10/02/2005 Entry: "Freddy and Jason Spitballs!"

Some recent major poll credited The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as being the scurrrriest movie of all time. I guess that's possible under the right light, but...eh. The Exorcist ranked in at #2, and though I'm much more of a Leatherface fan than a pea soup fan, I must admit that I personally find the latter film far scarier. Leatherface and pals...you gotta go into the woods or some shit to get in trouble with them. Satan can attack wherever, whenever. Bleh. New Countdown entry for Monday: Freddy Krueger & Jason Voorhees Spitballs!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Boligarky @ 10/02/2005 09:07 PM EST

Superman 3 scared me pretty poopless...the bit with the machine, the unspeakable horror of it all.

Chestnuts roasted by The Thought Police @ 10/02/2005 09:10 PM EST

I covet those spitballs.

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/02/2005 09:28 PM EST

When I was small, we're talking around 3, I had a little freddy kruger which I believe was originaly intended to be hung from a rear veiw mirror. He's holding a skull in his claw hand. Well his thumb is glued into a hoop that sticks out of the skull but that's good enough for me. His head is also alot bigger than it should be. I think that this little freddy is some where in my room right now.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/02/2005 09:31 PM EST

That would be the Freddy Krueger Stick-Up doll.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/02/2005 09:32 PM EST

"Scary 18 foot squirt" just sounds sorta nasty. Sorry to be crass...

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/02/2005 09:35 PM EST

Thanks Matt. I love it when I learn things about my old toys and you even have a little reveiw of it. This is definately the best web-site ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 10/02/2005 09:36 PM EST

Yes, Satan can certainly attack anywhere...even on the crapper. But, for some reason, he only seems interested in attacking white, nubile, 14-year-old girls. Satan digs jail-bait.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 10/02/2005 09:40 PM EST

I've always maintained that Zoobilee Zoo was designed for no other purpose than to get children used to the idea of an acid trip, so I'll go ahead and say that it wouldn't fly today. Seriously, that show was like a nightmare factory.

Chestnuts roasted by Kyle @ 10/02/2005 09:40 PM EST

Yay! New post. Just got back from Target, I have goods.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Log @ 10/02/2005 09:43 PM EST

I don't know if these two would count Mr. Boligarky but the DARK CRYSTAL and PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE have always fascinated me because I don't know who were made for. Too creepy for (young) kids, too "filled with wonderment" (yuck. I apologize) for anyone older.
Okay X-Ers, I have a mission impossible task for you but if anybody can do it, you can. I am on the hunt for some old Halloween makeup I had as a kid (circa 1982-1984). It may have been made by AVON since my mom was a small time dealer back then (*sigh*). Here comes a vague recollection: White cream makeup in a bluish ghost tin. The black make up in a smaller tin. That's all the information I have. I have searched online but with so little to go on, I am getting nothing. I am also looking for a website with a bunch of old (early 80's) plastic costumes. Not for sale but just to browse. HELP ME (regrettably, I cannot type that last sentence backwards in honor of the aforementioned EXORCIST).
One last nugget, I know we were all about TARGET the other day but I stopped into K-Mart (?) the other day and although the quality of goods was so-so, the QUANTITY was stellar. I didn't pick anything up but I did show E. Claire the ends and outs of how best to hold a plastic butcher knife. Family values are definitely in.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/02/2005 09:46 PM EST

Manimal,

Please, tell me that E. stands for Elizabeth, and that you didn't name your daughter after a pastry.

Chestnuts roasted by Kyle @ 10/02/2005 10:05 PM EST

Great article! Heh.

But Matt- I gotta ask- did you measure? Do they actually squirt 18 feet??

I want to know if that 18 feet was just a completely arbitrary number or if they actually had a freddy spit ball testing lab of some kind where they measured the squirt ranges.

Chestnuts roasted by Bob C @ 10/02/2005 10:22 PM EST

No, Emily (aka Emmie). It wasn't intentional but we knew about it in advance so it wasn't avoided either.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/02/2005 10:24 PM EST

That's freaking hilarious.

Chestnuts roasted by Kyle @ 10/02/2005 10:25 PM EST

I want some of these just so I can run up to random people and scream "Behold as I blast you with a powerful stream of liquid from my monster balls!!!!"

