{"id":8099,"date":"2011-12-17T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2011\/12\/17\/steve-austin-goes-toy-shopping\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T18:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T18:13:04","slug":"steve-austin-goes-toy-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/steve-austin-goes-toy-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Austin Goes Toy Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seeing as it’s Christmas time I thought it would be fun to bring up this vintage bit of strangeness. These captures from the fourth season of the Six Million Dollar Man, the episode is “The Bionic Christmas Carol”.  You see in 1974 Gerald Ford passed into law the “Dickens Act” which meant every TV show, no matter how ridiculous or nonsensical had to do their own adapatations of “A Christmas Carol”. Fred Sanford was a good American, as was Doctor Johnny Fever and of course, Col. Steve Austin.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I won’t bother with the specifics but in one key scene Steve follows Bob Crandall (oh brother) to a toy shop and of course, Steve wants to bring presents for the family. There is a lot of fun eye candy in the scene, you can see a nice GI Joe Adventure team set there and the Ideal Jaws game is prominently featured. However what can we see when Steve dramatically checks in on poor Bob with his bionic vision?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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The horrible fourth wall breaking money shot! I ask you Plaidstallions readers<\/span>, what is cheesier here, the shameless obvious Kenner toy plug or that fricking horrible, almost series wrecking porn moustache that Steve is rocking?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing as it’s Christmas time I thought it would be fun to bring up this vintage bit of strangeness. These captures from the fourth season of the Six Million Dollar Man, the episode is “The Bionic Christmas Carol”.  You see in 1974 Gerald Ford passed into law the “Dickens Act” which meant every TV show, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,200,437,95,620],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-kenner","tag-misery","tag-six-million-dollar-man","tag-vintage-toy-stores"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/podcastmarker.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"rssradio":{"key":"rssradio","url":"","label":"RSSRadio","class":"rssradio","icon":"rssradio.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/pod-stallions\/ps","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/feed\/podcast\/default-podcast","embedCode":"

Steve Austin Goes Toy Shopping<\/a><\/blockquote>