December 31, 2006
— Ace Christopher mentioned centaurs.
Surprisingly, the dirty centaurs sketch is available on YouTube.
Bonus: Do you like Christopher Walken?
Do you like Poe's The Raven?
What if you could somehow combine those two enthusiasms?
Played straight (I think), and halfway between a good reading and a kinda-silly Walken deal.
More... Now I'm desperate to find William Shatner reciting it -- which I guessed he'd done, and it seems I was right.
Haven't found a recording of that yet. But here's an odd 1974 concept album of rock (well, hippy-rock) interpretations of Poe's poetry. You can listen to the Raven one; it's not really all that horrible. Not particularly good, but not bad.
No Closer To Shatner's Raven... But running into odd things.
What the hell were these things supposed to be?
God I hated them. Though I think they had a Three Musketeers cartoon that I liked.
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Oh, was that insentitive?
Too bad, Mr. Ed.
Posted by: eman at December 31, 2006 04:59 PM (FWrFx)
Those things were Drooper, Fleegle, Bingo, and Snorky.
Posted by: at December 31, 2006 05:08 PM (hXQn6)
Posted by: at December 31, 2006 05:12 PM (zoBWw)
I vaguely remember the song from my childhood. But I have no memory of what the context was ...
Posted by: JayC at December 31, 2006 05:14 PM (G7SJG)
Posted by: TheSev at December 31, 2006 05:17 PM (JkjS2)
Posted by: TheManTheMyth at December 31, 2006 05:17 PM (Gvo/q)
Posted by: docweasel at December 31, 2006 05:19 PM (tNHjJ)
Heh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ywc503A_Y
Posted by: TheSev at December 31, 2006 05:20 PM (JkjS2)
Also on the Banana Splits was the Arabian Knights.
"Siiiize of a mouse."
Posted by: Bart at December 31, 2006 05:22 PM (hXQn6)
As for Poe, the only real '70's concept album of any note dealing with his material was of course the Alan Parson's Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
Posted by: Enas Yorl at December 31, 2006 05:24 PM (Cdosr)
Posted by: Bart at December 31, 2006 05:31 PM (hXQn6)
Serendipity is the wrong word, but it's something like that. You get to the point where you think a blog can't really surprise you, and you find out just how wrong you can be.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at December 31, 2006 05:35 PM (hNyWr)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 31, 2006 05:35 PM (GlKkD)
Posted by: Gordon at December 31, 2006 05:41 PM (8zF9q)
Posted by: chongo at December 31, 2006 05:41 PM (/oy7/)
Posted by: Bart at December 31, 2006 05:47 PM (hXQn6)
Posted by: Andrew at December 31, 2006 05:47 PM (AVrGW)
After I posted the BS clip, i started thinking it would be funny to write a piece about hunting down and killing the banana splits... but something in my mind nagged that it sounded like it had been done before.
And so it has been.
Posted by: ace at December 31, 2006 05:52 PM (4qddO)
Posted by: eman at December 31, 2006 06:12 PM (FWrFx)
Now they're back.
Posted by: eman at December 31, 2006 06:14 PM (FWrFx)
Posted by: p. thadz at December 31, 2006 06:24 PM (2JGJ6)
Posted by: John from WuzzaDem at December 31, 2006 06:26 PM (Pt3Le)
Posted by: TheManTheMyth at December 31, 2006 06:39 PM (Gvo/q)
Posted by: Poopstain at December 31, 2006 06:57 PM (Gvo/q)
I'd watch the damn thing repeatedly expecting some kinda wild to follow, but it never did. Never. Yet I watched, hoping. Much the way I always tuned into Wonder Woman, hoping her top would fall off during a fight or something. Let me tell you, it never did. NEVER.
Posted by: Ray Midge at December 31, 2006 07:36 PM (rH3Ei)
I was all like, "Fucking A! Let's Zoom!" But it always turned out that by "Zoomin" they meant talk about the alphabet and shit like that. Buncha fuckin cockteases.
Posted by: Ray Midge at December 31, 2006 07:40 PM (rH3Ei)
Don't get me started on Cookie Monster.
That hypoglycemic bastard took the best days of my life.
Posted by: lauraw at December 31, 2006 07:48 PM (DbybK)
God, I cannot believe that I remember that shit. My life blows great big enormous geeky chunks.
