Sunday, December 30, 2018

487 - The Reason Jerry Lewis Couldn't Say "Fuck" On TV's "The Love Boat"

[2:20 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I remember going through a little town in Colorado with a sign that said
"[Town Name].  We like it here."
I forget the name but it was between Colorado Springs and the Kansas border
[2:21 PM] 
Hehe
"Rotten Egg Enema Kansas (Pop 12) - We Like It Here"
Makes one wonder why the town council decided that was necessary.
Is there a wiki out there somewhere, explaining?
[2:24 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
I'm trying to find the sign
There aren't many towns between the border and Colorado Springs
I think it was Simla, but I'm not seeing the signs on Google street view
This was 20 years ago. Maybe they took them down
They were big and hand painted and I remember looking for one facing the other way when we left the town to make sure I read it right, and it was there.
[3:03 PM] 
Heh
Like a Lovecraft town - try as you might you could never find the place again.
[3:14 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Maybe put on the reverse of the sign: "Simla: Your body may leave but your soul stays forever."
[3:24 PM] 
LOL



[10:03 AM] 
Client on DOUBLE-DEE LN
[10:03 AM Mr. Blue]
"We're located near the intersection of Big Gazongas St."



[9:54 AM] 
Tom K "I wouldn't go to a retail store to get electronics."
What kinda store would he go to?
[9:54 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
Dino on the corner has some good electronics.”
[9:54 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
"I gotta guy"
He goes to "Sabra Price is Right"
[9:56 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
He goes to hairy Armenians in an alley
[9:56 AM] 
Hehe
[9:56 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
"Look, Windows 6, is good!"
[9:58 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Finally someone besides Mr. Silver and me that's seen 90s SNL episodes
[9:57 AM]  Mr. Brown: 
You make bomb?”
Tom "Yeah sure whatever.”
This is free then.”
[9:57 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
"It's just I never heard of a Palsonic router before."
"Has Linksys guts!"
[9:58 AM] 
"How much you say for X-Box computer, bring internet right over air?  (Displaying Atari 2600)  How much?"
"Uh...$15?" 
"(considers) Ho-k.  (bell rings) Pay my cousin."
"What?"
"You say $15...ho-k for advance computer.  You pay."
"I thought this was a game show."
"Come on come on come on...out!  Next game!"
A funny enough sketch to just fake episodes forever...hehe
[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I wasn't sure what the hell they were supposed to be. Israelis?
[10:07 AM] 
According to the one thing I'm looking at, Israeli
Maybe because they say where it's happening? 
Live from 47th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue”
Sabra (Hebrewצברtzabar) is an informal-turned-formal term that refers to any Jew born on Israeli territory.
[10:11 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Deesco deesco deesco



[2:43 PM] 
Horror just has to horrify
[2:58 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah
[3:04 PM] 
I watched Jerry Lewis's "The Nutty Professor" over the weekend.  Wasn't scary, WAS funny, but it was a "horror" movie. 
Buddy Love was a monster
Socially anyway.
By any modern analysis he was a psychotic and very obviously dangerous.
Back when it was new, it was hilarious.
Every film I've watched with him since he died so far has been surprising.
And disturbing
[3:15 PM]  Mr. Brown: 
[3:18 PM] 
Disorderly Orderly is hilarious.
But then he has these scenes where he is perfectly normal with an educated tone of voice describing his crushing mental block.
And if the pathos of that wasn't enough, they put in a complicated dysfunctional relationship thing.  Ugh. 
(me) "This is a comedy?  Our grandparents were f'd up."
[3:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Didn't he do the holocaust clown one
[3:09 PM] 
Yes
Never shown
[3:14 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
It will be released in 2024 as per lewis's will or something
Seeing a use for him, the commandant assigns him to help load Jewish children on trains leading out of the internment camp, with the promise his case will be reviewed. By a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a boxcar train to Auschwitz, and he is eventually used, in Pied Piper fashion, to help lead the Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber.
Good Lord!
[3:19 PM] 
Yup
Whatever his intentions, thank God he realized what was gonna happen.
Steven Spielberg's "Bozos List"




[8:42 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I was just reminded of an old nickelodeon show from the 90s, called Space Cases
looks like it was nick's shot at a space opera
[8:42 AM] 
Didn't see much of it but I remember it
[8:42 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Doesn't ring a bell
[8:42 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
Apparently george takei and mark hamill made appearances
[8:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
1997 was probably just after i stopped watching nickelodeon
[8:46 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
i remember still watching power rangers in 95 so i likely was
[8:47 AM] 
I don't think I watched anything live action on it except “Pete and Pete”, which was brilliant.
Some of the cartoons were clever
Real Monsters and Rugrats (early episodes) I'd look in on.
[8:49 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I liked pete and pete, are you afraid of the dark, doug, rocko, salute your shorts, land of the lost, ren & stimpy, clarissa explains it all
[8:50 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
the only one of those i didnt like was ren and stimpy, too gross
pete and pete just never really watched
[9:00 AM] 
Oh yes...Rocko was great
I forgot “Ren & Stimpy” was Nick
Waaaaay back I was a "You Can't Do That on Television" watcher.
I read an article about that show...
Turns out, you kinda couldn't do what they did on television.
Up til then they showed pretty bland and safe little kid shows and cartoons. 
Then a bunch of smart-assed Canadian kids came along and turned Nickelodeon into what it is and has remained. 
And thank God for that!



[9:02 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 
I remember when they wouldn't say "shit" on TV
[9:02 AM] 
I remember when they wouldn't say “damn”. 
I remember the first time it happened and we were all surprised.
Well...first show we watched where it happened.
"The Love Boat" of all things.
Sweet, goody-good, cheerful Julie
She was trying to dry some clothes out on a line in her cabin and had trouble with a clothes pin.
"(frustrated) Damn..."
(Silver family) "Woah."
"The Love Boat" - such daredevils
Apparently, “Gone With The Wind” is why people started saying "damn" in regular conversation
It was a curse word about the same level as F-bombing.
Look at old editorial comics and such and they'd never spell it out.
You get a "D-" same as you might an "F-"
And then Rhett Butler said it – out loud! - to Scarlet O'Hara in the biggest slam in the biggest movie and everyone saw it!
Zow!
Upon consideration - by the writer of the article - if Rhett had told Scarlet he didn't give a fuck, it would have been the reverse and we'd still be grounding our kids for daring to utter the dreaded D-word and fuck would be passe.
[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Frankly my dear [dubbed over] I love you. Let's get married.
[9:28 AM] 
"Frankly my dear I'm off to see the Winnibigoshish damn."
(that took a sad amount of research)
Was yours from "The Critic"? 
I remember an episode where he was criticizing Ted Turner for going beyond coloring B&W classics to changing the endings he didn't like. 
[9:31 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Simpsons... The version they played for the nursing home

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