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Friday the 13th: The Series
When I was in high school I worked at Pizza Hut, back when it was still good. On Friday nights I’d get home around 11 pm with my Meat Lovers Personal Pan pizza, grab a CONTINUE READING…
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Saturday Morning Memories: Teen Wolf
“I’m feelin’ hairy, and my teeth are mean,I got a weird complexion and I, I wanna scream!” A year after the big-screen version, Teen Wolf made its way to television as a cartoon. As in the film, CONTINUE READING…
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Fascinating Facts About Mr. T
One of our favorite pop culture icons of the ’80s is Mr. T. The man has done a lot in his life, and we celebrate that by bringing you 12 things you may not know about him. CONTINUE READING…
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The Theory That Changes Everything About Television As You Know It
Almost all of television takes place inside the mind of an autistic child. Or so this crazy St. Elsewhere theory would have you believe. CONTINUE READING…
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Nickelodeon’s Super Toy Run
Like a lot of kids who grew up before the creation of the internet, I spent a lot of my free time daydreaming. One of my recurring daydreams involved myself, a shopping cart, and 5 CONTINUE READING…
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Top ’80s Songs with Royalty in the Title
With the Royal Family in the news quite a bit lately, I thought I would share my list about ’80s Songs with Royalty in the Title. We are talking about a decade which featured prominent CONTINUE READING…
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Remembering 3-2-1 Contact
Forty years later and still arguably the best theme song in the history of PBS. From a strange era in between glam rock and disco. In between men wearing short shorts and women wearing short CONTINUE READING…
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VHS Collecting: A Visual Guide To Retro Home Media
Recently on The Retro Network I participated in an awesome TRN Talk: VHS Collecting podcast discussing the art of VHS collecting with Jason (@RD80s) and the always enthusiastic Chad Young from the Horror Movie BBQ CONTINUE READING…
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Toy Stories: Battle Beasts
“Fire burns Wood! Wood floats on Water! Water puts out Fire!” Battle Beasts finally gave us the answer to a question that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time: If animals were bred into CONTINUE READING…
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When Ralston Ruled the Cereal Aisle
When kids go to the grocery store these days and browse the cereal aisle, they are treated by scores of colorful boxes and plenty of unique cereals to choose from. There is even a fair CONTINUE READING…
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Saturday Morning Memories: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
Marvel Comics’ famed webslinger returned to Saturday morning in 1981 with a pair of new companions. In this incarnation, Peter Parker was a college student at Empire State University, boarding with his Aunt May. While CONTINUE READING…
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Howard the Duck
They said it couldn’t be done. Steve Gerber’s comic book about a foul-tempered (fowl-tempered? No, that’s too easy), beer-guzzling, cigar-chomping duck simply wouldn’t translate to film. Not even Lea Thompson as the leader of an CONTINUE READING…
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Saturday Morning Memories: The Super Friends
Deep in the corridors of the Hall of Justice resided some of DC Comics’ greatest superheroes: Superman, Aquaman, Batman & Robin, and Wonder Woman. Collectively, these crimefighters were known as the Justice League of America, based on the DC CONTINUE READING…
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Toy Stories: Shrinky Dinks
Gather ye ‘round, gather ye ‘round! Shoulder yourself in amongst the crowd that’s growing around the oven and take a gander through that glass…magic baked goods are transforming before your very eyes! We’re not talking CONTINUE READING…
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The Beastmaster
Every film lover has a ‘guilty pleasure,’ a movie one enjoys despite what popular opinion says about it. The designation has been applied to films as diverse as Grease and Plan 9 From Outer Space, but one film CONTINUE READING…
