Week 25: Pageant of the Transmundane

Prostitutes in a Spanish town have been ordered to wear reflective vests by the police. I guess that's so they are easier to identify when someone is racing down the highway they congregate on.

Anyway, this week's winning entry comes to us from 70s-Child.

In this case, it is a picture of a guy about to drill a hole through his temple in public. Why he is doing so, I don't know, but it was weird enough to get my attention this week.

And because this week's winning entry has to do with someone about to carve their melon, and it is Halloween tomorrow, I thought this image would be the most appropriate.

Congrats Joe. Here is your badge.

The rules of this little contest: Every week I will be selecting one blog post that I have seen from the vast reaches of the blogging village to bestow with the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for being one of the freakiest(in a funny way) things I've seen or read during a 7 day period. It doesn't necessarily have to have been written during the week, I just had to have encountered it. That means that if you find something interesting and repost it like a movie or whatever, if I saw it at your blog first, you get the prize. Of course, creating your own content is also a very good way to win.

This is not a meme. This is an award that I give out, and thus, I am not "tagging" you.

Now, if you see a post that you think is worthy of this illustrious prize, just drop me a line at campybeaver@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't get your suggestion up and award-ready while giving you some credit and a link to your own blog. 

I Hope Seth Rogen Doesn't Observe Kosher Laws...

...because Mythbuster Adam Savage is being quite the ham in this photobomb.

Midweek Video: Nicolas Cage's Agent

I would honestly believe this is how he picks his roles.

College Humor scores again. (Now to wait for someone to rip this off).

So... There Are Going to Be Two Avatar Sequels

Well, I guess my vain hopes that the 3D trend might finally slink away one of these years have been dashed.

Yes, James Cameron is working on two sequels to Avatar scheduled for release sometime around the mid-decade mark, and that means that in anticipation for these two movies, the studios are going to be pumping money into other 3D projects and encouraging people to get 3D TV's through their consumer entertainment divisions.

Now, I don't blame the studios for wanting to make more of these movies, I really don't, since they were insanely profitable. I am just saddened that 3D isn't going to die the way it should have. (OK, the way I think 3D should die is it should be taken out into the street by all the people who got sucked into watching really bad faux-3D fare and beaten to death, but that would never happen).

Check Out My New Coalition of Awesomeness Post!

I might not be around too much this afternoon, as we are getting warnings about some severe wind storm action in this area, so I thought I would take this opportunity to hype something, because I am always the salesman. *wink*

The current theme over at The Coalition of Awesomeness is our own personal horrors and I chose one of my favorite movies to discuss: The Thing.

It is a cold, scary world. Bundle up!

No Khan in the new Star Trek: Huzzah!

Well, the news out of Hollywood is that Khan will not be in the second Star Trek movie. And I am relieved (and I expect that Lee is also pleased by this news).

There had been rumors that they maybe the producers wanted to go in a Wrath of Khan direction with the franchise, but really how could they do The Wrath of Khan when at this point no one has done anything to him in the first place.

And you don't think Spock is going to be really wary of Khan now knowing what happened to himself in the original history?

They basically have a blank slate to work with, and I think it would be more interesting if they explored different things in these movies than the original ones did, and it looks like that is exactly what they are going to do.

Dragon Ball Will Have New Chapters

What happens when I start getting into Dragon Ball Z? Well, the original creator decides that now is the right time to come back and write some more chapters.

Yeah, I wish I was that awesome, but once again, coincidence follows me where ever I go.

But rumor has it that with the upcoming release of a MMO based on the Dragon Ball franchise, series creator Akira Toriyama finally gave in after 15 years and has decided that there may indeed be some more stories worth telling in this particular universe. Of course, financially he is also likely to make off like a bandit, as the whole ball of wax that is Dragon Ball has raked in over 4 billion dollars.

And perhaps the bad taste that Dragon Ball GT (a series which Akira Toriyama didn't create) will be washed away by this new project.

The Kai version of DBZ is pretty sweet too as they've cut out a lot of the flab and got it down to a much more manageable and tight presentation. Hopefully when this new manga is made into an animated series (which you know it will), the producers wait a little bit so they don't have to stretch things out with unnecessary sidestories and overly long fighting scenes.

Apparently when this is finally released, it is going to be simultaneously released in both Japanese and an English translation. How awesome is that?

