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Last Link of the Day: Master of Bubbles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFVueOonSLo Allow magician Denis Lock to dazzle you with his bubble skills. Not only is he impressive and charismatic, but he entertains in the most nonchalant, relaxed way. Brilliant stuff.
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Get on the Simpsonwave Bandwagon
Get ready for me to show my age: I had no idea what vaporwave music was until I discovered Simpsonwave. For those of you like me, who aren’t hip or in the know, vaporwave is a subgenre of EDM which … Continue reading
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures
Here’s your random bit of movie trivia for the day: in the early 90’s, Fox thought it might be a good idea to try and translate time-traveling surfer rock gods Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan into a … Continue reading
Before They Were Stars (2-for-1 Special): Adam Sandler and Jeremy Piven on “Dog Police”
In 1990, there seemed to be a very bizarre and inexplicable trend involving the production of failed pilots for television shows featuring dogs as police officers. That year, we got Poochinski (which I wrote about on Cracked.com years ago), an … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Brittany Murphy in a Beverly Hills 90210 Dolls Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaKsBIl0u_I For those of you who don’t remember the early nineties, you might not know just how insanely popular Beverly Hills 90210 was for a time period. This commercial will probably drive that point home, as it advertises an entire … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Zac Efron on “Room Raiders”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOTVhDmjOQ Room Raiders was an MTV dating reality series in which three contestants would sit inside a van while their potential date inspected each of their bedrooms and decided which contestant they wanted to go out with based on the … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Dabney Coleman in a Rambler Commercial
If you want the surreal sight of a young Dabney Coleman without his trademark moustache, here he is in a 1962 commercial alongside actress Jean Hale, who was his real-life wife at the time. They are both advertising Rambler, an … Continue reading
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Honest X-Men: The Animated Series
Boy, the 90’s really were a bastion of amazing superhero animated series, weren’t they? With X-Men: Apocalypse receiving tepid reviews as it hits theatres this weekend, it’s time to look back with Honest Trailers upon one of the best comic … Continue reading
Last Link of the Day: Awkward…
Just a second! Hold that elevator! I bet this actor is sick of it already.
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The Reviewinator: Banshee (Season 4) (2016)
From the creator of True Blood, Alan Ball, comes this non-supernatural crime thriller, Banshee. With only four seasons, it’s significantly shorter than most TV shows strive to be. In an age where shows try to drag out forgettable storylines, not to mention … Continue reading
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