Episode 91: Monday, November 19, 2007
posted on Nov 19, 2007 | Comments (2)
The Paunch Stevenson Show trip to the Fun N Games arcade!
In this episode:
- driving through Newark, NJ, while listening to William Shatner’s music,
- a Larry David moment on the PATH,
- old handicapped drivers on the highway,
- the Curb Your Enthusiasm season finale,
- our Larry David and Jeff Garlin impersonations,
- our visit to the Fun N Games arcade at Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, before it shut down,
- the upcoming video game Ghostbusters III,
- Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre,
- children’s birthday parties at McDonald’s and Burger King,
- the Treasure Troll doll fad in the early 1990s,
- Elmo,
- Teddy Ruxpin,
- The Secret City Adventures starring Commander Mark,
- Shirt Tales and The Smurfs,
- the abundance of karate schools in Belleville, NJ,
- the Biography channel,
- Rickel Home Centers,
- Home Depot,
- stupid job interviewers,
- employment agencies,
- the current season of Saturday Night Live only lasting four episodes,
- and the Broadway stagehand strike.
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The Fun N Games arcade at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, has shut down tonight after over 30 years of operation. An everything-must-go auction is being held there tomorrow, Saturday, November 24, 2007.
Links:
Fun N Games web site
a list of the arcade games at Fun N Games
Arcade Renaissance’s blog entry about Fun N Games closing
[...] Episode 91 featured our trip to the Fun N Games arcade at Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, a week before it shut down. In addition to audio, we also recorded video of the arcade. Although Fun N Games is part of the mall, the entrance is on the outside. There was a table set up with small TVs and people playing Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike for the Sega Dreamcast. There was also: [...]