Question of the Day 5.9.12

Name the TV show!

Answer to yesterdays’s QOTD: Bull Durham. Congrats to bababooey and Carey for guessing correctly.

Paul Revere

“Now my name is MCA. I’ve got a license to kill.
I think you know what time it is– it’s time to get ill.
Now what do we have here? An outlaw and his beer.
I run this land, you understand, I make myself clear.”
We stepped into the wind, he had a gun, I had a grin.
You think this story’s over, but it’s ready to begin…

We love and remember Adam Yauch.

We ♥ Paul Revere.

Question of the Day 5.8.12

Name the movie!

Answer to yesterdays’s QOTD: Stevie Wonder & Paul McCartney’s “Ebony and Ivory”. Congrats to bababooey, Kailyn, and @buttercup081474 for guessing correctly.

Mall Madness

If there’s one thing Milton Bradley knew in 1988, it’s that girls LIVED for going to the mall. (And we have to admit, we’re a little surprised it took the game company so long to create a game based on that obsession.)

But there it was… Mall Madness.

It was as fun as a chill-out in the food court and as exciting as a sale at Nordstrom–– but without the crushing debt and decreased closet space.

Each player is given plenty of cash (well, relatively plenty) plus access to a credit card and (gasp!) a bank. And then, with a press of the button, the madness is on. “Quick, there’s a sale at the sunglasses boutique! No… I mean the shoe store! Now get your butt to the record store!”

If you were the first to nab the six things on your shopping list, well… hit the arcade, and you, young lady, are today’s big winner.

Sure, it took FOREVER to set up, but hey, you could always convince your mom that by playing the game you were learning valuable life lessons about spending, saving, and looking for good deals.

Yeah, right. We all knew it was just a dry run for when the galleria opened bright and early Saturday morning.

We ♥ Mall Madness.

Question of the Day 5.7.12

Name the music video!

Answer to Fridays’s QOTD: Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax (Don’t Do It)”. Congrats to @RICANROLL and Todd for guessing correctly.

Caddyshack

“Cinderella story… outta nowhere… a former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion. -WHACK!- It looks like a mirac–– It’s in the hole!”

For being two of the funniest comedy minds of the early 80s (and, arguably, still today) Bill Murray and Chevy Chase have only co-starred in one movie together… and in that movie they only have one, single four-minute scene with each other.

The movie, of course, is Caddyshack– the story of a couple days one summer at the ol’ Bushwood Country Club. Starring Chase, Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, and Ted Knight (in his last-ever film role), along with Michael O’Keefe as young caddie Danny Noonan, Caddyshack was a thing of beauty–– a raucous comedy in the vein of Animal House and Stripes, where anything goes and the laughs don’t stop.

Knight is Judge Smails, the stodgy co-founder of the exclusive club, and if you thought he was pissed with the arrival of gaudy, crass real estate bigshot Al Czervik (Dangerfield), you can only imagine how furious he was to walk in on young Danny schtupping Smails’ lovely neice Lacy Underall (we still love that name!).

Noonan, meanwhile, is gunning for the caddie scholarship, Ty (Chase) is going after Lacy himself, and greenskeeper Spackler (Murray) has his own issues–– in the form of gophers (Varmint Cong).

Directed by ‘soon-to-be-Spengler’ Harold Ramis and written by Ramis, Murray’s brother Brian, and Douglas Kenney (Animal House), Caddyshack was a perfect storm of comedy– a goofball laugh-fest that brought so many of that era’s best comedians together in one place at one time.

Caddyshack didn’t do great at the box office (#17 for 1980, $39 million), but it’s gone on to become a favorite of sports fans (and movie fans) everywhere. It’s consistently on ‘Best-Ever Sports Movies’ lists, and we defy you to play a round of golf without hearing someone yell ‘Noonan!’ to mess up a buddy’s putt.

“How ’bout a Fresca?”

We ♥ Caddyshack.

Question of the Day 5.4.12

Name the music video!

Answer to yesterday’s QOTD: Frantic. Congrats to Todd for guessing correctly.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Not that we didn’t love Lucky Charms, Sugar Smacks, or Apple Jacks… but we have to admit it sure was nice to see a new item on the breakfast cereal shelves in 1984.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch was touted as having been “sprinkled with real cinnamon and sugar for the delicious taste of homemade cinnamon toast”. And it was. It SO was.

Wendell and his baker buddies (who, no doubt, were friends with the Keebler Elves and the Pillsbury Dough Boy) stayed up all night making General Mills’ new creation for us. And though it did get, well, a little slimy if it sat in milk for too long, there was no denying the super-cool taste. Plus, it was, of course, ‘part of this complete breakfast’. So, there’s that…

By the time the 90s rolled around, Wendell’s buddies had disappeared, and nowadays he seems to have retired altogether to that great toaster in the sky, replaced by the weird Cinnamon Toast Crunch square guys.

But we’ll always have the 80s–– when Wendell gave the decade a pretty great new cereal.

We ♥ Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Question of the Day 5.3.12

Name the movie!

Answer to yesterday’s QOTD: Pole Position. Congrats to Taps, Howlin’ Mad Heather, Carey, Jeffrey Scott, and @DJGaryBaldy for guessing correctly.

Lazer Tag Academy

“A thousand years from now–– a perfect world. Lazer Tag champion Jamie Jaren is the sole possessor of Starlyte Power…”

Sure… but what good is that when you’re up against the fiendish Draxon Drear, right?

A few weeks ago we professed our love for the awesome game that was (and still is) Lazer Tag, but then in 1986, our friends at NBC decided to take things a step further and bring the game to life (so to speak) every Saturday at noon, in cartoon form.

Young Jamie Jaren was tasked with keeping the world (both the past and future versions) safe from evil (in the form of Draxon and his pesky caveman-like Skugs). Since she was a whiz with a Starlyte and Starsensor, it was a no-brainer. And who better to help her own ancestors (Tom, Beth, and Nicky) in the 80s? …especially since Draxon was going after Beth because she would go on to invent the Starlye. And if he could stop her from doing that, then there would be no Lazer Tag Academy in the future. And then he would be free to rule the world!! (Maniacal laugh.)

With a distinctly Jetsons-esque flair, combined with a bit of a Voyagers feel, Lazer Tag Academy might have actually been a decent hit… but then Worlds of Wonder (the folks behind Lazer Tag) had to go and be all bankrupt and stuff.

Alas, Lazer Tag Academy only lasted one short season. It would, a few years later, spawn a couple full(er) length movies, but by then the 90s were upon us (Boooooo!) and we would have to just remain content with just our memories of the short, brief life of one of our favorites.

We ♥ Lazer Tag Academy.