Starr Mazer **VIDEO OF THE WEEK** In terms of fake video game trailers, Jeremie Perin’s Starr Mazer takes the ball and slam dunks it like a pre-Space Jam Michael Jordan, tongue wagging action and all. Perin, who also directed the Trucker’s Delight animated music video for the Flairs, nails the both the 16-bit aesthetic and […]
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Microwave vs. Cell Phone I have to give it up to corporate America for out creeping any horror film I saw in 2013 with this “Microwave vs. Cell Phone” commercial from way back in 2008. Part of a social media campaign for Net10 Wireless, the 56-second video shows a cell being put into a microwave […]
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Blockbuster Training Video – Part 1 If this doesn’t take you back to the 90s nothing will. Not only is this training video full of nostalgia because of the poor acting, leopard print shirts and MTV-style “color static” backdrops, but because it’s freaking Blockbuster! Man I miss those clamshell VHS cases. Anyway, as bad as […]
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Welcome back, maniacs! Gather ‘round the candle, because we are playing a little game of Truth or Dare here at the clubhouse! That’s right! The sleepover rages on, and we’re not going to bed until ‘til sun-up! If any of us survive that long. We’ve already lost a couple of us…but hey, these things happen. […]
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Greetings, boils an’ ghouls! This time on GROSS OUT!, we’re in for a special night. I hope you have your He-Man sleeping bag rolled up in that backpack… we’re having a SLEEPOVER! What, you didn’t know? Well hurry up, there’s still time! Gather up your Madballs lunchbox & thermos, grab a six-pack of Squeezits (save […]
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As part of it’s 30th Anniversary this year, Mattel held a Masters of the Universe® Create a Character Contest with the promise that the winner’s concept would become an actual figure in their Matty Collector MOTU line. That winner was none other than Daniel Benedict and his concept was Castle Grayskullman, a mash-up of He-Man […]
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Of all the candy companies, Snickers seems to have cornered the market in the past few years during October with a series of awesome (and twisted) ad spots starting with the creepy-as-hell “old grocery lady” spot from back in 2010. This year, they continue the trend with the “Horseless Headsman,” a funny spin on the […]
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Yesterday, our friends over at Cartoon Lagoon rang in October with a post featuring several animated homages to General Mills’ Monster Cereal brand. Among the animations they featured was a never-before-seen (and unfortunately incomplete) segment from 2009 set to the “Monsters Go Disco” soundtrack, originally released on “flexi-disc” in 1979. The segment is short – […]
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Remember the glory days of toydom? I’m talking, of course, about the 80’s and 90’s, two decades where it was considered ok to market toys and cartoon series based off of violent, hard R-rated movies to kids. You know, films like Rambo, Toxic Crusaders, Robocop, Aliens, Predator and Terminator, all of which received their respective […]