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 10/02/2005 10:26 PM EST

Oh, definitely not Zoobilee Zoo. Man, what was I watching a few months ago and thinking it never would have held up. . .I'll get back to you.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/02/2005 10:32 PM EST

Toys based on psycho killers are always fun. I can't for the life of me figure out why my Ted Bundy Playset idea got rejected.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 10/02/2005 11:06 PM EST

I got some of the Jones Halloween Soda today. No Strawberry Slime but plenty of the others. Tried the Scary Berry Lemonade and liked it. Tasted liked Squirt with a hint of berry (but not neccessarily blueberry). I'll try the others this week and tell you what I thought.

I remember watching Zoobillee Zoo religously as a kid. My favorite character was Lookout Bear. Although my favorite unsung PBS show was Square One TV. MATHMAN!

Squirtballs are another one of those toys where every license under the sun seemed to have one. Those were fun to play with but you don't really see them much anymore.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/02/2005 11:47 PM EST

What about 3...2...1...Contact!? Or it's ever-loathed successor 3..2..1..Classrooooooom Contact!

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/02/2005 11:56 PM EST

Ah - was the last line of the article a subtle reference to Spaceballs: The Movie? Clever.

The only things I remember about 3...2...1...Contact are the number muncher bits (i.e. the Pac-Man parody) and the Dragnet parody detective show. That was a flippin' good show.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 10/03/2005 12:18 AM EST

I remember Square One!!!

Mathman always pissed me off though. He took forever to figure things out, since he's a moron. Stupid Mathman.

As for shows that would never fly today: Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, etc. Pretty much any non CG/non-anime styled cartoon has the slimest chance to get on a non Cartoon Network station.

Though the ideas behind the episodes of the original Transformers would never be allowed now, as the newer series are just purely evil and terrible. I want to see Bruticus, not a damn race for no reason. Also, where's the null ray? WHERE I ASK YOU?

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/03/2005 12:20 AM EST

I think the most tripped-out kids' shows on TV today have gotta be Boobah and Lazy Town. I'm not including all the wacky Japanimation cartoons on Saturday mornings (i.e. every cartoon on Saturday mornings....)

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 10/03/2005 12:21 AM EST

Boobah has successfully creeped me out in ways I didn't think existed.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/03/2005 12:25 AM EST

Mathman! That was his name! AJ remembered.
I don't know if this was a widespread game, but in elementary school we had this computer game called "Number Munchers" that was sort of a Pac-Man ripoff but was supposed to teach you something too (maybe basic math skills?).

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 10/03/2005 12:25 AM EST

I remember that game too. I was more enamored with Mario Teaches Typing myself. That and Dino Park Tycoon. Oh T-Rex, you never wanted to stay in your pen...

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/03/2005 12:29 AM EST

Yaaarrrharrrr!
Mathman! Sqaure One TV, came on right before You Can't Do that on tv aired on nick in 1986, by about an hour or so, and that gave me a chance to watch the hanna-barbera shorts on usa between 6-7pm. Then i would watch that batch religiously after school, and on Friday nights in 87 i think Turkey TV came on right after You Can't Do that on Television as the break-in show from regular nick, to nick at nite.
that started in, i believe 86 or 87.

Chestnuts roasted by Oliver M. / obelisk/ Ollie Nitro @ 10/03/2005 01:09 AM EST

hey, Devil Denied, was that a tape of miss switch, or is it on dvd? my friends useds to not be able to watch miss switch. i have a book of a miss switch thing. also, is anyone else ahving probs with the jukebox being skippy??

Chestnuts roasted by oliver - again @ 10/03/2005 01:18 AM EST

I know this is probably old news to everyone else but i just read that Mel Brooks was writing a Spaceballs sequel and apprently it was supposed to be out by now. But he also mentioned that it might come out a year AFTER ROTS so I'm excited to see what happens!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/03/2005 01:43 AM EST

Hey phunqsauce, I was reading the blog entries I missed this weekend and I'm planning on seeing Serenity these week and I've never seen Firefly, so I'll let you know what I think. I do however love Buffy so I don't know if that will affect your little experiment

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 10/03/2005 01:49 AM EST

This has nothing to do with anything.

