Monday, July 23, 2007

Classic!




I came across these browsing around YouTube this afternoon. Steve Austin was the man when we were kids! The intro holds up pretty well, but the actual show itself? You be the judge - this one scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid:




Yeah, not so scary now, eh? The music is kind of groovy though - a little bit more funk going on there in the rhythm section than I remembered. Steve is a "Seventies-Man", so his first impulse is to attempt to communicate with Bigfoot. He ain't no pansy, though, despite the poofy hair and fancy jumpsuit, so when communication fails he rips his arm off! Chuck Norris would be proud!

The sound effects rock - like when they throw each other or a log or something ten feet and it sounds like an incoming artillery shell! I also like the fact that Bigfoot gets a lower-pitched, bassier "ne-ne-ne-ne-ne-ne" to compliment Steve. Fortunately, Steve and Bigfoot eventually do become friends...

Kudos to David Crosby for doing an excellent job as the menacing, potato-sack shaped Bigfoot...

This next one is awesome: Steve takes out the bad guys with an exploding bionic javelin! At one point the background music becomes so loud and overpowering that it even overwhelms the actors! It quickly segues into a jazzy piano solo as Steve gets his mojo going and gets the job done!



Steve takes on a robot in this last one. Lots of goofy sound effects! Steve wins by punching the robots face off, then impaling him on an i-beam (which for some reason the robot obligingly jumps directly onto)...


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