Mister TV

The Penguins won 5 Cups after touching the Prince of Wales Trophy, the one time they didn’t they lost in the finals.

I saw Maverick in the theater twice! The second time was due to the projector breaking right before Speed! I think they let us go into another movie that was playing around that time to go along with a free pass.

I think this was the last Saturday morning cartoon I watched consistently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPkx_ZtTdc

Last night I re-watched 1987's Back to the Beach! It's on YouTube. What could have been lame nostalgia ends up being this weird in a good way, totally self aware parody, that's way way better than you'd think. Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello totally get it and look like they're having Raoul Julia in The Adams Family level of fun throughout the picture. Lori Laughlin plays their daughter, but the actor who plays their son Demain Slade steals the movie, you may remember him as the "I want my two dollars" kid from Better Off Dead, he's hysterical in this. There's a bunch of cameos some that make sense nostalgia wise for older people, but also for kids/teens who watched reruns and Nick at Night in the 80's. Then there's some that are totally from out of left field like Pee Wee Herman showing up to sing Surfin Bird and OJ Simpson doing slapstick a year before Naked Gun. Fishbone is in this, they perform Jamaica Ska with Annette Funicello! Plus you get Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale playing together. I watched Siskel and Ebert's review and both of them loved this, Siskel compared it to Grease and said it might even be better, apparently Paramount tried to hide it from critics thinking it would get blasted with bad reviews.

Don't be dissing The Legend of Billie Jean! What's fair is fair!

I kind of think they went with Portuguese due to scaling back the US house show circuit to the Northeast mainly New England and there's a large population of Portuguese-Americans. When it comes to the occupation gimmicks, I swear I remember someone in a shoot interview clip saying they came from some poll or market research of most disliked professions.

Speaking of Richard Dreyfuss, I re-watched early 90's premium channel mainstay Let It Ride a few weeks ago, since David Johansen co-stars. There was a lot of comedies based around horses or horse racing in the 80's and early 90's, this would be somewhere in the middle quality wise. I guess you're supposed to be pulling for Richard Dreyfuss's character but its peak Dreyfuss being a dick so I kind of wanted him to lose at the end, David Johansen is great in this, would have rather the flick been about his character. YouTube is a great source for movies you totally forgot about, if you have Premium there's no commercials, if not they break in with commercials like PlutoTV. Back to the Beach is next on my watchlist!

Today's pro wrestling needs hams like Mean Gene.

Slick had Akeem and still heel Big Boss Man under his tutelage in the fall of 1989, so Earthquake would have fit into that stable. I guess they moved Quake over to Jimmy Hart since it was The Mouth of the South's turn as the heel manager opposing Hogan.

Every time I hear Buttafuoco this song still pops into my head. https://youtu.be/PToMdCYeE8U?si=qFs5gfe2cNf7gv_h

Andre taking a back body drop from Jerry Blackwell was pretty impressive. Is Dusty speaking French? I was always jealous of the kids at TV tapings who could run up to the ring for an autograph or even climb up on the apron. Always love the interviews with random fans from back in the day, everyone is either embarrassed, drunk or terrified of the camera. Giant Baba is dressed like the main bookie in my old neighborhood! Watts wearing Andre's sports jacket is such a brilliant thing to do, everyone watching Mid-South knew Bill Watts was a HOSS, and he looked like a little boy wearing his dad's clothes.

What would Vince have "bought out" from The Sheik? The Detroit territory stopped running shows in 1980 and I think hadn't run Cobo and lost TV in maybe 1977.

The WWF territory when Vince took over wasn't the smallest, it was actually pretty big, New England, the Eastern half of New York State, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. They ran the big cities in all of those places, but also ran the medium sized ones all the way down to random high schools in small towns. NASCAR never really "blew up nationally" it built up its popularity from when ABC started showing races on Wide World of Sports in the early 1960's to the mid-90's when Indy Car racing shot itself in the dick and split into two leagues, by 1999 it was the only auto racing average Americans cared or even knew about.

Did the "You're with me leather" thing even happen? Wasn't that story in an article that was pretty much Deadspin's version of the sleaze thread?

There's been various leaks on social media showing grownup Bobby and Connie, so everyone has aged.

They were never a huge band and bounced around various labels both big & small over the years, so there's a lot of randomness to their releases.

That's also how it worked in Pittsburgh, the final match was usually the number 2 or 3 face going over a heel Backlund had already beaten. The main event before intermission was also because the crowd was less drunk and not as much of a threat to riot when the heel got heat on Bruno, Pedro or Backlund.

The that was the WWWF/WWF formula dating back to when Bruno won the belt in 1963, same thing for Morales, Backlund and then for Hogan the first few years.

Really wanted Tocchet to be the Pens new coach.

It was rare back then for the WWF to put a heel over a mid-card and up face without some sort of shenanigans.

They should go with HBO Max Dugan Returns, since that movie was on HBO every day in 1985.

I always pictured McBride as Jimmy Garvin.

Yes, the single for Captain Lou came out in 1982, this LP was kind of compilation since Me and the Boys was released as a single in 1980.

Has there been any reason given on why they play overseas two weeks in a row? Pretty lame that their fans have two weeks of 8:30AM kickoffs.

The only arena in Detroit besides Little Caesars is the Wayne State Fieldhouse, it holds maybe 2,500, I think TNA did a show their last year. It looks just like any other small college basketball arena, AEW made the right move using the Masonic.