Christmas Crunch cereal will get you in the holiday spirit

When you wake up Thursday morning and check out your goodies from Santa, be sure to start your day off with a bunch of terribly cereal that will destroy your gums.

Evening Entertainment: Eugene Levy stars in 1988's THE ENIGMA OF BOBBY BITTMAN

Happy birthday to the heavily eyebrowed Levy, who turns 68 today!  Drive your Chevy to the Levy with his 1988 Cinemax comedy special, a fake documentary profiling his "Bobby Bittman" entertainer character that originated on "SCTV."

Morning Music Video: Rachel Sweet - "Hairspray"

Until recently, I'd never even realized there had been a music video for '60s-influenced singer and actress Sweet's title track from John Waters' 1988 classic, but here it is!  Sweet acheived notoriety in the '70s as a teen vocalist, starting out with country and finding more success by covering '60s era pop hits.  She has served as a writer, actress and producer on a variety of projects, and hosted her own show, "The Sweet Life," in the opening year of The Comedy Channel (the half-forerunner to Comedy Central) when the network was essentially anarchy.

Morning Cartoon - The 1988 Oscar-nominated TECHNOLOGICAL THREAT

Yep, it's Monday and you're back at the office.  So why not watch a cartoon about, er, workers being replaced by robots?  BE THANKFUL YOU HAVE A JOB, SLACKER!

Birthday buddies James Karen and Thom Mathews star in a a rare featurette about RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART II

Today is the birthday of two stars of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, James Karen and Thom Mathews!  So why not take a look at their most famous project's... sequel?  This little-seen behind-the-scenes news featurette about the ill-fated 1988 horror comedy follow-up features interviews with Karen, Matthews, director Ken Wiederhorn, and make-up artist Kenny Michaels.

TV's Jimmy Olsen, Jack Larson, hosts a Thanksgiving Superman marathon on the character's 50th anniversary

For several years, Larson, who played spunky bow-tied reporter Jimmy Olsen on "The Adventures of Superman," hosted a Superman marathon on television, featuring episodes from the '50s TV series.  This 1988 compilation acts as a mini-documentary on the character on his 50th anniversary, featuring interviews with "Adventures"' Lois Lane, Noel Neill and a look at the history of the man of steel.

Daily Trailer - TWO IDIOTS IN HOLLYWOOD (1988)

The sole (to date) directoral credit of character actor Stephen Tobolowsky and based on his play, TWO IDIOTS IN HOLLYWOOD is a woefully underseen '80s screwball comedy, starring J.B. McGrath and Jeff Doucette as a pair of losers who come to L.A. and make their way to the big time of a live-action Pac-Man show.  Much in the vein of TAPEHEADS or RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, TWO IDIOTS deserves much more attention than it's gotten, or at least a DVD release.

Evening Entertainment - The Kipper Kids and Joe Spinell in "K.O. Kippers"

Who are the heavily-chinned Kipper Kids?  Probably best known to cult audiences for their appearances in UHF and FORBIDDEN ZONE, the Kipper Kids are a pair of comic performance artists (Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg and Brian Routh) who rose to prominence in the experimental art movement in the '70s and early '80s. The 1988 Cinemax special "K.O. Kippers" stars the pair as boxers trained by a low-rent con man played by MANIAC's Joe Spinell.  It's impressively offbeat stuff, and you wonder what the heck unsuspecting channel-flippers thought when they came across it.

Watch This Thing - Toy Dracula endorses Duracell batteries in 1988

How good are Duracell batteries?  So good that even Dracula uses 'em.

Watch This Thing - Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles commercial from TAPEHEADS

Sometimes Bill Fishman's TAPEHEADS feels like the ugly stepchild in the filmographies of John Cusack and Tim Robbins, but there's no compelling reason that the 1988 flick doesn't have a huge cult following. The tale of two losers who enter the music video industry, the flick is clever in its goofiness, features an amazingly bizarre cast (Clu Gulager! Susan Tyrrell! Lyle Alzado!) and some outstanding music. And also this, the lead duo's first project, an attempt to re-imagine a chicken and waffle establishment that appeared in regular rotation back in the days when The Comedy Channel was basically anarchy.

When's the last time you watched King Cotton hawking waffles? Well, that's too long, it oughta be unlawful.