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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 15, 2003 12:25:01 GMT -5
Okay, I just checked the Episode Guide. It *is*, in fact, "Dreezle drazzle" not "Trixle Traxle," and the episode in question if Time Of The Apes.
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Post by lemminkimmen on Nov 15, 2003 12:46:03 GMT -5
aha!
Time of the Apes- a genuine classic!
thanks, afgaan!
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Post by Mr. Atari on Nov 15, 2003 16:09:40 GMT -5
It's in a few episodes, I think more than one of the ones postulated here.
The episode guide actually gets this reference wrong. It says it was from a cartoon called Tutor Turtle. Actually, the cartoon was King Leonardo, and the character's name was Tooter Turtle (the Tooter shorts were later rerun in the Tennessee Tuxedo show). Wizard the Lizard would grant wishes to Tooter, and the line in question is how Wizard would bring him back from his adventures.
Why do I know this? I watched a LOT of cartoons when I was a kid. And while I can't remember my wife's birthday, I remember Wizard the Lizard.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 15, 2003 20:48:10 GMT -5
Ah, I remember some of the Tenessee Tuxedo show! Never watched much of it, but they were pretty good for the time.
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Post by Hutty on Nov 16, 2003 22:01:54 GMT -5
I know Ill probably get roasted for this, but in Pod People (My favorite ep), what is the whole " g'night cheif, McCLOUD!" running gag....
(and keep in mind, Im only 21...)
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Nov 16, 2003 22:21:07 GMT -5
I beleive it's in reference to the McCloud TV series from the 70s stsrring Denis Weaver as a cowboy cop in the city. Although the whole goodnight thing is from The Waltens.
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Post by Hutty on Nov 17, 2003 0:08:48 GMT -5
Alright, this is kind of OT but in one episode, there is a high-pitched laugh (similar to Wipeout) in which one of the cast members replies, in the same high pitch voice: "Raceway Park". Now this is a rather famililiar local radio ad for a motocross/drag racetrack in Englishtown, New Jersey, but anyone know how these Minnesotians would be familiar with this advertisement?
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Post by mightyjack on Nov 17, 2003 3:23:28 GMT -5
I beleive it's in reference to the McCloud TV series from the 70s stsrring Denis Weaver as a cowboy cop in the city. Although the whole goodnight thing is from The Waltens. Yup, you're right. There was a series of shows in the 70's that went under the banner of "The Sunday Mystery Movie". The show opened with a flashlight moving about in the dark (which is why the Bots would mention this during many season 3 movies when there was a light in a dark area. They did it so often that Joel forced them to stop during season 4) They would rotate shows each Sunday, one time it would be "McCloud", the next week it was was the "Snoop Sisters". Another riff source was "Heck Ramsey" (Joel once said... "What in Heck Ramsey is going on!). "Quincy" started off as one of these before becoming a regular series.
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Post by Unsavory on Nov 17, 2003 4:36:55 GMT -5
Wow, I'm learning a lot in this thread.
Does anyone know where "I killed that fat barkeep," came from? I'm under the impression it was directly from an earlier episode, but I have no idea which one, or if that's even the case.
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Post by mauto on Nov 17, 2003 11:00:51 GMT -5
Alright, this is kind of OT but in one episode, there is a high-pitched laugh (similar to Wipeout) in which one of the cast members replies, in the same high pitch voice: "Raceway Park". Now this is a rather famililiar local radio ad for a motocross/drag racetrack in Englishtown, New Jersey, but anyone know how these Minnesotians would be familiar with this advertisement? There is a Raceway Park in Minnesota also.
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Post by mightyjack on Nov 17, 2003 14:06:45 GMT -5
"I Killed that Fat Barkeep!" was uttered by the character Moon in "The Beatniks"
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 17, 2003 20:17:04 GMT -5
Is "Gamera is made of turtle meat" a line from one of the Gamera movies? I've only seen one of those movies, but I don't recall it showing up then.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Nov 17, 2003 20:22:06 GMT -5
Joel & the Bots sing it to the Gamera song.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Nov 17, 2003 20:34:43 GMT -5
Although, they sing in all of them, I believe the episode with the most Gamera singing was Gamera vs. Guiron. By far, my favorite of the 5. So I know the line "he is filled with turtle meat, we are eating Gamera" is in that one.
That's also the episode where Mike shows up in Deep 13 as lounge singer "Michael Feinstein".
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Post by Miss Interoceter on Nov 19, 2003 22:47:50 GMT -5
AHAHHA now I get it. Thanks! Another good joke that I don't get. It's from Agent For H.A.R.M., and when that "dry cleaners" car bursts into flames, Crow says "Say, the top-notch(?) seems to be in flames, ol' trench(?)." Mike laughs his ass off, yet I sit there scratching my head. Ideas? I'm not sure of the actual phrasing, haven't watched it in a few weeks, but the guy that drives it away has that ascot and v-neck sweater on and they give him that "millionaire from Gilligan's Island" voice (in other words a Jim Backus voice) which I think is meant to imply like a Princeton/Yale/Harvard upper crust snobby character. And I think that Mike is more reacting to Bill's dead on impersonation there than the words he's saying. And thanks, guys, now I have that blasted Gamera song in my head!
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