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* Fonzi saying, "Heyyyyyyyyyyyy!"

* Vinnie Barbarino singing, "Ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-barino"

* Platform shoes and leisure suits

* Making the peace sign with your fingers and saying, "Peace, man"

* Captain Kangaroo, Major Mudd, Willie Whistle, Bozo, and Rex Trailer

* Davey and Goliath on Sunday mornings

* Gumby

* Sid and Marty Krofft (see separate thread on this topic)

* Drive-in theaters

* "Morning has Broken," by Cat Stevens

* "Song Sung Blue," by Neil Diamond

* "American Pie," by Don McLean

* Speed Racer

* Ultraman (the original)

* Kimba, the white lion

* Silver and Bronze Age Marvel comics (and some D.C., too)

* Doc Savage pulp novels (I still read them . . . I have the entire collection except for one book)

* Creature Feature and Tales of the Unknown

* The Soupy Sales show

* The Dean Martin comedy roasts

* Let's Make a Deal, with Monty Hall

* Truth or Consequences, with Bob Barker

* Beat the Clock (I don't remember who the host was, but I had the home version of the game)

* Dark Shadows (a soap opera with vampires, werewolves, and witches . . . who would have believed it?)

* "Seasons in the Sun," by Terry Jacks

* "Delta Dawn," by Helen Reddy

* The Tony Orlando and Dawn TV show

* The Sonny and Cher TV show

* The Captain and Tenille TV show

* The Donnie and Marie TV show

* The Sha-na-na TV show (a Saturday evening favorite)

* All in the Family

* The Carol Burnett Show

* The Lawrence Welk Show (watched it with my parents)

Whew . . . I'm on a roll . . .

For starters:
*Batman
*Hong Kong Fooey
*Cracker Jacks
*My Dad's Playboys
*WELL, EXCUSE ME! (Steve Martin)
*Disco Duck
*DynoMutt
*Sailer Bob
*Bowman Body
*Snoopy Vs, The Red Baron
*The Pop Shop
*Spike Jones & His City Slicker Band
*Meco's theme from Star Wars

*Aeon Flux
*Day of the Dead
*Ghostbusters
*X-Men Comics
*Godzilla
*Waynes World
*Resident Evil game
*Aliens
*Robocop
*My grandfather playboys
*Final Fantasy 7

...
*The Incredible Hulk
*Wonder Woman
*Tinker Toys
*Slime
*Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
*Ville Allegre
*Star Wars, the action figures, & everything else that emerged from that cash cow
*View Masters
...

*Simpsons
*Red Sonja
*Goth/punk girls
*X-Files
*Buffy the vampire Slayer
*Gen13
*Batman the animated series
*Grandmother B-Movie Collection
*GI Joe

...
*Yo-Balls
*The Indian Guides
*Velcro
*Mad Max & Easy Rider
*Cable Television, The VCR, Video Rental stores & so on & so forth
*Underoos
*Sit 'n' Spin
*The Donnie & Marie show
*digital wristwatches

-My biker parents

-Roller World

-Nick at Nite

-OUIJA BOARDS, Bloody Mary, Seances, and light as a feather stiff as a board

-Mad Movies by the LA Connection

-Wild World by Cat Stevens and Piano Man by Billy Joel (my mother's lullabies for me)

-King Kong, Godzilla and Elvis movies (introduced by my step father)

-my crazy artistic grandmother (my "kindred spirit")

-The Muppet Show

-Dr. Suess books

-Skinner's candy store

-One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest and The Godfather (my first "old" and classic films...it was the gateway to my true love for film)

-My uncle Mike (for getting me in trouble at school for repeating his jokes)

-Mrs. Edson and Hemmingway (my first love for the written word)

-Guys and Dolls (my first audition)

-Dancing

-Camping trips

-Monty Python movies

-old SNL

-BEER

-ummm, experimenting recreationally

-The Chill Pad and crew

-Poltergeist (my first favorite movie at the age of 7 or 8)

-Mel Brook's movies

-Tree forts

-VC Andrews novels
(Flowers in the Attic Series)

-Seinfeld (so many quotes!)

-All in the Family

-The Rat Pack

-Airplane!