Week 24: Pageant of the Transmundane

Friend of the site John Farrier sent me word that the Vatican has declared Homer Simpson a true Catholic. There are a lot of jokes I could make here, but I think the simplest and least controversial one I can make here is really, why would any religion want to claim Homer Simpson as their own.

Anyway, this week's winning entry comes to us from The Daily Shite. Now, usually I don't like to give this award to bigger sites, but this entry is just so good I think everyone needs to see it.

By now I am sure everyone has seen at least one video of someone after the dentist, the most famous of which is a little kid name David. But the above site found the best After Dentist video I've ever seen. I feel really bad for this young woman because this one is really embarassing. But it is hilarious too.

And since this has to do with going to the dentist, I thought Homer thinking about the plant's Dental Plan would be the most appropriate image.

Congrats Paul. Here is your badge.

The rules of this little contest: Every week I will be selecting one blog post that I have seen from the vast reaches of the blogging village to bestow with the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for being one of the freakiest(in a funny way) things I've seen or read during a 7 day period. It doesn't necessarily have to have been written during the week, I just had to have encountered it. That means that if you find something interesting and repost it like a movie or whatever, if I saw it at your blog first, you get the prize. Of course, creating your own content is also a very good way to win.

This is not a meme. This is an award that I give out, and thus, I am not "tagging" you.

Now, if you see a post that you think is worthy of this illustrious prize, just drop me a line at campybeaver@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't get your suggestion up and award-ready while giving you some credit and a link to your own blog.

Ryan Reynolds compares Deadpool to Barfly

It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like Barfly if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person.

The first thing I thought of was the fact that both Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rourke were both in comic book-based movies (Supergirl and Sin City/Iron Man II respectively).

Does that make me weird?

I Mean

OK, I know that I use the phrase "I mean" a lot. If you noticed it, I knew that I was doing it.

I just didn't know that someone would find my blog after looking for that term.

I think that should tell me something about my writing style, and suggest that I should embark on a course of action which leads to self-improvement.

Midweek Video: Otters: Menace or Supercute Marvel?

Mark Wahlberg to Star in Crow Remake?

Once again, Mark Wahlberg may be setting himself up to destroy another iconic film.

Not content with his connection with the disasterous Planet of the Apes remake or the forgettable remake of Charade, The Truth about Charlie and the disappointing take on The Italian Job, apparently he has been offered the title role in The Crow remake.

Because that is just what that role needed... someone 10 years older and built like a side of beef... and who possesses a similar acting style to that same edible article.

Here are a few rules that I've noticed generally apply to remakes:

1. Don't remake a Michael Caine movie (Get Carter, Alfie, The Italian Job etc).

2. Don't remake a John Carpenter movie (Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, They Live, which I haven't seen, but you know it is going to be crappy and so many others).

3. Don't let Mark Wahlberg star in your remake (Wahlberg was in The Departed, but wasn't the star).

I think those are some good general rules. I am not even going to rant about remakes in general because it would be me as a broken record preaching to you, the choir.

And I mean, in almost every other remake, they go younger, and in the one case when it might actually be appropriate, they are going older. Hmmm... why?

This has disaster written all over it. Especially since it is the producer from all The Crow sequels behind this mess.

Music to My Ears

I wouldn't support [a remake]. We don't want to do a remake, and we don't want to do a part four. We've seen franchises that go back too many times; they do one too many sequels, or remake something that should not have been remade. Bob [Zemeckis] and I are real happy with the way the movies are as they now exist, and we will do the opposite of what everyone else does and say leave well enough alone -- let's not tamper with the past.

-Bob Gale on the prospects of a Back to the Future remake/sequel

Bravo!

Sunday Video: Dancing for Different Cultures

I was just thinking about this sketch this week, mainly because Semaj brought up another Dave Chappelle sketch.

Strangely enough, I wasn't looking for this... it just happened to fall in my lap, so I am running with it.

Week 23: Pageant of the Transmundane

A man threw a roll of toilet paper at the back of a custodian's head because he happened to be whistling as he replaced the rolls in the bathroom. No news on where that gentleman's maturity had run off to, but the police have charged him while they look for it.

This week's winning entry comes to us from the blog Top Cultured.

