The Intermission Society is dedicated to preserving the weird, the bizarre and the inspired moments that have come and gone through the last thirty years of pop culture. Media-related oddities such as long-forgotten fast food promotions, ill-advised toy and collectable commercials and other relics of past will be catalogued and offered up for posterity and archival purposes with no rights implied or given. We're not out to make a buck, just simply trying to remember a more interesting time and place...
Hello. Good morning. My name is Brian López. 2001 through 2005 is the golden age of good Burger King ads. 2006 to present day is when Burger King ads start going downhill.
I’m writing this in 2024. Actually just happened to me. I hadn’t been to a Taco Bell for about 6 years. The other night, I for some reason wanted some Taco Bell. The drive thru was backed up so I decided to walk in and order at the counter (or so I thought). I walked in and the place was relatively empty. Two younger college aged kids sitting at a table over in the corner and an older lady sitting at a table near the door I walked in. No one in line. There was a teenage boy standing behind the counter. I thought he was the cashier/counter attendant. He didn’t say a word. I stepped to the counter and immediately noticed there was no cash register. Kind of confused me but maybe it was beneath the counter. I then looked up to the menu board but to my surprise there was no menu. Instead where the menu board once stood, there were just pictures of Mexican cuisine. Not Taco Bell type of food but real Mexican cuisine. Again, this was confusing so I asked the young man behind the counter where the menu board with the combo meal and prices were. He just looked at me like I had a third eye and third nipple or something. He didn’t say a word. He just pointed behind me to a kiosk. I stood there confused. I said yeah, I’d like a Burrito Supreme Combo meal, make the taco a hard shell and a large Dr. Pepper. He just looked at me and pointed behind me to the kiosk. I stood there confused and by this time was getting rather frustrated. The young man stepped out from behind the counter and motioned for me to follow him to the kiosk. So I did. When he got to the kiosk, he tapped the screen and said there you go, and he walked away and retook his position behind the counter with no cash register. I stared at the screen for at least a couple minutes. My mind was now in full shut down mode. I started cussing under my breath thinking the whole time, I just want a fucking Burrito Supreme with a hard shelled taco and a large Dr. Pepper. After scrolling and tapping on the machine for another 5 minutes or so, I finally found the right screen with my selection. I tapped my selection and then didn’t know how I was going to pay. Did I do it at the kiosk or pay at the counter that didn’t have a register. I stood there dazed and confused while now cussing out loud as quietly as possible but it was still able to be heard by the young college aged kids in the front corner, the lady by the door I walked in and the teenage boy behind the counter. They all seemed very disturbed by my behavior. I looked at the boy behind the counter and just threw my hands up. He recognized my disgust and came out from behind the counter and didn’t say anything. He grabbed my credit card out of my hand and inserted the card into the machine and walked away. He returned to his place behind the counter. I finally finished the payment process at the kiosk and walked up to the counter hoping to get my cup so I could go to the fountain machine and get my Dr. Pepper. Instead of handing me my cup he just stared at me. Now I’m really pissed so I ask him rather loudly for my damn cup. He hands it to me like he’s scared of me. Like I’m some sort of savage caveman or something. I grab my cup and as I’m walking toward the fountain machine, I’m cussing. This fuck!ng place is bullish!t. I’m never coming back to this sh!thole again. Now everyone including the cook staff in the back is looking at me. I fill my cup still cussing. My order comes and I walk up and get it and go to my table. The whole time I’m eating I’m feeling a sense of dejavu. I can’t put my finger on it but I know I’ve experienced this situation before. Then it hits me. I have become John Spartan and Taco Bell is no longer the Taco Bell of the 1980s and 1990s. It has become some high tech fancy to do wannabe restaurant. I looked around and it is familiarly decorated like the year 2032 Taco Bell in Demolition Man. From what I can tell the only difference was there was no cussing machine that was monitoring my language. At least I didn’t hear anything saying, Kevin Rogers you are fined one credit for violating the verbal morality code. Pretty sure if I heard that, I was going to dislodge a table from the floor and throw it through the window or better yet across the front counter. As I was leaving I really wanted to go in the restroom and see if there were 3 seashells but by this time I knew I was never coming back to this establishment. I just hope in the next 8 years that all restaurants don’t become Taco Bells like it said in the movie. Pretty sure, if that’s the case, I will lose my sh!t and they’ll end up putting me in a cryogenic pod in the cryosphere. That’s probably not too realistic though because the taxpayers of Vigo County won’t approve the tax hike to update the jail.
Forgive me for asking but what software did you use to transfer one of the tapes into your computer to post it on RU-vid? The reason I ask is because i have the unaltered trilogy on vhs and i would love to learn how to transfer my vhs tapes into the computer not to post on RU-vid but so that when the tapes and/or VCR wears out and they will someday i can still watch them. I know it's a silly question and I would try the despecialized trilogy but that's illegal so if anyone can please tell me what software i can use
A Nightmare on Elm Street is not REMOTELY SCARY. It's a teen movie. The cinematography, production values and poster are all great. For a low-budget film it never looks or feels low budget, instead it just seems oddly stylish if a bit flat dramatically. The others aren't scary either. There's a FEW jump scares across all four (we might as well ditch 5 and 6 because they're not functional stories or memorably made at all). In the 80s slashers, teen movies and fantasy were all popular - so NoES became popular. The character and poster design is iconic. Terrifying, these movies are NOT. They could be described as: humorous, a bit GROSS, kindof GOTHIC at times. The Babadook is genuinely scary. I guess these are horror movies for kids that don't want horror included, making Wes Craven the Ray Croc of franchise horror. Food without substance, or in this case terror without substance. The production effects are definitely good, this is why people "love" the series even if only three of them hit above average properly.
I really liked this clever throwback theme DirecTV did with their commercials for that time. Christopher Lloyd for Back to the Future; Pamela Anderson for Baywatch; Verne Troyer for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; but this one with Weaver is probably my all-time favorite.