-Metallica, Nirvana, Billy Holiday, and Beethoven

King Kong

Godzilla

Indiana Jones

Star Wars

Spider-Man

Fonzy

Just a start really

Early on
 
Dr. Who
The Addams Family
Star Wars!!!!!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Space Invaders

a bit later
Batman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sunday School/church

Roger Miller (mostly "Dang Me")

Looney Toons

Batman

Star Wars

Gumby (as a kid and then again in college)

The Love Boat/Fantasy Island Saturday night double whammy

Captain Kangaroo

Johnny Cash

L. Frank Baum/Ruth Plumly Thompson (Wizard of Oz series)

The Wizard of Oz every year on CBS (loooong before video tapes)

Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys mysteries

David Letterman (both his daytime show and then, later, his late-night show)

The Muppet Show

The Muppet Movie

Sonny & Cher, Donny & Marie, Shields & Yarnell, Tony Orlando & Dawn

Monty Python, Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Strange Brew

The Aristocats

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Godzilla

Dr. Seuss

Dinosaurs (not the tv show)

My family.

No, seriously.  Most of the stuff that I like to do now (at 40) is based largely on influences from my parents and older sisters (I am quite younger than my sisters).

Got into movies because of my Dad.

Got into boats and fishing because we used to go out on my Dad's boat when I was little.

Got into camping because that is how we traveled as a family when I was little.

Etc.

Waiting to watch "DRACULA" with Jack Palance,only to have it pre-empted by Nixon resigning.  Hitchhiking at the age of 16 from Lawton,Michigan (boonies) to NYC,with my brother Glenn(14) in 1979. Rat Fink bubblegum cards and stickers. UHF. Growing up around drunk Polish and Russian farmers. UFO mania. Heavy Metal. Punk Rock. Saturday double matinees (Yog-Monster from Outer Space and Goke-Body Snatchers from Hell. Digging for arrow heads in corn fields.Captain America comics drawn by Jack(King)Kirby.The 3 STOOGES!!!!! Being tortured by my sisters Bobby Sherman and Shaun Cassidy records. 8-track tapes of Golden Earring and Grand Funk Railroad. Iggy and the Stooges!!!! Where Monsters Dwell comics. Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos-YA-HOOO!!!! Two-Gun Kid,Kid Colt,Rawhide Kid (whatever happened to cowboy comics?).

- Grunge Rock (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice In Chains)

- Atari 2600

- NES

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Show and Movies)

- Godzilla films on cable

- Empire Of The Ants

- Food Of The Gods

- Comic Books

- Superman's Death

- X-Men

- Gameboy (especially Kid Icarus and Metriod on the GB)

- Cable TV (I remember having a strange switch box when we first got cable.  You had numbers assigned to each switch and then you would flip it to choose what channel you wanted.  The higher channels meant you had to flip numerous switches to make the variations)

- MST3K

- SNL

- Mad Magazine

- Arcades!  They were everywhere.  I actually saw one in a funeral home as a child.

- Anything "Mario"

- Skateboarding and the still visible wounds that were incurred while doing so.

- Simpsons

- Married With Children

- Beavis And Butthead

- Count Chocula, Boo Berry, Frankenberry cereals

- Portable Cassette players

- QBasic

- Computers

I have to stop.  This could go on forever.

*Creature Feature
*Get Smart
*Twilight Zone
*Outer Limits
*The Match Game (with Gene Rayburn)
*Bob Newhart show
*The Jeffersons
*The Gong Show
*Godzilla and King Kong
*Planet of the Apes
*Clint Eastwood movies, especially Dirty Harry
*Road Warrior
*The Doors
*Valerie Giles (my first true love...aww...how sweet...)
*Comics- Horror, Dare Devil, Iron Man, Batman, and even a little bit of Spiderman and Superman
*Star Wars
*Close encounters of the 3rd Kind


Wow...I thought I would have trouble with this...I am going to have to stop like Skaboi did as there is just way too much...it's unbelieveable.

Great topic.

I almost forgot The Muppet Show...and how could I forget Looney Tunes and Dr. Suess.  A huge part of my growing up.  what was I thinking??  I am going to add them now...and Mad Movies and Nick at Nite.

Thanks for the reminder

The Bobby Vinton Show
Bah Bah Black Sheep
Emergency
Gilligan's Island
How Green Is My Valley
The Quiet Man
Saturday afternoon monster movies of channel 7 from Buffalo (hosted by the guy who played Commander Tom from Rocket Ship 7
Family Feud with Richard Dawson
Hogan's Heroes


Two-Gun Kid, Rawhide Kid  loved those comics...
Add in Weird War Stories and a whole lot of Gold Key Disney comics

GI JOE-"Now with life-like hair and beard with kung-fu grip!!" Johnny West and Geronimo action figures. Aurora monster model kits. Banana seats,sissy bars,apehanger handle bars. My dads collection of EasyRider and Hustler mags (he hide them in his work bench in the basement.)Watergate.Manson on the news (he scared me.) My dog Inky. Listening to old farmers b***h about the Nazi's during WW II.The Hudson Brothers Show. Double Creature Feature on ch.28 from Elkhart ,Indiana(and how hard it was to pull the damn thing in!)I gotta stop-its like eating Lays Potatoe Chips.

