Warehouse 13 Green-Lighted

SCI FI Channel has given a green light to Warehouse 13, a two-hour pilot it describes as part The X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting. The pilot for a one-hour drama comedy comes from Universal Media Studios and is slated to begin production in December, with an eye toward a summer 2008 premiere.

After saving the life of the president, two FBI agents find themselves abruptly “promoted” and relocated to windswept South Dakota, to a top-secret location called Warehouse 13: a massive, secret storage facility that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government over the centuries.

The duo search the country for several missing objects while monitoring for reports of supernatural and paranormal activity that could indicate the presence of other objects they must retrieve.

Warehouse 13 is based on a script by Rockne O’Bannon (Farscape) and Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and D. Brent Mote.

McBoo is the man. In 1987 McDonald's brought back the original three pumpkins unchanged. In 1988 there were no McDonald's pumpkins, and the world cried out in anger and pain. In 1989, McBoo ditched his pumpkin pals and brought in two new heavy hitters. In the fall of 1989 I was a freshman in high school and was too concerned with my own self image to admit it, but I wanted these things so fucking bad I could taste it. Especially that awesome green witch with the cool hat. If I had that hat I could dress McBoo up in it, and he could pretend to be a witch for Halloween. But I was a teenager, and not for all the blowjobs in San Francisco would I ever have admitted that I wanted a Happy Meal toy. Sadly, these passed me by. Or, more accurately, I passed them by. Damn you, teenage insecurities!

Then, just to fuck with me, McDonald's upped the ante. In 1990 they released a version of McGhost that had irises and glowed in the dark. As you probably remember from your childhood, any toy that glows in the dark instantly doubles in coolness, so my high school sophomore self was dying inside for a glowing McGhost. I'm not sure why I feel like this, but I seem to recall that maybe I actually had one of these at some point. It seems so familiar. In any case, I think its pretty clear that when contrasted with their current health-friendly adult oriented marketing campaign lies, McDonald's used to be a hell of a lot cooler than it is now, especially around Halloween. If they brought back these Halloween pails, I swear to god I'd kiss Ronald square on the lips. Especially if he still looks like this.

Mark