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Dog and Pony Shows

Here are my thoughts on three movies and three television shows, with SPOILERS for all of them. Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma’s campy 1974 rock musical is mostly a take on The Phantom of the Opera, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Food, Gender, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a new hope, adrienne barbeau, allan sherman, augie doggie, bail organa, barney rubble, boo boo bear, brian de palma, captain caveman, cindy bear, danny devito, darth vader, doggie daddy, faust, fred flintstone, goober and the ghost chasers, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, huckleberry hound, jabberjaw, james earl jones, jamie lee curtis, janet leigh, jellystone, jerry springer, jerry springer fights camera action, jessica harper, John Carpenter, jonny quest, loopy de loop, magilla gorilla, my little pony, my little pony the movie, obi-wan kenobi, oprah winfrey, peter potamus, phantom of the paradise, princess leia, quick draw mcgraw, raspberry rover, richard dominick, satan, scooby-doo, shazzan, smooze, snagglepuss, solo a star wars story, the fog, the hillbilly bears, the phantom of the opera, the picture of dorian gray, tom atkins, tony randall, top cat, touche turtle, vivien lyra blair, wally gator, william finley, wilma flintstone, yogi bear |

Always Be Clowning

Two movies this time, one new and one old, with SPOILERS for both. Terrifier 3 – As often happens with ongoing horror series, the sequels here have been trying to top their predecessors in terms of gore, but are also … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Families, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Revisiting Disney, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged art the clown, benji gregory, clowns, david faustino, demons, ghosts, horror, john astin, kristy swanson, mr. boogedy, murder, terrifier, terrifier 2, terrifier 3, the disney sunday movie |

Focused on the Future

We’ve now seen all of Season Twelve of Futurama, which I think is part of the ninth production season because of all the weirdness with how the show was originally aired. I noticed that, while there were still some commentaries … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Big Bang, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Humor, Monsters, Science, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Toys | Tagged aliens, amy wong, beanie babies, bender bending rodriguez, bender's game, bill nye, buggalo, cara delevigne, chatbots, coffee, encyclopedia brown, fashion, hardy boys, hedonism bot, hermes conrad, hypnosis, jack-in-the-box, john steinbeck, kif kroker, kyle mclachlan, levar burton, lrrr, mermaids, moths, nancy drew, ndnd, philip j. fry, pin the tail on the donkey, planet express, professor hubert farnsworth, robert burns, robots, scruffy the janitor, starbucks, tim gunn, tintin, turanga leela, vampires |

Possession Has Its Privileges

The Wonderful Land of Oz – This weird low-budget 1969 adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz is something I’d never seen, but Beth found online that there’s a Rifftrax version of it, so we watched it. I guess that … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Characters, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, sparks, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Wicca | Tagged aliens, ami dolenz, barry mahon, chan mahon, coronavirus, fairuza balk, ghosts, jinjur, mombi, neve campbell, ouija board, ozma, possession, professor wogglebug, rifftrax, russell mael, the becomers, the craft, the wonderful land of oz, tippetarius, witchboard, witchboard 2, witchcraft, witches, zach clark, zisca baum |

Son of Sin

I’ve been playing a bit of Final Fantasy X as of late. I actually first started playing it on PC, but it crashed a lot, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the technical specs … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Dreams, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Sims, Sports, Technology, Television, Toys, Video Games | Tagged al bhed, auron, black mages, blitzball, dolls, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest monsters the dark prince, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy X, healie, healslime, jecht, john dimaggio, kimhari ronso, lulu, machina, mages, nadiria, nintendo switch, ochus, rikku, ronso, sin, spira, the sims 4, tidus, wakka, yuna, zanarkand |

Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic?

