Nostalgic Trip #3

Remember this old-timey horror show? If you’re a child of the early 90’s like myself, there’s a good chance that you do. I started watching this show when I was only about 7 or 8 years old, and God, was it ever freaky. Honestly, I’m not even entirely sure if the show’s target audience was for children or younger youth, but I watched it nonetheless.

If you’re unfamiliar with the show or have forgotten it, it always began with this creepy ass intro that will make you crap your pants. Each episode basically started out with a group of teens who call themselves the Midnight Society (what a cheesy name), gathered around a campfire in some neck of the woods. The members of the group would take turns narrating a horror story, a tale that would last for the duration of an episode. Then each episode would end off with a member of the group (I remember the dorky guy with glasses doing it a lot) dousing off the campfire with a bucket filled with water, leaving you with shivers as you wonder what the hell you just watched.

I think one of the most chilling episodes that I remember from the show would probably be the one with the clown. CLASSIC episode. I get goosebumps (unintentional reference to the other horror show) just thinking about that episode as I type this. Obviously, clowns in any horror show or movie are generally pretty scary, but when you’re young and watching this show with this freaky ass clown, it’s going to leave you with some bad memories and nightmares.

If anyone is interested, a Youtube link to this particular episode can be found here (The Tale of Laughing in the Dark: Parts 1/2/3), sans the intro. Good times.

Nostalgic Trip #2

Jeeves. The butler of search engines. One of the most brilliant and virtual minds I ever had the privilege to seek knowledge from.

This guy knew everything. I remember I would ask him tons of stuff back when I was in elementary school (it really was the most prominent search engine for children). Whenever you had a question that you didn’t know the answer to, all you had to do was go, “Yo Jeeves, homeslice, what’s the numerical value of pi?” And Jeeves would be all, “[WHUPOW!] The value of pi to 5 decimal places is 3.14159.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Ask Jeeves might have even existed before Google. All I remember is using it a crap load back in the day to ask him trivial questions. The website was complete crap back then though. Sure it had a search engine and all, but I distinctly remember the site was littered with ads everywhere.

I recently tried looking up good old Jeeves, only to discover that the site has now been rebranded as Ask.com. What a shame. However, it seems as if Jeeves has managed to maintain his virtual butler duties over at the UK version of the website. How exciting. He now lives a more lavish lifestyle after going through some cosmetic processes which have given him a well-rounded, three-dimensional figure. He apparently also owns his own wardrobe now too, so he does not have to wear the same set of clothes all the time. Good for him.

Nostalgic Trip #1

Who else remembers this show? I don’t know how or why it suddenly popped into my head today. The show was created by animator John Kricfalusi, more popularly known as the creator of Ren & Stimpy. It was a weird show though. Slightly disturbing humour and animation styles, but still kind of funny.