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First post!
That felt good...
Chestnuts roasted by BaronKrusha @ 10/17/2003 11:40 PM EST
Second post!
What store was selling the VCR and the stereo?
Chestnuts roasted by sillygolem @ 10/18/2003 12:45 AM EST
The thought of Skeletor playing Simon with boys of Snake mountain makes me want to cackle. Good times.
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/18/2003 12:58 AM EST
The first one is from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Useless trivia: the original poster for that film was a parody of the poster for The Breakfast Club. I love that fact. There's some great moments in that movie. The guy getting the top half of his head chopped off, the shock of leatherface jumping out of the record storage room, the whole chop-top Vietnman Vet character who's totally bat-shit nuts with flashbacks, the chainsaw swordfight, that the heroine has the ugliest name in the history of horror movie heroines (Stretch), when Stretch has to wear the bloodied face mask--eh, that's enough of the movie I ruined. Really weird piece of cinema. I hope someday to see the director's cut with the scene of Monstervision's Joe Bob Briggs getting killed with a couple hookers.
What else do I have to say? All hail Serpentor!
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/18/2003 01:01 AM EST
Yeah, TCM2 is already coded out into an article, half-written, but then I decided that I wasn't sure what I thought of the movie. Time has sweetened the memory a bit, but I hated it when I saw it. (not hated, you know, but thought it was a bad movie) Now I think it's a pretty decent (and really twisted) horror/slasher flick, but one that would've been best served as its own unique deal and not a TCM sequel. The lore of Leatherface and pals was not important to that movie. Oh, and Chop Top rocked. DJ Stretch waddn't too bad either.
Enjoy the pics and vids, guys.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/18/2003 01:10 AM EST
Watermarks? Aww, are people stealing the pictures? Lamers... at least you chose a cool font for the things, Matt. I think I acually have that font on my computer. "Uptown", is it? Kornucopia would have been nicer, 'cuz then people would have been all like "Dude! This guy's 'R's are all backwards! He must be one crazy mutha! Lets not steal from him ever! Lets just go back to being plain old lamers!". Yeah. But the one there is good enough.
Uhm. Woo. Pictures. Videos. Apparently random letters. Article soon to come. What more can be said?
Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 10/18/2003 01:44 AM EST
so soft ponies and kid sister.
And some common things with different names like furit corners and slice. Now they are betty crocker's and serria mist.
Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 10/18/2003 02:01 AM EST
My older brother totally terrified his daughter with a Glo-Worm. When she was a baby he'd sqeeze it, so it lit up then put it in her face and yell. I'd bet that to this day if you put a Glo-Worm in her face she'd run in terror, and she's 10.
Chestnuts roasted by candybar @ 10/18/2003 02:20 AM EST
Oh my god a Hostess Pudding Pie. ...do they still MAKE those? I've seen the fruit pies all over the friggen place, but I don't recall having seen the pudding pies anywhere...
Chestnuts roasted by Aeire @ 10/18/2003 02:21 AM EST
Just trying to see how bodacious I am but...didn't those fireworks come after cartoons during "Channel 9's" afternoon cavalcade of shitty cartoons (Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff, etc.?), and weren't those My Little Ponies kind of Hasbro/Pony/MossMan hybrids?, and weren't Fruit Wheats just Shredded Wheat with Fruit Roll-Up shit in the middle...for breakfast?, and didn't you have to squeeze those Glo-Worms' bellies with vice grips just to make their ugly mugs light up?, and I think I still have three of those AAA battery rings you had to cram into the Thundercats backs but only two compatable action figures (howdizat happen?), and howcome McNuggets don't have personalized characteristics no-mo?, and if My Buddy is Chuckie would Kid Sister be Courtney Love?, and finally, the only reason to drive ten hours to the Mall of America is to experience the thrill of the General Mills History of Cereal Adventure...featuring a cereal bar and big screen TV running a loop of cereal commercials dating back fifty or so years (including a black and white Trix rabbit)? Yes or no?
Chestnuts roasted by BrianKelly @ 10/18/2003 03:02 AM EST
surround sound my ass!
Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 10/18/2003 03:15 AM EST
Holy Picture # 3 Batman, I haven't thought of that (fire safety?) woman with the knitting needle through her hair (or head if it's more Halloweeny -- muwahahaha) forever. She was a staple of my Saturday morning cartoons, and probably the beginning of all my neuroses. 'Cause really, how can you be forced to contemplate the possibility of your fiery death every Saturday morning and not get a little neurotic?
Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 10/18/2003 05:59 AM EST
A McNugget dressed as Mrs. Steve is grimacing at me, now even when I close my eyes.
She is a wound that will never heal.
Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 10/18/2003 08:06 AM EST
My cousin got that football kicking fellow for his birthday one year. It broke in about 20 minutes. The best part is that we have the whole thing on tape.
Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 10/18/2003 09:50 AM EST
You should make a documentary about the terrible physical toll that football takes on a man. I'd pay good money to watch an action figure give an emotional interview, especially if he speaks in the third person.
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/18/2003 11:15 AM EST
I've been permanently scarred by that Simon commercial. Thanks a lot, Matt.
Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 10/18/2003 12:54 PM EST
"We're talking boring on the level of that cartoon about gnomes starring the voice of Tom Bosley -- a show so boring you've never even heard of it."
Hmm, you wouldn't happen to be referencing that old show, David of the Gnomes. I think that was the name, or something close to that. Well, it DID have gnomes, and was pretty boring. I still kinda liked it. I was a weird kid.
Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 10/18/2003 01:30 PM EST
Lion-O's got this fabulous '50s horror thing going on with his eyes in screengrab #22. Also, watching Skeletor leg it from Bashasauras is surprisingly hilarious.
Chestnuts roasted by JC @ 10/18/2003 05:03 PM EST
I always thought those Transformer commercials where the kid transformed into a Transformer were pretty freaky. Now that I see it again after all these years--still pretty freaky. I need to use the word "transform" a few more times before this can be complete. I saw the bird fly onto the transformer and was transformed into fried chicken which was consumed by me and transformed in my stomach into feces which transformed the earth into fertilizer and transformed into a tree, part of which transformed into a bird's nest. Now you see, Simbah, how the circle is complete.
Chestnuts roasted by inkmage @ 10/18/2003 08:06 PM EST
Thundercats of the Damned?
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/18/2003 09:07 PM EST
Oh, geez, this is one of those nights when I feel old. Old? Ancient. I think one of my sisters might have had the pink fuzzy My Little Pony. (I also had a fuzzy My Little Pony, but she was white with orange-red hair instead of pink.) My youngest sister had her Glo-Worm for years and refused to sleep without him as a small child.
It's scary to remember VCRs cost that much just a little over a decade ago. I paid $40 for my current one five years ago. I think my stepfather paid $200 or more for our first one. It was this silver-trimmed monstrosity we had for years.
I remember that "See America" license plate contest well. My siblings and I fought over and traded plates. One of my sisters got Kentucky, because it had a horse on it and she adored horses. I think I still have the Florida plate.
We only had two Thundercats toys, and they were both mine - Lion-O and some bird-faced villian. The ring that made Lion-O's eyes light up outlasted the gimmick. I forget how Lion-O stopped looking like he was possessed - he was broken, or ran out of batteries, or something.
Yes, I believe the fireworks were on Channel 9. One of the things I loved about living in this part of New Jersey as a kid is we got independant stations from New York and Philidelphia, instead of stations from just one city or the other. (All our major networks were Philly, though.) I think the fireworks were used as segways for not only the cartoons, but their entire afternoon's programming.
I remember the food well, too - that Twix commercial, those fruit bars (I probably still have some stuck between my teeth), the Hostess Pudding Pies (I regret never trying one as a kid, as I haven't seen them in years). I think I might have that Snickers bar commercial on one of my tapes of "Perfect Strangers" episodes.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/18/2003 09:59 PM EST
OK, Matt. That Simon commercial was simply uncalled for. Thanks to you, for the next week or so, whenever I use the word "do," I'm gonna be saying it "do-dadoo." And as a result, all my friends will hate me. Well, hopefully I won't do-dadoo it...shit...
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 10/18/2003 10:35 PM EST
Watching that Simon commercial makes me glad I didn't have to live through it when I was a kid. The Simon commercial I know and love was much more... I don't know, but it was less painful to the senses. Ahh, it's good to be young...
Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 10/18/2003 11:59 PM EST
Ok, someone has to be able to find out who that godawful Simon band is.
