Unidentified Linking Oddballs

Well, I’m back from England, but that doesn’t make catching up on the backlog of links posts easy. No, it actually makes it harder by taking away a really good excuse!

Here’s some links for Episode 32 with our special guest, Mike Roberds who is perhaps best known for his role as Uncle Fester on The New Addams Family:

No offense, Mike, but the original theme was better:

But not much better.

I was summoned by a magical spell at the beginning of the show kind of like this:

Or like this:

‘Cause people are dumb.

We then discussed Bloody Mary, the drink, and the related Canadian version, the Caesar, with all the blessed ignorance of three confirmed non-drinkers. We think that Caesars maybe have Clamato juice in them. What’s Clamato juice you ask?

Wow, that’s a bad commercial.

Hey, dummies, here’s how you actually make a Caesar:

Mike had it pretty right, actually.

It was also Mike who blew my mind by telling me that Mama Cass was on an episode of Scooby-Doo. Ian further blows my mind by providing animated evidence:

Mind. Officially. Blown. (Oof! What an unflattering caricature of Mama Cass though! Ouch!)

We talked quite a bit about character actor, Chuck McCann – perhaps best known for…

That’s right in my wheelhouse. I don’t remember this ad, but it’s good to know they started up a storyline as the ads went on:

Michael did an episode of Sliders, which turns out to be this:

Not this:

We talked about Laurel and Hardy again, which gives us another excuse to run a Laurel and hardy clip.

Mike joins Ian on the short list of funny people in this movie (Mike appears at the two minute mark):

There’s not much to celebrate about that movie so let’s make it count:

Yep, that was Ian!

Well, another thing we could celebrate about the movie is it was directed by Dennis Dugan who played Richie Brockelman!

Nice faux Beach Boys theme song, bud.

And he was in this Disney film from the strangely directionless late seventies period of the company.

Dennis Dugan. Identified Acting Oddball. Don Tait. Identified Writing Oddball. Russ Mayberry. Identified Directing Oddball.

Pretending to talk about molasses, I managed to sneak in a Buster Keaton reference. Hence, a clip featuring the immortal Buster Keaton!

That was Buster’s first time on film!

Just one last question.

When does Columbo know who the killer is? I always think it’s right away. As soon as he watches the opening of the show.

Remember when Columbo would always talk about his wife and you knew you should never see her? She should only exist in your imagination – like Harvey.

Eep! They showed her! That is so wrong on so many levels. Look at her and then look at him and you’ll see a guy punching out of his weight class and that’s all I’m going to say about that. I do think it’s great that she writes all those hard-hitting crime exposés for The Weekly Shopper though.

Michael brought up the barely remembered Snoop Sisters…

And after seeing that, it is still barely remembered. Did they drive around in Herbie the Love Bug?

I do remember the day when Paul Lynde-types pretended to be husband material…like Paul Lynde.

Or when Dick Van Dyke-types had Jewish mothers.

Do Kristen Schaal-types pretend to make wife material?

Say, did we actually establish what a Kristen Schaal-type is exactly? Is she the seeming innocent, but secretly disturbed kook-type or the Pollyanna with a dagger of vitriol-type? I’m not sure.

Everyone forgets Banacek!

Don’t forget about Banacek! He’ll get all suave on your ass, buddy! And then blast you with an old Polish proverb ’cause that’s just how he rolls.

Could we have talked about any more dumb-ass old TV shows on this episode? Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

And let’s finish up with Exhibit C:

Oops! That’s a movie, isn’t it? My bad. But they’re badder!

Ciao!

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