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Sourdough Sam posted:One of my favorite music riffs is there's this sound in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank that sounds exactly like the intro to Fashion by David Bowie and servo calls it out quietly. I recently realized why Bill's Crow sings the Come as You Are parody in the weird office building/mall. It's because the Nirvana is in giant letters on the floor. All those years and I never saw that.
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Sourdough Sam posted:One of my favorite music riffs is there's this sound in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank that sounds exactly like the intro to Fashion by David Bowie and servo calls it out quietly. Similarly the bit in The Legend of Boggy Creek II where Kevin and Bill start singing the hymn 'Wings of a Dove' because the background music is basically the intro. Vincent Van Goatse posted:Any jokes about Sauk Rapids probably came from Bridget given it's her hometown. Likewise Circle Pines and Mary Jo. MJ's dad was actually mayor of Circle Pines when she was a kid!
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Jimmy Smits.
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Keromaru5 posted:Jimmy Smits. It really is odd the way that's narrated.
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Everybody's having fun and smoking And the dogs are eating too! Robbing people, killing people, hopping trains is fun!
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The "Hey, Joe"/"Where you going with that gun in your hand?" riff from Days of our Years(?) went over my head for some time until I heard the Hendrix song.
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Joel loved to reference local Twin Cities comedians, but you didn't need to be familiar with their work to find them funny, since it was Joel saying a funny thing in a goofy voice. "All over the world!" and "go to bed old man" are the two I remember -- and until recently I thought they were obscure comedians, but it turns out according to Frank, the latter quote was from Dana Gould: https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/1662609328640073728
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Data Graham posted:Lol my dad thought Zubaz was the funniest word and he said it at any opportunity for years. “Bazubaz.” - Dr. Sheldon Bangtheory
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Dawgstar posted:Judging from what folks have said if it's a deep dive into sitcom lore it's probably Frank. And comedy history: movies, old time radio, etc. Not that some of those weren’t sitcoms. At one point while in my teens in the 1980s I made a joke about Lum and Abner (who I was aware of but had never heard myself): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lum_and_Abner I have a feeling Frank also had a parent who was serious about comedies from back when he was growing up, or a little before. But it was harder to relisten before the Internet put so many old radio programs back into circulation. (Arguably, it’s an older version of “keep circulating the tapes”.)
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Mar 21, 2024 23:06
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Frank has a lot of pictures of his dad with famous people so he seemed kind of connected.
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Joel loved to reference local Twin Cities comedians, but you didn't need to be familiar with their work to find them funny, since it was Joel saying a funny thing in a goofy voice. "All over the world!" and "go to bed old man" are the two I remember -- and until recently I thought they were obscure comedians, but it turns out according to Frank, the latter quote was from Dana Gould: https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/1662609328640073728 It's always entertaining to me how much of a hot bed the late 80s in the Twin Cities were for standup comedy.
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Dawgstar posted:It's always entertaining to me how much of a hot bed the late 80s in the Twin Cities were for standup comedy. The hip hop scene there at the moment is really fantastic
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It wasn't unitl I saw Road House (via Rifftrax) that I realized how many references to it they made.
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I remember thinking the oft-repeated "I'm the god! I'm the god!!" was just a quirky thing the Mads would say until I actually saw the Twilight Zone episode it came from ("The Little People").
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Watching Phantom Planet and "Athol Fugard is scared!" caught me off guard. What's the story behind that? Googling brings up a dead partial reddit post marveling about how obscure it is. I know the actor but I don't know what the riff's about
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why the heck does season 13 cost $130 digitally on gizmoplex but i can get the bluray from shout factory for $80, shorts apparently included and everything. i thought the former was pretty steep even if it were on physical media but now im baffled
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Data Graham posted:Watching Phantom Planet and "Athol Fugard is scared!" caught me off guard. It's probably just a joke about a dude's appearance. They made lots of jokes when someone onscreen even vaguely resembled someone slightly famous.
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It took me probably a decade to realize that Servo was describing the actress in Werewolf as a "Laura Dern prototype." (I blame the sad audio quality of my EP VHS recording that made it just sound like "mmphdermmmphtype.")
