Gloria in excelsis, Sneakers! This week Ian and Dave drag out the Christmas season by: excoriating laugh tracks; celebrating the winter end times with snowmageddon and icepocalypse; opening presents from listeners; watching A Christmas Carol; agreeing that colourizing is terrible; hating on “not-gettin’-any” rock songs (well, really Dave just wanted to hate on The Eagles again); learning that time+tragedy = safe comedy; discovering Ian’s long con; going to Woodstock; enjoying school nudity; celebrating Shakespeare; being sleepy; blocking Twitter shitters; discovering the Led Zep porn film; and bringing back chocolate Hitler.
Thanks for listening and Happy New Year!
Woodstock!
The man in the mirror from A Christmas Carol. Once you see it, you can never unsee it!
The trailer for Julie Taymor’s kooky adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus:
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Great show, as usual…
Things about Melanie Safka…one of her biggest hits was a song called “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” which was about her experience at Woodstock:
And she had a song called “The Nickel Song” but it’s not to be confused with the Teresa Brewer tune, “Music Music Music” that has the line about putting “another nickel in the nickelodeon”:
Thanks for the clarification, Jeremy. I’ve really got to pull those Melanie records off the shelf one of these days.
M*A*S*H when it was shown in the UK did not have a laugh track so that version already exists.
Fabulous. The folks in Great Britain get all the best TV – even the best American TV!
Happy New Year, sneaky guys!
I enjoy it when your offhand pop references lead me to track down music I hadn’t heard before. I checked out Melanie’s “The Nickel Song” and found it’s a cool little ditty about how the lucky elite only put in a little and get out a lot, and how people only make a small effort and expect to solve tough problems. Not much has changed since it was recorded.
You mentioning “Brand New Key: and “The Nickel Song” lead me to free associate to another nickel reference in a child-like song from the same early 1970’s era: “Playground In My Mind” by Clint Holmes.
“My name is Michael, I got a nickel
I got a nickel, shiny and new
I’m gonna buy me all kinds of candy
That’s what I’m gonna do.”
Forbidden Planet is based on The Tempest.
10 days late, but happy new year!
Aagh! Thanks so much, Thomas! That was the movie I was thinking of when I asked Ian that question hoping it would spark my increasingly spotty memory. Doggone it. What a classic and the subject of a former title card!
Yes! I have the t-shirt with that title card, and a great shirt too.
I look at you all, see the dragon that’s sneakin’,
While Dedrick’s leg gently seeps.
I look at the date, realize we’re now weeks in,
While Dedrick’s leg gently seeps.
I don’t know why nobody told you
Seeing a doctor is free
I don’t know how someone controlled you
That’s why we pay MSP
I look at the world and I notice it’s turning,
While Dedrick’s leg gently seeps.
He made a mistake, he must surely be learning,
Still Dedrick’s leg gently seeps.
This is the best!
Seriously, Nigel, bravo.