Welcome back in for another Weekend Edition here on Retro Ramblings. It’s where I share with you loyal visitors my curated list of retro and nostalgia-themed articles and posts I’ve come across over the last week. I share these things with you for your enjoyment, and hope you find things you like. Let’s hit it!

In the News

• Consumers Are Spending More Time and Money on TV Watching Than Ever Before (Cord Cutters News)
• Marvel to Continue the 1992 X-Men Animated Series on Disney+ (Den of Geek)
• You Can Go on a Love Boat Themed Cruise Nest Year With the Original Cast Members (Do You Remember)
• Betty White and Betty Crocker Will Be Teaming Up for Their 100th Birthdays (Do You Remember)

Retro & Nostalgia Fun

• Star Wars: What Was Darth Vader’s Rank in the Emperial Military? (CBR)
• The Glory That Was Geocities (Neatorama)
• When Howard Johnson’s Was America’s Home Away From Home (Mental Floss)
• Mixtape: Do You Remember When You Downloaded Songs From Napster (Pop Geeks)
• Retro-Review: Big-Mac vs. The Whopper (The Retro Dad)
• Streaming the ’80s: 10 Shows to Rediscover on The Roku Channel For Free (Rediscover the ’80s)
• The History of The Little Golden Books (Dusty Old Thing)
• Classic Games That Deserve Modern Remakes (Retro-Daze)
• Check Out These 36 Vintage Metal Swing Sets (Click Americana)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

Thanksgiving Nostalgia

• Five Retro Thanksgiving Commercials (Dinosaur Dracula)
• Thanksgiving Brands That Still Invoke Nostalgia Today (Do You Remember)
• 11 Thanksgiving Dishes the Pilgrims Didn’t Eat (Mental Floss)

Video of the Week

Since Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away, and with it the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, I thought it was a good time to relive that time when He-Man battled Skeletor and his minions on an Eternia-themed float.

Welcome back for another Weekend Edition. It’s where I run down all of the retro-themed news that’s fit to print, and share the fun nostalgic-themed articles and posts I’ve come across over the last week. Let’s get to it!

In the News

• Watch the New Stranger Things Season 4 Trailer (Mental Floss)
• “The Toys That Built America” Series is Coming From The History Channel (The Toy Book)
• The Full Schedule for Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” Has Been Released (Cord Cutters News)
• The Brady Bunch Has a New Reunion Christmas Movie Coming This Season (Do You Remember)
• You Can Stream Holiday Classics for Free on Plex (Cord Cutters News)

Retro & Nostalgia Fun

• If that first headline at the top caught your attention, you may enjoy Celebrating 25 Years of The History Channel writen by my friend Gary for The Retro Network.
• Thanksgiving Movies and Where to Stream Them (Cord Cutters Club)
• If ’80s Cartoons Had Their Own Pro Basketball League (Rediscover the ’80s)
• How the Bloody Lincoln County War Turned Billy the Kid Into an Iconic Outlaw (All That’s Interesting)
• Recreating Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving Feast! (Dinosaur Dracula)
• Analog TVs Never Had a Channel 37 and Here’s Why (Mental Floss)
• Video Rental Store History Through Early 1980s Newspapers (The Retro Network)
• The 10 Strongest Villains the Avengers Beat in the Comics (CBR)
• Top 10 Worst Cinematic Predictions of the Future (Listverse)
• A Brief History of the Crockpot (Mental Floss)
• Black Friday Origins: The 1983 Cabbage Patch Kid Riots (Rediscove the ’80s)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

Check out Retro Rumble on The Time Machine Podcast

You may know me as the co-host of The Time Machine Podcast over at The Retro Network, but if you haven’t listened in a while, I’d like to recommend that you give our latest episodes a listen. Jason and I have started a new gimmick on the show called Retro Rumble where we take a matchup like Coke vs. Pepsi and debate it. The fun part is that we’ve solicited matchups from our listeners, and we’ve popped them into a randomizer and we talk about whatever comes up. The new concept has been really popular, so I think you’d enjoy it too. You can listen to the latest episode below.

I also want to point you to a little something I put together for Cord Cutters Club last week where I run down my picks for what to watch across your favorite streaming platforms in November. Take a minute and go check it out here.

Video of the Week

I know it’s still just the beginning of November, but I’m already in the Thanksgiving mind set. With that being said, this week’s video is one we’ve probably all seen numerous times, but it’s still fun. It’s Garfield’s Thanksgiving, and it’s still just as good as it was when it first hit the air.