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11/20/2008: Holiday-related DVDs, popcorn and toy cars.

I buy a lot of DVDs. I don’t watch all of them. Actually, I probably haven’t watched more than half of them. Yet, I continue to buy DVDs. They’ve sort of become comfort food for when I’m not hungry. The jury’s still out on whether I’ll actually watch it my latest DVD purchase, but I’ll say this: If I haven’t seen it by Christmas, it’s just another shelf decoration.

The Holiday Treats DVD is awesomeness, but in an odd, arguable way. The total shoestring presentation includes eight random Christmas-themed sitcom episodes, spanning from The Andy Griffith Show to Frasier to Family Ties to The Brady Bunch.

I don’t know what it is, but something about this DVD depresses the fuck out of me.

Maybe it’s that nearly every included show has at least one actor who is now dead. Maybe it’s because so many of these once-sung television heroes now find their opuses bagged together with random Wings episodes, with the DVD production handled by the same company who makes generic brand Honey Smacks. Or maybe it’s because three of the episodes are in black-and-white, and if all of the full-color sitcoms on the DVD taught me anything, it’s that people only watch black-and-white shows when they’re having dramatically depressing personal moments.

The DVD only cost a few bucks, let’s say seven, and I kind of want to watch it. When I bought it, I only just kind of wanted to have it, but now, I don’t know. It has the Carol Brady Vs. Laryngitis episode. That’s something.

Holiday Classics would be perfect to watch if I had the flu. It just seems like such a flu DVD. A small part of me is lobbying for some form of “Flu-ray” joke, but I admit that this is the part of me that I find most disgusting. When you’re sick but still somehow bored, you need something that’s entertaining enough to hold your attention…but not so entertaining that you have to struggle through “fever vision” to find the pause button when you need to go inside and puke. Honestly, I wouldn’t give a shit if I missed the last five minutes of Taxi’s Christmas special.

I wrote about tri-flavored holiday popcorn tins last year. I don’t know what the statute of limitations is on writing about them again, but it’s gotta be longer than a year. Instead, I’ll just point out that they’re available in some really terrific tins this year. The themes range from A Christmas Story to A Charlie Brown Christmas, and other shows/movies that I cannot remember because I did not buy popcorn tins based on them.

PS, now’s as good a time as any to get this out there: I know that there are cases where I use the word “that,” and I really should be using the word “which.” I also know that I misuse quotation marks. It is a stylistic choice. Besides, you’re the asshole who trolls around town saying “for all intensive purposes.” I hope Christmas is bad for you.

Oh, and there’s a pair of “Holiday Hot Rods” three-packs, from Mattel’s Hot Wheels collection. Mattel must have a lot of faith in this concept, as there are roughly 87 different three-packs available.

I’ve long been a proponent of kids receiving Hot Wheels (or Matchbox) cars on Christmas morning. I guess I have no reason to be — there’s no commission or anything — but I still am. If nothing else, toy cars are a good way to guarantee a child at least one welcomed surprise on Christmas. Every kid loves Hot Wheels, but nobody asks to get them for Christmas. It’d be like spending a genie wish on a good bagel.

The vehicles are clearly repainted versions of existing Hot Wheels cars, as few would dare insinuate that Santa Claus drives around town in a forest green van unless there was some cost-cutting measure involved. On the upside, I rather like the other car. I’m sure it’s a model based in reality, but it looks like a sportscar powered by a giant, vanilla-scented pillar candle.

Let’s attach a survey: In the comments, talk about your own personal favorite “flu movies.” “Flu TV shows” are also acceptable, though not as catchy.

Posted by Matt. E-mail me!

hey matt, i’ve been a long time reader of your site, since 2002 and im totally stoked on the 2008 christmas garb.

Man, those popcorn buckets are terrible. Maybe I’m just spoiled by hot popcorn.

Let me clarify: the popcorn itself is awful. The tins are useful for all sorts of things! (but mostly storage)

Whoa, caps is a harsh mistress, I’ve never been first in a comment and I feel like I just ruined it by not taking the time to spell check. Anyhow, I’ve been reading since I was 14 and first discovered the site looking for retro commercials. Since then I’ve participated in every Advent calendar, Halloween extravaganza and whatever else. I even submitted a drawing for a halloween contest under the guise of shamblingyeti. I just want to say I appreciate the dedication to the site.

I know it’s odd, but my favorite “Sick” movie, as I’ve never ever had the flu, is Office Space. I don’t know what it is, but Office Space always makes me feel better.

I’ve definitely never been a fan of popcorn in a tin. Mint flavored M&Ms are more synonymous with yuletide seasons than most other things to me, for some odd reason.

I had a conversation earlier today about “sick movies”. As in, movies you watch when your sick. I argued Lord of the Rings because after 45 minutes you’ll be asleep, getting the rest you should be getting. Or Star Wars. I used to watch Episodes IV-VI in high school when I stayed home for school.

And if you’re home sick for work, I think it’s a law that you have to watch The Price Is Right. But that might have been lifted now that Drew Carey hosts.

Popcorn Tins are a season favorite of mine. But I’m also just a big fan of anything inside of tin packaging. I was driving home tonight and saw not one but two houses with Christmas lights up. A small but enjoyable taste of things to come.

OH HELL WHAT’S GOIN ON IN THE CALENDAAAARARRRRRRRRRRRAAARRARARARARARARARARARRRR

Brian, you are nuts, the Drew is amazing. My personal favorite “home sick” shows were Little House and the New Yankee Workshop. That is what happens when you grow up in a house with NO CABLE! I remember one episode of the workshop where Norm carved a sphere out of wood, who the hell wants that.

And does anyone know where those tins are being sold? I want a Charlie Brown one.

I like the cheese the best but I feel the plain popcorn is the worst, total waste of space in the tin. Luckily, my husband just told me he likes it, so HOORAY and I return to my original statement:

In other news, thanks to XE I am now listening to Christmas music and eating McDonalds takeout, which for some reason I’m choosing to categorize as “Christmasy Activity”.

I haven’t had the full blown flu in at least 5 years, and that was even questionable. I do have a memory from when my little brother got the flu as a child. All throughout his week-long illness he would only watch, Marry Poppins.

Matt: I think they are depressing because, if you were a true fan of the show you would probably have all the seasons, so these are the dregs they put on a DVD for the non-serious fans of the show. That’s what depresses me anyway. I love Lucy (pun intended) but I’m not the kind of fan who owns all 89 seasons of the show. I guess what I’m saying is that it points out that you’re not as big of a fan as you thought you were and that’s mean.

