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Showing posts with label Danno's VHS. Show all posts
VHS HELL: Deception of a Generation
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Over twenty years ago The Eagle's Nest released this tape warning us of,"another attack on our society." Our host Gary asks us, "If I say something like wicked witches and demon clouds and spell books and even the zone of eternal evil, what comes to mind?" Then Gary cuts to a clip from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. Oh yeah, Scrappy-Doo is a tool of Satan.
Gary is joined by his pal Phil who tell us that, "80% of all cartoons deal directly with the occult, and 40% of the toys on the market have occultic influences." And Phil has brought along all his action figures and playsets and even some frosted sugar bomb breakfast cereal. Which, as everyone knows, is the best way to watch cartoons. Here's Gary playing with the Masters of the Universe Snake Mountain playset:
Is it just me or does Gary remind you of a certain 70s porn star?
Gary and Phil show us toys and clips from Thundercats, Transformers, G.I.Joe, Voltron, She-Ra and The Care Bears and tell us that they are filled with occult references and images. Is there some sinister conspiracy at work here? Just the conspiracy of Joseph Campbell. Pretty much everything they call "occultic" is the same mythic archetype/monomyth stuff popularized by George Lucas and anybody else with a dogeared copy of Hero of a Thousand Faces. But don't tell that to Gary and Phil, then they'd have to find another excuse to play with their action figures. Follow your bliss, kids!
Link to the download:
Deception of a Generation
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VHS Hell: How Can I Tell If I'm Really In Love?
Do you really think that Ted Danson can help you with matters of LOVE? The world may never know, because this tape isn't about love. It's about S-E-X. Unfortunately it's sex ed as told by Ted Danson and Justine and Jason Bateman. And some of the lamest educators in the California school system. Which may be the whole point of this whole 1986 production. Watching this will sap your libido and make you wonder what else Paramont wrote off on their taxes that year.
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VHS hell: Top Rock
The year was 1986, and music videos where the thing. Sensing a bandwagon waiting to be jumped on somebody over at Hanna-Barbera decided to license a few top 40 hits and drag some cartoon footage outta the morgue and give the kids what they wanted. Which was apparently a half hour of really poorly edited and painfully unimaginative crap. In fact this tape is so bad you can't even really enjoy it for it's inept badness. It's that unrelentingly bad. This is a, "Great Party Tape" only if you needed something to drive away party guests who've overstayed their welcome.
I don't remember exactly, but I think this is the tape that Dave played selections from at Japanese Animation Hell at AWA a few years back. I'm not certain because I think my mind has tried desperately to forget as a coping mechanism.
Download and see:
HBtv Top Rock
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Stuck on Tape: Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos
Somebody needs to get CHUCK NORRIS KARATE KOMMANDOS on DVD. While it may have been made to sell toys, it's not without it's charms. No less then Alfredo Alcala, Gil Kane, Doug Wildey and Jack Kirby had a hand in making these cartoons. And if WALKER TEXAS RANGER can run for eight years there's gotta be a market for this. I mean, come on. There are only five episodes, how hard could it be to fit that on one DVD?
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