The Moon wakes up (cosmic horror/astrophobia animation) AKA Moon eats Earth

The Moon is pissed off.  The Moon has been abused a lot over the years in movies and shows.  Piccolo blows up the freaking moon.  It gets blown up in Cowboy Bebop and The Time Machine.  They cloned it in the 5th Element.  The Coneheads sideswipe it in the movie without leaving their insurance info.  Zod and gang leave dead bodies on it in Superman III.  Cobra Commander and Chairface Chippendale defacing the Moon.  

At this point, the Moon is pissed.  Anyway, the special effects are really good.  It is a creepy face with sharp teeth.  Look closely, the mouth is moving.  

If you are going to go out, this is the way to do it. 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Exclusive Deleted Scene | SciFiNow

There are at least four cuts of TMP out there.  My generation remembers the special, longer cut that was shown on ABC and VHS.  This cut has a lot of character moments that were not in the theatrical cut, but also many unfinished shots.  For a long time, that was the only cut we had of TMP.  However, the director's cut has some of the best parts of both cuts.  Even adding a few lost shots. 

One of the bigger deleted scenes not included in any cut was the famous security guard's death.  The scene happened during the probe's entry into the bridge.  The probe kills one of the two guards.  The reason this bit was cut was because it was a continuity issue at the end.  Kirk never mentions this dead guy in his casualty report.  I thought this scene was lost forever.  I guess I was wrong.  It took nearly 40 years to finally see it, though.

Now, only if we could get that deleted memory wall scene...

New Bryan Kohberger Selfie

Yes, this was the picture he had taken a few hours after the murders.  What regular guy would take a selfie in a bathroom and not share it with anyone?  It seems creepy. Plus, Bryan looks like a ghoul in the picture with his pale skin and skinny look.  He took the selfie as a personal trophy to say, “You did it.  Mission accomplished.”  

It has come out that Bryan visited the victims' homes not 12 times but 23 times.  I believe he zeroed in on two women and followed them around town.  The more I learn about Bryan, the more I hate him.  He is a selfish and dangerous man who entered a house to kill one person and ended up killing four.  He thought he was so clever and intelligent that he made this selfie for his own personal collection. 

The walls of justice are closing in, Bryan.  I don’t think you’re going to get away with this one. 

The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie) - Liam Neeson, Pame...

Okay, movie, you got me with the OJ moment.  Will it be in the movie?  Probably not.  While I don’t think they should do a Naked Gun remake/sequel/reboot, they are doing some of the right things by not trying to make it a one-to-one remake.  

I’ll wait and see.  By the way, the trailer is getting a good response online, with 90K thumbs-ups. 

Danny Masterson PSA (1999) Aged really well, Space Boy.

So, says the dude that raped and drugged women his whole life.  Danny was and still is a monster.  He has the gall to make this PSA about abuse against women.  Remember, this POS would abuse women and get away with it, thanks to the Space Church covering up allegedly. The Church of Bullshit would encourage the victims not to talk to the police and look within themselves for their issues.  

You can make this up.  

Burn in hell, Danny, or whatever you believe in the Church of Scientology.  

Gene Hackman RIP

Even the last name Hackman is a cool name.

Gene Hackman was the man. I remember rewatching Crimson Tide recently, and it is an intense movie. I remember watching him as Lex Luthor in Superman the Movie first. Despite being a somewhat comedic version of Luthor, Hackman brought some darkness to the role. And that's the thing: Hackman always brought darkness. 

Unforgiven was his best role period.  Little Bill is one of my favorite movie villains from the movies.  If you get a chance, watch Unforgiven.  Hackman makes that movie intense. 

Here are a few other great movies starring Hackman.  

The Firm

The Quick and the Dead

Absolute Power

Enemy of the State

the Mexican

Anyway, it is a real shame Gene died the way he did.  He died alone, not realizing that his wife passed away in another room.  He probably walked around the house confused and forgotten about his wife due to his diminishing cognitive functions.  

Likewise, he will be missed. 

Remembering the great Heather Hunter...

I knew she was a Soul Train dancer, but I didn’t know her career on that show overlapped with her adult career.  

Heather Hunter is someone who I fondly remember from the early days of 90s porn.  She was the light brown skin black that showed you didn’t need a set of huge boobs and ass to be considered sexy in the black girl genre. Most black men my age have had many dreams about Heather Hunter, and she is probably the reason many black men love light-skinned women.  

I still find her very attractive. 

The kicker is, I always viewed Heather as being much older than me.  She was born in 1969, yes, really 69.  Her birth year is a freaking sexual position.  She’s 55, meaning she isn’t much older.  It is so strange to view as being much older, though.  

