Hucklebug Episode 197: Shout-outs, Baby Monkeys, Pet Stories, New Favorites (Bet: CrapAtMyParentsHouse.com; Stennie: Party Down, available on DVD), Fuck offs & You Rules, Laugh of the Week, What’s Up With That – Monaco Royalty.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
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I like writing checks goddamn it!!!
According to The Pete….I’ve been hoodwinked!!! WTF…….
I’m beginning to miss the puppets!! LOL!!!
Is it just me or does the way Stennie say the words Fuck or Fuck Off seems rather sexy???
And how is it possible that Will Farrell still makes films that are described as comedies when all I wanna do after watching one of his films is KILL MYSELF!!!!!!
Literally only 5 minutes into the podcast, but need to pause now to work a full day (sorta).
Had to add this before I forgot: Brilliant cold open at the beginning. I could go for one of those every darn week, Madame Editor.
Also, I don’t own a single sock monkey, but I know where to find them online. I am a bit concerned about copyright violation for the photo above, but as long as you don’t tell Mr. Middlebrow, I’m sure everything will be fine. Also, if you could do that magical memory-erase thing after Middlebrow reads this message, I would appreciate it.
Embrace the rush of fuzzy sharing rights, ladies. And don’t leave them take you alive.
Might be back to comment more when I finally get through the whole epi.
Huckletards.
Nope, you’re hoodwinked. 😉 TheOracle of ThePete has spoken.
But let me explain:
I’m super-anal about words and their specific definitions. This means it’s all about how you define your terms. To me, there are good movies and bad movies. Then there are movies you enjoy and movies you don’t enjoy. “Inception” was enjoyed by many, not by me, and that’s fine. But you can say that it’s not a good movie, if you agree that there are certain things that make a movie good. Lots of filmmakers are good at using gimmicks and tricks to distract folks from noticing it’s failings–either intentionally or not. This is what Nolan does to some extent. M. Night is someone else who did this for most of his career. It’s obviously debatable as to whether “Inception” has enough of the qualities that make a good movie, but in my opinion it does lack the most important thing: emotional resonance. It does have other things that make it enjoyable, which is what most folks seem to talk about. I haven’t heard anyone talk about how emotional they felt or how much they felt for Leo or anyone else. It was more the concepts and the FX that made it interesting to people–which is fine with me, but concepts don’t make a good movie, in my opinion. I enjoyed “Phantom Menace” but have no doubt that it’s a truly shitty movie.
As for “Rope” that’s a good example of a good movie that you just didn’t enjoy. Nothing wrong with that. I couldn’t sit through “8 1/2”.
We had pillows to sit on when we sat in the floor.
Wait–Bet, can I have a ruling on that? Can I sit ON a pillow in order to sit IN the floor?
Regarding POTA, the book ends similarly, but differently, so it wasn’t just a Rod Serling thing. But I have a feeling they chose Rod to rewrite the existing script because of the original ending.
Sorry to poo on your Duvall-love Bet!! 🙁 He still is a pretty good actor, in my opinion. “Falling Down” will always be one of my favorite movies.
Jay ThePal was referring to a moment where Biden got snarky with a cook in some restaurant a few weeks back. The cook got snarky first by asking a legitimate question and Biden was only interested in eating ice cream.
Jay can have kids–when puppets procreate it’s MAGIC.
I really like “My New Favorite”. Great idea for a segment. I’m a little less interested in the pet segment, but that’s just me. I will miss Highlights and Lowlights. My thought is that you may not want to include your lowestlight of the week and only include either when they’re of particular note.
I still think BP should be your regular fuck-off. All mention of Sarah Palin needs to cease, in my opinion… the sooner we all start ignoring her, the sooner she will STFU.
Duke is totally right about Haliburton and Transocean. Of course, the USG was pretty negligent, too. Neil deGrasse Tyson actually said it was all of our faults, too, but that’s the only thing I think he’s full of shit on.
One complaint about the new website design: I miss how the old site used to remember me.
I’m digging the cold opening, too–but maybe keep it as a special surprise every so often. 🙂
I’m so with you on taking the 30 seconds to arrange stuff in the wallet when they hand you back bills, coins and receipts at the store. It pisses me off when they almost throw the change/receipt off the end of the checkout lane in order to try to get you to move on within two seconds. Eff you, I”m taking 30 seconds to put my stuff away. I don’t think I’d write a check at the grocery store anymore, though.
I’m a bit disappointed we won’t get any more reviews of Star Trek, the Wrath of Khaaaaaaaaan! Mostly because I like to hear you say “Khaaaaaaaaaaaan!”
See, I don’t really see the difference between crunchy Cheez Doodles and Cheetos. I’m not sure I could figure out which one’s orange powder is more noxious. If you’re talking about puffy vs. crunchy Cheez Doodles, I’m also opposed to the ones that have the consistency of styrofoam.
ThePete and I are totally sympatico on the issue of people rubbernecking in Manhattan, four abreast, at the top or bottom of the escalator. Must be a New York thing.
On the diabetic monkey baby story, did that monkey actually eat the salad when everyone else was eating pasta, or was it poo-flinging time?
And I just saw the picture of Scout! Yay! S/he needs to be introduced live on the air. (I’m guessing it’s a she, based on To Kill A Mockingbird (not on a Willis child)).
One comment on the re-done website – a minor quibble. For some reason, it’s not retaining the name/e-mail/website information, so I have to type it in each time.
Fixing typo above: It’s “don’t let them take you alive”. My typing fingers and I rarely share the same brain.
I also like “New Favorite”. I’m thinking you could even get away with old stuff too, as long as it isn’t something you talk about regularly.
“Laugh of the Week” is definitely going to be tricky a la “had to be there,” but I’m sure you’ll pull it off.