Four movies, several SPOILERS. Vegas Vacation – Beth grew up with these movies, and references them frequently, but I didn’t watch any of them until my adult life. And I only just got around to seeing this one. It’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Environmentalism, Games, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Religion, Satanism, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bats, blackjack, cheech marin, chevy chase, christie brinkley, chucky, cult of chucky, fairies, ferngully, gambling, hexxus, john hughes, lawrence pazder, michelle remembers, michelle smith, national lampoon, pollution, randy quaid, robin williams, samantha mathis, satan wants you, satanic panic, sid caesar, tim curry, tommy chong, tone loc, vegas vacation, virgin mary, wallace shawn, wayne newton |

I See Noom and Noom Sees Me

Lost in the Moment and Found, by Seanan McGuire – The books in this series change between being about the magical lands in which various children find themselves and about how they deal with their experiences afterwards. As with some … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Toys, Wayward Children | Tagged a.s. byatt, andrew lang, arabian nights, avalon, bible, blaise, brothers grimm, cugel the clever, cugel's saga, dragon's breath, dragons, epic of gilgamesh, epitaph, geoffrey of monmouth, gode's story, graeae, guinevere, howl's moving castle, in an absent dream, jack vance, jane yolen, jinn, johnny gruelle, king arthur, king solomon, lost in the moment and found, merlin, merlin's booke, moon, nimue, prince prigio, queen of sheba, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, st. paul, sword of the rightful king, the canterbury tales, the djinn in the nightingale's eye, the dragon's boy, the dying earth, the eldest princess, the glass coffin, the magical land of noom, the raggedys in oz, the sword and the stone, the young merlin trilogy, three thousand years of longing, wizards |

Me, I Want a Hula Hoop

A Chipmunk Christmas – From 1981, this was part of an effort by Ross Bagdasarian Jr., son of the late creator of the Chipmunks, to revive the property, a few years before the Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon series that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, Dreams, Families, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Names, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Plays, Relationships, Religion, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a chipmunk christmas, a wish for wings that work, alvin and the chipmunks, babes in toyland, berkeley breathed, bill the cat, bloom county, care bears, care bears nutcracker suite, clyde crashcup, dave seville, davey and goliath, drew barrymore, dustin hoffman, fred r. hamlin, georgie porgie, jack be nimble, jesus, julian mitchell, keanu reeves, kevin geeks out, leslie bricusse, lost horizon, mary mary quite contrary, moral orel, mrs. claus, nutcracker suite, old mother hubbard, opus the penguin, outland, pat morita, peter piper, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, robin williams, ross bagdasarian, ross bagdasarian jr., santa claus, silas barnaby, silent night deadly night, silent night deadly night part 2, sugar plum fairy, the alvin show, the best christmas ever, the karate kid, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), trolls |

This One’s for the Children

Here are some Christmas specials Beth and I have watched so far this year, as well as indications that she was way more attuned to pop culture in her childhood than I was. Pound Puppies: Happy Howlidays – Beth used … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Christmas, Dreams, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Television, Toys | Tagged a beavis and butt-head christmas, a christmas carol, beavis and butt-head, black sabbath, bob geldof, cabbage patch kids, christmas in july, dogs, dolls, donnie wahlberg, dr. claw, dr. john, elves, fairies, george r.r. martin, glomer, happy howlidays, inspector gadget, inspector gadget saves christmas, it's a wonderful life, it's punky brewster, katrina stoneheart, kevin geeks out, leon redbone, matt frewer, maurice starr, max headroom, max headroom's giant christmas turkey, new kids on the block, new kids on the block christmas special, north pole, nutcracker suite, piotyr ilyich tchaikovsky, pound puppies, punky brewster, robin williams, santa claus, storks, the cabbage patch kids' first christmas, the twelve days of christmas, tina turner |

The Future’s Got It Covered

I’m not entirely sure how many new Futurama episodes Hulu ordered, but I do know that they’re going to wait before airing the next batch. So here are my thoughts on the ten episodes we’ve had so far. The Impossible … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Babylonian, Cartoons, Celebrities, chemistry, Christmas, Corporations, Current Events, Futurama, Games, Health, Holidays, Humor, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Religion, Science, Technology, Television, Toys, Voodoo | Tagged aging, aliens, all my circuits, amazon, amy wong, barbados slim, bears, bender bending rodriguez, bitcoin, borax kid, calculon, coolio, coronavirus, cryptocurrency, cubert farnsworth, democratic order of planets, dr. john zoidberg, dune, dwight conrad, hulu, kif kroker, kwanzaabot, lamassu, mermaids, nibbler, omicron persei 8, parasites, philip j. fry, planet express, professor banjo, professor hubert farnsworth, professor ogden wernstrom, robot mafia, robots, santa claus, saturn, tardigrades, the ring, turanga leela, turducken, ursa major, vaccines, weebles, worms, zapp brannigan |