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Canonball run 2 It was the shit back in the day

My go to was The Sandlot, but whose wasn't? Sprinkle in some Surf Ninjas, with a dash of Twister, and that was me for a good many years.

And commercials. My wife and I were just talking the other day about shared commercials we saw growing up that kids today will never experience. “Ancient Chinese secret”, “Don’t squeeze the charmin”, the crying Native American, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”, “Where’s the beef?”, “My bologna has a first name”, “I’m stuck on Band-aid”, “Calgon take me away”, “Mikey likes it”, “Sometimes you feel like a nut”, Joe Isuzu, “Avoid the noid”, “York peppermint patty gives me the feeling…”, Stompers, Micro-machines, “Who wears short shorts?”, “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter” … and these are just the ones I remember. They have none of those shared experiences.

I mean just making this list gave me such a wave of nostalgia.

We had a tape that had Asterix in Britain followed by the Only Fools And Horses feature-length episode where they go to Florida and Del-Boy gets mistaken for a mob boss.

To this day, I can probably quote both from beginning to end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzz-dI95oA

My uncle had a vhs player many years before we did. He had 2 movies.
Smokey and the bandit probably more then 100 times in total. The sting probaly around 40-50 times.

Star Wars Episode I recorded off its debut on German TV by my grandpa for my older brother. Watched that so often, I had it partially memorised. That and Disney's Hercules and The Sword in the Stone. And apparently I was really keen on watching TV ads when I was little :D

Monkey Trouble is my wife's jam. We have it on Laserdisc even because I like collecting junk :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110557/

Tremors FTW!!

LA Story! I still love that movie. Our movies were whatever the people that lived in the house before you left when they moved back to wherever they were from (expat life in the Middle East). Also my grandma taped all the Fairy Tale Theatre episodes for me. The three little pigs was the best! Billy Crystal as the runt and Jeff Goldblum as the big bad wolf, so so good.

It's funny because it's true. Little children should not be in front of screens. Period.

Mom and Dad Save the World!

"Pick me up...? Okay!"

The cabin we vacationed at a few times had exactly two VHS tapes, as I recall:

Green Eggs & Ham (Side 1) / Star-Bellied Sneeches (Side 2)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Also we watched fuzzy news coverage of the Olympic bombing in Atlanta and it briefly seemed like it was the end of the world for like 2-3 hours. Probably because I was a kid + fuzzy TV in a cabin in the mountains + dramatic parents, etc.

Edit: I realized I said Side 1/Side 2 like it was a record. Anyway, it was just a 2-part Dr. Seuss VHS, not a rare dual-layer VHS.

The Court Jester (1955)

My grandparents had it on vhs, recorded from a tv broadcast. We watched (and quoted) it obsessively every time we went to visit them.

The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Like, the shitty one with Grounder and whatever the chicken robot's name was... Had like the whole collection of those when what I wanted was the more anime like series where Sally Acorn came from. 😔

They still have that today, though. It's just on streaming alongside the big films.

I don't doubt a portion of the Disney remakes would have ended up being direct-to-VCD sequels you'd only find in a video rental store.