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Chestnuts roasted by God Animagnus @ 10/10/2003 09:53 PM EST
Maybe I'm the only one, but I'd buy a Bob action figure in a heartbeat.
Chestnuts roasted by BaronKrusha @ 10/10/2003 10:05 PM EST
At last I realize that I'm not the only one suffering from Ernie Hudsonphobia. That librarian ghost at the beginning of the movie that used to freak my friends out didn't phase me. But Ernie Hudson always sent me in to vicious fits of terrified pants-wetting. Now, I feel I have a kindred spirit in Captain Lou Albano. Thank you, Captain Lou. Now I know what it feels like when doves cry.
Chestnuts roasted by YetiMcSasquatch @ 10/10/2003 10:18 PM EST
Love it when I come here and there's a bunch of new stuff to read. =)
Chestnuts roasted by Stroco @ 10/10/2003 10:19 PM EST
I don't know if I'm right but i remember a vaguley hallowen themed episode of the SMBSS that had Grandpa Munster guest staring.
Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 10/10/2003 10:59 PM EST
So, You guys call them "Munchkins?"
Up here, In Canada, we call them "Timbits" (based on the Coffee Monopoly up here, Tim Hortons). You can buy 20 of them for $2. THATS JUST 10 CENTS A TIMBIT!
Im Spent.
Chestnuts roasted by AL @ 10/10/2003 11:08 PM EST
Dunkin Donuts rocks but beware of the coffee, or at least where you get it. Some places use that new "Splenda" which is awsome stuff and leaves no sugar sludge. Maybe that's what Mario and Winston were fighting in that episode, some DD sugar sludge that was left to mutate.
Yes there will be more sugar sludge monsters, enough for an entire an entire army that is bad for your teeth! MWAHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Otay, I've gone too far.
Chestnuts roasted by Lumberjack Matt @ 10/10/2003 11:33 PM EST
I watched this show religiously. I mean religiously in the secular sense. .....???? I wish I'd paid more attention to the live-action bits, but I was always hankerin' for Mario or Zelda cartoon action. I learned my lesson the hard way. Good night.
Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/10/2003 11:36 PM EST
I was never a fan of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It was too cheesey for me. Where I lived they showed it like at 6:30 AM. I think they brought it back in like 1997 and showed it in the afternoon. I guess it didn't get a lot of love in the LA area.
Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/11/2003 12:19 AM EST
What, no Count Koopula or Dr. Koopenstein? :(
.. I think there was a Dr. Koopenstein, anyway. I distinctly remember Count Koopula though, because they kept mistaking marinara sauce for blood or something like that.
Chestnuts roasted by Marc @ 10/11/2003 12:28 AM EST
holy crap Piscez, you're way off. Congo was out in '95 (see imdb). You can also find that SMB Super Show started in '89.
Obviously Matt researched this fact extensively, just like he does for all his articles :)
Chestnuts roasted by rizz @ 10/11/2003 01:05 AM EST
Was this the only show that showed SMB3 and/or zelda type cartoons? I kind of remember them separate, but I was a little young at the time. What I remember most was watching a zelda cartoon and the spiders wrapped luke and zelda up w/webbing and being disappointed that the video game spiders didn't do that.
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/11/2003 01:21 AM EST
They're Timbits, you American assholes!
Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 10/11/2003 01:26 AM EST
Hey Matt, the "Handheld Device" is called a P.K.E. Meter. Sorry, but I'm a major Ghostbusters fan, I can't help it.
Chestnuts roasted by gbguy13 @ 10/11/2003 01:48 AM EST
If I recall, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show took place before SMB3. However, NBC aired cartoons based on SMB3 and Super Mario World. They even added Yoshi to the gang for "World", who I liked in the games, but he annoyed me so much in the show.
I also remember Link and Zelda appearing once on Captain N, looking and sounding nothing like their SMBSS incarnations. I do remember that Zelda had THREE Tri-Forces (red, green, and blue), instead of Zelda having the green, and Gannon (sp?) having the red. I know nothing about the Zelda games though, so I don't know what that was all about.
Chestnuts roasted by Aberration @ 10/11/2003 02:28 AM EST
Scroll down for Legend of Zelda and Super Mario intros:
http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html
Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 10/11/2003 03:30 AM EST
People in the East have Dunkin Donuts...Canadians have Tim Horton's...what do those of us in the West have? In the immortal words of Kuni from UHF:
Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Stupid! You're so stupid!!!
Dunkin Donuts really needs to build a franchise in Reno.
Chestnuts roasted by El Zorro Loco @ 10/11/2003 03:31 AM EST
All you Canadian blokes, here in America we call minnie doughnuts "doughnut holes" you know like the dough that was carved out to make the hole in the usual doughnut. I believe it's only Dunkin' Donuts who calls them Munchkins.
What do I have to say about the articles? I don't know, I always like the idea of having Bob the Goon, you know, because Batman has to fight a bunch of henchmen before he gets to fight the Joker. Henchmen were always necessary in my toy-playing days. I was always frustrated that I only had one Foot Soldier for my Ninja Turtles to 'splode. I always wanted the Batman line to come out with more goons than just Bob, you know like that token tough black guy who almost does Batman in right before the Joker. And the Batman Returns line, how come they never came out with a whole bunch of different types of clowns for Batman to fight. I mean, he can't just kill Penguin over and over again. Am I right?
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/11/2003 04:33 AM EST
(Yeah, yeah... so this was posted yesterday. So I'm slow, so sue! ;)
Oh my. You've made me an insanely happy geek by posting these reviews. You see, as a tot, I had a huge crush on Mario. Why, of all the available 'animated hotties' on cartoons in those days I chose a portly Italian plumber is beyond me. Ah well, it could've been worse-- I could have sweated Captain Planet.
Anyway, I watched this show like it was a religion. ThaNks-- or should I say 'fangs?--for the memories. :)
Chestnuts roasted by snowcalico @ 10/11/2003 09:39 AM EST
Ostrich!!!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Pumpkin Spice @ 10/11/2003 10:32 AM EST
Actually, Batman can't kill the Penguin or any goons. Batman doesn't kill. Makes him who he is. That, and the loads of money and obsessiveness and pointy ears.
On the doughnut hole issue, I'm with the US on this one. "Timbits" is just way too scary a name for something small, round, and meant to be popped in a mouth.
Chestnuts roasted by fangirlx @ 10/11/2003 10:48 AM EST
It's a shame that instead of Ghostbusters II (aka the Most Disappointing Sequel Ever) Ernie Hudson wasn't hyping his role as warden Leo Glynn on OZ. Then we could have been blessed with a scene of Lou Albano being sodomized and shanked by the sludge monster.
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 10/11/2003 12:12 PM EST
Some note from a fan/addict:
There are indeed episodes where Koopa goes vampire (using pasta sauce for blood, I believe) and created a mechanical monster as "Koopenstein", which gets out of his control, but I don't remember how. Also, Danny Wells makes a better Luigi than John Legizwhoits from the movie.
