Yeah, that was a paraphrasing of this:
Turning Willis into an action star, the film became a metonym for an action film in which a lone hero fights overwhelming odds.
But even that is like wtf, Commando came out 3 years earlier. First Blood was 6. I’m sure there’s other examples further back.
Enter the Dragon?
It’s 74 cents now in Minnesota. Lowest I ever saw was 48 cents. My stepdad used to talk about 11 cent gas.
I LOVE Money Pit. Such an underrated movie.
Watched that and The 'Burbs back to back one weekend as a kid years after they’d come out.
First Blood wasn’t that big of a hit. Rambo (First Blood II) was the breakout. But the Rocky series was already big by then.
Like Austin Powers.
Except I don’t know that the same dynamics were at play re: video rentals ldo. So I’ll say it’s more like Street Fighter. Who ever played SF before SF II?
Only early 90’s arcade nerds
Original Austin Powers was a big hit I thought. Office Space was the classic one that bombed in the theaters but became huge in after market.
I worked at a convenience store in college in 1991. I don’t know how it did in the theater - but Look Who’s Talking was by far our most requested VHS rental. People would come in every day asking for it. When someone returned it, I would save it for the people who asked the most.
It’s an analogy bc we’re talking sequels being the big hit.
First Austin Powers made only like 70 million if I recall … (looked it’s 67 USD). Sequel made 312 USD.
I watched TGIF when I was a kid
Urkel
Step by Step
Don’t remember the other shows
He hesitated
More like Look Who’s Taking amirite?
Well yeah, who didnt.
I believe the ultimate lineup was Full House, Step by Step, Family Matters, Boy Meets World
I got addicted to this game in college - so good.
In the early 80s my game was Gyruss:
It was a combination of Galaga and Tempest with entrancing stereo sound. Probably the first time in my life I got into flow state.
Host of the ultimate crossover in which at the end of an episode of Family Matters, Steve Urkel used a rocket pack to fly off screen–and into the beginning of an episode of Step by Step.
Did you see the sequel to that? I love the original cast and Zoey Deutch is one charming tater, but ugh it was nowhere close to the original.
1981 ABC - Mork & Mindy, Bosom Buddies, Barney Miller, Taxi
Network lineups were everything back then.
I remember on The Drew Carey Show when they used a similar line:
“Who’s driving that bookmobile, Evelyn Wood?”
It’s a dated joke now that you’d have to explain ftmp. Clever tho.
Argyle in the limo with music on during the Swiss cheese scene was ripped off by Stan Lee in the library with headphones on during the fighting in Amazing Spiderman.
