John Bilancini

Billy Madison Turns 25 Today But Shampoo Is Still Better

By the mid-1990s cable hadn’t yet completely changed the way people consume television, and Saturday Night Live still held sway when

Thanks to FCC deregulation in the early 1980s at the behest of Ronald Reagan, the toy market of the 1980s

Mom and dad weren’t suckers, and they certainly didn’t raise one. My parents never fell for the Lunchables trap. Why

Outside of The Flintstones Hanna Barbera cartoons have received a raw deal from me and other old dorks who still

I’m not sure how to write critically about juice. I like juice. Juice usually tastes good. There were a lot

Commercials on MTV in the late 1990s covered everything that teenagers loved: Clearasil, Mountain Dew, Playstation, Doritos, and of course

I never called a hotline. Not Nintendo Power Line, not the Freddy Krueger hotline, not Talk to Horny Housewives Home

Outside of the New Kids on the Block, nothing has gone from the center of the universe to non-entity in

I grew up during a golden era for the big three professional sports leagues. My childhood coincided with the primes

This past Christmas I asked my wife for a Kenner Batmobile from 1984. I wasn’t even particularly into DC superheroes