Link and Zelda actually guest star in two season two episodes of Captain N, plus cameo in a third. The first one is actually reviewed at X-E, where Kevin and Link first team up to stop the Zelda two ending I always seem to get when I play, where Gannon wants the potion of power to regain his age. Sort of like the Fountain of Youth in reverse. The other has our heroes trying to protect the three Triforces (power, wisdom, and courage, all acting as knicknacks on Zelda's throne) from Mother Brain.
The cameo is where they need dragonwood tree bark to cover a mechanical dragon to help other dragons in the Final Fantasy gameworld. Yes I am sad for knowing all that, but no, I don't care. :)
"Timbits?" Sounds like they blew up some guy named Tim. I have a friend named Tim. You want me to be a cannabal? No chance! Hand me them doughnut holes! mmmmm Glazed!
Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Autobot @ 10/11/2003 01:14 PM EST
Luke? Was that a typo or did you get deprived of him being called Link whever you're from, TOP? Makes potential for some weird jokes, though--"Use the Triforce, Luke!" Or Tri-force. Whatever. To hyphenate, or not to hyphenate, that is the question...
Hey, Matt, didja know you can actually buy select episodes of the SMBSS and the Zelda cartoon on DVD? Digitally remastered! XP Same thing goes for the old Sonic one, though Captain N I'm not sure about. I own the Zelda one, and lemmie tell ya, it's still as utterly insane as ever--slightly stupid but still fun. Oranges and ostriches, hooray!
Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 10/11/2003 01:18 PM EST
So how about those commercials from the Super Mario post--any chance of posting those? Toy Commercials = RAWK!
Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/11/2003 01:57 PM EST
Sorry Freezair, don't know what I was thinking. Yes I do, I knew the name started w/an L and had a K in there somewhere.
Anyway out here in Ohio where i go to school (in Delaware), we also have Tim Horton's. How I long for the DD of CT. Tim Horton's has no breakfast sandwhich. Timbits are OK, though I can't think of them that way, and there is something odd about eating the frosted ones that just doesn't feel right.
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/11/2003 02:27 PM EST
Man oh man how I did love the Super Mario Bros Super Show. Much to to my disappointment though, and frustration, in a brilliant marketting move on behalf of the local affiliate airing the show here, it ran at 2:30pm. Excellenbt, let's run it half an hour before its intended audiences is out of school. I dunno, does that seem crazy go nuts to anyone else? On wednesdays we gout out early, at 2, so I only ever got to watch on Wednesdays. I of coursed taped the episodes, but still, I had plenty of freinds who weren't fortunate or clever enough to do such a thing (programing a vcr in those days was rather a lot like hacking into the pentagon). Anyway, I gotta go do the Mario. Luigi sucks.
Chestnuts roasted by Pagz @ 10/11/2003 02:41 PM EST
I watched that show so much...I think i saw every episode at every possible time it was on...all the reruns. that show will live with me forever. best of the best.
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 10/11/2003 02:55 PM EST
Why doesnt Luigi just take care of the ghost? He does in that one game that came out a few years ago.
I know what you mean about DD TOP. Im from Marion and our DD has been closed for years. Stupid Tim Hortons!
Chestnuts roasted by Primus5 @ 10/11/2003 03:21 PM EST
What fucking idiot decided they needed to be called munchkins? That makes no sense.
Timbits? There's another fucking idiot for the list.
Chestnuts roasted by fyukruk @ 10/11/2003 04:09 PM EST
Hey Matt, the "Handheld Device" is called a P.K.E. Meter. Sorry, but I'm a major Ghostbusters fan, I can't help it.
I love you.
Concerning Captain Lou's primal fear for Ernie Hudson, can you fault the man? We're talking about the mashed-potato-fetish rapist psycho genocidal maniac from Penitentiary II here!
Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 10/11/2003 05:19 PM EST
*Few* I was wondering when that tape would get to you. It seems evertime is send something to NY or NJ it takes a extra month. Sorry about the quality and I hope you can track it enough to record the comercials. I counted over 57 unique comericals(a shivit load ot toy comercials, a few NES game comercials and even the Corn pops comerical with the bogglin stamper giveaway) on there and two christmas comericials that SCREAM for a full review.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 10/11/2003 05:38 PM EST
total off topic but I just saw a comercial for Picture Pages by Bill Cosby. Holy crap they're bringing that back? Did any of yall have that special named pen you could send away for?
Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 10/11/2003 06:03 PM EST
They call 'em munchkins because of the tiny little bakers (munchkins) who supposidly make them; although not in a hollowed out tree--different little people. Haven't bought any in forever, so I don't know if they're still using the munchkin bakers for mascots, buy anyhow, that's how they got the name.
Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/11/2003 07:30 PM EST
Really Primus, ur DD closed? I've had friends tell me about their mythical small towns where DD and Tim Horton's both survive.
Soulless Canadian corporation! This is why we should bomb Canada!
(PS I know why Tim Horton's was founded, and its a very noble reason.)
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/11/2003 07:42 PM EST
Great tape, Matt. And Mr. Mango, I think IO speak for Matt as well as us all when I say that it was wise and extremeley kind of you to give him the tape.
This was one of my favorite cartoons when I was 7 or 8. It doesn't get any better than Mario and Luigi doing a shitty rap song (Well, except for maybe the Ninja Turtles fighting and dancing to Vanilla Ice's "Ninja Wrap"). I remember having friends over just to watch it with me. And we all especially loved the Zelda cartoons.
Damn I wish I could have such a tape.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/11/2003 08:42 PM EST
Wait a minute. I have a hilarious anecdote.
There was a time in the 2nd grade when everyone was coming up with their own little rap songs and performing them for the class along with shitty dancing and the most retarded beboping ever. Well, my friend and I decided to do our own little performance of the opening theme song. He did all the rapping, and I did all the dancing and beboping. Considering that most of of the males in our class Nintendo-starved 8-year-olds, it is understandable as to why the the performance was well-received. Hell, even our teacher called us "talented." My mom even saw it once and feigned an impressed state of emotions.
Yep. Here's to you Dewayne Debbs (my friend whom I did this with), wherever you are.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/11/2003 08:50 PM EST
Didn't they change the show to "Club Mario" around when Super Mario Bros. 3 was made? And no Lou.
Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 10/11/2003 10:25 PM EST
I remember that rap song well; "Hooked on the brothers".
Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/11/2003 11:14 PM EST
ok they are timbits and that is all.....i read the article and thats what immediately comes to mind......disagree and die
Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 10/12/2003 12:08 AM EST
You are correct JG! When it became "Club Mario" the Bros. disappeared and some surfers dudes showed up along with the new "California Dreams"-like set. DIC used "Club Mario" to break down episodes of "Photon" into a short weekly serial segment under a different name.
