The Accursed 90s: Televised Lad Contests
When people talk about toxic masculinity, it's hard to imagine a more virulent breeding ground than the mid-late 90s; a time when men were led to e...
2019-03-08 09:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Stuart Millard posts
Mulholland Drive, the Lost Scene
David Lynch considered the original Winkie's Diner scene too frightening to be broadcast.
2019-03-03 14:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Post: On Brand
There's a tweet that rolls around Twitter about once a month for people to quote-tweet replies to. It goes “what's the most on-brand story fr...
2019-03-02 20:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon: Year One
Since today is the one year anniversary of this endeavour, I thought I'd do a short State of the Union and see where we're at. Taking the plunge to start a Patreon was a big leap for me. I brushed off the idea for a couple of years, with thi...
2019-03-01 09:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostA Very Important Message
Today's the 1st anniversary of this venture, so I knocked up a little video of our wonderful memories together.
2019-03-01 09:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostGreat Moments in Pop Culture – James Cameron Digs Up Christ
Remember that time James Cameron, Oscar-winning film director, held a press conference to announce he'd found Jesus's bones? No? Yeah, nobody does....
2019-02-26 10:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostEwoks
After tackling one half of the Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour, with 2019-02-16 00:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Curry & Chips
Furthering my quest to actually sit through the oft-named Worst Ever sitcoms that most people have only seen in the same 30-second clip on C5 talki...
2019-02-06 09:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostDroids
There's this notion that Star Wars was born in 1977 and has been incredibly popular with everyone ever since, but it's not true. Kids like...
2019-01-27 00:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostMr. Horatio Knibbles - Britain's Forgotten Monster
As a British man raised in the eighties, my childhood consisted of a seemingly endless parade of hauntological horrors which imprinted on my subcon...
2019-01-17 10:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Trump's Forgotten Gameshow
What's left to say about Donald Trump? For a moment, let's put aside everything but the propensity to vampirically attach his name to any old shit;...
2018-12-28 11:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Hulk and Chuck Tried To Save My Soul
About twelve or thirteen years ago, you couldn't avoid Chuck Norris. Not that he was getting much work, but as a meme, Chuck Norris Facts were inescapable...
2018-12-18 12:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, Arthur
Eastenders was better back when it was recorded in front of a studio audience.
2018-12-11 12:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostBottle Boys
The very concept of a milkman is one of those indicators of being old as shit, as nobody under the age of twenty has any idea what you're talking about. B...
2018-12-09 00:04:49 +0000 UTC View PostBritain's Strongest Man 1979
Some images are so overloaded with festive sense-memory that a mere whiff, no matter the time of year, sends you tumbling through a blur of green and red,...
2018-11-29 09:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostA Kempmas Carol
A Christmas Carol must hold the record for the single most adapted piece of literature, with countless feature films, and TV episodes, borrowing ...
2018-11-19 00:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostVery Special Episodes – Fonzie Goes Blind
Trope-wise, Happy Days has been very generous, giving us the phrases Jump the Shark, and Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, named for t...
2018-11-09 00:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Michael Jackson Séance
Without equal, Michael Jackson remains the oddest figure in all of pop culture. Inciting the screaming and fainting we see in every generation of fandom, ...
2018-10-30 09:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lost Carry On
I first heard about the so-called 'lost Carry On' at one of those fan conventions where you pay £20 to get a photo with the evil dojo guy from Karate...
2018-10-22 08:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostReal Eyes Realise Beale Cries
I was in two minds whether or not to post something so dumb, but it is precious content I have made, so [shrug]
2018-10-16 10:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostThat Time The Waltons Had a Poltergeist
The Waltons, you ask? Wasn't that boring as shit? Let me stop you there. Yes, it was, which makes the sudden appearance of crazy occult doings al...
2018-10-12 23:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostMonster Mashed
Absolutely disgusting. Monster Mash singer Bobby Pickett disgracing himself on Live TV.
2018-10-04 16:48:55 +0000 UTC View PostGhost Hunting with the Happy Mondays
It's a welcome return to this series for Shaun Ryder, who's joined by Happy Mondays bandmates, Bez, and... two of the other ones? In this case, drummer Ga...
2018-10-03 12:28:10 +0000 UTC View PostHouse Party Hell #1
As a companion to the Noel's House Party piece, I realised each episode, when broken down to its component parts of Yewtree cameos, Noel pretending it was all going wrong, and moments of Partridge gold, was so hauntologically fertile, I had to preser...
2018-09-24 08:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post