As for “flu-ray” (there, that’s just for you), I tend to watch what I consider the “epic” movies that are just too long/intense/convoluted to enjoy on a casual Sunday afternoon. These would be movies like Big Fish, The Butterfly Project, Memoirs of a Geisha, 28 Days Later, etc. I love all of those movies, but those are movies I have to pay attention to, I can’t just pop them in and build a webpage while they play.

For TV shows, anything on TBS is go with me. I especially enjoy Yes, Dear, King of Queens, and Home Improvement, though it does depress me that these shows are no longer airing. And I always seem to watch Just Shoot Me even though I hate that show. It just sucks me in! I can’t look away! Yet I always feel a little disgusted with myself after watching it.

Anyway, I seem to remember growing up watching “Back to the Future” and the Star Trek movies as “sick movies” When I wasn’t sleeping, anyway.

Also, sick days were days for playing video games. Like, all day long. Being sick as a kid meant chilling with Mega Man and Mario all day.

The popcorn tins have now been a tradition at my gram’s house for at least the past ten years. And it’s kind of become a problem because she now stores so much stuff in the old ones that in order to find the current popcorn tin you first have to go through the tins of stored knitting supplies and crap. Because who remembers if it’s the year of the Santa tin, or the snowflakes, or the cartoony toys?

I’m totally in the spirit now, what with the AC coming up and the cranberry soda out. And the special Junior Mints at Target. I was resisting holiday spirit for awhile because I felt like all the stupid corporations are just foisting it on us too early. Plus, I’ve been having fun with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). No more grinching now though.

Flu movies: Fantasia. I hate it unless I’m sick. And old Teddy Ruxpin episodes on tape, commercials and everything. I <3 Tweeg.

Flu shows….well, I have not had the flu in years. *knocks hard on wood desk* but in school when I did, it was always The Price is Right, followed by the trashy back-in-the-day talk shows…like Montel, before he grew a soul. I actually wrote about shows to watch while sick one time, I just am too lazy to look it up.

I have never been the recipient of those popcorn tins, I actually have always wanted one though.

When I’m sick I like to mix the two categories. I watch one of the various tv show season dvds I have collected. I just load 3 of the discs into my player and do not get up unless I am forced to. I am almost hoping I get sick so I catch up on some shows, even if my dog hates some of them.

Oh God, number #1 - Little Shop of Horrors on DVD. It has this great feature all logical DVD’s have (but surprisingly not all) where, if left on the menu for more that five minutes, it plays the film again. Through sleep and hallucinating you will definitely find yourself catching your favorite part more than once, and I do think everyone forgets how funny Steve Martin is as a singing, psychotic dentist.

The number one film of all time is also perfect for this, or any sort, of occasion. Back to the Future: Part 2, baby. On a side note, I’m so pumped for Advent Calendar that I’m omitting a red and green mist from every pore - I assure you, it’s very festive.

my sick movies: Back to the Future, Labyrinth, Wizard of Oz (i’m REALLY sick if I’m watching this, just because it makes me very warm and fuzzy), Buffy anything (i love buffy), Ginger Snaps, Princess Diaries… and a bunch of others I can’t remember.

I don’t remember having the flu. Though I did watch Air America one time when I was sick. I don’t remember if
it was a cold or an allergic reaction. When I’m feeling
bad, (not physically), I watch Fawlty Towers. John
Cleese is so funny. The Tick is fun to watch too. The
animated original version of The Tick of course. Though
the live action version one is okay. I also watch old
episodes of G.I. Joe. Cobra Commander sure had some
asenine plots back then. Like using a laser to carve
his image on the Moon. Home Improvement had good
Christmas episodes. G.I. Joe had one good Christmas
episode, Cobra Claws are coming to town.

Matt, I think I had a Hot Wheels vehicle just like that
RV vehicle back in the Eighties. My RV might be from
the same molds they used to make the one that you
showed us here. We’ve been typing about Christmas here
the past days, and I still have leftover Halloween
candy in the pantry.

I’m feeling a bit more Christmassy myself after last week’s bout with the pre-holiday blues. I used some of the money I earned raking leaves for my landlady yesterday to buy my first Christmas present of the year, for my best friend, and I just confirmed with my sister that I’d like to join her at our mother and stepfather’s house in Cape May County for Thanksgiving this year.

I’d probably spend the day sleeping (which is what I did the last time I had the flu), but if I were up for watching something, it might be a musical to cheer me up, or maybe an epic or a mini-series (like the one I’m watching right now, “Centennial”) that takes a while and has a lot going on to distract me from how lousy I feel.

Futurama. Pure comfort food for 2 of the senses. The world is fleshed out enough for half an hour of escapism, but the writing isn’t smart enough that you have to pay attention to get it. You know how potheads say ‘it’s always 4:20 somwhere’? Well, Futurama’s always playing on network cable somewhere.

It’s been said a couple of times, but for some reason whenever I’m truly home sick I always end up watching the Price is Right. Drew Carey or Bob Barker, it doesn’t matter. I’m not sure its so much a law of man, but more a law of nature. I never intend to watch it, it just turns out that way. Its weird…

After that if I can’t find anything on cable its usually some mindless action or sci fi movie.

I was going to add a correction and say that potheads actually probably say ‘It’s always 4:20 somEwhere’, but then I thought, y’know, all the potheads I know don’t bother searching for a justification for the light-up. So they wouldn’t even notice if ’somewhere’ was spelled right or not. Then that made me think about Matt’s calling out of the grammar nazis, and I wonder if somebody who isn’t familiar with the phrase ‘intents and purposes’ would know whether or not ‘nazis’ should be capitalized.

I’ve never eaten Tin Popcorn, but it really wouldn’t be Christmas without em.

As for “Flu Movies/Shows,” I’ve never really had one. But on Super Bowl Sunday I came down with a stomach virus/food poisoning and was left for dead on the couch. What was on besides the big game? Why, the Puppy Bowl, of course! The guaranteed pick-me-up to any sick day!

I would watch Nick Jr., and that was in my early teens. Have I just forfeited my manhood by admitting that?

I’m sorry. It’s only November and I just shit all over December. I’m just Reverend Buzzkill (13) today.

It all depends on when you were in your early teens, Monte. Nick Jr. pretty much became The Blues Clues/Dora Block by the time I hit my teen years.

