Monthly Archives: July 2012

Jeanie Gets Up

Posted on July 10, 2012 by | 7 comments

Today’s Tuesday Tribute is a bit late because I needed to do some video editing for Sunny Johnson who co-starred in Flashdance as Jeanie, the ice-skating waitress who ended up dancing with only her shins at Johnny C’s strip club after ruining her One Big Break. Sunny died of a burst blood vessel in her brain in 1984, just a year after her real life One Big Break of a movie came out. Sad! Tragic! And there’s nothing I can do about it. However, I can do something about the nearly as sad and tragic scene in Flashdance where Jeanie falls not once, but twice! (Oh god! Get up Jeanie!) Right. I can’t make that blood vessel unburst, but I can make Jeanie GET UP! And if I get some better video editing software for Christmas, I might just make her put her clothes back on, quit shin dancing at Zanzi-Bar and get back together with Richie. You’re Welcome.

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Top Ten Slumber Party Movie Bad Guys

Posted on July 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Here are the top 10 Slumber Party Movie bad guys in order from Mild to Wild for your easy reference. (And before you say it, yes, you sort of forgot that Lee Ving was in Flashdance and you TOTALLY forgot Leif Garrett was in The Outsiders. That’s okay. That’s what we’re here for.)

Morris Day
Weapons: Jerome. Pimp Cane.
Enemies: The Kid. Humidity.
Weakness: Apollonia

Johnny C
Weapons: Cecil. Toothpick.
Enemies: Richie Blazik. Pittsburgh Blue Laws.
Weakness: Alex’s Ass.

Melvin P. Thorpe
Weapons: A camera. The ‘truth’. A catchy tune.
Enemies: Hookers with hearts of gold and the sheriffs who love them
Weakness: Pants without an elastic waistband. A stiff wind.

Roy Stalin
Weapons: Skis. Blonde hair.
Enemies: Lane Meyer. Charles De Mar. Chapped lips.
Weakness: Going that way…really fast.

Balmudo
Weapons: Chopper. Acne scars.
Enemies: The T-Birds. That guy (whoever he is).
Weaknesses: Cha Cha. Guys who learned to ride a motorcycle after school…before their tutoring job.

Cobra Kai
Weapons: Jiu Jitsu. Headbands. Dirty tricks.
Enemies: Daniel-san. Guns.
Weakness: Waxing on and waxing off.

Count Tyrone Rugen
Weapons: Sword. Glove. Horse. Sharp tongue.
Enemies. Peasants. Fathers.
Weakness: Vengeful sons.

Bob Sheldon
Weapons: Madras. Trust fund. Fountain.
Enemies: Two Bit. Ponyboy.
Weakness: Switchblades. Doing it for Johnny.

Nomi Malone
Weapons: Stairs. Buns of steel.
Enemies: Hos with more stage time than her. Rapists. Hep C.
Weakness: Potato chips. Tight tops. Italian names. Acting.

Paperboy
Weapons: Sweet bike. Switchblade comb.
Enemies: Pay-you-later types.
Weakness: None.

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Cleaning montage with robots.

Posted on July 8, 2012 by | 3 comments

Jody is doing some cleaning-up-the-frat-house type work on her new house and has requested that I post the cleaning montage from Revenge of the Nerds–because cleaning is always easier with nerds, robots and Bone Symphony. The bummer is that this is as much of that as I could get. I left the bit with Lamar and Wormser jazzercising because I wanted to subtly point out the Michael Jackson-in-a-jaunty-yellow-sweater poster that I had. Yes. Back in the 80s we thought that was totally hot.

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Friday Morning Videos: St. Elmo’s Fire

Posted on July 6, 2012 by | 1 comment

Lesson #1: The most inefficient way to kill yourself is to freeze yourself to death in your empty apartment.

Lesson #2: You CAN get the Brat Pack to star in your video, as long as it’s only to sit an alley and stare at you, wondering why they’re in a music video.

Lesson #3: While Rob Lowe maintained his prettiness over time,  I would hate to be the judge of the Judd Nelson v. Andrew McCarthy Puppydog Eye Match.

But I still love Emilio Estevez the best.

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Is Everybody Ready to Do it?

Consider the following lyric from the song Let’s Do it For Our Country featured in the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man of Slumber Party movies, Grease 2, and written by musical genius and snappy dresser, Rob Hegel (who wants you to know about his “other” credits and see his full length glamour shot where he casually wears a dress shirt ).

Yeah, let’s do it for our country, the red, white, and the blue.
It’s Uncle Sam who’s asking, so your mother will approve.
Tomorrow I’ll be fighting, and I’ll win this war for you.
Let’s do it for our country, our country wants us to.

And now watch this life-changing (Yes! Life-changing! Well…at least for those of us who couldn’t get out to beloved-by-the-masses Broadway shows back in the 80s) performance by Maureen “Doris Finsecker” Teefy and Peter “That Guy From That Thing” Frechette.

Let's Do It For Our Country

Sh! Your mother don’t even have to know about it!
(Click to watch)

Happy Independence Day. I’ll leave you with the following quotes.

“I just did it and I’m ready to do it again!”

–Mel Brooks. History of the World Part 1

“What are you doing Louis? Get off of me!”

–Maureen Teefy. Grease 2.

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Posted on July 4, 2012 by in Grease 2

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Andy Griffith RIP …. Slumber Party Style.

Another very sad Tuesday Tribute as Andy Griffith has just died at the tender age of 86. I’m willing to bet that there was never a slumber party that featured a Matlock marathon (and if there were, I would not want to be at that party). But you just know that some slumber party somewhere put this comedic gem into the old dvd player. Spy Hard features Andy Griffith as a crazed general intent on ruling, or ruining, the world. This trailer actually acts as a tribute not just to Andy, but also the ridiculously funny, Leslie Nielson and Ray Charles in a brilliant cameo as the bus driver in the Speed bit. But the funniest line in this trailer goes to the late, great Pat Morita who says, “Well I like to wear loose fitting clothes, and I drive a 69 Pinto” with so much comedic brilliance, that he wins the “Aw…I can’t believe he’s dead!” award for most missed celebrity in the Spy Hard trailer. (No small feat, Morita!)

Now, I realize that General Rancor is not the role Andy wanted to be remembered for, but then again…maybe it was. … Uh…no. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t. My apologies to Mr. Griffith’s family.

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Posted on July 3, 2012 by in Tuesday Tribute

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