Go Bayside!!!

Clutch: We have a special guest with us today.

Shipwreck: The man who put the ‘Pal’ in Principal...

tFidy: Bayside’s own Principal Belding!

















Mr. B: Thanks boys great to be here. I really enjoy your blog!

Clutch: Thanks… ah … what should we call you? Principal Belding? Mr. Belding?

Mr. B: We are all adults here. Mr. B would be fine. Shipwreck, you grew up in California right? Did you go to high school near Bayside?

Shipwreck: No, I’m from Southern California. I went to Carver in LA. We played Bayside in the state basketball tournament my senior year.







Mr. B: I knew the Principal there, Eli Buchanan. Great woman… had her hands full there. Clutch where are you from?

Clutch: Jersey.

Mr. B: Really? Mrs. B and I love Bruce Springsteen!

Shipwreck: Clutch is like a character out of a Springsteen song

tFidy: If there’s ever a movie about the BiA, Joey Lawrence would play Clutch.










Mr. B: tFidy, you’re a droid? I have a droid phone … are you guys cousins?

tFidy: Ah… yeah… so what have you been up to? How are things at Bayside?

Mr. B: Retired a few years back and have been touring the country giving talks on education.






Shipwreck: It’s good work if you can find it!

Clutch: Hear much from your old students?

Mr. B: As you probably know, Screech worked as my assistant for several years at Bayside. He got an offer to work as an assistant principal at a private school. Not sure of the details, but it ended badly. Heard he opened a martial arts studio. Get a Christmas card every year from him and his cat Mr. Bo Jangles.

tFidy: Wow! Anyone else?

Mr. B: AC Slater owns a car dealership in the area. I just bought Mrs. B a Volvo there, he took good care of us.

Shipwreck: How about Zack and Kelly?

Mr. B: Haven’t seen them in ages. Heard Zack is working at a law firm with another Bayside Alum. Not sure, but I think he and Kelly may have split up… Zack old buddy if you are reading this, give your old pal Mr. B a shout out and give me the 4-1-1.




Clutch: What are you doing with your free time?

Mr. B: I’m a big movie buff. My favorite movie this summer was the Expendables. Old school butt kicking action film, best performance by Stallone in years; but Mickey Rourke stole the show.






Shipwreck: He reminded me of this guy Jorge from my neighborhood. Ran a tattoo place, smoked way too many cigarettes and always had the skankiest ladies … and I use that word loosely… hanging around, but if you ever needed anything “handled” he was your guy.

tFidy: It was good to see Cordelia again too. Hope she’s in the sequel.

Clutch: What other movies do you like?

Mr. B: Mrs. B was really into the Twilight series. She read all the books and we’ve watched the movies together. We are Team Jacob all the way. He reminds me of a super natural version of AC Slater.

tFidy: We’ve seen those movies too. Kind of contrary to everything we knew about vampires, but a good story.

Clutch: But Bella is such a whiney pain bee-otch!

Mr. B: Troubled girl. We had a girl like her at Bayside, named Tori. Between us, I never cared for her.

















Mr. B: Mrs. B. and I are also big Potheads...

Shipwreck: Excuse me?

Mr. B: We’re huge Harry Potter Fans. Really looking forward to Deathly Hollows coming out around Thanksgiving.

Clutch: Do you see any similarities between Hogwarts and Bayside?

Mr. B: Definitely! We had a family just like the Weasleys. The MacDougalls, 5 boys and they were always getting into trouble. I tell you those boys spent a lot of time in my office!

Mr. B: Hermione Granger is so smart. She’s like a young Jesse Spano.

Shipwreck: Yeah; but Jesse had bigger…

Clutch: Spells!

Mr B: You know what show you boys should check out is “White Collar.” Very smart show and there’s something endearing about one of the main characters.


























tFidy: Speaking of endearing, after our recent interview with Skeletor, we’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our readers concerning Winnie vs. Topanga. Where do you stand?

Mr B: They are both a little too young for me. Just between us guys, I’m more of a Pinky Tuscadaro, Valarie Bertenelli kind of guy:






















Clutch: Of course you are! What other fun facts do you have for us?

Mr. B: I love fish tacos and have been known to drive over 200 miles to try one at a new place.

Shipwreck: Do they serve them at the Max?

Mr. B: They do…. I’d say they are in my top 5 favorites. I’m trying to get the guy from Man vs. Food to go there and eat their mega burger. It’s a heart attack on a plate, but it’s so good!

