Tell Me Your Secrets but John gets pulled over by Officer Friendly
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I just thought you lovelies would like to see the kewl stuff in this book.
Okay. We need to bring this # back!
Look at this Adorkabley 🔥 man.
Confirm, Harold Ramis would be a kewl teacher in another life.
Best dad.
Love letter writer.
And cutie patooti as a kid.
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It's a real pity that The Queen Haters couldn't play the Platinum Jubilee.
Seattle grunge legends Mudhoney covered "I Hate the Bloody Queen," cementing it as a classic of Canadian Punk, on cover compilation OH CANADUH! 2 in 1998
In classic Grunge style, they slowed it to a dirge.
(Punk Rock and Comedy are the same thing, if you're doin' it right)
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Por que Rick Moranis, ator de 'Os Caça-Fantasmas', parou de fazer filmes?
O ator e comediante #RickMoranis chegou a ser um dos mais bem pagos de Hollywood e tinha tudo para uma carreira de sucesso. Veja a matéria completa no portal.
Se falarmos da cultura pop dos anos 80 e 90, principalmente quando o assunto é filme, um rosto que com certeza é memorável é o do ator e comediante canadense Rick Moranis. Não tem como uma pessoa que cresceu nesse período não se lembrar da presença de Moranis nos filmes: Os Caça-Fantasmas (1984), Querida, Encolhi as Crianças (1989), Os Flintstones – O Filme (1994).
O ator e comediante canadense…
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I came across this fan made documentary from 2021 on SCTV (Second City TV) that I wanted to pass along because it truly is a labor of love. Most of my childhood was the late 70s into the 1980s and one of the cultural products of my childhood was SCTV (along with Tom Baker as Doctor Who, Dr. Demento on the radio & television programs like Night Flight). What’s been crafted here is a history of SCTV told by the people who created it, in their own words, cobbled together from various sources. It’s surprisingly coherent and engaging and if you’re a fan of SCTV, it comes highly recommended.
Admittedly, this might only appeal to a limited number of you reading these words. SCTV? WTF is SCTV? First, SCTV was my first introduction to anything Canadian (the second being ‘You Can't Do That on Television‘ which basically copied the format of SCTV). Second, SCTV was also my introduction to a host of comedians when they were still young and relatively up and coming. The original cast of SCTV was John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas. You might know some of those names now. Later cast included folk like Robin Duke (who was also on Saturday Night Live), Rick Moranis, & Martin Short. (Quick note: one of the sketches SCTV slapped together to fill up time was ‘Bob and Doug McKenzie’, characters who would become audience favorites and were given a spin-off movie in 1983 called ‘Strange Brew’.)
Since I have you here, here’s a few additional items of interest that I recently absorbed into my brain through my ears and eyes:
1). Two different pieces from Defunctland, a youtube channel new to me, A) discussing and uncovering who created the Disney Channel’s four note theme that proved to be surprisingly engaging and unexpectedly poignant. B) This led me to watch another piece related to Disney from Defunctland on The Halyx, the “short-lived science fiction themed rock band developed by Disneyland Records that performed at Tomorrowland in Disneyland in 1981 at the Space Stage.” The band only got one season to exist and perform before the show was cancelled. I knew nothing about Halyx and didn’t think I would want to watch a long form piece on some passing cultural detritus from Disney (not being all that fond of Disney) Turns out, I did, in fact, want to watch a long form piece on some passing cultural detritus from Disney.
2) Another thing I didn’t think I would spend time consuming was from hbomberguy’s investigation into the “Roblox Oof“ sound. I have never spent a second playing Roblox and I have no idea why one would craft an almost two hour investigation into something so inconsequential. With that said, I watched the entire thing so I guess I have extra life to squander too. In retrospect, this Roblox piece has some relation to the above Defunctland episode on the 4 note Disney theme, namely artistic credit and artistic legacies. Having kept my attention and getting me to commit to a subject I had zero interest helps explain hbomberguy’s popularity. (I just saw that Brewis promoted the Defunctland Disney piece in twitter. Well.)
I don’t know people, this is just some of the random shit I’ve been digesting. Thanksgiving’s tomorrow. Distract yourself with some creativity and get yourselves through the holiday gauntlet.
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