In this case, it is a wonderful series of letters between a little girl, Walt Disney and Walter Lantz in 1964.

And since this week's winning entry has to do with Disney, I thought this particular product would be the most appropriate.

Congrats Oral Adams on this win. Here is your badge.

The rules of this little contest: Every week I will be selecting one blog post that I have seen from the vast reaches of the blogging village to bestow with the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for being one of the freakiest(in a funny way) things I've seen or read during a 7 day period. It doesn't necessarily have to have been written during the week, I just had to have encountered it. That means that if you find something interesting and repost it like a movie or whatever, if I saw it at your blog first, you get the prize. Of course, creating your own content is also a very good way to win.

This is not a meme. This is an award that I give out, and thus, I am not "tagging" you.

Now, if you see a post that you think is worthy of this illustrious prize, just drop me a line at campybeaver@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't get your suggestion up and award-ready while giving you some credit and a link to your own blog.

Friday Favorite: A First-Person Shooter I'd like to see in another format

From back in November of 2006. Some recent discussions about the possibility of a TimeSplitters 4 brought this up in my mind.

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After reading about the shelving of the Halo movie and seeing the dreadful movie version of Doom over the weekend, I got to thinking about a certain FPS series that perhaps deserves a little bit more media exposure, though I don't think film is the ideal medium for its stories to be revealed.

I am, of course, talking about the TimeSplitters, a series of games based on the premise that aliens from outside of our time/dimension are attempting to destroy the human race at various periods of our modern history and it is up to a few heroes who are in the right place at the right time(literally of course), to stop them.

Why Timesplitters?
With the Timesplitters universe have a potentially interesting set of characters from various time periods, their adversaries and a larger evil to fight. I mean, I would love to see some more stories about the the swashbuckling explorer/archeologist Captain Ash in the early part of the 20th century, the hip 1970's groove of superspy Harry Tipper and the gunslinging prowess of Elijah Jones in the Wild West amongst others, not to mention seeing more about Sergeant Cortez and Corporal Hart trying to save our entire species from annihilation at the hands of the twisted and evil Timesplitters from the 2400's and other points in our future as well. There is a lot of ground to cover, a lot of places to explore and a lot of stories worth telling. Of course, I am not looking for a movie here, because frankly, that would be a waste of the breadth of available material. But I do think that an animated series could do the whole concept justice. I mean, you have aliens, robots, spies, zombies, serial killers, gunslingers, mutants... the whole gambit of science fiction and horror characters in one packages. Of course, you have to remember that of all the plot devices out there, time travel is my favorite, so I may be biased as well.



Why am I advocating this be presented in animated form?
The TimeSplitters story is sort of cartoonish to begin with, so it makes sense to continue in that style, and it would seem to be easier to maintain the overall look and style of the gaming experience and environments in an animated form. And since you can do a lot with a talented crew of voice actors, a few quality choices could fill the character rosters nicely. It would also permit those involved to take storylines in the directions they need to go without having to worry about the costs of special effects and the hassles of location shooting.

Now, I was never a huge fan of the Star Wars franchise, but I was impressed by the idea behind the Clone Wars cartoon series, and that is really the impetus behind this Timesplitters idea. I wouldn't want it to be like the action cartoons that were on when I was child, where the storylines don't all lead up to an ending (I'm looking right at you, G.I. Joe with that one).

How likely is this to happen. I really am not holding my breath, but I think this could really work.

Tags: timesplitters, free radical, electronic arts, time travel, first person shooter, fps, doom, halo, cortez, hart, monkey, clone wars, cartoon, animation, aliens, star wars, zombies, harry tipper, ash, wild west

Midweek Video: Bang Bang Bang live on Letterman

I will admit I first flipped on Letterman and this performance was just starting my first reaction was "Geez, look at that she-hipster" in regards to MNDR... but then I listened to the song, and I loved it.

In fact, after that performance, the studio version is sort of disappointing to me.

And you thought the Garfield and Marmaduke Movies Were Bad

Just when you thought that comic strip based movies couldn't get any worse, there is news out of Hollywood that yes, Family Circus is going to be made into a live-action movie.

Who asked for this movie? I mean, who demanded it? Yes, it is a popular comic, but that doesn't mean it is good.

I think a particular scene from the movie Go got to the heart of why the comic is so widely read.

