Hucklebug, Episode 145: Shout-outs, movies (Stennie: Zelig, Star Trek, Bet: Sunshine Cleaning), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, Movie Mash-Ups!
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): King Curtis, Lionel Hampton, The Tommys (“Dansa Hucklebuck”), The Birdies, Frank Sinatra.
Early shout out, as it’s Sunday night and I have to head to sleep before I can listen to the whole show, but I wanted to answer this one: The voice over for the Range Rover is the dude from “The Nanny” (I had to look up the actual name—Charles Shaughnessy). It took me a bit when I first heard the commercial, but I had it by the end.
Real shout out later.
You got 100% correct. No match for you cinephiles. Nice Sling Blade voice, Stenns.
Gotta say, I’ve never heard of Says You, but I hope they’re on iTunes, since according to their website, their only Illinois station appears to be downstate in Urbana. A quiz show cracking the Chicagoland NPR market would be tricky to do, as we’re the home of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.
Bet: I knew we were kindred spirits. I hate that the dream of home ownership is paired with soul-crushing yardwork.
We had lotsa fun, but Disney World is strictly for kids. I can’t imagine being one of those people who would get married or honeymoon there. My favorite part of the trip was watching my kid’s enjoyment of the stuff we take for granted as adults. I actually enjoyed It’s a Small World, for the love of God.
Wishing a good week to all!
I guess I have it easy. When some d—k-head points out a typo or misspelling, I say, “I’m a professional writer. I get paid for accuracy. Give me a tenner, and I’ll fix it.”
I’ll see Mike’s $50,000 and add another $10,000.
I haven’t listened to this week’s show yet, but I wanted to make a suggestion for your new regular Fuck-Off:
FUCK OFF DICK CHENEY.
You may have already decided to start doing this, but I seriously don’t know of any previous VP to be this annoying (even Al Gore!) EVEN after having been proven a corrupt fool and a blind moron and why the news is giving him so much play is beyond me.
So, apologies for being a bit behind, but I hope you guys agree that Dick(head) Cheney needs to SERIOUSLY FUCK OFF.
Going to listen to this week’s Hucklebug on a nice walk in the beautiful NYC sunshine
but don’t know if I’ll be able to leave my comment in time for tonight.
Ooo—is that a Mr. Softie van I hear? Mmmm….ice cream…
I wanted to do a MashUp for you guys, but I haven’t had the time to think of any! Grr.
Maybe I can think of one before you record tonight.
Bet-You’re breakdown of Sunshine Cleaning is spot on. I felt it was very disjointed myself. And I was really looking forward to it being good with that much talent in the film.
Stennie-You’re breakdown of Star Trek was spot on as well. The cast made the film and I look forward to more movies in the future.
My movie was Hot Fuzz. LOVED it. It had a little of everything. I really liked that comedy team after Shaun of the Dead. “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” should be waiting in my mailbox when I get home tonight.
I apologize to the world in advance if I ever have a typo.
Any big holiday weekend plans?
Thanks for the shout-out, Bet! Little Miss Sunshine Cleaning!! Yay! Sorry it wasn’t as good as you had hoped.
The best way to boil down my stance on the new Trek, Sten, is to just called it “Bitter Fanboy Syndrome.” I don’t really consider myself bitter, just that I’ve kinda moved on from Trek b/c it really started sucking ages ago. Imagine an ex-significant other begging you to take them back 5 years after you dumped them for being lame and disinterested. That’s me and Trek. We’ll see it at some point just because we’re curious and are not afraid of making fun of bad movies (or being surprised by movies we thought would be bad).
I do enjoy a good movie-going experience. It’s just not the same outside of LA. It’s kinda like sex with Angelina Jolie/George Clooney (I assume)—after you’ve done it there, doing it anywhere else is fine, but…
I can’t find any really good theaters in NYC. There are a few nicer multiplexes, but no really kick-ass houses like the Dome, the Village or the Chinese.
I’m going to give Movie Mashups another try:
1) A Vietnam vet is on the run from a killer after finding a bunch of money in the desert while wearing a bland suit and keeping the aliens a secret all under the watchful eye of Tommy Lee Jones.
2) British Secret Agent Ryan (double)O’Neal falls in love with Ali McGraw while trying to smuggle a Soviet code machine out of law school, after which M tries to deny all knowledge of them and later they discover they can’t have baby spies.
3) Set against the backdrop of President Sukarno’s rule of Indonesia, a washed-up alcoholic hunky actor/reporter must sober-up long enough to cover Indonesian politics, have sex with Sigourny Weaver and appear on a live variety show with the help of a junior writer and half-Chinese dwarf. (OK, this one was really hard for me to describe, I blame no one if you guys just go “HUH?”)
4) Arrested by the Spanish Inquisition and thrown in a dungeon, John Carpenter mounts a unique defense of the charges by putting on a play about a crazy, old alien who crashes on Earth, clones a body for himself, races across the American Southwest to a big crater, and gets Karen Allen preggers. Oh and it’s (not) based on Don Quixote.
OK, I think I’ve stretched my brain muscle enough… hopefully that’ll be as fun to work out as it was for me to come up with.
And it sounds like I may have missed the part where you guys decided to make Dick Cheney the new regular Fuck-Off. Sorry and YAY!
Gah! I was having a helluva time coming up with these a few months back and NOW I CAN’T STOP!!
5) Inexplicably British Secret Agent Gregory (double oh) Peck must infiltrate and then escape from the island headquarters of his arch nemesis, or maybe it’s the Nazis, while avoiding being discovered and/or killed by a heavily accented dwarf.
6) During the build-up to the Vietnam war, an aging Michael Caine stars as one of two young high school graduates who spend their last nights in town before going off to college, cruising for girls, wondering about their futures and losing their young Vietnamese girlfriend to Brendan Frazer.
7) In the sequel to the previous mashup, Brendan Frazer is a mysterious tourist hiking through England with his friend when they are attacked by a creature that leaves one of them dead but very talkative and the other a furry, murderous beast!
8) Two non-white stoners go off in search of the ultimate cure for the munchies and come across the lair of the ultimate Chinese super-villain (played by Christopher Lee). This one might be kinda hard, but I bet Siskita (or any other MST3K fans) are going to have a good shot at it.
I should be on Skype tonight if you want me to confirm all these for you. OK, going to try hard to NOT come up with any more of these…
Hah..enjoy this ladies..
http://www.newsday.com/media/flash/2009-04/46217527.swf
I’m off to parade practice…watch for a video this week! Have a safe and sane and sumptious weekend!!
ps. after my last post, mom fell…from a sitting position and cut her head. Oh brother. She’s fine, I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop….Best to Granny Bet.
Awesome video, Marla!
FYI, Bet & Stennie, I take it back, I won’t be on Skype tonight—actually have plans! Amazing. Hope you like the mashups—tell me if they suck, though.
My intro to Woody Allen was Love & Death and Take the Money and Run. “The prisoners get one hot meal a day: a bowl of steam.”
Remember as you progress through the bible, in case you find the translation a bit unwieldy: if the King James Version was good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for you*. Or, as I once read on the bumper of a pickup outside Asheville: “If it ain’t King James, it ain’t Bible!” (*actual, possibly apocryphal, quote attributed to a septuagenarian evangelical commenting on a visiting pastor’s choice to quote from the New International Version in his sermon.)