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Post by OBMIF on Nov 20, 2003 1:20:00 GMT -5
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome...." comes from an
early 60's cartoon called "Tooter Turtle".
Tooter Turtle lived out his fantasies through the
sorcery of Mr. Wizard, the Lizard of the Great Forest.
Assuming many different identities, Tooter went from
being a lumberjack to a taxi driver and traveled from
prehistoric times to the moon. He always wound up
botching these missions and getting in trouble.
Crying out: "Help, Mr. Wizard! Help!", Tooter invoked
the powers of Mr. Wizard to get him home.
Mr. Wizard invariably complied, with his magical chant:
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome, time for this one
to come home!"
So there.
OBMIF
("Oh, Bite Me! It's Fun!")
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 20, 2003 3:10:55 GMT -5
In MST3K: The Movie, what's the reference being made when the plane lands, Hal starts looking in the plane and someone (Servo?) says, "Hello, Mr. magic plane person? Hello? Hello?" in a British accent.
I always just assumed it was a general "British fairy-tale wonder" reference (the line wouldn't seem out of place in Lewis' Narnia stories, come to think of it), but I was wondering if it's a reference to something more definite than that.
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Post by Ator on Nov 20, 2003 10:00:42 GMT -5
In MST3K: The Movie, what's the reference being made when the plane lands, Hal starts looking in the plane and someone (Servo?) says, "Hello, Mr. magic plane person? Hello? Hello?" in a British accent. I always just assumed it was a general "British fairy-tale wonder" reference (the line wouldn't seem out of place in Lewis' Narnia stories, come to think of it), but I was wondering if it's a reference to something more definite than that. Alot of the later eps contain that crazy riff. I don't know who it is, but it makes me laugh like crazy every time I hear it. |
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 20, 2003 12:54:14 GMT -5
Maybe it's a line that BBI made up and just used as a running joke.
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Post by ChrisDalek on Nov 20, 2003 14:56:41 GMT -5
Here's one I don't get. In Space Mutiny, why does Tom make hissing sounds whenever Lt Lamont is talking?
And also at one point screams "I'M INSANE!!!" ?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Nov 20, 2003 20:01:12 GMT -5
In MST3K: The Movie, what's the reference being made when the plane lands, Hal starts looking in the plane and someone (Servo?) says, "Hello, Mr. magic plane person? Hello? Hello?" in a British accent.quote] If it's the line I'm thinking about it may not be an English accent. It reminds me of something from the National lampoon Comedy Hour radio show from the 70s. It was a character of Christopher Guest's called Flash Bazbo who spoke in an odd little voice. At least that's what it reminded me off. |
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Post by Ator on Nov 21, 2003 0:19:47 GMT -5
If it's the line I'm thinking about it may not be an English accent. It reminds me of something from the National lampoon Comedy Hour radio show from the 70s. It was a character of Christopher Guest's called Flash Bazbo who spoke in an odd little voice. At least that's what it reminded me off. It also reminds me of something Michael Palin would do in Monty Python. |
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 21, 2003 3:29:27 GMT -5
See, I was actually thinking "Python" when I heard the voice the first time, which is why I just assumed British.
But I'm not too familiar with Christopher Guest's characters, so that may very well be the one.
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Post by Miss Interoceter on Nov 21, 2003 11:55:39 GMT -5
Here's one I don't get. In Space Mutiny, why does Tom make hissing sounds whenever Lt Lamont is talking? And also at one point screams "I'M INSANE!!!" ? Maybe cause she's looks like somebody from the cast of CATS.  "I think it was awfully nice of you to give that dead woman another chance, sir." |
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Post by emperordorkin on Nov 21, 2003 14:24:58 GMT -5
Another Space Mutiny running gag I don't get: nearly everytime the camera cuts to the Sting lookalike, Crow says "Oy!"
And, in "The She Creature", everytime the annoying comic relief Swedish butler is doing schtick, Servo is quietly going "Da dum tsshhh!" every few seconds. At one point, if you listen very closely, you can hear Mike laugh and say "Ok, stop that!".
USELESS TRIVIA: The actor playing the bulter, El Brendel, was quite pouplar in vaudeville and movies in the 1920's and 1930's. He co-starred in "Wings" (the 1st Best Picture winnner), "The Big Trail" with John Wayne, and starred in 1930's extremely goofy sci fi/musical extravagansa "Just Imagine". Of course, he plays, what else, a goofy Swedish guy, in all of them.
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Post by mightyjack on Nov 21, 2003 16:49:33 GMT -5
Oi! and Too Right! references refer to an Austrialian soccer player called Jacko who did (Ever-ready?) battery comercials in the States.
He had spiky blond hard and talk/sang this song "What's the most amazing Batt'ry in the world..." and finish with an "Oi!"
He was also in a short lived TV series called the Highway Man
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Nov 21, 2003 19:11:30 GMT -5
"Da dum tsshhh!" is just imitating a drummer backing up a comedian's joke. Kind of a Vaudville/shlock kind of thing.
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Post by Axiom on Nov 24, 2003 11:34:49 GMT -5
The esoteric reference that i KNOW must mean something... but i have no clue what it is would be...
"And that Chopper! He's the funny one!"
This Chopper fellow has been mentioned quite a few times in the earlier episodes... but who is he? er.. or she *shivers*
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 24, 2003 17:43:20 GMT -5
*Shrugs*
Not sure.
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Post by ash2 on Dec 4, 2003 0:13:12 GMT -5
Is "I'm an icky elf" from Girl in Gold boots a recycled joke?
It always seemed like an out of place riff to me.
John
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