This is definitely one of those newspaper articles I remember distinctively growing up. My hometown of Hampton, Virginia went bananas when our Wal-Mart expanded into a Super Center and began offering fried chicken in the deli. I originally thought it was because it tasted good and that’s why people were flocking. Nope, just cheap food. Personally, it’s too salty for me.
(so apparently, Baby Tumblr deleted this? It’s been gone for a while apparently. Thankfully I keep a backup of this blog on my WordPress account. This entry is in HTML, so images may come up wonky?)
I have so many vhs tapes that friends have given me through the years and my family and I have moved so much in the past few years (we’ve just moved from house to house in the same town-but still, we have a lot of stuff!) that sometimes I lose track of my tapes.
Original Daily Show host, Craig Kilborn dressed in a tux to show clips. I miss seeing this guy on TV. He pretty much went into retirement after he left his Late Late Show in 2004, he tried to do a “TDS at dinnertime” show calledThe Kilborn File back in 2010, but it only lasted a few weeks. He was in a Kraft Macaroni & Cheese commercial in 2016. I love that.
Something that always cracked me up back in the day was The Daily Show’s news copter, their van, and their TDS 8400 laser copier that got main credits along with the correspondents in the opening.
Craig said they’re kicking it old skool, and someone in the audience said, “yeah!”
Can we talk for a second about the non-newsy set Daily Show had back in the day? What are those behind Craig? Drawers? With a sheer fabric curtain? While those colors were hot back then, Craig’s chair looks like it came out of a middle school shop class.
TDS premiered on July 22nd, 1996 – on Bob Dole’s birthday who was running for President at the time. They then proceeded to show the clip of him falling off the railing in Chico, CA (remember? I bought it up in my 96 things about 1996)
“He still got high marks from the foreign judges!”
“One of the best things on TV is that guy crushing the other guy’s head right before…!”
If you never watched old Daily Show, you’re like, what is Judd talking about? So back in the day, instead of a simple interview, Craig would ask the guest five insane questions. He carried it on to his Late Late show on CBS in 1999. It was Daily Show’s major trademark back them. There was even a book:
This is where the head crushing comes in. For the introduction to the segment, a clip from the film The Story of Ricky would show. I loved the reactions some of the guests would have:
“OOH! LOOK LOOK LOOK! SHOW THAT AGAIN!”
“Bristol Connecticut!” (the joke being that both Craig and Keith Olbermann both worked at ESPN which was located in Bristol)
Oh! I left the commercials intact so we can see what was happening in the Summer of 1997. The first commercial break is just acne meds, Excedrin, and a bizarre Rocky themed Lipton Brisk commercial.
Oh, and Good Burger. Because that was a thing. Does anybody remember on
Talk Soup when John Henson gave away the Hamburger AMC Gremlin Pacer car from Good Burger?
The biggest commercial of all though was for the first episode of
South Park, coming in August.
These little photoshopped bumpers were also a trademark back then. Usually at the beginning of the show there would be a big head photoshop of the people in the news that day. In this case, its just Craig and his correspondents, Brian Unger, Beth Littleford, Lizz Winstead (who helped create TDS) and A. Whitney Brown.
I’m so angry I can’t make a .gif out of this next clip. Vimeo doesn’t work with with the vid to .gif websites. I totally remember this clip, and I think they even showed it in the opening credits montage there for a while. It’s a cop being voluntarily tazed by a remote controlled stun gun belt. He went from one side of the room to another, and then back again. The clip begins at 10:40.
Janeane Garofalo came and sang a song to Craig. I believe that it was an on running gag on the show that Janeane had a huge crush on Craig. She was even in a commercial for the premiere of Craig’s Late Late Show in 1999.
There was a commercial for the all new season of Dr. Katz. Dr. Katz was a summertime tradition with me in high school, up until my junior year when Comedy Central kinda abruptly canceled the show and stopped showing the repeats.
There’s a montage of “they’re not the ‘I team’, they’re ‘my team’” correspondents.
“So, this is not the holy hill?”
“Smells like butt to me…”
I remember this as if it was yesterday. Correspondent A. Whitney Brown interviewed this man who invented and installed in his scalp these snaps so his toupee wouldn’t fly away. I still remember the snapping sound they made when he put his toupee on!
Aw, George Stephanopoulos before he had to deal with that airhead Laura Spenser every day on Good Morning America.
Even the correspondents dressed up.
In one commercial break, there is a commercial for the Jennifer Aniston movie
Picture Perfect, back when all the Friends stars were in movies. I only remember this movie for one thing: all the Gulden’s mustard. You can see two ads for it in the background of this screenshot. What was the deal with the Gulden’s mustard? I have to google this.
Who would have guessed a few years ago that one of TV’s rages of the ‘90s would be two homely, repulsive, eternally flatulent, irredeemably moronic teenagers who can barely read, have reached the apex of their lives working in a greasy burger joint and spend most of their time rapt before a set watching rock videos and fantasizing about “scoring”? As in having rip-roaring sex ’round the clock.
