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brightly_lit ([personal profile] brightly_lit) wrote2016-07-21 08:56 am

Throwback Thursday Happy: He-Man

It's Throwback Thursday at [livejournal.com profile] amilliondays, where you post about something that USED to make you happy, even if you can't imagine ever being into it now! (Or even if you can.)

Here is mine:

HE-MAN AND SHE-RA. I used to watch both shows religiously every day when I got home from middle school. (Then, Voltron, but that's another post.) I even got my (much older) brother into them. She-Ra was probably the better show, but they were both all kinds of cheesy and ridiculous. (And imagine our delight when a live-action He-Man movie, starring Dolph Lundgren, came out not long later! Except it turned out to be really quite, uhhmmm ... S & M.)

I won't subject you to lots of pictures of He-Man (although please do yourself a favor and google "he-man cosplay" images); rather, I will share with you two videos, one a hilarious spoof video from a few years ago somebody made and put online of He-Man and friends singing a modern dance song:



And on what for me is a more poignant note, the full-length song from the pilot episode of She-Ra, a song which my brother hunted down on tape and got for me (not an easy feat, and he did it partly because he simply thought it was a great song), and which, years later, a friend in college was just as into (having gotten into it on his own, also being a big He-Man/She-Ra fan). It really is musically great, if you can get past all the silly sound effects and the Casiotone production:

[identity profile] cuddyclothes.livejournal.com 2016-07-25 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Jeff happened to be sitting behind me when I started the He-Man vid. We both cracked up! I don't know the show except vaguely, but it's still hilarious. Thanks!

[identity profile] brightly-lit.livejournal.com 2016-08-03 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Lol--glad you liked it! Unfamiliarity with the show doesn't make the video any less delightfully wtf, I figure.