Chestnuts roasted by Michael @ 10/12/2003 01:38 AM EST
About Batman killing . . . now that's a whole debatable thing. See, as a fan of the comics, I realize that Batman swore an oath never to let anyone die, that's why he's always sending Joker to Arkham (though Joker has "died" many many times in the comics). However--as a kid I did not know about this factoid and merely accepted what the movies portrayed, showing Batman using high-caliber machine guns no less. He does, in fact, in two Burton films, kill a number of people quite intentionally. Though a fan of Burton's Batmans, I still think the idea of Batman killing to be repulsive.
Man, why is it that when I start talking about something I totally stop dead any level of light spirits? Fine, I'll try to lighten things up with this question: other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/12/2003 02:36 AM EST
Somebody up above said you can get selected episodes of the Super Mario Brothers Show and Zelda on DVD. Where can you get them? Does such a thing exist? If so, where did you find them?
Chestnuts roasted by Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway @ 10/12/2003 03:56 AM EST
geez... he left out the smbss episodes with Elvira, and the one with Dr. Frankenstien.
"Are you the same Dr. Frankenstien that make that ugly, horrible monster?"
"Yes, but I wouldn't call him that... he's very sensitive."
Chestnuts roasted by third_of_trees @ 10/12/2003 06:46 AM EST
I think there was another ep of the SMBSS with Dracula as well... as for Count Koopula, I think there was a video tape dedicated to that particular ep on the cover. And you can see a snippet of it at http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html by scrolling down to the Mario icon and clicking(gotta have Real Player, though). Also has the intro on the front end of it.
Link was also in ANOTHER ep of Captain N: one based on Puss N' Boots, where the character from said game is hopping through all these Warp Zones after one of his adversaries steals Captain N's belt and zapper(he took them off to provide a "fair" challenge to Link in some kind of competition, IIRC). Anyway, Kevin gives chase, and Link and Duke follow. Wasn't the greatest ep, but hey, it had Link, which brought it up a few marks.
Anyone else ever notice that the voices for Mario, Luigi, and the Princess changed from SMBSS to SMB3? What gives?
And everyone knows Krispy Kremes are the best doughnuts. :D
Chestnuts roasted by LBD "Nytetrayn" @ 10/12/2003 07:28 AM EST
First of all, LBD, I totally agree about Krispy Kremes being the best donuts. The only place you can get them in Southern New Jersey is at Acme...and I happen to work in one. You don't know what pure torture it is to not break down and buy at least one a day.
I vaguely remember "The Super Mario Super Show," although I unfortuantly recall the cartoons better than the live-action segments. I can sort-of relate to the Mario Bros in the first episode. When my sisters and I were younger, we used to make our own make-shift "proton packs" and go ghostbusting in our house on dark, spooky nights. Aiding us in our endevor was Cape May being one of the oldest communities in America; every other old buidling in town seems to have a ghost. We never did find any, but that sure the heck didn't stop us from trying hard.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/12/2003 08:25 AM EST
Me & my brother did the same thing, starwenn, only we found ghosts. Armed with a shoe box on a string (our 'ghost trap'), our captured ghosts were usually stuffed animals, or the cat if we could catch him. All captured ghosts were promptly put in the containment unit (our mom's dryer).
Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/12/2003 10:37 AM EST
ok its aobut 10:41 am, on oct 12th here and matt hasnt updated, lets go gut him. ON the count of 3 we form a lynch mob, 1...2...
Chestnuts roasted by the corinthian @ 10/12/2003 10:45 AM EST
you know matt, you're lucky. My watch died the 10th, so I even though nights have passed, sleepless nights while I wait for your updates, I have no idea how long it has been, or what day it is. perhaps I could be halucinating and it's still the 10th. you have until I get a new battery for my watch.
Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 10/12/2003 12:50 PM EST
why is it I can never remember to put everything in one post? anywho, just thought I'd add to the munchkin/timtam or whatever debate. munchkin's are from wizard of oz. tim tam's are cookies from australia. those little donut things are useless. so there.
Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 10/12/2003 12:58 PM EST
Pagz said above that "programming a VCR in those days was like trying to hack into the Pentagon." May I note that it still is. My VCR is barely a year old, and I STILL haven't the faintest how to work it. I tried to record a Cirque du Soleil performance on Bravo once and ended up getting about 2 hours of the TV Guide channel...
And, Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway(May I call you IASBON?), yes, you can get Zelda and Mario eps on DVD. I purchesed mine at a store called Software Etc., but they're just a local jobbie. I can scan up the cover, though, to prove it DOES exist. Unfortunately, DiC's site doesn't seem to show them, but it DOES show the Super Show stuff. Maybe take a more in-depth look at that since Zelda way a part of it--I really only skimmed. But my disc is offically entitled "Ganon's Evil Tower," and the contained epsidoes are "The Ringer"(Ganon screws with an amatuer magician's contest), "Cold Spells"(Link pretends to be sick to get out of spring cleaning while Ganon starts making the buckets and rags attack everyone, hilarity and oranges ensue), and "The White Knight"(Zelda falls for an impressive-looking prince who turns out to be something of a fastideous prat). Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Chestnuts roasted by Freezair @ 10/12/2003 01:20 PM EST
Yeah I got that DVD too it's cool. Yeah I have the VHS for the slime that raps Luigi and that is off The Ringer episode tape for Zelda. I also have Mario's Flying Carpet, The Great Gladiatorial Gig, Koopa Clause (its awesome), Mario's Flying Carpet, The Great BMX Race, and several others. This tapes are classic pieces of shit and are craptacular.
Chestnuts roasted by BillyBadAss @ 10/12/2003 01:29 PM EST
Not a big fan of the Krispy Kremes...waaaay to muhc frosting for me.
Do you really work at acme starwrenn? Can you hook me up with some rocket powered skates?
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/12/2003 01:38 PM EST
In reply to Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway's question about the SMB and Legend of Zelda DVD's, they do exist, but I've no idea where you'd find them. I found one Legend of Zelda DVD's in a GameStop in South Jersey, so I'm sure there around somewhere.
Chestnuts roasted by Third Rate Ninja @ 10/12/2003 04:19 PM EST
Say, Matt, have you seen the Brain Gremlin action figure?
Chestnuts roasted by BigBadLemurTamer @ 10/12/2003 05:06 PM EST
I remember vividly that exact episode, as I presented it for Show-and-Tell in elementry school. I was always a Luigi fan but, in all honesty, the live-action stuff just fueled all the Mario fans to brag about how much better Mario was than Luigi. And to this day the poor sap hasn't had a decent game.
Hudson....man that guy r0x0rz.
Its a sad day in history when you ask how many people remember the animated Zelda and you get blank stares from people 1 YEAR YOUNGER! Even when you spout the cheesy catch phrase "Well, excuuuuse, Princess!!" T_T I'm not old, you people remember! Anyone wanna send me the movies to download so I can prove to them that's I'm not making this all up like that "Today's Special" show?
