It's a website of OLD commercials and TV shows

Lil Help here, BARGAINTOWN? Did it become ToysRus? I have a faint memory of getting a sled there as a very very young yute or maybe I wasnt there?

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-4542

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Here's a brief commercial for Children's Bargain Town U.S.A., promoting a sale on Huffy Bicycles' 20-inch Dragster for boys and girls for only $28.87. Note a reference at the end to Toys "R" Us (of which Children's Bargain Town was a Chicago-area sister chain). Eventually the Children's Bargain Town name was phased out and completely replaced by Toys 'R' Us.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

jimmypasta just came a little

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

CLASSIC! This was the service that Einhorn launched with Reinsdorf that had 2 regular movies, then it went to soft porn at night. Then you could switch over to SPORTSVISION on the box if a game was on and that was the only way to see Sox games for 5 years if you had this service. Meanwhile, the cubs went free cable all over the country.

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-930

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

YOU ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-2463

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Not that obscure, but why someone doesnt remake this show I have no idea why? This was Reality!

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=4539#videoclip-2946

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Great Steve and Garry stuff on here.

I was expecting this thread to be about Buffone.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

You want Big Doug?: http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c ... oclip-4539

I love Fuzzy Memories. It's so great.

This is a particularly great clip. I love the extended warning that there's gonna be porn. "Okay. We're gonna show porn now. Just saying. There's porn on at night. So that's next. Yeah. 30 seconds till porn starts. Can't say we didn't say. Okay. Porn. Here it comes. So to speak. Ready? Okay, time for porn." Then you have the awful CGI that looks like it should be for a "marriage help" video. Then you're watching the intro to The World of Henry Paris (which, from extensive googling, exists only within the realm of Jerry Reinsdorf's pay television) and it's yeah whatever and then WHOA SHIT MAID SUCKIN' DICK

also, lol at "The world of Henry Paris is a sexually explicit universe of sensual exploration." I think that was a thesis statement I wrote freshman year of high school.

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4377 Clips - Holy shit!

Awesome!!!

It's ok...just a natural part of growing up.

Somewhere deep in the archives is the first few minutes of game 1 of the 1983 ALCS, for which channel 32 was allowed to produce a local telecast. It's Hawk Harrelson in the sidekick role, handing the play-by-play over to Don Drysdale.

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Drysdale was smooth.

http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c ... oclip-4449

Wherein Harry and Jimmy can't seem to grasp the relevance of the "WLUP" callsign in Chicago as they promote the infamous night.

I'm definitely not pro-White Sox, as you all know by now, but I'll concede that there was something underground and cool about the Sox in the Veeck days. Just from watching clips like this one, I can feel that there's something just beneath the mainstream about this broadcast, something that might have been appealing to me had I grown up with this era of the team. Jimmy Piersall in particular doesn't sound much like anyone else.

What I love most about the clips of channel 44 and channel 50 is the distinct sense that living, breathing human beings were involved in the station you were watching.

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We were a Cubs house but my Dad loved Harry and Jimmy. Usually watched the Sox at night.

I remember Bargaintown. They did become Toys "R" Us. http://www.toysrusinc.com/about-us/history/geoffrey/

Formerly known as Dr. G. Raffe, Geoffrey the Giraffe made his public debut in the 1950s in print advertisements for Children’s Bargaintown, the predecessor of Toys“R”Us.

FWIW, I had a Huffy Thunder Road bike from Toys "R" Us. It got stolen out of my backyard and the person/people who took it left a shitty bike chained to our fence in its place.

Motherfucker

local tv commercials here in the mid 90's were awesome...i don't know if any of them made it into that website.

anything with mobile tel dave and anything jones spacelink related.

the "goodie goodie gumdrops!" jake's pizza and pub commercial.

and, any hipsters in downtown naperville commercial. especially the kramer one.

Don't feel too bad; some time ago I posted their Youtube channel to nobody's great delight.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ssAZ6qVu0glgFUIsC8VSA

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Slightly OT, but here is the first German television broadcast, in 1935.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suCaJ0IUw8

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

And here I thought Bruce Hornsby actually wrote Mandolin Rain.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Harry & Jimmy were 2nd to none.

That's just the way it is...

The Sox were the more popular team prior to Eddie and Jerrys great sportsvision idea. The cubs might still have overcome them with the WGN thing, the park, etc, but they made it quite easy with firing Harry and going to sportsvision. They dug their own grave.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

2:15 in that clip is the best part

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Pretty true BF but just imagine if they didn't screw up and built on the SS hitmen stuff.

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Elections have consequences.

And the second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

I'm surprised CBS isn't all over this.