Chestnuts roasted by Hellpop! @ 10/19/2003 01:52 AM EST
"David the Gnome"! Oh man, I used to watch that too! I guess it was boring, but I still watched it and liked it, too. Oh, and I think it was on around the same time as "Maya the Bee" which was also probably pretty dumb. But I liked it. Mostly because the name is pronounced the same as my sister Mia's name...
The evocative opening theme is echoing in my brain right NOW... Maaaaaya, Maya the bee... ::clutches head in agony::
Chestnuts roasted by Amanda Swiftgold @ 10/19/2003 02:09 AM EST
All that made me do was sigh deeply remembering all the cool ass GI Joe stuff I used to have.
Man, Serpentor was so cool.
Chestnuts roasted by Cannibalizer @ 10/19/2003 03:09 AM EST
The music in those He-Man and Simon commercials are beautiful. It reminds me of how great toy commercial music is. I'd like a ton of 80 minute CDRs full of 30 seocond commercial songs.
Chestnuts roasted by Tim-E @ 10/19/2003 12:03 PM EST
how could the police have signed off on the horrible rip-off of "de doo doo doo..." in the simon commercial? they either a) sued the pants off milton bradley after the fact or b) told mb that whatever band played the song must be made to look like the gayest band ever, even by 80's standards. i'm thinking they chose b.
good work, sting.
Chestnuts roasted by thepatheticfallacy @ 10/19/2003 12:18 PM EST
Did anyone actually play simon like that? In teams? I never played that stupid game with anyone.
Chestnuts roasted by socrazy @ 10/19/2003 01:41 PM EST
I guess that M&M commercial was from when they had the scare about Red Dye #2. It's just wrong to have an M&M commercial without Red.
Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 10/19/2003 02:56 PM EST
I think I'm afraid of the pudding pie. That thing doesn't sound natural. Or healthy. At all. Eww.
Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 10/19/2003 03:50 PM EST
I can understand Peter Cullen doing hte voice for the transformers commercial but Motu as well??? hehehe now i got this picture of Optimus Prime standing just out of the camera's reach commentating on the fight
Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 10/19/2003 04:16 PM EST
Garrison: NO! NO! Don't you UNDERSTAND?!?!?! This is the commercial in which they have the sacred of sacred, holy of holies *TAN M&M*! They ditched the 'tan' M&M when they brought out the 'blue' M&M. Bastards. And yes, it was pre-red. I remember when the things were brown, tan, orange, yellow, and green, and we *LIKED* 'em that way!
As for the pudding pie, Evin - I remember them vaguely from my childhood as being overbearingly sweet and of course horribly messy to eat, and thus they were perfect. I imagine nowadays I'd find 'em pretty damned bland - I just didn't know if they quit production on the things or not, because after seeing that picture it jogged my memory into *remembering* the things, and made me realize I haven't seen them anywhere at *all* in years. Think of 'em as the poor man's bavarian cream doughnut and you're pretty close to what they were like.
Chestnuts roasted by Aeire @ 10/19/2003 04:45 PM EST
I used to eat Hostess Ninja Turtle pies; they were pudding-filled. Thinking back, they were pretty awful, but they were Ninja Turtle pies. Anything Turtles was good to me back then.
I also had one of those Thundercats figures.
Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 10/19/2003 06:36 PM EST
Just saw TCM ...sucked...wasted my money..
However, there is this one scene where i really wanted to cry.
Chestnuts roasted by Brodie @ 10/19/2003 09:33 PM EST
I would like a Trikke and some Sand Air for Bastille Day.
http://www.trikke.com/004/videos.php
http://www.800webmall.com/cgi-bin/800web/webmall/product.txml?cart=03J19cee.qvu&uu=18313406&BtnOnAccept=EE-@mMn1SdPg*Z6wuh8spKovdc&%69temname=%53ADTRAMN&%73hopname=%53and%20Air%20Etching%20Kit
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/20/2003 12:48 AM EST
Better Trikke footage:
http://www.trikke.co.uk/trikke_howto_videos.htm
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/20/2003 01:05 AM EST
Off-topic question: Does anyone know why Matt decided to name this site 'x-entertainment'? Someone asked me the other day and I was stumped. Are we considered Generation X? Is that what he's going for or has he posted another reason somewhere and I've just missed it? Any ideas?
Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/20/2003 03:23 PM EST
It has no meaning, to be honest. It was a domain bought for an entirely different purpose, and back when I only had novice knowledge on anything html/web-related, this domain had a better hosting plan already set up, so that's the way it went. Believe me, for a site like this, "X-Entertainment" would be like my 6,000th personal choice. But, with three years of history under it, that's the way it's gonna stay. :)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/20/2003 03:26 PM EST
Made with real fruit so your tast buds shout!
Look so freaky gone to knock you out!
They did to fruit? What a pity.
Fruit corners fruit bars.
(Band that looks like Devo)
We think they're rather pretty.
Our first Beta Max cost $1000 in 1983. Damn thing still works too. I knew a girl that had a VCR in 1977. That thing must have cost as much as a VW Beetle.
Pudding pies were good.
It makes me feel old that some of you have never had M&M's without the red ones.
Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 10/20/2003 03:37 PM EST
What makes me feel really old is that people feel old because other people don't remember way back to the days when there were no red M&Ms. I was a young'un in the days BEFORE there were no red M&Ms -- when there were cancerous red M&Ms and we loved the danger!
Chestnuts roasted by Was a Man @ 10/20/2003 03:46 PM EST
How dare you question the heavens purplegirl.
As long as we're questioning God's actions, I for one would like to know what the original purpose/domain of x-entertainment was.
XXX-entertainment? C'mon Matt, we all know you like porn.
Ebert gave chainsaw a zero. I don't
usually listen to critics but...
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 10/20/2003 03:54 PM EST
don't mind me, i'm just being an ass.
i repent.
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 10/20/2003 04:03 PM EST
that "see america" grab was for honeycomb cereal. i remember having to gag a whole box of that crap down for a damned ARKANSAS plate. ...so pissed...
Chestnuts roasted by kranick @ 10/20/2003 04:32 PM EST
I'm sorry to have asked such a question of the Almighty Matt (although I am grateful he answered it!). Yeah, that's why the question came up -- I had the website up at work and a co-worker came in and gave me a funny look. I tried to explain it wasn't porn, to which she responded, "Why would it have that name then?" But you're right. Who am I to question Matt? Especially when I'm sure he's sooooo busy updating the Countdown! :-P
Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 10/20/2003 04:38 PM EST
What would you name x-entertainment Matt if you had a second chance?
Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 10/20/2003 04:41 PM EST
That's understandable.
Just don't look up one the links called style project (you'll get in shit).
Chestnuts roasted by turkeys can't fly? @ 10/20/2003 04:45 PM EST
Not really sure what I'd name it. Probably something very vague that didn't have any legit meaning, but just sounded cool. Hey, I'm being honest. :) I'm just glad that the "X-E" abbreviation sounds hip and widdit.
By the way, I know I've been slacking this past week or so -- got a lot goin on, and I know that Nov and Dec are gonna be extremely busy months. Had to take my breaks before the storm. Countdown will be up to date later tonight.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/20/2003 04:45 PM EST
You know, I never really thought about the "why" in the name X-Entertainment. As my homepage, it never crosses my mind. ...Weird. Oh well. Matt, your words are what I think, but would never say. Words words.
Chestnuts roasted by Armagideon Time @ 10/20/2003 05:51 PM EST
Dude, Matt, Are you gonna be on the new i love the 80s?
Chestnuts roasted by twan @ 10/20/2003 06:27 PM EST
J'ai ete une salade de lapin.
Chestnuts roasted by No one important. @ 10/20/2003 08:38 PM EST
The logo branding on the pics is a little obtrusive in places. It would be great if they could be a bit smaller. It was especially annoying on the knight rider bike pic. Sorry Matt.
I love the halloween countdown. I for one don't care if you are exactly on time as long as you write an entry for each day because so far they have been really hilarious. I loved Bleeding Head Man!
Chestnuts roasted by Kit @ 10/20/2003 08:55 PM EST
Just wanted to note that Mumm-Ra also had light up eyes. (Not the one that came with the tomb fortress, this was his going-into-battle-until-I-run-into-a-mirror Mumm-Ra.) Later releases of Lion-O came with a Snarf figurine (I have that one), in scale, while Mumm-Ra came with Ma-Mutt (didn't get that one).
Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing the Technorganic Thundercat @ 10/20/2003 09:00 PM EST
I had the lite-up Lion-o (thats a lot of -'s) and I remember that you had to press REALLY hard on the spring looking thing in his back to get his eyes to lite up...