But when I was a little kid and home sick, the good ol’ days of Nick Jr. was where it’s at!

I don’t really have any specific movies that I watch whenever I get sick. I pretty much watch whatever looks appealin to me. Although I like back to the future and it’s sequels. Same goes for TV shows too. Whatever looks appealin to me. Mostly though, I play games. I’m a gamer first and foremost. I’m alot like Cameron T. .

I’m tempted to turn on the x-mas jukebox and get myself a delicious (nom nom nom) popcorn tin, but I MUST RESIST. It’s not even December yet.

It must have been my preteens then, because I remember Blue’s Clues et al. coming along later on. I was thinking more along the lines of Fred Penner and his happy feet, and that show about gnomes starring the dad from “Happy Days.”

That Santa van, by the way, totally makes me think of the ending of “Christmas Evil.” Happy holidays indeed.

Ironically, whenever I get sick it happens on a friggin Saturday, and by Monday I’m fine! But when I do get sick, and end up at home between 1:00 and 3:00 PM, it is not movies I’m craving, it is TV. Usually it is soaps, although I still long for The Disney Afternoon, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and a few Charles in Charge reruns! I also remember having days off/being sick as a kid and watching these low budget court dramas on Fox. I think one of them was titled “Divorce Court,” and there was another judge show. They would re-enact various legal cases, horribly.

When I had my wisdom teeth removed over Christmas break in college, I made my parents go out and rent Boogie Nights for me. That movie kind of has the same arc as the flu. One minute you’re riding high, then everything starts to fall apart and the court system is taking your children away. Soon enough, however, things start to turn around. You’re not 100%, but you still have that bag of cash you walked away with from the doughnut shop massacre, and you use it as seed money to open your own stereo store. Yeah, colds are exactly like that.

I know it’s gonna seem cliche, but whenever I’m sick, I just pop in Star Wars. It fits the bill. I don’t have to focus on it at all since I know every freaking second by heart. Princess Bride is also a good standby for flu season. Clue works well, now that I think of it. It’s hilarious at times, but I have a history of falling asleep right in the middle of it only to wake up to see Tim Curry turn on a shower right in his own face.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I feel this pressing need to find the Hot Wheels three pack with that 40s roadster because it makes me think of my boyfriend.

For our intents and purposes I will only name the top three things I watch when sick because when I was younger all I could watch was The Price is Right when I stayed home from you:

Justice League Unlimited - Good stories and great animation
Family Guy- Always cheers me up no matter what
House- Smart and a badass

I have to come in and agree, the best flu show is the New Yankee Workshop. I remember being 9 years old, so sick I could barely sit up long enough to puke, watching Norm assemble a beautiful cabinet work dresser.

Tonight, I’m going to finish off the 2006 Advent Calander. Tomorrow, i’ll plow through the 2007 one,even though I don’t need to. I still remember it very clearly.

Hmmm, flu entertainment? Well, the times I have been REALLY sick with the flu I don’t really remember what I was watching. I was too busy praying to fall asleep and trying to remind myself that if I could just survive the next 24-36 hours, I’d start feeling better.

However, I can remember plenty of times as a kid, while just a little under the weather, being dropped off at my grandmother’s while my mother worked. The entertainment for the day? The Price is Right followed by hours of soaps operas (as a boy I couldn’t stand the soaps).

So yeah… when I think “sick show” I think The Price is Right. And please remember to have your pets spayed or neutered.

Ah, Ultramann, I just plowed through calendars 02-04, intend to reread 05-06 tomorrow!

Trivia Question: What is Mare’s Brother’s Name?
Trivia Question2: What is Waiterbot’s full name?

I think anything from TVLand works for me as a “flu-flick”. Anything too loud in both color and noise can be kind of annoying when you’re sick. Some old shows on the channel have a decent neutral tone for those times. Sometimes it re-introduces me to shows I wouldn’t normally watch because I’d consider them boring but then I gain a new appreciation for them.

Princess Bride and Labyrinth are pretty high on my flu-ray list but the top spot has to go to Ed Wood. There is just something about Johnny Depp in drag acting that cheery that makes me happy every time I watch it.

Also I got it on DVD for Christmas a couple years ago and got sick that day. After the whole unwrapping thing I wasn’t feeling so great, by the time we got through brunch I had gone to curl up on the couch so my sister popped in the DVD for me and I just watched that all afternoon. I woke up in time to help clean up Christmas dinner and was by then feeling much better.

@Evilsquatch - I have to agree about Futurama. I watch it while on a treadmill. I’ve seen each episode enough that I don’t worry about missing any dialog over the sound of the machine and it sucks me in enough that I don’t think about the fact that I’m exercising or getting tired.

Flu movies: Probably anything they have on MST3K. Flu shows: The Price is Right, Twilight Zones I’ve seen 1000 times, and Friday the 13th: The Series.

Waiterbot’s name is Einstein T. Waiterbot. His parents named him that because they thought it would be funny.
What the T stands for, I have no idea. Thunderheart
with Val Kilmer would make a good flu movie. I like
watching Clerks.

Sorry about my cranky post yesterday morning. Been a teeensy bit flu-y today, enough to where I decided to spend some of my scant bucks for some herbal cough medicine. Been holding it off mostly, tho.

Now that I don’t have broadcast, satellite, or cable TV, I usually either watch my ReBoot or Red Dwarf tapes when I’m sick. Back when I was a teen and the Disney Channel had just started, I liked watching the old movies (and I think some Stooges stuff) they played in the early afternoon. The Price is Right was always my signal that soaps were imminent and it was time to find something less boring.

Congratulations Matt, it’s been exactly one year since an X-E article has been posted. Let’s all celebrate this fabulous day!

Camp Nowhere and 3 Ninjas have become sick-day staples for me over the years. Just sayin’.

For me, if I’m watching ANY movie I probably have at least a sore throat. I just don’t have that kind of attention span when I’m healthy. As for “sick TV”, when I had mono earlier this year I turned into some kind of Spongebob addict. It’s cheery, it requires approximately 2 brain cells to follow, and with our satellite package, which has like 3 different Nickelodeons, Spongebob is always on somewhere.

When I was a kid, though, I always played video games when I was sick. I hated going to the doctor, and my doctor’s office was right next to a video store that had a nice selection of N64 games for rent. My parents knew what to do. I spent many a sick day on the couch playing Waverace and San Francisco Rush. Racing games are great when you’re sick ’cause you don’t have to think much.

