Mister TV
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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.
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10 hours ago, J.H. said:
Of the 2 Michael J. Fox movies from the summer of 85, I really didn't care fotmr Teen Wolf. I remember seeing it with my Dad and sister and just everything about Fox in it rubs me the wrong way. Mow im not goingvto say the werewolf thing is a metaphor for maturation but rather about puberty in general.
Still, as much as I don't like this, somehow Teen Wolf Too is worse. Probably, in large part to it being an obvious unnecessary cash grab sequel. I'd rather sit through The Legend of Billie Jean again because that at least it had "Invincible", a total banger by Pat Benetar going for it.
James
Don't be dissing The Legend of Billie Jean! What's fair is fair!
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38 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
I am looking at the story cause I don't recall PJ ever explaining why the character had to be Portuguese.
It was because apparently they wanted to make a splash with the South American market.
Two questions here:
1. So why not make him Brazilian?
2. Does Vince not know that Spanish is spoken in most South American countries?
It's weird cause you can tell WWF/E at certain points wanted their own Jushin Liger/Tiger Mask type gimmick for kids so they can sell a ton of merch, but despite having a budget and production out the wazoo better than literally everyone in the business, they never really were able to concoct something on that level. The closest they ever got was Rey, and Rey had already been a big star in that gimmick for literally 9 or 10 years prior to ever coming to WWE. All they did was literally put the mask back on him.
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.-
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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!
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13 hours ago, Gordi the BJW fan said:
Today's pro wrestling needs hams like Mean Gene.
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1 hour ago, The Green Meanie said:
Earthquake doing a lumberjack gimmick paired with Slick of all people was an odd pairing to say the least. I get it that they were just trying to flesh out him and his persona, but that wouldn't have worked in the long run.
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.
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18 hours ago, odessasteps said:
Didn’t we used to have a radio (non music) thread?
anyway, may 19th isn’t just for Kane anniversaries
Every time I hear Buttafuoco this song still pops into my head.
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6 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:
WWE Vault released some entertaining Andre The Giant footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvakIWf4zAw
Most interesting segment to me was Giant Baba(!) being introduced to Phoenix, AZ to a silent crowd: "They all have no idea who he is."
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.
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3 hours ago, zendragon said:
Sabu wanted his Uncle but Vince said no. Makes me wonder if there's some truth to Vince not liking the Sheik after what ever happened when Vince offered to buy him out (and supposedly offered him a job like he did to Ole)
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.
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20 hours ago, zendragon said:
Yhea Vince had the smallest geographical area but the most people in is territory, plus he immediately got LA to start his expansion.
When did Nascar blow up nationally? I feel like it was a few years after WCW's death that it really got big and we started hearing "Soccer is the new NASCAR" or whatever, same with Country music. Maybe WCW's collapse predated Southern culture going mainstream by a few years and if it could have hung on it could have found a different audience
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.-
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18 minutes ago, supremebve said:
Is the Berman hate from the Deadspin article, where he called the woman, "Hey, Leather?" I'm asking because I always thought it was strange that people were offended by that when there was no indication that the woman was offended by it. I have a pretty wild conversation topic that I have brought up with women that would get a pretty terrible reaction if I were famous and someone overheard it, but I've never had a woman get offended when I bring it up. It's a completely ridiculous premise that is overtly sexual, and also begs for follow-up questions. The game is that she wants to prove me wrong, but that can only be done by consenting to a sexual experience. It turns into banter that is her asking questions that would prove my claim wrong, and me trying to say the exact thing that would counter her counter. I've had more men offended on behalf of women, but have never found women who have been offended by the conversation (I mean, I guess I get it, but I wasn't talking to them anyway.). Not only that, nearby women have overheard the conversation and decided to join in. It's not a conversation I'd have at work, at church, or a bunch of other places where it would be deemed inappropriate. But at a bar, it has at the very least worked at starting a silly conversation 100% of the time. A lot of these interactions involve the interplay between two people and building a rapport so that you can hopefully take things to the next level. I don't know if we should judge people outside of that rapport.
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?
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20 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
I'm sincerely hoping the characters have aged 20+ years because if not, it's going to be "What if Boomhauer had iPad" and that's going to be terrible.
There's been various leaks on social media showing grownup Bobby and Connie, so everyone has aged.