Todd Gaines: You read your paper and you're enjoying your two-page comic spread. And there's The Family fucking Circus, bottom right corner, just waiting to suck. And that's the last thing you read, so it spoils everything you read before it.

Claire: You could just not read it

Todd: I hate it and yet I am uncontrollably drawn to it

I mean, it certainly isn't even going to be Dennis the Menace.

My question is, how many people are actually going to see this movie because they want to and not for ironic reasons.

Express Checkout: T-Bag, O'Donnell, Die Hard, King of Fighters

- The producers of the upcoming A&E's Breakout Kings (who just happen to be the former producers of Prison Break) want to cast Robert Knepper on their new show. And they want him to play his former character, Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell. My interest in this show just rose exponentially.

- I've heard a rumor that Christine O'Donnell's senate campaign is aimed not towards her winning that particular seat, but another one: Fox News employee. I would totally buy that. I am not saying that it is true, but given some of the other politicians who, after losing an election, have ended up there, it wouldn't surprise me if that was at least an established fallback position for O'Donnell. (And as a side note, given her puritanical attitudes and statements in the present and past, I am sure if a sex tape was to surface featuring her, it would be a huge seller).

- So there is a CGI sequel to Starship Troopers and 2 more Die Hard movies in the works. Boo to the former and maybe, maybe a yes! to the latter. It depends on who is writing those sequels and if they are going to be PG-13 or Restricted.

- I watched the King of Fighters movie last week, and while it was bad (though not The Legend of Chun-Li bad, as you would expect a video game based movie to be, it did manage to capture just how brutal SNK Bosses are in film form. I think that is something most movies based on fighting games tend to miss.

My 8Track Station

While I had some time over the weekend, I thought it would be fun to put together a playlist on 8track.

So far I have about 70 songs on it, so there should be a lot of variety.

I don't know if it is going to play in this window, but if it doesn't, it should still link to my station.

There are also quite a few tracks from my podcasts too. So why not check it out?

Sunday Video: Robogeisha

It is like someone showed the Grindhouse trailers to the director of The Machine Girl and he said to himself, yeah, I can totally top that with a movie of my own.

I thought I saw some bare breasts in this, so it may not be safe for work. It is definitely not safe for sanity.

That was just insane. And now I have to seek this out for my own viewing.

Week 22: Pageant of the Transmundane

A man has postponed getting a pacemaker installed just so he can watch the upcoming Michigan/Michigan St. game. As I live in the area, the coverage has been excessive to say the least, and I think that is a weird decision on that individuals part. And I love college football.

Anyway, this week's winning entry comes to us from Pacroid, a video game blog, and one which has been around for a while.

Today, they posted a video which asked the question: what if Jersey Shore was an SNES RPG. The results are hilarious.

And since this week's winning entry had to do with being at a dance club at some point, I thought this image from the episode Three Gays of the Condo would be the most appropriate.

Congrats Josh. Here is your badge.

The rules of this little contest: Every week I will be selecting one blog post that I have seen from the vast reaches of the blogging village to bestow with the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for being one of the freakiest(in a funny way) things I've seen or read during a 7 day period. It doesn't necessarily have to have been written during the week, I just had to have encountered it. That means that if you find something interesting and repost it like a movie or whatever, if I saw it at your blog first, you get the prize. Of course, creating your own content is also a very good way to win.

This is not a meme. This is an award that I give out, and thus, I am not "tagging" you.

Now, if you see a post that you think is worthy of this illustrious prize, just drop me a line at campybeaver@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't get your suggestion up and award-ready while giving you some credit and a link to your own blog.

What Mike Myers Should Do

When I heard that Mike Myers was going to be tackling another cartoon creation in his next film (Pepe Le Pew), I immediately knew it was a bad idea. Yes, it is likely won't be as bad as one of the projects Eddie Murphy has been doing as of late, but it will still be pretty bad (as The Cat in the Hat likely demonstrates).

It got me to thinking... what would rehabilitate Mike Myers in my mind. What could he possibly do that could make me like him again.

Then it hit me: he should do an semi-autobiographical one man show like John Leguizamo did. I mean, before I saw Freak and Sexaholix... A Love Story, I didn't really like him, but now, I appreciate him for the talented individual he is and his struggle as an actor.

