Posts Tagged nostalgia
Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys Precocious Mystery Solvers, Meddlers
Posted by mistergroonk in Holiday, Television, Video on October 1, 2009
October 1st is here and what was once Ghost My Senses* becomes simply The Halloween Edition. All this month we’ll feature a post per day, every day. Each bit shall explore the monstrous, frightening, nostalgic, violent, Halloween-y or just plain creepifying corners of Internet life. At least they will be when we’re done with them.
Let’s begin, yes?:
The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries TV Show Opening Theme
As a young groonk, we partook of mystery novels. Encyclopedia Brown was the favorite. EB was also the only series available in the public elementary school library the law forced us to attend. This did not detract from Brown’s awesome in our young eyes.
Then came afternoon mystery TV. The Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mysteries were one step above your basic Saturday morning Scooby Doo adventures. Three guesses whose ass was plopped on the living room floor in the middle of the day.
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Today’s Visual Feast: Re-advertising the Old
Posted by mistergroonk in Marketing, Movies, One Sheets on July 21, 2008
Big Trouble in Little China did awesome things to the action/fantasy/kung fu/silly centers of my then 13 year old brain. I regret that I have not seen its like since.
This is part of a series of posters released somewhere in Austin when they’re doing stuff. More exact info on what I’m not saying can be found here.
(via 2000 watts, the popcorn cult)
An 80s Zombie Recalls: Picard vs Chunk?
Posted by mistergroonk in Avatars on February 28, 2006
An 80s Zombie Recalls: Voice of El Dorado!
Posted by mistergroonk in Interviews on February 28, 2006
Back in the day, cartoons were concentrated on only one day of the week. Saturday mornings. The one day you’d find me and hundreds of thousands of other kids waking at 8AM or earlier to see their favorite toons. Lately, the past has caught up with me.
The curious site Legions of Gotham has an interview with SuperFriends voice actor Fernando Escandon.
One of 80s producers’ plays to cash in on America’s growing diversity by adding ethnic superheroes like Black Vulcan or Apache Chief and such to their line up without much thought to character development or plot.
Truthfully. At that time, it worked on me.
Better than Gold Coins
Posted by mistergroonk in Avatars on September 13, 2005

proper upped
(via medicmike)