I remember always renting this Disney video aroundabouts Halloweentime. It was a series of old spooky toons. I don't remember the cover and I only recall two of the toons in it.

The first was, I think, purely instrumental. If you saw an animated gif of the skeletons dancing (swaying) back and forth and squatting in front of their tombstones, you'd probably recall it, too.

The other was a Donald toon that had him inside on a dark and stormy night. Out of nowhere, an escaped gorilla just so happens to bust in. Hilarity ensues.

Ah, memories.

More on-topic, Slobulus totally wants to sue for -ball gimmick-fu.

Chestnuts roasted by ChibiSoma @ 10/03/2005 03:32 AM EST

eeeeeeeeeeeeexcellent! I am looking forward to your opinion! BTW in an X-E related note: I watched the Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue special today for the first time since 4th grade. Oh man....I just don't even know how to put it in words. It is pure gold!! My fave quote is when Mikey first is confronted by Hewey, Dewey and Louie : "Wha? Now I'm seeing DUCKS???? I really need to get myself off these drugs!"

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/03/2005 03:34 AM EST

Just out of curiosity, do items featured on XE have a price spike on ebay? Does anybody know?

I always tend to search for stuff featured on the Halloween & Christmas countdowns

Chestnuts roasted by Scott @ 10/03/2005 03:38 AM EST

Scott,
I have always thought that too but it is difficult to find evidence to prove the theory since one was probably not looking for the featured item BEFORE Matt wrote about it.
I will say that the WORST WITCH has a "short wait" on NETFLIX which may be X-E related...

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 10/03/2005 05:44 AM EST

ChibiSoma: That would be "Disney's Scary Tales." Loved the fuck out of it -- particularly the Donald/gorilla sequence. The cover art featured Donald sitting on what he thought was a chair, but in actually -- IT WAS A KILLER GORILLA.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/03/2005 09:11 AM EST

ChibiSoma, I own both of those Disney Halloween films you are talking about. I bout them at a video store that was going out of business. One was called Halloween Haunts, The Other Donald's Spooky Night (or something like that, lot of thought went into that title, no). I remember watching something called Disney's Halloween Treat when I was a kid. It was hosted by the magic mirror from Snow White, only he seemed to drop his regal voice from that classic, and gained an appropriate childrens entertainment voice (sort of a disgruntled brooklyn jew). The music on it was fabulous. I'm 28 years old and to this day it rolls through my head every Halloween. Ah...good times, good times.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/03/2005 09:17 AM EST

Does anyone remember a disney workout album that came out early 80's? I cannot remember the name, but I would love to have it for my eight year old (ok, for myself). I remember actually exercising to this thing. It had a lot of disney characters, even obscure ones like the later named Beagle Boys. If anyone knows the name of this gem I would be much appreciated, and I'll give you my gold toof.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/03/2005 09:29 AM EST

Yes, it was called "Mousercize."

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 10/03/2005 09:31 AM EST

YESSS!! I remember Mousercize. That's really old school man. I also remember a Disney musical cartoon, about a little russian boy and a duck. If I'm not mistaken they hunted and killed a wolf? Sorry can't remember that name, bad memory too old

Chestnuts roasted by Texican @ 10/03/2005 09:44 AM EST

I find it ammusing that Freddy is more acceptable for children, despite the fact that his backstory is being a child molestor.

Chestnuts roasted by Cubs 2006 @ 10/03/2005 10:02 AM EST

No way! I've actually had those since childhood. That's so cool.. I forgot how awesome the packaging was, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 10/03/2005 10:07 AM EST

"Mousercize" was also a TV show on The Disney Channel way back in the day. It had this bubbly (i. e. obnoxious) blonde host named Kellyn. I think it came on right before "You and Me Kid". Did any kids have parents that were willing to do the "You and Me Kid" stuff with them? That was hosted by super-permed Sonny Melendez. I can't remember anything I learned in high school math, but ask me about the programming I watched as a preschooler and I'm all over it.

IHAQ, if you're around, thanks for the update (especially since we're the first ones you told about the pregnancy I think.) Congratulations! I'm glad the little guy is doing OK.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 10/03/2005 10:08 AM EST

I have those sitting on one of my toy shelves, but i'm missing the Jason spitball. :\
Still have my original Freddy glove from 1984 also!

