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Roku Rabbit Hole
Every once in awhile, we adjust our home entertainment system to keep up with our changing needs. For the past three years, we’ve been using a TiVo Premiere DVR with an antenna carrying over-the-air...
View ArticleBusy Hands
In honor of MTV’s 20th 30th birthday, let’s take a look at a segment from Liquid Television, the 1991-94 animated hodgepodge best known for unleashing Beavis & Butt-head onto the world. “Invisible...
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Hung Up on Clifton’s
I was watching an episode of the HBO series Hung today when another favorite location caught my eye — twice! Although the show is set in Detroit, the location crew used the famous Clifton’s Brookdale...
View ArticleWhat Happens In Japan, Stays In Japan
This commercial that Charles Bronson did for a Japanese grooming product called Mandom is so hypnotic. Honest to God, I watched it several times. It begins with Bronson alone in a piano bar, one where...
View ArticleYou Had Me at Meow
Watching an episode of The Bob Newhart Show on MeTV last night got me thinking about the famous MTM Enterprises kitten logo. MTM put the kitty (named Mimsy) through many variants over the years. By far...
View ArticleWho’s the Boss?
I’m sticking this one up since I’ve been grooving to Diana Ross’ 1980 LP diana today (not to be confused with 1970’s Diana Ross, or 1976’s Diana Ross, or 1978’s Ross. Miss Ross had a thing for...
View ArticleMagoo, You’ve Done It Again
Here’s the first half of the Count of Monte Cristo episode of the animated series The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, which ran on NBC (in prime time!) in the 1964-65 season. I’m getting acquainted...
View ArticleRemember the Name — Irene
I was looking up Irene Cara on Wikipedia. It mentioned that she did a sitcom pilot in 1981, shortly after appearing on Fame. Irene Cara, a sitcom star? Somebody uploaded this pilot to YouTube in three...
View ArticleRadiant Baby
Being right in the middle of The Universe of Keith Haring, I thought I’d look for something interesting on the late graffito to share here. This mid-’80s news clip is typical of the stuff I used to see...
View ArticleQuestion Me an Answer
Lately we’ve been watching this Best of Password DVD that I recently ordered. It’s actually quite fun, with 30 episodes that give a glimpse of famous stars like Carol Burnett and Dick Van Dyke when...
View ArticleZ-Ro, My Hero
One of the Christmas gifts I got for my spouse was the 12-DVD Classic Sci Fi TV: 150 Episodes set from Mill Creek. This set has a ton of old, really cheesy but entertaining TV dramas and serials,...
View ArticleThe Password Is ‘Funnies’
Making out way though our fabboo Best of Password DVD set, we came across this 1965 episode with guest stars Betty White and the elegant Arlene Francis. The Betty White Passwords are always lots of...
View ArticleGoing Gaga for Zsa Zsa
In honor of my review of Dahling: A Tribute to Zsa Zsa Gabor being published at DVD Talk, let’s enjoy Ms. Gabor singing “High Heeled Sneakers” on Shindig!: OK, so she couldn’t sing, but could she act?...
View ArticleIwant and Gimme
Vintage video dept… a helpful YouTube user has uploaded two commercial breaks from a 1976 episode of Bozo’s Circus, the long-running kiddie show on Chicago’s WGN. Although I never saw this particular...
View ArticleJingle All The Way
When I was a wee tyke, I loved TV commercial jingles (still love them, don’t kill me). This fact came to mind recently when I was listening to a internet radio station for vintage music and Eddie...
View Article“I Ate Him.”
Today’s video is something that I uploaded to my own YouTube channel, the result of downloading and watching about 200 old commercials for Alpha-Bits cereal from the ’60s and ’70s. Alpha-Bits was and...
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Don’t Despair…
I’m currently busy working on a review that encompasses three of the films that would have been included in tonight’s Flick Clique. So, once that is published I will have the F.C. ready with the more...
View ArticleBon Appétit!
This PBS-endorsed music video of Julia Child is the most mesmerizing thing I’ve seen all week. The idea of Julia remixed into a techno-pop video mashup sounds gimmicky, I know, but John D. Boswell...
View ArticleRory and Mary Sing!
This post dovetails into the fact that I left a movie off the last Flick Clique – 1957’s The Big Caper, which we caught on Netflix streaming. I’m not surprised it got left out, actually, since it was a...
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Flick Clique: October 14-20
Yep, we only watched two films this week. Much of our viewing time has been spent with the new TV season, including Last Resort, 666 Park Avenue, and the already cancelled Animal Practice (not a...
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