I think growing up my favorite things to watch on tv was just the daytime tv I missed when I went to school. I loved talk shows and watched most of them. I agree with others when I say that whenever I am sick I crave watching the Price is Right. As an adult I don’t really watch it that often because I sleep in later then 11.

I also remember one time when I was sick in my room I had a radio by my bed that I reached over to and listened to AM talk radio that I missed when I was in school too. I know one show I listened to was the short lived Susan Powter call in talk show. It was the monday after spring break that I was so sick I couldn’t move. I also couldn’t keep anything down. I had a feeling that people were going to suspect that I was faking an illness to extend my vacation. Well being barely able to move and puking everything I ate I think proved well enough I was sick. I remember thinking to myself I am going to die, I am going to die lying here. I was just being dramatic and using an appropriate time to do so. At least whenever I am sick in the moment I feel it’s appropriate to get whiny.

I had a huge craving for Orange Juice but my Grandma said I wouldn’t keep it down so she didn’t want me drinking it. After she left to do errans I conned my older sister to make me some with a weak and adorable look on my face. She did, and sure enough I barfed it up into a plastic tub beside my bed. I was happy though if you can imagine that. Later I got some 7up and that I could stomach so that was good. I never had that as a regular sick staple even though as an adult if I am having some sort of stomach flu I try to get my hands on a couple 2 liter coke bottles.

As an adult I just watch clips on youtube or movies that I really enjoy at that time. There are some clips on youtube that every time I watch them it puts me in such a better mood. I have seen some over 60 times and I still laugh out loud. I should write a blog article about which ones someday.

I hate that tin popcorn. It tastes so stale by the time you get it. Crunch n munch is good though. It’s so funny because every time I see one of those (or two) I have a visual of my Granddad with his one tin he got years ago for Christmas from an aunt that had NO IDEA what to get him. Every year she says he still likes those tins filled with popcorn right? He uses the tin for an end table of sorts. He puts papers and odds and ends on it that he wants in an arm reach while watching tv. Just so you know he has a real end table on the other side of him.

I just want to tell everybody that is looking to get Christmasey warm and fuzzy things any place they can get it right now on Rosie.com (yes Rosie O’ Donnell’s blog just hear me out) in her So what? section (in yellow writing at the very top) there are people’s memories of Holiday traditions. I read them about 4 hours ago some are really great. Like the jewish family that every Christmas they bowl in the empty bowling alley lol!

Bob Ross’ “The Joy of Painting” was a great “sick” show. You basically becomed enthralled and astonished in him painting a masterpiece in 22 minutes and you forget that you’re sick for the time being.

As for sick movies, I have a bit of advice. Never watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 8:30 in the morning when you are on painkillers from getting wisdom teeth pulled. Its not fun. I had NO idea what I was happening When Eddie biked out of the freezer, I gave up trying to understand.

When I was a kid, my flu shows were always The Price Is Right and Nick Jr. Now that I don’t have TV (not even broadcast), I’m not sure what it’d be. I haven’t been stay-in-bed-all-day sick in quite some time now, but if I was, I think I’d end up watching my Space Ghost Coast to Coast DVDs and maybe The Sound of Music or Hook or something that I liked as a kid.

You know what isn’t a good thing to do when you’re sick? Read. I used to try to read in bed when I was sick, but it usually just made me feel worse for some reason. Especially when I had a cold with one of those awful stopped-up headaches or something.

Does that Charlie Brown popcorn tin have cheese in the biggest third?! There really is a Santa Claus. There’s no other explanation. I must get myself one of those.

If there were an old-school Nick Jr. network, I would watch that 24/7 when sick. There’s something nice about childhood favorites then. When I have the flu, I crave Luden’s cherry cough drops and Maya the Bee. At least I can usually have the cough drops.

Yeah, I tried reading yesterday. Was hoping to knock back a few magazines out of my “to read” pile. Nope, couldn’t do it. I didn’t even attempt to work on Moby Dick (my current book)….

I like watching “The Flintstones” when I’m sick. Even if my innards are gradually fighting to become my outers and an egg can be cooked on my fever-laden forehead, I still don’t feel as if I’m doing the whole sick thing properly if I don’t watch a few episodes of Flintstones.

When I’m sick, I usually watch something I’ve seen fifteen billion times, like Legend, Twin Peaks, Firefly or Jacob’s Ladder. I’ve also watched Troll 2 more times than I should admit, but when you are sick, it makes a little too much sense, and is rather disconcerting because if it.

When I was young, I was also in the Price is Right camp. Actually, I was home sick watching the Price is Right when the Challenger blew up (the go-to memory of our generation). If I was more cynical and pretentious I could write something comparing the death of my dreams and plinko

Possibly the worst sick television experience was being sick on the couch with the TV set to the weather channel. Me being too sick to get up and find the remote. I’m not sure how long I was there, but it felt like six or seven years.

On the other end of the spectrum, for a while I was going into the studio every time I was ill and adding to a recording. I only worked on it when I was sick, improvising synth parts on my Prophet when I still had it (I miss it very very much). It was fun, weird, random and sorta reminded me of Coil’s weirder stuff.

But one thing I seem to remember that I liked watching on VHS as a kid when I’d wrangled a day off school (be it ill or otherwise) was the Herbie movies. I had them all on tape as a kid (recorded off the TV, of course, my family were cheapskates); It wasn’t until this moment that I consciously made the link between ill and Herbie.

For me, and this is stemmed from my childhood, being sick was always synonymous with The Price is Right. It just makes me feel better. I am willing to rethink this statement now that Mr. Barker retired. I have a feeling it wouldn’t help me anymore. I say the show did it, but we all know Mr. Barker is what really made me feel better.

If I stayed home sick, and was actually sick, I was awake for the 4-5 hours it took for all The Price is Right episodes to be over and then I slept till lunch. Thanks to delirium brought on by fever, I still can’t tell if The Price is Right was actually 4-5 hours long, or if it was a few episodes that I “fever-visioned” my way through. The contestants always look like the same people to me when I’m sick. After the first 20 minutes I can barely tell if they are male or female.

Regardless, after waking up from my Bob Barker coma, Mom would have a grilled cheese sandwich, ginger-ale, and a popsicle waiting for me at the bed side. It seemed like mom went to the grocery store every time I got sick. Either that or she went there every day and I just never noticed unless I was home because of sickness. I don’t care either way, it made being sick a lot easier to suddenly have weird foods that weren’t in the house before you got sick suddenly materialize.

