Sneaky Dragon Episode 466

Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 466 of the Sneaky Dragon podcast – the only odcast that doesn’t use a “p”.

On this episode: a message from the past; can you hear me now; B.R.; D.I.Y. podcasts; creepy joke; jackhole definition; assholishness required; spite-powered; laud the dead; the frog chorus; comedy museum; safe Halloween; an Otto fixation; candy chutes; fretting over risk takers; things to do; something for the Trekkies; best Gilligan’s Island episode; best TV episodes according to a list; Ye-e-e-e-e-e-s-s???; the hat; alarmed; we second the recommendation; roostered; the pressure is off; the science is in: three hours is best; honest kids; crazy British quiz show; banal Jeopardy; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; comic strips merge; America is waiting; Poky Little Puppy and other Golden book artists; and, finally, things get blue.

Thanks for listening.

Question of the week: How do you like to wake up?
Sub-question of the week: How do you like to go to bed?
Sub-sub-question of the week (late addition): How much sleep do you like to get in a night?

We’ve got some sweet pics this week:

First up, Louise’s candy chute sending bon-bons directly into to the mouths of unsuspecting infants!

Here is Pia’s blood-curdling candy chute featuring a skull that vomits candy all over hapless toddlers!

Mick Elliott sent in this creepy pic of a creepy dude who literally dares terrified youngsters to take his candy! BEWARE!!!

Speaking of costumes, how about Ed’s fabulous and hilarious Iron Chef costume. This is amazing, Ed!

And finally, not actually terrifying, but disturbing in its sloppiness. Dave’s cursive handwriting of episode notes for Sneaky Dragon:

Ian recommended it. You must watch it. Only Connect!

5 thoughts on “Sneaky Dragon Episode 466”

  1. Hi Ian and David, and thank you for the sticker! It arrived safe and sound, and is now stuck proudly on my laptop.

  2. That Odd Couple Password episode shows two really great comic actors at the top of their game. I looked up the clip on YouTube just to hear Felix giving Oscar the clue “Aristophanes.” It reminded me of the Cheers episode where Cliff goes on Jeopardy so I watched that clip too. The late great Alex Trebek did a fine job playing himself. Come to think of it, he was on an episode of The X-Files too. The Carmen/Hamlet episode is the most memorable Gilligan’s Island show for me as well, but I have a couple of other favourite episodes. There’s the one where Mary Ann gets conked on the head and thinks she’s Ginger. The Professor has the other castaways play along so she doesn’t get upset and Ginger is forced to pretend she’s Mary Ann. It’s a fun variation on the old body switcheroo plot. The other episode is when a crate of radioactive seeds washes up on the island. The vegetables the castaway grow from them give them enhanced powers. For instance, Mrs. Howell eats beets and the sugar gives her extra energy. Mary Ann eats carrots which give her enhanced eyesight. Aside from Spider-Man, that was my first exposure to the idea of radioactivity causing mutations.

    I like to wake up not worrying so these days I like to listen to an audiobook when I go to bed. I usually fall asleep with the book playing and the plot sometimes sneaks into my dreams which is weird, but it’s better than lying awake worrying. I need about 7-8 hours of sleep to feel rested.

  3. Rats, I probably should’ve re-listened to last week’s podcast before trying to do my own comic strip/band mash-ups, to double check which ones were already taken. Oh well.

    For years I started work at 6 AM, so even now I usually wake up on my own sometime between 5 and 6, even on weekends, and regardless of when I went to sleep. My preferred way of going to bed is to read until I doze off. I prefer to get at least 8 hours of sleep, but since I’m incapable of sleeping in, it all depends on whether I can fall asleep before 10 (usually not).

  4. Sleep can be a creative time. I frequently get woken up with an idea for a song – usually melody, but sometimes lyrics too. I then have to sneak off and record it quietly on my phone before creeping back to bed. Some nights, this happens three or four times. I’m just on the point of nodding off when… here comes the chorus! In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s how my Sparks! theme song came about a couple of years ago.