Mike Judge could have titled his animated MTV creations “Incredibly Dumb and Even Dumber,” in giving seed to a pair of weaselly, self-mutilating dips who would become at once the antichrists of mainstream television and pop culture’s reigning icons of boorishness.
Instead he named them Beavis and Butt-head.
He fastened these squinty human zits to their ratty couch in front of a rabbit-eared TV in their crummy digs. He gave them reptilian faces beneath their pompadours, and also pea brains and things to say like “cool,” “this sucks” and “heh-heh-heh” and “huh-huh-huh,” in strident voices that he supplied himself. 1
Created by twisted Texan Mike Judge, the B boys accomplished much in their short lives: They chainsawed a grasshopper, spray-painted a dog, incinerated a birthday cake, and watched lots of Metallica videos. They also blessed us with bits of wisdom, such as ”Did you know when you’re eating a rump roast, you’re eating a cow’s butt?” 2
I was only able to catch the episode once, the weekend after it had originally aired back in November of 1997. I remember not being impressed by the episode, I expected that they were going to die in a freak explosion because they did something stupid at their fast food job. Not because they missed three weeks of school because nothing was on TV, and when the school finally called to check up on them, Beavis just tells the secretary that they died.
I just remembered another reason why I wasn’t wowed by this send off – there were no videos to be made fun of. That’s the bread and butter of B&B! I mean, Godley and Creme’s “Cry”? Tom Jones? Pizzicato Five? Crowbar? Ween?! FUNK DAT?!?
I have so many vhs tapes that friends have given me through the years and my family and I have moved so much in the past few years (we’ve just moved from house to house in the same town-but still, we have a lot of stuff!) that sometimes I lose track of my tapes.
Original Daily Show host, Craig Kilborn dressed in a tux to show clips. I miss seeing this guy on TV. He pretty much went into retirement after his Late Late Show in 2004, he tried to do a “TDS at dinnertime” show called The Kilborn File back in 2010, but it only lasted a few weeks. He was in a Kraft Macaroni & Cheese commercial in 2016. I love that.
Something that always cracked me up back in the day was The Daily Show’s news copter, their van, and their TDS 8400 laser copier that got main credits along with the correspondents in the opening.
Craig said they’re kicking it old skool, and someone in the audience said, “yeah!”
Can we talk for a second about the non-newsy set Daily Show had back in the day? What are those behind Craig? Drawers? With a sheer fabric curtain? While those colors were hot back then, Craig’s chair looks like it came out of a middle school shop class.
TDS premiered on July 22nd, 1996 – on Bob Dole’s birthday who was running for President at the time. They then proceeded to show the clip of him falling off the railing in Chico, CA (remember? I bought it up in my 96 things about 1996)
“He still got high marks from the foreign judges!”
“One of the best things on TV is that guy crushing the other guy’s head right before…!”
If you never watched old Daily Show, you’re like, what is Judd talking about? So back in the day, instead of a simple interview, Craig would ask the guest five insane questions. He carried it on to his Late Late show on CBS in 1999. It was Daily Show’s major trademark back them. There was even a book:
This is where the head crushing comes in. For the introduction to the segment, a clip from the film The Story of Ricky would show. I loved the reactions some of the guests would have:
“OOH! LOOK LOOK LOOK! SHOW THAT AGAIN!”
“Bristol Connecticut!” (the joke being that both Craig and Keith Olbermann both worked at ESPN which was located in Bristol)
Oh! I left the commercials intact so we can see what was happening in the Summer of 1997. The first commercial break is just acne meds, Excedrin, and a bizarre Rocky themed Lipton Brisk commercial.
The biggest commercial of all though was for the first episode of South Park, coming in August.
These little photoshopped bumpers were also a trademark back then. Usually at the beginning of the show there would be a big head photoshop of the people in the news that day. In this case, its just Craig and his correspondents, Brian Unger, Beth Littleford, Lizz Winstead (who helped create TDS) and A. Whitney Brown.
I’m so angry I can’t make a .gif out of this next clip. Vimeo doesn’t work withh with the vid to .gif websites. I totally remember this clip, and I think they even showed it in the opening credits montage there for a while. It’s a cop being voluntarily tazed by a remote controlled stun gun belt. He went from one side of the room to another, and then back again. The clip begins at 10:40.
Janeane Garofalo came and sang a song to Craig. I believe that it was an on running gag on the show that Janeane had a huge crush on Craig. She was even in a commercial for the premiere of Craig’s Late Late Show in 1999.
There was a commercial for the all new season of Dr. Katz. Dr. Katz was a summertime tradition with me in high school, up until my junior year when Comedy Central kinda abruptly canceled the show and stopped showing the repeats.
There’s a montage of “they’re not the ‘I team’, they’re ‘my team’” correspondents.
“So, this is not the holy hill?”
“Smells like butt to me…”
I remember this as if it was yesterday. Correspondent A. Whitney Brown interviewed this man who invented and installed in his scalp these snaps so his toupee wouldn’t fly away. I still remember the snapping sound they made when he put his toupee on!
Aw, George Stephanopoulos before he had to deal with that airhead Laura Spenser every day on Good Morning America.
