart and Stay Tuned have been mentioned, and I have to agree these were really good.

I will add "The Last Starfighter". It’s 1984 and Alex is a video game master, recruited unbeknownst to him to fight in an intergalactic war. Filled with unknown actors (Lance Guest???), and really quaint in the Xbox era, this was a fun adventure at the time.

Same thing with "War Games" from 1983. Matthew Broderick is a teenage computer whiz who hacks into the big army computer and almost starts World War Three. With his, like, Atari or something. I found this movie in a clearance bin for a buck, and I was very happy about it.

Ghosted by Yzziefrog @ 09/10/2004 2:15 PM EDT

I remember The Last Starfighter. The Director, Nick Castle, was the same guy in the Michael Myers mask and suit for the original "Halloween" from 1978. (He’s not the guy you see unmasked at the end, that was an actor named Tony Moran. Castle was Myers in all of the other scenes, doing the stunt work and such.)
Castle also directed Major Payne, which I think was mentioned earlier.

Ghosted by Number 5 @ 09/10/2004 2:25 PM EDT

Ooh, I love Brian Benben! I always wondered what happened to him. I miss Dream On. Didn’t the secretary go on to play the voic of Management in Carnivale? and his wife went on to become the boozed-up ex-model on Just Shoot Me?

kingklash, actually, it’s Fred "Oswald, the Purple Octopus" Savage, now. He’s a voice actor. Hee!

Speaking of voice actors, Rupert from Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: All Stars is now having a cartoon created after himself. I guess the million from CBS and all of that great publicity wasn’t enough for him. I was happy to see that he still wears the tie dyes, though. He didn’t become a pompous ass, like Andrew would have been.

Has anyone ever seen Komodo? Wow, those were bad CGI effects. Bad, in a totally cheesy sort of way.

What about I Know My First Name Is Stephen? Starring the Corker, Corin "Parker Lewis" Nemec? What a sad story, though. Esp that Stephen went and died in a motorcyle accident and his brother become a motel serial killer.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 09/10/2004 2:29 PM EDT

I was going to say "Freaked is the funniest movie of all time," but a bunch of people seem to have beaten me to it. Good! I’m glad it’s more familiar to folks out there than I realized!

Since it hasn’t been mentioned anywhere on this list: The Brave Little Toaster. It’s like a Disney movie done right: great voice talent (Thurl Ravenscroft, alias Tony the Tiger, in his biggest role ever), the songs aren’t obnoxious (some are even catchy), and the artwork, often given short shrift in minor animated features, is beautifully rendered in classic Warner Bros. squash-and-stretch style. And, of course, it’s screamingly funny; the scene where the black-and-white TV is trying to hint to the Master where his appliances have gone is worth the price of the video.

Ghosted by G'Tron @ 09/10/2004 3:13 PM EDT

"I just came to check on my radio tubes."

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/10/2004 3:18 PM EDT

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