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09/03/2005: Saturday Thread, Duh.

I’ve only got a quick sec before a friend stops by to help me with a computer hardware issue in exchange for free Japanese food, SO HERE’S YER SATURDAY THREAD! All day, all night, all right.

Our official movie of the night: A Nightmare on Elm Street: Part II, airing on Encore at 10:35 PM. (And for others, at different times, and for others, at no time at all. Buy the damn DVD.) The Monday after next marks the start of X-E’s 2005 Halloween Countdown – yay!

Edit: It’s Sunday. Keep posting.

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anyone catch Weird Science earlier? I just now thought it *weird* that A.M. Hall and RRRober Downer Jr. were in this movie *and* on SNL at the same time! Hmmm….

I don’t really have a favorite Nightmare…I always seem to catch bits and pieces of them at odd times, either on cable, or just before passing out at a friends house. So I kind of get them all mixed up, and really need to sit down and watch them all again.

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 12:08 PM EDT

oooh the shower scene!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 12:09 PM EDT

Don’t you wish your teacher went to leather bars too?

And for Halloween, I wouldn’t really put Dick Tracy or Bill and Ted on the list. However, something that SHOULD be on the list: God Told Me To.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:10 PM EDT

Thank you, thank you. I wish Kyle was still around. It would be so much more fun to harrass him about Bogus Journey than for us to strut our stuff over the dynamic duo for the millionth time (well for me anyway ) How can you not have seen Journey.

Do you find it interesting that the scene appearing in the trailer about the rat in the bucket of chicken, didn’t find its way onto the free version of it that Pizza Hut was giving out–given their triumvirate partners in the restaurant chain game?

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/04/2005 12:10 PM EDT

dudes this is getting more gay by the minute!!

Keanu should do B&T 3, that would rock!!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 12:12 PM EDT

It’s not gay enough. LOWER THE TOWEL BABY.

And I never had a Pizza Hut around me that delivered. I was deprived as a child.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:14 PM EDT

We have all the combination stores of KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut in my neck of the world. KFC/Taco Bell, KFC/Pizza Hut, All 3, and the holy grail: Pizza Hut/Taco Bell. I live closest to a KFC/Taco Bell and they drive me up the wall because they don’t have the full menu and sometimes don’t get new items. Look, its the same ingredients, take the extra 5 seconds and make the "New" Meat/Lettuce/Cheese sandwhich!!!

I credit whatever comedian said that, can’t recall who it was though

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/04/2005 12:20 PM EDT

I forget too, but he wasn’t Spanish, and that’s all I remember. We have those stores too, but they aren’t anywhere near my house for some reason. I live like 5 miles from Philadelphia too. You’d expect luxuries, damnit.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:21 PM EDT

I hate how Lisa refers to Freddy as Fred. It’s so wrong.

Ghosted by Carri @ 09/04/2005 12:22 PM EDT

Yeah. Lisa needs to be smacked with a claw glove upside the face for that. But at least the awesome pool party scene is on.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:25 PM EDT

hot pink chef’s hat?

fabulous

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they’re coming to take me away, haha!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 12:27 PM EDT

Was it Greg Proops on his Comedy Central Presents…? It’s not an insult to real mexican food or people of said heritage, because I’ve had real mexican food and its much more than that and much better.

Bowling for Soup said it best "besides the Mexican food sucks north of here anyway"

Ghosted by Knegative @ 09/04/2005 12:29 PM EDT

I feel like such a failure compared to that kid! Damn….

Ghosted by Gene Simmons @ 09/04/2005 12:29 PM EDT

Hey, doesn’t Jesse’s friend have the same bedroom set as DJ from Full House!

Ghosted by Carri @ 09/04/2005 12:30 PM EDT

Hey, is that my bed? The red one?

Ghosted by D.J. Tanner @ 09/04/2005 12:31 PM EDT

Kneg: It was Greg Proops!!! And yeah, that so looks like DJ’s bed.

And I dislike Bowling For Soup. With immense passion. In fact, you could say I hate them.

