Episode 221: Shout-outs, What’s Up With That?, New Favorite, origins of phrases, Pet Stories or lack thereof, Charlie Sheen’s tweets, fuck offs and you rules, Humdingers – TV Commercial Jingle Edition.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra.
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It’s “on” the treetop. I’d never heard it the other way, and as Bet says, it doesn’t make much sense the other way.
I just saw bits of Independence Day on tv the other day. It’s brilliant. There isn’t a single plausible event or bit of dialogue in the movie, and it just kind of works. (Air Force One outflying a nuclear-effect bombing? Will Smith’s girlfriend, the kid, and the dog surviving the similar blast by hiding behind a metal door in a tunnel? Jeff Goldblum’s computer synching up with the alien vessel? This list is endless). The first time I saw it was in a small theater in NYC. Everyone laughed at it in the ironic way. About two months later, I saw it on a military base. They only laughed at the “funny” parts and I was the only one rolling in the aisles for the rest of it. That was bizarre.
I’m kind of behind on comments because I don’t really get much chance to listen until after you’ve gone to air (weekends). I’m only listening now because NTCNTC STILL gotta da flu. It’s not that intense, but it’s long. Oooh, thought — if you want to troll for comments, bring back acrobasket in the show.
While I would never marry Kelsey Grammer, I’m told by those who watch those Real Housewife shows that his last wife was a piece of work, and were not calling him names when they split up. (Kind of like the reaction to Jon and Kate splitting up — “it’s about time, Jon”)
I did not get the laughing baby video. Hey, my kid laughs too, he’s very cute, but it’s a baby laughing. Unless they’re beaten, babies laugh. And on toilet paper rolls, in NTCNTC’s bathroom, the tp roll is up on top of the vanity on the other side. After the first days with him with the roll where he could touch it, I quickly realized that was a rotten idea.
I can sing the entire Big Red song, it was one of the easier ones for me. Sad, I know. (Okay, I typed this before Heidi’s rendition of the entire Toys R Us commercial — my hat is off) Heidi’s was much closer to the Big Mac commercial, but the last note was much lower. However, maybe there were regional variations, which is why Bet’s didn’t sound remotely familiar.
Other ones: Maxwell House (no words, just the percolator noise); Doublemint, Rheingold beer.
Another vote for “on the treetop”.
And I probably did leave that at 5 a.m. I’m often out and about by then. This is why I leave chat at 11.
Bad dialogue- I tend to block out much of what I see in movies. The bad lines go first.
Speaking of podcastathons…. When? When? You promised us one this winter. And winter is about over.
Commercials!
State Farm
Stuck on Band-aids
Hungry hippos
Oscar meyer
Basically, anything set to music before 1980
hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, shut up lady you upset us…
Come to the Honeycomb hideout!
Honeycomb’s big (yeah, yeah, yeah)
It’s not small (no, no, no)
Honeycomb’s got a big, big taste
Big, big taste in a big, big bite.
FWIW, the foregoing might explain the modern ad-creative’s attitude toward jingles: “If you’ve got nothing to say, sing it!” I don’t think this applies to taglines (or “slogans” as the McMahon & Tate used to, and Trademark Office still does, call them) set to music.
Aaargh! I didn’t get Lucky Strike!! I recognized it but couldn’t place it.
I found the time to listen this week
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😉
Loved the jingles, surprised you didn’t do the “Byyyyy Mennen!” one. We know the guy who came up with it. Also, Sten, growing up in NJ, do you remember the Shop-Rite Can-Can sale jingle? I remember it from when I was a kid and they are STILL USING IT! It’s the jingle’s 40th anniversary.
Also Charlie Sheen can move in with Sarah Palin now so I can ignore them both more easily.
Damn, gotta get back to studying Japanese–doing a 4-day intensive class this weekend. It’s my first ever actual class. THE PRESSURE.
Apologies for any typos–still getting used to my new keyboard on my Android phone.
Hope you are both doing well!
You’re all wrong. It’s “subsequent to, in accordance with or in spite of the treetop.” Jeez, what kinda parents did you guys have anyway?
Resolved: Charlie Sheen = Joaquin Phoenix. Discuss?
The jingles were awesome. Many immediate memories, especially that kid fishing off a dock, talking bout how much he loves his bologna. Wait, that came out wrong.
Speaking of memories: How bout some scary shit from when I was a kidzo:
-The Trailer for the movie Magic – as it appeared on TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkx07HYylo
– Mr. Yuk is pretty freakin’ awesome! Remember this from Pittsburgh days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ
– My personal thanks to Disney for the donkey scene in Pinocchio. NIGHTMARE inducing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmfV5VLHvs
and the scariest thing I remember on TV, friggin Salem’s Lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5HZzjjI9Y
There’s no decent video of the clown from Poltergeist, but there is always
JoBeth Williams’ hairstylethe braces scene (http://movieclips.com/pTuE-poltergeist-2-the-other-side-movie-attack-of-the-braces/) from Poltergeist 2.Good stuff. What scared you as a child? Probably a Halloween topic, but whatever.
Ut-oh. Did the Hucklebug comment thread eat my previous comment? Serves me right for not being more succinct. TEST TEST TEST.
Never mind. There it is.
Delete these last two comments away, magical comment thread fairies.
“On The Treetop” is in my childhood’s memory banks.
Belated THANK YOU for posting about the Kickstarter campaign, and thank you’s to Hucklebuggers who donated! Also thank you for watching Jay & Kay’s Oscar video…very happy we made a few people laugh!
Charlie Sheen’s only claim to my heart is the Hot Shots movies. Beyond that, he’s dead to me.
Intel on kazee was in a weird key for me to recognize it 😛 Got the Green Giant one, and my a cappella group at UCLA used “I want my babyback” theme as our introduction song in many performances. I never knew The Game of Life had a theme song! Here in NYC, the multi-harmony “800 588 2300 Empiiiiiiiire” jingle for the Empire Carpet company is engraved into my head for all time – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJl5A9OpQzE. Marquee Five needs to get one of those commercial singing gigs…SERIOUSLY!!! I can’t remember any more jingles (except for the By Mennan one of course), but I personally know the kid who was in the Star Wars Darth Vader Action Figure Carrying Case commercial…his name is Thor and is now married to Marquee Five’s mezzo Julie Reyburn 😉
And please everyone give ThePete lots of warm encouraging digital applause for foraging through 7 chapters in his text book this week in prep for tomorrow! And I tried helping him with the numbers by writing out romanized numbers on the mirror in glass crayons in the morning, and he would fill in the kanji translation before he took a shower. And tried to speak in Japanese as much as possible, despite my many blank stares in response to his speech sometimes…