Me & Mybadself has a new, Christmassy website up. It’s called A BeTaMaXMas. You can access a fictional TV Guide from 1988:
And watch Christmas-themed television shows and commercials from the mid-to-late eighties on a snowy television set in a wood-lined basement “wired for hi-fi.”
It’s scary how much of almost all of these shows I remember, once I start watching them.
this is so precious i cant even tell you.
We have Pee-Wee’s Christmas special on DVD, and it is the gayest thing ever. Grace Jones. Little Richard. Fruitcake. Hot construction workers. Dinah Shore. Oprah. Uniformed men singing. The list goes on and on. . .
Oh man, I totally wanted a “My Buddy” when I was a kid. My parent’s never got me one. Maybe they realized that what I really wanted was a boyfriend, not a “buddy”….
this is your JOB? sign me up.
The sad thing is that I still have ’80s TV Guides stored away at my parents’ place. The Fall Guide editions always rocked.
You can adjust the rabbit ears to clean up the static.
Fancy.
I loved She-Ra! I had an electric toothbrush that had a She-Ra holder. You’d push the botton on the holder and she’d tell you some crap about how brushing you teeth could make you more like her.
Man… those were the days.
Also, by 1988 Betamax was dead in the U.S. and an overwhelming majority of people used VHS to record TV shows. I only mention this to counter the misconception that people in the 80s were all stupid and sat around with Betamax machines. Nostalgia revisionism.
I thought ’88 was a bit late for Betamax.
BetamaXMas was more of a call to that era than the actual technology used. That’s my grandma’s 8-track and VCR under the TV.
Check out: http://betamaxmas.com/?wpix
Sites driven entirely by Flash are the BetaMax of the ’00s.
what’s really scary is that I was a sophomore in college in 1988
I hope there will be re-runs of The Yule Log
This. makes me. unbelievably. happy.
omg omfg He-Man and She-Ra? I know what I’m watching this afternoon.
@7: you lucky bitch. I wanted that toothbrush so bad. Instead I got the shitty Crystal Falls playset with the ghetto jacuzzi.
My parents still have and use a superbetamax.
Super.
@12 Me, too.
Tempus Fuggit.