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04/06/2009: Monster Rap.

Hello!

I was going to post this as a comment, but considering that the last thread is nearing 1000 comments (all positive) and takes about seventeen minutes to load, we may as well start anew.

I’m alive and unchanged. Seriously, I’ve just been working. A lot. It’s been a less-than-ideal grind and I very much look forward to the current wave passing so I can get back to doing what I love to do best: Nothing, with a side of you.

Some of you have expressed interest in an early return for the Halloween Juke. I couldn’t agree more and will try to include this soon as a partial mea culpa. I’ve been listening to that shit constantly, though I don’t know if it has as much to do with me wanting Halloween as it does the fact that Geico’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” commercial airs 772 times each hour.

Also, there was an a site in circulation that evidently attempted to redirect users to a bad place. I cannot lie: I thought you guys were mistaken, but you were right, and the ad guys at UGO (and me) really, sincerely apologize for any trouble it caused. It’s been eradicated and you should have no further trouble.

I finally watched that Clone Wars movie. Now, I was as hard on the prequels as anyone, but despite what seemed to be common opinion, I really didn’t think it was bad at all. Granted, I fell asleep halfway through, but I’m assuming it grew no more offensive from there. Plus, the first reveal of Jabba’s son, suddenly crawling out and goo-goo gah-ing with absolutely no build or fanfare, cracked me up so much that I had to rewind the scene seven times before watching the rest of (or the rest of the first half of) the movie.

Very odd to hear an ice cream truck’s jingle playing during a thunderstorm in early April, but I swear, I just did.


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Knightmare IMO was the greatest kid show ever made!
Use to scare the crap out of me when I was a little kid.

Ghosted by Blazer @ 04/18/2009 8:40 AM EDT

Blazer: It was simply amazing what you could do with a Commodore Amiga and green screen.

Just think of Knightmare with a US budget and Hollywood wizardry…and then the obvious backlash from fundamentalists the moment it aired.

Oh man, I need to own the rights to those shows and sell them abroad!

Ghosted by Guise @ 04/18/2009 10:23 AM EDT

clodhopper- Just a question- are you from Griffith, Indiana?

Oh, and Morfnblorsh- “exually-frustrated octopuses” is my new favorite phrase.

Ghosted by PlantMonster @ 04/18/2009 10:25 AM EDT

Damn! SEXUALLY FRUSTRATED OCTOPUSES. Not what I put up there.

Ghosted by PlantMonster @ 04/18/2009 10:29 AM EDT

When I started watching Nick it was all about Pinwheel, Today’s Special, Special Delivery, You Can’t Do That On Television, Turkey TV, Danger Mouse, and the almighty Mr. Wizard’s World. There was also some spooky show that I can’t remember the name of.

Ghosted by Yoda Van Helsing @ 04/18/2009 12:01 PM EDT

I loved Video Power!!! Those lucky ass kids getting to velcro all those games to their vests..and the systems too! omg!

I did like Funhouse…they had a NES game of it I think. The nick GAS channel was the one with the gameshows.

I used to love the prizes on Double Dare. Free ice cream for a year, reeboks, Sony Watchman<—friend of mine in 3rd grade brought it to school once…it was crap.

Ghosted by mandy_Reeves @ 04/18/2009 1:01 PM EDT

Yoda are you thinking of “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

Ghosted by Guy @ 04/18/2009 2:19 PM EDT

No he’s probably thinking more like The Tomorrow People.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 04/18/2009 2:30 PM EDT

I find that a lot of TV shows for kids today are OUR OLD SHOWS recycled in a shittier way…I watched the newest He-Man that was out, the newer TMNT, Transformers, etc and much prefer the older stuff. Don’t get me started on how much they screwed up the newer Strawberry Shortcake franchise. Also, a lot of stuff today is all anime-esque, which I never got off on.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 04/18/2009 2:34 PM EDT

Guise: That would of been amazing! With how far technology has advanced a new incarnation of Knightmare would be great.

Talking about how technology has advanced,I remember watching some of the replays of Knightmare on challenge(or whatever channel it was)an computer/blue screen technology had progressed a hell of alot just from when knightmare started in the 80s to when it finished mid 90s? Imagine what they could do today! :

I remember reading a few years back somewhere,that there was a petition to get it back on the tele. But ITV rejected it because they reakoned it would be to scary for the kids of today!!

If thats the case they should relaunch a new series for pple like us, who grew up with it an would give their right arm to be a ‘dungeoneer’

Ghosted by Blazer @ 04/18/2009 2:44 PM EDT

Blazer: Challenge worked with the producer on a pilot of a new series a few years back, mainly using CGI but it never really got beyond the discussion stage.

I kind of dread overly CGI Knightmare, because I still remember that show they replaced it with: Virtually Impossible. VR polygonal games and a giant fish instead of Treguard.

ITV haven’t produced any decent products for far too long, they really need Nobby the Sheep and Roland Rat back, oh and Round the Bend.

