Step into the world of young Kevin McCallister, a student wizard who must protect his magical school against the evil Wet Bandits. You will be amazed at how he draws his power from Vitamin C, scientifically the most average of all vitamins. Whatever a vitamin is. This week we watch the Harry Potter and the… Read more S3:E4 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Commercial
Airwolf is a helicopter, yes? Or is Airwolf the guy driving the helicopter. Either way there’s a helicopter and a guy and separately, or perhaps together, one or some or all of them can be called Airwolf. Of this, there can be no denial. John Hurst hosts and gets in his wheelhouse. Aaron Littleton co-hosts… Read more S3:E3 – Airwolf TV Opening
Paul Hollywood’s hand extends towards yours. A plate of perfect macaroons, or are those macarons, sits between you. Time moves in slow motion. Rain dabbles on the tent. A honeybee’s wings, perched on an immaculate flower, move so slowly you can see them. Is this heaven, you wonder. You sweat. Why is his hand still… Read more S3:E2 – The Great British Bake Off TV Opening
We’re here, we’re back you guys! Season 3 is ready to worm its way into your head like the dark spirit trapped inside the frosty cold can of a Dr. Pepper! Have your brownies, dance your dance, but realize there is no escape from the joy we bring. This week we watched a Dr. Pepper… Read more S3:E1 – Dr. Pepper 1988 Commercial
Hey so what’s happening everyone? John and I have been basically destroyed by the holidays, er, we’ve been on such a sweet and awesome vacation that we haven’t been able to record the podcast for the last two weeks. But worry not: Season 3 starts next Friday! in the mean time, chill out, enjoy a… Read more Video Death Loop End of the Year Break
Arby’s had an idea: what if they made holiday tumblers? What if they were kind of understated and festive, without a splashy logo and cost a measly 79 cents per glass? What if they were shaped like curly fries and filled with curly fries and existed in a universe where curly fries were the foundation… Read more S2:E65 – Arby’s Holly Days Tumbler Commercial
Baseboards: we hardly think about them. Ok, we don’t really think about them at all. In a way, we purposfully ignore them. But if we did think about them, we might ask: are they necessary? Why are they there? What is this thing and why is it filthy? The Baseboard Buddy commercial we watched this… Read more S2:E64 – Baseboard Buddy Commercial
In the sleepy town of Encino, a secret lays buried: the secret of the juice. Some may wish to horde the juice and some may want to drink the juice, but both are the wrong way to approach the juice. The juice will destroy those not ready for its power and to tame the juice,… Read more S2:E63 – Encino Man Trailer
Man, those Brendan Fraser Mummy movies were pretty good, huh? Surely there’s no increasingly less relevant series of spin-offs that could detract from their inherent quality. Right? What about a prequel starring Dwayne Johnson as a goofy CG monster? What about a Godsmack music video based on the Dwayne Johnson prequel only briefly featuring pre-recorded… Read more S2:E62 – Godsmack “I Stand Alone” Music Video...
Close up, Danny DeVito. He is crying. Slowly the camera zooms in on a single pore. A tear, now massive at such a small focus, erupts into the scene, leaving a smeary, moistened trail. Now the camera zooms back and the wet epidermis is the ocean, home to a host of aquatic Danny DeVitos which… Read more S2:E61 – POKÉMON Detective Pikachu Trailer
There’s a lot of John Cena media out there. Some of it is what passes for good in this wretched year of 2018. Some of it…less so. This commercial is the latter. Three John Cenas engage in a dangerously patriotic Backstreet Boys pantomime to push liquor and we are both aghast and mesmerized. If you… Read more S2:E60 – John Cena Presents: SKYY Blue
When you’ve got 15 seconds of precious airtime to fill but a total of four seconds of actual content, you do what you have to do. The Head On people decided to loop those precious four seconds over and over, creating one of the most weirdly memorable but understandably irritating commercials of the mid-2000s. We… Read more S2:E59 – Head On Commercial
Aren’t apps terrible? What if you could get a haircut without an app? That’s just the kind of sexy place Sport Clips is. Labor practices aside, they’re almost certainly better than…the alternative. We watched this Sports Clips commercial on loop this week. Get in line! Online! In line! LINE John Hurst hosts this weeks and… Read more S2:E58 – Sport Clips Commercial
Weeeeelllll Matlock may just be a poor country lawyer, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like money. In fact, it may be his favorite thing. He’s never going to get ahead in life if he keeps taking cases on the barter system though. Try as you might, you’re never going to make it by accepting… Read more S2:E57 – Matlock TV Opening
When it comes to devices that you talk exclusively out of the side of, the Nokia N-Gage was in a class of its own. If you deep fried one and placed it beside a chalupa, you would probably take at least a bite before regretting it immediately. If you had more than one game, you… Read more S2:E56 – Nokia N-Gage Commercial