Chestnuts roasted by CardCaptor Loki @ 10/12/2003 05:12 PM EST
Where's the potpurri guide, dammit?
Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/12/2003 05:49 PM EST
For those who want most Zelda eps, I got EVERY SINGLE BLOODY BLOODY episode on mah computer. You just gotta look hard on the net, and you'll find 'em. Many fansites n' stuff will give ya some. I can't remember any of the sites, as I forgot them once I got what I came for. As for the catch phrase, it is "Well, excuuuuuuse ME, Princess!" Yepp.
Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/12/2003 06:47 PM EST
They played SMBSS at 2:30 when I was little. How I lamented being in accursed elementary school, and thus my parents disallowing me to be home alone after school.
Loki, I thought I was the only one who remembered Today's Special. I wish I knew more about it, but then, I've been too lazy to look it up anyway. I have vague memories of an episode having to do with snow, and one with gluing something together to make the tallest tower of.. Cookies, or something.
Chestnuts roasted by Lys @ 10/12/2003 07:14 PM EST
Loved that mannequin. The only episode I remember (cuz we have part of it on tape) is the one where one of the rats is running behind the walls cuz she is always late, and one of the steam pipes falls on her, trapping and almost killing her.
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/12/2003 07:54 PM EST
Acme in this neck of the woods (or shore, as the case may be) is a grocery store chain, not a way for Wile E. Coyote to try to catch Road Runner. : 0 )
No, neither "Mario" nor "Today's Special" are fictional. I have fond memories of "Special" on Nickelodeon. It was one of my favorite shows. And, yes, my sisters (one of whom is barely a year younger than I am) also think I'm crazy when I mention this stuff to them.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/12/2003 08:43 PM EST
The only thing weirder than seeing SMB is to see the show in Spanish. I remember for a while it seemed like everytime I changed the channel past TeleMundo there was Capt Lou, dubbed into a high pitched Spanish voice, with commercials for weird energy pills, that Saturday Night Variety/Game Show, and bizzare looking sitcoms that I'm sure was the insperation for "The Simpsons" Bumblebeeman.
Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 10/12/2003 08:47 PM EST
Today's Special! I thought no one else cared! On TVO(Television Ontario), they played that after Polka Dot Door. Oh man, another religious watching experience. The ep I remember most is the mannequin and some magician trapped in a hat singing about and eating giant marshmallows. Hocus Pocus Alamagokus!
Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/13/2003 12:28 AM EST
Matt, of course you're not human. WHo else would update the countdown, but not the pic of the countdown on the home page?
Skinnamirinkydinkydink skinamirinkydoo
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/13/2003 01:18 AM EST
BTW, anyone else remember the D&D cartoon? Now i was never into D&D myself, but the cartoon i liked.
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/13/2003 01:21 AM EST
D'oh! I don't know why I didn't just go look for them before, but you can click on my name to find the Super Mario Brothers Show DVDs on Amazon.com. And you can find the Zelda DVD here
Chestnuts roasted by Inorganic Animated Sludge Babies of Norway @ 10/13/2003 01:31 AM EST
Oh....god....i so miss the 80's and 90's. i only wish that i could have taped every episode of my favorite shows. Dangit, only place i can find shows is on kazaa. Anybody got a collection of Super Mario Bros Super Show on the computer?
Chestnuts roasted by Adam @ 10/13/2003 02:55 AM EST
Hmm... another Canadian/American debate here. Well, all I can say is that while we have Tim Horton's all over the place in Quebec *now*, even here in boring Pincourt, Tim Horton's didn't really expand all that much in this province until the late 90s, so I, for one, am a Canadian whom grew up thinking of "doughnut hole treats" as being called "Munchkins", not "Timbits". Dunkin Donuts' franchises have been on the wane as of late in this province, but recently they signed a deal with Couche-Tard convenience stores (which just bought the Circle K chain in the United States) so they're expanding once again. And the first Krispy Kreme just opened in Quebec last year, which was a huge event on a slow news day in Montreal.
Also, I watched the Super Mario Brothers Super Show far more often than I should have, considering I was already 15 years old at the time, and a Sega fan.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/13/2003 03:51 AM EST
I...they're called doughnut holes. They're just doughnut holes. Really.
We have no Dunkin Donuts out here. It makes me sad. All we have are Krispy Kremes, which are really good if I want to bounce off the ceiling for an hour or two from the sugar high, but lousy otherwise. But I suppose if I wanted to pretend, I could take a glazed Krispy Kreme and squish it into a ball and call it a Munchkin (or a Timbit if I wanted to pretend I was Canadian) - they're *ideal* for squishing when they're still warm.
I have no idea where else I was going with this. Oh, also I remember Today's Special. They replaced it with The Lil Bits somewhere along the line. Does anyone remember Bananaman? It was a short that used to run occasionally after Dangermouse and before You Can't Do That On Television...
Chestnuts roasted by Aeire @ 10/13/2003 04:02 AM EST
I always liked Luigi better than Mario: he had more cachet.
I always liked date squares at a coffee house more than Timbits™ at Tim Horton's™: they had more cachet.
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/13/2003 09:55 AM EST
I went to Cracker Barrel over the weekend and they had sour candy corn. They were pretty good actually, but the manufacturers did not care enough to make the candies striped, as per the original. Instead, each one was a different solid color: orange, white, and yellow. So now we have original, gummy, *and* sour. When will the craziness end??!
Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/13/2003 10:54 AM EST
Wow I remember when Lou was in the ring instead of a manager. How old am I?
Chestnuts roasted by spazzamatic @ 10/13/2003 12:30 PM EST
So the promised potpurri guide made out of shrunken head apple peals was a joke!? Curse you Matt!
...
Nevermind. Damn, I need that halloween Party Pack for my room, all I have for decorations is a couple of glow in the dark ghosts and plastic spiders.
Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/13/2003 01:00 PM EST
actually they arent donut holes.......normally id go with logic and say they are but they actually make them with the same doh at the same time as the donuts ......just the same as they start making donuts at tim hortons at whatever time they also put on some timbits so the are just doh balls and not actually what they do with the holes they punch in donuts...sorry to burst your bubble
Chestnuts roasted by scourge @ 10/13/2003 01:25 PM EST
they're CALLED donut holes, cuz it's cute, but of course they aren't actual bits of dough cut from the middle. that's in the same vein as Timbits not being actual BITS of TIM. sorry, i'm just getting irritated because i can't wait to go buy one of those glowing buckets of Munchkins for my Halloween party.
i think someone briefly addressed this, but Luigi's Mansion does make slightly more sense now. Luigi was upset (cuz he sucks) after being utterly useless in combating the ghost in this SMBSS episode.
thanks again Matt, for feeding our Mario Bros. obsessions :)
Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 10/13/2003 01:42 PM EST
I liked Today's Special, but Pinwheel could kick it's ass anyday.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 10/13/2003 02:41 PM EST
We still believe in you Matt. We don't care that you're now three days behind. But don't give up, kay?
