Hucklebug Episode 191: RIP Peter Quaife, shout-outs, movies (Bet: The English Surgeon, Toy Story 3, Up; Stennie: Lavendar Hill Mob), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, TV and Movie Characters We Could Be Roommates With (courtesy of Duke of Comments).
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
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Sorry for the delay, ladies. This late spring/early summer has been a whirlwind, and I’m finally caught up.
Favorite Pixar: All are great, and have only missed CARS. But I’m a sucker for THE INCREDIBLES. Love that just like Clark Kent, a man as powerful as Mr. Incredible can be kind of a failure at real life. Also +1 for Sarah Vowell! Waiting for the Ira Glass character to next appear.
Posters: Had a few, but more often just a wall of pictures, mostly pics of bands from Rolling Stone/Spin from the late 80s. Actual posters: Peter Gabriel, the movie HEATHERS, Pixies, Tom Waits (one-sheet of the film BIG TIME), Kathy Ireland on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Stennie: Have to hook up sometime on Beatles Rock Band for the Wii. We’re pretty pedestrian (Easy to Medium), but could be fun. Because of my kids Beatle obsession, I can now play Yellow Submarine and Octopus’s Garden with one hand tied behind my back. And as everyone says after they play this game: I have newfound respect for Ringo.
Bet’s on Instant Streaming Wii, woohoo. In the last 2 weeks, the kid has discovered the joys of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Does he ever pull a rabbit out of his hat?
Thanks for the thumbs up on the posters, ladies! I’m sure I had more embarrassing posters, but I probably blocked them out of my memory…
Good for you, Stennie, for not seeing “Shrek.” Condolences to you, Bet, for seeing “Shrek.”
I really did not enjoy that movie.
I can’t stand watching surgery, Bet—you have a stronger stomach than me…
Sten, Barbie was in Toy Story 2. If memory serves, she wasn’t in the original Toy Story because Mattel was like “Who in the hell are these Pixar people???”
Siskita and I are planning on seeing Toy Story 3 this weekend. It’s going to have a tough time living up to Bet’s number of stars, though!!
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Well, I have a roommate, but if I wasn’t married, I think I’d like to have Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) as a roommate. It’d be great! We could dish about boys and pick out each other’s clothes and watch “Beaches” over and over on Blu-Ray.
Siiiiigh!
But “seriously,” I think I’d love to have Captain Picard for a roommate. Not just because we’d be talking about space and aliens and stuff all the time, but because he seems like a really responsible, polite guy. You just know he’d never lose the remote (looks too much like a phaser) and he’d never tell me how to cook something (violation of the Prime Directive!). Any time I would be looking for music to listen to, he could just play me that beautiful little tune he knows for that flute-ish instrument.
One roommate I would definitely NEVER want to have would be Captain Kirk!! Gah—always having loud sex with strange alien women at all hours, used space condoms laying around, and god forbid I should wear a red T-shirt one day—he’d probably throw me in front of a subway train.
“I’m… sorry, Pete, I… thought we were under attack!”
Kirk… what a bastard!
I like your Hal references though—here’s another:
“Open the shower door, Hal.”
“I can’t do that, Bet.”
“I’M PRUNIN’! LET ME OUT!”
After talking to Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe, I think I’ve managed to clear you of any intellectual property theft associated with using my blog topic. You had some great additions too but I still hold Bugs is a bad idea. Besides Elmer Fudd shooting at him all night can you imagine the racket Yosemite Sam would cause? You’d been worn out dancing all day from him shooting at your feet.
ThePete had a good entry with Picard although I understand if you sit in his chair he’ll kill you. That might make watching TV a little stressful if you forget and sit in the wrong place.
I liked Shrek just fine but after the 4th go-around it’s getting pretty crunchy. Making stale movies isn’t a crime in Hollywood, where wearing out your welcome is required, but it should be. Still, I suspect Shrek 4 is still better than a majority of the movies playing now.
Well, bye, till next bat-time, next bat-channel.
I’m so sad I can’t participate in the poster conversation. My parents wouldn’t allow me to put things on the wall. I did have some posters in my locker at school though, if that counts. I had Paul McCartney and um.. well, Adam Ant.
Betster, no joke, I am happy about the Underdog T, and no, I don’t have too much Underdog stuff. Heidi, I got your present today, and THANK YOU. I am getting rusty on the German, and this will be mighty helpful. Really though, gifts are cool, but I would have been happy with a birthday shout out.
I would like to add a Fuck Off to the refs at the World Cup. They SUCK!
As a roommate – how about the cast of Friends? I could live in one of the rooms and have TWO huge apartments in Manhattan to hang out in. And also, money is never an object with these people. I wonder if that kind of thing rubs off?
I would also pick Asta as a roomie. What a cutie pie!
And as for people I wouldn’t want to live with – how about the entire cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. God those people suck.
Duke: As self-appointed (and as-yet unlicensed*) consigliere of Hucklebug Industries, it’s my duty to inform you, as those shysters over at DC&H should have, that U.S. Copyright law does not protect one’s ideas, only one’s particularized expression. So, while Bet and Stennie might very well have copied or made unauthorized use of your Best/Worst Character-as-Roommate idea (which is awesome, btw), there is no actionable harm there. Moreover, even if many of the words or phrases they used bear a substantial similarity to those employed in your expression, the Functionality Doctrine would likely bar any action as well. Given that there was no misappropriation or illegal copying of your intellectual property, there is nothing for them to be cleared of.
*Say nothing; act casual.
All that said, for my roommates, I would most like to have Paul Reiser’s character from Diner and least like to have Paul Reiser’s character (Burke?) from Aliens, for obvious (if you’ve seen the movie) reasons.