Speaking of alternate realities... these would be Lost's opening credits if it was "aired in 1967 as a campy sci-fi action series," says the creator. Ben Linus stars as "The Rat," Sayid is "The Assassin," and sex in cages!
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If life is at its roughest and the whole world seems dark, a good, long cry could be in order. Exploit that common weakness and listen to strangers sobbing on this completely normal, totally not creepy, anonymous all crying hotline.
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A show from a game named for what is possibly the hottest video game villainess ever conceived. Carmen Sandiego is a dangerous criminal, but many a geek out there found in the Sandiego franchise a fetish they could subscribe to.
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Despite her instinctual pleasantness, the 1960s housewife still daily encountered enemies of her pursuit of domestic perfection and blissful tidiness. One worthy foe: evil black scuff marks left by heeled shoes. The lady's greatest weapon: floor wax surfboards.
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This retro clip of TMZ's managing editor shows plenty of signs of things to come. He's loud, out-spoken, and aggressive toward his peers. In other words, not much has changed beyond the haircut.
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Will the impending announcement of the Apple Tablet/iSlate/iPad, whatever it's called, change the face of electronic media as much as the iPod did for music in 2001? Check in on Gizmodo's liveblog to find out!
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Harry Everett Smith's Early Abstractions is a film series combining illustration, Surrealism, Dadaist nonsense, animation, and mystical imagery from Buddha to Baphomet and everything between for a trippy treatment of the universal innerspace. Whoa... far out, man....
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In this 1970s instance of international marketing brilliance, Charles Bronson shills Mandom's Japanese line of men's products. Bronson makes dreamily masculine eyes at the world, cooing, "all the world loves a lover", before getting shirtless for a narcissistic cowboy fantasy.
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Riding high off of her success from youthful roles in 80s staples Who's the Boss? and Commando, Alyssa Milano made her own exercise video in 1988, the workout/dance/sleepover double entendre Teen Steam.
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In this retro clip from The Ben Stiller Show, a very young Judd Apatow does a spot-on impersonation of Leno. In it, he's trying out for The Tonight Show back in the days when it still belonged to Johnny Carson.
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As the first of Nickelodeon's 'Nicktoon' releases, Jim Jinkins' Doug was a success running from 1991 to 1999. Quailman, the title character's super-powered alter-ego, garners super-powers by wearing underwear outside of his pants.
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Star Wars: epic testament to American cinema, or French dance hit blowing up in all les discothèques? George Lucas' classic is Francophoned and funkified as C-3PO and Darth Vader dance battle for the fate of the greenscreen galaxy.
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Before Eric Bana was The Hulk or a sexy gladiator in Troy, he was a comedy star in his native Australia. The show was Full Frontal, a sketch comedy show that ran from 1993 to 1997.
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Feathered hair, ripped jean cut-offs, muscle tees and tube socks: these were abundant in 1980s Brooklyn. After watching this video, one thing is clear: there's a void on TV that needs to be filled— and not by current Williamsburg residents.
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This sketch from 1979's Mr. Mike's Mondo Video proves that cats really can swim—if taught by a hunk in a half-shirt. Though its comedy hinges on action nearing animal abuse, cats are natural swimmers, adorably awkward in action.
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There were a lot of hard hitting news reports in 1994 focused on the skating sweetheart, Nancy Kerrigan, and her alleged attacker, Tonya Harding AKA That Fugly Chick. The most informative account was garnered from the mother of David Letterman.
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ABC's after school special "Ace Hits the Big Time" was a revolutionary event. Marvel as a group of purple-clad men dance around revolutionary bowling commentator and former Mr. Belvedere cast member, Rob Stone (he was the older brother).
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In 1989, Tina Turner lent her song What You Get Is What You See to her comrades-in-thighs, Australia's New South Wales Rugby League. Seemingly unrelated to the sport, Tina would be right at home in short-shorts like the ruggers'.
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