It's the second full week of the Countdown to Halloween, so why not start it off with a bit of Batman?
Granted, he's maybe not the first thing you think of when you think of Halloween, but superheroes have been a Halloween costume staple for decades, and besides, Batman kind of has Halloween built into him, you know?
This short cartoon titled "Batman: Strange Days" was created by Bruce Timm in honor of Batman's 75th anniversary back in 2014, and features Bats in his earliest character design from 1939. Here, he rescues a damsel in distress from his first-ever supervillain, Professor Hugo Strange. The cartoon is done in beautiful film noir style, and to make it more appropriate for Halloween, features a large zombie.
Hey there numbskulls! It's time for a long-form Halloween program, as I do every Friday during the Countdown. And this week, I'm featuring three of my favorite people of all time--The Three Stooges!
The Three Stooges Halloween Special is a compilation of several spooky-themed Stooges films put together for the official Three Stooges YouTube channel. I've featured a couple of their frightful filmsbefore, and I'm very happy to present more to you this year.
So jump in the saddle and enjoy the show! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
Have a great weekend! Ride that hayride! Haunt that house! Drink that cider! Enjoy!
Today on the Countdown I offer a fun, if gross, skit from the infamous 1980s comedy series Fridays.
Fridays aired for three seasons on ABC in the early 80s and featured future Seinfeld co-creator Larry David and cast member Michael Richards ("Kramer"). The skit below is one of the earliest, and most notorious, of the entire series. On the third episode of the first season, "Diner of the Living Dead" aired, about a young human couple looking for a bite to eat, and stop at a local diner--completely staffed by flesh-eating zombies.
The skit is pretty gory for a comedy show, even one airing late at night, and a decent number of ABC affiliates were so offended by the sketch that they dropped the series from their schedules
Welcome back! Today's entry in the Countdown to Halloween is a fun clip from the classic days of Sesame Street. Lovable characters Bert and Ernie, the Abbott and Costello of Sesame Street, meet an ancient mummy who looks suspiciously familiar.
OK, it's a statue come to life, not a mummy, but you get the point.
Hello pumpkins! Welcome to the first full week of the Countdown to Halloween. I hope you spent the first weekend of October doing scary, spooky things! I know I did--I got a flu shot. Scary! And I just started decorating for the holiday, finally. I only got a few items up so far, but I'll be adding more and more throughout the week.
For the first true article of the Countdown (with Friday's post being just an intro), I present one of my favorite categories of Countdown articles--great Halloween TV commercials. As much as most people find your average commercial an annoyance, Halloween-themed commercials let you know that society is ready to get its scare on. Let's check out my first of what I hope will be several sets of commercial goodness!
First up--would you move into a haunted house just to enjoy a brand new Audi? These people certainly would!
Next, Walgreen's has long been a Halloween headquarters for the latest decorations and candy. Check them out now if you haven't already!
In this next commercial, the villains have taken over Disneyland in Calfornia! Beware of the grim, grinning ghosts!
Think that's scary? That's nothing compared to the haunting of Universal Orlando during Halloween Horror Nights!
Airing this very year, here is Freeform's fun promo for their classic perennial, 31 Nights of Halloween!
Finally (for now), this next commercial gets me right in the nostalgia bone. It's a Woolworth and Woolco ad from my childhood shilling the cheapest costumes Ben Cooper had to offer. For me, THIS is Halloween!
I hope you enjoyed these exhibits of creepy capitalism. Stay tuned for more installments this month, and please hang around for all my exhibits during the Countdown to Halloween. The fun is literally just beginning!
Welcome one and all to the 2021 Countdown to Halloween! 'Tis time once again to leave our coffins and enter the dark of night that is the Halloween season. But we don't do it alone. We have dozens of fellow blogger friends ready to roll with 31 days of Halloween horror, hi-jinks, and spookiness.
Check out all the blogs at the official Countdown to Halloween site, run this year by Dex of AEIOU, Michael May, and Naaila Moon of Zombie Crossings. It's only due to their hard work that the Countdown continues. Thank you all so much!
As for this neck of the spooky woods, you will find movies, cartoons, TV episodes, commercials, and who knows what else. What I know for certain is we will have a great time!
My goal is to post something new every weekday, Monday through Friday, as best I can. Please show your support for the blog by leaving comments and sharing your favorite articles. I really appreciate it!
Welcome back to Me and You and a Blog Named Boo. I hope everyone had a happy, safe, and healthy summer! Please do everything you can to stay healthy, and I mean that physically, mentally, and emotionally. Take advantage of every resource you can to maintain safety, health, and sanity at this trying time.
As is tradition here at the blog the days after Labor Day, I present some fun stuff to clear your mind of the summer cobwebs and get you back to school, so to speak. Summer is usually (hopefully) a time to relax, unwind, and take a vacation (or several). With fall approaching, it's time to get back in focus, because we have the best time of year ahead of us! When we were kids, going back to school made sure we were focused and alert. As adults, we have to do it ourselves.
With this in mind, here are some songs to put you in a studious frame of mind. Pay attention, they'll be a pop quiz later!