I wish Sleepaway Camp II was on.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:36 PM EDT

The worst nightmare I ever had (that I can recall) was from when I was in grade school.

I was with someone (I don’t know who) checking out a huge, beautiful empty house. It wasn’t old or ruined or anything like that, it was incredibly clean, like it was newly-built. It was made of wood and was unpainted on the inside, but it still had furniture (all unpainted wooden furniture). We had to go in through a front, ground floor window to the left of the front door, presumably because the door was locked. I wasn’t supposed to be there, I remember that.

As soon as I got through the window, a nearby phone rang. I answered it but I don’t really remember what the voice on the other end said. I think it might have been telling me to go to a certain parade that I witnessed later.

All at some point later in the dream (I remember it now as an immediate jump from the house to the parade but there was probably something in between) I was watching a parade and one of the floats had a person on it, burning alive. Well, it was either a skeleton to begin with or the person was so burnt they had no flesh left, but s/he was alive somehow, was being consumed by flames and was screaming in agony.

Either nobody else seemed disturbed by what was happening or this singular image was such an intense focus of my dream that everyone else had disappeared.

That is the worst nightmare (that I can rememeber) I’ve ever had.

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 09/04/2005 12:47 PM EDT

Sleepless in Seatttle is on. Rosie Odonnel wore a skirt.

Ghosted by kb @ 09/04/2005 12:50 PM EDT

Way to be deep Night_Trekker. My nightmares never are that elaborate. As for a skirt on Rosie O Donnel, that is just wrong. Sleepaway Camp II stars the sister of Bruce Springsteen as a transsexual killer. I mean COME ON. that has to rock.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:52 PM EDT

I love celebrity siblings in B movies.

Ghosted by Carri @ 09/04/2005 12:55 PM EDT

Who doesn’t?

Nazis that’s who. Celebrity siblings need to do an all-star movie like Meatballs or The Cannonball Run.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 12:57 PM EDT

And don’t forget their own "We are the world" type song recording.

Ghosted by Carri @ 09/04/2005 12:59 PM EDT

Deep? I don’t know about that. I was just trying to accurately describe what I dreamed about. It would be a lot less complicated to just see it, obviously.

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 09/04/2005 1:08 AM EDT

Well now, that’s a given.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 1:08 AM EDT

Hmm… maybe Matt should just make an XE chatroom. Look at the amount of time between these posts!

But chat rooms just don’t feel the same as forums. I don’t know exactly what it is. What do you guys/gals think?

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 09/04/2005 1:12 AM EDT

odd, the video for We Are the World was on just before Weird Science. hmmmm…

is it hot in here?

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 1:13 AM EDT

I have no idea what’s going on here, but I’m totally pissed about the whole Something Awful / Paypal / Redcross thing, $20,000 dollars going who-knows-where. Seriously, nice to my and countless others’ money are probably going to fill Paypal’s wallets.

Ghosted by Radio @ 09/04/2005 1:15 AM EDT

An X-E chatroom wouldn’t be as much fun as this, in my opinion. Though I’d still rock it every chance I got. And yes, it IS hot in here.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 1:16 AM EDT

Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever read a more pissed-off post by Lowtax.

The problem will probably be fixed shortly… but the point is the people in New Orleans need the money NOW.

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 09/04/2005 1:17 AM EDT

Exactly. It’s funny how charity gets messed up when enough money is given to it.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 1:26 AM EDT

They were showing Nightmare 1, 2 and 3, back-to-back, on Movie Greats a day or two ago…How convenient.

Anyway, I never noticed before, nor got, what was up with those ‘whale songs’ in the background in 2. Maybe some people think ‘whale’ when they think Freddy…I dunno. I can definitely remember it being used during the ‘final battle’ where whatsername (Meryl Streep? Heh) kisses Freddy/Jesse (Fresse? Jeddy? I prefer Jeddy).

Do they talk about the music at all on the DVD?