Yeah! Are you going to be on I LOVE THE 80'S: STRIKES BACK?! or did VH1 dump you like a bunch of jerks and I will boycott viacom forever??
Chestnuts roasted by dethstryke @ 10/20/2003 09:55 PM EST
It would be mad sweet if Matt was on the new I Love the 80s, instead of having Michael Ian Black and Hal Sparks forcing me to punch the TV. Even Mo Rocca is annoying, and I like Mo Rocca... we need Matt, to, you know, make it good.
Chestnuts roasted by tony @ 10/21/2003 03:42 AM EST
I am hoping that Matt is teaming up with VH1 for his own show. I would like something in the vein of "Video Power"( http://www.nesplayer.com/television/vidpower_files/power.htm ) with Matt hosting and talking to collectors and X-E celebrities, and then he could have animated segments done on the cheap.
MTV gave some teen, with a prior New York City public access show based around his nostalgic collection of stuff, a shot for a while in the mid-Nineties. He had the likes of Janeane Garofalo on to talk about things like his Jimmie "J.J." Walker doll. They taped the show in his room.
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/21/2003 04:06 AM EST
"ME" are you sure that your not thinking of Waynes World?
Seriously though, nice to see someone mention Video Power, I haven't seen or heard anything to do with that show in like, a decade, so thanks for the link!
Chestnuts roasted by Lossenelin @ 10/21/2003 05:20 AM EST
Speaking of TC toys..for whatever reason I remember the original line didn't include Wiley Kit & Kat; except for two rubber figures that were packaged with Tigra(Kat) and Cheetara(Kit). Later on they had their own real action figures made, but the rubber statue-like ones were the first. Hm, wonder what this rubber Wiley Kat is worth?
Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 10/21/2003 10:44 AM EST
Hey Matt,you're falling asleep buddy its the 21st and not a halloween update since the 18th...pick up the slack buddy!!!!!
Irate Nate
Chestnuts roasted by pogocorpse @ 10/21/2003 11:49 AM EST
"Lossenelin," I was not thinking of Wayne Campbell. Matt could probably find what the name of that show was through VH1 if he was interested in a one of his predecessors. The show was not that good, but it gave me hope that if that guy could get a show on MTV through public access then anyone could; see Tom Green.
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/21/2003 04:55 PM EST
Me, the name of the show was Squirt TV.
Chestnuts roasted by Zombie Cop @ 10/21/2003 06:41 PM EST
Thank you, Zombie Cop.
"Squirt TV" (1994)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0169494/
"Squirt TV on MTV" (1996)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0169493/
The host went on to be in "Wet Hot American Summer."
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/21/2003 07:01 PM EST
More on the host of Squirt TV, Jake Fogelnest
Then: www.fitzbrothers.com/writing/writing017.html
Now: www.watchtalkshow.com/04whois.html
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/21/2003 07:08 PM EST
Jake sings the theme to "Reading Rainbow" with Claire Danes:
http://home.arcor.de/thorsten.reichelt/audio/readrainbow.mp3
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 10/21/2003 07:16 PM EST
"This is the commercial in which they have the sacred of sacred, holy of holies *TAN M&M*!"
I once dated a girl that was on a one-woman campaign to bring back the tan M&M's coz they were the exact same colour as her hair.
Chestnuts roasted by Shadowcircus @ 10/21/2003 09:00 PM EST
Yes, I rember Matt saying he had a meeting with VH1 back in late august early september. Still no Matt on strikes back. So what was the meeting about, consultant? top secret project? Chris Jericho is on it though, which is cool.
Chestnuts roasted by sweepthelegjohnny @ 10/21/2003 11:19 PM EST
I think X-Entertainment fits perfectly.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/22/2003 03:06 AM EST
I was doing a google search on Squirt TV and I found this site for the host, Jake Fogelnest. I think it's pretty new.
http://www.jakefogelnest.com
also he has a journal that links from that site.
Just FYI.
Chestnuts roasted by Sean Ryder @ 12/29/2003 10:42 PM EST
I am trying to find a talking JJ Walker Doll, does anyone have one or know where I can search for one???? goongoo@hotmail.com
Chestnuts roasted by Khalida @ 03/24/2004 07:28 PM EST