Did anyone have the cheap version of G.I. JOE in the 70's called ACTION JACKSON?

Scott Wrote:
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> Did anyone have the cheap version of G.I. JOE in
> the 70's called ACTION JACKSON?



HAHA!! I wanted one of those so bad but wasn't allowed to get one! I had the GI Joes and thought he would fit in splendidly...I must have been wrong.

YES!!!!Had one!!!! I t was a cheezy version of GI JOE. " Action Jackson is his name!!! Bold adventure is his  game!!!! ACTION JACKSON!!!!!" It was almost as bad as the Meco toys....

Monster movie cards with goofy captions.Christopher Lee Dracula movies on the CBS late movie. BLACULA. the Night Stalker. Bugs Bunny. Star Trek reruns.Gilligan. Hee Haw. the Beverley Hillbillies. Gunsmoke actually taught me morals. How many TV shows can claim that ? That might even make a good topic...What TV programs tried to give a lesson in morality,and were actually GOOD at it?

AAArgh! How could I forget Gilligan? My crush on Mary Ann still lives on. . .She's way better than Kate Beckinsale (sorry odinn, but Mary Ann was my first crush)

And Hogan's Heroes and Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies!

And Get Smart (Buck Henry rulz!).

And speaking of G.I. Joe and Action Jackson, what about:

* Major Matt Mason - A VERY cool set of spaceman action figures.  You could buy all sorts of weapons, vehicles, accessories etc., and have hours and hours of fun.

* Big Jim - Whose claim to fame was that you could bend his arm and his bicep would flex.  They had a fake steel band that you could wrap around his bicep and it would pop off when you made him flex.

* Captain Action - He wore a body stocking (blue, black, and gray, I believe) and sort of a pilot's hat.  He had little weapons and stuff.

* The Six Million Dollar Man - You could roll up the rubber skin on his arm and see his "bionic" components underneath.  You could also look through a tiny viewfinder in his head and actually see through his bionic eye!

* Fonzi - If you pressed a button on his back, he gave you the "thumbs up."   HEYYYYYYYY!

And what about these other fond memories:

* The Crack-Fire Rifle.  It was a cool toy rifle.  When you cocked it, it would activate some sort of a mechanism inside so that when you pulled the trigger, a gunshot sound would come out of a little speaker on the butt of the rifle.  If you didn'tr cock it, no sound would come out when you pulled the trigger.

* Space Food Sticks.  You could buy these things in the supermarket.  They came in different flavors like chocolate and peanut butter and had the texture of a tootsie roll (but a lot softer and easier to chew).  The TV ads claimed that they were "what the astronauts ate in space."  Yeah, right.

* Wacky Packages.  These were gum packs that had stickers inside.  The stickers were basically parodies of consumer products.  They had stuff like "Cover Ghoul" (Cover Girl Make-up), "Vomit" (Comet Cleanser), etc.  The stickers resembled the actual packages of the products they were supposed to represent, except they had funny drawings and slogans on them.

* Aurora Monster Models.  I had the entire set.  Each model kit came with two sets of heads, hands, etc.  One set was regular black plastic that you could paint.  The other set was off-white "glow in the dark" parts.  Several of the monsters were the Universal monsters, but they had some others as well.  You could get:  The Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Wolfman, The Phantom of the Opera, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Godzilla, King Kong, The Mummy, The Prisoner (a skeleton chained to a dungeon wall), a Witch . . . I think that's all of them, but there might have been 1 or 2 more.

* Kenner's "Give a Show" Projector.  This was a little plastic contraption with a lighbulb in it that would shine through a lens.  You would slide film strips behind the lens that had still pictures on them.  You could get various Saturday Morning cartoons that were popular at the time.  The film strips would show you a short story with Scooby Doo or someone.  You would slide the film strip in and the first picture would flash on the screen or the wall.  When you were finished looking at that one, you would slide the film strip in a little more and view the next picture.  It was sort of like a View Master, except that you projected it onto a wall or screen.

Wow . . . the memories . . .

I'm beginning to cry . . .

