Cheesy Blockbuster Training Video!
Here’s an incredibly cheesy Blockbuster training video from the 1990s:
(Or an “amazingly bad” one, according to the uploader!)
It’s hokey as hell and so worth watching.
Gotta admit, I miss the hell out of Blockbuster. I know I’ve gone heavier on covering the mom & pop-style video stores on Dino Drac, but I have loads of nostalgia for Blockbuster, too.
(One neat thing about Blockbuster is that so many of the chain’s old locations still stand. While they now have new occupants, many retain subtle hints of what they once were. I love spotting them out in the wild.)
1980s Shark Documentary.
In honor of the just-dropped episode of The Purple Stuff Podcast, I’m gonna borrow the show’s theme for tonight’s video. Get ready for SHARKS!
There are a billion shark documentaries on YouTube, but this one is soooo ‘80s. It was apparently released on video, but it’s exactly like the shark docs I grew up devouring on television.
You’ll notice a marked contrast between this and today’s documentaries, which so often over-inflate the “drama” to make for more exciting programming. (Heck, even Shark Week gets criticized nowadays for trading science for sensationalism.)
I get why that shift had to happen, but it’s still nice to see an old school doc that’s pretty much all business. In 4×3, no less! Pass me the Pizzaria chips and my Gobots sleeping bag.
Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats!
Here’s a random episode of Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, an animated series that ran from ’84 to ’88:
Weird thing: I used to watch this show all the time, but I remember next to nothing about it. The theme song is familiar and I do recall that the artists had a little too much fun drawing one of the lady cats, but that’s literally it.
Given that I’ve been writing about old nonsense for almost twenty years and only a handful of people have ever mentioned this show to me, there seems to be a pandemic regarding Heathcliff-related audience retention.
I guess we gotta start somewhere, so enjoy the show!
1990s PPV Promos!
Wow, here’s a gem that should have way more views on YouTube: A collection of pay-per-view promos from the early ‘90s!
LOADS of nostalgia in there, covering everything from The Secret of the Ooze to (holy jeez) Silent Night, Deadly Night 4.
Enjoy!
