Ren & Stimpy first season… then it trailed off to disgusting.
I saw it when I was 4. Around the same time my father took me to Watership Down in the movie theater.
This was the time in my life when I learned the things that anything that you love can turn on you in horrifying ways.
I remember when I first saw the movie version of the bicentennial musical “1776.” Missives from General Washington were always closed with: “Your obedient servant, (drumroll) George Washington.”
Then one day, I was reflecting on the outro to Beanie and Cecil, and it hit me: And your obedient serpent is…a Bob Clam-pett car-too-OOOOON! 
IIRC*,the animation even had “Your obedient Serpent” displayed at the bottom.
I DO RC.
I named one of my cars in the late 70s “McKeever,” because it was an Opel Kadett.
I remember these as well - easy to look up because I remembered the shape was an octagon. Had one called the Space Fidget in the … umm, '70s, I think.
Or, maybe you were thinking of the ones that used (I think) the same material as mood rings? The colors on the disk changed when you rubbed the back and warmed it up.
Drat, can’t find a picture of these -would be easier if I recalled what they were actually called.
Really made pretty colors on the black front!
One of my shipmates back in ‘87 had been accepted into diver training, and he told us that surfacing and putting your face mask on top of your head was strictly verboten (a wave could knock it off, and the school didn’t have a wardrobe mistress to fetch them a new one). “Mike Nelson” was an epithet, not a role model.
While I can endorse your review of Ms Provine’s charms, the actress in those films was Nancy Olson, the little homewrecker who stole Alan Jay Lerner away from his Brigadoon leading lady, Marion Bell.
I don’t really think of Nancy Olson as a homewrecker, that was a joke. Uncle Alan was a philandering cad.
Dorothy was also in The Great Race, as Larry Storch’s girlfriend. Seeing her and Natalie Wood on the big screen at the same time was one of my great moments in cinema. :o
Oddly enough, I have no memory of Nancy Olson, other than I thought she was pretty hot at the time!
I remember all these but Zorn.
I was working at McDonald’s when they gave out the mini Beanie Babies in the Happy Meals. The horror…the horror…
Arcade games that took dimes, and maybe even nickels. There was a big arcade above Shinder’s newsstand in downtown Minneapolis, which is probably gone now. Used to spend **hours **there playing arcade games that had no computers or CRT graphics.
I remember when comic books went from a dime to 12 cents. Must have been the winter of '61–'62. The first 12 cent comic I bought was a Felix the Cat.
I had a lot of the Harvey character comics (Casper, Richie Rich, Little Dot, et al.), ones like Dennis the Menace, and of course all of the Disney comics (Uncle Scrooge was the best!) because the artwork in them was so good and they were written so well. But I leaned heavily toward DC war comics (Sgt. Rock, Jeb Stuart, Johnny Cloud, Gunner and Sarge, et al.).
I had a smattering of Batman and Superman comics, but never cared for them as much as I did the TV shows.
The only Marvel comic I bought was Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. Was never that much into superhero stuff.
Re: Night Flight. IFC has been rerunning “episodes” of Night Flight. So I went to record a couple. They’re like 15 minutes long. Huh? They’re just clips of some of the filler on the show with a tiny bit of music. Not worth looking at at all.
National Lampoon, not just the old magazine but the extras like the High School Yearbook, complete with Larry Kroger, Mandy “Fridge” Pepperidge, etc.
I recently looked back at a bunch of issues from the 70s. Egad, some of those cartoons like “Trots and Bonnie” would get people jailed now.
These aren’t completely gone- I’ve seen coin-operated games in at least three bowling alleys and two hotels this year. (although it’s possible that the machines themselves date back to the 90’s)
One of my fellow Burners – one of the gang that is supposed to be keeping an eye on safety – got to thinking, “What could be more dangerous than Lawn Darts?” As a Burner, the answer soon came: Flaming Lawn Darts!