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/13/2003 02:58 PM EST
I'm not three days behind. The graphic is. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/13/2003 03:05 PM EST
I just got a bottle of fake blood and it was amazing!!! Best fake blood in a long time! I never would of bought it if not for the article...my gf and parents think i'm insane now...
Chestnuts roasted by Dethstryke @ 10/13/2003 03:25 PM EST
Classic Nickelodeon sites:
http://members.tripod.com/~djfury/nick.html
http://www.johnsrealmonline.com/classicnick/
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/13/2003 03:37 PM EST
ya know, I could have sworn that I clicked to go to the halloween countdown on the 11th, and even refreshed, and there was nothing new there, why is it they came up today? WORK COMPUTERS SUCK!
Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 10/13/2003 03:43 PM EST
apteryx?
"Bob... I want you to get your camera, go down to the courthouse and...
Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 10/13/2003 03:45 PM EST
well as long as u ar ecalling them doh nut holes because they are cute then your throwing reason out the door so..... tim bits or kiddidle hoppers or even bah weep grahn ah weep ninny bon makes as much sense therefore anyname makes as much sense as the rest of em. P.s. dohnut holes are more cute to you then munchkins???????????? that would be the cutest out of the three i would think...and timbits a runner up because it of how it roles of the tongue doh-nut holes are just un-imaginative
Chestnuts roasted by scourge @ 10/13/2003 04:09 PM EST
I saw a bottle of blood in Party City when searching for my wringwraith costume. I didn't buy it, though. Oh well. Anyway, now that the countdown's caught up:
Kudos!
*coughpotpurriguidecough*
Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/13/2003 05:32 PM EST
Thank God it is. I now return from my week-long forced hiatus, only to see the countdown's still signed at the 10th. Anyway, Matt was trying to give us a special message with the end of that Oct. 12 thing. Folks, lo and behold...
"kit is made of paper and foam, hooray.", if you exclude punctuation, is an anagram for...
"Ain't a poof of hemp as arid as a dorm key?"
Chestnuts roasted by "MR. GAME & WATCH" @ 10/13/2003 06:15 PM EST
Ah, Matt, you've restored my faith in miracles, but I don't know if I have anything to say about door decorations, skull suckers, or gummi candycorn. Useless trivia: Anthony Perkins came up with the candy corn eating obsession of Psycho's Norman Bates. He thought it was a way to show Norman's attempt to fixate on something other than naked women, dead women, or a little of both.
I wanted to also point people's attention to the idiocy of Halloween costume kits. As we all know how tasteless and cheap these things were, I don't think it could get any worse than this: you know that infamous pic on the internet of the guy in the Halloween costume as a mammogram machine (place breasts here)? Some company actually makes a professional version of that costume. Bah!
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/13/2003 07:44 PM EST
My point is just that they ripped off the guy's good idea and repackaged it as something so uber cheap the sweatshop kid who made it probably got something off of Wendy's dollar menu. Man, that was my pathetic joke for the week; I hope I don't make another of those. Dammit, it didn't even make any since, did it? But this pro mammogram machine looks even cheaper than the amateur original version.
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/13/2003 07:47 PM EST
To show you I'm not making this up. http://www.wackyplanet.com/mamanhaco.html
But wait, what is this I see? Many many others out there have made their own tacky mammogram machine costumes. Dammit, I freakin spent more than a hundred bucks on my costume.
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/13/2003 07:51 PM EST
hahahahahahahahahahaha We've totally already had the "Today's Special" revelation before.
I think this is the Fates' way of saying "DO A REVIEW!!!!"
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/13/2003 08:04 PM EST
I've never had candy corn; I live under a big red rock in the center of the planet Mars. The stuff any good or is it more along the lines of something you forgive yourself for liking because you were just a stupid kid anyway?
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/13/2003 08:15 PM EST
Molten: Picture the taste of those calk hearts they sell at Valentine and add the texture of cold wax.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 10/13/2003 08:34 PM EST
Matt, why didn't you take a picture of you red tounge? Those gummy candy corn just look nasty, and I'm a candy corn fan.
Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/13/2003 09:12 PM EST
Is it just me, or should there be a new blog entry for each day of the countdown so we discuss each in depth, like the intellectuals we really are, rather than debate in someone else's space.
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/13/2003 10:58 PM EST
When they first came out Munchkins had a rather ugly spokescharacter to sell them. Understandably I believe she didn't last long.
As for Timbits, I can't help but think of a variation on the old Chicken McNugget joke....'What part of the chicken does the mcnugget come from', what part of tim do the bits come from?
http://theimaginaryworld.com/ikk86.jpg
Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 10/14/2003 01:28 AM EST
> Picture the taste of those calk hearts they sell at Valentine and add the texture of cold
> wax.
Ew. Rock-dwelling has its benefits, apparently.
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/14/2003 06:09 AM EST
comparing candy corn to the chalk hearts is pretty accurate... they're really just softer.
candy corn is good, but the pumpkin versions are somehow better. perhaps it's the rounder shape? spherical tastes better than pyramidal, methinks.
wow, this long weekend is doing wonders for my mind.
Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 10/14/2003 01:52 PM EST
That old "Tim bit is a bit of Tim" joke has been circulating around the Great White North for over thirty years now -- after Tim Horton, famed hockey player and doughnut shop pioneer, died in a car crash.
Incidentally, for all you yanks, Tim Hortons is parodied in the Wayne's World movies as Stan Makita's doughnuts.
Chestnuts roasted by Chris Cuthill @ 10/14/2003 02:04 PM EST
It is trully a sad day. The Parking Lot is Full website (plif.com) is down. Anyone know anything about it? Is it permanent?
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/14/2003 08:46 PM EST
"You don't see many other holidays that let you lick skeletons to death while staining your mouth with their blood."
That is officially a contender for "Best Thing Matt Has Ever Said Ever" contest. The only other quote that recieved this honor (from me, anyway) was you comment about fucking up upholstery.
God bless us everyone!
Chestnuts roasted by Ian, Just Ian @ 10/14/2003 09:52 PM EST
Holy crap... i just had a scary flashback from that classic nick site. I didnt know what everyone was talking about when they were referencing Duckula. Then i went, it looked vaguely familiar, but then i read the lyrics for the end song. Complete time travel. I could almost here the scary laughter.
Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 10/14/2003 09:54 PM EST
I just watched a show on PBS called "Second Hand Stories" and I think X-E readers might enjoy it. It is from the same guy who sold all of his belongings on Ebay and wrote a book about the buyers.
http://secondhandstories.com/index2.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shs/
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/15/2003 02:37 AM EST
nothing better than today's special... I ahve the theme song, and listen to it often.
hocus pocus allidotious
Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 10/15/2003 09:54 AM EST
Just to let ya'll know, I've moved my webcomic to a new site. Click my name to go there.
Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 10/15/2003 10:17 AM EST
Tsk, tsk. Look what time it is, and what day it is! Matt missed a day of the beloved countdown! *sob* Matt, where are you? Where's the update? Don't you know that there are bored people in offices all over North America, awaiting your return?
So I'm a little dramatic. Sue me. :P
Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/15/2003 12:39 PM EST
Wow, that brought back some horrible memories of the after school aneurysm that was the SMBSS. At least it wasn't the episode where Magic Johnson stole Luigi's shaving mug or whatever. I mean of all things to steal, what's next? Gilbert Gottfried steals Luigi's coveted Zoo Key?
Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Phibes @ 10/15/2003 12:50 PM EST
The countdown's two days late and the blog 5. Did you get eaten by a space monkey from mars, Matt? Don't desert us!!
Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/15/2003 02:19 PM EST
DAMN SPACE MONKEYS!!!
Chestnuts roasted by dethstryke @ 10/15/2003 02:52 PM EST
Advent Calendar 2: Spooky Boogaloo.
Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 10/15/2003 04:16 PM EST
Man, I hope this brief hiatus doesn't mean Matt isn't gonna have time to do that article on the Punky Brewster episode "The Perils of Punky" he mentioned earlier this month. That ep has X-E written all over it, and that would be a damn fine article...
Chestnuts roasted by That handicapped kid from Meatballs Part 2 @ 10/15/2003 06:33 PM EST
Well, it would be nice if Matt had something else new up on this site by the end of the week, but, really, he spoils us with the amount he writes; if he did just one article a week, that would still be at least 26 times more articles than that similarly-themed website which used to be my primary website to go to for my 80s pop-culture fixes. (The site of which I speak hasn't been updated since January 27th... though this is in no way meant to be critical of the guy that wrote it, whom obviously has other things going on in his life with little time to write anymore.)
For anyone eager to know the status of my own Today's Special awareness, "Well, I guess that's all locked up tight now, as it should be!" (Why's he guessing? Shouldn't he check?) Yeah, I'll admit to having watched TV Ontario (as TVO was called at the time) much too often for a guy in his tweens and young teens at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays up until 1989, which is when our stupid cable provider dropped TVO.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/15/2003 08:41 PM EST
Heh, Steve, I agree about that other site you're talking about. I'm sure you already know this, but he currently writes monthly articles for The Wave magazine, and you can read most of them at www.thewavemag.com It seems as if he ditched his main site for now, tho :-/
Chestnuts roasted by That handicapped kid from Meatballs Part 2 @ 10/15/2003 09:40 PM EST
Right on, it's so good to see people content with the amount of effort Matt puts into this site. X-E is updated so frequently, it's borderline insane. You have to take into consideration that Matt has to eat food, play with toys, and sleep kind of, and maybe even practice some hygeine on top of writing. Seriously, the fact that he finds time for it all is damn amazing.
Chestnuts roasted by Shave the Whales @ 10/15/2003 10:42 PM EST
Maybe one of you kids could help me?
Anyone remember a Sat. morning TV show that starred a talking grasshopper who worked for the news... Oh! I almost forgot, the grasshopper would shout "Pallabra-Jot! Pallabra-Jot!"
...or something like that.
I know it wasn't Candy Apple News & it came on before Couragous Cat & Minute Mouse.
Someone please clear this up 4 me...
Chestnuts roasted by TheCleaner420 @ 10/15/2003 11:44 PM EST
According to my research that was from a show called "The Write Channel" that originally aired on TVOntario
Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 10/16/2003 12:22 AM EST
Holy shit. There are a lot of fucking messages on here. Don't know why I'm surprised really. But I am. Boo.
We have neither Dunkin Donuts, Tim Horan's (or whatever it was called... no, Tim Horan used to play rugby. Damn I'm lazy, I couldn't be fucked scrolling up to check it either. Sigh) or Krispy Kremes (no wonder people can't spell anymore) in Australia. Go Aus.
Yeah, Bananaman was awesome. I'm pretty sure it inspired me to eat bananas, more so than Popeye did for spinach. Never really got into the whole spinach thing. Maybe that was cause Popeye blows.
You Can't Do That on Television was pure fucking gold, it was on just before (or after) (or in between) Degrassi Junior High and Inspector Gadget. Yeah.
Matt, do a review of You Can't Do That on Television. And you're all like, "Why should I do what you want me to do, little Australian man?" And I'd be all like, "I dunno." And then it'd be all like awkward and silent and shit, and we'd be looking around, scuffing the floor with our toes and stuff. Yeah.
Chestnuts roasted by Beatnik @ 10/16/2003 01:19 AM EST
Bananas in pyjamas?
Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 10/16/2003 02:22 AM EST
No see, the reason he hasn't updated the countdown is because it's on the *13*th, which is spooky all by itself and a good number to make a mysterious and spooky dissapearance from, but *also* happens to be the number 31 BACKWARDS, which is the day of Halloween obviously. Thirty-one also rhymes with 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', an old Beatles song that perfectly encapsulates what I'd like to be doing to the server that is hosting *my* website.
It's all part of a conspiracy.
...bet it's Bitner's fault.
(this post brought to you by the letter ĺ and the number 4, which is approximately the number of hours I got to sleep last night - which explains a *lot*.)
Chestnuts roasted by Aeire @ 10/16/2003 03:25 AM EST
Hey guys, we've actually been staying in the city these past few days. Was under the impression that our hotel had high speed access (it doesn't), so I'm stuck doing only the basic stuff till I get home tomorrow afternoon. Everything will be updated on the site later tomorrow, with ze new article. Starring Dick Clark.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/16/2003 04:35 AM EST
Whoo hoo, he hasn't forgotten about us! Unless...that wasn't Matt at all but someone playing a cruel, cruel joke! Damn the space monkeys!
Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/16/2003 09:07 AM EST
I would never play a joke on you guys, honk honk!
Chestnuts roasted by fakematt @ 10/16/2003 10:15 AM EST
120 comments! No that's impressive
but no surprise with a topic like
super mario super show. I wonder what ever happened to ol' Lou. Maybe he had an unfortunate accident while sporting a new unbroken in elastic band. Tim bits or munchkins. hmmm... I think i'd go for the munchins. I still remember the old cardboard red box they came in in the early 80's. Where I live right now they only have tim hortons. Timbits should be called Tim's bits of shit, rolled in confectionary sugar because they suck.
Matt, what's the record for the longest lasting blog? 6 days is pretty long.
