Stuck on you

Sometime in the early 1980s, I either read about in the newspaper or saw on the local news that a movie was going to be filmed in the smallish city where I lived.

The movie turned out to be "Stuck On You!," a low-budget, B-movie sex comedy from the folks at Troma Entertainment, who would go on to become known for "The Toxic Avenger" and other low-budget horror comedies.

I never saw "Stuck On You!" in theaters, I think I may have eventually seen it on the USA Network (Up All Night with Rhonda Shear) or on Turner television.

The movie is pretty awful and some of the humor would not fly today, hardly anything the city Chamber of Commerce would list on their notables. That's probably why I can't find anything about the movie being filmed in my hometown (it's possible I'm mixing it up with another movie).

Anyway that movie has stuck in my head all these years and here's another sticky thing that I haven't been able to get out of my brain for four decades.

I've finally stuck all the sticky stickers that belong in the sticky book! The 1982 Topps sticker book is finally complete!

You can see the last two stickers I needed to finish the final page, they were right next to each other! Concepcion and Carew side by side. The Mike Schmidt All-Star sticker was the third-to-last sticker I needed. (I also needed to get a second regular Dwight Evans because the first wouldn't peel).

I received the final two stickers from Jim, who is @RunningOz on Twitter. It's been a long journey.

I've mentioned this sticker set many times on this blog, how it was the only sticker set I cared about, how I thought stickers were for babies at the time, how it's the only sticker book I bought, how I collected the stickers but refused to stick them, how I never completed the set and eventually got rid of the book and the stickers, how the book and many of the stickers came back to me 12 years ago all the way from England, and how I enjoyed the back page of the sticker book most because it's about the only place that Topps recognized the Dodgers' 1981 World Series championship.

So you know all that already. So now all there is to do is show each page of the book all stuck:

To think I was buying all those stickers while they were supposedly making "Stuck On You!" in my very own hometown.

And that's why both, that dumb movie and this dumb ol' sticker book have stuck in my brain all these years, the way dumb stuff like powder blue unis and gratuitous nudity from your teenage years tend to do.

But I guess that's officially the end of the sticking -- unless I decide to collect a second unstuck set, like I was trying to do back in ''82.