Does he still make some duds? Yes. But I can see them for what they are.

And it isn't like Myers wouldn't have a lot of material to draw from for such a project. I mean, there is getting his start in Canada, his movie career, his family. There is a lot of areas he could mine.

But the motherlode would have to be his time on SNL. Are you telling me that people would go to see him discuss some of his experiences on that show in a candid and entertaining manner. And I am sure a lot of people would watch such a performance on HBO too. I know I would.

Donald Trump Mulls Presidential Run... The Simpsons Called It

Am I the only one who thought of a particular scene from a Simpsons episode when they first read that Donald Trump was considering running for the presidency in 2012?

Lisa: As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How bad is it Secretary Van Houten?
Milhouse: [shows to a chart] We're broke.
Lisa: The country is broke? How can that be?
Milhouse: Well, remember when the last administration decided to invest in our nation's children? Big mistake.
Aide: The balanced breakfast program just created a generation of ultra-strong super-criminals.
Milhouse: And midnight basketball taught them to function without sleep.

I hope Trump runs for a third party just for the possibility that Fox News whips that Simpsons clip out.

Midweek Video: Repeated Viewings

In keeping with my entry yesterday, here is another time travel related short animated film.

Created by Dan Ashwood, this movie is a little weird and a sort of sad, but it is a well-thought out exercise.

Another Way I Wrecked Back to the Future for Myself

You know when you someone pokes a few holes in the logic of a movie, and in doing so, it makes you start to pull on some threads yourself.

Well, after I saw the After Hours analysis of Back to the Future, I started to think about that particular series in a little more depth, and now I've totally wrecked it for myself.

Because I started to think about this fact: Doc Brown in 1955 was against messing with the timeline in any way. However, the whole plot of the first movie is young Doc tinkering with the time machine he was going to build in 1985... so he basically he got to see exactly how he built it. So there wouldn't have been all that fumbling he did for 30 years up to the point of his first test. He would know after that point that it is indeed possible, and now he knows quite a bit about how to build it on both a theoretical and practical level.

So how could he not build the time machine earlier? Brown doesn't know the steps he took to put it together in the future, or what research he did in pursuing the goal of time travel, so his life would be radically different than it was before Marty arrived, and therefore, so would everyone in Hill Valley, because he would end up doing a series of different things to reach that same goal.

I mean, think about even one small aspect of the knowledge that Doc now has... he knows how much electricity it takes to power the flux capacitor... and he has 30 years to work on that particular problem. He can either come up with a way to generate that amount of power, or a more efficient capacitor that can work with far less energy. He had that option.

So this is a lesson to myself and to everyone else: don't start pulling on threads in things you like because you will only wreck them.

About Rick Sanchez and Jon Stewart

When this whole little episode with Rick Sanchez's adventures in radio began, I had a flashback to a scene from the 1994 movie, The Paper, where the parking commissioner Sandusky (Jason Alexander) has it in for a New York Sun reporter McDougal (Randy Quaid) because he has been slamming his department in his column.

Sandusky: Why did you have to pick on me?
McDougal: You should have returned my calls.
Sandusky: You called me a mindless bureaucrat!
McDougal: You should have paid for the damages.
Sandusky: You made my kids scared to go to school. You made my wife cry when she reads the paper.
McDougal: At least she bought it, didn't she?
Sandusky: You tell me right now or I'm going to pull this fucking trigger. Why me?
McDougal: You work for the city. It was your turn.

And that in a nutshell is how I saw Stewart's jokes at Rick Sanchez's expense. It was just his turn.

I mean, really, if Jon Stewart is busting your balls, it is sort of an indication that you've made it. Hell, I'd gladly take some ribbing from Jon Stewart. Or Glenn Beck even. Bring it on.

But what I find hilarious in all this is how the media is characterizing this as Sanchez getting fired because he criticized Stewart. I am sure that all the news networks would love to see Jon Stewart getting taken down a peg, so clearly, that isn't the reason. He goes after them all, and seeing him take a few hits is great for them.

But the headlines I've seen since this happened, even today are making it seem like taking shots at Stewart was the reason he got the axe instead of some of the other comments:

CNN Anchor Ousted Over 'Bigot' Comments
News anchor Rick Sanchez is fired after calling Jon Stewart a bigot.

