Retro Media Lover Gifts

People who say television leaves nothing to the imagination haven't seen the picture reception we get.

"How can you call yourself a left-leaning audiophile if you've never heard NPR on vinyl?"

'I traded a motherboard for three DVD's. They were bogus, so I tossed them out the window....'

'We're a public library trying to keep up with the times.'

'In my dreams, I can still hear him saying, 'You have low memory storage capacity.''

"It says here that, since there generations who never saw them, BBC and ITV are re-showing every programme since 1970."

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

"Don't get strung out by the way I look, don't judge a book by its cover."

Before the Internet

'We need you to settle a bet -- was 'Twilight Zone' a sitcom or a documentary?'

'Hey...remember T.V.?

"That concludes our broadcast day. Go to bed."

'It's O.K. Charlie - you can relax. The T.V. repairman said, 'it can be fixed!''

The Old Time Television Channel

"Midtown Vinyl. Vintage albums + EPs. Midtown Ink. Vintage books + newspapers."

'No Bonanza, no Gunsmoke, no Led Zeppelin... what a sad state of affairs this is! I'm glad I'm not in your generation...'

Lady throws dart to decide which soap opera she's going to watch.

"It's the great pumpkin's psychotic uncle Mitch, Charlie Brown."

'Could you pass me my - oh thankyou.'

"If I had been on 'The Brady Bunch', which I wasn't, I'd have been Greg, whom I ain't"

"...Looks like nothing but snow on TV tonight..."

'Thanks for coming here today for my presentation, '10 cutting edge trends in the future of business analysis.' Copies of my talk will be available in the lobby in VHS and Betamax formats...'

'Well, kids -- I guess it all started to fall apart when they canceled 'Seinfeld'....'

Huawei Five-O

Phantom of Casablanca

'Thanks for buying the ventriloquism instructional tapes. You are now listening to tape number one...'

The Bronze Age of Television

'For years after Hitchcock's movie, we got real respect.'

'Life is like a box of chocolate laxatives!' - Forest Grump

"...but after they hired Vanna White instead of me things really got interesting."

When I was a kid watching "Perry Mason" on tv, I always knew that when I grew up I'd spend a lot of time in courtroom. The only part I had wrong was that I always assumed I would be the defendant. ! !

You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it! Rick's Cafe Tatooine

'Hey! — they're rerunning the Commander Data show!'

'Sir Steve Austin is here to see you.'

'When they advertised movie downloads, I thought they meant...'