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80s

What Makes a Sidekick?

The word sidekick is different in cartoons than it is in comics. Sidekicks in comics tend to be characters who act as younger versions of the main character, like Robin to Batman or Speedy to CONTINUE READING…

Night Gallery
70s

Do You Remember? Night Gallery

“Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way—not because of any special artistic quality, but because each CONTINUE READING…

Articles

Halloween on Home Improvement

When I think back on my childhood, the sitcoms of the 1990s depict how I wished Halloweens could have been.  Everyone was dressed in cool Halloween costumes and attended parties with elaborately decorated houses full CONTINUE READING…

70s

Do You Remember? Land of the Lost

“Marshall, Will, and Holly,On a routine expedition,Met the greatest earthquake ever known.High on the rapids, it struck their tiny raft,And plunged them down a thousand feet below,To the Land of the Lost.” As the theme CONTINUE READING…

80s

84 From ’84: Gremlins

A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. Cast: 1984 viewing I first saw Gremlins in the theater multiple CONTINUE READING…