Genes and environment made me what I am today.   In terms of material goods that contributed:
1) Lego
2) Star Wars action figures
3) The collected works of Brian Daley
4) This one is embarassing: Richie Rich comics
5) The 1970's King Kong
6) Rexall Drug in Bellevue Neraska- One of the few to maintain a soda fountain into the 80's.
7) Formative years in a foreign countr(ries), specifically:
   a)The Nuremburg Christmas Market
   b) The torture/witch hunt museum in Rothenburg
   c) Early exposure to Kinder brand candy prizes
   d) British snack foods purchased by my grandmother for visits (this love lasts to this day)
-Ed

The Burgomaster Wrote:
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> * Kenner's "Give a Show" Projector.  This was a
> little plastic contraption with a lighbulb in it
> that would shine through a lens.  You would slide
> film strips behind the lens that had still
> pictures on them.  You could get various Saturday
> Morning cartoons that were popular at the time.
> The film strips would show you a short story with
> Scooby Doo or someone.  You would slide the film
> strip in and the first picture would flash on the
> screen or the wall.  When you were finished
> looking at that one, you would slide the film
> strip in a little more and view the next picture.
> It was sort of like a View Master, except that you
> projected it onto a wall or screen.
>
> Wow . . . the memories . . .


Gonna show my lack of age here.....

My father actually still has his Kenner "Give A Show".  It's still in perfect condition and he has a few slides.  I can't remember which ones exactly other than Aquaman.

The Burgomaster Wrote:
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> And speaking of G.I. Joe and Action Jackson, what
> about:
>
> * Big Jim - Whose claim to fame was that you could
> bend his arm and his bicep would flex.  They had a
> fake steel band that you could wrap around his
> bicep and it would pop off when you made him
> flex.

I still have a Big Jim doll (oops! I mean action figure) somewhere. He not only flexed, but there was a button on his back that gave him karate chop action, and he came with a breakable plastic board.

I had the G.I. Joe stuff (I think I even had one of the originals, though it got busted up). Does anyone else remember Joe's buddy Atomic Man (I think that's what he was called)? He had a laser eye and a spinning mechanical arm that could rotate cheesy little helicopter blades. I still have that one, and it all still works.

QBasic?  You are an old, old man.

Mofo,

Far from it.  I didn't use Qbasic until around '95 or so.  That was my first bit of programming.

Skaboi Wrote:
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> Mofo,
>
> Far from it.  I didn't use Qbasic until around '95
> or so.  That was my first bit of programming.


Yeah, I know.  My first bit of programming was in Basic.  Of course, my last bit of programming was Qbasic.  Don't even get me started on C; I'm not a programmer.

Now if you'd been using punch cards...

GI Joe (I actually got one the very first year they were out, 1964.)

Major Matt Mason, cool astronaut. He had those wires in his arms for bending them, and they broke after a while.

The Mattel Tommy Gun, I had fun playing Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow's character on Combat!)

Star Trek - when the show started I was 11 and wanted to be Captain KIrk. By the time it ended in '69 I thought Spock was the coolest thing going. He was an outsider, but way smarter than everyone else.

Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and far too many movies to mention influenced me.

I was always into Scifi, UFO's , and paranormal stuff.

Aurora DID have one more Universal model kit,but it wasn't re-issued in the 70's. The Bride of Frankenstien! The 60's issued kits didn't glow either. I had the 70's models as well. I also had aBarnabus Collins model, Rat Fink, the Hulk, and the giant Rattlesnake from Land of the Giants. I also had some BIG dinosaur models.Very cool. Does anyone remember the Invisable Man kit? He was clear plastic,and you could see his guts and stuff! I had a Charlie McCarthy ventrloquist dummy when I was little,and when I was about 13, I put him in the trash burning barrel,so I could watch him melt..."WHHHOOOAWWW....COOOOL...."

...
*The day Elvis ...uh... "left us"
*The day Paul McArtney was bust for posession in Japan
*The day John Lennon was taken from us
*The day I found out the guy who played Grizzly Adams was a *&!@#%$X dealer
...

One of my favorite things as a kid was Mad Magazine. I had an Alfred E. Neuman for President poster on may wall and I stenciled his image on the old shed we had out back of the house. I loved their movie send ups and my favorite part was the small cartoons in the margins.

Some people say that as I child I bore a slight physical resemblance to the magazines mascot. Judge for yourselves. (no tooth gap, however)

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/trekgeezer/alfred_e_neuman.jpg)  (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/trekgeezer/Eddie1.jpg)


When I got older, The National Lampoon was favorite also.