Welcome to the Facility, try our lovely lettuce! Now that James Bond has that one guy in it, Goldeneye is positively a classic. Maybe not as classic as the circle-laden Dr. No, but still, you know, pretty classic. We watched the Goldeneye opening theme on loop this week! Join us in Q’s lab and watch… Read more S2:E55 – Goldeneye Opening
Val Venis was a wrestler that was deeply understood. Some might think that Val Venis was nothing more than a lover boy, getting his kicks on the road. But, oh no, Val Venis had so much more going on than that. A soothing tub full of calamine lotion is just the surface of the deep… Read more S2:E54 – Val Venis Wrestling Intro
Is it possible to debate your way into love? Can you start with a machete and end with peace? Is gravy truly the lubrication of society? Machete Clan attempts to answer these questions during their thoughtful anthem On the Rark. We join in by watching it on loop. Check out Machete Clan on iTunes and… Read more S2:E53 – On the Rark Music Video
Chew the Whopper. Know which each bite there is endless suffering. Swallow the Whopper. A soul is destroyed. This is the triple Whopper. You are a part of this. This commercial was watched. Please let it enter you. John Hurst hosts and rings the bell. Aaron Littleton co-hosts and builds the room. Download Link Write… Read more S2:E52 – Eat Like Snake Burger King Commercial
Welcome to Chicago, Balki! Here we’ve got Cubs games, subways and a 3/4 size Statue of Liberty beyond the Northwest Passage? Perfect Strangers was a quintessential 80s sitcom featuring fish-out-of-water Myposian Balki Bartokomous and his put upon cousin, Larry. Something. Larry Something. Who cares. This week we watched its opening theme song on loop for… Read more S2:E51 – Perfect Strangers TV Opening
Living under the long shadow of the Sunsphere, we pay homage daily to its glittering façade. Those who do not risk incurring the wroth of the Firemen, those most in thrall to its shining, fiery ways. Long, long is the arm of the 1982 World’s Fair and we may find freedom only in the cracks… Read more S2:E50 – The 1982 World’s Fair Commercial
Far before the terrible alcohol-focused decision making of 2012, the good people at the Gillette corporation launched into the world a commercial. For a women’s razor. That got an unloved Bananarama song some radio airplay. Actually, the commercial may have used a previous version of the song. No, not that version, the other one. The… Read more S2:E49 – Venus Gillette Razor Commercial
If there was some metaphysical trend line for Brady familiarity, like some glittering string of yarn laid across a topographical map of the twentieth century whose hills and valleys represented the whole of Brady gnosis, surely the peaks would rise above the 1970s and their temporal twin, the 1990s. Atop those lofty spires, the Bradys… Read more S2:E48 – The Brady Bunch TV Opening
Hello. I am Daisy. And if we all look deep within us, aren’t we all Daisy? Aren’t we all all just far away princesses in a desert land, waiting for another taste of a big break after the 15 minutes faded away in portable monochromatic glory? Sure, we sometimes get included in their SPORTS and their… Read more S2:E47 – DAISY IS IN SUPER SMASH BROS!!!!!
In many ways The Legend of Zelda cartoon is inevitable. Just like certain novelty bongs and print-on-demand t-shirts, this feels like it was spun into life by some algorithm skimming popular topics and combining them to see what worked. At least we didn’t have to wake up early to watch it every morning, though. We… Read more S2:E46 – The Legend of Zelda Cartoon Opening
Frasier ran for an amazing eleven seasons on broadcast television, exploring the future (or past!) of the titular hero and Cheers ensemble member. Amazingly, at no point did Frasier ever rip his chest open to show you his beating human heart. To right that wrong, we watched one of the many Frasier ending sequences for… Read more S2:E45 – Frasier Ending Theme
This puppy is happy! And silent! And getting a haircut! It’s…kind of creepy, really. Let’s drink some cheap wine and forget. This week we watched Cute Puppy, a video on YouTube that has 3 views. John Hurst hosts and tries to de-stress. Aaron Littleton co-hosts and has a crisis. Download Link Write to us at… Read more S2:E44 – Cute Puppy
It’s our two year anniversary, so we decided to watch our favorite television show themes as a treat to ourselves! Also: we briefly recount the plots of Star Trek II and III. I dunno! You can watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme here! You can check out the Top Gear theme here! Aaron Littleton… Read more S2:E43 – MST3K / Top Gear TV Openings
DOOM is a video game that really, really doesn’t want you to look around. 30 seconds par for its first level? It’s basically a digital “No Loitering” sign. Speedrunner Panter decided to put that to shame with the world record 9 second run of DOOM’s E1M1 “Hangar” level. Catch the video here. John Hurst hosts… Read more S2:E42 – DOOM E1M1 Speedrun
When the cubicle walls seem like a towering oceanfront fortress and the copy machine a glimmering treasure of plunder, one might begin to wonder if there is a viking buried deep inside oneself. One may long for the freedom of the sea and the roar of battle, but when the true histories are read, one… Read more S2:E41 – The Office TV Opening
