Who emulated this when they were kids. Heck, who does it now?
If only we still had MR T cereal– although Reese’s Puff cereal is the closest taste you can get..
NOSTALGIA..
Tag: nostalgia
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Nothing says Saturday morning like Pee Wee’s breakfast..
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From the eyes of the past: New York City on new years 2000
Admittedly, I must tell you this, this video was from TikTok. It Hit me so emotionally that I saved it and now broadcasting it for you to see.
What you’re about to see are clips and images from New Year’s 2000. The dawning of a new century.
Think about this, this was before pandemics, this was before 9/11. This is before endless wars for the past 20 years, destroying our societal fabrics and buildings across the planet. This was a different time. Hopefulness reigned supreme. We were on the cusp of destiny.
Such hopeful eyes. What do those eyes look like now? Are those smiles still there, or have they been ravaged by the wreckage that time leaves behind?
Just for a moment as we contemplate 2023, and move on to 2024, think back and find yourself there.
The year 2000. If you are old enough to remember where you were, just consider how you feel now versus then. Was it really better or does nostalgia blind us, and if it was better, can we bring those days back again?
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An image to remind you that the GATE was one of the greatest movies of the 80s
It was iconic. Weird.. graphics were shoddy and the acting was worse. But this movie is just elemental for kids and the time it came from.
Here is a series of screen shots showcasing the GATE in all its glory.
If you get the chance to find the film streaming in the platform in is housed on when you read this, enjoy ..
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The OFFICE Halloween cut scene lives on in infamy
BIG fans of the OFFICE here at the HORROR REPORT.
After seeing a ‘best of Halloween’ Youtube OFFICE themed video, one particular scene was foreign. That is because it was rarely seen–cut by NBC and not on Netflix when it appeared there or Peacock now in its current home.
The scene was originally featured in the episode, “Koi Pond,” the eighth installment of season 6. You will not find it now.
“Koi Pond” was one of the most memorable episodes from The Office season 6. Jim had a meeting with an important client but it was requested that Michael come along. When the duo returned, Michael was soaking wet and it was revealed that he fell into a koi pond. After a lesson about mocking fellow employees, the office learned that Jim could have stopped Michael from falling into the pond but he purposely stepped aside to let it happen.
The episode is famous in OFFICE lore for the plot. But also famous for what vanished.
The episode aired on October 29, 2009, and opened by showing the employees of Dunder Mifflin Scranton putting together a haunted warehouse for the local kids. Darryl , who Michael referred to as “gangster pumpkin”, pushed the kids around as the rest of the employees put on less than inspired horror scenes.
The cold open-ended with Michael simulating a suicide, horrifying the children while turning it into a life lesson and referencing that Christmas is not the only season with a message and that suicide is not the answer..
It appears NBC had a backlash to the episode. Some thought it was too offensive and inappropriate causing NBC to remove the scene. Michael was dressed as Saturday Night Live‘s character, D*ck in a Box during his hanging.
You an see it here, still, in all its cut and edited glory:
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DID YOU CALL THE MICHAEL MYERS HORROR HOTLINE IN THE 80S?
We were busy recollecting some nostalgia by watching this glorious VHS copy of when Halloween 4 appeared on television .. commercials galore. Edited for your TV viewing pleasure.. But when we get to the mark, we noticed something interesting. An advertisement for Halloween 5–and a 900 number.
Now 900 numbers were quite a thing when I still in single digits. If you were alive then you may recall the 900 Freddy Krueger numbers. The sex lines. The psychics.. It was a different time and era. But this number, 1-900-860-0700, produced an interesting response:
Dialing 1-900-860-0700 prompted you to guide a potential victim of Michael Myers to safety.. Michael most likely always won. The hotline itself aired directly after the end of television promos for the film. The hotline itself aired directly after the end of television promos for the film. The voice on the other end would give you a variety of places that could be found in said film, like the Tower Farm or the Children’s Clinic, to send Michael’s prey for safety.
Undoubtedly people who were alive at the time recall being in big trouble from their parents by racking up huge 900 phone bills. It was easy to do, you paid by the minute.
Too bad no one recorded the actual audio from the call–we have tried our best but cannot find anything proving someone did.
If you call it now, it is disconnected.. Which is good since in today’s dollars the call would be 5 bucks a minute..
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Halloween 4 and all its feelings
It seem that Halloween 4 makes the socials on an annual basis.. Why?
The 1988 sequel suffered horrendous criticism in the year was released. Through the 1990s, people who were fans of the original almost were offended by the Return of Michael Myers. It was just about as bad as the feels of Halloween 3. So why are people celebrating it annually?