Trek, its uncanny indeed when you look at the smile.   I liked and still liked the Spy vs Spy comics and the Sergio Aragones strips.  
But did anyone ever like Cracked Magazine?
-Ed

Wow..........WACKY PACKAGES were my favorite collectibles next to baseball cards.

(http://www.wacky-packs.com/smimages/bandache.jpg)

Here is a nice little page on WACKY PACKAGES (http://www.wacky-packs.com/original.html)

MAD and CRACKED magazines were both fun Trek Geezer and ED. Always liked the photos with the bubble caption that put words in there mouths.

Did anyone play Electric Football or have an Electric Race Car track by Aurora or Tyco?

How about the Telstar video game that played tennis on a b/w screen with one dot and two lines for rackets. Wow......talk about staying busy all day ! ! !

PONG!  The original video game.

And how could I forget Space Food Sticks?  They were great.

MacDonalds commercials before Birdie or Grimace, where the original Hamburglar was an evil looking thief who actually stole other people's food.  I hate politcally corectness.

Wow.You do look like Alfred! I LOVED Mad. I also read Cracked, Crazy,and Sick.Marvel also had a short-lived comic type (like the old 50's MAD) called ARRGHH! My dad bought a Pong game, and one with little tiny tanks, Combat, or something.They actually have NEW Wacky Packages in sticker machines now. I bought some at the laundry mat.

Silent movies on PBS. Smoking weed in high school, reading all the time, comic book art, hitchhiking to NYC at 16. And of course, old monster movies.
Later- heavy metal and punk rock. And girls. I rarely got to have sex with another person, but I liked it!

For some reason, this junk influenced me the most as a kid.

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'80s cartoons, Hammer horror movies and heavy metal.

Watching Vietnam on the news. Manson on the news. Nixon on the news.
 My Dad watched the news a lot.

http://youtu.be/oeWjVLwV3Zk (http://youtu.be/oeWjVLwV3Zk)

Living through a war and being abandoned and abused throughout my life made me a better person.

Wow. A resurrected discussion from 2006. This group has longevity!

^ Ain't it groovy?  :thumbup:

Living in the boonies. Living in NYC.

Chiller Theater in NY in the 60's and later in the 80's.
Double Creature Feature from Indiana in SW West Michigan uhf ch. 28.
Shock Theater on ch.41 from Kalamazoo in SW Michigan.

http://youtu.be/9bcIGSaPnqc (http://youtu.be/9bcIGSaPnqc)

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
The Star Wars Trilogy
The Simpsons (Classic era)
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Star Trek (TOS, TNG & DS9)
Looney Tunes
Classic Sci-fi Films (examples The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Godzilla)
The Universal Monsters
The Secret of NIMH
Classic DC & Marvel comics

 

I wasn't a kid, but I was a young man in the early 80's who watched Chiller again when it had this intro-!
I'm sure some of you folks from the East Coast remember this-!
The show that I first saw DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT on!

http://youtu.be/ok6uzndOmPA (http://youtu.be/ok6uzndOmPA)

The Three Stooges
Abbott & Costello movies on the weekend
Famous Monsters magazine
Lost In Space
The Outer Limits
Dark Shadows
Doctor Who
Planet Of the Apes
Universal Monster movies
Batman with Adam West
Hammer Horror
Godzilla
Star Trek
Night Gallery
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Rolling Stones
ABBA
Pat Benatar
The Cars
Blondie
The Who
The Doors
Simon's Sanctorum on Saturday nights
Creature Double Feature
Gilligan's Island
The Monkees
Cracked Magazine
Playboy
Penthouse
Dukes Of Hazzard
Charlie's Angels
Wonder Woman
The Fugitive
Marvel Comics
Ghosts, supernatural and monster comics
Cryptids and paranormal subjects: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, the Mothman, UFO's, ghosts, the Bermuda Triangle, etc.
Voyage To the Bottom Of the Sea

Star Wars
Looney Tunes
"Batman" with Adam West
MAD Magazine
Marvel Comics
MTV 1981-1988
Circus and Metal Forces magazines

Dam! You started this thread 16 years ago! Holy Moly!  :buggedout:

- Fangoria
- Famous Monsters
- Horror movies
- Camping & Fishing
- Prank phone calls
- Dr. Pepper & cheetos
- Prince (musician)
- Video rental stores
- All night movie marathons
- Wayne's World
- MTV
- Beavis and Butt-Head
- Converse chucks / plaid shirts / grey army sweatpants / knit wool hats (I was a fashion trendsetter)

I joined under my current profile November 30, 2005, but I was in here under a different user name before that. That's a lot of good years hanging around with this crew.