Pleated-Jeans has put together Follow the TV Reference, a clever compilation of back-to-back television shows referencing each other. I have to admit that I wanted it to go on longer, just to see how far it could go.

In order, here are shows used in the compilation:

Saturday Night Live
30 Rock
Community
South Park
Hannah Montana
Law and Order
Beavis and Butthead
Full House
The Simpsons
Scrubs
Gilmore Girls
The Office
Entourage
Arrested Development
Family Guy
The Fresh Prince
Saved by the Bell
Married With Children
Friends
…AND back to Saturday Night Live

This previously unseen footage of Disneyland is from 1957, less than two years after the park opened. The film was created from archival footage by the Disney History Institute.

via Rob Sheridan

In Ferris Bueller, TV network AkooTV has pieced together a fun side-by-side video comparison of Matthew’s Day Off, the 2012 Superbowl Honda CR-V commercial starring actor Matthew Broderick, and the circa 1986 film that inspired it, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Business Insider compiled an entire gallery of the side-by-side screenshots from AkooTV’s comparison piece.

via Business Insider

Pac-Van by Jonathan Bergeron

Castlevania by Jayson Weidel

Super Mario by Olly Moss

Life Wasted by Alan Hynes

Gallery1988 Melrose is hosting Multiplayer X2: Posters inspired by classic video games, a group show featuring the art of over 30 artists. The show opens Friday February 10, 2012 and runs through March 3, 2012. The opening reception begins at 7 PM on February 10, 2012. You may remember last year when Gallery1988 Venice hosted Multiplayer, the gallery’s first show of video game art posters.

images via 411posters, Alan Hynes, Gallery1988 and Oo-De-Lally

These radiation safety posters were produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1947.

via Retronaut

images via Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Graphic designer Stephen Wildish has just released the 1950s Film Alphabet, a poster that quizzes us on our 1950s movie knowledge. If you like this, we’ve previously posted all of his film alphabet posters. Film alphabet cards, prints and posters are available for purchase from the artist.

Oakland-based Lea Redmond of creative studio Leafcutter Designs has made a cool retro-modern version of the punchboard, a nearly-forgotten parlor game from the 1920s and 1930s that are “a playful object with tiny compartments containing little paper scrolls that are only revealed when “punched” out”. Her handmade Punch Boxes hold sweet customizable scrolled messages and may be just the thing to cleverly reveal your thoughts of love on Valentine’s Day. You can take a peek at the 12 standard messages or make your own for a few dollars more. This project was funded by a successful 2011 Kickstarter campaign.

We have previously posted about Lea’s projects, including the World’s Smallest Post Service and The Small Times, a mini newspaper for the World’s Smallest Post Service Kit.

Collectors Weekly recently ran an interesting article titled Reformed Gambling Swindle Becomes a Punch Board of Love on the unsavory history of punchboards and Lea’s refreshing new take on them.

…the origins of these pre-smartphone amusements are not so cutesy. First designed for gambling, punch boards quickly became the go-to scam for gangsters and mobsters like Jack Ruby, con artists, and lottery operators hoping to swindle the gullible. We found a thorough history of the parlor games’ less-than-savory past at Punchboard.com.

Fins ‘n’ Deuces vintage punchboard

images via Leafcutter Designs and Collectors Weekly

CollegeHumor brings us Breaking Bad RPG, a fabulous video that gives the AMC hit television show, Breaking Bad, a retro 8-bit makeover.

The only game that’s also a controlled substance.

via Geek Gestalt and BuzzFeed

“The Boneyard Project: Return Trip” is an art exhibition of scrapped military aircraft that have been repurposed as canvases for contemporary artists. Created by Eric Firestone and organized by curator Carlo McCormick, the exhibition features work by more than 30 artists including Shepard Fairey, Andrew Schoultz, Faile, and Nunca. The exhibition is on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, through May 31. The Flop Box has many wonderful photos of the exhibition and the artists at work.

via Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome & My Modern Metropolis

photos 1 and 3 via Eric Firestone Gallery, photos 2, 4, and 5 by The Flop Box

Tyler School of Art design student Nick Dunlap has created the Prohibition Preparedness Kit, a clever concept case for carrying around bottles (and disguise labels) of the fictional prohibition-themed Speakeasy wine. It reminds me of the Executair Trav-l-bars, those wonderful vintage portable travel bars.