Even the correspondents dressed up.
In one commercial break, there is a commercial for the Jennifer Aniston movie Picture Perfect, back when all the Friends stars were in movies. I only remember this movie for one thing: all the Gulden’s mustard. You can see two ads for it in the background of this screenshot. What was the deal with the Gulden’s mustard? I have to google this.
This is a local story from my hometown newspaper, Daily Press. I remember reading this article the Summer before sophomore year of high school, and there was a picture of her with her framed ticket stubs and she was wearing a Titanic t-shirt. I haven’t been able to get to the Newport News library to get a microfilm copy of this article. So I had to make an artists’ rendering.
HAMPTON — Joanne Pauley has spent more time watching “Titanic” than the passengers spent aboard the ship in 1912. They only sank once – she has gone down with the ship dozens of times.
Pauley, a 43-year-old Hampton resident, is as obsessive about watching “Titanic” as director James Cameron was about making it. As the film winds down its theatrical run – in anticipation of its Sept. 1 release on videotape – Pauley knows she has done her part to make it the highest-grossing film in history, having seen it 43 times.
The math is simple: Considering the film’s 3 hours and 20 minute-running time, Pauley has spent 143 hours and 20 minutes watching “Titanic.” That’s almost six days of round-the-clock viewing.
“Actually, after the multiplication reached three days I stopped counting that way – it just seemed too nuts,” Pauley says. “But every time still feels like the first time.”
It started innocently enough on Saturday, Dec. 20, the day after the film opened nationwide. At that point, she knew nothing about the film’s already burgeoning legend – how Cameron’s fanatical attention to detail had pushed the project past its deadlines and racked up an unprecedented $200 million budget.
“I’ve always liked disaster movies, so in that way I was looking forward to it,” she recalls. “I hardly go to movies at all, but that was one I wanted to see. I had no idea what it was about – I just knew the boat was going to sink.”
She enjoyed the film that night, but she left the theater with no inkling of how it would come to dominate her life in the ensuing months.
At some point after the Christmas season – she doesn’t know the exact date, because she didn’t start saving her ticket stubs until her fifth or sixth viewing – Pauley decided to go back and see “Titanic” a second time. And a third. Each time, she left the theater even more impressed.
“It kind of snowballed,” she says. “It got to where every time I see it, I want to go right back and see it again. Everything reminds me of it, and every time someone mentions `Titanic’ or every time I hear the theme song, I want to go see it again.”
Pauley, who does not work because of severe rheumatoid arthritis, has seen the movie at three different Peninsula cinemas, but she has never followed through on a suggestion of her sons, ages 19 and 23, who wanted her to try for a marathon session and see how many times she could watch it in a row. Most impressive of all, she says she has only slipped out of the theater one time for a trip to the restroom.
Pauley says she has cried at each viewing, and when pressed for her favorite scene, she picks the moment when Kate Winslet’s Rose lunges out of the lifeboat to take her chances on the sinking cruise ship with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack. Having become intimately familiar with the plot and the dialogue, Pauley began looking to every corner of the screen for details she had missed previously. It is likely she has seen every penny that Cameron spent on the production.
“When I watch it now, I’m looking away from what you usually look at, and I always find something new,” she says. “The 38th time I went, at the very end, I noticed the time on the clock is exactly the right time that the Titanic sunk – 2:20 a.m. I don’t remember ever looking at that clock before then.”
In addition to her ticket stubs, Pauley has amassed a large collection of “Titanic” books, magazines and trinkets. She has “four or five T-shirts,” and when she ran across a clearance sale recently she bought a few more to keep in reserve for when the first batch wears out.
She knows that the time will soon come when she will no longer be able to see “Titanic” in theaters. How will she react? She says she does not know.
But she is looking forward to the day the videotape is released.
“I’ll probably be at Wal-Mart at midnight,” she says, “waiting to be the first in line to buy a copy.”
– Mike Holtzclaw can be reached by phone at 928-6479 or by e-mail at mholtzclaw@dailypress.com.
Remember when we had Cool Whip during the holidays? Now we don’t.
This old Cool Whip jingle (1) , and the one where the gingerbread men skydive onto this nasty pile of Cool Whip puts me in the mood for a mid 90s middle school holiday though.
Looks kinda gloppy to me.
Last thing I want is freezer burned corn muffins. I don’t even like corn muffins when they’re not freezer burned.
Around this time in my life, my mom made something similar to the day after casserole…. and ruined all our leftovers.
Sale Into the 90s 3 – A history Zine about insignificant events of the 1980s and 1990s
The third issue of the Zine is finally here! I will be selling these this weekend at the Richmond Zine Fest as well. This is slightly different than the last two zines, I write about middle school in the mid 1990s. It’s also different because this year it is comb bound instead of the usual fold n glue of the last 2 issues. This is because at 26 pages, it’s too hard to fold n glue.
OH. I don’t want any of my readers feeling like they’re ripped off, so I will let you know that there are three entries from this blog reprinted for the zine, since the zine is reaching a new audience.
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