Author: Jason Thompson (Page 11 of 67)

Hey, teens! Jump into a time machine and go back way back when when Alyssa Milano was hawking her “Teen Steam” shit on TV and this fab 900-line chat number. Get your parents’ permission first before calling!

I lived only 30 miles away from Knoxville, Tennessee when I was a lad, so the fact that the World’s Fair was coming to town was a big friggin’ deal. Lemme just be the first to tell you how lame it actually was. The glorious Sunshphere still stands in K-Town, a decrepit monument to a decrpeit event. Enjoy the commerical!

Good God, I remember watching this crapfest on Nickelodeon back when it was new and thinking it was the most overdramatic, poorly acted piece of hack work to come around in a long time. Still, you can enjoy a young Ryan Reynolds as “Billy,” one of the many overly sensitive shmucks on this teen soap opera.

Hey, it’s easy to sit around and watch a Disney flick from the past couple of decades and say how the studio has sold out, seemingly focusing more on having a sappy clutch of hit songs and tons of fast food merchandising for their films instead of focusing more on the quality of the features themselves, but back in 1979 there was Mickey Mouse Disco.

I remember this damned commercial vividly and begged my mom to get it for me. Man…$9.98 for the LP AND two bonus albums? Where ya gonna get a deal like that anymore? However, I finally got my copy at Woolworth’s and was more than happy. For Disney stuff at the time, this one wasn’t too bad, and a couple tracks actually still stand up, but it’s the commercial that still seals the deal for me. At over two minutes long, you know everything you need here. Ah, the good old days…