Also, re: Facebooktards. Not long ago, I instituted Williamson’s Law on Facebook, which (1) includes my last name for you stalkers out there and (2) means I no longer participate in political or religious debate on social media. It’s a dead-end street, and not worth getting people all in a tizzy with others they don’t know from Adam (hi Adam!). And because it’s all rather anonymous, no one really is willing to back down and some will engage in name-calling or insults as a result. Worse yet, if it’s my page that has all the bile, I feel awful for putting friends and loved ones on either side of a gap that can’t be bridged in a social network. So, while I appreciate enlightened debate, I won’t engage in it on Facebook since it’s rarely actually enlightened.
Sorry, last thing: I could have a field day photographing crap from both sets of parents’ houses. To think, somebody all that junk will be mine.
Regarding Bet’s paranoid buddy that sees libtards under every rock – I usually respond by sending them a joke:
Question: How do you know when a Conservative is ready to move?
Answer: When they bolt wheels back on the house.
Here’s my take on women organizing purses in the checkout line. Most stores (like Walmart) have 700 checkout lanes but only one is staffed. Why can’t women step 3 feet over to an empty counter to fumble with a purse? I don’t see a reason in the world to block the only checkout lane with acres of empty counter space at arms length. Checks are a perfectly acceptable way to pay but why not fill in everything but the amount before you walk inside? Do people forget where they are going? I’m also amazed at how people can block a whole grocery store isle with a single cart. It’s a talent.
I enjoy a good pet story, so don’t get me wrong, but like kid stories a little can often go a long way. I wouldn’t drop that segment but rather use it carefully for funny and/or special events.
Sorry to ruin your tomato fantasy on Mr. Stripey. I ate him on a BLT and he was tasty.
I liked your new segments. The HB this week was excellent.
And that’s why I always have change rattling around in the bottom of my purse because I never want to hold people up in line to squish it all in my wallet. People take forever sometimes.
Pet story-One of my cats, Betty, actually tried to eat a cracker out of my hand as I was eating it. I was sitting on the couch, slowly eating it and she hopped on the back of the couch, walked behind me onto the arm and slowly moved her face in closer and closer as if I didn’t know she was there. I pretended to ignore her to see how close she would get. She moved in and almost had her face in my hand. I was like “Seriously? You’re gonna eat this here cracker outta my hand, cat?!! You got balls, honey.” This from a cat who is so excited to eat her food that she eats way to fast, throws it up, then eats it again 1/2 hour later. Ugh.
I just made trail mix for the first time. The kind you bake first. I licked the bowl and OMG IT’S GONNA BE SOOOO GOOOD! I was making it as I listened to this week’s episode.
I have a You Rule…to my friends Allen and Elizabeth who renewed their wedding vows on the exact spot(no lie) where I introduced them 10 years ago. She asked me to get ordained online, which I did, and I officiated it. It was just the 3 of us in a parking lot. They were both crying and Allen said later at dinner, “Ya know, that was better than the original wedding because this time I actually heard the vows. I was too nervous the 1st time of screwing it up!” How awesome is that!
I’m with the check writers, it helps me lay off the plastic. I still use them at a couple of stores where I tend to overspend (and when paying off the many cards). But people can at least fill out the date and store and sign it while waiting in line. We live in a society, people.
Hucklebug
Keep Highlights at least, I like hearing good things happening to good people!
People just have to to their best to be patient at the checkout, but also be understanding and try to be as quick as possible leaving. ‘Cause we’ll be on one side or the other thruout our lives.
Hey, hey, hey ladies…from one who gets screwed over in casting all the time – you can both be the Fez Monkey on different days and trade off the role. Sheesh! At least you get to play sock monkeys!
Garfield is pretty much dead – and I say this as a former die-hard fan – but you HAVE to shout out Garfield Minus Garfield, which makes up for any non-funny Garfield original.
Colbert & Glover were awesome! I asked Colbert when the musical version of his show was coming to Broadway. 🙂
Why do I not know what hush puppies are?
Speaking of pets – Scout is so pretty and cute! Zaphod & she should date, they would look so cute together. But only if she doesn’t mind dating older cats…
Yay on Prop 8 Unconstitutionality! Yay the whole point of the Judicial system when it corrects majority tyrrany!
Regarding the prop 8 case, Bet is right: a Judge does not have the right (or more correctly, the power) to strike down a law or a decide a case of his own volition. The judge here didn’t just get up one morning and decide “sua sponte” (as we say in the trade) that he was going to declare prop 8 unconstitutional. Like nearly all legal disputes, Constitutional questions can be decided only where there is a “case in controversy” (a lawsuit) brought by someone with standing to sue and whose grievance the courts have the ability to redress by granting injunctive relief or awarding money damages. A party has standing when he has suffered some injury as a result of “state action,” that is, a law, statute, or policy enacted and enforced by a government entity, including voter-based initiatives like Prop. 8. Here, I believe the plaintiffs were couples who alleged that Prop 8 infringed their fundamental right to marry (including the use of the term “marriage”), which is a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. So by finding the California amendment unconstitutional (in violation of the US Constitution), the Judge is ruling in the plaintiff’s favor and granting the relief they seek, rather than merely declaring the California law unconstitutional.
@Patrick: The site looks fantastic and you really can’t be faulted for using a copyrighted image, especially considering that the show’s theme music is also an act of infringement. It’s sort of a recurring trope. But such is the nature of the online world. There are images available with a Creative Commons license, which is much less restrictive than a traditional copyright and lets you use a work in exchange for attribution. I believe that’s the default setting for images uploaded to flickr. It’s a nice idea, if not always easy or practical to use. Hell, even well-meaning law students sometimes use whatever images they can grab off the web, without getting proper clearances. (Say nothing; act casual . . . )