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The House Show 005 – WWF In Your House 5: Season’s Beatings

We’re fighting with family members. Packages keep arriving every day. Our money is stretched thin. No, it’s not all of us stuck at home during quarantine. It’s WWF In Your House Season’s Beatings! Taking place

The House Show 004 – WWF In Your House: Great White North

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Spring is here but it’s cold in your house! That’s because on this week’s episode we’re heading to Canada. The fourth edition of the WWF pay per view series, In Your House, originating on October

The House Show 003 – In Your House: Triple Header

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For the first time ever, all three WWF titles will be on the line in the same match! It’s the WWF world heavyweight champion Diesel teaming up with the Intercontinental champion Shawn Michaels as they

The Private War of Major Benson

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By now most of the loyal Paterons for the Retro Network have listened to the exclusive episode of Jason and Mickey’s Drive In series about Major Payne. But did you know that the story of

The House Show 002 – In Your House: Lumberjacks

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The House Show returns! Join Kevin, Sweet Matty Treats, and the Educator of Excellence as we take a look at the second pay per view under the In Your House banner. This one is full

Pro Wrestling

WrestleMania’s Most Unusual Matches

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WrestleMania is this weekend and in the over thirty years for this event, this will be the most unusual. Two nights, taped, and in front of zero fans. Many of us are tuning in for

The House Show 001 – In Your House #1

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The best professional wrestling gimmicks are an extension of who the performer is in real life. Now the best professional wrestling podcast is an extension of real life. Stuck at home thanks to the Coronavirus,

Remembering the 1980 TV Movie ‘Animalympics’

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“Farther. Faster. Furrier.” With that, the animal-based Olympics begin. Meant to tie in with the 1980 Winter and Summer Olympics, there is a lot happening within and around this forgotten animated movie. Whether you remember

Thundercats Roar! Review

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From the destroyed planet Thundara and hurtling through light years of space and thirty earth years, it’s the return of the Thundercats! But, these aren’t your father’s Thundercats. Therein lies the problem and the solution.

Slaughter’s ‘Stick It To Ya’ Turns 30

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While some sites continue to debate when the decade ends (“there wasn’t a year zero”) on this site, I need to debate when the 80’s ended. Hair metal and the decade of decadence go together

Korn “Issues” 20th Anniversary

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Let’s take a trip back to music in 1999. Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears had the biggest albums of the year. Most teenagers up to twenty-somethings were told what was popular Monday through Friday from

Pokemon the First Movie 20th Anniversary

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As two new Pokemon video games were released this month it’s fitting to take a look back at the first movie of this absurdly successful franchise. While I was in my early twenties when this

Dogma’s 20th Anniversary

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One of the things that is missing from our children of the 80’s discussions is what happened after the ’80s? What happened when we were no longer children? The 1990’s to thousands to tens have

Wednesday Night War Room

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The Wednesday night wrestling war just kicked off, and you can follow along with all the action in our all-new Wednesday Night War Room! Get the reviews, opinions, and thoughts on both shows.

You Fool! The Funniest Episode of Hollywood Squares

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Rarely does an episode of a game show reach cult or memorable status. Ken Jennings Jeopardy! streak. The guy that figured out the pattern on Press Your Luck. Usually game shows are made to be

Remembering H.R. Pufnstuf

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“Who are you? HR Shovnstuf?” For most of my generation, myself included, this line from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is the only reference to not only the work of HR Pufnstuf, but the entire

GI Joe Operation Dragonfire 30th Anniversary

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Elsewhere on The Retro Network is a post with my glowing review for the 35th anniversary of the GI Joe miniseries “The Revenge of Cobra”. A mere five years later and the GI Joe