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Ian and I talked about mothers-in-law and mother-in-law jokes. I think, for Fifties men, they may have been sublimated wife jokes, which would not have been as socially acceptable at that time:
Oh, mothers-in-law, with your stout figures and furious scowls.
Ian is against the umlaut and perhaps looks forward to its demise. I, on the other hand, approach the peculiarities of other languages with a shrug and enjoy the kooky presence of the umlaut, the miniscule and the accent grave.
Es lebe der umlaut!
Ian told us about a couple of obscure TV shows based on classic movies:
First, Casablanca, which of course originally starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The iconic Bogey was played by the equally iconic…David Soul?
It seems like one particular aspect of the show stood out for that YouTube user and amazingly it wasn’t David Soul.
The second film turned into a so-so TV series was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho:
Pretty awful, judging from that clip. I like the fact that they couldn’t even be bothered to give the actress clothes or a hairstyle that actually existed in the sixties. And what’s with Bud Cort’s full-on Mary Kay makeover look. Does his character moonlight in a glam rock band?
We’re going to have to introduce a warning sound when we spoil the endings to twenty-year old TV series. Like this one:
It turns out that a koala bear was behind everything. That’s why it was called Quantas Leap, duh.
We talked about a strange influx of movies that featured Satan in the late-seventies. Remember when George Burns played Satan?
Remember when it was acceptable for a movie to look like that? On second thought, Psycho, the TV series, looked pretty good.
Here’s another devilish comedy from the days when the term “comedy” was very loosely used:
Fortunately I was too old to want to be taken to see Walt Disney movies by that point. Narrow escape!
We talked about this movie for some reason. I really can’t remember why. Maybe because it was part of the Walt Disney low budget movie factory.
These were cheaply made caper comedies that were sold under the Walt Disney company aegis. I can honestly say that they were great when you were ten, but the returns diminished as you got older.
Ian maintains that there are no children in the James Bond universe – except James Bond Jr.
But really, do we want to see children running and playing while this is happening?
It wouldn’t be the same, would it?
We decided to forgive Liam Neeson for his last few movies – particularly the incoherent Luc Besson-produced ones and the one Ian likes to call Wolf-puncher.
Another movie demonizing wolves. No wonder there are hardly any left in Northern BC (where this movie was filmed). I do like Liam’s “glass” knuckles though. I was thinking of linking to the trailers for Taken and Unknown, but no point encouraging people.
I brought up a few Canadian bands that no longer need the old Cancon crutch. (Cancon is a law that forces radio and TV to maintain a percentage of Canadian content on the airwaves.) I mentioned Feist, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Nickelback. Guess which one Ian linked to?
Nickelback is a good identifier of people I don’t want to know.
Canada has the Snowbirds…
and America has the Blue Angels:
But only Canada has the RCMP Musical ride!
In your face, America! Our police force rides horses to music! *macho grunting noise*
I am unfamiliar with these candies, being several generations removed from Britain. Ian says, “Bah, humbug!”
According to Ian, Wrigley’s gum has boring names. Then he links to a Doublemint ad, totally destroying his own argument. The gum has “double” the flavour, Ian, for “double” the fun! Wit!
Does it seem normal that grown twins would dress alike now that their mother is no longer dressing them? Doublecreepy Gum, more like.
Ian thinks that Adams gum had the better commercials.
Not bad. A fun Beach boys pastiche with a lot of camera tricks and a good ending. Still, those names are hardly the most exciting. The gum is sour and cherry-flavoured. Let’s call it “Sour Cherry”! The gum is sour and orange-flavoured. Let’s call it “Sour Orange”! Repeat ad infinitum.
Ian told us all about pre-Tetra pack juice boxes that were simply plastic bags of juice that had to be stabbed – at great danger to the stabber – with a sharp straw.
No amount of deliciousness seems worth that kind of danger, but I used to reach up inside pop machines with all their dangerous moving parts to snatch cans of pop so I’m hardly one to talk.
Here is an ad for good old Super Socco, the fruit juice for kids who are really bad at sports!
No wonder Ian and I are so familiar with it.
We no longer have them here in BC where Ian and I live, but in other parts of Canada you can still buy your milk in bags. It’s easy to understand why this is done: cost-savings and environmental reasons. It’s also easy to understand why it isn’t done. Don’t believe me? Check it out:
Thanks, cute Asian girl! I guess we’re such big babies here in BC that they stopped producing bagged milk for us. I didn’t realize that the rest of Canada still had to put up with it.
Ian celebrates my recent sugar fast by revealing what got me through it with this little video.
Surprisingly, heroin is only slightly less addictive than sugar.
And finally, let’s end with a joke that is slightly more lethal than the joke I ended the show with. We’ll see you next time, everyone!