Chestnuts roasted by Jason Havoc @ 10/03/2005 10:12 AM EST

I was cleaning out my basement this summer and found my Mousercize record. Yes, record. I also found a Justice League Christmas Album, as well as Sesame Street Christmas Carols and the version of the Sesame Street Christmas special that used to play. Matt, you can have them if you actually might have a record player to play them?

Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB78 @ 10/03/2005 10:13 AM EST

That could be Peter and the Wolf? Never had the album but I used to watch Mousercize in the early mornings on Disney.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/03/2005 10:19 AM EST

That cartoon with the Russian kid and the duck and wolf was Peter and the Wolf, if I remember right.

Chestnuts roasted by TheFatboy @ 10/03/2005 10:20 AM EST

Another educational shows I used to watch were on HBO. One was Braingames which had the guy who head would crack open like an egg.

Another one was called Encyclopedia. They would take a letter and do various comedic bits based on words beginning with that letter. For example, for E, they would do stuff like egg, Einstein, eyes, etc.

Other HBO shows I liked, Encyclopedia Brown (loved the books) and those kids specials they would do on the environment, cusumer products, and special effects.

Just tried the Candy Corn Jones Soda. I hate it and candy corn so no big surprise. Maple Syrup flavored. Wonder what it would taste like on pancakes, waffles, or french toast.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/03/2005 10:46 AM EST

...
it looks like you're pissing on the victim ball...

Chestnuts roasted by Fangsy @ 10/03/2005 11:19 AM EST

Spitballs?
So are these what john kerry were going to arm the troops with?

Chestnuts roasted by Guy man person dude boy @ 10/03/2005 11:32 AM EST

Mousercize - wow. It had a traumatizing effect on me. My first experience with gym class was Kindergarten mousercizing. No one liked it and it reminded me off my mom's Jane Fonda workout record.

Looking back I'm surprised people exercised to records. Wouldn't all that movement cause skips?

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 10/03/2005 11:50 AM EST

I thought "Mousercize" was the expulsion of a demonic rodent spirit from a human host.
Speaking of old records, I recently came across a couple of Books-and-Records, one with the record, of The Black Hole, and Rankin-Bass's version of The Hobbit. The Hobbit is the vinyl-less one. How much do you think I'll get for Black Hole?
(ping!)

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/03/2005 12:11 PM EST

Dear Lucifer, I love those story books and records! I still have the complete Gremlins set I forced my mother into buying with each trek we made to Hardees. I also have one of Ghostbusters.
PS> Thanks for the Mousercise info!

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/03/2005 12:18 PM EST

Guy man person dude boy, A John Kerry joke in october 2005?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/03/2005 12:35 PM EST

Aw MAN, we Mousercized in gym class too! Head circles! Arm . . . windmills! Come on everybody let's Mousercize . . .

Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 10/03/2005 12:53 PM EST

I think i'm going to stick to get-in-shape-girl. i loved that ribbon... and the ankel weights that weighed less than my socks

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 10/03/2005 01:13 PM EST

I don't get it.

Chestnuts roasted by John Kerry @ 10/03/2005 01:48 PM EST

kingklash I have The Black Hole and The Hobbit in book/record format too. Not only do I have the records for both.... I even have a spare Hobbit one.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 10/03/2005 02:02 PM EST

You know, I'm very surprised that the format hasn't been tried with those little CDs. A disc the size of the original VideoNow b/w discs would hold the not only the original content, but maybe some extra tracks as well.
The sales flyers in the Sunday papers are starting to get into the Hallow-mood. Target has a punch recipie that uses two of the Jones soda flavors. Anybody have any concoctions of their own?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/03/2005 02:55 PM EST

Sounds like a fantastic idea kinglash. The give out those cd games with cereal all the time, if they were in kids meals, imagine how well they would do.
BTW: Jones Soda candy corn has to be the most foul concoction on the earth.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/03/2005 03:17 PM EST

Mousercize -- how crazy was that shit?

