Hucklebug Episode 190: RIP Jimmy Dean, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Monsters Inc., Rutles II: All You Need is Lunch; Stennie: Bringing Up Baby), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Bedroom Wall Posters of Our Youth.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra. Station ID break by Shawn Galbraith (aka Plang Tang Hackensaw).
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I’d have nightmares sleeping in a room with those posters staring at me. It’s hard to pick a winner on who was worst. I’d judge it a tie. The only good part is, apparently most of the posters got thrown away. I’m so old they didn’t have posters when I was a kid. We had to make our own celebrity pencil sketches and thumbtack them on the wall. I had Hoot Gibson and Francis X Bushman.
Bringing up Baby – Most excellent!! Stennie mentioned it had bad initial reviews. Isn’t that true of most movies? The ones considered the best now were panned at the time. It’s a Wonderful Life anyone? Also the movies with the most critical approval end up in that great movie trash can in the sky.
I wonder how many movies have followed that pattern? I can’t think of many exceptions although Ben Hur comes to mind. It is both hailed then and now as a masterpiece.
Monsters Inc!!!! Do movies get much better? It isn’t my favorite Pixar (that’s held by Wall-E) but it’s still a great movie.
Pixar needs a You-Rule for bringing us some of the best movies year after year. The talent pool there is deeper than the gulf oil leak.
Milo is growing up fast, Bet. Before long you’ll come home and he’ll be on the couch drinking beer and smoking cigars. And he won’t offer you any.
I sorta miss Stennie talking through the fan blades. It gave the show a unique edge.
If anyone wants to help Pete get a new computer:
http://sierrarein.com/sierra/pete.html
but *no* pressure to help, just opening it up if you can…
Cheers,
Si
I’m starting my own Car Watching company here in New York.
My posters when I was growing up (that I can visualize right now):
Judy Garland in her “Andy Rooney” days
Marilyn Monroe in the gold dress
Wizard of Oz movie poster
Gene Kelly hanging on the lamppost in “Singin’ in the Rain”
A Clockwork Orange (added in High School, when I read the book/saw the movie).
I had a lot of 8X10 glossies from movies too: Gene kelly & Fred Astaire as the Babbit and the Bromide, Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, Patrick Stewart as Cpt. Picard, Brent Spiner as Data…
I had the total hots for Huey Lewis – “Naturally” got me into a cappella music, I believe…or at least made it “cool.”
Nope—no funeral for my MacBook. It died in disgrace, a tool of Loki, the Norse God of mischief. Just check out this video: http://life.thepete.com/post/702258893/macincrash-the-final-chapter-but-check-out-what-my that’s a montage of my MacBook crashing. It happened so often toward the end that I just set up a camera and let it roll. Ironically, it died for good shortly after letting me finish cutting that montage together!
Sorry about the egging on your car, Bet! You usually don’t need much egging on, do you?
Holy shit, Sten! I’m so psyched you built a guitar out of a cigar box!! That fricken rocks!! I’m jealous and impressed! You’ve come so far since fixing the lamp!!
I think it’s great that you guys rank BP up there with Glenn Beck! BP should get fuck-offs until they are no longer a company. I do believe they’ll go away because this disaster is HUGE.
“Slippery When Wet” was the first compact disc I bought.
To be honest, while I respect the man and his music, I’ve never owned a Bruce Springsteen album. I know, as someone who lived in Jersey as long as I did, it’s something I’m ashamed of. 🙁
Posters on my wall were rotated fairly regularly, but I do remember having a Superman poster (just from the comic, not from the movies), a David Cassidy poster (apparently I was gay as a child!), I seem to recall a Star Wars movie poster, I had a lifesize poster of King Tut’s skeleton on my door until it gave me nightmares, and I think that’s all I can recall. Once puberty hit, it was all bikini models and female fitness experts (aka fit women who would wear tight outfits while hosting their workout shows on cable). Actually, that’s not entirely true—I did have a Space Shuttle door poster and a sweet Spider-Man poster drawn by Todd McFarlane—it’s just Spidey hanging out in a big web. At some point I also picked up a few other superhero posters, too.
