Archive for June, 2009

Submitted by A Mills

Camp Anawanna we hold you in our hearts! Epic Win for Salute Your Shorts! Remember all of the characters? We couldn’t remember which character represented each stereotype, but we rounded up a few… For instance, we remember Telly (the tomboy/sports junky), Budnick (the douchebag), Donkeylips (the fat kid), and Sponge (the dork). Any we missed? List them in the comments.

This Epic Win was initially not well-received by voters and thus skipped by the Once Upon A Win writing team, however, due to the persistence of people who love this show, the vote count was raised considerably and thus revisited by staff. Don’t see one of your favorite childhood memories on the front page? Check the Voting Pages!

This was the closest we could find to the original on YouTube

Submitted by S Elizabeth

Doug is a totally epic win! Skeeter, Patti Mayonnaise, Judy (or Judith Annastasia Funnie, the beatnik), Quailman (or any of Doug’s other alter-egos), Porkchop, Roger, Beebe, Conni, The Dinks, etc., were always there to illustrate some sort of dilemma, whether it be a moral one or just something simple, such as Doug’s fear of asking out Patti.
It was impossible to write this post without getting the Nickelodeon’s Doug theme song stuck in our heads. We sure wish reruns were still on.

This Epic Win was initially not well-received by voters and thus skipped by the Once Upon A Win writing team, however, due to the persistence of people who love this show, the vote count was raised considerably and thus revisited by staff. Don’t see one of your favorite childhood memories on the front page? Check the Voting Pages!

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was an Epic Win for turning any seemingly harmless brook, bridge, or foggy night into a spooky, impassable path. It inspired fear in so many of us as youth. One of our writers (at the time, a grown man) often recounts not being able to stay in the theater anytime the trailer for the ‘99 version of Sleep Hollow starring Johnny Depp came on.
It’s amazing that a story almost 190 years old can still inspire so much fear.

Submitted by Heather C

Bugs Bunny’s PSAs were an epic win for mixing live action with cartoon so it made it easier to relate the video to our own kitchens. Remember hearing the voices from the PSA in your own kitchen after seeing this video on Saturday morning for the millionth time?

Submitted by Jonathan M

Although it was all a simple game of strategy and memorizing punch patterns, there was something magical about Punch-Out. We remember having competitions with our friends to see how far we could get without continuing and that final day when someone got as far as Mike Tyson and then we sat around all day trying to beat him. Then cheats and walkthroughs came out detailing how to beat each character and ruined it all…

This guy is such a pro, he plays the entire game, only getting hit once in the 3rd round by Tyson (Warning: It’s 33 minutes long):