THE X-MEN they weren’t.

“Misfits of Science” featured a motley crew of failed science experiments who drove around in their Fundae Sundae ice cream truck. One of these misfits was played by a young Courteney Cox — if you want a cool superpower, I guess Fat Monica could have eaten a Fundae Sundae van filled with ice cream heh

Here’s a clip of the show intro from LuiscmckTv.

Oh, and one of the show’s writers was Tim Kring. Yup, that Tim Kring, the creator of “Heroes.”

By Agence France-Presse

BUDAPEST–Japan’s Yu Nakajima won the Rubik’s Cube World Championships on Sunday in Budapest, the birthplace of the cult puzzle.

Nakajima averaged 12.46 seconds in arranging the six different colors of the six-sided classic 3×3 cube, which has nine panels on each side to arrange.

He beat Andrew Kang of the United States and Mitsuki Gunji, a fellow Japanese national.

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DO you remember “Combat!,” starring Vic Morrow and Rick Jason? This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid — I used to watch it with my grandfather.

Here’s the show intro courtesy of ldesilvi.

I remember being shocked by the news that Vic Morrow was dead (along with the two children he was holding during this scene) due to that infamous helicopter accident during the shooting of “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”

By Pablo Gorondi
Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary–After 25 years, the cube is coming home.

Hundreds of competitors are meeting for the fourth Rubik’s Cube world championship Friday in the Hungarian capital, which hosted the first such event in 1982.

The mechanical puzzle invented by Hungarian Erno Rubik sparked a global craze in the early 1980s. Some seven million cubes were sold last year.

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BELIEVE it or not, back in the 60s, “The Flintstones” was sponsored by Winston cigarettes. In fact, as you’ll see in this video clip from jayro76, Fred even sings the famous “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” jingle.

Hmm, guess back then they saw nothing wrong with using cartoons to sell cigarettes — I wonder what the kids thought of this.