Oliver Reed we hardly knew ye. There was a whole other generation that had yet to know your drunkenness.

Thank God for YouTube.

Gangs can be pretty scary things to young children if portrayed realistically. Their impressionable minds take to heart whatever images we choose to show them and these early perceptions stay with them a lifetime.

Which is exactly why I’m incredibly terrified of roving packs of effeminate dancing guys with scarves around the heads.

FYI, the above scene is for real and comes from the 1985 CBS Schoolbreak Special “Ace Hits The Big Time”. And was, ultimately, supposed to get kids scared straight. If anything, the opposite probably happend .

Of note: Mr. Belvedere’s Rob Stone plays lead. Here’s a dedicated Geocities page for Mr. Stone. Enjoy.

Kids, listen up. This is what wrestling used to be. A real man’s sport.

You know, where guys in clown make-up beat up other guys named Koko.