If you've kept abreast of our Japan tag, you know we like to highlight the glorious insanity that is Japanese TV. Today we celebrate 'Cathy's House'.

Long before we were calling it cosplay, sci-fi fans were attending conventions in costumes of their own making. The BBC covered the trend in 1982.

It's a little known fact, but nonetheless true: Leonard Nimoy is the wielder of one of the Pornstaches of Legend.

TheMarySue tipped us off to this old TV clip from Episode #3.1 of "Donny and Marie" (1977) where they do some sort of musical, um, parody.

The week after the San Diego Comic-Con is always a ridonkulously slow news time, so let's do what needs to be done whenever the news cycle slows down: chug Vicks 44 straight from the bottle find a classic clip of Morgan Freeman taking a bath in a coffin, while singing.

Here's an awesome CBC news report from the late 80's or early 90's on "the growing phenomenon of internet", including astute quotes like this:John Allen says it's a modulated anarchy.

Before William Shatner was Captain Kirk and Adam West was Batman, they filmed a pilot (below) called Alexander the Great.

It was a great weekend for Trekkers.