I had to make sure I didn’t dream that up, so if you go here, and click on 12 (Sjports Attack/Threatening Angela), you can hear some whale action. The whales kick in around 12secs.

Enough about whales though, I love when Jeddy busts out of the door and disappears just before the pool massacre, and you see all those dudes kinda crab-crouching towards the broken glass and stuff. It’s hilarious…especially this one dude’s face. You don’t see a lot of crab-crouching in movies these days and I think that’s a real shame.

And one last thing – I think the best character in that movie was the ‘Pool Negotiator’. I hope he got a medal of honour or something. At least mentioned in the local newspaper? I smell spin-off series for that guy, even if he’s dead.

Ghosted by mickeychelle @ 09/04/2005 1:28 AM EDT

ya, that chick did look like Meryl Streep!! Crazy!

the Pool Guy was such a nice guy!! *sniff* he deserved better…i tell ya! *sobs*

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 1:33 AM EDT

Yay Saturday night thread! My first ever contribution! People don’t put enough effort into Halloween anymore. Last year the weather was great and there were almost no kids trick-or-treating outside. They were all trick-or-treating in the mall. Talk about lame and/or lazy parents.

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 09/04/2005 1:39 AM EDT

I beleive Jim Gaffigan had a bit about that too on his Comedy Central Presents

*after explaining to a customer he was waiting on that tacos, and tostatas are made of bread, meat and vegetables*

"Look, just say a spanish word, and I’ll bring you something!"

My weirdest dream had me working on an ice cream truck, but it sold Italian Ices. And for some reason, Bill Clinton (the Darrell Hammond version on SNL, not the real thing) always wanted the blue ones, but not by ordering them, he tried to buy them while in several disguises, like the Trix Rabbit.

Oh, and something about William Rhenquist dying on saturday night at age 80…

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 09/04/2005 1:58 AM EDT

I had my worst nightmare in elementary school. A California Raisin came out of the TV and attacked me. When I pushed him back, he flopped on the ground and made a dreadful noise that sounded like a horse mixed with one of the nasally-voiced coaches from Mutant League Football (for Sega Genesis).

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 09/04/2005 2:19 AM EDT

USA Network made a show out of Weird Science–dunno what it was like, but it lasted longer than any other movie-based show they tried. And an episode of THAT inspired the movie "Scream." Interesting, eh?

Ghosted by Mars @ 09/04/2005 2:20 AM EDT

Oh, the Weird Science show was great. Well, not really, but you got to see Abe Vigoda in drag and Bruce Campbell singing.

Ghosted by AJ @ 09/04/2005 2:27 AM EDT

The Weird Science tv show inspired Scream? O_o

That show was good for one thing: Vanessa Angel. God that woman is beautiful.

Recently I saw her in Puppetmaster Vs. Demonic Toys. Oh, how the mighty have fallen… -_-

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 09/04/2005 2:45 AM EDT

I always mixed up Weird Science the TV show with Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. I’m not sure why, they didn’t have too much in common other than two high school guys as stars.

Ghosted by Carri @ 09/04/2005 2:51 AM EDT

I’m watching Back to the Future for the second time today and probably the 1000th time in my life. I just now noticed that Lorraine’s little brother with the Davy Crocket hat is none other than Kevin Arnold’s older brother Wayne from the Wonder Years.

Ghosted by Carri @ 09/04/2005 2:53 AM EDT

God is George Burns!!

And he spoke to John Denver!!@

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 2:57 AM EDT

Well, good night everyone!

Great Saturday Night Thread!!

Ghosted by kidneyboy @ 09/04/2005 3:44 AM EDT

I had a dream once where… well… you see… I’m not really sure if I was dreaming, because I suffer from extreme insomnia and some sleep walking, so I could’ve been just half awake. I cannot remember all of it, but I woke up in a dingy basement (that looked nothing like my own) with what seemed to be a pile of human limbs in a pile on a wheelchair, a half dead man in chains on a wall, and I noticed my legs had a shitload of what looked like cat scratches (I did have cats, and they weren’t declawed). The the walls began to shake, and I heared a voice repeating "This is not the true answer" in a satanic tone. Yeah, fucking freaky.

