That was the moment where it went ot the next level, yes.

Bill Hicks called. He told me to tell you to kill yourself.

oh my god when the people high five the fucking ambulatory duodenum i wanted to throw up.

Puppymonkeybaby is what the woman from the Doritos ad gave birth to.

Transformers II had a Super Bowl ad. The end.

I was thinking of the ad for the first live-action Transformers where it's "declassified footage" from the recently-failed Mars landing, but it turns out that only ran in theaters.

I'd put the transition a hair earlier - around 25, when Whitney did that version of the national anthem, and NKOTB were the first "big name" halftime act. Before that, the halftime show (and the commercials) were generally speaking, an afterthought to the football. That year represented, IMO, the first time they…

2001 MJ should be played by a white man, but that white man is Andy Serkis in an elaborate mo-cap rig.

I *suppose*, although it kind of shook me from the "this is a parody of blaxploitation films which usually had VERY small stakes - most of the time it was one city or even one neighborhood that the hero was defending" to "this is a parody of spy movies or something else entirely."

That works for me.

Incorrect: "Surfin' Bird" and "Rockin Robin" were not used.

So Hot Fuzz/Shawn of the Dead are homages to film genres and satires of British middle-class mores, I take it?

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Black Dynamite sort of crosses a threshold in the last act where it goes from spot-on tribute to the genre to "someone's silly idea about what the 70s were like".

Hot Fuzz is a pretty severe omission here, although it isn't really the same kind of animal as the ZAZ/Brooks movies.

Apparently "Cobra-La" was always a placeholder name that everyone knew was stupid, but they couldn't come up with anything that was A: better and B: also cleared legal, so it stuck.

You've never seen "Rubik, The Amazing Cube", have you?

Those were real tail-end-of-the-franchise's-first-run Ninja Turtle toys. Probably about the same time as they did the officially licensed Star Trek Ninja Turtles.

The various Sunbow/Marvel shows of the 80s (Transformers, GIJoe, Jem, Inhumanoids, etc.) really are head-and-shoulders above the rest of the toy-box crowd. GIJoe in particular still holds up as a sort of kid-friendly satire of the 80s - a recurring character is a pretty vicious parody of Geraldo Rivera, there are…

Redford?