Video Death Loop

You stare into the void. You press “Like”. The “Like” spirals toward the center of the void, stretching and elongating as if drawn to the infinite mass at the heart of a black hole. Time ticks by slowly as this happens, but its effects are no less potent. You try and engage with the void,… Read more S2:E30 – Ready Player One Trailer

For once, we attempt to use our powers for good and serious reasons: namely watching the classic Patterson bigfoot film on loop until we can suss out the truth of one of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century! Will the secret of S. Squatch finally be revealed? What does Iowa have to do… Read more S2:E29 – Patterson Bigfoot Film

If NBA Jam taught me anything in life, it taught me that you definitely catch the ball on fire if you get three or more baskets in a row and that when you achieve turbo, your shoes will light up and make you go fast. So, no, NBA Jam didn’t really teach me anything. But… Read more S2:E28 – NBA Jam Arcade Attract Mode

Are you willing to destroy the environment so your fast food hamburger can be just slightly better? Are you ready to join the mindless masses marching behind Jason Alexander as he holds the new god aloft? As the Earth collapses into the sun, will your hot stay hot or will your cool stay cool forever?… Read more S2:E27 – McDLT Commercial

Tie-in music videos are nothing special, except when a hit 90s singer uses them to confess his undying love for Batman. Will Batman finally notice Seal, or will his father force him to abandon childish things and marry his cousin or whatever? We expect a job offer from CLAMP after this episode! This week, we… Read more S2:E26 – Kiss from a Rose Music Video

There was a time, not all that long ago, that a cable channel might consider running a three-to-four hour block of computer tech tips. That network was Tech TV and that show was The Screen Savers. Maybe it wasn’t actually that long, but in our minds, it was an endless stream of registry editing, configuration… Read more S2:E25 – The Screen Savers TV Opening

Did Juicy Fruit create extreme sports or did extreme sports create Juicy Fruit? Philosophers will endlessly debate the question, never bothering to learn that Juicy Fruit was first launched in 1893 and that the creation of extreme sports probably had nothing to do with the gum. This classic 80s Juicy Fruit commercial is at the… Read more S2:E24 – Juicy Fruit Commercial

After our abysmal math performance in the recent Beverly Hills 90210 episode, listener muteKi suggested that we might need a refresher course in very basic arithmetic and submitted this episode of MathMan, a sketch from the educational PBS show Square One. MathMan is a beleaguered Pac-Man clone who must use his short time in this… Read more S2:E23 – MathMan: Multiples of 6

Dragon Ball Z seems to be bubbling its way up a lot lately. Maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s the new show, or maybe it has something to do with the radical sequel to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s magnum opus: The Scarlet Letter Z. Before we get there, though, we’ve got to fulfill the destiny we created for… Read more S2:E22 – Dragon Ball Z TV Opening

Are you ready for a show bold enough to feature teens? What if I told you they lived in Beverly Hills? Also what if they were white? And like everyone else in the show was white too. Plus, teens. Are you down? Good. Because I’m gonna blow your mind. What if I told you all… Read more S2:E21 – Beverly Hills 90210 TV Opening

In the era before the Gameboy, video games on the go were really something special. In the waning years after Nintendo’s little gray brick, though? Ehhh, not so much. Tiger Electronics hawked these simple LCD games for years, years, acquiring such tantalizing licenses as Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden and Skyrim. Wait, maybe not that last… Read more S2:E20 – Tiger Electronics Mega Man 2 Commercial

When you can unhinge your jaws, shoot out your tongue to four feet in length and hang around with weird mutants on the playground, you only want to eat one thing: a packing peanut shaped like a paw and covered in neon cheese dust. Luckily for Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo and distributor of Cheetos… Read more S2:E19 – Cheetos Paws Commercial

Time was, Wizards of the Coast thought they might somehow break Magic: The Gathering out of its traditional nerd niche and into the cool coffee-drinking, Friends-watching, music-inventing crowds of the 90s. Through a series of commercials targeted at these socially desirable youths, Wizards wasted untold amounts of money and succeeded in doing little more than… Read more S2:E18 – Magic: The Gathering Commercial

What does it cost to save the princess in less than five minutes? How many lives must be destroyed? Must the very rules of nature be bent? Can the universe even continue to exist in a single piece? For Darbian, those answers were “some practice, none, no and almost certainly.” Our answers, though? Dramatically different.… Read more S2:E17 – Darbian’s Super Mario Brothers Speedrun World Record

Just in time for Christmas, we unwrap the past and take a look at one of the most infamous “event” video games ever: E.T. for the Atari 2600. Produced in such enormous quantities that even its disposal is legendary, E.T. also had a pretty sweet, if somewhat terrifying in its implications, commercial to drive sales… Read more S2:E16 – E.T. Atari Christmas Commercial

ThunderCats! There’s thunder! And cats! And…mummies I guess? Surprising everyone, including ourselves, we have just no recollection of what happens in the ThunderCats cartoon. As 30-something dudes on the internet, consider us sufficiently shamed. Aaron Littleton is your host for this episode and chooses the ThunderCats opening theme as the video to watch on loop.… Read more S2:E15 – ThunderCats TV Opening

When the fast food wars have worn you down with endless attrition and your coffers have run dry, there’s little do to but turn to…less ethical methods of selling your products. Like hypnotic suggestion in your commercials for ice cream. Yeah Carvel, we see through your game. John Hurst is your host for this episode… Read more S2:E14 – Carvel Commercial

What happens if you look into space without a vacuum or a space suit? It looks EXACTLY like  the Regal Cinema Feature Presentation Reel. Yes, even with the corporate sponsorships. Find out why on this week’s Video Death Loop! Aaron Littleton hosts this week, staring into the cosmic veneer of a popcorn kernel while John… Read more S2:E13 – Regal Cinemas Roller Coaster

Listen, when you’re a busy account executive at the biggest advertising firm in the city, you haven’t got time to do things like research. Or care. Especially when it’s for an ad for one of those “video games” your kid keeps talking about. You take a look at the artwork the client sent over, throw… Read more S2:E12 – Final Fantasy III Commercial

So much Star Wars is happening around us. As I’m typing up this post, we literally got an announcement that Rian Johnson is directing a brand new trilogy of Star Wars related films. That’s crazy! Especially when considering that just a short hop ago, we were yearning for any news on a hot little Star… Read more S2:E11 – Yum! Brands Star Wars Episode I Commercial