I remember doing those "exercizes" when I was in elementary school, under the evil eye of the elementary coach. We didn't have a gym, proper, at that time -- or maybe they just didn't want little kids on the gym floor -- so we'd have PE in the cafeteria, with the tables pushed up against the walls. The cafeteria floor had been surfaced with paint and then speckled over with bits of confetti, followed by a clear gloss coat. By the time I was in elementary, the clear coat was starting to peel up. Besides which, we were all on our hands and knees doing Mousercize (at one point, crawling like crabs on the seashore, I remember) and one could never tell if she were about to put her hand on a large pile of confetti or on the tater-tot-pie that Chester Snortlewitz had vomited up earlier in the day.

Blegh.

Still, I could probably sing along to all the songs, to this day. And I turn 30 on Friday.

That's just sad, People.

Chestnuts roasted by Lisa Marie @ 10/03/2005 04:03 PM EST

Ah, Get in Shape Girl was great. I thought I was awesome when I did a cartwheel on the purple balance beam that was about half an inch off the floor of my bedroom.
We did use Mousercize in my ballet class though.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/03/2005 04:18 PM EST

click on this link to listen to some of the tracks off of mousercise (bottom of page)click here

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 10/03/2005 04:36 PM EST

Oliver, it was a bootleg DVD a friend of mine got as a bonus with an eBay order. Click my name...

Chestnuts roasted by Devil Denied @ 10/03/2005 05:24 PM EST

Braingames; Holy Moly! I remember watching that show on HBO. If there's a show I really miss watching, it's Braingames. That and "Fat Albert"...Hey,Hey,Hey, It's Fat Albert!

Chestnuts roasted by Texican @ 10/03/2005 05:34 PM EST

"I don't get it".

Zell miller.
That is all.

Chestnuts roasted by Guy man person dude boy @ 10/03/2005 05:58 PM EST

I have to admit that I was one of those kids who did "You and Me, Kid" with my mom when I was in preschool. Now that I remember it, it was kind of a creepy show, what with the parent/child matching outfits, gentle bonding exercises and scary geri-curl host guy.

You guys who did "Mousercize" in gym class were LUCKY! My fat-ass gym teacher sat on the bleachers twirling his whistle while we did...get ready for it......SWEATIN' TO THE OLDIES. Yes, I was subjected to the horror that is Richard Simmons all the way through elementary school. We always thought it was weird that we were exercising to a "fat people" workout.

One more thing: Anybody remember the name of the weird guy (also with a geri-curl) that wore the unitard that let you see his insides? You could see the heart, intestines, veins, the works. I don't remember the show but I sure remember thinking it was a little dirty to see the dude's insides. Anyone, anyone?

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/03/2005 06:06 PM EST

Jillybean, I think you're remembering Slim Goodbody. I never really watched it, but my obnoxious little sister did, and I remember it because she'd always say "I only listen to Mama and Slim Goodbody!"

Chestnuts roasted by Elfinlady @ 10/03/2005 06:17 PM EST

That's who it is! Thanks, Elfinlady- that's been bugging me for years

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/03/2005 06:20 PM EST

I own Pee's Wee's Big Adventure on DVD, but have seen the movie MANY times since I was around 4 (way back in late '86-1987)). GREAT MOVIE!!!!!

Man, "Zoobilie Zoo" is creepy today. I caught some of it a few years ago, and I think what cared me more was the closing production company logo (SfM Productions). The creepy Morse-code like beeping sound, and some announcer saying "This has been a presentation of SFM productions..." or something like that. I got a really bad flashback when I bought my "Laugh-In" DVDs, and that logo re-surfaced. It's one of those things you don't watch in the dark, late at night...when everyone else is sleeping. Made that mistake. The logo of course...and possibly Zoobilie Zoo. Remember those old Hallmark ads from the end of the show that told you to go buy the toys at Hallmark?! I can't remember anything from high school math, but I remember creepy production company logos and Hallmark ads.

Poor Jillybeann..."Sweating to the Oldies"?!! Mr. Slim Goodbody was teh guy with the unitard and his insides showing. Apparently, he does tours of that act again. Yikes.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/03/2005 06:23 PM EST

Yes, when i was in Kindergarten/1st grade we did the mousericize thing. I distinctly remember doing moves to the song Flashdance(What a Feeling). And as for Slim Goodbody
we watched him in gym class around the same time. He is almost as scary as Tim Curry....