Posted by: physics geek at December 31, 2006 07:50 PM (vKMFv)
Posted by: physics geek at December 31, 2006 07:58 PM (vKMFv)
Cookie Monster, I thought, was the shit. That is, until I watched closely and realized that the fucker never actually ate a cookie! He just put the things in his mouth and crushed it, having like an epileptic fit. Just crushed them and spewed them around everywhere.
Cookie Waster, more like it. Seriously, as a kid, once I realized that's that blue freak's game was, it really got under my skin.
I think these comments give some insight into how much I expected of my childhood programming and how they only broke my heart.
Posted by: Ray Midge at December 31, 2006 08:00 PM (rH3Ei)
It just hit midnight -- I live a couple of blocks from Detroit, the sound of gunfire is helping ring in the new year in superb gangsta fashion. I don't think I'll walk outside for a few minutes.
And why do they still let Dick Clark on TV? It's impossible to understand the guy and I haven't had a drink tonight -- saving myself for the Rose Bowl.
Go Blue!
M-i-c-h-i-g-a-n!
Posted by: mesablue at December 31, 2006 08:09 PM (DzeyU)
Midnight has come and gone here with little fanfare. Just the way I like it.
Posted by: Slublog at December 31, 2006 08:19 PM (s/x2h)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 31, 2006 08:25 PM (642Cb)
Exactly, Ray!
NO ESOPHAGUS.
But that didn't stop the greedy son of a bitch did it?
Hey, maybe little Laura wants a cookie? No fucking way. She only gets to watch them all get shattered to shit.
Rot in Hell, fuzzy blue Satan.
Posted by: lauraw at December 31, 2006 08:26 PM (DbybK)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 31, 2006 08:28 PM (642Cb)
Posted by: ErikW at December 31, 2006 08:29 PM (N7QC9)
Posted by: harrison at December 31, 2006 08:45 PM (yYMAJ)
Posted by: Cookie Monster at December 31, 2006 09:03 PM (hNyWr)
It was basically a preachy show about diversity if i remember right.
Posted by: myshitdoesindeedstink at December 31, 2006 09:16 PM (mK8N3)
Posted by: iamdrunk at December 31, 2006 09:18 PM (mK8N3)
Posted by: Big Bird at December 31, 2006 09:34 PM (TdD2X)
There was an ominous loud thump on my roof. I'm hoping some fool didn't fall out of an airplane or there's some severed limb up there from some twit blowing themselves up. I'll take a look in the morning.
There were some pretty big bangs, and a lot of stuff that sounded suspiciously like a 12ga shotgun rather than ordinary fireworks.
I'd really be unhappy if my roof were all blood stained.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 31, 2006 09:44 PM (GlKkD)
Posted by: imdrunk at December 31, 2006 09:57 PM (zsMCl)
Posted by: Bart at December 31, 2006 10:12 PM (YIz8V)
Here's a solution!
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The funnier part of this is a comment by a youtube viewer: "Why not put the mail in the bag and then pee in the bag?"
That's what I like to call a Purple Avenger-ism.
Because PA would watch this video and offer a better and more efficient way to accomplish the wacky stunt, whatever it may be.
Posted by: Bart at December 31, 2006 10:24 PM (MtIvD)
Did you try the other one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is1bZNNM6Jg&mode=related&search=
I'd love to find out where the master negatives are...
Posted by: TheSev at December 31, 2006 10:32 PM (JkjS2)
Of course it wasn't Walken but it was still good.
Posted by: Mr. Mxyzptlk at December 31, 2006 10:34 PM (Nv6CM)
Posted by: Bart at December 31, 2006 10:46 PM (MtIvD)
Best decision I ever made.
Posted by: Pigilito at January 01, 2007 12:44 AM (+e769)
When the Sour Grapes Bunch danced through the set something stirred in my pants......I figured it out eventually.
Posted by: TBinSTL at January 01, 2007 01:58 AM (MSiPb)
Posted by: Eoer at January 01, 2007 06:43 AM (VcGyt)
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Posted by: at January 01, 2007 06:47 AM (VcGyt)
another member here. i still have the records!
did y'all know that barry white sang "doin' the Banana Split"?