Rick Sanchez Ousted After Jon Stewart Crack

What is amazing though is after Sanchez got fired, an article was posted on The Huffington Post detailing a lot of stupid things he has done/said on the air. It was titled It's the Stupid, Stupid: Rick Sanchez Fired for the Wrong Reasons.

Now that was an interesting read and an alternate take on the Sanchez firing. If he got fired for that with the other stuff being the excuse, I would totally buy it.

Hate the New IMDB interface? There is a solution

I am sure a lot of you hate the new interface the Internet Movie Database introduced a little while ago, but there is a little secret I think everyone should know.

Technically, you can still reach the older version of the IMDB if you know where to look. And lucky for you all, I figured that out.

If you are looking at a movie, television show and the like and you want to see the old style view of its listing, put in the following after the its specific listing.

/combined

For example, if when you visit the listing for The Social Network, it comes up like this, change /maindetails at the end of the url to /combined, and the old version of the page should appear.

And for people, like say, Kiefer Sutherland, add /filmotype to the end, and you should have a more normal looking display.

Sadly, I haven't found a way to bring back the old front page, but if there is a way, I will share with the group.

Hopefully the IMDB keeps these views available for people who hate the new layout. I hope this helps a few people out.

Sunday Video: Machete Trailer in Lego

The original Grindhouse trailer for Machete recreated in Lego. Two awesome things in one beautiful package.

I didn't know they had Legos that could replicate Danny Trejo, I honestly didn't.

Week 21: Pageant of the Transmundane

A man from the Washington State Potato Commission is going to go on an all-potato diet. Look, I love potatoes, I really do, but even I am going to say "That dude's crazy".

This week's winning entry comes from the blog Toxel.com.

In this case it is a series of Stuffed Animals with Mental Disorders, which is both weird and insanely cute. (If I was otaku, I would have said it was kawaii).

And since this week's winning entry has to do with mental disorders, I thought Shining-inspired Homer was the best

Congrats. Here is your badge.

The rules of this little contest: Every week I will be selecting one blog post that I have seen from the vast reaches of the blogging village to bestow with the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for being one of the freakiest(in a funny way) things I've seen or read during a 7 day period. It doesn't necessarily have to have been written during the week, I just had to have encountered it. That means that if you find something interesting and repost it like a movie or whatever, if I saw it at your blog first, you get the prize. Of course, creating your own content is also a very good way to win.

This is not a meme. This is an award that I give out, and thus, I am not "tagging" you.

Now, if you see a post that you think is worthy of this illustrious prize, just drop me a line at campybeaver@gmail.com and we'll see if we can't get your suggestion up and award-ready while giving you some credit and a link to your own blog.

Friday Favorite: Stories from a Pop Culture Past: Stand By Me

Originally published in June 2007
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Two for Flinching. Those were words I grew to loathe with my entire essence in grade school. TFF was a concept that hadn't hit my school until 1986, and I can thank one particular movie for bringing this form of torture into my life: Stand By Me.

Now this game really sucked for me because, like Jerry O'Connell's Vern, I was overweight and I always flinched. I mean, always, so my arms between my elbows and shoulders were purple at the end of a school week from getting wailed on every single day. And when your arms are purple, well, getting punched full bore hurts like hell. And given the fact that in addition to two for flinching, there was also the deadly game, and I can tell you, you really don't want to move your arms.

In adult life, well, if someone or a group of people were doing that to you, well, you probably flat out deck them, but when you are a kid, you play by those stupid rules. If I had been smarter and braver back then, I should have hit someone in the face and when they got pissed at me, told them that they should have flinched. It could have worked. At least in my mind it would have.

Of course, I am very hard to bruise now... I could probably get hit in the arm with a sledgehammer and have just a little light bruising. Not that I want to put that to the test mind you, but I've taken a lot of hard shots to the arms in the past 15 years, and really haven't bruised... so perhaps all that punching did toughen me up.

And with some of the other things that happened in that movie... like I could have gotten a leech stuck in my underwear like Wil Wheaton, or have a huge fat kid barf blueberry pie all over me, because let's face it, those two things would screw you up for life.

Tags: game, two for flinching, stand by me, wil wheaton, 1986, movie, bruising, pop culture, past, corey feldman, jerry o'connell, river phoenix