at least, that's how I sing Ride of the Valkyries in my head

Any music notated in duhnuhs just sounds like Batman to me.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 10:35 AM on August 24, 2007

No Delicatessen. Travesty. Travesty!
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 9:09 PM on August 23, 2007

i was curious about this movie for years, because of a still in a book on science fiction movies that I've had since I was a kid. Finally saw it last year. Not a pleasant movie, but damn good. Netflix has it, if you'd prefer better quality.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 8:23 PM on August 22, 2007

Sweet merciful kee-rist, jonp72, that Marley/Banana Splits thing just solved a mystery that I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE HAD BEEN HAUNTING ME for TWENTY YEARS.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 5:26 PM on July 10, 2007

To steer slightly away from cold-war-kid nuclear angst (in which I have previously indulged,) the dvd from which that youtube version of The War Game was taken also includes Culloden, which is well worth watching.

Worst sentence structure ever. Not editing.

Also see Watkins' Punishment Park.

HyperBlue, davelog: we must not allow a mineshaft gap.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 1:51 PM on June 15, 2007

I just made a raygun for my dad's birthday inspired by these and Lockwasher's intergalactic self-defense mechanisms.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 1:48 PM on May 28, 2007

Thanks for this, I saw ads for this in Black Kiss and Mr. X when it was out, but never got it. Always kinda wanted to track it down.

Squidfartz, ever see "Dissecting Mister Fleming," from Wasteland? Yeah. That's some issues.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 12:57 PM on May 11, 2007

Artw wins. There are plenty of comic books that are unintentionally bad. Making fun of something that makes fun of those just makes it look like you "don't get it."
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 6:10 PM on March 10, 2007

Bugs Bunny: Eh, what's up, dogs?
Dog #1: What is it?
Dog #2: Hey, maybe it's a gy-raffe, the gy-raffe!
Spike: Nah, that ain't no gy-raffe. A gy-raffe's got a long neck like this
[Pulls on Bugs' neck]
Spike: Hey, fellows, it's a rabbit.
Dog #1: Oh, a rabbit.
Spike: Dog pile on the rabbit!
Dogs: [as they all jump on top of Bugs] Dog pile on the rabbit! Dog pile on the rabbit! Dog pile on the rabbit!...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 9:00 PM on March 3, 2007

hal9k beat me to my favorite quote, so I'll just say "Hey ottist! Paint dis!"
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 8:47 AM on February 4, 2007

In 1983 and 1984, every time I heard a siren, there was at least a split second where I thought that was it, the birds are in the air, those bastards, they've finally went and done it (*shakes fists in impotent rage*.) Living near Three Mile Island didn't help either.

I've only been able to watch Threads once, but it's one of the few vhs tapes I've held onto. Someday I'll get up the guts to watch it again.

Here's Peter Watkins' The War Game on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 8:22 PM on December 21, 2006

Senor Cardgage: Yeah, I had the dreams, too. Still remember a couple of them vividly.

Oh yeah! Man, your flipping channels thing sounds really familiar too... I don't think it was a ritual for me, but I remember thinking that if none of the channels had any Emergency Broadcast System or special reports or anything, that it must be okay. Wow.

The truly sick thing is, when they started using EBS for Amber Alerts, the first time I saw one I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 8:53 PM on December 21, 2006

Thanks, codswallop. That sounds like just what I was hoping it would be. I'll have to do some poking around on this here internet... and thanks schoolgirl report for a great movie and everyone for a fun thread of nostalgia for...well, for the terrible psychological damage that we all seem to have suffered.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 10:25 PM on December 21, 2006

Cardgage: I have Miracle Mile out from Netflix right now. I think I'm going to wait til after Christmas to go on a nuke-movie bender (I've also got This is Not a Test, Le Dernier Combat, and The Atomic Cafe on the watch pile. And probably others I'm forgetting. I read this book a while ago and filled up my queue, but just haven't been in the mood to watch many of them.)

The only nightmares that I remember clearly were of seeing the mushroom clouds in the distance,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 6:32 AM on December 22, 2006

What Cardgage said. Thanks everybody.

jokeefe: was that in Generation X? It's been a long time since I read that, but that rings a bell.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 12:02 PM on December 22, 2006

Orthogonality: I've found some of both on youtube - not great quality, but they're there.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 5:18 PM on September 18, 2006

What's edgy about the "colonial boy" costume? Other than that it comes with a jabot, which I didn't know what it was until I looked it up (it's the cravat-y/ascot-esque thingy.)
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 8:22 PM on September 10, 2006

(I only ask because I'm afraid I'm horribly naive/dense and missing something obvious.)

On preview: fair enough. He is a little... squinty. 'Course when I was a kid, sometimes the whole costume was a toy gun and green clothes (and realistic toy guns, not these brightly colored things. And we trick-or-treated uphill both ways)

Now the baby whoopee cushion, THAT seems dangerous.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 9:04 PM on September 10, 2006

The Viridian Manifesto.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 1:53 PM on August 21, 2006

Thanks - in odd coincidence, I just saw the video for the Replacements' "Alex Chilton" a few minutes ago.
posted to MetaFilter by jessenoonan at 8:25 PM on September 4, 2005