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Happy Halloween, everyone! Hope you all have a safe and spooky evening filled with tiny goblins, minute witches, short gypsies and Harry Potter.

Growing up I’d have to say the character that encompasses Halloween for me was none other than Freddy Krueger. To prevent Freddy from entering my dreams when I was younger I actually “befriended” him and thought this would remove me instantly from his list.

Tonights Jaime Kennedy Experiment where Jaime is depicted as a country music performer singing the National Anthem is one of the funniest bits I’ve seen on his show so far.

For those of you who didn’t watch it, Jaime Kennedy sang a typical rendition of the National Anthem. However, after the first verse he added and made up numerous others. The running time on the National Anthem resulted in 6 minutes and 49 seconds worth of musical agony.

Believe it or not ‘The Pink Elephant’ hallucination sequence in Disney’s Dumbo movie has been rated 90th in Retrocrush’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

Retrocrush explains that the Pink Elephant hallucination is “an unlikely scary movie candidate, many folks still can’t shake the trip out fear from the famous alcohol induced “Pink Elephants on Parade” tripout sequence from Dumbo. Not to be confused with the “Honey Overdose Heffalumps and Woozles” flashback from Winnie The Pooh, decades later.”

Get your spook on.

From illuminatedlatern.com:

“In 1984, really at the height of the American ninja craze, independent comic book writers and artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird came up with an idea for a spoof of the new type of dark, gritty comics that had been the latest trend — comics such as Daredevil, in which the blind avenger was fighting off a ninja clan called “The Hand,” and facing Elektra, a ninja assassin. They wrote and self published their comic book, called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, about exactly what the title says, and that’s pretty much when all hell broke loose. It became a runaway success, prompting four re-printings of the first issue by the time the second one came out. I still remember the excitement surrounding the comic at that time.

Stores couldn’t keep it in stock. I managed to pick up the second printing of the first issue and the first printing of the second issue, then watched in amazement as the value of both of them shot through the roof. I held on to them, thinking that, as time went on, they would be more and more valuable. The comics were dark, bloody, but a little funny, as well. If nothing else, they were unique. Or at least, they were unique at first. But almost immediately, other independent comics jumped on the bandwagon, and had some success riding their coattails. Comics like Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hampsters and Cold Blooded Chameleon Commandoes.

But there was only so far such a parody could go, and by the eighth issue, I was pretty bored with the whole thing. The knock-offs faded away, and it seemed that TMNT would do the same. My comic books, once valued in the mid-fifties to one hundred dollars each, could now barely command ten. But where the original concept fizzled, the overall idea, about four ninja turtles, blossomed. With just a little re-tooling, a lighter tone, some more fun added to the stories, the Turtles went on to kids cartoon fame. The licensing dollars started pouring in for creators Eastman and Laird, for action figures, bedspreads, hats, T-shirts, costumes, books, and everything else under the sun.

Archie comics started publishing a series of TMNT comic books, based on the new look of the cartoon series. By the time Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie was released, the creators were millionaires several times over. The rest of Eastman and Laird’s comic book history plays like penance done for their sin of success, forming their own comic company and promoting and printing only the highest quality alternative and independent writers and artists.”