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Gone Fashing posted:definitely sounds like something they would have played on the bob and Tom show I was gonna say Dr. Demento
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I remember a local rock station playing a parody of the AC/DC song "TNT" that was made to be about PMS. Did Bob Rivers ever do any non-Christmas parodies? I've only heard his Christmas stuff.
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rockinricky posted:Did Bob Rivers ever do any non-Christmas parodies? I've only heard his Christmas stuff. I remember some of the songs off the top of my head - "rear end in a top hat Son" ("Black Hole Sun"), "Wrong Foot Amputated" ("Come Out and Play"), "What if God Smoked Cannabis?" ("One of Us") and "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep" (uh, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"). Quality stuff. Apparently, he also did that "TNT" parody you mentioned.
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I remember back in the Napster days it felt like almost every song had some kind of parody. I for some reason specifically remember "Combo No 5"
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Doc M posted:Yeah, he had a bunch of Twisted Tunes compilations. A friend of mine downloaded some of his stuff back in the day, and all of it was mislabeled as Weird Al because of course it was. I think my favorite was "Minimum Wage" - Smashing Pumpkins "The World is a Vampire" e: some of this stuff is available: https://open.spotify.com/album/4rWkJ7FWz7u1da0yvlaQbq?si=8ZEE2rmmQWe3woTtzu0ukg and https://open.spotify.com/album/6gRJgZz6tv6XlgG9ywkjr0?si=OL6k-junSXaGXK4OKwuu9Q beefnoodle has a new favorite as of 03:32 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I remember back in the Napster days it felt like almost every song had some kind of parody. I for some reason specifically remember "Combo No 5" This is more for the 2000s thread but there was a point where youtube was full of stupid parody songs, and that jumped the shark when they all just became parodies of I'm Sexy And I Know it. But on the subject of Drive Time Radio parody songs though. I remember distinctly seeing some report on one of those Entertainment Tonight clone shows about how DJs were having trouble making jokes about the OJ case because they and their audiences of Matre'd Musky Vote and Joe Lunchpail didn't understand DNA and the technical the scientific terms the case was using, they had to spend a bunch of money commissioning parody songs to inform people about DNA testing and stuff.
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Cartoon Man posted:
I loved Pizza Hut so much when I was a kid. I remember doing the Book It thing. Personal pan pizzas. Terrible spagetti. A pitcher of Pepsi. Playing "Lean on Me" on the jukebox non-stop. Sticky tables and greasy pizza after a soccer game. Fond memories.
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Man, Pizza Hut used to be so much better back in the day, 'fore they started using crappy ingredients
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Randaconda posted:Man, Pizza Hut used to be so much better back in the day, 'fore they started using crappy ingredients Then around like 97 they got these weird thick pepperonis that looked like sausage rounds. I bought some Little Cesar's this week and their thin crust is surprisingly good.
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beefnoodle posted:I think my favorite was "Minimum Wage" - Smashing Pumpkins "The World is a Vampire" FYI that Pumpkins song is called "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". I'm sure we talked about mislabeled songs in this thread not too long ago, and it doesn't help with songs like this where the title isn't actually a lyric in the song.
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Cartoon Man posted:
Fun fact. Until like 2012, Pizza Hut was the #1 buyer of kale in the US. As you can see they used it to decorate the salad bar.
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GPTribefan posted:I found out a long time ago that like 95% of those songs and bits you heard on morning radio were made by a service called PrepBurger. They would come up with a song parody or whatever and then sell it to radio stations or groups across the country. I spent most of my youth thinking Matt Patrick on 96.5 was a comedic genius... blew my mind when I found out the same stuff he was doing was being done at like 40 other radio stations in 40 other markets. Bob Rivers definitely did all his Twisted Tunes. There were tons of Twisted Tunes most people haven't heard of because they were about local events and issues. He had a studio in his garage, and a lot of times when an artist was in town they'd record a song or two there as a "Live at Bob's Garage" version.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:FYI that Pumpkins song is called "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". I'm sure we talked about mislabeled songs in this thread not too long ago, and it doesn't help with songs like this where the title isn't actually a lyric in the song. You know, I actually edited that but somehow my placeholder made it through.
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Cartoon Man posted:
My podunk hometown got a Pizza Hut around 1988, which instantly became the nicest restaurant in town. Book It was so awesome for a kid like me in elementary school. I don't remember them doing toys that much, but do remember some sort of rubber Land Before Time tie-in. mostlygray posted:Playing "Lean on Me" on the jukebox non-stop. Blame It on the Rain here.
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Where do those red cups come from? I only ever saw them at chain pizza places or very small, kinda crappy local ones.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I don't remember them doing toys that much, but do remember some sort of rubber Land Before Time tie-in. I think their most amazing tie-in was the X-men animated launch. Large pizza +$15 [or so] would net you a commemorative VHS of part one or part two of the pilot, and it came with a fold-out mini poster. They later had an x-mem mini-arc comic where Prof X was testing people in Danger Room scenarios that were all connected and came with trading cards. Other than those two, maybe the biggest promo was the Young Indiana Jones toys??? chitoryu12 posted:Where do those red cups come from?
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We've had this discussion before. You can actually get them from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/d/Tumblers/Restaurant-Beverage-Stackable-Break-Resistant-Commmerical/B007G6CEVE
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It was just that they were specifically the pizza restaurant cup. So many places could potentially have them, but only pizza places did.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Pizza Hut ... the nicest restaurant in town This just makes me sad. ... that you had a much nicer restaurant than my town, which was the Subway that opened in the mid-90's, instantly surpassing the Dairy Queen because it was kept cleaner.
