In this episode:
- customers killing a Wal-mart employee in Valley Stream, NY,
- Greg adding pictures to previous episodes,
- a video of Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones,
- recent photos of “Macho Man” Randy Savage,
- a get-rich-quick scheme (the Old-Timers Wrestling League),
- Ironhide and Ratchet Transformers custom heads by Best Toys,
- good free antivirus programs (AVG, Avast!, and Avira AntiVir),
- The Morton Downey Jr. Show,
- our trip to the children’s TV show Steampipe Alley hosted by Mario Cantone,
- The Cover Girls,
- The Magic Garden on DVD,
- the Mellotron,
- 1970s progressive rock music,
- “Carnival of Light” by The Beatles,
- and Paul McCartney making fun of Michael Jackson.
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Picture of the Ironhide and Ratchet Transformers heads on G1 toys:
The Cover Girls formed in 1987 and are still a “dance” music group today, although they’ve had many lineup changes. Here they are 20 years ago, as we saw them, and today (as well as website links).
http://www.mcgillismusic.com/the_cover_girls.htm
http://www.myspace.com/thecovergirls
Those Ratchet and Ironhide heads are so simple, why couldn’t Hasbro come up with them in 1984?
Here’s a clip of The Morton Downey Jr. Show. Al Sharpton gets knocked down by another guest:
Another ridiculous clip:
Unfortunately, I cannot find either the signed postcard of Mario Cantone, or the scan I made of said postcard :(
Here is a clip of the New Kids On The Block on Steampipe Alley. I can only post a link, the user who posted on youtube disabled embed.
Wow, NKOTB on Steampipe Alley! What a horrible, stupid song. I can’t stand their accents, either.
PS: Rob, during the episode you said no one would ever sell Steampipe Alley DVDs??? From Stevenson, CT of all places!
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-BEST-OF-STEAMPIPE-ALLEY-MARIO-CANTONE-RULES_W0QQitemZ150289858408QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116
What the…Stevenson, CT? What are the odds?
It’s only $5. Should we buy a copy for the Paunch Stevenson Show library?
I finally found my signed post card from Mario Cantone, or at least the scan of it….
Wow! Look at his big hair and speckled jeans.
i loved ‘magum PI’, but i must agree the wheels really fell off in the last couple of series – it went way too surreal – maybe it was trying to be post-modern in comparison to ‘moonlighting’ which would have been running at the same time? and the old-timers wrestling league would be fantastic!