Who wouldn’t be happy, even with a high fever, to wake up with unexpected Dunkaroos or Pringles softly padding your forehead with a moist washcloth? I’d willingly knock myself out in the most painful way imaginable as long as it meant my first waking moments somehow involved eating Dizzy Grizzlies that weren’t in my house yesterday but now suddenly are.

I love Xmas popcorn. The best is FISHERS popcorn http://www.fishers-popcorn.com/ . sorry for the tactless advert but they are awsome .I usually get it fresh from the OC board walk but delivered its just as good . They dont have the awesome Ralphie tin or Chucks tree after it was gang raped by the other peanuts but they do have some christmasy type tins .

I too was a lover of the hot wheels . I had a whole bowling bag full. Yes i said bowling bag , because if you didnt have one the kids in school ,in the Essex Baltimore area would pummel you with Natty Bo cans . I always loved getting the cars but they are so expensive now, i mean 4 bucks for a little car is well more than i would pay ; maybe im just a codger .

As for my Flu flick i always stick to the Star Wars Trilogy , not the 3 new Star Wars atrocities that are only named that because it shares a few character names . I loved to watch the trilogy with some hot green tea ( no im no hippie) and rice krispies treats all snuggled up . i usually fall asleep with in an hour of each one but hey i have the flu and sleep is what the doctor ordered . Besides its a virus and antibiotics are just a doctors way of saying fuck off and dont bug me .

I once knew of a guy who drove around in a green van filled with gifts for children.. he’s now serving 8 to 10 in an upstate federal prison. Worst christmas ever.

My sick tv viewing was basically Price is Right along with whatever other gameshows or cartoons were on at the time (USA Network used to have a gameshow block along with the old Cartoon Express. Big Press Your Luck fan aka the Whammy show). I would also watch cooking shows and the occaisional courtroom show. This was before the days of GSN, Food Network, and Court TV.

For me, that DVD is perfect for gift-wrapping background. It has just the right amount of nostalgic Christmas spirit to set a mood. It would also be perfect for Christmas Eve night, when you’re winding down, possibly just back from the Christmas Eve service at church and just want something to set the tone for what’s to come. Plus, unlike a movie, you’re not committing to sitting there for a couple of hours. I think I must have that DVD.

When I was a kid, like most everyone else, The Price Is Right was mandatory viewing on a sick day. It came on at a great time - right between waking up for the morning and napping in the afternoon. Plus, it took commercial breaks after every contestant, which was great if you were drinking a lot of fluids and had to make frequent bathroom trips. My parents aren’t really movie people, so once the dreaded soaps took over the networks, I’d dig out some of the old musicals my mother taped when she was pregnant with me. I was only interested in the ones that had the late 70’s commercials still in tact. In fact, I came for the commercials and stayed for the movies.

Nowadays, nothing compares to Simpsons DVDs. I find them to be perfect. I’m familiar enough with them that I can close my eyes and picture what’s happening, which occupies the thinking part of my brain so I can get some much needed sleep. Plus, if I fall asleep in the middle, I don’t feel at all guilty because I’ve seen them all countless times. On the other hand, if I really can’t sleep, they’re great entertainment that doesn’t require too many brain cells. It’s a win-win.

When I was younger and sick I’d always watch “The Great Muppet Caper.” We had taped it off the Disney channel in the late 80’s. This the glory days of Disney when they had no commercials and it was a “premium” channel. Even now when I watch Muppet Caper on DVD I expect to see “To Order Now Call 1-777-345-6780″ pop up whenever the scene where Miss Piggy climbs up the building comes on.

Lol, Chris, grew up watching stuff taped off TV at times as well. Need to dig up my copy of The Muppet Movie, recorded off Fox when I was five, complete with children’s toy commercials from 1985! When things get to be over 20 years old, sometimes the commercials become more interesting than the actual subject.

For some reason, I always find myself watching the Back to the Future trilogy in its entirity on flu days. That’s not to say I don’t thumb through the hundreds of other DVDs before settling on that one though. I guess there’s some sort of relationship between those movies and illness going on in my head.

When I’m sick, I probably go for something that either comforts me or that I’ve seen a million times. Or both.

I think with your typical run of the mill hollywood comedy, it’d be cool to just fall asleep while everything goes down the drain and wake up to the heroic rise of the main character. Somehow these comedies - however much I love them - always go like this:
Normal situation
Unusual thing happens
Some really cool stuff happens as a result, plot isn’t really the main concern here
The main character realises something he previously ignored or people around him react badly to his presence or something
He figures out something really complicated to counteract his problem
Scenes show him doing more cool stuff, but different from before
Happy end

Seen it a million times before. I think that kind of formulaic film would be good to watch. Even if you haven’t seen it before, you can probably figure out what had happened on screen.

I can’t speak specifically to the flu, all of my recent vomit memories involved vodka, but sick days are definitely Little House on the Prairie days for me.

When I was off for 3 weeks last month, 1pm to 3pm was LHotP time. The rest of the day was a little Price is Right, a little Maury/Baby Daddy, and a bunch of random shows on E.

Matt, I’m a DVD buying whore as well. I am literally running out of space for them, dont’ have time to watch stuff like I used to, yet keep buying….it’s a strange disease and a vicious circle to live in

I don’t really get sick very often. But when I do, I’ve got to watch something like Back To The Future or a Wrestlemania. Wrestlemanias are good because I can lay there with my eyes closed and listen to them.. and not really feel like I missed anything.

Oh.. I forgot to mention! My *parents* got a Wii for their anniversary (my mom fell in love with Wii Bowling during a vacation we took about a month back).

