
u/Doctor-Clark-Savage

Puttin’ on the Hits (1984-1988). Allan Fawcett was supposed to be the next Dick Clark.
He was being groomed as Clark’s successor as the Emcee of Emcees, but ended up in major trouble in 1988 when he and a friend of his forced a woman to perform sex acts on them both. Originally charged with 2nd degree rape, he pled to lesser charges of 3rd degree sexual assault and escaped jail time, but was finished as an emcee. Now he is a show manager in Las Vegas with his most popular show being the male revue “Thunder From Down Under” and makes occasional appearances on television recently being seen in “Succession”.
Howard the Duck (1986). Smog inspection…HA!
RIP Jeffrey Jones…career. Creepazoid.
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985). Christmas…TWO!
Has there been any stories on why Ric Flair's nameplate was misspelled during the debut of "Big Gold"?
Was the belt maker just not a viewer of the product? That sucker stood out like a sore thumb.
What was the story behind the CoC match between Luger and Sid?
I was expecting a hard fought battle and between Sid’s dominating power and Ole in his corner that the odds were in his favor. 20 seconds later, Luger pins him after a single clothesline.
There has to be a story behind it.
The infamous “NWO Horsemen” skit.
The heat that emanated from it backstage was not because of the skit, but because no one was informed the skit was going to happen much less the content. It led to a pull apart backstage and Arn almost quitting the company.
Nash apparently was the brainchild of the skit, which is both ironic and hypocritical because a few years later, he got angry and had beef with The Rock for the impromptu “ big daddy bitch“ insult in Rock’s promo.
What is a game or games no one will ever make you change your mind about loving?
Fester's Quest keeps getting drug by the gaming community due in no small part to AVGN. But I remember playing the game in the Fall of '89 and just being obsessed with it. Once you beat Mutilator Troy, who has one of the most difficult patterns in an NES game, it really opens up to being a kickass run and gun with a lot of open spaces to let your guns reach their full potential. Plus, the Sunsoft music is as always top notch.
So I'll let the haters hate. I can't change their mind and they can't change mine.
EDIT: I also think the commercial that came out to promote it did the game no favors. It said that if you died, you’d have to do everything all over again which:
Is a shitty way to promote your game and
Isn’t really true. When you die, you start at the beginning of the game, but keeps your progress, so it’s just a matter of getting powered up and returning to where you died. Like a proto-Souls game.
YOUR Top 5 80s movie girl crushes...
In no particular order.
RIP Kelly Preston and Shannen Doherty.
George Cheung. Whenever you need an Asian henchman in the 80s, you either called him or Al Leong.
“Unhappy Birthday” uses an effect I’ve learned is a harmonium.
I LOVE the melancholy effect it puts on the song. Are there any other songs this can be found in?
If you met celebs, can you name your three best and three worst interactions onboard? You don't have to tell the why unless you want to.
For me:
Best - LL Cool JJ, Keanu Reeves, Benicio Del Toro
Worst - Don Cheadle, Dave Navarro, Kareem Abdul Jabbar
This NEVER gets old.
The funniest thing about it is Tom is obviously mimicking the lead singer of Cameo, who were big in the EIGHTIES. 😂
What was the first game you bought, sight unseen, and what was your assessment?
For me: Final Fantasy IV (fka Final Fantasy II) on the SNES. Never read a thing on it. Saw it at Electronics Boutique one day and bought it on the spot.
Kept replaying it for years afterwards and I still play it on iOS. It and FF6 were the gold standard for JRPG gameplay during that era and somehow, Square/Squaresoft/SquareEnix lost the plot. But that's another story for another day.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
I first saw this one in middle school when it came on the Saturday Night Creature Feature on our local TV station and it was all the boys were talking about at school that Monday and everyone was singing the Silver Shamrock song. So I never had that “This is the worst Halloween ever because Michael isn’t in it” train of thought.
It’s a shame the studio killed the anthology concept because to a lot of people, Michael Myers was never the same or as enjoyable post Halloween II.
On Deadly Ground (1994). The monologue that almost saved the movie.
R. Lee Ermey could make chicken salad out of chicken s*it. RIP, you magnificent drill instructor.