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Jason Takes Arsenio.


I'm really happy to add this one to the Countdown, as it holds a lot of deep, personal meaning for me. Maybe not, but I certainly couldn't have been the only one watching The Arsenio Hall Show on that hot July night in 1989. To promote Jason Takes Manhattan, the big man himself appeared as one of Arsenio's guests. Am I coming in clear, here? Jason Voorhees...on The Arsenio Hall Show!

It was just as life-altering as you could imagine.

Posted by Matt on 09/29/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 68 comments

Wow, that was pretty rad. I used to watch Arsenio all the time but don’t remember that at all. Thanks, Matt! Great addition to the Countdown.

Screamfest sounds pretty effin’ cool. Tom Savini and Stephen Geoffreys alone make it worth while, not to mention everything else. I’d love to go to Universal Studios too this year, since all the attractions are going to be based on Freddy, Jason, and Leatherface. Too bad I can’t afford any of this.

Freddy on a talk show would rock. I love the F13 movies, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve always been more of a Freddy guy. I think I saw Chucky do some talk shows back in the day though. Seems like I can remember that, but I might just be imagining it.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/29/2007 10:06 AM

Kane Hodder made his first appearance as Jason, in part VII. Pretty much, the last real worth while addition to the franchise. Freddy Vs. Jason, and Jason X do have their moments though. Most notably the liquid nitrogen kill from X.

I’ve never been all that Impressed by Hodder’s portrayal Of Jason, I much prefer the Hill Billy/Elephant Man Jason of old!

Chestnuts roasted by Whalen @ 09/29/2007 10:29 AM

While this was great, NOTHING will ever beat Chucky’s out of nowhere appearence on WCW Monday Nitro. RD of Wrestlecrap will almost definately repost it when his goes all Halloween next week.

I saw a bunch of Arsenio/wrestler interviews on Youtube awhile back (including the Macho King one you mentioned). Although I never watched his show, Arsenio is underrated as a talk show host from what little I’ve seen.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/29/2007 11:23 AM

You know what’s weird Matt? I get to meet Kane Hodder today at the drive-in! The exact same day you posted this!

Chestnuts roasted by Dave @ 09/29/2007 11:43 AM

anyone in the NY NJ Philly area, click on my name, i found this thing called Teror behind the walls, its a haunted house set up in a prison called eatern state penitentiary. YOu go through and its all haunted for real.

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_terror behind the walls_Reeves @ 09/29/2007 12:11 PM

Mandy_Reeves
That looks awesome, wish I was there.
Where I’m from (Duluth, MN) we have a US Steel Flagship for the Great Lakes… the SS William Irvine. They do what they call a ‘Ship of Ghouls’ for Halloween.
It’s pretty creepy; it’s this huge, old ship, which can be creepy without added Halloween goodness.
There are plenty of ghost stories associated with it.

I now live in Colorado, and haven’t found anything on par with it. And, it definitely looks like yours far surpasses Duluth’s.

Chestnuts roasted by Raechel @ 09/29/2007 12:42 PM

Mandy

Yeah, I live in Philly,and they advertise the crap outta that..I saw a bus completely covered in an ad for it yesterday. The Penitentiary doesn’t really need to get all dolled up to be scary though. All kinds of fucked up things, like experimenting on the prisoners, happened there. Look it up some time, there’s a bunch of documentaries with interviews with former inmates that tell all about what they were subjected to.

Chestnuts roasted by Ken @ 09/29/2007 1:10 PM

I got some Edgar & Ellen slime, just cause. Got the new Foos, and I caught a Pachirisu!!!

No, not in the game, I’ve had several for ages. I got a Plushie!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 09/29/2007 1:35 PM

That’s probably the problem today: people like Conan and Jay Leno don’t interview crazy movie characters. Sure, Borat made his rounds, but he wasn’t going to kill anybody. Oh well.

Chestnuts roasted by Ben @ 09/29/2007 1:37 PM

Yeah, I remember seeing this too. Great choice, Matt.

Is it wrong that my favorite Friday the 13th is Jason Takes Manhattan?