I’ve been posting on this site for a while.. and reading it even longer, but I’ve never participated in a Box 23 discussion. And to be honest, I think I know why. I’m baffled. What’s the whole.. thing with Box 23 anyways?

someone may have already mentioned this, but as far as flu movies go, for me any trilogy is great. My three first choices are usually the original star wars trilogy, back to the future, or lord of the rings. I’ve seen them all a million times, so it really doesnt matter if i doze off for 40 minutes in the middle. Theyre long, so i dont have to get up to change the movie for at least 2 hours, or longer if i managed to pass out near the end… theyre sort of like comfort food for your red hot feverish brains… as for tv shows, i grew up watching masters of the universe whenever i got sick, and as soon as the dvd’s of the old episodes came out, i started right back again… it just makes me feel better…

on another note, i remember from the time i was little until maybe 2 or 3 years ago, my mother would buy like 4 giant tins of 3 flavor popcorn EVERY YEAR! we had those damn cans stacked up everywhere. i remember the storage shed had at least 20 of them filled with all manner of old junk that no one was willing to throw away… old toys no one had looked at in 10 years, christmas decorations, old bank paperwork, you name it we had a christmas popcorn tin full of it… i remember one of the worst incidents was when a tin got put away with the others even though it was still full of popcorn… a year and a half later it had a section of white popcorn dust, a section of orange cheesy popcorn dust, and a section of candy coated popcorn that still looked brand new, but was however fused into a solid brick…

I’ve gotta say that my favorite “flu” dvd would be my Futurama DVDs… I just love me some Futurama… even when they get morbid (Fry’s Dog)… I love ‘em. Also… Matt I WOULD KILL for you if you would someway find it in your heart to include an Indiana Jones and Joker lego figure in this year’s advent calendar… (hmmm… kill may be a strong word… I would think about killing for you…)

I second the idea of watching a trilogy while sick. That sounds like fun, and I can actually remember doing that once with the old The Omen movies. (I didn’t make it through the third one.)

Seasonally enough, I’d rank A Christmas Story extremely high on the list of movies to watch while you’re sick.

Favorite sick show was “Concentration” (I think that’s what it was called) with Alex Trebek. Contestants had to solve word puzzles, with the major win being a NEW CAR.

My mom would make me white rice and it was game shows all day. Jello too. I was the only kid who ever got the flu in my family, so I think the attention was kinda enjoyed.

Sick-time viewing for me has always been BBC comedy. Basil Fawlty is cute when I’m healthy but when my head is a snot locker, there’s nobody I’d rather make out with.

I think that today I’ll list my favorite flu/sick movie as G.I. Joe: The Movie. I always look forward to yelling at the TV when, after being struck by Serpentor’s snake staff, Duke’s wound moves from one side of his chest, to the other, and back again and then “slips into a coma” (copout!). In all honesty. though, I really watch the DVD for the epic intro sequence, the rest of the movie is just background noise while I thumb through Christmas catalogues.

Haley: I don’t think it’s possible for me to forget how hilarious Steve Martin is as a singing, psychotic dentist. It always KILLS me when he jumps off his bike and it keeps going, then suddenly jerks to a stop. XD

Molly: Damn I miss old-school Nick Jr. Maya the Bee, David the Gnome, that fairy tale show from Japan, The Elephant Show… good times.

My flu-ray choices for TV as a kid were anything on Nickelodeon, as well as Disney (anyone remember Lunchbox?). I also dug watching old cartoons my parents taped for my brother and I off TV (Strawberry Shortcake’s Housewarming Surprise, The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings, all manner of He-Man episodes, etc.)

DVDs:
Kung Pow! with the “Book on Tape” option turned on.
The BBC “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” miniseries.
GhostBusters.
The Adam West Batman movie from the 60’s.
Rollerball, the original James Caan version.
True Stories.
Bustin’ Loose.

TV Shows:
TPIR, the godfather of sick-day viewing.
Reading Rainbow, you deserve to be read to, no matter how old.
A good Western on Turner Classic, like High Noon, or Rooster Cogburn.
A good Noir Classic on Turner, Casablanca always works for me.
Comedy Central Presents, starring your favorite comedian.
My tapes with episodes of MST3K, Earthworm Jim, Freakazoid, The Tick, Beast Wars/Machines, the musical episode of Xena, the last episode of STNG, Ren and Stimpy, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures (The Fox Prime Time Series), the 3-D episode of Married With Children, and other thing recorded without express written consent from Philo T Farnsworth.

Things to watch while loopy with fever:
Akira.
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
Toys.
Conan the Barbarian/Destroyer.
Godzilla 2000.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Citizen Kane.
Heavy Metal.
The Wall.

In fact, The Wall is a great freak-out to listen to when your brain is all spazzed from high fever and heavy meds. I also recommend In The Court of the Crimson King.

kingklash, those last two sentences just landed you in my Big Book of Awesome People, which I just made up right now.

I haven’t had a sick day in years ( at least, not one where I wasn’t so sick that I was just huddled under the quilts in bed medicated into a stupor,) but when I was a Wee Lass and rocks were soft (I’m taking about not only pre-Nick Jr. days but pre-anything-on-cable days!) and PBS was National Educational TV, I’d put on the local NET station and let it run all the educational programming that was the standard daytime schedule in those days. Things like Harriet’s Magic Hats, and Econ and Me, and StoryLords, and ReadIt! and Friendly Giant, and all that other lovely stuff that mostly came out of Canada Educational TV. They were so earnest, and so cheaply produced for the most part, and the best thing was most of them were only 15 minutes long, so falling asleep wasn’t a problem.

Going to have to add my vote in and say that The Price is Right has always been the best sick day show for me. Runner up goes to original American Gladiators.

Although for the last couple years, I usually stick in my Star Trek: The Original Series DVDs on sick days.

Sorry about the double post, but I need to call upon the help of all X-ERS! This “sick day” thread reminds me of watching PeeWee’s Playhouse which in turn reminds me of a commercial that may or may not be on the site. It was for a kind of gum or ice cream or ice cream gum that was in little bubble like container and the commerical had an astranaut in it floating in space.

It’s all so hazy… but I somehow remember it. Help me out if you can! Or maybe I just dreamed it all up :S

My best flu tv was after we first got satellite tv with Nick on it: Pete & Pete, Clarissa and Doug. They had great hosts between shows throughout the day too. I’m a sucker for tv channels that used to have live (or at least hosted) segments between shows.

Probably a lost reference apart from maybe a few others like me but: Wacaday, Roland Rat, CBBC Broom Cupboard, DJ Kat.

“Annie” is my #1 flu movie pick, followed by “The Goonies” or anything with the Muppets. Is the “Christmas Story” popcorn tin new this year? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. I want one! Too bad they don’t have them here.

Ugg… tin popcorn. For the last 5 years we’ve beg my grandma not to get us it, but every year she still does. Last year I gave my tin away and my parents still have their’s in the basement pantry. I don’t know what my mom is keeping it for! Another one for The Price is Right. I wonder if Bob knew he had such a big following of kids who watched when they were sick! I haven’t watched it since the mid 90’s though. Knock on wood I haven’t had the flu in; well I actually can’t remember the last time I had the flu… so at least 10+ years. Now when I am home sick with a bad cold I tend to watch 80’s movies.. Ferris Bueller, Pretty in Pink, etc. If I can’t get the dvd player to work; which is more often then not, I’ll just turn on TCM and watch a good black and white movie.

