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Happy 69th birthday to twin actors Don and Dan Stanton!

Happy 68th birthday to twin actors Don and Dan Stanton. Here they are pictured as ill-fated security guard Lewis and the T-1000 taking on his appearance from Terminator 2 along with stills of them as the Censors from Godd Morning Vietnam and twin scientists Martin and Lewis from Gremlins 2. Very underrated film duo and best wishes to both of them. #donstanton #danstanton #twinactors #twinbrothers #goodmorningvietnam #gremlins2thenewbatch #terminator2judgementday #momanddadsavetheworld #eerieindiana #looneytunesbackinaction #thesuitelifeofzackandcody #killyourdarlings

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— Turbo Vice (@TurboVice) August 18, 2020

I love that Joe Dante used those same twin actors in the pilot of Eerie Indiana.
— The Less Dead (@thelessdead80) August 18, 2020

Also played the security guard (and T1000 clone) in T2 which I love. In a movie full of CGI, that's some real practical effect thinking right there!
— Alpha Chrome Yayo (@alphachromeyayo) August 18, 2020

i watched the first couple episodes of Eerie, Indiana [it’s free to stream on Amazon Prime], and totally forgot how great it is. bonus points to the pilot episode for guest-starring Don and Dan Stanton. pic.twitter.com/8Zixze2SZY
— It's Trash Culture (@ItsTrashCulture) June 20, 2020

Nobody believes me, but this is the center of weirdness for the entire planet: Eerie, Indiana. My home, sweet home. Still don't believe me?😱😜 pic.twitter.com/oITEfcMl34
— The Retro Room 🎮🕹🎬🎥 (@TheRetroRoomRoo) June 16, 2020

It's the episode with the twins kept in the Tupperware hahahahaha
— Total Games and Films (@TGFStream) June 16, 2020

Episode has become iconic 😂
— The Retro Room 🎮🕹🎬🎥 (@TheRetroRoomRoo) June 16, 2020

Totally, the dudes from gremlins 2 I think played them
— Total Games and Films (@TGFStream) June 16, 2020

Happy 67th birthday to twin actors Don and Dan Stanton. Here they are pictured as ill-fated security guard Lewis and the T-1000 taking on his appearance from Terminator 2 along with stills of them as the Censors from Godd Morning Vietnam and twin scientists Martin and Lewis from Gremlins 2. Very underrated film duo and best wishes to both of them.

Just saw Gremlins for the first time in years. Noticed this Time Machine easter egg.

Bonsaipanda: Dante is a big fan of those movies, 'Matinee' is the love child of that.

DerBoopMeister: Dante is known for puting ton of easter eggs in his movies.

Cataleast: Gremlins 2 is chock-full of little easter eggs and nods to other media - some very obscure too - so I reckon this is completely planned.

unospazmatic: The henchmen from Mom and Dad save the world

BlueRonfar: They were also on the very first episode of Eerie Indiana!

Pikka: Yeah, T2 used twins for the T1000 trickery in several scenes (including the sadly cut processor reconfiguration).

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— 🎃No Context Creature Features🎃 (@OOCCreature) September 30, 2019

Ah, the twins out of Eerie, Indiana.

And Terminator 2
— Kost (@kostmayer) September 30, 2019

Wondering if this is the same actor who played the coffee cop from T2? Okay, I'm going to bed now. pic.twitter.com/QcI880LOlY
— Michael Myers Roffman 🎃 (@michaelroffman) August 30, 2019

the coffee cops are actual twins who have been in many things together, including Eerie, Indiana!
— Maxwell Shults (@eversonpoe) August 30, 2019

OK, so you probably know of Joe Dante because he directed Gremlins. But he also directed Small Soldiers (which everyone else seems to hate but I love), he was also creative consultant and director on Eerie Indiana, and most recently he directed the flop that was Looney Tunes: Back in Action. I just love his work. I like his fantasy elements, the odd humour, and the fact he almost always casts Dick Miller, Archie Hahn and Don and Dan Stanton (basically his auteur quirkyness). But I feel I am alone, as his films continue to fail.

I wonder if the child twin actors from the first episode grew up to look like their adult twin actor counterparts.@amazon @amazonprimenow #amazon #nostalgia #tv #tvshows #classictv #weird #notgonnasleep
— MrKaPao (@MPCalamity) June 5, 2019

Happy Birthday to Dan and Don Stanton! They changed the twin game in the '80s! pic.twitter.com/SgLKfP8mvu
— Off The Grid (@notoffthegrid) December 23, 2017

A great HELLO dear cinephiles of steemit!...Welcome everyone!... Today I invite you to meet Don and Dan Stanton are twin brother actors (Van Nuys, California) who have had very curious appearances in film and television.

I was very curious of these actors thanks to a series that I saw in the 90's called "Eerie Indiana" that by the way were in the first chapter called: "Foreverware" where they played the children of a beloved strangely young housewife that slept in adult-sized food meats where they never grew old.

PSA: Eerie Indiana is now streaming on Amazon Prime

For anyone who was a big fan of the show back in the day, it's now on Amazon Prime. For anyone who doesn't know what the show is about, it was a short lived series back in the early 90's about a normal family who moves to a town where lots of weird and terrifying things happen. It's more of a kid's show, but it's got some really fun stories and episodes and some fun homages to classic horror.