She was in mainstream movies, such as He Got Game and Frankenhooker.  Frankenhooker was the movie where Heather exploded.  BTW, this clip is not safe for work.  She will always be known as the hooker that turned into a doll and exploded.   It’s a stupid movie with a funny ass exploding hooker scene.  

Often overlooked was her venture into the music career.  Come to find out, the music industry is just as corrupt as the porn industry.   Unlike her scenes, her music isn’t that good, though.  

Anyway, she popped, or plopped, into my thoughts recently. By the way, I didn’t even get into her relationship with 2Pac. 

Hambubger, make a bad meal...

Ah, the Hambubger.  HB is one of the of, if not, the worst predators from the To Catch the Predator series.  HB was a rapist and child predator.  Despite his Living Dead appearance, Hambubger was dangerous.   he left a whole slew of victims in his wake.  He and his brother would rape his children over the years, thus screwing them up for life.  Years later, he would blame his brother for the rapes.  

By the way, Ham was only 53, looking like 73. Oh, boy, the world had been kind to him.  

His time with Chris Hansen was hilarious.  However, Ham would “self-delete” before getting a chance to go to prison.  On his deathbed, one of his victims, his daughter, went to see him.  She took a picture of his withered body and took away the power over her.  

So, why was he called Hambubger.  Chris Hasen surmised it was because he liked hamburgers

Burn in hell,Hambubger. 

Michelle Trachtenberg and Dawn

Strangely enough, I was researching Buffy’s sister, played by Michelle Trachtenberg.  I told a younger person that they made one of the best meta-retcons in history.  For four seasons, Buffy was an only child.  Then, in the fifth season, she suddenly had a younger sister and everyone around her believed she always had the younger sister.  To them, Dawn Summers was always there.  There was a reason why “glitch” happened.  It is a clever story arc and a statement on early TV and the changing of established continuity.  Dawn Summers is the reverse of the Family Matters show, disappearing the sister without a trace.

Sadly, the youngest cast member, Michelle Trachtenberg, passed away a few days ago.  There are still answers that need to happen before I can say what she died of, really. She did have a liver transplant before her death.  While I didn’t watch much of Buffy, I remember her in Euro Trip.  

By the way, Michelle accused Joss Whedon of doing some not-so-great things to her, allegedly. 

Donna Adelson, court appearance

There comes a point in your life when you have to give it up.  Donna is a woman who is only interested in keeping her family together.  However, it was because of her actions behind the murder of Dan Markel that her family is scattered across the US.  All this to keep her daughter in Miami.   

She has one son who will never talk to her again.  She has another son who will spend the rest of his life in prison.  Her daughter ran to Austin, Texas, to never speak to her again.  The children, she conspired with her son to get forever, will never see her again.  She has destroyed her family and will not take responsibility for it.  

Keep in mind, that it took her only a week to attempt to run away from the US to Vietnam with a one-way ticket.  Of course, she got caught at the airport.  She has spent the last year and a few months in jail.  Now, she is doing everything to escape jail and await her trial.  While she might get out, a 20% chance.  It is not likely because it is Florida.  

Now, she is double-downing on her son’s extortion lie. 

Was it worth it, Donna? Was it worth ruining everyone's lives to gain access to your grandkids? 

Hulk Hogan more crap

Hulk can never take his past deeds at face value.  I knew Hogan was going to blame the booing on Trump and not all the shitty things he did in the for nearly 40 years. He always wanted to put himself forward in every aspect of pop culture, such as his lying about Elvis Presley.  The man is devotional, and I hope his “former” Scientologist wife takes him for all his money.  Heck, he lives in Clearwater too.  Who else has an HQ in Clearwater?  Hulk, go all into the Study Tech.  I am begging you.  

The video below has a rather amusing reaction to Hulk getting booed by the famous Undertaker.  The Undertaker had an early match with Hulk.  Hulk faked an injury with the Undertaker.  He looked back at the film and noticed that he never hurt Hogan.  That meant Hogan was playing a political game.  I love that Undertaker is eating this up.  

Webster and that Star Trek TNG crossover no one wanted (Part 2 of 2)

   

As I stated before, Webster, the show, was running out of steam.  It was the turn of the decade and newer and edgier shows were coming in thanks to the 90s.  ABC and Paramount weren’t interested in renewing an older series.  Plus, the two leading adult actors were tired at this point.  Syndication was a major cash-making thing during the 80s.  When you had a full season's worth of episodes, you made more money despite it being canceled.

Anyway, they did this crossover with TNG as the cost-saving scheme for Webster.  At this point, Webster was canned, and they just needed to round the series up with a clip show.  You don’t have to pay the two other main cast members and just walk over to the already established TNG set filmed next door.  I also get a kick out of the fact that Star Trek V was also being filmed next to that set.  I don't think Shanter would have Webster on his set.

