In this Episode:
- our movie review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) starring Rick Moranis,
- Norm Macdonald destroying the Carrot Top movie Chairman of the Board (1998) with Courtney Thorne-Smith on Late Nite with Conan O’Brien,
- our local Kmart finally going out of business,
- megalithic former department store Bamberger’s in Newark, NJ,
- Fred Space of NJ’s Space Farms Zoo and Museum died (news),
- boring (or fascinating) presentations given by former video game programmers,
- Rare-developed Dinosaur Planet Nintendo 64 prototype found and shared (news),
- Goldeneye 007 XBLA finally discovered and dumped! (news),
- Greg finally gets a Nintendo Virtual Boy,
- “breaking” trading card boxes,
- Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” vocals line up perfectly to “Hip to be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News,
- Scary Pockets YouTube channel that funkifies hit songs,
- the failed 1985 detective comedy drama Half Nelson starring Joe Pesci, Victoria Jackson, and Dean Martin (Video),
- the original MTV Real World cast returns to New York (news),
- refurbishment of the 1929 Loew’s Jersey Theatre (news),
- and celebrity deaths (Dustin Diamond, Prince Markie Dee, Christopher Plummer, Mary Wilson, Larry Flynt).
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this felt like a mid-2000s episode ! – talk of department stores, nintendo, baseball cards and ‘saved by the bell’. 44 was no age for dustin diamond; i was surprised at how shocked i was on hearing the news; the footage of him as a very young actor shown in various tributes was also genuinely moving.