*pant wheeze* Have I caught up yet? Yeesh, once you fall behind it’s hard work getting back on track, but this is the links post for Episode 23 – hopefully arriving at your favourite Sneaky Dragon website before the next episode of the show. Here we go!
We talked about the time I spent in the Canadian Navy, fighting for a free and democratic Baffin Island.
That’s pretty much what it’s like in the Canadian Navy.
We’re sorry, but we brought up Snow Dogs during the show. That means…
Wouldn’t you have loved to be a fly on the wall during the meeting between Cuba Gooding Jr. and his agent when this film was pitched? Exactly how many zeroes made it seem like a good follow-up to an Oscar winning performance in Jerry MacGuire?
We talked about the Avengers again. This was the only clip Ian could find the didn’t contain spoilers:
Say…if Wolverine only has three fingers, shouldn’t he have only two “claws”? That’s the law of Natural Subtraction.
I was able to find a different Avengers clip with absolutely no spoilers:
STEED SMASH!!!
Speaking of smashing, Ian and I talked about the first Hulk movie, which wasn’t so good. Ian thought the movie was all about poodle punching, but there was also some tank smashing. Sorry, this link can’t be embedded, but click here to see HULK SMASH!!!!
Ian and I talked about hitchhiking – another harmless activity destroyed by mass media. All that was left by the 1980’s was this guy:
Here was part of the problem:
For more information on the dangers of hitchhiking, please view the following:
Wow, I never knew that completely untrue thing. Hmmm.
You know we’re a Canadian show so there has to be a certain amount of Canadian content. We are obliged to mention this show:
Here’s the original Littlest Hobo – also called London!
On the subject of dogs aimlessly wandering the continent helping people…
These dogs traveled all over the United States and Canada, but they NEVER HITCHHIKED!
Here’s the actual littlest hobo:
Not a great cartoon, but I’ll go a long way for a dumb joke.
Speaking of Canadian TV shows, here is the opening to a consumer affairs-type show that both Ian and I enjoyed:
Live It Up! indeed. Wow, did you see they mentioned the Grapes of Wrath? They were a local Vancouver band in the 80’s that made a couple of good albums – worth checking out.
Talking about the Incredible Hulk TV show and the hard luck, Hulk-obsessed reporter, Jack McGrath, brought us to another hard luck reporter who could never prove the fantastical things that were happening to him: Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
That’s a great theme and a great opening to that show. I love when the cellos kick in and the violins go up about twenty octaves.
Don’t confuse Kolchak’s name with Kojak’s…or rather do. Do confuse his name because that’s what the network was betting on.
And definitely don’t it get it confused with Wojeck. Apparently the show that started the whole name ending in “K” thing.
I never saw this show, but as a child I was always aware of it.
I had all the time in the world for the animated Spiderman as a kid; as an adult, not so much. But even as a child I thought it was odd that this episode of Spiderman…
…recycled background, characters and story elements from this episode of Rocket Robin Hood:
There was a lot of dementia in the 1960s. This movie had 8 more dementia than Spiderman or Rocket Robin Hood!
Ian had the temerity to pooh-pooh the original Superman film and the bald-facedness to put down Margot Kidder as Lois Lane. Frankly, I thought the film was a bit of a bore as a kid, but I’ve always like Kidder as Lois Lane. Ian’s knock on her is the poem she recites during the flying scene, which can be viewed by clicking here.
Admittedly the poem is a bit corny, but that’s not Kidder’s fault. I actually think she does as much with it as she can with her unaffected delivery. Knock her all you want though, you big meanie.
I don’t know why, but we talked a little bit about the Galloping Gourmet. Ian wanted to show this clip about the difficulties of pudding on a cooking show.
I always enjoyed the breakneck near chaos of that show.
Listener and fellow podcaster with Justice Pals, Eric Fell, rose to the challenge of last week’s show when I suggested there was no third film in a trilogy that was better than the previous films in a series. He suggested The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which I thought was great. That film is so good, it really transcends the first two films in the series.
Ian only gave a half a star though, feeling that The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is not truly a part of a trilogy, but part of a grouping of three unrelated films that only share actors. Fair enough. Sorry, Eric. No prize for you!
Well, let’s not end on that sad note, let’s end on this sad note: the death of the Incredible Hulk. Watch it and weep and we’ll see you next week!