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Quote from: Bad Kermit on November 03, 2006, 11:22:43 AM

Quote from: forkserker on November 03, 2006, 11:19:49 AM

I'm drawing a total blank on the song Jim & Ed Helms were singing.

Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine."

Thank you.  Now I'm going to make fun of my girlfriend because she recognized the song, but couldn't name the tune/artist.

David Cross bumrushes Jim Belushi, John Belushi stops spinning for 12 seconds, then is forced into spinning again towards the end of the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PH3GVj104

I had a friend who, I am not joking, lived in Dan Patrick's childhood home down in Mason, Ohio.  Patrick was known as Danny Pugh back then, if memory serves.  Anyway, we spent one afternoon rummaging through the attic above the garage -- and not only found some childhood crayon drawings from little Danny Pugh, but a Dinah Washington 78.  I really should have brought one of those home.

EDIT: I just wikipedia'd Patrick to confirm the "Pugh" part of things, and it turns out Danny Pugh and I share a birthday.

I suspended disbelief for a while, but it was too hard last night during the bit about the Corddry's character's parents.  These guys are in their mid-50s, tops, and they still have a turntable that goes to 78?  They stopped making 78s in the early 50's, righto?  And I don't care how removed they are from Hollywood, everyone and their great-grandfather has heard of "Who's On First?"  I mean, half of the dialogue from "Rain Man" is cribbed from that bit.  Needless to say, Sorkin's a bit removed ... from a lot of things.  Besides that and the sketches, I still like the show.

(btw, one of the funniest sketches in TV history has to be the Kids in the Hall take on "Who's On First." 

Dave Foley: "no, I'm a vaudevillian.")

EDIT: here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dCdgUixMg

I actually said to my girlfriend, "that sounds like an old riff from a horrible standup comic" when the "what's the deal with ADD?" bit was presented, and sho'nuff, it was.  Not good.  Someone needs to get to Sorkin and tell him to kill off any scenes from sketches or news satires, because all the "jokes" have sucked horribly.

Still, I'm liking the show.  It's worth it just to not be talked down to for an hour via my telly.  Pretty soon I'll be watching it just for one good line (like the one about the mind that practices a Juliette Lewis impression vs. the mind that puts that impersonation in Tim Russert's chair), and I'm OK with that.

The women who made the comment about Jim mugging for the camera is the daughter of Quincy Jones.  I was about to type "the daughter of someone famous who I can't remember," but then I remembered that the women who made the comment about Jim mugging for the camera is the daughter of Quincy Jones while I was writing this sentence.

She was in Stella.  My girlfriend told me the name of some other show she was in, a more popular show, but I've forgotten it and haven't remembered the name during the course of writing this sentence.

Wow.  Tear-inducing funny, with heaps of excuses to lay off the great-but-potentially-series-killing Pam/Jim thing.

Live really were the first, the beginning of the downfall.  I say that all the time, but I could really feel (in 1994 or whenever that album started to get hot) that this was the first of the music I really despised -- something I could see through, something that made me angry, something that was a hundred times worse than what was on the pop charts because its principal avatars KNEW better.

Quote from: The Slak on September 11, 2006, 04:07:45 PM

Quote from: CPT on September 11, 2006, 03:54:12 PM

Quote from: Huey on September 11, 2006, 03:51:33 PM
It's not that I'm dyslexic, but seeing the "Q" in there threw me off, and in my mind's eye, I reversed it with the "B" and thought this was a thread about Peter King's "Monday Morning Barbecue" (MMBQ) which, were it true, would be one of the longest articles ever written.

Oh, and Peter King's a douche.

I believe that it's Peter King's Monday Morning BBBQ.

I'd love to read a Slaky reaction to Simmons picks.  Or to just about anything he writes. 

I know I ran across some blogger via Deadspin who writes reviews of Simmons' articles. It was as weak as...well, as weak as Simmons probably is. He actually tried to objectively review them and actually praised some of them. How lame.

Oh, and Kelly kicks Simmons in the dick tip when it comes to writing on the NBA.

Cheers.  I'm a top notch dick tip kicker. 

Simmons knows his stuff when it comes to the NBA, I have to give him credit for that -- but he gets stuck in these "it sounds good in my head" ruts that he refuses to crawl out of, sort of the NBA version of the Curly Haired Boyfriend's curse-heavy style.  If he'd approach the game with the idea that, shock horror, he could learn something new from each game he watches or stat sheet he trawls through, then he might be better. 

What continually gets me about Simmons is, and even among a-hole sportswriters he sticks out ... is there a bigger misogynist out there?  Can't some copy editor at espen change all those "girls" to "women" in his next missive?  I can Champ Kind it up with the best of them, but dayum ...

Just finished the latest BBC A-version ep, tremendous as always.  Enjoyed a bit of coma-related choas, they'd been getting away with that.  Gene's reaction to the "what are the odds?" line was classic.

Vh1 rock.  The videos they play from 1-8am, full of green tints and clothes from the mall and Paul Reed Smith guitars.  Started with Live, grew on to Matchbox 20, and has gotten considerably more infuriating in the years since ...

Just watched it, the cattle rustling line and applause were hilarious.

This is a really, really, really, really good TV show.

This is one of the funniest things I've seen tonight:

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1704331/

It reminds of Dwight's speech to his fellow salesmen ... women.

It also reminds of the Burroughs cut-up technique -- is using those words in, y'know, the right order?  And the random baby crying and train whistle blowing just add to this oddity.  Well worth a watch.

I'd love to go back and transcribe the script from the TV advert Charlie wrote from two episodes ago, but I accidently deleted the bastard.  THAT was a gem.

ROCK, FLAG, AND EAGLE!

Quote from: J Rod on August 11, 2006, 02:57:22 PM

Quote from: KD on August 11, 2006, 01:17:52 PM

Quote from: J Rod on August 11, 2006, 07:55:11 AM
Alright, who saw last night's episode?  I almost fell off my couch laughing when Charlie was singing that song (if you can call it that) about being American...awesome...I hope that's on You Tube soon.

Before the end of the day I'll have to transcribe the lyrics to that.  I went back and watched it three times before watching the rest of the episode. 

That would be, dare I say, the balls if you could do that...

OK
OK
I'm gonna rise up
I'm gonna kick a little ass
I'm gonna kick some ass -- In the U-S-A
Gonna climb a mountain
Gonna sew a flag
Gonna fly on an eagle
I'm gonna kick some butt
I'm gonna drive a big truck
I'm gonna rule this world
I'm gonna kick some ass
Gonna rise up
Gonna kick a little ass
Rock flag and EA-GLE