Hello fellow Dragoneers! It’s time to get all linky. Ian, as per usual, has posted links at our Facebook page, but I like to put them here too (sort of our permanent record, if you will – I don’t see Facebook lasting too much longer, to be honest).
We started this week’s show by revisiting a bet that Ian had made last week – a gentlemen’s bet – over whether or not the puzzle game Soduku involved math. I said it did and Ian said it didn’t. So far I’ve taken the gentlemanly approach that we’re both right, but Ian doesn’t see it that way. He thinks that is the first sign of a degenerate gambler and that this is the second:
I don’t know. I think I’m much less interested in the bet than Ian is. Isn’t it possible that obsessing over a bet is also the sign of a degenerate gambler?
I think where I lot of the conflict is coming from is the enormous stakes of the bet: one pen.
I remember Bic Bananas, but I don’t remember that commercial.
Ian talked about late-night burger commercials. Here’s a commercial that recommends the healthy lifestyle of eating greasy burgers before going to bed.
First, the Burger King; then the Prince of Acid Reflux. The best part of this video is the idiotic write up that accompanies it: “Funny Burger King stunt. See the King wake up a dude in the middle of the night with an interesting method-cymbals. Hilarious. This guy has no idea what’s going on.” “The King wake up a dude” indeed. “Hilarious.”
Another feature of late night TV is the ubiquitous cheque cashing scam commercials:
(That was from Ian’s really good and really under-promoted CBC sketch show The Eleventh Hour. Ian post Space Hole!)
These commercials are what I remember from late-night television: car insurance for desperate scofflaws:
All these commercials make me feel bad for being a night owl.
We decided on the show how great it would be to have diplomatic immunity:
So much better than the bad haircut immunity that Mel Gibson had. Although come to think of it, bad haircut immunity can’t be revoked, unlike diplomatic immmunity:
Drama!!! (Has any second movie in a series dropped as precipitously in quality as Lethal Weapon II?)
The weird thing about seeing Joss Ackland as the evil South African with his stupid diplomatic immunity was the fact that I’d only previously seen him as the author CS Lewis:
What a cliffhanger! That was sort of thing I watched as a devil-may-care, rebellious teenager. CS Lewis never had to claim diplomatic immunity!
Sneaky Dragon ain’t gonna play Sun City!!!
Oh, how sad it is that good intentions always seem to produce crappy music. We’re still not gonna play Sun City though!!! We’re gonna play Sun City Girls!
O-o-o-okay. Thanks, guys.
Ian claims that it’s my fault that we have to watch this because I’d never heard of it:
Now I blame Ian. Ignorance – not even mine – is no excuse in the eyes of law.
We’ve already posted this, but any excuse is a good excuse in the eyes of the law. (What?)
Please invent a shirt that will play that, scientists.
On the show, we remembered the time that the Sex Pistols asked God to help save the Queen:
Such nice boys. And so not clean.
Sorry I can’t embed this link, but here is the band that Ian will always see as the original punk rockers. You can see it here.
We talked a little bit about spelling bees before Ian killed the show:
That sketch went on a little long, didn’t it?
Ian and I talked about a great CBC radio comedy called The Great Eastern. This was a high production value program with subtly humorous content and a complex storyline so naturally it was cancelled before its time, but it lives on on the Web and you can find the original episodes here. But, related to our talk about spelling bees, here is an edited portion of the show: an In the Vault segment that reveals more of host’s Paul Moth’s fantastical backstory:
[audio:http://www.sneakydragon.com/wp-content/uploads/Audio/Great_Eastern_Spelling_Bee.mp3|titles=Great_Eastern_Spelling_Bee]Ian maintains that this song is very scary. That is if you think of the word “Rhythm” as the name of a giant spider.
Funnily enough, I watched the video and the rhythm never got me. Strange.
Speaking of strange, here is one of my favourite Beach Boys songs: Heroes and Villains from Smile. This is a particularly odd mix from the new box set that uses a lot of the vocal parts that were left off older mixes. You can hear the intricate vocal blends, the sparse instrumentation, the fascinating word play…and the craziness.
One more moment of Beach Boys kookiness:
Sorry that was just audio with a picture. Still, great song though!
Let’s end on a high note: Teen Wolf! I have never seen this hirsute teen basketball comedy/horror film and I am bound and determined to never do so. If you want to watch it though, knock yourself out:
Okay, I did watch it. My first thought was “Poor Michael J. Fox” and then I had to admire that actor who was hired entirely for the acting ability of his eyebrow. What a performance!
See ya next time!