Universal Monsters Action Figures

Red Coat and Black Coat take a look at the 1980 Universal Monsters action figures from Remco, seeing how they compare to the Kenner "Star Wars" toys.

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"Star Wars" as "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

"Star Wars" imagined as scenes from an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Shaving

Tonsorial differences.

Night of the Living Dead

The Latent Image was a production company that produced top notch commercials out of Pittsburg. Wanting to make a feature film, they pooled their resources and cash, deciding their best chance for commercial success was a horror picture. George Romero would direct a script by John Russo, partially inspired by Richard Matheson's vampire novel "I Am Legend"

The Killing Joke

Red Coat Black Coat look back on late 80's comic book, "The Killing Joke", and further ponder the question, "Why can't Batman kill the Joker?"

The comic was written by Alan Moore, who wrote "Watchmen", "Swamp Thing", "Tom Strong". He’s into magic, overly high standards of integrity and being an all around pain in the ass. The comic was drawn by Brian Bolland, who also worked on stuff like "The Invisibles" and is regarded as the ultimate illustrator of the Joker. A lot of panels from "The Killing Joke" wound up on T-shirts when the movie came out. And Tim Burton has said "The Killing Joke" was the comic he looked to for inspiration when engineering his movie.

Topps Trading Cards

Red Coat and Black Coat look over Topps trading cards from their childhood and identify the root of their rampant materialism.