As boring as the Pokemon cartoon is for grown folks, can you imagine how much worse it would have been if the battles that took place were like these fight cards by Dorkly?
Seems like some races of Pokemon were just asking for extinction! And what exactly is the Vanillish's Pokemon power-deliciousness, or perhaps going straight to an opponent's thighs?
This retro styled Mass Effect cartoon short was created by animator extraordinaire Harry Partridge, who demonstrates how ME would have looked on a Saturday morning in the 1980s, complete with main characters that like to rock out. It's funtastic, even on a Tuesday!
The similarities between Brian DePalma's misanthropic main character in rock opera Phantom of the Paradise and Darth Vader of Star Wars (and heavy breathing) fame are undeniable, and one of the most overlooked influences in the history of geekdom.
Here's a blurb which describes the Phantom and illustrates the similarities between the two characters:
He’s a character of superhuman power and strength, clad in black leather and a flowing cloak, with a stylized helmet to cover hideous scars on his face. The damage to his vocal cords means he breathes with an eerie rasp, and has a box with lights and switches on his chest to help modulate his voice. He retreats to an egg-shaped chamber where he can meditate and find peace. He’s not wholly evil, but has been enslaved by someone who is: a cruel master who exploits his unique powers in order to further his own, evil ends.
DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise came out in 1974, he conceived of the story well before it was released, and Lucas and DePalma are close friends.
So, is Darth Vader a Phantom ripoff? Lucas ran with a different idea, and created a more fully realized character so I wouldn't say it's a total ripoff. But did the Phantom influence Lucas' "vision", and help bring Darth to the big screen? No question.
Easter is just a hop, skip and diabetic coma away, which means it's time to inhale as many Cadbury Eggs as you can before it's too late!
These 13 recipes call for those most delicious of all candy eggs as their main recipe, so they should help you consume Cadbury Eggs in massive quantities just in the nick of time. My teeth are aching already!
Sloths are in for it this time, and by it I mean trouble. By next year they will be subjugated and bathed for the amusement of the masses, their cuteness extracted like visual Prozac.
You shouldn't have been so darn adorable, little sloths, your relentless need to be cute has brought you under the radar of those who feed on cuteness like vampires.
If you want to survive you'd better get a pair of Groucho glasses and a baseball cap on right away. Better yet, hang on the back of a stinky critter, like a warthog, or a big brute that can offer you protection, like a hippo, and you might be okay.
Don't say I didn't warn you, I can sense marketable cuteness a mile away and you guys have that "it" factor. Better watch your backs, little guys, because the bathers are coming.
His name is Taxi Dave, he drives the Party Cab between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m., and he's a one man mobile paaar-tay in Sacramento, CA!
Watch him strut and sway his way across the parking lot, performing the Taxi Dave Dance in order to attract new customers. Party Cab is in the house tonight indeed!
These fun pixel art prints are by Joe Spiotto, and they put a fresh spin on classic Hitchcock films by making them over in a NES cover art style.
Personally, I think all of these movies would have made great NES games. Imagine running around a creepy old house and motel dodging Norman Bates and his mother, fighting your way through waves and waves of attacking birds, or trying to survive being mistaken for a secret agent, all while maintaining your composure for the sake of society. Sounds like a swingin' good time to me!
For now, we'll just have to settle for Joe's vision of imaginary NES style cover art for these movies, imagining how great those games would have been.
British rapper Dan Bull lays a rather eloquent smack down on the shady video game sub-industry known as DLC (downloadable content). Then guest star Francis (of YouTube fame) shows up and emphasizes how much they both hate DLC with some carefully chosen expletives. Well played, gentlemen, well played.
There were a lot of quirky sci-fi themed TV shows that came out in the 80s, and many of them were really fun to watch!
From the custom built little robot girl in Small Wonder, to the action packed time traveling adventures in Voyagers, to the apocalyptic armored tales of Captain Power and the Soldiers of The Future, these fun shows are just a fraction of the retro gems that made it on to the list of "forgotten 80s live-action children's sci-fi series" over at Topless Robot.
So, whether you want to relive the 80s via sci-fi show intros, you're a retro enthusiast looking to expand your mind, or you're just bored and have about ten minutes to spare, check out the list and see if any of these shows are worthy of adding to your Netflix queue.
It seems a bit odd that a sculpture of Darth Vader's helmet would reside atop the Washington National Cathedral, but quirky little juxtapositions like this one make the world a fun and colorful place.
Here's how Darth found his way on to the Cathedral:
In the 1980s the Cathedral, with National Geographic World magazine, sponsored a competition for children to design decorative sculpture for the Cathedral. The third-place winner was Christopher Rader of Kearney, Nebraska who submitted a drawing of this futuristic representation of evil. Darth Vader was placed on the northwest tower with the other winning designs: a raccoon, a girl with pigtails and braces and a man with large teeth and an umbrella.
I wonder how many pigeons stone Darth has killed with his psychic choke hold?
Dungeons and Dragons has never seemed so mundane! When all of the player characters are cast as office drones things get a little too real, like real life and reality real. Roll a d20 to avoid having an existential crisis of your own while watching this video.
Advertised with the catchy slogan "now with more cats!", this hilarious mashup of movie clips and popular internet cat videos sure put a chuckle in my buckle! Is that a saying? No? Well, it should be. Enjoy your classic movies, and the cats that make them all look ridiculous.
Apparently Andy Warhol was quite handy with the Amiga computer, here he is using an early paint program (anyone know which program?) to colorize a digital portrait of Deborah Harry, lead singer of Blondie.
And while this task seems simple by today's standards, this video is from 1986, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and gas was a buck and a quarter a gallon!
The Royal Theatre in Toronto is hosting the Canadian Film Festival this year, so they're breaking out the big guns-buckets full of maple syrup popcorn goodness!
It's described as "a perfect mix of sweet and salty", and sounds like a fun syrup to pour all over many kinds of food products-maple bars, maple pancakes, even maple candy would be be so much better drenched in maple syrup!
So, is popcorn going to be good when subjected to a maple syrup shower? Does a Mountie crap in the woods?
Bruce Springsteen took time out during a recent show in Philadelphia to take a seat with the fans and chug an ice cold beer. And that's why he's still The Boss, even after over 35 years performing he still puts the R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A, oh wait, that's a Mellencamp song, my bad.
