Popeye Meets Sindbad!
I’ve never been a big Popeye guy, but Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is so my jam:
Soon after saving enough money for my first VCR ($200, if I recall), I bought some random Popeye tape… probably because it was the only one I could afford with what remained of my savings.
On it was this famous short from 1936, which I ended up watching dozens if not hundreds of times. It was just one of those tapes that I always threw on, and came to enjoy as background noise.
My fascination was mostly because of Sindbad’s island, which was like a cross between Skull Island and a traveling sideshow. Just this mad world where monsters ran rampant.
Enjoy!
Tonight’s survey:
Name a show, movie or video you’ve seen a million times even if you don’t necessarily identify as a “big fan” of it.
Escapism. And Thunderstorms.
Today sucked. Just one of those days when every possible thing goes wrong. I’d go to pour a cup of coffee and end up starting three wars on Mars.
Shit happens and we move on, but it did give me an idea for tonight’s survey:
When life’s full of lemons and you need to escape, what do you do?
Read? Play games? Go for a run? Wash a bag of Combos down with a bottle of wine?
Share your secrets, in the comments!
I’ll tell you one of mine, too:
One of my favorite escapist methods involves looking up horrible doomsday scenarios. I don’t mean the ones that hit too close to home, but stuff like…
What if aliens invaded?
What would happen if Jupiter suddenly exploded?
How long would we survive if Earth was knocked out of its orbit?
Sounds dark, but it soothes me every time.
Speaking of soothing, check out this video:
Nine hours of thunderstorm noises. Now we’re talking!
Go to the Head of the Class!
I don’t expect y’all to watch every video posted on Dino Drac After Dark, but you should definitely watch this one.
It’s my favorite episode of Amazing Stories, and my favorite episode from any anthology series ever. Hell, I’d go so far to say that it ranks among my favorite television episodes, period.
Go to the Head of the Class was the crown jewel of the show’s second season. Running over 40 minutes and directed by Robert Zemeckis, it’s more of a made-for-TV movie than a regular episode.
Starring Christopher Lloyd as a sadistically cruel teacher, it’s so ‘80 and so wonderful. Cheesy, scary, magical, romantic — this thing hits every note.
Lloyd’s turn as Professor Beanes absolutely terrified me as a kid, to the point where I regularly had nightmares about him. The episode was treated as a major event when it aired, and rightfully so.
I love Amazing Stories, but it’s a crime that this “episode” (again, more of a short movie) is buried in the series. Had it been a “real” movie, or even a straight-up TV movie, I imagine it’d have the following it so clearly deserves.
Tonight’s survey:
Name your all-time favorite TV episode from ANY AND EVERY show.
(A tough one!)
Super Mario Bros. Movie!
From 1993, here’s Super Mario Bros. — meaning the live action, big screen adaptation:
Some people love it, some people hate it, but I think we can at least agree that the movie was worth making if only for the chance to see Bob Hoskins dressed like Mario.
Tonight’s survey:
Name some of your favorite “bad” movies.
(“Bad” in quotes because we often just mean “odd” or “underachieving” when we say that, but you get the drift!)