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The hosed up thing about mambo number 5 was that erika was by his side the entire time but he trampled on her feelings by sleeping around.
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I'm kinda sad that places don't do pitchers of soda any more. I get why (free refills are objectively easier and better), but there was just something about that huge, chipped restaurant pitcher and the wax-paper cups they'd give you that makes me happy.
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Go to any college bar on thirsty Thursday and you can get the same experience with terrible american draft beer.
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ryonguy posted:Go to any college bar on thirsty Thursday and you can get the same experience with terrible american draft beer. If I wanted a pitcher of 'gansett dunked on me, I'd just go to Brown. :P But yeah, maybe I'm just being weird, but there was something about those being filled to the brim with Mug root beer (always Mug) with pepperoni pizza.
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Neito posted:If I wanted a pitcher of 'gansett dunked on me, I'd just go to Brown. :P Mug is the official root beer of pizza.
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Neito posted:If I wanted a pitcher of 'gansett dunked on me, I'd just go to Brown. :P It was always Mug because Pizza Hut was owned by PepsiCo.
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Does anyone feel like modern fast food chains all kinda look the same decor wise? It loving sucks. That pizza hut thing got me thinking about it but at least they used to look a little different.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Does anyone feel like modern fast food chains all kinda look the same decor wise? It loving sucks. That pizza hut thing got me thinking about it but at least they used to look a little different. The only one I can think of that's not going for the bright florecent-light hell scheme is Dunkin, but that's more a power play against Starbucks than a desire to be different.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Does anyone feel like modern fast food chains all kinda look the same decor wise? It loving sucks. That pizza hut thing got me thinking about it but at least they used to look a little different. The homogenization of fast food architecture was bound to happen at one point. It's been following some sort of trend or another in design for 30 years. Really the only reason we have a fondness for old styles is that we have memories of the outlets that were built in the 70's and 80's before they were refitted for the 90's trends.
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Neito posted:If I wanted a pitcher of 'gansett dunked on me, I'd just go to Brown. :P No, what made them awesome (and what made Pizza Huts also good) was that ball shaped ice they used. Perfect for soaking up soda and then eating because it was soft enough. Ot was like having a Slush Puppy within your drink. It’s why Sonic today has the best sodas actually.
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GPTribefan posted:I found out a long time ago that like 95% of those songs and bits you heard on morning radio were made by a service called PrepBurger. They would come up with a song parody or whatever and then sell it to radio stations or groups across the country. I spent most of my youth thinking Matt Patrick on 96.5 was a comedic genius... blew my mind when I found out the same stuff he was doing was being done at like 40 other radio stations in 40 other markets. Same, but substitute some morning duo called John and Lana for my local market. They were local hosts, but obviously the station purchased various comedy songs, skits, etc... from some national service. The big one I remember were there "patented" prank calls. The one I remember most, which I think might have just been a track from a Jerky Boys CD, was an extremely racist caricature of an Asian man is calling in to a diaper company to complain that the box says 10-15 pounds but it is only holding 2-3 pounds of poo poo, or something. They actually did eventually start doing their own prank calls some time later, though I think it was just for their contest winners. So you'd win the trip to Boston, or something, but they'd just mess with you on the phone for a few minutes first.
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Speaking of radio prank calls, did anybody ever hear this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wjbTruO4Ko It seems to me that a lot of radio comedy disappeared after the Janet Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction'.
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rockinricky posted:Speaking of radio prank calls, did anybody ever hear this one? Coincidentally, that call came up on my MP3 player on my commute today. I have it listed as one of Opie and Anthony's bits - but I've never bothered to validate that. quote:It seems to me that a lot of radio comedy disappeared after the Janet Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction'. Not surprising. One of YouTube's catalysts was that there was no quick, reliable site to watch "Nipplegate" at any time. Unless maybe you used RealPlayer. But the words "quick" and "reliable" are not the first words I'd associate with RP.
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rockinricky posted:It seems to me that a lot of radio comedy disappeared after the Janet Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction'. They made it law that you must inform somebody they're on the air if you call them live on a radio show. Killed prank call jokes dead. Gave rise to the fake prank calls that universally sucked.
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rockinricky posted:
Radio and TV changed a lot after that nipple. FCC rules changed dramatically. However, prank calls were always a tough thing even before that. Many states are two-party-consent, which means you need their permission to broadcast their voice. It's why that jimmy Kimmel puppet show was all in Vegas - you don't need the other parties consent to record them. Animal-Mother posted:They made it law that you must inform somebody they're on the air if you call them live on a radio show. Killed prank call jokes dead. Gave rise to the fake prank calls that universally sucked. Negative. It's a state thing.
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Who needs stupid prank calls when you can just play this on repeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4c54rCJ_k
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Animal-Mother posted:They made it law that you must inform somebody they're on the air if you call them live on a radio show. Killed prank call jokes dead. Gave rise to the fake prank calls that universally sucked. No, that honor goes to Caller ID and phones that can show you just who is calling.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No, that honor goes to Caller ID and phones that can show you just who is calling. Lol if you think caller ID info means anything. It's very, very trivial to spoof CID information.
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Neito posted:Lol if you think caller ID info means anything. It's very, very trivial to spoof CID information. Like how Chase was calling me to do something with my credit card that I don't have?
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