Hucklebug, Episode 164: RIP The Great Ballantine, shout-outs, movies (Bet: none; Stennie: The Philadelphia Story), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Commercials We Hate, check your calendars for the big Hucklebug Round Table.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Otis Redding, Lee Rocker, and Frank Sinatra.
For those who missed it, here’s why Jon Stewart got a You Rule this week:
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I’m all caught up now! I don’t know why you thought last week’s episode was so bad. Your low energy seems to be my mid-energy range, so you pepped me right up.
I did do several ein Prosits for Bet, and I looked for a yodel bear, but alas, no bear. I’ve got others looking though.
Your show did kill an hour in the best way. It was the only good hour of the whole flight!
Ok, so we’re doing the audio book. Fine. I’ll start reading some Sedaris this weekend.
Thank you for my shout-outs in absentia! I was surprised!
Milo, sweet Milo. You know, Bet, you don’t have to teach him everything he’s going to ever learn in the next week. You can continue to teach him things when class is over. Or is there a doggie college?
Wow – I was cleaning the fridge when you started talking about fridge cleaning… strange, strange snap.
Hey, the only problem with Maine is the dipshit conservatives who live there. Get rid of them, and Maine will be wonderful.
I can do the 21st in the evening. I don’t remember what we’re doing on that day, but I’m free!
Thanks for the hands-on treatment for my son. His name is Colin, but due to paranoia, I tend not to use it often on the Interwebs. He’s feeling much better, but I think the rest of the house has the ick now.
Will have to check on 11/21. Do you have a rough idea of the time?
Commercials:
1. The entire Capital One series of ads can bite me. What’s in my wallet? Not Capital One.
2. AXE body spray. Usually sexist and awful. Plus have you ever actually smelled AXE?
3. Charmin bear ad about leftover toilet paper bits: http://bit.ly/118vqm. Revolting.
4. Along the same line: this series of Old Spice print ads about deodorant residue: http://bit.ly/HFtLf.
5. The world’s worst radio ad: The KARS-4-KIDS jingle. Awful for a number of reasons:
a. Misspells “cars” because it’s cute and child-like, no?
b. Drills home the toll-free phone number by repetition.
c. Features a plinky toy piano.
d. Features an offkey child singer.
e. Features a child molester male crooner.
f. Gets in your head like a motherfucker. Especially when your 5 year old sings it incessantly to drive you around the bend.
g. Will make you hate these greedy, no-talent children.
You can hear the Kars-4-Kids jingle here IF YOU DARE: http://bit.ly/ZbEN7. There’s an audiolink embedded in an article about the song’s overwhelming awfulness. Tread lightly.
I like Holly Hunter and I saw “Broadcast News” in the theater a couple times, on video a couple times, on cable a few times and even DVD at least once. I really love that movie. My only problem is Jack Nicholson. Just sayin’.
I agree with Stennie on the issue of Siskita being loved by all. Though, even in love there can be room for criticism. Perhaps she’ll tell you about the Pistachio Incident sometime.
Thanks for the kind words about the fun we have! We do enjoy our puppet videos! I keep having to force myself to stop making them. I do 5 a day and always think “I should do one more!”
Glad you liked the Irish Washerwoman, Bet! Did you watch the latest Jay TheVlog? It’s got the extended version of that!
Here it is on Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/2834637
Hey, should I do an audio book of the NaNoWriMo novel I’m writing? If I do, should I do the voices? Or just read it?
POSITIVE THOUGHTS FOR ThePATRICK JR.!!
I think you should fix the $10 lamp because it’s less wasteful.
YAY FOR GRANNY!!
Need to hit pause and come back later. Got some puppet videos to shoot!
Commercials: I don’t watch much tv except for football on weekends, so beer commercials can suck it. I must kill the guy on the Bud Light ads.
Did I hear the words “quiz” and “lyrics” in some sort of order? I’ll have one for you by showtime.
I started reading my book last weekend, but realized that I speak too fast and trip over too many words. And you can’t read Chandler slowly.
First of All, Rob Schneider used to be an up-and-coming comic,and when he was poor and struggling, he was really nice. I’m assuming he still is. Ken and I saw him perform a couple of times, and the last few (before SNL) he remembered us and would say hi, before we said hi to him.
Kevin would never do that. Say hi first I mean.
I remember Carl Ballantine from McHale’s Navy, then he played a bunch of character roles in every sitcom ever made. BTW, His daughter is just fininshing a movie/documentary(?) about working actors over 80. I wonder if she’ll have to edit him out now?
Commercials I hate?
1 “1-800-EMPIRE”. ick. Scarey “bride of chucky” puppets
2. Anything for penis hardeners. Really, how graphic do you need to get?
3. Food commercials on Yom Kippur
Here’s another topic….
On your “favorite” music radio station, that is, the one music station you regularly listen to when you are waking up, cleaning or doing some mindless task that you can’t listen to NPR during…what song will make you turn it off, turn it down, or change the station?
Right now the only one that makes me run for the radio is Viva la Vida….but I love “fix you” so it’s not the band.
I can’t do anything on the 21st except drink beer, eat hamburgers and or nachos and watch football. It’s big game weekend…sorry….
ok, gotta run and have a weekend. Love to you ladies!!
Your topic this week, should you choose to accept it…
Name these tunes.
1964
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Foolish pride, that’s all that I have left
So let me hide the tears and the sadness you gave me
1965
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Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
1966
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And just when you think she’s that one in the world
Your heart gets stolen by some mousy little girl
1967
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We’ll take it nice and easy and use my simple plan
You’ll be my lovin’ woman, I’ll be your lovin’ man
1968
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You said no strings could secure you at the station
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows
1969
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When a man loves a woman it’s hard to understand
That she would find more pleasure in the arms of another man
1970
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There’s something about her hand holding mine
It’s a feeling that’s fine
And I just gotta say
1971
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You call my name, ooh so sweet
To make your kiss incomplete
1972
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Red lips, hair and fingernails
I hear you’re a mean old jezebel
1973
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We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
1974
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And I’d like to change my life, and you know I would
Just to be with you tonight, baby, if I could
1975
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There you go with your fancy lies
Leavin’ me lookin’ like a dumbstruck fool
1976
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Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
1977
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Well, if the real thing don’t do the trick
You better make up something quick
1978
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I’ve been livin’ on a dead-end street
I’ve been askin’ everybody I meet
1979
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So if you look in my direction and we don’t see eye to eye
My heart needs protection and so do I
1980
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The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing
1981
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Back to back, sacroiliac
Spineless movement and a wild attack
1982
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Oh, no step for you to dance to
So slip your hand inside of my glove
1983
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They say two hearts should beat as one for us
We’ll fight it out to see it through