As far as I’m concerned the Doobie Brothers naked is pretty embarrassing, but so is David Cassidy.
I’m with Duke on my favorite Pixar—Wall-E all the way! The Toy Stories are fun, but I can’t help but think of them as defending the idea of a slave class.
I am interested in seeing Toy Story 3. Aside from Tron Legacy and Iron Man 2, it’s one of three movies I actually wanted to see on the big screen this year. Seriously, how sad is that? I’m sure, Stennie, you remember me as a big movie guy. No longer!
Greetings from the EL! You know, “American Pickers” doesn’t sound like wholesome entertainment to me. Be wary!
Can I just say that OS 4 rocks?
Don’t knock spamalot!!!!! Did either of you see it?
My highlight of the week was courtesy of Bet! Thank you for the underdog T!
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Milo was singing with Heidi! How adorable! The car-egging though? That sucks! Burn in hell-wielding idiots!
Wow. I think for the first time ever, I’ve seen all your movies. NTCNTC has a soft spot for Monsters, Inc., but it has been taken over by Shrek. I know I’ve caught part of the second Rutles movie, and in terms of Bringing Up Baby, what can I say other than “I’ve gone GAY all of a sudden!”
Posters growing up—Clark Gable—I think out of San Francisco. That’s the only one I clearly remember and remember where it was. I think that one was up the longest. It might still be there; I’d have to look and actually notice it. There must have been some Squeeze—I think I made my own by cutting up a tour booklet. There was a Paul McCartney. I think Harrison Ford as Han Solo at some point. Yes, Andy Gibb and Shaun Cassidy. If college counts, I was able to get one of the huge six-foot Elvis Costello Trust ones (with the glasses) from a record store. I think it took up most of the wall. I would consider putting it up somewhere again today, if I could remember where it was—in the back of a closet here, or in the back of my closet in my parents’ house.
Posters: Cheryl Ladd and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Neither terribly original nor shameful. Also the usual Star Wars stuff.
Bet and I are in full snapitude on Monsters, Inc. as the best of all Pixars, which is saying something since there really are no bad Pixars. It still chaps my ass that MI lost the animated feature Oscar to Shrek. (Apologies to NTCNTC)
I’m back from hot and humid NC! Been a crazy week, so still need to listen to this weeks ep, but from the looks of the comments, there was a discussion about bedroom posters. I had one and only one poster ever on my wall growing up….ready? David Hasselhoff and KITT. I tore it up the day David Hasselhoff got married. What do you expect from an 8 year old? I only watched two shows back then, Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazard. I hear The Hoff is single now…I still have a chance!
Thanks for the shout out last week. I laughed so hard when you guys talked about my dad, my mom thought I was crazy laughing to myself(she didn’t see my earbuds in), so I let her listen to that section about my dad. She got a good kick out of it too. (Trying to explain what a podcast is to my mother was hilarious. She still can only turn my dad’s computer on to play solitaire. LOL!) Didn’t know I could also stream the Hucklebug straight from my cell phone. Although, an hour of streaming eats up a good chuck on battery life. 🙁
Speaking of my dad, he hurt his ankle before our trip, so he didn’t do much with us (and we were all fine with that.) He stayed back at the beach house most of the time in the air conditioning and either:
A. read his 3,000 page book about the entire history of America,
or
B. watched FoxNews and FUCKING GLEN BECK and SARAH FUCKING PALIN.
I’m not kidding. The tv was on almost 24/7 and the only two things that came blaring out of it were FOXNEWS and SpongeBob (for the kids.) I wanted to gouge my ears and eyes out after 6 straight days of that garbage (FoxNews, not SpongeBob. Although 6 days of SpongeBob is alot too…)
Other than that, my vacation was marvelous! Lots of beauty sleep, naps on the beach and junk food.
Mr. Middlebrow—
I think Monsters Inc has more inherent charm than Shrek, but NTCNTC is only two, so farting monsters, brazen donkeys, and a kung fu princess just seem to have more appeal.
I’m going to miss Jimmy Dean, he was a great country singer and I love his food.
Major downer that Jimmy Dean has passed. Makes you want to continue to keep in shape and exercise.