This project is a 1920s inspired wine from a vineyard near Chicago, packaged in a Prohibition Preparedness Kit. The kit contains items such as breathmints, disguise labels and corkscrew. But more importantly, the kit comes with Hooch Estate Vineyard’s Merlot and Chardonnay.

via Lovely Package

Chicago-based illustrator Johnny Sampson created a swell retro-styled series of tour posters done in horror comic style for Yonder Mountain String Band, a bluegrass/rock quartet based out of Colorado. The screen-printed posters are available to purchase from the artist.

via OMG! Posters

Robot is a 1963 short film about the emerging technology of data communications that was made for the Bell System by Jim Henson. The film features a sassy, flatulent robot puppet in the starring role.

via AT&T Tech Channel

“INTERMISSION” is a hilariously absurd spoof of a 1970s-era British movie theater intermission film. It was screened at the 10th anniversary celebration of the “Look Around You” BBC comedy series. The film was created by “Look Around You” co-creators Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper.

via Boing Boing

Famous movies were transposed to earlier eras with different actors and directors in this clever movie poster series by designer Peter Stults. The series is inspired by a similar movie poster project by designer Sean Hartter.

A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol is a fun retro-styled animated commerical directed by Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel for Italian eyewear brand, Persol. The short was produced by Passion Pictures in London through advertising agency, Winkreative. You may remember that Kevin Dart and Stéphane Coëdel also collaborated on the short animated film Yuki 7: Looks That Kill that we posted about in August 2011.

via Kevin Dart

Friday Project – Bond Film Alphabet. Hardest one yet, I would be amazed if anyone got these. U and Y are a bit of a stretch

Graphic designer Stephen Wildish may have created his most difficult film alphabet to date with the Bond Film Alphabet which, of course, challenges your knowledge of James Bond movies.

We have posted all of his challenging film alphabets to date and cards, prints and posters of the posters are available for purchase.

The Nostalgia Electrics Retro Series 3-in-1 Breakfast Station makes toast, coffee and eggs and sausage in a lovely retro-styled case. Just $50 at Manufacturers Clearance.

via Bookofjoe and Nag on the Lake

This 1960 IBM ad touts the capabilities of SAGE, a massive Cold War-era automated system for tracking and destroying incoming enemy bombers. The heart of the system was the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer, which at 275 tons is still the world’s largest computer. Each computer had 55,000 vacuum tubes, required a half acre of floor space, and operated on punch cards. There were 52 AN/FSQ-7 computers around the country. SAGE was retired in the early 1980s.

Here are photos Scott Beale shot in 2006 of the SAGE on display at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

via Retronaut

video via chiklit, photo via MITRE

“Century 21 Calling” is a 1962 short film about the Seattle World’s Fair, and in particular the many marvelous technologies from Bell System: the punchcard autodialer, the Bellboy (the first radio-operated pager), and Touch Tone dialing. The film was created by Fairbanks Productions for AT&T.

via Retro Thing

We thought his 1970s Film Alphabet was his final film trivia challenge, but we are happy to see graphic designer Stephen Wildish has created a new challenge, the 2000s Film Alphabet. Prints, cards and posters of all the Film Alphabets are available from the artist.

via Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

images via OOOK

Designer Stephen Wildish has created some surprisingly difficult visual movie trivia challenges: the 1960′s Film Alphabet, the 1980′s Film Alphabet, and the 1990′s Film Alphabet. Now, for his final movie image quiz, he brings us the 1970′s Film Alphabet.

Coming off the heels of the 1980′s Film Alphabet and the 1990′s Film Alphabet, designer Stephen Wildish now challenges our 1960s pop culture movie knowledge with the 1960′s Film Alphabet .

Recently we posted the 1980′s Film Alphabet from designer Stephen Wildish that tested your 1980s movie knowledge. Now he has created a 1990′s Film Alphabet designed to quiz your familiarity with 1990s pop culture movies. It’s harder than I thought it would be to figure out each movie.

“Journalism” is a 1940 educational film about the different jobs found in newspaper and magazine journalism. The film was part Your Life Work, a post Depression-era educational film series outlining different vocations for young workers.

via Brain Pickings