For horror fans, this meme may make the most sense. Michael Myers was back. But he was really different:
So why does the movie trend this time of year?
It is not because of its acting or script, but instead the imagery. And not just the nostalgia for those who felt it. But even more, the silent and quiet nostalgia for those who never experienced it and never will.
Halloween 4 is set as though 3 never happened, ten years after a hospital exploded in Haddenfield and Mikey and Dr. Loomis survived the blaze. Myers grabs a new mask off a discount drug store rack and the rest is history. Of course multiple further sequels goofs up the timeline as much as a Marvel Spider-Man movie. Seriously.. it can be confusing for the non horror fans.
But this film sparks some other melancholy of the infinite sadness.
It began without the famous pumpkin and piano theme.. but instead a series of autumnal images .. what it is about the imagery which makes the film this special?
The fall feeling? That is what social media streams seem to suggest. All of those images sure present that aura..
The other thing presented is not just pictures of the loneliest parts of fall, but also a somber haunting musical background to the scenery.
This is something those who lived in 1988 can feel. I can almost taste and smell the pictures. I had moments with friends and family in the heyday of the decade that look the same in the memories. Out late at night before a curfew when the rural landscape was dancing with a fiery sunset.
I recall vividly a moment when friends of mine and cousins were out too late, well beyond the time when we should have been home earlier. We were lost somewhere deep in farm lands. At sunset, we thought we saw someone with an axe. Or a machine. Or farm equipment. Heck we were 7 and 8 years-old and had no clue what we were seeing. So we ran home.. When we got back to my cousin’s house, we were in a bit of trouble (but it was the 80s, parents were okay with this stuff) and –seriously–Halloween was playing on TV. The theme song greeted us walking through the front door.
For people reading this, the 80s and 90s really were different. No doubt.. not saying better.
But sure as hell not saying worse.
Those who were born soon or well after the appearance of Halloween 4’s intro in ’88 be viscerally in tune to the opening scene. Perhaps, maybe, these feelings in innate. The deep and profound feeling is within us.. the nostalgia is passed down. The feeling of sunsets arriving earlier perhaps are somehow so humanly frightening that the nostalgia of that moment never goes away. No matter the generational or technological advance. We feel the feeling.
We are all immersed in the advance of autumn. The festival of Samhaim. The solemn rituals of the early fall and the eventual darkness that takes hold.. deep in our souls.
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The last time you hang out with friends
We see this meme constantly posted everywhere, you do too.. every now and then you’re in that kind of mood where it hits harder.. Maybe it is rainy days. Maybe Tropical Storm Ophelia turning into a ‘depression’ had to 48 hours of rain and 48 hours of deep thoughts..
But think of it.. this exact moment happens to every single one of us. As we age it becomes clearer and clearer. And if you are lucky, you remember the exact moment.
If you are luckier, you are still in the moment and have yet to experience it.
Make it last as long as you can.
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Released in 1989, Friday the 13th for the Nintendo Entertainment System cast you as a camp counselors who had to somehow destroy an oddly blue-and-purple Jason Voorhees..
It was a game-changer for me as a kid (pun intended)..
I finally figured out lighting all of the fire places mattered, and finding the pitch fork in the third level was the key to destroying Jason. But … it took years of frustration to get there.
This game is often lampooned.. but seriously, it remains in my heart one of the best. I ever fire up the old Nintendo I have now and then just to play when the craving hits hard.
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Sunday night nostalgia
Everything about this video is amazing, nostalgic, and ASMR.. McDonalds in 1984!
Smoking!
Low prices!
Everyone seemingly well-mannered and happy..?Those times were one of a kind.
Video of customer’s eating and smoking at a McDonalds location in Florida. Footage of customer’s ordering food and employee’s preparing orders. This video last around 10 minutes.
It is nostalgia overload. You may have to take several breaks..
Enjoy.
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Fright Night. Nostalgia Night.
A friend of mine reminded me tonight about this great movie from the 1980s.. he said he was catching a viewing of it this Friday night. FRIGHT NIGHT was a special kind of horror–and his message reminded me of the spectacular VHS cover that always caught my eye in my local video store back in the day..
Were these times simpler as we all think they were? Or were we just blinded..
Those who read this post and say “the old man is talking about VHS movies again” just will not comprehend the time.. the idea of not scrolling through on a screen but checking to see if the little yellow card was still rubber banded to the back of the movie in the store…
Sure, modern times are great. Easy.. Any movie you want at your fingertips.
But that quest.. that hunt.. that time when a movie was not there.. when you had to wait until it was returned.. they were kind of.. simpler?
