Q-Tip head

Every time I watch Star Wars The Phantom Menace (so like twice) I wonder about this dude:


No, not the guy on the right who looks like Lebowski, the other dude:


What's up with this guy? How is that neck possible in any universe?

A simple case of whiplash would turn his head into a tether ball.

Even a beer helmet would be too heavy for that neck! It would snap like a Slim Jim.



Actually what if they don't HAVE beer helmets in Star Wars? That makes me sadder than when Spock died and Yoda was stuck training Luke Skywalker to be as nasty as he wanted to be.

Guy Hutchinson

Wiarton Willy

I was so excited by Groundhog Day this year I spent almost $40 on a board game based on the Willy, the groundhog who predicts the weather in Wiarton.

Wiarton is somewhere in Canada and Willy is albino. I couldn't think of a witty way to insert that info into the last paragraph.




This game is a pretty small time affair. I couldn't find much on the net about it.



This photo on the back of the box. This was a clue that the game wasn't made this year.



This was another clue! A certificate stating that I have an "early" printing of the game. Yep.

It's dated march 1999. I guess Wiarton Willy's Great Adventure never swept the nation.

Or maybe it did. I don't know much about Canada.



It's a simple roll, move & look at cards game. I enjoyed it.

According to the cards Wiarton is a dangerous place.


Rattlesnakes and bobcats roam the street.


Plus Fox is sniffing around everywhere. They probably wanted to make a show to replace Married With Children. 1999 was a rough year for Fox.




On the back of the rule sheet an address has been crossed out and erased.

Some poor schlep probably had to do this on each copy.

Must have taken at least 2 minutes.

Guy Hutchinson

Homer's sandwich

Remember that Simpson's ep where Homer got a big sandwich that took days to eat?


Check out this one. It's bigger than it looks. It weighs as much as a newborn baby.

Here's what it looked like after lunch:



I hope to finish it by the end of next week.

Guy Hutchinson

Dudu the Superbug

I love Herbie the Love Bug. I have a poster for each of the movies (even the one with Bruce Campbell that even Disney seems to forget):

 Plus I have lots of variants. Back in the the 70s it wasn't uncommon for movies to have different posters for different areas or different cultures.

Some would be less accurate than others like this one where Herbie is yellow:

Or this one where Herbie is red:

Or this one where Herbie is black:

So when I saw this one the other day I assumed it was some variant I had missed over the years:

Turns out it's not. There was a German series of films about Dudu the Superbug.

The films seem like a cross between The Love Bug and Knight Rider.

The car is called  "Dudu" because of the city code for Duisburg, Germany that appears on his license plate.


Here is the info I found on the 5 films:

#1
1971- Ein Käfer geht aufs Ganze 
AKA
"The Love Bug Rally"
"Superbug - The Wild One"
"The Superbug Rally"
"Superbug Goes Wild"
DVD on AMAZON

#2
1972- Ein Käfer gibt Vollgas
AKA
"Superbug, Super Agent"
DVD on AMAZON

#3
1973- Ein Käfer auf Extratour
AKA
"Superbug, The Wild One"
"The Superbug on Extra Tour"
"Superbug Rides Again"
DVD on AMAZON

#4
1975- Das verrückteste Auto der Welt
AKA
"Superbug, the Craziest Car in the World"
"Superwheels"
"The Maddest Car in the World"

#5
1980 - Zwei tolle Käfer räumen auf 

AKA
"Son of Superbug"
"Superbaby"

It's an interesting dose of German cinema. Herbie-sploitation is a genre that I didn't know existed.

With all the different titles it was pretty hard to get a handle on what order the films came in. I am pretty sure I nailed it down above.

Still, the internet is littered with mistakes on this. Amazon lists the wrong years for some of the films, the poster for part 4 calls it part 3 and the IMDb seemed confused in the "movie connections."

Sadly, it looks like part 4 & 5 aren't available in the U.S.A.on DVD. The DVDs that are out there for the others may not be in English. I think I have to buy one to find out.

The whole series is on DVD in Germany.

Guy Hutchinson

O.J.'s See-Action Football

Here is a relic of the past:

It's an odd board game called See-Action Football. The copy I have is branded to O. J. Simpson. It looks like the game was more commonly just "See-Action Football".

I dug out my copy for the Superbowl. It was fun to play.

The game includes a pretty neat projector (essentially a flashlight that lights up a transparency and projects it onto a small cardboard screen.)

The rules seemed complicated so I played using the rules from Clue:

It turned out to be O. J. that killed Mr. Body in the driveway with a knife.

Communism was a red herring.

Guy Hutchinson

Brady Bunch football

I made a life changing decision this Groundhog Day. I spent that evening watching the movie Groundhog Day, the Rankin Bass Groundhog Day special "Jack Frost" and a documentary on groundhogs and their connection to weather.

It was the greatest Groundhog Day ever.

I decided to jump feet first into every holiday henceforth. So, starting on the Friday before Superbowl Sunday I started watching every football themed thing I could. As I got closer and closer to the bottom of the barrel I decided to watch all three iconic football themed Brady Bunch episodes.

First there is the one where Greg steals the mascot of the opposing football team:

Greg hides this goat in his room and the whole show has a weird Three's Company vibe where everyone thinks he has a girl in his room. It's fun.
Sadly, they never show any football.


Next up! Marsha... or is it Marcia... I'm not positive and I don't wanna Google it.

Let's call her Missy, I always liked that name. Missy gets hit in the face with a football.

This show was about Missy breaking a date with a guy. She liked this guy, but didn't think he was cool. I don't remember his name at all. Let's call him Spiro Agnew. I always liked that name.

Missy broke the date because she got another date with a really cool guy. We shall call him Fonzie.

Really all that matters is that she gets hit in the face. Its hysterical.

In the end she comes clean about lying and the Spiro Agnew kid still goes out with her. Dumb ending. She never learned her lesson.

Finally it's the Joe Namath episode:

In this one Joe Namath hits Bobby in the nose with a football and then kidnaps him and keeps him in his room.

Guy Hutchinson