Sheesh! Can you believe that it has been 10 years? Ten years is quite a while. Look at all the advancements that have taken place since then. Think of how much different the world is. Think of how many times you've watched it. I get sick to my stomach thinking about how many times I've seen in in a week, much less 10 years. Anyhow, this was made to remember the year 1989.

10 Years Ago...

• only a handful of people thought that Y2K would be a problem,
• people who drove around talking on cell-phones were snobs (and had really strong arms),
• nobody knew what a DVD was,
• most people did not like The 'Burbs--I don't think I liked it until about '95,
• people thought that VGA graphics, 30-meg hard-drive, 1 meg ram, and 286 processor was all you'd ever need,
• computer animation in movies was almost non-existent and what was there, sucked,
• the internet, what is that?,
• Seinfeld would not be known for one more year,
• Batman was on the top of the movie charts,
• the Berlin Wall opened,
• Jim Carrey wasn't really known,
• most of us were had not yet bought the Top Gun soundtrack on CD,
• we thought that Darth Vader was Luke's father and that was the end of the story, and most importantly,
• Joe Dante's The 'BURBS just came out and, well, got really bad reviews--but we are all grateful it that it did come out.

Please check out: Bonnie: Party Animal and Master Chef to find out how to throw a 'BURBS party!

Watch the movie and do the following:

• see how many green lights you can find,
• count how many fire extinguishers you can find, and
• make a list of all the weird little things you can find 'sitting' around in the movie (ex: Gremlins cereal, Star Wars lunch box, wolf mask, troll, gator, etc.).
• or play a few rounds of Canasta (I'm not sure if they go in rounds, I've never played it).

Six Degress of The 'BURBS:

I consider myself a great six degrees of Kevin Bacon player. You know, that game where you link two actors/actresses together by movies they have been in with other people. Example: say you give the names Julia Roberts and John Candy, to link them together, a possible path would be: Julia Roberts and Keifer Sutherland together in Flatliners, Keifer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock together in The Vanishing, Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman together While You Were Sleeping, Bill Pullman and John Candy together in Spaceballs. I know that there was a shorter path, but I wanted to give a semi-complex example. Now, I invite all of you to e-mail me the names of two pretty popular (I have to have heard of them) actors or actresses in popular American movies. I will be able to link the two people using The 'BURBS somewhere in the middle. After I get some, I'll figure them out (I promise I won't use the IMDB), post who sent the two names and who they were, and I'll post a path right here. Try to stump me--betcha can't!

First Entry (from Spencer): Clint Eastwood--Sharon Stone: Clint Eastwood/Gene Hackman--Absolute Power, Gene Hackman/DenzelWashington--Crimson Tide, Denzel Washington/Tom Hanks--Philidelphia, TomHanks/Bruce Dern--THE 'BURBS!, Bruce Dern/Bruce Willis--Last Man Standing,Bruce Willis/Rick Ducommen--Die Hard, Rick Ducommen/Corey Feldman--DOUBLE 'BURBS!, Corey Feldman/Jerry O'Connell--Stand By Me, Jerry O'Connell/Liev Shriber--Scream 2, Liev Shriber/Sharon Stone--Sphere.