It's funny because it's true. Little children should not be in front of screens. Period.
If you sit too close to the tv you could go blind!
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.
Mom and Dad Save the World!
"Pick me up...? Okay!"
Diabolical isn't it?
That's another one for the "what's a critically panned movie you'll defend" thread.
Canonball run 2 It was the shit back in the day
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.
The Tenth Kingdom cult reporting in
Junior year of college, there were a few months where the only tapes in our house were Yellow Submarine, Slackers, and something I can't remember
Having a random movie come up on YTV or Teletoon or some other channel only to never be seen again was a painfully common occurrence as a kid.
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.
I think it can still happen, we had movies saved on my little brother's computer and he was quoting the political scenes of the Star wars prequels.
Nobody likes politic because It's coarse and rough and irritating.... and it gets everywhere
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.
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. 😔
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