From watching TNG my whole life, this Webster episode was not written by the TNG staff.  Other than providing the stock footage, extras, actors, and stage, there wasn’t much input from the Trek crew.  Given the problems with the second season, I have to wonder if the TNG producers would have permitted this “crossover”? Plus, Worf is way out of character from his main series counterpart. Worf spent most of his life around humans, he knows what fun is, Webster.

At work, someone asked why Picard was not in this episode. He’d probably give Webster a Picard speech and send him back to the late 80s.  I find it amusing that no one else from the main crew showed up to investigate this annoying kid appearing on the bridge of the Enterprise.   He should be put in the brig for wearing that Cosby sweater. Perhaps, he was a Q or something.

Micheal Dorn probably filmed his TNG scenes and then was asked to do some quick pickup and wraparound shots with Webster.  They threw in established TNG extras to fill in for the main cast and gave some of them lines too.  

Extra Lorine Mendell had a couple of lines.  Mendell was the stunning redhead you always saw in the TNG background.  She was in nearly 60 episodes and in one TNG movie.  Lorine turned out to have a very successful life outside the 24th century.  Lorine, I’d love to give you a short interview about this Webster episode.  Just hit me up in the comment section. 

Two of the other extras have passed away.  Dexter Clay, the tall black guy, was a stand-in and extra for the first two seasons of TNG.  He was everywhere in the background.  Even I noticed he disappeared after the second season.  He even spoke in an episode called A Matter of Honor!.  He passed away in 2017.  Wiki says he left during the third season, but IMDB says S2.  

James G. Becker is the clean-cut white dude who was always in the background.  He was both a stand-in for Frakes and an extra.  The cast and crew called him Ensign Youngblood as a joke, and it sort of stuck.  The fans know him as Youngblood.  Becker would leave Hollywood and become an insurance agent.  I’d freak out if he was my agent.  He passed away from a car accident in 2014. 

It is just crazy that no one from TNG ever talks about this episode.  I can’t even find Michael Dorn talking about this crossover anywhere.  Why is that?  This is a forgotten Trek crossover that no one even knows about but a few people on the web. 

 

Webster and that Star Trek TNG crossover no one wanted (Part 1 of 2)

What does a clone of another sitcom and Star Trek TNG’s season have in common?  Worf.  Worf didn’t just show up in DS9, but also in an often-overlooked sitcom called Webster.  Sit back and enjoy the show.  

Webster is an interesting, if stupid, TV show.  I always viewed it as the knockoff of Different Strokes.  To coin a phrase from Clerks II, Websters is the GoBots of Different Strokes Transformers.  The original idea for the show was so supposed to be based on the lives of Alex Karras and Susan Clark, a married couple.  The concept was about a meat-and-potatoes retired football player marrying a rich and well-educated woman.  This was supposed to show nothing more and nothing else.  The title of the show was called Another Ballgame.  

A little, if annoying, kid named Emmanuel Lewis caught the attention of network execs.  They shoehorned Lewis into the premise of Another Ballgame and the show mutated into Then Came You, which kept as the theme song.  It was a slightly less developed Different Strokes, a cheap knockoff.  Karras and Clark were okay with this change, not realizing it was a Trojan Horse.  You see, the show quickly changed from being about the parents and focused on the kid instead.  

Side note:  I liked Gary Coleman growing up as Arnold better.  He had a bit of a more street edge to him.  However, Emmanuel became a better person after his show was canceled.  From what I can tell, Lewis was a nicer and better person than old bitter Coleman.  I thank Lewis was thankful for his time as an actor.  

Anyway, the married couple, who owned the production company, got into many clashes with the studio, writers, and the network.  Lewis saw much of this BTS fighting.  It caused some major problems.  Interestingly enough, things were smoothed out later on as the show went on.  

Another side note: Emmanuel Lewis got one fact about his show’s origin wrong in a podcast.  He said there was only one other version of the show before it was renamed Webster.  He was wrong, it was called Another Ballgame.  I am wondering if he put that fact back in his mind because of all the pain he put himself in due to the adults fighting on set?  

As the show progressed, the rating took a nosedive and the network and studio decided to end the show.  But why spend money on new sets, actors, and lighting?  Why not make it a gloried clip show?  

And, so enters Star Trek The Next Generation.  Lewis and the cast would see the TNG crew walk by in the outfits.  I am also certain they saw some of the actors sneaking onto their set and stealing food from their food table.  I am not making this up.  TNG, during season 1 didn’t always have money to pay for craft service tables.  Worf, Data, and Riker would have to sneak into other studios to get some food.  

Can you imagine Worf, Troi, and Picard walking around your set?  

Now, let’s get into the story of Webster’s final episode and Star Trek’s strangest crossover. 

Oh, boy...