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I could honestly go on and on about classic TV ads forever. While most people were taking potty breaks during the commercial breaks, I was taking in the delightful entertainment and often-times...
View ArticleThe Kids Aren’t All Right
Girls in glasses and braces are such a turn on…. If you grew up in the 80′s like I did, there is very good chance you are already pretty familiar with the topic I’m going to devote this week’s...
View ArticleBig Bucks!!! No Whammies!!!
No one do the voodoo like MBRS do. When did reality become TV? Whatever happened to sitcoms? Game shows? - Bowling For Soup, “1985″ When you turn on the TV during the late morning hours these days,...
View ArticleYou Spin Me Round
Pick a hole, any hole! If you were born sometime in the last two decades, there’s a good chance you’re looking at the picture leading of today’s Flashback Friday post and wondering what in the hell...
View ArticleTouch That Dial!
Now showing on Channel 33…. scrambled porn!!! Oh my… for the second straight week, I’ve started out my Flashback Friday post with some archaic looking device that anyone born since Ronnie Reagan left...
View ArticleOn The Darkside
The 80′s Horror Preservation Society meets for fun and games. (Credit to Mayne, obviously, since I couldn’t do art this nice in a billion years) The decade of excess found many ways to frighten its...
View ArticleSunny Days…
Everything’s A-OK, punk! We were all young once, even those of you out there who actually grew up. Most people alive today grew up in the era of television, and undoubtedly have memories of the...
View ArticleHere Come Da Judge!
The past decade and a half have seen the television airwaves so inundated with reality TV shows, that it’s hard to remember a time when they were the exception to the rule. Even harder still is to...
View Article1-900-EVL-SQRL
Admit it, back in the day, you’d have paid good money to talk to a recording of Sting… As hard as it is for kids under the age of 20 to believe, there was once a time in this world when the internet...
View ArticleThe Hardest Working Man In Showbusiness
Internationally recognized acting superstar, or funeral director? You decide. Do you recognize the man in the picture above? He doesn’t exactly look like someone who belongs on my blog, let alone a...
View ArticleWobble Wobble!
We are the eggmen! I get knocked down But I get up again You’re never gonna keep me down Chumbawamba – “Tubthumping” A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, we had toys that were actually...
View ArticleThat Giant Sucking Sound
Now this chart here shows the delclinin’ popularity of Evil Squirrel’s Nest after yesterday’s comic. I very rarely make political posts on my blog, and there are some good reasons for that besides the...
View ArticlePhoto Hut
Would you like fries with that? There are many technological advances that I loathe and frequently whine complain about on this blog, but if there is one that has been a blessing for me, it has been...
View ArticleFreedom Of Choice
I’ll admit it right now… I’m not much of a reader. In a blogosphere full of aspiring authors and bibliophiles, I stand out like a Hustler magazine in a library. Even if you count collections of...
View ArticleNow That’s Comedy!
We’re totally insaney! There was once a commercial where a guy walking down the street with a chocolate bar happened to accidentally bump into a girl who was obviously having a bad pregnancy craving...
View ArticleOff The Air
The Nest loves political incorrectness. No, don’t adjust your computer monitors! My blog isn’t shutting down. Sorry to make you think I was going to improve the quality of content on the internet by...
View ArticleFallout Squirrel
You may recall back in June I devoted a Saturday Squirrel post to pictures of some majestically beautiful squirrels from the Eastern Hemisphere. Since all of the featured squirrels were from...
View ArticleHold My Hand
Is this almost over? I’m hungry. The 1980′s saw an explosion in celebrity activism, and most of these charitable efforts focused on one lingering issue in the world…. people were starving. In the days...
View ArticleFlight Of The Concorde
Pictured above: NOT Menudo. Ah, the late 80′s. Everything was so colorful and rad. Looking at the picture above, you’d swear it was inspired by a scene from “Full House” or “Saved By The Bell”. But...
View ArticleA Mangy Rodent Production
There was an undeniable “golden age” of television programs that spanned three decades from the 1960′s through the 1980′s that just seems so different from the early television fare that came before...
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