Posted by: shedmaster at January 01, 2007 08:26 AM (CZc15)
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Posted by: TheSev at January 01, 2007 02:13 PM (JkjS2)
Posted by: eman at January 01, 2007 02:28 PM (FWrFx)
In the opening scene, Indiana Jones mows his Buick LeSabre through a crowd of picnickers in a park.
Posted by: lauraw at January 01, 2007 02:41 PM (DbybK)
Posted by: lauraw at January 01, 2007 02:42 PM (DbybK)
Posted by: eman at January 01, 2007 02:46 PM (FWrFx)
Posted by: max at January 01, 2007 03:26 PM (sZsVD)
EMMIE JO!
EMMIE JO!
EMMIE JO!
She was so hot she would make a Bishop kick out a piece of stained glass window.
Posted by: The at January 01, 2007 03:41 PM (koO9y)
EMMIE JO!
EMMIE JO!
EMMIE JO!
She was so hot she would make a Bishop kick out a piece of stained glass window.
Posted by: The at January 01, 2007 03:41 PM (koO9y)
EMMIE JO!
EMMIE JO!
EMMIE JO!
She was so hot she would make a Bishop kick out a piece of stained glass window.
Posted by: The at January 01, 2007 03:41 PM (koO9y)
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Posted by: eman at January 01, 2007 04:05 PM (FWrFx)
Posted by: Dave Munger at January 01, 2007 04:42 PM (2DpdP)
Gordon wrote: "... H. R. Puffinstuff ..."
Does anyone remember the show "Millenium" with Lance Henriksen on Fox? The show was pretty cool for the first season or two but I remember the exact moment it jumped the shark and, as God as my witness, I swear I remember some drug-riddled scene where the witch from Puffinstuff was riding her broom in the middle of an episode. I haven't done any (illegal) drugs for many years but I did have a single margarita that night but I know I didn't imagine it. It's been driving me crazy. Does anyone else remember seeing that? I never did hallucinogenetics enough to give me any real flashbacks. It stunned me so much that I can't even remember the context.
'myshit...' wrote "Was anybody else forced to watch some crappy show called Mulligan Stew in elementary school?"
I was forced to watch. It was around the bicenntennial. I don't remember what it was about but I remember enjoying being able to watch that sweet, sweet mother, brother, secret lover - television - instead of doing math.
Posted by: slug at January 01, 2007 04:59 PM (WbjpP)
Posted by: Michael at January 01, 2007 06:11 PM (QKD1A)
I can't quite put my finger on when Agent Frank Black was raped by the panda (Millenium kind of flirted with sucking from the very begining, with of those nonsensicaly morbid storylines), but I remember an episode after which I thought it was going to get REALLY COOL and it didn't. I think it was a season ending cliffhanger, the Millenium Group had a vaccine for some plague they knew was coming, and they only had enough for themselves or something, so this one lady ends up sacrificing herself so that Frank will have enough vacine for his wife and kid. Part near the end of that one was kind of like a music video, and I though, OK, next season will be totally different, because the big crisis they were leading to has happened, the Millenium Group will probably be exposed and everything. But then I think it just turned out that his wife died anyway, and he got a sceptical hot chick for a partner.
I think the big problem with a lot of Chris Carter stuff is that it builds up to something (the culmination of a huge conspiracy, an alien invasion, armageddon) but then he has no idea how to show the thing he's building up to. I think it could have been done effectively, but just not by the people who were writing those shows. Like on the X-Files, they should have had Scully turn out to be part of the conspiracy, then the conspirators turn out to actually be the good guys (they're right, we CAN'T handle the Truth, it makes people go crazy like in Lovecraft stories, we really do need them to protect us from the Truth...), and then Mulder is revealed as an Alien. Then the invasion happens, and it's kind of like "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", but on a global scale - no one knows what's happening, the very fabric of reality seems to be coming unraveled like the point about a third of the way through "Schrodinger's Cat" where I started screaming "die, hippy, die" and threw the fucking book out of the window. Then, the very last episode is a flash forward to fifteen years or so later, and it's a COMPLETELY different show, like Star Trek or something. We beat the aliens and got their technology.
When I go off at length about the X-Files out of nowhere like this, I'm as surprised as anyone, probably more so.
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