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 10/16/2003 11:48 AM EST
The Photog post lasted only like three days and had nearly 200 posts.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 10/16/2003 12:20 PM EST
That handicapped kid from Meatballs Part 2: Yeah, I've been to The Wave Mag site, but, to be perfectly honest, I forgot why I went there. I think I read one or two of the earliest articles by Seanbaby on that site and then forgot completely about him writing for anything else besides Electronic Gaming Monthly. Thanks for the link.
allicat: I remember well watching The Write Channel, but not on TV Ontario but rather during the afternoon block of 15-minute programmes meant to be watched at school on one of the two PBS "border" stations we can receive in Montreal, either WCFE 57 (Mountain Lake Public Television, though they didn't call themselves that in the 1980s) in Plattsburgh NY or WETK 33 (Vermont ETV) in Burlington VT. If I remember correctly, it was originally from Mississippi Public Television... I think it was the seal of the State of Mississippi they had on the blue screen before and after the programme. TVO might have shown it at some point, but it's not one of their original programmes. (I like slipping in "Palabra Jot" into things I write sometimes, and I have actually received e-mail from people whom get the reference.)
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/16/2003 12:31 PM EST
Yay, new article! Is it the potpurri guide!? *gets brutally murdered by annoyed people*
Anywy, new articles are always nice anyway, so... yay! Keep up the good work.
Chestnuts roasted by Electric Penguin @ 10/16/2003 03:43 PM EST
You and that damn guide. I was kidding! :)
Anyways, I'm home now. Updating the Countdown, then off to write the big ol' article. Will be writing a second big one before the weekend, too.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/16/2003 03:48 PM EST
Ok, never mind about the blog record. I just checked out photog.
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 10/16/2003 06:56 PM EST
"The Write Channel"
That seems to ring a bell, I thought I was the only one who ever saw that show. Do you know that lil' critters name allicat?
Also...
How do all these TVOntario shows end up in the US?
Specifically in Philadelphia, in 1980 sumtin', & at 5:30am on Sat. morning?
P.s. Didn't the lil' bug have some kind of contest you could enter by sending him (it) a news story?
P.s. (again) What city Matt?
Chestnuts roasted by TheCleaner420 @ 10/16/2003 09:00 PM EST
is it just me or is matt being slack lately? not updateing....
Chestnuts roasted by Rachel @ 10/16/2003 10:21 PM EST
The scariest part of Halloween? Matt not updating his site b/c he's passed out from the sugar high. You thought this was bad...
Chestnuts roasted by TOP1214 @ 10/16/2003 10:34 PM EST
TheCleaner420: I believe the name of the bug on the Write Channel was "R.G. Bug", and his boss was "Red Green", but this particular "Red Green" was a black anchorwoman, not some Canadian do-it-yourself guy played by Steve Smith, of course.
Everyone: A Google search for "Mississippi" and "Write Channel" confirmed my earlier recollection that it was from Mississippi Public TV. I can poke around with your memories a little to prove it's American, not Canadian: remember towards the end of each episode, after the WORD-TV Evening News, they show an establishing "master" shot of an apartment building and then R.G. Bug asleep in front of his TV? It's the end of WORD-TV's broadcast day, so, on R.G. Bug's television, they show a graphic of an American flag being raised up and down the pole whilst the last two bars of the "Star-Spangled Banner" play in the background. Then there's a second of fuzz on the television, then the scene cuts to "The Club, The Club, The Club, The Club, The Club, etc..."
For people thinking it's from TV Ontario, I think you're all confusing it with one of three TVO-produced programmes from roughly the same era: Readalong, the reading show for young children with Boot, Pretty (a pink shoe), Granny, the Explorer, and "Bones" the skeleton; Write On!, for young teens, wherein a reporter writes articles containing punctuation, syntax, or verb tense errors, falls asleep, and then the characters in his dreams (played by him, the editor and the secretary) face the consequences of the mistakes he wrote when the altered meanings of the sentences come true; or, perhaps, the most famous reading-related TVO programme of all, Read All About It... the show wherein three kids in "The Coach House" start their own newspaper, The Herbertville Chronicle, and uncover a conspiracy from the Mayor to mine King's Park, because the Mayor's really the evil silver floating head alien Duneedon, and he needs the minerals in the park to activate the transporter in the Coach House and travel back to Trialviron for some nefarious purpose I can't quite remember. Also, there was Otto, the dot-matrix printer, and Theta, the talking computer monitor.
Damn, why am I such an expert on 15-minute educational shows from the late 1970s? I guess I stayed home "sick" a little too much back when I was in elementary school...
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/16/2003 10:35 PM EST
Your knowledge is almost as impressive as it is disturbing. ;)
Chestnuts roasted by MrRottenTreats @ 10/16/2003 11:15 PM EST
Ok, Steve Brandon. You seem to know a thing or two. How about a challange? Tell me what you know about.... Romber Room.
Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 10/17/2003 12:40 AM EST
Well, Romper Room was originally an American show, but the version Canadians saw, with Miss Fran, was filmed in Kitchener, if I remember correctly. But, unlike the other shows I've mentioned, I never enjoyed Romper Room, even as a little kid. The show was mostly watching other kids play... about as exciting as looking through a daycare window (except the police made me sign a paper saying I wouldn't... just kidding). Not counting Doo-Bee, the puppets and stuff they added in the mid-80s was years after I stopped watching, though I got glimpses of it back when I had to get up before 6:30 a.m. for high school.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/17/2003 02:02 AM EST
Yeah I remember all of those shows on TVO. Read along was kinda lame,
but read all about it was cool. I remember it being really creepy and I used to have to watch with my sister so I wouldn't be to scared. Say what you want, it was scary at times what with there ghosts and stuff. I had the biggest crush on lynne she was definately the babe on the show. Samantha was the brainy type and not without her own charm. She left the show for awhile in the early seasons before they all hit puberty. Steve, do you remeber that live action show on TVO with a rip off of rocky and bullwinkle?
Something to do with a cucumber?
Things I miss most about montreal:
bagels, peel pub, look out on mt. royal, belle province hotdogs, foufounes.
Hey, one more for you. In the late 70's-early 80's there was a show teaching french. They had skits with a guy dressed like a drunk/bum with clown makeup on. That show was hilarious definately one of my favorite childhood memories.
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 10/17/2003 12:28 PM EST
Yeah, I remember Cucumber... "Children's Underground Club of United Moose and Beaver for Enthusiastic Reporters" I always got a kick out of the "Underground Club" part, like it was some sort of shady place with drug dealing and table dances and cock fighting. Also the "United Moose and Beaver" part, because my mind is in the gutter sometimes. Alex Laurier was doing a Bullwinkle impression, wasn't he? Also, I had forgotten that both John Candy and Martin Short had appeared in specific episodes of the show, though that was before SCTV started so they weren't too famous.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 10/17/2003 03:58 PM EST
Hey,
Matt's article on the Super Show sure bring back memories of when I watched that show everyday on the then Family Channel, which I managed to tape on every viewing, along with "The All New Popeye Show" a few commercials, and show promos for "Punky Brewster" and "That's My Dog"....whoah getting of topic a bit. I even taped episodes of the other Mario series. In response to another poster, Luigi was indeed funny. Watch the second "Dracula" sketch, the "Sigmund Fruitcake" sketch, and maybe even that sketch with Mario thinking he promised 15 years (from 1989) to marry Vanna White and Luigi helps out. Hey, maybe Matt could let me right reviews for some episodes he's not able to reach.