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/29/2007 1:52 PM

Whalen–Yeah, I agree. I don’t like the super bulky, lumbering, linebacker look. He was a lot scarier when he was just a kind of lean, messed up guy out in the woods that you didn’t know anything about. I still think the scariest of all are parts 2 and 3. Jason’s mother’s head on the table in his cabin scared the bejeezes out of me when I was a kid. Another thing that I don’t think really got enough credit was the score of those movies. Not just the chee-chee-chee, ah-ah-ah stuff…I mean the actual tense music that would always start playing when he showed up. The stuff they would do with the violin strings was very simple but very effective and really creepy. I would put it right up there almost with Carpenter’s Halloween piano theme. Well, almost.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/29/2007 2:07 PM

That was an awesome entry! Talk Shows should interview more movie characters, whether they’re horror killers like Jason, Freddy & Chucky.

Speaking of Chucky, he did appear on SNL a few years ago back when Colin Quinn was the anchor of Weekend Update.

I got my Manaphy from TRU today! Level 50 and everything, and had Heart Swap! and I just hatched a Phione.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 09/29/2007 2:56 PM

When are they gonna make a game where you trap and train little movie monsters? That would clinch it to really get me to buy a DS then, the ability to battle with tiny, tiny Frankenstein Monsters.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash and the Treasure of the Salsa Verde @ 09/29/2007 3:24 PM

If Arsenio’s eyes got any bigger they would have popped out of his head!

Chestnuts roasted by Ladytink_534 @ 09/29/2007 4:13 PM

I’d join that Scrabble game.

I’m stuck at work. I’d kill for some candy corn to pass the hours. *sigh*

So what else is out there with horror villans on cheesy talk shows? Maybe that dude from Hell Raiser was on the Jerry springer show, or something?

Chestnuts roasted by citygirl @ 09/29/2007 4:23 PM

This is probably why his show got cancelled… too edgy obviously

Chestnuts roasted by Vanbilderass @ 09/29/2007 5:21 PM

I could take Jason in a game of Monopoly any day.

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 09/29/2007 5:22 PM

I must say, I’ve come to love Jason Voorhees. Went to Hot Topic today and bought a real nifty pen with Jason on top wielding a machete. Got a Freddy Krueger, too. Now I can make them battle… and kiss!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/29/2007 5:25 PM

My Manaphy isn’t lvl 50 yet :( Then again, I got to build mine from the ground up :)

Phione is pretty butt ugly to me.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 09/29/2007 6:20 PM

And what is the deal with the 10,000+ steps?!?!? Totally not worth it. I didn’t have a poke with Flame Body at the time. Grrrrr.

Let’s hold out the irrational hope that the next generation of games will allow us to evolve Phiones. An army of Manaphys. sigh

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 09/29/2007 6:24 PM

Tying in two Halloween Countdown 2007 articles – Arsenio Hall voiced Winston in ‘The Real Ghostbusters’ cartoon series. Would you believe it.

(Apparently, movie Winston Ernie Hudson applied to do the cartoon voice himself. Don’t know why they didn’t go with him – can’t be money, as Hall was a bigger star than Hudson so presumably didn’t do the voice on the cheap)

Chestnuts roasted by Jay Firestorm @ 09/29/2007 6:35 PM

Raechel,

I moved to Colorado 3 years ago, and the only thing we seen to have here are sad, sad corn mazes, and a couple of haunted houses. That Ship of Ghouls thing sounds like it would kick ass!!! I miss my haunted hayrides through the back woods of Maine. :(

Chestnuts roasted by crazy_mainer @ 09/29/2007 7:31 PM

You know, I kinda remember watching this back in the day – all wide eyed, wondering if any blood would be spilt. It was pretty badass.

Knegative – I got a plushie Piplup! :D They have ones that talk now too, but they only say their name in 2 ways. It’s not really worth the 20 bucks. :?

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 09/29/2007 7:51 PM

So…um… Happy SNT then I guess? anyhoo…someone think of a poll or topic to discuss…i have to go cook my rice

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/29/2007 8:03 PM

sorry to double post…FYI Dunkin Donuts is going to start serving PIZZA! and Flat Bread sammwiches. I had a pizza today. At 3.50 for a little pizza smaller than the pizza hut personal pan ones, they are not too bad. Like if you want pizza but have to drive at the same time…

They have hasbrowns now too. Like little potato pancakes. Very yum. the DD down the raod is like an experimental concept DD where they test markt the new things. Pancakes are soon i heard

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 09/29/2007 8:11 PM

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