The Toy Newspaper

Whoa, April is almost over and I haven't made a single post this month. Time still flies even when you're not really having fun.

Anyways, in my last post I posted a mock newspaper movie promotion, and now I'm back with another one I've managed to scrounge up.

Here's a mock newspaper promotion for the vaguely raciest 80's comedy The Toy (1982)...





... and as always here's a little something from YouTube.

Capricorn One Newspaper

Did Capricorn One (1978) help create, or simply add fuel to the fire of those wacky moon landing hoax conspiracies? I don't know the answer to that. In fact I've never seen the movie, but I did find this promotional mock newspaper...

Click to read all about it

If you clicked the image to actually read that thing you noticed that every single article mentions the movie's cast and/or crew. I don't know why they thought they needed to "tip their hand" like that. They should have played it completely straight like it was actual news. I don't think anyone would have mistaken it for a real newspaper since this was on the back...


I think all those listed Metro Detroit movie theaters are all gone now. Well as always here's the TV spot...

Police Academy Official Entrance Exam

In my last post I had a quiz, and now I'm back with an exam.

It's the official entrance exam for the original comedy "classic" Police Academy (1984)...


It's not quite as funny as that Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) mock quiz I posted last time, but hey, where else on the internet are you gonna find this thing.

There's a rumor that a Police Academy 8 is in development, and is supposed to be released in 2012. So mark your calendars, or consider yourself warned.

Anyways, here's the trailer for the original just because...

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Here's another magazine pull-out poster promotion I found. This time it's for the Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). It's a mock quiz that's actually pretty funny and cleaver, and it makes me wonder if Steve Martin himself helped with the writing...

Read the story of Detecto-Vision

Finally here's the poster...

... and here's the trailer too!

Best Commercial Ever

This 1960's commercial by the great Stan Freberg for Banquet Frozen Dinners in my opinion is the best commercial in the world...



I wish I knew the name of the actress who plays Cynthia the housewife. She is absolutely amazing. I can tell you that Stan Freberg is also one of the men doing the voice over on this spot (Stan usually does the V.O. work on his commercials).

FYI: For those who might be wondering, I've had my hands full lately, and probably won't be posting very much for a while. Hope to resume a weekly-ish schedule in a about a month or two.

Cypress Gardens

Here's a card from the 1970's (I think) for the now defunct Cypress Gardens.


Legoland Florida is scheduled to open sometime in October 2011 on the old Cypress Gardens site. From looking at the tiny map on their Web site it appears the botanical gardens and the ski show are still there. I think it's possible most of what Cypress Gardens was will continue on.

One-One-One One

Last year I posted the Best Fails of 2009. It was pretty hilarious, and little bit painful to watch. So if you can stand more painful human injury (some of it very painful, yikes!) here we go again with the Fail Compilation 2010...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

... And just for balance here's the Win Compilation 2010 (it's not as funny, but it's pain free).

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Now I've got to figure out what the hell I'm gonna post this year.