Now if y'all excuse me, I'll be eating some Krispy Kream donuts while watching that sketch with "Marianne and Luigeena".
Chestnuts roasted by Mario500 @ 10/17/2003 11:34 PM EST
Thank you so much Steve Brandon!
My neural transmitters have just experienced a massive kick in the ass...
I remember it all, even the boss. Ha!
Thank you.
P.s. Didn't the lil' guy live behind a grate below the house?
Chestnuts roasted by TheCleaner420 @ 10/18/2003 12:21 AM EST
And then there was Mr. Dressup. and The Friendly Giant.
-A Nostalgic former Vermonter/Montrealer
jsheldonsf@yahoo.com
Chestnuts roasted by js @ 11/21/2003 07:44 PM EST
I need to find these so called 'episodes' of Read All About It! Maybe after a closer review I can see how these bratty kids foiled my transgalactic plans with a typewriter and an Atari. Plus, I'd rather not pay $55 bucks on ebay to watch grainy VHS copies.
On a serious note...I LOVED this show. After some careless net-fumbling I saw somewhere someplace that TVO had given up/lost the rights to RAAI! and that is why you can't buy the episodes from them. However, you CAN search libraries in Can. and see if they have the episodes taped. But if anybody has them converted to mpeg, holler.
Chestnuts roasted by Duneedon @ 11/21/2003 07:48 PM EST
Hello to Steve Brandon &
Mr. Mr. Mr.
My name is Claude Lee. My wife Fran and I live in Topeka Kansas. Fran was Miss Fran on Romper Room School in Wichita Kansas from 1967 through 1979. Her live broadcasts went only to western Kansas, and a part of NE, CO and OK. But a number of people tell us that they have seen her show over the years since then until recently in various parts of the east and south USA. Your comment Oct 31 03, is the first we have heard about Canada. We have no ax to grind, legal or otherwise, but would like to know if it is true. Probably ego: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" and I guess that includes video tapes. I have seen a number of RR teachers and she was very very good--the best--so it would not be surprising if they used her tapes. I have attached a City of Wichita home site that includes a picture of Miss Fran. If you or anyone else has seen my Fran on Romper Room anywhere, any time in the world except the above, please drop me a line at my e-mail: clee191@cox.net. Thank you for your trouble.
Claude Lee.
Mr.http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/wdl/searchresults.asp?yr=1970s
Chestnuts roasted by CLAUDE LEE @ 01/05/2004 11:53 PM EST
I had those batman and ghostbusters toys! I remember getting the proton pack and trapper for my birthday one year and every kid was trying to steal it from me. I also remember getting exceptionally pissed at not being able to holster the damn thing on my back. It was impossible I tell you, impossible!!! Anyway, is there anyway you can host those batman and ghostbusters commercials as video files, even if for just a little while?
Chestnuts roasted by realmeanmotorscutor @ 01/26/2004 02:07 PM EST
I had those batman and ghostbusters toys! I remember getting the proton pack and trapper for my birthday one year and every kid was trying to steal it from me. I also remember getting exceptionally pissed at not being able to holster the damn thing on my back. It was impossible I tell you, impossible!!! Anyway, is there anyway you can host those batman and ghostbusters commercials as video files, even if for just a little while?
Chestnuts roasted by realmeanmotorscutor @ 01/26/2004 02:13 PM EST
I had those batman and ghostbusters toys! I remember getting the proton pack and trapper for my birthday one year and every kid was trying to steal it from me. I also remember getting exceptionally pissed at not being able to holster the damn thing on my back. It was impossible I tell you, impossible!!! Anyway, is there anyway you can host those batman and ghostbusters commercials as video files, even if for just a little while?
Chestnuts roasted by realmeanmotorscutor @ 01/26/2004 02:14 PM EST
wow, what a screwy guestbook. I remember apologizing for the repeat posting when I originally wrote that and now when I check back to see if anyone responded to me what do I find? My apology never went through. Screwy I tells ya. Here's hoping this one goes through.
Chestnuts roasted by realmeanmotorscutor @ 02/02/2004 01:22 PM EST
wow, what a screwy guestbook. I remember apologizing for the repeat posting when I originally wrote that and now when I check back to see if anyone responded to me what do I find? My apology never went through. Screwy I tells ya. Here's hoping this one goes through.
Chestnuts roasted by realmeanmotorscutor @ 02/02/2004 01:24 PM EST
wow, what a screwy guestbook. I remember apologizing for the repeat posting when I originally wrote that and now when I check back to see if anyone responded to me what do I find? My apology never went through. Screwy I tells ya. Here's hoping this one goes through.
Chestnuts roasted by realmeanmotorscutor @ 02/02/2004 01:25 PM EST
My friend had the Ghost Trapper. Damn, that thing was awesome...
Chestnuts roasted by hitokiri_diesel @ 02/25/2004 12:25 PM EST
You Should All Be Ashamed Of Yourselves!!!!
THE SUPER MARIO BROS. SUPER SHOW is a wholesome as THE THREE STOOGES CARTOON SHOW; Infact, it is almost exactly alike.
I hope to see EVERY SINGLE show with the LIVE ACTION and CARTOON pieces in original air-date forms in a DVD boxset.
Now if you want to talk SHIT, I mean REAL SHIT! See the SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE!!! That is the only true reason why The Mario Character has Trouble getting back it's devotion and respect as a Video Game Character that CHANGED THE WORLD!!!!!!
MICHAEL HEMPHILL
P.S: Eisner's Goin' Down!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 03/14/2004 05:36 PM EST
SUPER MARIO BROS SUPER SHOW ROCKS!! but I cant seem 2 find a damn episode for download or something... I would kill somebody for it... (believe me, I would) -_-
Chestnuts roasted by Lars @ 03/30/2004 04:51 PM EST
Wow! This is fantastic! I can never seem to find anybody who remembers "Read All About It". I absolutely loved that show. Just finding a mention of it has made my day.
Chestnuts roasted by chanteygrrl @ 04/29/2004 04:29 PM EST
You know what celebrity would have been a good special guest on this show? REM frontman Michael Stipe. Think about it, "Stand" was a chart-topping hit back when the show was on the air and Michael with his fun and charismatic personality would have fit right in with the Mario Brothers. I could also imagine a wisecrack being made by Mario or Luigi about it being "The End of the World as we Know It" and feeling fine.
Chestnuts roasted by Tim @ 06/07/2004 02:41 AM EST
I'm going to have to get a copy of this, for the Mega Force commercial.
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