Clutch: Sounds delish!

Mr. B: I’ve been meaning to ask you guys… you know some pretty high powered people, time travelers and the like… think you could introduce me to one? I’d like to be sent back to Bayside in the 90’s as a teenager and be one of the gang.

Clutch: Great idea, get me some mouse and acid washed jeans and I’ll be right behind you!

Shipwreck: Mr. B you want to take Kelly to the prom don’t you?

Mr. B: No, she was Zack’s girl. I’d go for Lisa.

tFidy: Good choice - She was very underrated.

Clutch: We’ll make some calls and see what we can do.

Mr. B: Boys this was fun. We should be Facebook friends.

tFidy: We’re on it Mr B!

Shipwreck: We Out!

Clutch: Peace!

Rolling the Bones...

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Back From JoeCon!

A dedication to the customizers...

Clutch: Z’up?

Shipwreck: We just got back from JoeCon in Providence RI . We would have blogged sooner but…

tFidy: Shipwreck just sobered up!

Clutch: It was quite a trip! flew out of Philly...

Shipwreck: Breakfast sandwiches at Chickie and Pete’s and had a few Crabby Mary’s.

tFidy: Bloody Mary’s with old bay seasoning –so good!

Clutch: We roll into Providence and end up in this quaint little place:


























Shipwreck: Tough place, good drink specials… we had some stuffies!

Clutch: A Rhode Island delicacy, that’s kind of like clams casino with extra breading. Good local flavor.

Shipwreck: After hanging out there for a while we ended up at another bar where there was this kickin’ band playing there called “Kung Fu Grip.”






Clutch: These guys rocked it out! That lead singer had a seriously angry vibe.

tFidy: Which is only fitting… a lot of the Joe Fans we met were pretty angry.

Shipwreck: It has to do with the continuity issues, Marvel, Cartoon, DDP, ROC, Resolute, IDW; it's getting hard to keep track!

Clutch: The Adventure Team guys seemed pretty laid back.

tFidy: I think that’s just a 70’s thing… besides those guys made their own continuity. No outside sources messing with their Joe World!

Shipwreck: Right on!

tFidy: Anyway, Rhode Island is a whacky little place, strange laws, one of which is no droids in an establishment that serves alcohol and has live music. So, I had to leave that bar and I went and visited my friend Pete:





...We used to work together at the Trade Federation. He’d moved to Rhode Island a few years back. He’s playing Johnny 5 in the Off, Off Broadway production of “Short Circuit: the Musical." Good to see him again… although I had that song “Who’s Johnny?” stuck in my head since we got back!

Clutch: Shipwreck and I had a late night and he was pretty hurting the next day. He laid around all morning watching reruns of McCale’s Navy while I played a pickup basketball game in the hotel gym.




Shipwreck: After Clutch got back from playing hoops, I was feeling better, so we headed out to breakfast. Ran into a few old friends...




Clutch: LJ when are you coming back Babe? It appears that DDP continuity is being completely ignored, so how come you and your fine self are not appearing in at least one of the continuities IDW is running?

Shipwreck: I smell a conspiracy!

tFidy: It was free comic book day the weekend we were there. Luckily we were able to locate a comic shop in the area.




Clutch: I also got to check out this tricked out ride. Got to take it for a spin in the parking lot; it was ridiculous! And in Adventure Team Yellow!




tFidy: The Con only had a few unsavory characters...




Shipwreck: But overall I pretty fun and relaxing time...

All that’s old is new again...

Clutch: It’s been awhile since our last installment.

Shipwreck: We’ve been busy shoveling a lot of snow.

tFidy: I blew outta here first sign of snow and was hanging on South Beach with J-Woww from the Jersey Shore. Couldn’t have a BiA blog without ole Fids.



Shipwreck: Wouldn’t go that far… We could have replaced you faster than you can say “The Situation.”

tFidy: That’s cold bro...

Clutch: If you’re like us, you love a good remake – like the Star Trek & GI Joe movies this past summer and Battlestar Galactica.

Shipwreck: There are a couple out there now that are so old school they’re new school!

tFidy: There’s the new Buck Rogers comic out by Dynamite Publishing.

Shipwreck: Our previous exposure to Lucky Buck was the 70’s TV series with Gil Gerard and Erin Grey.





