Next event he brought a set of four made of brazed sheet brass with a bit of Kevlar just before the fins. We soaked a stuffed Barney in kerosene, set up up in a well cleared spot and started lobbing at him from about fifty feet. Took a while before we got a hit. They were actually a little unpleasant; once the dart was lit you had to keep your arm moving or flames would lick your fingers.
A little later than 1960. The last NBC show in B&W was I Dream of Jeannie in 1965
Were all the model kits glow in the dark? It was kind of hard to determine which part of the Wolfman you should paint; he was GITD from his head to his paws.
Does anyone recognize:
“My wings are like a shield of steel.” (But his feet weren’t)
Edit: Crap! I got whatever you call getting ninja’d but because I didn’t read the thread, not cause of a simul-post.
I had one; it was one of my favorite possessions! There was a guy selling them on eBay for a while but I don’t see any available currently.
[aside]Mask on top of the head is also considered a distress signal[/aside]
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You may be thinking of this incident, in which Richards was involved:
*Andy Kaufman incident
On the February 20, 1981 episode, Andy Kaufman was the host. During a sketch about couples at dinner sneaking away to the bathroom to smoke marijuana, Kaufman, who was known for causing trouble on live TV, broke character and refused to read his lines (saying “I can’t play stoned”). Michael Richards got up from the table, grabbed the cue cards and threw them down on the table in front of Kaufman, who responded by throwing a glass of water on Richards. Some of the show’s cast and crew members became angry and a small brawl broke out on stage. Since the show was broadcast live, home viewers were able to see most of these events transpire until the network cut the cameras off. Kaufman returned the following week in a taped apology to home viewers. The incident was planned by Kaufman, who concocted it with his sidekick Zmuda, and was meant as a prank. The only individuals aware of the plan were producer/director Moffitt, producer/announcer Burns, and the three comedians acting in the sketch along with Kaufman: Richards, Chartoff and Burrell.[3][4] This incident was reenacted in the 1999 film Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey as Kaufman, Bob Zmuda as Burns, Norm Macdonald as Richards, Caroline Rhea as Chartoff and Mary Lynn Rajskub as Burrell. *
This is Charles Rocket’s story:
*Charles Rocket (born Charles Claverie, August 24, 1949-October 7, 2005) was a castmember of SNL in the 1980-1981 season, and was the Weekend Update/Saturday Night NewsLine anchor.
Charles was touted by then-Executive Prodcer Jean Doumanian as “a kind of cross between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray”. He was known for a segment, The Rocket Report, in which he went out into New York City with a camera crew. He, Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo were the stars of the season.
He became infamous for an incident in the March 7, 1981 episode. A recurring set of sketches throughout the episode included a parody of the Dallas episode “Who Shot JR”, titled “Who Shot C.R.?”. At the end of the episode, when asked by Charlene Tilton how he felt after being shot, he responded by saying “Oh, man, this is the first time I’ve ever been shot… I’d like to know who the fuck did it.” When Jean Doumanian was fired after the next episode, Rocket was also let go (along with most of the rest of the cast, save Murphy, Piscopo, Denny Dillon, and Gail Matthius, though the later two only remained for one additional episode).
After SNL, Charlie did some work in independant films and other projects, such as Dumb and Dumber and the SNL movie It’s Pat!. Most recently, Charlie played a Reverend in the independant film Bleach and was in the 2003 movie Shade.
On October 7, 2005, Charlie unexpectedly took his own life for reasons unknown. Initially, there was debate over whether this was true (due to lack of media coverage after the story broke), but former cast mate Denny Dillon confirmed the news. Rocket’s body was found in his Canterbury, Connecticut home; his throat was cut. The Connecticut medical examiner ruled it a suicide. *
Did you know, BTW, that Richards was once a bachelor on The Dating Game?
[/QUOTE]Thanks, terentii.
Yes! That’s IT! I knew it was round-ish, but octagonal sounds right. As does the time period of the 70s. Thank you! Wish I could find one. “Simple things amuse simple minds” and all that. 