The 1991 film Slacker has fully earned its title as a cult movie over the years; but, if you’re into this movie called Slacker, then you know it’s much more than a cult movie…
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Mike Brady, a widowed architect, doing business mostly in Hollywood, California designed a unique home in the San Fernando Valley for his new blended family of a wife and six…
Howard Sprague, the particular and fastidious town clerk of Mayberry, North Carolina, was a fictional character played by the actor Jack Dodson from 1966 to 1971. Howard was a nerd…
The Undeniable Genius of Larry Tate We recently caught up with advertising icon and genius Larry Tate in the men’s grill at the ultra-posh country club where some of the…
Rootie Kazootie was the principal character on the 1950s children’s television show The Rootie Kazootie Club. Rootie was a boy “keen on sports” who played his “magic kazootie” and he always…
A J-turn is a driving maneuver in which a vehicle in reverse is spun 180 degrees and continues, facing forward, without changing direction of travel. The J-turn is also called…
Hello there, Video Rangers! On all my perilous adventures in the far corners of the earth, the ability to remain alert, to think and act wisely and quickly in the…
Dick Wilson, is the character actor who turned “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin” into a household catchphrase as shopkeeper Mr. Whipple in the TV commercial campaign that ran for more than…
Back in the 1980s, in the early days of MTV and the music video, there was an obscure one-hit wonder that was actually a novelty song from the comedy rock…
Prophet And Loss is a very unique and creative cartoon by Jonathan Bairstow from the MTV series Liquid Television. The music is by Steve Naive & The Love Band. The video…
This music video clip is from the 1986 movie True Stories by the Talking Heads. John Goodman, playing the lovable bachelor Louis Fyne, sings a very good version of the notable Talking…
The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984. Broadcast on BBC2, the show featured anarchic, offbeat humor which helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and…
Media is the collective communication outlets or tools that are used to store and deliver information or data. It is either associated with communication media, or the specialized mass media communication businesses such as print media and the press, photography, advertising, cinema, radio, television and publishing. It’s media!
Something not seen very often on television, if at all, is the television test card, also known as a test pattern in North America. Basically, it is a television test…
Curly Howard, born as Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903-1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine, although Curly was more…
The 1980s really didn’t begin in earnest until August 1, 1981. That’s when a fledgling cable television station called MTV (Music Television) signed on with a music video by The…
From the popular sitcom of the late 1970s, WKRP In Cincinnati, some long lost advice on the opposite sex from Herbert R. Tarlek Jr., master salesman and notorious womanizer. This…
“The Big Salad” is the 88th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. In this episode, George purchases, at Elaine’s request, a “big salad” to go for her from the diner. Later,…
Stop poverty from stealing the potential of our Extra-Terrestrials. More than a dozen aliens live on less than a dollar a day with no internet access. These “visiting” alien children…
Gumby is that famous green claymation character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 89. Gumby appeared in a total of 233…