Enjoy!

mgbroda: Great! I always remember the twins who sleep in the plastics tubs. Need to watch this again.

williamhgacy: Oh damn I completely forgot about that, ill have to watch it today.

I don't remember what they look like, but I remember being totally creeped out by them.

Drainout: IIRC they're the same twins that were in Gremlins 2 and Good Morning Vietnam

rabidassbaboon: That's really the only thing I remember from the series. I think I may have just watched that one episode and then never caught it again, even though I enjoyed it. It was a lot harder to keep up on tv shows in the days before dvr.

dssonic: If you like Eerie, Indiana check out the recent-ish Amazon original series "Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street" - it has a similar tone and is incredible.

RagnaBrock: I’m sold on the name alone.

Geek_reformed: I did love "Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street".

The similar tone to Eerie was what drew me to it, but it is less sinister. Reminded me a little more of a Australian 90s kid show called "Going Round the Twist".

GIJabroni: Didn't Joe Dante do the first episode?

flatbroke412: He did. Iirc he did a few others also

kylelonious: He plays himself in an episode later in the season.

Katekate78: Damn, we just tried, but apparently Amazon Prime Canada does not have it. Lame.

lumpiestprincess: Dang, I got really excited for a second.

Ahhuatl: That one where the kid hears dogs talking thanks to his braces and then they eat him was fucked.

FauxbiddenWe're Werewolves, not Swear-Wolves: yup!

OnceUponASlime: Good call I loved that show as a kid.

Thelonepantalones: One of my favorites!

ParanoidAndroid3000: I used to really enjoy this back in the day, thanks for the memory rejog. Nothing makes me feel old like realising something I watched regularly as a child is now quite old.

DoofusTinyRick: YES!!!!!

Redhawk6262: Wow what a way to start the new year off right. I think I recall a Tupperware episode. Hopefully not confusing it with 'Are you afraid of the dark?'

sonofawitch1983: Yes! It's the Foreverware episode!

ranranbolly: Now if only we could get an HD release of Big Wolf on Campus...

Lamster79: Did they make more than one series? Always seem to remember it ending on a cliffhanger which was never resolved.

ranranbolly: Yes. There was a spin-off called 'Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension'. Not really as good as the first, but it had its own Fox Family style charm.

NotMeanttoKnow: YMMV, but this show scared me way more than Are You Afraid of the Dark? since the framing device still put the narrator in the stories.

hamsterchump: Does anyone know if this is also true of Amazon Prime in the UK?

SolomonKull: I used to love this show as a kid. I'll never buy Amazon Prime, but it's nice to know that it's out there somewhere, and people can view it in 2018.

If you're under 30 and don't remember this show, or didn't have the opportunity to watch it, just let me tell you that it was incredibly thought provoking to my young mind. Very few shows made me think like this one did. It's not that the stories are deep and complex, it's just that this was basically a kid's version of X-Files meets Twilight Zone meets Outer Limits, or at least it touches upon some of the same tropes as those shows.

prodigyrun: How come you'll never buy Amazon Prime?

gredgex: yes! i have the series on DVD but its nice being able to just pop it on streaming. amazing show.

lunacyfoundme: Womp bomp a doo domp

loritree: I give it two fingers up

CreepyCalico: Thanks for the info! I'm going to check this out later (:

UltimaGabe: whelp, brb in about twelve hours

chain_reactions: Thank you for this! I was obsessed with this show when I was a kid. I still love that opening.

justjokingnotreally: HELL YES!

bobnifty76: Awesome

ChoiceD: This show was cool. Don't know why it only lasted one season.

RagnaBrock: It was short lived but I would be so pumped when I could catch a rerun. It seemed like it never aired in the same time slot twice.

LimitedDarjeeling: I can’t seem to find an episode of this show that I remember seeing as a kid. I have vague memories of a kid on a skateboard being in an accident and then at the very end of the episode, when there’s “closure” the angel statue on his grave “cries” a tear...any ideas?

SweetPrismStop it! You're ignorant!: I forgot the name, but a new girl moves to town and all the boys get a crush on her. They don't know yet that she's In need of a heart transplant. In an attempt to impress her, the main boy on the show's best friend hops on his skateboard and gets hit. I won't delve too much more into the angel though because it's kind of a spoiler.

MonstertruckWifeswap: Heart On A Chain. The girl in question went on to become a legendary scream queen, Danielle Harris.

down_bi_the_river: Omg! I loved this show! All the talks about rebooting 'tales from the crypt' , 'the twilight zone' , and 'are you afraid of the dark' made me question why this show got no love from anybody. Glad to see it is at least streaming

cdm85: Does it have subtitles? I have the dvd set but no captions on it so I’ve been having a hard time understanding the dialect. Subtitles would help immensely (haven’t renewed my prime subscription yet).

Geek_reformed: The the best episode is the one when Marshall sets his watch backwards for daylight savings (which Eerie doesn't honour) and gets trapped out of time.

Happy Birthday to Dan and Don Stanton! They changed the twin game in the '80s! pic.twitter.com/SgLKfP8mvu
— Off The Grid (@notoffthegrid) December 23, 2017

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