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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?"

Posted by Matt on 09/07/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 196 comments

Calling Bobcat

It’s the story of some guy and his two freinds driving around Middlesex/Bound Brook, NJ looking for his grilfreind to find out why she dumped him. They’re also drinking olive oil, trying to keep the main guy’s drunk dad at home, and breaking into a potato chip warehouse.

I found the DVD for like 3 bucks at Cost Cutters, so I don’t know how hard it’d be to find, but if you do it’s worth it.

Chestnuts roasted by Lim @ 09/08/2004 11:51 AM

God. Worst Commute EVER this morning. Holy God Christ.

Anyway. Couple o’more:

The Grinch: A lot of people hate this movie. I’ve never understood why – and believe me, I was totally prepared to hate it. I hated it for a good two years without ever seeing it. Seriously though, it’s good stuff. Especially for X-Mas lovers. The scene with Carrey eating glass out of frustration is worth putting up with however many annoying scenes there were.

Honeymoon In Vegas: Worth seeing for Mr. Myakakakgison and Peter Boyle. Everything in this movie clicked despite itself.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/08/2004 12:18 PM

Matt, I hear ya, man. Terrible freakin’ commute. No goddam uptown B, D, F or V makes Pedro go crazy . . .

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 09/08/2004 12:29 PM

Peter Boyle was in Honeymoon in Vegas? No kidding. Makes me want to see it again.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/08/2004 12:41 PM

Flesh gordon

http://imdb.com/title/tt0068595/

btw thats not the original Mikey voice actor but that guy did do his homework like you said

Chestnuts roasted by gamersource @ 09/08/2004 12:46 PM

Hmm..well one I haven’t seen until this year was Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and its quite old. I loved it.
Ni!

Chestnuts roasted by Sarah @ 09/08/2004 12:51 PM

Matt & Pedro – it took me 2 hours to get to work this morning. I wanted to turn around and go home.

My recommendation – Twin Falls Idaho. Independent film about conjoined twin brothers (played by actual non-conjoined twins, the Polish brothers). I highly recommend it, but it is a bit of a downer.

Chestnuts roasted by Alison @ 09/08/2004 12:59 PM

I was on the bus at 7:20. Didn’t get to the office until 10:30. And, the bus was leaking all over the place — I was absoluely soaked just from taking the ride. Awful. Had to stay awake the whole time holding tissues up to the water drip holes. Ugh. Then I had to walk an extra 10 blocks than the norm, because swear to God, my damn bus HIT A VAN. Best morning ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/08/2004 1:02 PM

Bubba Ho-Tep please. Nothing beats Bruce Campbell… as ELVIS nonetheless. Speaking of Elvis, Quentin Tarantino was on Golden Girls last night as an Elvis impersonator in the episode where Sophia marries that old Max guy. I saw the weird dancing and the pointy chin and checked IMDB… and sure enough, there was the GG’s episode right at the bottom.

Chestnuts roasted by phillip @ 09/08/2004 1:02 PM

True Stories- I really like this one. Contains one of Spaulding Grey’s best perfomances. and Pops Staples as a VooDoo practicianer.

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust- A monster hunter movie that makes sense. The sound of one hand yapping, indeed.

I’ll drop some more as they come to me.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/08/2004 1:04 PM

I’ve just been thrown out of an unauthorized Elvis fan club! I’ll try to pick up the pieces and move on with my life. I mean, there must be a support group for people like me.

Chestnuts roasted by Dorothy @ 09/08/2004 1:05 PM

Transformers the movie is the greatest movie I’ve ever seen. No question.

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 09/08/2004 1:05 PM

I’d say "Oscar" with Sylvester Stallone and Marisa Tomei. Damn thing makes me laugh every time I see it!

Chestnuts roasted by Mechugena @ 09/08/2004 1:23 PM

I enjoy many movies that I know a) many people have either never seen or b) generally hate them. Examples you say? How many of you have seen Tourist Trap? Matt, this would be a GREAT movie to review for X-E. It stars Chuck Connors and…I guess he’s the only "name" in the film. I don’t really like this movie, it’s just so bizarre though and everytime I mention it to people they’re like "Huh?" I also love bad movies with Olivia Newton-John like Xanadu and Two of a Kind.

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 09/08/2004 1:25 PM

Major Payne is one of the funniest movies ever made, yet it’s almost forgotten.

Tombstone, meanwhile, is my favorite movie.

Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 09/08/2004 1:39 PM

My brothers and I spent our youthful summers watching Ninja Turtles movies and the Wrong Guys. Wrong Guys is a great obscure (I think) movie starring Louie Anderson as a guy who still lives with his mom but wants to relive his days as a Boy Scout. So he gathers all his friends together to go camping in the mountains. They run into a crazed killer, played by John Goodman, who is hilariously deranged.

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 09/08/2004 2:17 PM

Mike I feel your pain, "dry hair is for squids" is the same quote I think of when I think of trancers. It may not be obscure to some but if you have not seen Forbidden Planet, you should check it out. Its a sci-fi movie from the 50s starring Leslie Neilson in a serious role.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 09/08/2004 2:43 PM

Here’s a few:

Santa With Muscles – Hulk Hogan saves an orphanage, and kicks the crap out of bad guys, all while wearing a Santa costume.

Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot – Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty solve crime as mother and son detectives.

Monster Squad – A group of kids fend off every stereotypical monster from Dracula to the Wolfman.

The Stoned Age – A couple of stoners on a quest to find a couple of hot chicks. Beer, hot chicks and a wicked puke scene!

Strange Brew – Rick Moranis in a movie about beer, independent film and love. One great scene involves Rick pissing out a 4 alarm fire after drinking a tank filled with beer.

Chestnuts roasted by Hypnotix @ 09/08/2004 2:43 PM

I recommend extremely similarly titled movie "The Wrong Guy," starring Dave Foley from the Kids in the Hall and a cameo by Kevin McDonald.
Also, "Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy."
Why do I actually like "Spice World"? I don’t know, but I do!
"The Last Unicorn"
"The Impostors"
and "Dumbo." Can’t explain this one either, but it’s good.

Chestnuts roasted by DeathFrogurt @ 09/08/2004 2:49 PM

Hell Comes to Frogtown

The movie stars Rowdy Roddy Piper as the last remaining virile man on Earth. He is sent to battle mutant frogs who have kidnapped fertile women. Fantastic movie.

Chestnuts roasted by Al @ 09/08/2004 3:14 PM

Okay, I caught it on Oxygen, but it was a really good movie: Molly. Stars Elisabeth Shue as an autistic woman who benefits from a treatment that allows her to become "normal". It’s way better than it sounds.

But it can’t beat the greatest film I’ve seen in some time, "The Borrower". Oh boy. I caught it really late at night on some channel (maybe TNT) after all the real programming had finished running. It’s about an alien who is sentenced to be left on Earth and "de-evolved" into a human form. Even thought the aliens are "more advanced", the de-evolved alien immediately beats the crap out of one of the aliens before it can leave (in one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever watched), and then proceeds to kill people by ripping thier heads off. He also has the inexplicable ability to then "borrow" and use said heads to become a copy of the person he killed (somehow the skin all over his body also changes). Terrible acting, gaping plot holes, bad special effects, an awful villian- this movie has it all.

Other memorable scenes:

* The Borrower, seconds after going through the trouble to assimilate a head, kills a dog and decides to take the dog’s head. The rest of his body does NOT change. (Believe me folks, it’s not as gruesome as it sounds, but it IS amusing in an "I-can-see-the-zipper" sort of way.)

* The Borrower walks down the sidewalk covered in blood, right past SEVERAL people and a cop (who says nothing), and then a homeless man takes him aside and warns him to clean up unless he wants to be picked up by the police.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 09/08/2004 3:26 PM

2 Movies that Changed My LIFE:

1) Airplane!

2) Blazing Saddles

Both of those movies are hilarious EVERY time I watch them. I have missed dates with girls b/c they’ve been on television… possibly girls who could have become my wife (though I love my actual wife very dearly) if it weren’t for those 2 movies.

"Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?"

"Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish Prison?"

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!"

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!"

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines!"

I could go on and on…
(mmmmmmmmmmmmm, happy.)

Oh, and Today’s my birthday! 27!

Chestnuts roasted by Barry J. Deeper @ 09/08/2004 4:26 PM

"There is no reason to be alarmed. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"

Ah HA! I couldn’t resist!

Chestnuts roasted by Barry J. Deeper @ 09/08/2004 4:34 PM

Well, I’ve been watching these movies for so long they probably don’t qualify for cult status…
-Bubba Ho Tep(thought I’d be the first with that one, but no, number 3!)
-Big Lebowski(I am the Jesus)
-Kingpin(A bowling movie, not a Mob one)
-Raising Arizona
-Snatch(What’s a dag?…Ya know, a dag.)
-Bad Santa
(Little Boy: Where are your reindeer?
Billy Bob Thornton:….What, I don’t know, they’re fucking stabled).
Office Space of course….
Super Troopers(You have a good day Meow)

Haven’t seen Club Dread maybe if anyone else posts they could give me a heads up…

Also for cartoons you can’t go wrong with Family Guy or Invader Zim…

Chestnuts roasted by whitemale_98/competent soldier @ 09/08/2004 4:36 PM

I would add the following:

-Ronin. Didn’t make a big splash at the box office, but the plot is great. One of the best spy/caper/etc movie ever. The cast includes Robert de Niro, Jean Reno and Sean Bean.

- Sneakers, another techno-spy movie a la Mission Impossible, but a million times better. Besides, any movie pairing Robert Redford and Dan Akroyd is worth your time.

- The Decline of the American Empire, This is a Canadian film whose sequel, The Barbarian Invasions, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Feature Film for 2003. In the first movie, a group of yuppie friends gather at a cottage for dinner, talking about sex and philosophy. Raunchy and talky, it’s amazingly good. But then again, I’m biased!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090985/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338135/

Chestnuts roasted by Yzziefrog @ 09/08/2004 5:19 PM

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