To whom it may concern

It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Eerie Savings and Loan versus Eerie-Yoshizaki Emporium

Strap on your Sky Monsters part 2 (with bubble sole!), and strut like a sky-walking machine down to First Eerie Savings to sing 99 Bottles of Beer with Mister Wilson. Ladies, gentlemen, ain't it good to know you got a friend? Put your white plastic cash dispensing hands together for... ATM with a Heart of Gold!

"If it's a lack of funds that keeps you from expanding," he said smoothly, "The Eerie Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Eerie Savings and Loan has some very competitive rates available for small business owners."

He steepled his hands, gazed steadily ate three young men from over his fingertips.

"I'm a very keen investor in our local economy," he said.

"No," Marshall refused, at the same time as Dash said something far ruder that was both refusal and insult, and Simon shook his head.

It had the air of a discussion long-settled, but Chisel tried anyway.

"Free toaster?"

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Edgar Teller looked at the matt black plywood that covered the hole where the Friendly Automated Teller Machine had once sat. He sighed deeply and ran his hand over the uneven surface, mulling over again the possible reasons for the fatal short that had ended his experiment.

The pager clipped to his belt beeped. He glanced down at the glowing green screen, which displayed a brief message alongside his home number. Apparently his freshly-repainted garage door had gotten stuck for the third time that week.

He stared at the fading Mister Wilson sign for a long moment, and he smiled.

Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History

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Me: Ok, I just need to remember my bank account and routing number to set up this draft.

My Brain:

Me:

My Brain:

Me:

My Brain: The kid in Hocus Pocus is also the same one who was in that old show called Eerie Indiana. His name is Omri Katz. Hope that helps. K bye.

— Paige Kellerman (@PaigeKellerman) February 4, 2020

Strap on your Sky Monsters part 2 (with bubble sole!), and strut like a sky-walking machine down to First Eerie Savings to sing 99 Bottles of Beer with Mister Wilson. Ladies, gentlemen, ain't it good to know you got a friend? Put your white plastic cash dispensing hands together for... ATM with a Heart of Gold!

Strap on your Sky Monsters part 2 (with bubble sole!), and strut like a sky-walking machine down to First Eerie Savings to sing 99 Bottles of Beer with Mister Wilson. Ladies, gentlemen, ain't it good to know you got a friend? Put your white plastic cash dispensing hands together for... ATM with a Heart of Gold!

Here’s some more episodes of Eerie Indiana.

In The Retainer, Marshall is trepidatious about visiting the dentist. Not suprising when his dentist is Vincent Schiavelli.

His friend Steve has a massive retainer that lets him talk to dogs.

They learn of a conspiracy among the town’s dogs.

The next episode is The ATM with the Heart of Gold. Marshall’s dad has created a friendly computerised teller, slightly reminiscent of Max Headroom.

Gregory Itzin plays the town mayor. He really is the go-to actor for untrustworthy elected officials, isn’t he?

Marshall’s friend Simon starts getting money from the ATM, because he’s nice to Mr Wilson.

In the next episode, The Losers, Marshall’s dad loses an important presentation. The search leads to some strange places, and an appearance by Joe Dante regular Dick Miller. Not surprising, since this episode is directed by Joe Dante.

Another Dante regular is Henry Gibson, who works in the Bureau of Lost.

Next, it’s America’s Scariest Home Video. It’s Halloween, which can’t be good in Eerie. Marshall’s younger brother is stuck in the TV, and the Mummy has got out, only it’s the actor who played the Mummy years ago.

Next it’s Just Say No Fun.

I’ve just noticed their school is BF Skinner High School – named after the behaviourist who invented the theory of operant conditioning, and the Skinner Box, an experiment where doves were trained to collect food from a dispenser. The dispenser would randomly deliver seed in response to buttons the doves would peck, but it was always random. However, the doves would develop momre and more complex, repeated behaviours in the apparent belief that what they were doing was key to the seeds being given.

Simon is given new glasses, and suddenly he’s boring and just wants to do schoolwork.

There’s a tiny bit of the end credits of Mork and Mindy before the next episode.

Then, an episode Heart on a Chain. A new girl, Melanie, joins Marshall’s class. She has a life-threatening heart problem, and is waiting for a transplant. And all the boys in class fall in love with her. She’s played bu Danielle Harris, possibly familiar to you as Bruce Willis’ daughter in The Last Boy Scout.

Marshall gets love advice from Elvis, who lives on his paper route.

It has a sad ending.

This is the last episode here. After this, recording continues with the start of Channel 4 News. The conflict between Bosnia and Serbia is the top story. I think their spell checking fell down slightly here.

Hearing someone in the office ask “Does anyone know what’s happening about this Mister Wilson fella?” and immediately wanting to share your opinions about artificial intelligence and the role of human contact in the development of something that’s not technically human.

So, who's ready to simultaneously feel super horrid about Simon's homelife while also really wanting a pair of massive puffy white runners? Tonight marks week three of our 25th Anniversary Rewatch of Eerie, Indiana and we're gonna be watching and chatting about ATM with a Heart of Gold.

Strap on your Sky Monsters part 2 (with bubble sole!), and strut like a sky-walking machine down to First Eerie Savings to sing 99 Bottles of Beer with Mister Wilson. Ladies, gentlemen, ain't it good to know you got a friend? Put your white plastic cash dispensing hands together for... ATM with a Heart of Gold!