 Welcome to today's edition of tales from the VHS vault. What are we drinking today? Season of the witch my block. Yeah, I'm just gonna do that Like stop drinking stop it Today we have a little VHS tale not so much. I guess a VHS tale but more of a TV tale right about when The maid for TV it first aired on TV back in the 90s when we were kids Oh, yeah, it was great and it was the talk of the town before it aired I remember the commercials for it and the trailers and be like, oh This looks fucking terrifying. Yeah, like the music and everything that clown music playing Well, I was at my aunt's place and the kids weren't really supposed to watch it Right, but everybody had it on the adults were watching it. We kept kind of like Yeah peeking in and looking and the odd thing you'd see like oh that ending the end of part one, right? We're all for Stan slits his wrists as a kid. Holy shit Terrified, but you want to watch the next part. Yeah, the way they set that up, too You know something has happened, right? It's when the wife is walking up the stairs and walking you see the Door is a jar and the water running and all that and like holy fuck. Oh, yeah It was a big family thing. Yeah, it was a family thing even though kids kind of weren't supposed to watch it Yeah, they still did I watched it and my mom was a big Huge Stephen King fan that's what we're watching on whatever day it was a Sunday night Yeah, and all the kids at school was like that that Monday morning all talking about it Did you see it and some kids did some kids didn't but everyone was talking about it Even if you didn't see it. Mm-hmm. You wanted to see it because the parents wouldn't let the kids Yeah, I was proud kids who actually got to see it. I watched it Especially the first part right the first part is like notorious you don't see Pennywise that much right the music and everything It's like such such a dreary tone characters and actors and the character building the relationship between all the kids I think is far Superior in the made-for-tv version than the theatrical Remake because they didn't build it probably didn't build a brand but in the Made-for-tv one like you really really care about these kids. Yeah, well, they're really Like them and you understand all the really into workings of all the little relationships They have the cast as the kids is great. You believe them all is 50s kids Yeah, really like when they're older. I thought they did a pretty good job Yeah, believe that they're the grown-up versions. Yeah, there's a certain magic about that made-for-tv Version everything just seems to click the fact that it takes place in the fifties Is it shoved down your face like in the remake or in the 80s near it's the 80s Didn't you forget? Yeah, look at the movies that are playing at the theater. It's the 80s movies Yeah, the fifties thing is so subtle, but it works so well for the movie to it Just like it suits it. The fifties is so so much more of a simpler time, right? Yeah So you can you can picture that there's this monster terrorizing these kids as They're playing by themselves next to this creek and all that right with no supervision and stuff Yeah, it was just so much more believable I think this movie like it made such an impression on our generation Everybody can remember Sitting down and watching it or if they didn't sit down and watch it for the first time it came on TV They remember at least watching it afterwards. Yeah, or they remember everybody talking about it Yeah, exactly. It was like for those two weeks back-to-back weeks. There's oh I think it's more than just us really being nostalgic about the first one. Yeah, besides it the budget was lower It's a superior movie as far as character building and storytelling if you guys have similar Memories of when it first aired on TV back in the 90s and you remember hiding behind the couch and or if it was like my mom No, no, you have to come here and watch this sit watching Yeah, you have similar stories. Let us know in the comments if you remember First watching it on TV and then how you reacted to it. Were you scared? Did you like it? You shit your pants? Let us know and until then Keep drinking