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It's probably just a joke about a dude's appearance. They made lots of jokes when someone onscreen even vaguely resembled someone slightly famous. One of my favorite bits is the part in Warrior of the Lost World where the camera pans across a large crowd and Servo ratlles off all of the celebrity names that the people in the crowd resemble. https://youtu.be/EZrQu9cIZEg?si=hMy5XEAD6mtaBadV
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LIVE from LINCOLN CENTER....a tribute to the UPPER AMAZON, with JOHNNY CARSON, STEVE AND EYDIE, Vice President AL GORE, BUDDY HACKETT, DON RICKELS, and BECK!
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YOUR HALFTIME SHOW show show YO-YO MA AND THE AND THE ENTIRE BACK CELLO SUITE suite suite!
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man sidehackers is such a disgusting little movie
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mycophobia posted:man sidehackers is such a disgusting little movie Isn't that the one where they'd decided to use it and only then came across the disturbingly-graphic rape scene, and that taught them to always watch a goddamn movie all the way to the end before deciding? That must have been a hell of a day.
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that's the one. two women in that movie and they exist solely to be brutalized and/or avenged by a man
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mycophobia posted:that's the one. two women in that movie and they exist solely to be brutalized and/or avenged by a man It's depressing how many old movies are just like that. It's depressing how many new movies are just like that.
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I don't know what Junior Samples is/are/was/were.
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I want some sort of band challenge reality show where top 40 acts have to cover "Night Train To Mundo Finé"
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mycophobia posted:man sidehackers is such a disgusting little movie Easy Rider, with its groundbreaking style and cynical finale, had such a monumental effect on cinema in the early 70s that we got piles of awful biker movies like Sidehackers. Feels like they all tried to up the cynicism too in crude ways. I think Hellcats might be worse. I can't discern any kind of narrative from it. Just scenes of bikers drinking and dancing to the worst music you've ever heard. It's like if Ray Dennis Steckler was into Hell's Angels. Edit: I've got my history wrong here. Both of these movies predate Easy Rider. I wonder which film started the biker fad. Sourdough Sam fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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SolarFire2 posted:I don't know what Junior Samples is/are/was/were. He was a country/redneck/farmer-themed comedian who usually wore bib overalls. Spent a long time on Hee Haw (a redneck/country-themed comedy variety show).
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I think it was less Easy Rider and more exploitation off of growing anxieties about California's biker gangs, Hunter S Thompson's book Hell's Angels came out in 67.
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When they said "Retread his condom??" in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank what was that about? The preceding movie line sounded nothing like that.
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Sardonik posted:When they said "Retread his condom??" in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank what was that about? The preceding movie line sounded nothing like that. Fingal is assigned "Prophylactic rehab" - Prophylactic can refer to any kind of preventative medicine, but in common usage means birth control It's a thinker for sure!
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Sourdough Sam posted:Easy Rider, with its groundbreaking style and cynical finale, had such a monumental effect on cinema in the early 70s that we got piles of awful biker movies like Sidehackers. Feels like they all tried to up the cynicism too in crude ways. 
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JethroMcB posted:Fingal is assigned "Prophylactic rehab" - Prophylactic can refer to any kind of preventative medicine, but in common usage means birth control Well I definitely learned something today. 
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Funky Valentine posted:LIVE from LINCOLN CENTER....a tribute to the UPPER AMAZON, with JOHNNY CARSON, STEVE AND EYDIE, Vice President AL GORE, BUDDY HACKETT, DON RICKELS, and BECK! ah, the filthy, unfunny comedy of buddy hackett!
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sidehackers is an all timer episode for me, the combo of the movie being so goofy, nasty, overdramatic, and the riffs just landing "what do ya think they're doing now that cigarette ads are il-legal?"
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The Girl in Lover’s Lane is another one of those. The poor titular girl is without sin the whole movie and she is still brutally strangled by Jack Elam all so Big Stupid can learn a lesson.
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I'm just a fan of the stupid morality tales in general, so I also love Girl in Lover's Lane.
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I Am Fowl posted:I'm just a fan of the stupid morality tales in general, so I also love Girl in Lover's Lane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBBemS-HRk Plus it has this all timer sketch
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