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/03/2005 06:49 PM EST

Wow those spitballs are weird. I love Freddy and Jason though.

You have an awesome site, One article I read a long time ago from your site was the one about the old Trolls movie (I think) that was REALLY scary. I had nightmares lol

Chestnuts roasted by Sara @ 10/03/2005 07:08 PM EST

Jillybeann, we did Sweatin' to the Oldies in our high school girls-only class. Our coach would bring the tapes in from her personal home work-out library. No one liked them but she insisted on treating us to Richard Simmons anyways. Coach was a Sweatin' addict and was still running the tapes into the late 90s.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 10/03/2005 07:54 PM EST

Thanks devil. damnit im br0ke must get duckets, silly bills tricks are for ummm lotsa folks. okay so far we've cored a lot, tha Allison, that Hallmark thing brough back memories! In Ukiah CA, in the mid 80s Kmart was right by a small corner Hallmark shop, i would spend lots of time in the little halloween section, getting ideas, some of their stuff was a little more money, but you could always count on a really good smellling and calm experience, also well lit and not a tornado-y waste'cause the kids are slam dancing throught the halloween isles at Kmart. It'd stay a mess till about an hour before closing and a ton of kids weren't around, maybe me and another straggler / quiet kid waiting at hallmark for the masses to file out. good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Oliver Obelisk @ 10/03/2005 08:11 PM EST

Zell Miller. Now there is a freaky guy. Screaming genius!

Anyone ever see the "Hardball" sketches on Update where Will Forte does Miller, and screams "Tsunaaaaaaaaaaami!" And Darrell Hammond as Chris Matthews says "stick around when Zell Miller fist-fights with a tornado!"??? Classic stuff!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/03/2005 08:30 PM EST

holy shit I just saw Koko B. Ware on TV just now with his parrot!!!! There were a whole slew of old schoolers in the front row for the first RAW show on USA since it moved to Spike TV. Now I really haven't watched WWE since the name change but i'm glad i accidentally saw that.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/03/2005 08:56 PM EST

My birthday is 13 days after Halloween. I wish it was on a Friday and there were 13 Friday the 13th movies so I could make it a ridiculous 13 day event of spooky greatness, but alas, I do not win.

I just realized this and so had to post this here, as this is the place with its finger on the pulse of the spooky seasons.

Oh November 13th, your first three digits make up your last
(1 + 1 + 1 = 3 11/13, for the slow people)...

But yeah, I try to watch the WWE as much as possible as they are bringing back as many old schoolers as possible due to bad ratings.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/03/2005 09:25 PM EST

I'll take y'all's Mousercise and I'll raise you Roomnastics.

Anybody remember Roomnastics? It looked to be about 30 years old when we would occasionally have to watch it in school in the mid-80's. One of those 15-minute PBS school day shows. Roomnastics involved, as I recall, either marching around your desk or marching in place. Sometimes you would stop and say "R-E-S-T." And there was a tubby Asian boy in ridiculous glasses who looked like he might have been special.

Other 15-minute PBS shows that are stuck in my head:
1) All About You (which was a health-anatomy show hosted by a freakishly anorexic 70s-vest-wearing lady)
2) Safety Frog (kind of speaks for itself)
3) Book, Look, and Listen (which had some sort of terrifying mouse-creature with giant ears and an even scarier thing that I think was a walking movie projector)
4) I can't remember the name of this one, but it was a writing-skills show about a bug who was a reporter. They had a club called Palabra Jot. (Read All About It?)

5) Mulligan Stew. A bunch of kids have wacky adventures involving the four food groups.

Yeah. I can hardly remember my phone number but I can still sing the theme song for "All About You."

I swear I am not making these up.

Chestnuts roasted by gadgetsgirl @ 10/03/2005 09:30 PM EST

Upon reflection, I think I should march to my elementary school and demand my money back. I seem to have spent way too much time being shown low-budget TV shows.

Chestnuts roasted by gadgetsgirl @ 10/03/2005 09:31 PM EST

Dude, Phunqsauce, thanks for the link to the pic of Slim G. Almost made me lose my dinner What is interesting is that he is even more disturbing to me now that I'm an adult. I just don't think it's necessary to be able to view someone's colon...