    Also, if I need to beat a deadline, instead of working late into the night when I’m tired, I’ll often go to bed and set my alarm to get up a few hours early. As well as letting me rest and get my energy back up, the other benefit is that my mind continues working on whatever the project is while I sleep, so when I come back to it the next morning, I have a bunch of fresh ideas to get me started at a good pace.

    Here’s a true story.

    One night a few years ago, I was nicely snuggled in and enjoying that lovely, woozy feeling when you’re only just awake and starting to drift peacefully away into a well deserved, deep slumber. For some reason, my wife chose this moment to ask me, completely out of the blue: ‘If you had a super power, what would it be?’

    This unexpected enquiry startled me back into semi-wakefulness, but Morpheus had a hold on me and all I could say in response was: ‘The power to silence others.’ According to my wife, I then immediately zoned out again and began snoring softly. In the morning, I remembered what I’d said and thought it was hilarious. But apparently it wasn’t.

  5. Edward Draganski

    I set my phone alarm to wake me for work and I’ll hit the “snooze” about three times over the span of a half hour. By the time I’ve done that, I’m prepared to wake up, have my coffee, get dressed and go upstairs for work at 9:00 am. If it’s the weekend of my day off I set no alarm and just wake up when I’m damned good and ready.

    Going to bed is a different story, I’m a dedicated night owl, creeping about the house like an old ghost all hours of the night with my animals. My wife will watch TV in the bedroom until about 2:00 am while I’m upstairs on the computer or on the sofa catching up with shows. It’s all choreographed and ritualistic, almost every night is the same. When I get tired, I go to bed, sometimes as late (or early) as 5:30 am. I seem to get by on a few hours of sleep and in some cases I’ll take a late evening nap just to sustain my body for the late nights. My wife says I sleep in “shifts” and she’s fine with this since she gets the bed to herself for most of the night.

    I figure my body has a meter like a character in a video game, so I usually use the weekends to catch up on sleep and I do just fine that way. I’m pretty sure it’s not the healthiest way to treat myself but I’ve been this way most of my life. As a child I had a serious bed wetting problem, so bad that I had to see a physician. I was prescribed a medication that kept me from falling into a deep sleep so I’d wake up easily when having the urge to go to the bathroom. Years later it was discovered that this medication was not the proper way to handle the problem and could possibly cause a sleeping disorder. After years of the medication, I had surgery on my bladder that was very painful but it solved the problem after many years of wetting the bed.

    I have to say I was watching Gilligan’s Island years before I was a Star Trek fan but I enjoyed all the syndicated sitcoms of the time: F Troop, The Brady Bunch, The Addams Family, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Get Smart and The Dick Van Dyke Show…to name a few. What I really liked about Gilligan’s Island was that it was scored by a young “Johnny” Williams in the 60’s, so I was a fan of his even before Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman.

    Dave, please, please tell me you took the time to watch the episode of “I Love Lucy” that guest-starred Harpo on the show! It was right in line with the episodes of Lucy in Hollywood that guest-starred William Holden, John Wayne, Eve Arden and others. They even colorized it recently so you could see how much Harpo’s red wig matched Lucy’s.

    Later on down the road I was a serious Cheers fan, I can even remember watching the very first episode with my Dad, who grew up working in my Grandparents tavern. That became our show to watch together along with reruns of All in the Family.

    One last sitcom based question. Are you guys an Addams Family fan or a Munsters fan? I went with Addams Family all the way, something about John Astin’s Gomez used to remind me of Groucho…cigar and all. Then I found out that Nat Perrin, a writer on several Marx Brothers films became a producer and head writer for The Addams Family. I also thought Morticia was sexier than Lily. I hear Tim Burton is looking to do a streaming TV reboot of the Addams Family, he should ask Astin to guest star as an old relative at his ripe old age of 90…

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