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RING TUNES
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16 hours ago, zendragon said:that just makes it weirder for me, I first assumed it was an attempt at second hand success. Now it just feels random
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.
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3 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Yep! I know...I grew up in Baltimore and WWF would have monthly shows there (or close enough to monthly) that followed that formula. Also, the Hogan match would often happen before intermission so they could announce the next show's main and start selling tickets right then. Also so Hogan could get out of the building and into some Miller Lites, and maybe to the next town or across the international date line to get in his 382 days per year.
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.
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2 minutes ago, J.H. said:
That was the formula housecshows in the major cities. 1st match Hogan loses via CO/DQ, rematch the next month and cap it off month end with a stop match (if not a café usually a lumberjack/No DQ match). It wasn't just for Hogan as Champ. The Tito/Bruno v. Savage/Adonis in 86 series built off 4 matches, 2 of which were Titi v. Savage matches. The 2nd match was Tito v. Savage with Bruno as special guest referee where Adonis got involved to set the DQ. Matchv3 was Savage/Tito v. Savage/Adonis where the heels won via DQ setting up the final match in a cage (which was in Way of the Blade)
James
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.
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19 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
Per reports - the Flyers are going with Rick Tocchet
Really wanted Tocchet to be the Pens new coach.
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It was rare back then for the WWF to put a heel over a mid-card and up face without some sort of shenanigans.
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41 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
From the "you can't make this shit up" department
Warner Brothers has announced that Max will go back to being HBO Max
They should go with HBO Max Dugan Returns, since that movie was on HBO every day in 1985.
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48 minutes ago, Andrew POE! said:
The Ghost of Wilfred Brimley, of course.
Danny McBride could play Dusty Rhodes.
I always pictured McBride as Jimmy Garvin.
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RING TUNES
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3 hours ago, zendragon said:Does this predated his working with Cindi Lauper?
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.
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10 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
Minnesota officially becomes the first team to play back to back international games in different countries
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.
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32 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Since there are not many mid sized arenas (really any off the top of my mind) in the Detroit, a lot of the boxing cards in Detroit post the height of the Kronk Gym have been at the Masonic Temple. Outside of the The Armory in Minneapolis, very few venues look aesthetically pleasing no matter what event you hold there. Maybe the the theater at MSG/the old Felt Forum and Paramount Theater and that's mainly cause the ceiling lighting is easily recognizable. Other than that, most of them have been shuttered or demolished or like The Myriad in OKC and Olympic Auditorium in LA, repurposed for something else.
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.
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Watched DIG! XX the somewhat re-edited/extended version of the 2004's DIG!, which follows then up and coming bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Dandy Warhols, both versions are currently available on Kanopy. If you're a fan of the original this new version is a must watch, there's new narration from BJM's Joel Gion to give insight & backgrounds on their side of things, to go along with the Dandy's Courtney Taylor-Taylor's original narration. Plus extended footage of the famous incidents from the original, some current day interviews from folks involved and a less depressing ending that catches up with the bands today. When I first saw there was going to be an updated version, all of the interviews and social media snippets made it seem like they'd show The Brian Jonestown Massacre's leader Anton Newcombe in a better light, it really didn't. The addiction, self-absorption, ego, and resentment still shines through, they do show a few clips of him sober back in the day, he comes off as a totally different person and its sad to see what the booze & drugs did to him. He did get his life together but he's still getting into If you've never seen the original version watch it first then come back the the new one later.
I think the last time I watched DIG! was early in the pandemic, it was a fun nostalgia trip since I'm a huge fan of The Dandy Warhols and the doc is straight up hysterical at points. Watching the new version its still really funny, but wow does it feel even more like a late 90's/early 2000's version of Spinal Tap, the Brian Jonestown Massacre arguments and on-stage fights almost come off as performance art, but their totally legit and what happens when you mix ego, booze, meth and smack.
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AEW this week will be at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, it's a really cool unique building and I'm interested if they'll incorporate it at all. There's a bunch of weird rooms where the Freemason's do whatever they do and there's things like a pool on maybe the 7th floor that never got finished because someone realized when it was filled with water it'd crash through celling below. I coach roller derby and we practice/play at the Masonic, we have practice Thursday night right above the theater AEW will be using.
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2025 Movie Discussion Thread
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I think this was the last Saturday morning cartoon I watched consistently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPkx_ZtTdc