Chestnuts roasted by Jillybeann @ 10/03/2005 09:35 PM EST

Beyond his visible organs and crooked smile it just might be his Air Supply afro that disturbs me the most....

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 10/03/2005 09:48 PM EST

I don't remember Roomnastics, but I remember Finders Keepers. Some Nick gameshow from its hayday. >> Buncha kids search through rooms that look like a tornado swept through, trying to find... ...stuff, I dunno. It's been too long.

Needs more Nick Arcade and its contestants who always sucked at videogames. c.c

Chestnuts roasted by ChibiSoma @ 10/03/2005 10:05 PM EST

Finders Keepers was ridiculous, but Get The Picture always made me happy. Mike O' Malley so was owned by Nickelodeon in his early career.

Guts made me want to get in shape for like a week once, which is the longest ever.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/03/2005 10:16 PM EST

You've probably all seen it but angryalien.com has a 30-second bunny reenactment of TCSM.

Chestnuts roasted by springsprite @ 10/03/2005 10:21 PM EST

I just might have to write some of this up. There seems to be a logical connection in most of our thought processes (I've talked with a few other folk today) between Mousercise and Slim Goodbody.

I was rewarded this evening by remembering the following as I sat down to open my email:

Let's do the bug-a-boo
Come on, shake a leg or two
From the big grasshopper
To the tiny teenybopper
You know what they love to do
BUG-A-BOO !

I ain't right. I just ain't.

LM

Chestnuts roasted by Lisa Marie @ 10/03/2005 11:32 PM EST

But the worst part of that song is the part that goes "bug, bug-a-boo, bug-a-boo-boo-boo. bug, bug-a-boo-boo-boo."

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/03/2005 11:36 PM EST

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Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/04/2005 11:51 AM EST

Are you sure that wasn't the Bugaloos? We're in the air and everywheeeeere.

Chestnuts roasted by The Bugaloos @ 10/04/2005 01:31 PM EST

AHHH!!! SFM!!!! Nightmares!!!!!!!! Make it stop!

*Morse code beeping*

GAH!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 10/04/2005 04:24 PM EST

YARRR! www.tinyurl.com!!

I used to play with my spitballs and Madballs together, and make the Madballs get overtaken by the spitballs, since I had not so many Madballs (cheap), but a lot of spitballs (waay cheaper!!).

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 10/04/2005 05:25 PM EST

"Texas Chainsaw" at number one?
While,I'll certainly agree that the movie is damned scary, I wouldn't vote it number one. My vote would have been the "Evil Dead" series. and also to answer Mr. Boligarky's question, the afforementioned "Evil Dead" movies wouldn't fly these days, due to the insane ammounts of blood, dismemberment, women getting raped by trees/vines, and did I metion the blood? (seriously, there's like a thousand gallons of blood that spray out of holes in the wall) I dunno, people these days are such pussies when it comes to gore, just about any movie made in the wonderfully goretastic 70's and 80's that would fly in this age of political correctness. damned shame really. So many kids are going to miss out on so much culture.....

Chestnuts roasted by Deathsheadmoth @ 10/04/2005 09:29 PM EST

As much as House of Wax sucked, it had one of the best gore scenes in recent memory. The portion where the one guy picks apart the wax covered friend is gold.

I think that the quality of gore will improve once we get out of this goddamn PG-13 horror trend. The Devil's Rejects could've been that turning point if it was better.

Also, when the remaking of Japanese movies and making them suck stops. Seriously, I am waiting for them to redo Audition and take away the entire ending sequence and instead throw in a sword fight.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 10/04/2005 09:57 PM EST

A sword fight and a motorcycle chase.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 10/05/2005 11:39 AM EST

THANK YOU! Finally someone agrees with me on the suckitude of PG-13 horror movies. AJ, you are my new best friend.

Chestnuts roasted by deathsheadmoth @ 10/08/2005 12:05 AM EST

I found this site because I was trying to find out how to buy old copies of a 70's PBS show called Mulligan Stew. Does anyone have an idea? There was also a comic book that accompanied the show with recipes.

Chestnuts roasted by carrieann @ 10/09/2005 01:13 PM EST

These kinds of splitballs... really different!

Chestnuts roasted by Robyn @ 10/15/2005 09:05 AM EST