most random entertainment memory (Max Rebo on keyboard for Eurythmics)

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Took the MOST RANDOM trip down memory lane yesterday. Thought it might be fun for people to share similarly weird recollections.


When I was a kid I remember my parents having this mix tape of 80s music including some Ronnie Millsap, Hall & Oates, and Eurythmics.

My recollection was that it came with the Ford Aerostar minivan they bought when I was a kid. I thought the Ford logo was on it.


My memory felt vivid, but memories are unreliable and I assumed I was mixing things up or remembering it wrong. Yesterday I heard "Any Day Now" by Ronnie Millsap (which I remembered being on the tape) and it reminded me of all this. I decided to look it up and see if I could find it. Low and behold:

Ford Motor Company Presents Stereo for the '80s


Nice! I'm not insane. Then I reviewed the track list and an even more random thing in my crazy brain made sense.

I didn't remember Track 1 was "Return Of The Jedi: Main Title; Approaching The Death Star."

And Track 2 was "Sweet Dreams."


EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear that iconic keyboard intro to "Sweet Dreams" I IMMEDIATELY think of Max Rebo from ROTJ:



I never really knew why I made that connection, but I think I have always associated that song with ROTJ because of that cassette tape.


The brain is crazy.
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Brian Earl Spilner
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1:02p, 10/30/24
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I associated the 89 Batman logo with cereal in my brain for decades and never knew why. I could almost taste the cereal when I saw it.

Last year or so I finally learned that there was indeed a Batman cereal that released in 1989.



Crazy thing is I was literally 1 year old in 1989, so I have no idea how I can possibly have a memory I have of eating this. But it might be me earliest memory.
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2:35p, 10/30/24
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I sometimes think about how TV was in the 1980s compared to what we try and shield our kids from these days, and how dumb it seems.

The pinnacle of TV entertainment for my brother and I was watching the V miniseries, followed the next year by V: The Final Battle. The miniseries was on in 1983 and was a direct parallel to various elements of the Holocaust / the Nazis. It ended on a fairly desperate note. The Final Battle came out the next year. Just like In Independence Day, it seems like only the US is trying to fight the alien menace.

The Final Battle features the two greatest actors of the 1980s - Michael Ironside and Marc Singer - as well as what I find to be the greatest single moment in TV history; a moment we've strayed from in our constant pandering to make sure everyone is having a good day and nobody's feelings get hurt.

On the show, the Human Resistance has made this red toxin that will kill the aliens once it's in the atmosphere. At this point, Ironside's Ham Tyler - the greatest name for an action star ever - has already pissed off everybody on his own side except for elderly Resistance member Ruby, who he bonds with.

She gets killed by all-time ******bag human sympathizer Daniel. Ham and company get Daniel framed for a kidnapping (the aliens then eat Daniel) but Ham is really after ground commander Stephen, the big thorn in their side.

In a final assault on the Visitor HQ, Ham manages to get the drop on Stephen and take him to the ground. Bearing in mind that a single dust particle of this toxin is lethal to a whole bunch of aliens, Ham takes a special bag out of it out of his pocket, and pours the whole thing into Stephen's mouth, adding "Say goodnight, hot shot."

I bring this all up - and the clip is below if you want to watch it - because I watched this at age 10 with my Dad, and my brother, who was 13 at the time. My mom had watched some of the Final Battle, but had declared it "too violent" and was upset when my dad kept letting us watch it.

With my Mom reading a book in the other room, immediately after Ham finished off Stephen, my dad, nudged both me and my brother, pointed to the TV, and said, "That's how Americans handle their ****ing business."

I had never heard my dad swear before then, and would never hear him swear again until the time in 1994 when NBC cut away from the Rockets-Knicks game to follow OJ down the freeway.

America, **** yeah.

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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 7:52p, 10/30/24
Some of the boxes celebrated with a plastic bust of baan that was a piggy bank
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In reply to Brian Earl Spilner • 8:13p, 10/30/24
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Brian Earl Spilner said:
I associated the 89 Batman logo with cereal in my brain for decades and never knew why. I could almost taste the cereal when I saw it.

Last year or so I finally learned that there was indeed a Batman cereal that released in 1989.



Crazy thing is I was literally 1 year old in 1989, so I have no idea how I can possibly have a memory I have of eating this. But it might be me earliest memory.
It was good ***** Us 80's kids had the best cereals. C3PO's, Nerds Cereal, Nintendo Cereal System. Soviets kids were so jealous.
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In reply to Belton Ag • 8:52p, 10/30/24
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Belton Ag said:
Brian Earl Spilner said:
I associated the 89 Batman logo with cereal in my brain for decades and never knew why. I could almost taste the cereal when I saw it.

Last year or so I finally learned that there was indeed a Batman cereal that released in 1989.



Crazy thing is I was literally 1 year old in 1989, so I have no idea how I can possibly have a memory I have of eating this. But it might be me earliest memory.
It was good ***** Us 80's kids had the best cereals. C3PO's, Nerds Cereal, Nintendo Cereal System. Soviets kids were so jealous.

Don't forget ET cereal!
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8:58p, 10/30/24
I have this weird memory from when I was 3 or 4 of my dad trying to fix our vcr, was unable to, then told me and my mom we were going to go see "batteries not included" which i thought was going to be an instructional video

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In reply to G.I.Bro • 11:49p, 10/30/24
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G.I.Bro said:
I have this weird memory from when I was 3 or 4 of my dad trying to fix our vcr, was unable to, then told me and my mom we were going to go see "batteries not included" which i thought was going to be an instructional video

I remember the first day we bought a VCR. Whole family went to Sound Warehouse and we rented Star Wars, Back to the Future, and Stripes
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2:32a, 11/6/24
USA Up all night!!

quietly the best nights of my life, on the couch eating pringles..

Bikini Beach Vampire Love Vaporwave
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7:10a, 11/6/24
My mother's friends would call and ask me how to access the warp zone in Super Mario Bros.
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In reply to Proposition Joe • 7:26a, 11/6/24
Proposition Joe said:
My mother's friends would call and ask me how to access the warp zone in Super Mario Bros.
Is that some kind of euphemism?
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In reply to Claude! • 7:31a, 11/6/24
Claude! said:
Proposition Joe said:
My mother's friends would call and ask me how to access the warp zone in Super Mario Bros.
Is that some kind of euphemism?

I was 8, so I hope not.
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11:57a, 11/6/24
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My mom got addicted to Super Mario Bros. She gave it up for Lent one year to break the habit.
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One of the cars my parents bought in the 70s came with a music sampler on 8-track. The one song I remember from it is "Summer Breeze." I still think of a maroon Olds Toronado when I hear that song.
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In reply to Hub `93 • 2:47p, 11/6/24
Hub `93 said:
One of the cars my parents bought in the 70s came with a music sampler on 8-track. The one song I remember from it is "Summer Breeze." I still think of a maroon Olds Toronado when I hear that song.
Type O Negative does a pretty good cover of Summer Breeze.
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In reply to Claude! • 3:29p, 11/6/24
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Indeed they do.
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