Submitted by Melanie H

Music Videos on MTV deserve a Win for nostalgia by themselves, but then you throw in metal and it becomes Epic. Why’d you love The Ball? Who was your favorite artist that you discovered during the wee-hours that Headbangers Ball broadcast?

Submitted by Angie D

“This means something. This is important.”

Richard Dreyfus’ slow decline into insanity and the revelation that he wasn’t really insane, coupled with Steven Speilberg’s incredible vision and cinematography for the time period made Close Encounters of the Third Kind a totally Epic Win. Anyone old enough to remember the film can probably still hum the first few notes that aliens played after the landed, not to mention the most memorable line in the film, as Richard Dreyfus builds a mountain of mashed potatoes.

If you’re a young’un who’s never seen CEo3K, you should go out and rent it so you can see what good storytelling used to look like.

Submitted by CY Costa

MacGyver is even more bad-ass then Chuck Norris, since MacGyver could not only make just about anything out of a box full of household items, but he also injected applied science into the lives of his unwitting audience. That’s right, most of the things that MacGyver created on the show were vetted by his producers to make sure it was possible in real life. That means if you were a hardcore fan and could remember all of the things he created, you could make an explosive device out of rubberband a toothpick and a bouncy ball.

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 Alan T

Not only did Julia Child bring a lot of great French culinary practice into the American living, both through her encyclopedia of a book, to her long-running cooking show, she was also a freakin’ spy! How cool is that?! “Here, try my paté… PS. where do you keep all of your sensitive government documents?”