Hey Remember That: Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling!

Alright, so there is something revealing about me with this clip from a Hulk Hogan cartoon.  I loved wrestling as a kid.  I loved cartoons as a kid.  Most of the cartoons I watched were on USA network sometime during the weekend mornings.  Now, rewatching this made me so excited.  The ridiculous cars.  The footage of cheering on a wrestling crowd.  The cartoon of Rowdy Roddy Piper (how can anything go wrong after that?)  Who would have thought that someone could write a cartoon about Andre the Giant, Superfly Jimmy Snooka and some other weird wrestlers could take over a French bakery to make Andre the Giant’s mother happy?  Skip ahead to the 4:45 mark to see some calamity involving the remake of an I Love Lucy skit and then turning it into a food fight.  And cue Mean Gene at the 5:30 mark!  I didn’t think that I would ever remember this, or that there would still be footage of this somewhere online.  This is the kind of stuff that PIPA and SOPA would be taking away folks.  Our memories would be the only thing left, and we wouldn’t be aloud to relive the magic or remember the agony.  Save the Internet!

Weekly Free Economics Lesson: The Penny

When I was in college, I learned about economics.  We learned about money and how certain money producing systems (aka Mints) would change their currency and change their exchange rates with other countries.  The Dollar, the Euro, the Krone, the Yuan, the Yen, Franc, the Peso, they all made sense in some way.  However, there was one part of our own economy that still continues to baffle me: the penny.  Above is a video that shows how awful this Congress is with not only printing money but also making sure that the currency doesn’t become worthless.  The penny started being worthless in 2006 and has just plummeted since.  I don’t understand why or how people get upset or don’t even know how to change this.  I Would urge everyone to write their congressman and ask them why they don’t do this.  The penny is a drain on this economy and it would save us money if we didn’t print it.  The video is wrong about one thing: Only one state accepts pennies at a Toll Booth: Illinois; because Lincoln was from Illinois.  Note this video:

I think I might drop a few economics lessons every now and then just to stretch my mind a little more from living the bachelor life. 

Will I Watch it?: Chelsea Handler’s NBC show

So, after watching this trailer and admittedly seeing the first episode of this show, I can tell you that this trailer is all you need to see to understand the pilot episode.  The only differences are that they switched out the best friend for a small Asian named Ali Wong, Jo Koy isn’t on the show as the bar friend, the redheaded guy was switched (which makes and there really isn’t a joke in this show that I haven’t already expected or heard from Chelsea Handler before.  Plus laugh tracks and voice overs aren’t really funny on any show.  There is a little person in the show and I don’t understand why.  That joke might work on her show, but I don’t think it’ll work for the 8pm timeslot on NBC.  This being the same time slot that Bill Cosby and Jerry Seinfeld ruled for a long time.  The first words from a TV show shouldn’t really include the words “power-slurp the worm”.  I don’t think this show will really last that long, but only because NBC has really overdone the whole funny female comedian thing.  They already have 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, and Up All Night.  Whitney was a good addition.  But Chelsea pushes the car over the ledge and into the river. Will I Watch it?: Probably Not!