Kingklash, I’m with you. MST3K is excellent for my sick-vision. Joel always sounds like he’s sicker than I am, no matter how bad I feel. Must be all the mushrooms.

I would just like to say that tin popcorn is awesome! But if your worried about it’s freshness, you could always buy the flavors of popcorn seprately, and then add them to a empty tin with a divider. Just a suggestion.

Rev. Back It On Up 13, if I wanted to fall asleep fast, all I’d have to do would be to put on Red Zone Cuba. ::shudder::

I go back and watch TV shows I have on DVD when I’m sick. Right now, it’s Deadwood.

I remember watching SUPERMAN when I was “sick” one day in 5th grade.
Last time I was sick, I watched REVENGE OF THE SITH.

I really can’t remember what I watched when I was younger and sick, but recently, when I spent 13 months in the hospital, I watched obscene amounts of The Price is Right, TBS (as covered by Special K), and FX. I swear I’ve seen every episode of That ’70s Show, King of Queens, and Seinfeld.

It’s OFFICIALLY dropped to FREEZING temp. in my area. Bring on Thanksgiving AND Christmas ! I’m ready!

Then I would put on VH1 and watch their countdowns they would have on all day, which is why I know a ridiculous amount of pop culture events from before I was born. It took me until I was like, fifteen to realize that not everyone did that when they were sick and so they had no opinion on Paul McCartney’s best post-Beatles love song.

Hey, you guys might be interested in checking out the new 2009 lego line. It’s going back to a more oldschool approach, with simpler sets and relying more on the classic bricks. The pirates line is particularly cool. Some of the sets are turning up at Toys R Us and Lego Stores now. I’m jazzed about it.

Yes, I am stoked about the return of PIRATES since I missed that line when I was a kid. Lego has been hitting home runs as of late…

Happy weekend all! We just got back from Friday night sushi/drinking, and this is happiness.

I usually watch whatever movie I have recently picked up at the time as my “flu” or “sick” movie. Last time that happened I watched Iron Man.

I will say that Princess Bride is definitely one of the best movies to use as your stand-by “flu” movie. Good choice, those of you who mentioned it.

Also, I dunno what happened, but ever since I installed the latest version of Flash last week, neither the Christmas or even the Halloween Jukeboxes will load. Does anyone know why or can anyone tell me how to fix it? I can’t fully get into the Christmas spirit until I’m able to listen to Matt’s Christmas mix.

Without reading anyone else’s comments, I love watching futurama dvd’s with the commentary audio track turned on. when i am sick, i usually stay home alone, and hearing people talk about a show that im watching makes me feel less lonely. I also like to watch old seinfeld episodes, because i have seen them all, and the movies the breakfast club and willy wonka and the chocolate factory (gene wilder and that technicolor set totally get me all happy)

I remember having a fever and watching all 6 hours of The Jacksons:an American Dream tv movie. The one about the Jackson five.

Strangely enough, the last two times I was home from work sick I inevitably watched “The Price is Right.” Even if Drew Carey is no Bob Barker (and c’mon, the show REALLY hasn’t been right since Rod Roddy passed on), the wheel and the ‘Higher/Lower’ yodeler are still as awesome as they’ve always been. I think another reason is because it’s either that or soap operas, which I get enough of at freckin’ work.

When I was a kid and we had actual independent stations (read: non-network) in New Orleans, I would watch crap like “Charles in Charge,” “The Facts of Life,” “Small Wonder”…oh God, the lower annals of ’80s television while it was still new. Also remember tuning into “USA Cartoon Express” seeing Pac-Man in the bumpers and praying that they would air just one episode. Alas, they never did…

Oh yeah, The Breakfast CLub! It’s like the perfect flu movie ever possibly even ever uh!

That DVD looks amazing…Matt you find the best stuff!
When I am sick I can’t go wrong with the simple life seasons 1-3…they provide exactly what you described & I can honestly say I have not viewed them unless ill.

Sorry if this has already been covered, but whats the deal with Dec 23rd on the Advent Calendar? And accidental sneak peak of whats to come? Either way I’m excited! =)

Jay Firestorm
If it’s anything like last year, it’s a convoluted Mystery that reveals the evil intentions of whatever evilness there is lurking this year.

Go back a few posts and you’ll find an official “Box 23″ thread. Our small band of “Advent-urers” follow the near daily clues to the larger mystery.

checked out box 23… it appears as though that is the day matt will finally go on a camping trip to jupiters moon amalthea… which is apparently full of holes, and has giant crabs… hmm….

I know. I can’t tolerate them for ten seconds. I watched all the girly cartoons when I was younger, but now the choices are trampy girls or old episodes of Raven and Hannah Montana. God save us.

I miss the Smurfs, Shirt-Tales, Get Along Gang, Garfield and Friends, Gummi Bears, the Pacman one, Flintstones, Jetsons, etc. When everything was fun and happy. Even 80’s cartoon evil was fun. Gargamel…

Ha! I actually have the flu right now…in Montreal…on a road trip. Dammit. Puked the whole way here.

I find it very telling that most people’s choices of “flu-ray” movies/TV are the only types of things I ever watch. ADHD is awesome.

I went to Target this morning and got a jumpstart on my Christmas season with various goodies. Got some Royal Dansk butter cookies, Southern Comfort “vanilla spice” eggnog (I hated the regular stuff last year, but the vanilla was intriguing enough to try anyway), some Rudolph ornaments, a Vince Guaraldi Trio CD (the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas), and finally found Pomegranate 7UP! At long last!

I also got one of those heater/fan combos because our central heating is busted. Luckily we live in Florida so we won’t freeze or something, but it’s still pretty chilly. The hardest thing was that Target also had some pretty cool Beatles and Pink Floyd t-shirts but I had to be responsible and not get them because I need real clothes for work. Maturity sucks

I love infomericals. They should have an infomerical channel. Not like QVC or Shop NBC. Just hours and hours of endless infomercials. I want to hear about Body Clenses from a guy named Clee talkin about his daughters bowel movements. I want psedo-chefs selling me GT Xpress 101’s (Mmmm Stuffed Soup) I want Popeil in primetime! I want steam mops and shark vacs. Billy Mays would be my Letterman! KABOOOM! Magic Bullets and Homes for $300.00. I’ll watch it all day and night in my Slanket.

