Behold The Radness

"Stef Schrader" (stefschrader) 12/03/2015 at 14:52 • Filed to: I 'Lump the 80s, Puffalopnik, Puffalumps, Fisher-Price, catalog

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What comes out of a magical 1980s laser box? Puffalump bears, apparently.

“Cuddly softness and loveableness.” Awwwwww yeaaaaah!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 14:54

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where did you dig that up from?

PatBateman > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 14:57

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I need one of those right now.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 14:57

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I’m terrified.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 14:59

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First pic almost looks like it should be a Hall & Oates album or something.

Takuro Spirit > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:00

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Little Timothy knew at a young age, all he had to do was give the bitches cuddly things to play with once they were done cooking and cleaning. And he could just sit back, and play with his airplane/helicopter/spaceship thing.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:01

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Something is not normal in you.

I like it

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 12/03/2015 at 15:02

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Normal is just a euphemism for mediocre.

jariten1781 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2015 at 15:04

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The colors and style triggered this memory for me:

Which is an odd choice or a children’s ad.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:06

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Obvious not-a-cow is obvious.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > jariten1781 12/03/2015 at 15:07

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If you’re going to do 80s neon, do it right.

Berang > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:09

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What challenge needed meeting?

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/03/2015 at 15:17

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Oh here it comes watch out kids, they make toys. Oh here it comes, its Fisher-Price!

Corporate cover of Maneater.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/03/2015 at 15:18

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Now the song is in my head.

Sam > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:19

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“Cuddly softness and lovableness *AND ALSO LASERS OF DEATH AND ADORABLE DESTRUCTION*.”

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > Berang 12/03/2015 at 15:19

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Buy your kid every toy in our line before the year’s out.

Ike > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:21

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This is from the year I was born, this scares me

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 12/03/2015 at 15:22

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Boomboom

boomboom

boomboom BoomBoom BOOOOM BOOOOM

I absolutely hated that song and everything about it until I saw that montage for the first time. I knew it was coming and had every intention of laughing, but it’s such an amazing scene that I ended up being blown away and watched the rest of the series.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/03/2015 at 15:25

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Yeah, I started watching it on Netflix for the cars and ‘80s cheese and quickly realized how good the show was, especially for its time. There were still some cheesy scenes, but mostly I was impressed with the script and the artful shooting for the era. That scene in particular was fantastic. I was close to the end of season 3 when Netflix dropped it.

pjhusa > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:28

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Thanks to you

I now want

Puffalump

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 12/03/2015 at 15:30

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The opening for the pilot is amazing as well. Obviously, Crockett and Tubbs are icons now, but if that scene came on in 1984, you had no idea what was going on until like 3/4 of the way through the second part. All you saw was a dude with a sawn-off kill another guy in a bar then run away with practically no dialog. You don’t know that it’s Tubbs and that he’s one of the good guys in the pilot. Tubbs was definitely the cooler one when they started. I kind of think that the problem with MV is the volume of content. The first season took a little while to find its voice, but got good at the end and the second season was pretty good, but with 22hour-long episodes per year, I don’t think that they were able to keep the quality consistent, which is why half of them are really bad, but when they’re good they’re amazing.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/03/2015 at 15:34

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They had alot of changeups in writers and producers, too, I believe. Dick Wolf came on board for season 3 and the quality went up, I thought.

Ash78, voting early and often > Takuro Spirit 12/03/2015 at 15:41

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In almost 10 years on Jalopnik, nothing has actually made me choke on food so badly that I actually feared true physical harm to myself. My rear nasal passages are now filled with pretzel goo and my lungs feel scarred from all the coughing.

Congratulations!

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 12/03/2015 at 15:45

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Yeah, Dick Wolf made the quality go up in some ways, but not in the right way IMO. He seemed to be going more in a realism direction that he would revisit later with Law and Order. They got more consistent at first, but the good moments weren’t as good and the bad moments started getting even worse. They still managed to churn out a good episode every once in a while in season four, but they would be peppered in between the worst of the worst like God’s Work (amazing) being followed immediately by Missing Hours (Trudi gets abducted by James Brown - who is an alien - and the Vice Squad forget how to investigate to make room for a young Chris Rock to try to be funny). I think that the end of season one, most of season two, and the beginning/middle of three were really their prime when they had the voice of the series down pat. Four was then Michael Mann left to work on Crime Stories full time (I really want to see that one), and that was to me when they got really, really bad.

Birddog > Stef Schrader 12/03/2015 at 15:52

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No sweetie, those toys are for the boys. Here go play with this Hoover.

Destructive Tester > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 12/03/2015 at 15:58

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My first guess would be “a lot.”

I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing...

Takuro Spirit > Ash78, voting early and often 12/03/2015 at 16:08

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It’s a great day to be me.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/03/2015 at 16:17

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Yeah, I can imagine MV sans Mann not being great. I think they would have done better to include more running storylines and surviving villains across the seasons. As was just about every show of the era, it was too episodic. I’m glad modern TV is progressing past that.

The Compromiser > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/03/2015 at 18:10

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Euphemism is just another word for. ..ummmm, er. Ah.... wellll... Shit.

Stef Schrader > Takuro Spirit 12/05/2015 at 21:23

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Jokes on you, Timmy. Bear is the best!

Stef Schrader > Berang 12/05/2015 at 21:24

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#brands or #sales or #commerce or whatever. Corporate, capitalistic things. Looks like a sales catalog to their different vendors (i.e. toy shops).

Stef Schrader > Birddog 12/05/2015 at 21:25

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I think I had that vacuum. Made noises. Rolled. Not unlike other fun things with wheels, come to think of it. I mean, it wasn’t as cool as my pedal car, but it was kinda neat.

Still, clearly, the Puffalump got more use, hehe.

Stef Schrader > Ike 12/05/2015 at 21:26

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YESSSSS. 29-year-olds FTW!

Stef Schrader > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/05/2015 at 21:27

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Old Google Image Search somewhere. Random images off my hard drive.

Ike > Stef Schrader 12/05/2015 at 22:00

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Hmmm maybe this explains why my fav color is pink?

Also 30 next year! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm fine with this

Birddog > Stef Schrader 12/05/2015 at 22:08

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I think Fisher Price might owe you a few paychecks for all the free advertising.