Ghosted by TRUKK NOT MUNKY @ 09/04/2005 3:52 AM EDT

I must have some mental block for X-E on Saturday nights. I was sooo bored and had nothing to do – do you think I remembered the Saturday Night Thread? Hell no.

Well, since the movie seemed to come on at 11:30, I had a new Inuyasha to watch anyhow.

I had a dream about Freddy once. It was pretty screwy. Started out I was outside at some funeral – it looked like something out of the "November Rain" GNR video, dunno why. Anyhow, Freddy jumps up out of this casket and starts chasing me. I make it back inside, to the kitchen, grab me a big ol’ butcher knife and when he comes tearing in, I stab him repeatedly in the chest. The dream skipped a little, and I was thinking, "Ok cool, I killed him, don’t have to worry about him anymore." and that’s all I remember.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/04/2005 10:17 AM EDT

AJ: Also, I always liked the watch. Everyone had the Dick Tracy watch though.

I wanted that watch so much, but never actually got it! I vaguely remember some sort of TV promotion where you had to put clues together and send the answer in to win one of the watches. It might have revolved around the Disney Afternoon as well, but I could be wrong. Anybody else remember this and can fill in the missing pieces for me?

Ghosted by Gozer @ 09/04/2005 12:28 PM EDT

oh man, i’m so glad i accidentally turned on the radio. the crappy rock station (92.3 x-treme radio)in cleveland decided to resurrect the music and djs from my favorite radio station from the mid 90’s!!! I have been glued to the radio to hear all of my fave alternative songs from back in the day. Its nice to hear good rock on the radio again, well at least for this weekend. Long live 107.9 THE END!!!

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 09/04/2005 12:45 PM EDT

Hey Matt,

I agree with what you had to say about the whole genie ordeal in Cereal Prize Project Group 14. I actually met Mark Waid (a well-known comic book writer from LA) yesterday (Saturday), and we were discussing how ideas are most successful when they aren’t so concerned with exactly what the audience wants. And that includes not taking concepts that others have thought of and coming up with our own version thereof. He used the example of TMNT. Eastman and Laird’s idea was rather experimental, but it was successful. And sure enough, there were those who tried to ride on that success with their own TMNT-like ideas, but who the Hell remembers them. I vaguely remember the likes of Biker Mice From Mars (and I do actually have a VHS from this series), but it is certainlynot as memorable as TMNT. Anyway, I find that I’m learning a lot about writing and the ideas that work, as well as the ones that don’t work, from your writing, Matt. Thank you.

Ghosted by Nate @ 09/04/2005 3:09 PM EDT

Nate has learned one of the godforsaken truths about advertising and/or popular characters: If it’s worth doing, then it’s worth others overdoing. TMNT begat a bevy of fighting animals, MMPR set loose a legion of martial artists in spandex shows. The original Star Wars gave us cute robots, robots with british accents, "laser" swords, and scenes with crowds of weird aliens. Harry Potter is big right now, and look how many "Magic" shows are being made for kids right now, including a Super Sentai show in Japan! Just wait until X-E becomes popular and well-known around the world. Kids will want to be like Matt, Squee, Gabby, Gozer, Manimal, or, heaven forbid, yours truly! Time to stick my head back in the bucket again….

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/04/2005 5:20 PM EDT

Hahahaha I wonder who people would ship as their OTPs
I figure most everybody has tomorrow off, right? Perhaps it’ll keep bumping like a Saturday all night. Don’t know of any horror flicks airing, but I’m sure a few others will be watching the Entourage finale with me.
(If anybody wants to see a new batch of puppy pics, click my name. Also, ALMOST HUNDRETH POST!)

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/04/2005 5:38 PM EDT

Dammit, I got sent home from work early and missed an opportunity to be made fun of. Shit.

Ghosted by Kyle @ 09/04/2005 5:38 PM EDT

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