Did I hear you ask, “Where are the links?” Well, here are the links. Ian has found lots of links for this weeks episode. Let’s peruse them, shall we?
Ian and I showed our advanced years by referencing The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
I’m not as old as Ian. Did you know that Eve Arden was in Our Miss Brooks, the old radio show? Damn it! I am OLDER than Ian!
We got to congratulate Ian’s talented sister-in-law, Vicky Van, on her graduation from film school. Here is a film she made with the very funny Gerald Gerald Geraldson.
It’s so true. “It ain’t easy being creepy!”
I clumsily attempted to reference Charlie’s Aunt. Ian has done me one better by posting some of Where’s Charly?
Ray Bolger was one talented fellow. Too bad everything else he ever did was overshadowed by a certain little film with munchkins and a yellow brick road.
Ian and I talked about the unlikelihood of our ever being able to actually retire.
Come to think of it. The neighbour across the road keeled over last weekend and almost died. He retired six months ago. Maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
You see? No one wants that shit.
I brought up my daughters’ R.E.S.P. during the show. Ian added a little E.C.T.:
I’ll take your R.E.S.P.E.C.T. and add some T.C.B.
And I’ll take that T.C.B. and add some T.Y.A.
Or would you prefer just some plain T.C.B.Y.?
Ugh, I think I went too far. But let’s hear it for the alphabet, everyone! The alphabet!
During the show Ian and I talked an awful lot about cheese. Reminding us of this…
Apparently I confused the Greek cheese appetizer Sakai with the cartoonist Stan Saganaki. Ian set me right:
Wow, what I took from this is Stan stalks his own fans.
Which is creepy, but watch this episode of TMNT with a sword-wielding bunny:
Fuck it. I can’t be bothered to watch all that. Is there too much shadow in that animation? Or is just me?
Ian and I talked about being teens and I briefly referenced MST3K. That’s all it takes for Ian to link to this:
Haw-haw! People were funny in the past! You know, I actually like some of these movies. Sure some of them were stupid, but some actually had an important message to impart. But, then, as I’ve pointed out on the show, I’m a square.
Ian told us about an old flavour of Kool-Aid, Rootbeer.
Yep, that’s it on the right. What a disgusting idea!
It was time to practice for our upcoming contest show where we talk about one subject for an hour so Ian tried to make me talk about Bruce Lee. I think I lasted about one minute:
I still think Bruce Lee’s Kato was a fish out of water in the camp milieu of Batman and the Green Hornet.
Ian enjoyed the inappropriateness of the Addams family hunting monsters with the Scooby Doo gang. Shouldn’t they be happy to see monsters? They are the Addams family!
It’s a kind of neat that they based the look of the animated Addams family on the original Charles Addams drawings rather than on the TV characters.
Since we’ve already mentioned Batman and we were just talking about Scooby Doo. Here they both are:
I didn’t know that Calculon played Batman!
Let’s try getting back on topic again. Bruce Lee!
Aah, forget it. So boring. What else is there to look at?
We brought this up. I don’t know why. Probably for no reason, but it sure is fun!
Does that theme sound familiar? That’s right! It was used in Kill Bill:
Ian posted this because he likes it! Plus the Bride is wearing Bruce Lee’s costume from Game of Death and the Crazy 88’s are wearing Kato masks. You see? It all ties together.
Is my mind playing tricks on me? Wasn’t this scene in black and white in the movie or does it change to black and white in the next sequence? I may have to watch this movie again!
Here’s an old little Lulu theme song from 1945, which Ian objects to for its use of the word “Zulu”.
To be fair, there aren’t a lot of rhymes for Lulu. Cthulu?
Here is the new “Zulu”-free theme song, which is objectionable on other grounds:
“True-lu”? Fail. The weird thing about this Little Lulu show was the Seinfeld-like ending – although this one ends with a shout out to Bob Newhart.
It is Ian’s heartfelt opinion that Mr. Fantastic should be in jail. I’m more of the opinion that the animators of this should spend some time behind bars.
Hooray! This cartoon features the immortal Paul Frees!
Ian and I have a gentlemen’s bet over whether Soduku involves math or not. He posted this YouTube video explaining the rules, but since it can’t be embedded, I can’t be bothered to watch it. We’re still stalemated!
Ian brought up a peculiar natural phenomenon that happens everyday in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver and its surrounding regions) called Crow O’Clock:
The rural areas have even bigger ones.
We talked a little about Bruce Lee’s son Brandon and his role in the movie The Crow. I didn’t realize there were four hundred different iterations of this rather humdrum movie (based on a so-so comic):
A murder of crows!
We also talked about the sub-par John Carpenter movie Ghosts of Mars. It was pretty awful all round, but Ian thinks it should have been called Mars Needs Dumbasses!
As I remember it, doesn’t most of the action take place in one room? I hate when movies do that! The best part of the movie was in the extra features on the DVD which had a documentary about recording the music with this cat named Buckethead. Check him out at 3:10. Kooky dude!
Imagine how good he could play if he could see what he was doing!
If you want, you can watch this terrible, terrible movie. Before you do, remember that your time on this Earth is limited. You have been warned. Now, Highlander II: The Quickening.
I didn’t watch it.
Finally, let’s end on what John Travolta was doing when the script for Pulp Fiction came in the mail:
You can’t beat that, people. See you next time!