Clutch: That and every time I had a sci fi program on as a kid my Uncle Eugene would say “that’s real Buck Rogers stuff”. Buck was the benchmark by which all other sci fi was measured.

tFidy: We picked up issue 9 and had no problem jumping on. Although I have to admit, I was a little disappointed that Twiki hasn’t appeared yet. Maybe next issue.

Shipwreck: Story was cool. Art was good, we’ll stick around to see if it’s worth back tracking to get the first 8 issues.

Clutch: Twiki may not be in it yet by Colonel Deering is… that’s her on the cover… she’s been captured and is about to go all Slave Leia, which is always a good look. Wish Erin Gray had done that back in the day.

tFidy: You know who else needs to show up in this comic? That princess from the series who always dressed like a Vegas show girl! I think her name was Princess Ardala – total 70’s fox!

Shipwreck: Speaking of foxes and Vegas, Clutch do you remember when we ran into the Cosplay slave Leia and Lara Croft in Vegas…



Clutch: Ah yeah… nice girls… good times.

tFidy: Our buddy Weerd1 told us about an upcoming Buck Rogers movie on the web.

Shipwreck: Gil and Erin play Buck Rogers parents. It was so cool seeing them together again.

tFidy: No word if Twiki will be in that movie either.

Clutch: Gil, Erin if you’re reading this, hope you are well - Princess Ardala too.


Shipwreck: When I heard there was going to be a remake of the A-Team, I was skeptical…

Clutch: Yeah this could go bad about a hundred different ways.

tFidy: Absolutely! But have you seen the trailer? If I may borrow a catch phrase from the show’s era: Awesome, totally awesome!!!





















Shipwreck: The talk thru of the original intro sent chills down my spine!

Clutch: From what I’ve seen so far, the characters are nice modernizations of the classics.

tFidy: Not sure if they got Howlin’ Mad Murdock right though… he seems a too redneck.

Shipwreck: Yeah but Liam Neeson nailed Hannibal’s tag line – “I love it when a plan comes together.”

tFidy: Not bad for a guy who played a jedi!

Clutch: Everyone knows how the BiA loves cameos in remakes. Rumor has it that the original Face and Murdock will be in here.

Shipwreck: Dirk (Faceman) Benedict, we love ya man… we held out hope until the final episode of BSG that you would show up.

tFidy: We were bummed you never made it on, but looking forward to seeing you this time.

Clutch: Remember when we watched the new “Escape to Witch Mountain” with the kids?

Shipwreck: Best part was when the two kids from the original showed up.

tFidy: That was cool. I’m going to have the A-Team theme song in my head for the rest of the day.



Clutch: Sometimes is best just to leave things in the past though.

tFidy: How many times did Marvel Comics try and re-launch the New Warriors?

Shipwreck: Yeah, it was never the same. All they did was make them the catalyst for the ‘Civil War’ mega event from a few years back.

Clutch: It’s no secret that I loved 90210 back in the day… Brenda, Kelly – wow! Steve Sanders was too much of a spoiled rich kid to be a Joe, but he would have been fun to hang out with.




Shipwreck: And lots of our B list favorites were on that show at one point or another – Dina Meyer, Kari Wuherer, Casper Van Dyne and of course Tiffany Theissen… who has become a modern day ‘Ted McGuinley’… but that’s another story.

tFidy: Initially, we were curious when we heard about the revamp.

Clutch: But we wanted no part of a new generation, and only Kelly was coming back.

Shipwreck: Brenda came back for a while, but like the New Warriors, it just wasn’t the same.

Clutch: David (Brian Austen Green) was too busy being skittish and protecting John Connor to make it over to the zip...





















tFidy: Yeah and “Aunt Becky” was in it as one of the parents… that’s just all wrong.

Shipwreck: She is pretty Milf-tastic though!

Clutch: Rob Estes of “Silk Stalkings” fame was her husband on the show…. Good for him.

Shipwreck: Speaking of that classic 90’s crime drama, just saw on imdb that Erin Grey was in an ep– now that might be worth checking out!

tFidy: That show totally pushed the envelope in it’s day! Did Vivid Video produce that?

Clutch: Not sure … when’s the Baywatch remake?

tFidy: That’s about all we have time for...
Clutch: We out...
Shipwreck: Peace!

Haven't we seen this somewhere before?

Shipwreck: Recently we headed down to the local multi-plex to see what all the hoopla was about with this new movie Avatar.



