National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Parody Song – “These are a Few of My Favorite Things”

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation -The Christmas Song (Sung to the tune of “My Favorite Things”) Rednecks in pickups, and carols are sung “Dad, did you bring a saw?” and Audrey’s frozen tongue. “Clark, we’re stuck under a truck.” it’s okay Ellen, just be sure to duck. Wally World moose mugs full of eggnog, puking under […]

Merry Christmas and May All Your Dreams Come True!

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Merry Christmas from  all of us at UnderScoopFire! We hope you plan to eat a ton, drink (in moderation of course), and spend time with your loved ones. Most of all, we hope you have as much fun as these kids did on Christmas 1985. {USS Flagg-style!} Thanks for a great 2011 – looking forward […]

Take our 3 Pack of Christmas Podcasts on your Holiday Travels!

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Traveling for the holidays? Whether you are driving, flying, taking the train, or saddling up on the ol’ Tauntaun; we have got your festive listening needs covered! Just running some last minute errands and Christmas shopping? Pop us on in the car for some much needed light-hearted fun. The folks at UnderScoopFire have recorded three […]

UnderScoopFIRE Podcast #16 – A Christmas Story

by Corey Chapman @chapmanrunner

In this weeks festive episode, the UnderScoopFire roundtable welcomes Jason Gross, creator of Rediscoverthe80s.com and Dan Fogarty from Fogsmoviereviews.com to discuss the 1983 holiday classic, “A Christmas Story.” We discuss our favorite quotes/scenes, if the movie has stood the test of time, our thoughts on TBS running it for 24 straight hours, and our own […]

UnderScoopFIRE Podcast #15 – The 1983 JCPenney Catalog

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Thanks to the fine folks at Plaid Stallions we have the page you see below from the toy section of the 1983 JC Penney catalog.  If you are anywhere close in age to me, the JC Penney catalog was one of the most highly anticipated and visually gratifying annual publications to grace your parents’ coffee table on a yearly […]

How To Increase Google Traffic by 90% in 10 Days

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

It seems like Tim Tebow can do everything. He can work late NFL game miracles for the Denver Broncos, but can he help increase your search engine traffic? If you want him to, sure! I am in no way a web programmer. I started a personal blog this past June and had no idea what […]

The 5 Funniest Tweets of 2011

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Twitter exploded in 2011. In September of 2011, Twitter announced that it had 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day. Compare that to 27 million people who used Twitter as of September 2009. Millions upon millions of tweets are sent everyday, so there is […]

Careless Whispers & Smooth Criminals: A Tale of 80s Covers Gone Wrong (and Right)

by Jason Gross @SockofFleagulls

If you’ve known me for more than five minutes, you know how I feel about music from the 1980s. If you’ve known me for more than 5 weeks, you might know how I feel about artists who sample songs from the 80s in their music. (See my Sloppy Seconds of the 80s article on this […]

The 15 Biggest Two-Hit Titans of the 80s

by Jason Gross @SockofFleagulls

The 1980s are well known for their one hit wonder bands and artists like Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Devo, Soft Cell, Tony Basil, Kajagoogoo, and of course my favorite- Flock Of Seagulls. I’m not ashamed to admit…some of these songs were just plain awful; however, many of them happened to have a catchy hook. In some […]

Podcast #13 – Thundercats & Shadowlaw Writer Brandon Easton

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Brandon Easton knows a thing or two about patience. He began work on his graphic novel Shadowlaw in 1996. After 15 years of leaving it alone, coming back to it, artist turnover and other obstacles, at long last Shadowlaw was slated for a November 16, 2011 release. That release date has now been moved to […]

How Social Media Has Changed 6PM in America

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

I‘m Ron Burgundy. Stay classy, San Diego.   A line from Will Ferrell’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and a comedic take on the 6PM local news anchor’s trademark nightly sign off. Perhaps the reason this movie played so well to the “children of the 80s” demographic was because most of us grew up […]

UnderScoopFIRE Podcast #ZERO – Reboot!

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

The comic book reboot. A marketing tool utilized by major comic book publishers in an attempt to attract new readers and reinvigorate the existing fan base. Wikipedia defines the comic book reboot as follows: The verb reboot, in media dealing with serial fiction, means to discard much or even all previous continuity in the series and start anew with fresh […]

The 80s Court: David Lee Roth vs Van Halen

by Jason Gross @SockofFleagulls

Welcome again to the halls of musical justice known as The 80s court. Upon considering the following case, I went through much deliberation on which parties should be involved. After all, it seems like Van Halen has broken up and reunited more in the past 10 years than Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. That being […]

UnderScoopFIRE Podcast #12 – Real Life Superheroes

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Everyone loves a superhero origin story. Whether our eventual hero was bitten by a radioactive spider, struck by lightning, rocketed to earth by his doomed parents, or watched his parents die at the hands of muggers, we yearn to know the entire backstory of our heroic icons. For many of the real life superheroes featured […]

Saxify the Economy – How the Saxophone can Jump-Start America

by Jason Gross @SockofFleagulls

When is the last time you heard a saxophone on a Top 40 radio station? With the exception of maybe the Dave Matthews Band and the occasional song like The Heavy’s “How You Like Me Now?”, the sax has been all but forgotten over the past 20 years. I’ve come up with a way for […]

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