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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Tmnt2: secret of the ooze. Had it memorized.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Actually only saw this a couple times, but the first time I saw it was in the theater, sitting in the front row like a dumbass.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I almost definitely saw it in theaters but all I remember about it is watching it on vhs, all day erryday.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Thankful was used to pirate HBO in my house, somehow the old analogue signal came in without us having to pay. ofc the cable company had no clue so it owned. Saw so many movies as a kid and shit I shouldn't have seen like Real Sex and Taxi Cab Confessions anti-italian-action

[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

My dad had a descrambler box in the early 80s. Skin-a-max wouldn't come along until much later with their one of a kind late night programming, but holy shit did I watch a lot of HBO in 1981. For a while, I think HBO had Star Wars on a constant loop. That and Chariots of Fire, which theme is burned into my memories like a cattle brand.

[-] babushkot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Puff the Magic Dragon on VHS when I was really little

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Spent my early years with a phobia of the landstriders from The Dark Crystal and zero clue about what the plot was.

[-] PandaBearGreen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I couldn't watch the scene where they drain the little elf guy for his life force. Or the scene where lady takes her eye out and looks at them in a cage.

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dino-Riders taught me that evil people were ugly mutants while good people were beautiful hippies, and it was okay to weaponize animals as long as you asked nicely for permission beforehand.

Also, I still do the Rikki Tikki Tavi swooshing noise in my head when sneaking around the house getting a midnight snack.

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Fern Gully comes to mind for me.

Also my little sister watched Legally Blonde almost every day after school.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

This ignores a very important factor in decades that are defined by new technology: money

Doesn't matter what the latest gizmo is, if you grew up in a household that was strapped for cash, your childhood will have more in common with the previous generation than with your peers.

[-] TyMan210@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

This was definitely my experience. I was born in '95, but we were still buying VHS tapes (from Goodwill) well into the late aughts. I still had a small collection of them up until I moved out, but I didn't bring them with me

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Max

Fucking

Headroom

[-] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember having an elaborate network of people who'd mail VHS tapes to me as a kid. It's what you did before simply downloading a video file was feasible piracy. I'd go on a BBS and knew a guy who knew a guy who was copying anime off Japanese broadcasts. Anyone remember those ugly yellow subtitles? They were ubiquitous.

I remember being a lot more passionate back then about it. Like I was literally 12 years old helping coordinate this international piracy ring. After limewire became a thing my contacts fizzled away. I wonder what happened to them.

Oh, and also my parents were very confused by my hobby. My mother one time saw an anime in the $2 bargain bin at Dollar General. I don't know how or why they had it, but the one she grabbed was Bible Black, which is a hentai about girls being possessed by demons and growing dicks. She innocently gave it to me thinking it was just any other anime. Was funny.

[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember having a VHS with like, a cartoon on it, from what I remember it was in an anime style? maybe. and it was about a talking car, and all I really remember about it is that at one point he's rushing a pregnant woman to the hospital and going really fast. I have never been able to identify this cartoon from my past and it haunts my very being.

also Bananas in Pajamas. That shit was dope.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Was this Bumpety Boo? Saban put it on VHS in the early 90s. Are you the only person other than me who's seen it

[-] Flinch@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

HOLY FUCK THATS IT, you're incredible oh my fucking god, I remember that doofy yellow car like I'm 4 again omfg

[-] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Oh awesome! I'm glad I helped you remember!

[-] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Red Letter Media exists to help Zoomers relive this era

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Not enough is done to thank them for their service

Even though Hollywood celebrity Rich Evans is kind enough to grace their miserable lives with his presence

[-] Othello@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

ive never met anyone else who watched the original he man cartoon.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The "Masters of the Universe" live action movie suuuuuuuuuuucks

[-] Othello@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

its bad enough to make the cartoons seem good.

[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Othello@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

at last! it was a bad show bad man i loved it.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Watching it as an adult it's amazing to see how little effort they put into it.

[-] Othello@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

it was a toy ad and i loved it. The only reason even i watched it is because it was my dads favorite cartoon when he was a kid so he got it for me. I loved skelator nehehehehehehe!

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I played with my He-man shit constantly, and watched the cartoon. As an adult, it's apparent that the cartoon was extremely low effort.

[-] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks to trump we now call cult classics “tax write offs no one will see”

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Did that start under trump-moist ? I lost track in the spreading circus fire.

[-] motherofmonsters@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

My understanding is that it was part of a tax bill that allows a company to write off depreciation immediately by reducing the usable life of a product instead of taking a percentage of a loss over multiple years.

When I looked into it, there are a lot of “well ackshually” articles about how destroying Batgirl was not tax advantageous

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not a lot of people know what I'm talking about when I bring up BeetleBorgs. They'll all know Power Rangers, but the BeetleBorgs are King.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago
[-] charlie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

BEETLEBORGS METALLIX!

I was about 28 when I realized that Jay Leno was not, in fact, in BeetleBorgs.

[-] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I somehow always forget about his character even though he's like the main plot device initiating the whole thing.

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

BeetleBorgs is the same tier as VR Troopers in the Power Rangers pyramid.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm still mad at that show for exactly one episode. The actress who played the Red Beetleborg gets replaced in episode 39. I'm not mad at her getting replaced, just the contrivance of the plot. She gets hit by some kind of space beam that makes her look slightly different (because it's a different actress now). And the episode's plot is about trying to make her look normal again. But all they manage to do is make her look normal to most people, but the audience and main characters will still see her altered appearance.

Just replace the character, holy shit. Make a new red beetleborg how hard is it

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I had Secret Adventures where a babysitters imagination takes her charges into some cartoon adventure once an episode, it was nominally Christian but I think they only added that at the last second so they could dump it direct to vhs after no one bought the series lol. You can watch it all on youtube, but what kid is gonna do that when they can watch a tiktok of someone breaking milk jugs in public with half the screen covered by scooping rainbow colored sand.

[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Sadly they won't be able to watch "Aliens for Breakfast", a made for tv movie we watched over and over featuring Sinbad

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