Clutch: We put on the 3D glasses and were completely blown away by the special effects!

tFidy: Loved the Battletech like tanks (although they should have been robotic if you ask me).

Shipwreck: All the crazy 6 legged jungle creatures were awesome too.

Clutch: Is it wrong that I found the 9 foot, blue, CGI version on Sigourney Weaver w/ the Stanford University tube top on attractive?

Shipwreck: Absolutely not! It can’t only be about the slave Leia outfit!

tFidy: To be honest, I was a little confused for about the first hour of the movie… where was Aang? The Earth Benders? Fire Nation? This is not the Avatar I know...



Clutch: Yeah, different Avatar. Heard there’s going to be a live action movie on that one called “The Last Airbender” later this year. Looks cool.

Shipwreck: A lot has been said about the political overtones and the cliché characterization in Avatar.

Clutch: We didn’t let any of that get in the way of our enjoyment of the movie!

tFidy: One of our buddies mentioned the Giovanni Ribisi played a stereotypical corporate pr*ck.

Shipwreck: We’re ok with it because the corporate world is full of guys just like him!

tFidy: One thing we haven’t heard how this film’s base plot is a complete copy of one of our favorite 80’s action movies “Red Scorpion”. Dolph Lundgren plays a Soviet Spetznatz who is part of the invading force in a 3rd World Nation. He ends up living with them, becomes sympathetic to their cause and eventually helps them repel the invading Soviet Army.














Shipwreck: Sound familiar?

Clutch: One of the more famous scenes is where the locals are defeated and don’t want to fight the Soviets anymore…

tFidy: Very similar scene in Avatar...

Clutch: Sully gives the “Blue Man Group” a rousing speech to unite the tribes. Dolph, never one for long speeches simply grabs a weapon and says “Let’s go kick some a*&.”

Shipwreck: Dolph could always say a lot with a minimum of words.

tFidy: I recently learned that there’s a Red Scorpion 2 that was made in the mid 90’s. Has nothing to do with the original…
It’s about a team of five commandos with special skills who take down and extremist group… who’s leader appears to have killer ‘hockey hair.’

Clutch: That’s reason enough to take them down! If anyone has a copy, please send it our way!

Shipwreck: Another familiar thing in Avatar was the special effect for when the human scientists’ consciousness was transferred to their avatar.

tFidy: That was right out of one of our favorite Sci Fi shows “Sliders”.














Clutch: That effect is such a trademark of Sliders, that when it was used on Buffy once Oz turned to Xander and said “I saw that on Sliders.”

Shipwreck: For those of you not familiar with the show, it chronicled four adventurers as they ‘slid’ from one reality to another trying to find their way home.

tFidy: You had to know a little bit about history in the early episodes, to get what was different about that reality. The show was dumbed down over time and the Sliders spent most of their battling the ‘monster of the week...’

Clutch: Jerry O’Connell was the ‘boy genius’ who discovered sliding and John Rhys-Davies, who’s been in about a zillion movies we’ve loved, was his mentor. The fifth and final season the cast had almost completely turned over. It was still fun, but not quite the same.

Shipwreck: The first four seasons have been out on DVD, but it looked like season 5 would be doomed to obscurity, but it’s just been released to iTunes and Amazon on demand. (On DVD in Europe.)









tFidy: We’re 2 eps in to the final season, the only one without Jerry… we still love it, but it’s kind of like when Ted McGinley was living at the Cunningham’s house in the last years of “Happy Days.”

Clutch: Ah, Jenny Piccolo… wonder whatever happened to her?

tFidy: Don’t know, but ‘Ralph Malph’ was on an episode of Sliders… as was Freddy “Boom Boom” Washington from "Welcome Back Kotter."

Shipwreck: We’re not going to lie, one of our interests in the later seasons is the talents of the lovely Kari Wuhrer.

tFidy: She was maligned by many hardcore Slider fans, because she replaced the original female lead, Sabrina Lloyd.

Clutch: Not us, the Brothers have plenty of love to go around!

Shipwreck: The show ended with a cliff hanger and we never found out if the Sliders made it home or not. I think it’s time for a movie! Reboot, continuation, we’re on board either way.

tFidy: Sliders ended 10 years ago, I don’t hold out a lot of hope on that one.

Clutch: Dude, I just saw a trailer for a new A-Team movie! Anything is possible!

Shipwreck: Wow! That’s huge… and a topic for another blog...

tFidy: We out!

Clutch: Peace!!