Free-For-All Friday Thread #5!
Time for another Free-For-All Friday Thread, where you’re free to talk about whatever you want in the comments.
Tell us about your week! Review the food from that weird diner down the street! List off ten of your favorite blue things! The choice is yours.
Happy Friday!
PS: I usually search for a “mood” video to add to these threads, but I’ll totally miss the deadline if I do one now. We just finished recording the next Purple Stuff episode literally five minutes ago. So just imagine this post accompanied by some pleasant background noise. Picture me humming softly.
UPDATE: I’m a minute or two late, but this oughta do:
The whole soundtrack to A Nightmare on Elm Street. It’s still so good.
Taco Bell Commercials!
Hey, here’s something different!
It’s a collection of Taco Bell commercials from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
I don’t know. It just felt right for tonight.
(Naturally, now I want tacos.)
Small Wonder!
Here’s the first episode of Small Wonder, the infamous ‘80s sitcom about a regular family and their robot daughter:
…it was basically that, at least.
The show has been a meme for literally as long as I’ve had an internet connection, but it really wasn’t so bad. Cheesy as hell, but so what?
Actually, the best thing about Small Wonder was how it’d pop up in the most random time slots on Saturdays and Sundays. (This would’ve been in the early ‘90s, after the show’s proper run finished.)
I don’t know what the deal was, but it felt like Small Wonder reruns aired on multiple channels at no specific time. They’d just magically be on television whenever you desperately needed something to watch. Thanks, Vicki the Robot!
Plan 9 from Outer Space!
Here’s the famously bad (yet still charming) Plan 9 from Outer Space. Can’t believe I’ve never run this one before!
Divorce the film from its notoriety and it’s pretty great as background noise. The kind of movie you throw on and pay zero attention to while you read magazines and eat sleeves of Ritz crackers.