Some kids in the year above me at secondary school were actually on the show, lasted about three weeks. Everyone thought they were so cool. Only problem is, watching the shows now you realise how much you’d reallywanna slap the annoyingness outta them.

Ghosted by Guise @ 04/18/2009 3:36 PM EDT

I went to Target today and got ahold of both the Pepsi and Mountain Dew Thhowbacks. Haven’t tried them yet, though.

I think MTV is really underrated when it comes to gameshows. Besides the classic Remote Control, I was also a regular viewer of Singled Out, Trashed, and Idiot Savants.

Ghosted by King JLA @ 04/18/2009 4:38 PM EDT

As a kid, I coveted that Sony Watchman. When I’d watch Double Dare, I didn’t care if they got through the whole course, as long as they made it through the obstacle that won them the Watchman, I was happy for them. I always felt so bad when the team had Sundae Slide first and the kid couldn’t figure out how to get up there and they never made it past the first obstacle. I felt worse for the other kid on the team who had to stand there helplessly and watch his prize dreams slip away.

My sister and I coined the phrase “Singled-Out look”. On the show, it was the look on the contestant’s face in the split second between seeing the date they’d won and putting on the obligatory happy face. It’s where you actually got to see how they felt about the person. Sometimes it was pretty hilarious.

Ghosted by Lori (The Original) @ 04/18/2009 6:13 PM EDT

Aw I just got the Pepsi and Mt Dew throwbacks, too. Theyz chillin’ in da fridge. Also got some giant Cheetos balls.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 04/18/2009 7:12 PM EDT

Guy- Yes it is “Are You Afraid Of The Dark?” that I was thinking of. Thank You.

Ghosted by Yoda Van Helsing @ 04/18/2009 10:23 PM EDT

Wow. You know, I never realized how peaceful the discussions around here usually are until I read this page of comments. I don’t believe I’ve ever witnessed this much hostility on the site before… and I’ve been visiting for a very long time.

Anyway, you aren’t crazy. The ice cream trucks are out and about. The old lady heard one coming down our street the other day. I want my Choco-Taco! Last year they didn’t have ‘em. Bastards.

Ghosted by Matt(#2) @ 04/19/2009 1:54 PM EDT

When I was growing up, the Ice Cream man wasn’t just an Ice Cream Man. He was a taxi, too! I saw a lot of kids do this on my block – they’d buy an ice cream of some kind and then say “If I give you three more dollars, will you let me ride with you up to the corner market?” and the gritty old man in the truck would usually say “Sure thing, kid!“.

At that age I didn’t know for sure if this was a bad thing to do. One time a kid asked for a trip to the video store, and offered 5 bucks. The video store was a little far even by car, so this was a rather epic journey for any of us at that age. The driver said “No, I don’t think I can do it.” but the kid kept pressing “Come on! Six dollars?“. But the driver shook his head, which made the kid yell “YOU WON’T TAKE SIX DOLLARS TO DRIVE ME TO THE VIDEO STORE?!“. The driver said “FINE! Get in!“.

The boy’s mother must have heard from an open window, because she came running out of his house screaming for him “STOP! JEFFREY, STOP!“.

I figured this was probably my indication that riding with the Ice Cream man was indeed a bad thing to do – but when the kid’s mom caught him she said “You left the rental on the living room table! You can’t return it if you forget it!” and handed him a cassette.

All this seemed only mildly strange to me back then – it’s funny that pondering over it now makes me realize instantaneously that just about everyone involved in the situation was as wrong as humanly possible without question, including me for standing there thinking that kid was cool.

Another oddity is that there were TWO cars sitting in the driveway of the video store kid’s house. Why wouldn’t his mother just drive him over there? Or go herself? Or choose ANY OTHER OPTION that wouldn’t involve her only son getting an Astro-Pop forcibly inserted into him.

I really loved my childhood. I have so many great memories. And thankfully my memory is terrifyingly vivid so I can relive them all any time I want.

Ghosted by Morfnblorsh @ 04/20/2009 9:28 AM EDT

Check out “The God Blesser” on youtube. This short film is retrotastic! Urkel Bot for life.

Ghosted by Michael C @ 05/03/2009 7:34 PM EDT

Speaking of awesome cartoons, Exo-Squad is now out on DVD. I wrote about it in my blog.

Should I buy the 2002 MOTU slime pit? Will it fit in with my MOTUC figures?! Anyone know?

Ghosted by Newton Gimmick @ 05/05/2009 11:00 PM EDT

Seeing as everyone seems to be sharing random experiences, I want to share mine and see if anyone else has had this… about seven years ago I won a ruler in a christmas cracker that was (strangely) shaped like a bright green seahorse. Even stranger, to this day it smells like mint sauce. Confuses the hell out of me. Anyone else had this? <3 x

Ghosted by Katreya @ 05/08/2009 1:03 PM EDT

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