What do you get when you combine a hit TV show, two kidney transplants, an assault lawsuit, and a 2003 run for the governor of California? Gary Coleman, VH-1’s number one greatest kid star!
Episode 3: Monday, November 14, 2005
In this episode:
- a Peter Falk and Paul Reiser update,
- Gary Coleman imitation,
- insane substitute teachers,
- a piggyback ride by Steve’s uncle,
- ridiculous fashions,
- get-rich-quick schemes (hobo clothes and a clever newspaper ad),
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) starring Pee-wee Herman and Mark Holton,
- AOL,
- UNICEF’s violent Smurfs ad,
- our gangster high school principal,
- Christopher Walken for President (www.walken2008.com).
- and an interview with the fake Christopher Walken.
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Christian Slater
In 2005, Christian Slater starred in the video game movie Alone in the Dark, was accused of groping a woman in Manhattan, and fell off a roof.
Paul Reiser and Peter Falk
Even though Paul Reiser and Peter Falk’s careers are over, they both just starred in Reiser’s movie The Thing About My Folks (2005). Like you, we probably won’t watch it either.
The Noid
Will Vinton Studios, the creator of the California Raisins, also created the Noid, the mascot for Domino’s Pizza in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The commercials featured stop-motion animation by Tony Merrithew (tonymerrithew.blogspot.com) and the slogan, “Avoid the Noid.”
In 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid thought the commercials were a personal attack on him and held two employees of an Atlanta, Georgia, Domino’s Pizza restaurant hostage for five hours. After forcing the employees to cook a free pizza for him, he surrendered to police, was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime, and was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.
In 1990, Capcom produced a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Yo! Noid. It’s a classic, right up there with Mega Man and Street Fighter II…not.