While Rod Roddy was really cool (Confused? You won’t be, after this episode of Soap.), I go back to the Johnny Olsen days. That’s the man who pioneered “Come on DOWN!” and “It’s a NEW CAR!” That man could really get himself into acting the nut during the Showcases.

Hey MulanLang, I think you’re talking about Bubble Eze. That was one of those commercials that I also thought wasn’t real for a long time.

Oh, I also think the animated Garfield specials would be good sick viewing. Probably the Saturday morning show too.

Sorry to DP but I just found this neat news article about collecting discontinued products. Click-a my name.

Thanks Annette! I was talking with my mom last night (coincidentally her name is Annette) and she said that she kept a bunch of PeeWee’s playhouse eps recorded somewhere in her attic or basement.

I will have to digg through them and if I find that commercial (or others) I will make sure to upload and post them!

I usually only get sick around the last week of november or first week of december, so It’s usually something christmassy, The ranken bass specials mostly,
Picked up that Garfield holiday specials dvd a couple of weeks ago, I had never even heard of the thanksgiving special before then.

I’m not sure if I’m behind times or ahead of them, but BOX 23 is open! It has an even wider assortment of strange images from which we can draw insane conclusions.

Does anyone know if there is a page where links to all the parade reviews are collected? I have only ever read the 1984 one, how many are there?

Lucky me! My Uncle stopped by and dropped off some early Thanksgivin food. Looks great! I think i’ll chow down on this while trying to decipher the box 23 mystery.

I think some evil coconut crabs from Jupiter will take over Christmas using Photoshop effects!!!!

I hope Tarantino isn’t directing the advent calendar this year and it’s told in backward order.

IG-88: I think the Crabs are minions and not the main enemies. Although i’m sure they’ll still be involved somehow.

I was thinking about Hey I’m Jeff asking about ideas for a “How to” speech for his public speaking class. I think an awesome idea would be “How to Prepare Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving Dinner,” using Matt’s article as the basis.

I really haven’t been sick this year. It feels like the Sword of Damocles hanging over me, ready to send me running for the Nyquil.

i made peanut butter cup’s fudge today , i think im going to become morbidly obese , took 2 sticks of butter to make the stuff .. im gonna have to kill myself i just know it .

this advent thing is dangerous this year. i dont have to worry about graduating college this year, so my nights are open. i already have started a list of “clues”. Also, is there a special post mad eon 12/10/02? that was the date on the amalthea screen shot page…

Finally found 7-Up Pom last night. I bought six bottles and two 12-packs. Haven’t decided yet whether that was overkill, or not enough.

hopefully not…i found the cran sierra mist for 88 cents a bottle so i bought a ton. by the end i felt like i had red teeth.

leigha-did you find the box 23 thread? it’s a couple days back on the blog. i think if you click main index it’s at the very bottom of the page.

I’m having trouble deciding if I like Pom 7 Up or Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash better — but I think I’m going to go with the latter. If someone told me I could drink nothing but Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash for the rest of my life, I probably wouldn’t cry.

A month ago I would have agreed with you. But then again, I didn’t mix a single bit of it with vodka.

When I’m sick I go with The Goonies like Muppet Baby said, but with the commentary! I’m also big on watching Labyrinth like a few others said, and Dark Crystal. Maybe some Karate Kid?

I hope we get a new thread for SNT. It will be my first time participating in it for a long long long time. Damn husbands stealing the computer!

I STILL haven’t had any luck findin this Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash! Knowin my luck I’ll find it, try it, and end up not even likein it. lol.

IHAQ, I wasn’t going to do one but I am overjoyed by the rare appearance of your name, and will post one now.

Kliens in Maryland advertises the life out of the Pomegranate 7up , since the owners are Jewish. Its a big Rosh Hashanah thing for the Jews to eat poms , it symbolizes all their sins through the year and many folks carry it over to Hanukkah . So its not really a Christmas soda its more of a Hanukkah drink . But im sure they wont get pissed if we gentiles enjoy it too. The taste is very smooth and really tastes nothing like 7up , and has a nice fruity after tase but not a strong taste . The Canada Dry with Cranberries also doesnt taste like Ginger Ale its like a whole other drink .

Beetlejuice is a definite flu movie for me, especially under a Nyquil high, egads…

Hmmmm. My Flu Movies tend to be comedies from the 80’s and 90’s, and films like Back to the Future. My Sick TV generally tends to be old children’s programming, but I take the new stuff if I can’t find the older stuff.

The last time I was seriously flu-stricken, my girlfriend popped a copy of Dancer In The Dark in the old VCR… This was several years ago, and I had never seen the movie before. While it is an amazing piece of art, by the time the movie ended, I was ready to slice a vein and end it all… I woke her up at the end and pleaded “Why did you do this to me???”

As far as voluntarily watching a comfort film goes, I pop in Star Wars : A New Hope. First movie I saw at a drive-in theatre as a child, the one I turn to when I am down.

As far as the popcorn conundrum, I love the butter and cheese, but I won’t touch the caramel corn. That stuff is vile.

I have watched Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure on at least 80% of the days that I have stayed home from school, for sickness or otherwise. And, I played hooky a LOT (our school was catastrophically bad.)

Flu movies: TMNT, TMNT2: TSOTO, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, The Flintstones Movie (on VHS)

As far as sick days go, I will usually curl up and enjoy my all time favorite movie, The Burbs, or a perennial fave, Army of Darkness. Hell, I watch those flicks for any reason, but when I’m sick, they heal me. I don’t know how or why, but I try not to question things of the awesome. As far as TV shows for flu days : The Simpsons (season 2), and Married With Children(seasons 7-10)

As for the popcorn tin: AWESOME! I love those. Especially the butter popcorn….mmmmmmmm

Flu movie ~ the Evil Dead and Ghost Busters or One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I remember painting my old beat up Hot Wheels dinky cars with at least 10 coats of different colours and the oil paint I used would stick onto my skin for at least 2 to 3 years.

Popcorn in a tin is hilarious, something I’d give as a wedding present though rather than Christmas!

i watch saving private ryan whenever i have the flu. like yesterday. because i have it now. cept now its all bluray super quality on a projector lying on a plush leather couch the same color as the laser. the tech and surroundings have changed, my flu is the same.

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