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Post by Afgncaap5 on Nov 16, 2012 5:16:51 GMT -5
Lots of good ones, too many to mention.
However, "Sodium!" gets special mention as it's one that I'll break into on occasion. ...and have other people join in depending on the crowd I'm in at the time.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Nov 16, 2012 21:11:07 GMT -5
D'ohh, waitaminnit, man, just remembered another one...
How could I possibly have forgotten Hired: The Musical?
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Post by continosbuckle on Nov 16, 2012 21:39:49 GMT -5
Every now and then, the Atomic Brain riff of "Oh, that was the guy who wrote 'Berp/duh derp/be derp/de derp'" goes through my head, and I am always amused.
Servo doing his own lyrics for said music "Old/she's old/she's old/she's old" was also amusing.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Nov 18, 2012 13:23:48 GMT -5
For original songs, Patrick Swayze Christmas, Tubular Boobular Joy, The Forklift Song, and so many more!
For songs from actual films, I love the songs from I Accuse My Parents in a sincere and nonironic way. Love Came Between Us is such a sweet little piece of nothing, and Mary Beth Hughes singing it is just the most darling little gangster moll ever.
I also love Wait'll I Get You Home, Baby from Daddy-O. It's really pretty racy for the time and Dick Contino sings it like he really can't wait to pounce on you the second your front door closes. Rowr!
For the "um, wait, this isn't a joke?" songs, Laugh, Children, Laugh gets my vote. It's so Sunday School In The Midwest Tune Before Cookies And Milk. I find it very odd that a group of hotrodding teens react like Elvis was shakin' it in front of them. Good thing that giant gila monster came along--things were getting too weird!
And the Lord said DIE children DIE!
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Post by continosbuckle on Nov 19, 2012 11:04:49 GMT -5
Way too many to list individually, but I always enjoy the host segments where one of the bots is singing a song while coming in on something Joel/Mike or another bot is doing.
Examples, Gypsy in Future War coming in singing AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" while Servo is talking about his bitchin' new kickboxing legs.
Servo comes in on Joel doing the "Lon Chaney Eye Thing" and is singing some version of "If I Can't Have You".
There are many, many more.
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Post by jimmydoorlocks on Nov 22, 2012 17:45:42 GMT -5
Hum-didda-hee-hee
hua, hua.
Or the riffers singing a song every time someone walks by themselves in "Teenagers From Outer Space"
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 8, 2012 18:23:11 GMT -5
Every now and then, the Atomic Brain riff of "Oh, that was the guy who wrote 'Berp/duh derp/be derp/de derp'" goes through my head, and I am always amused.
Servo doing his own lyrics for said music "Old/she's old/she's old/she's old" was also amusing. Actually, I loved it pretty much every time Servo started singing his own lyrics over the opening theme or incidental music score of any movie.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 8, 2012 18:32:00 GMT -5
Today, I was watching Gamera Vs Guiron, and -- along with the notorious "Hello! Thank you! Hello! Hello, and thank you!" scene -- I also laughed until I hurt at the three different iterations of the Gamera Song from the movie: first, with their own lyrics in English (Gamera is really neat, he is made of turtle meat...), second, with the fake Japanese lyrics -- and third, and funniest of all, with Mike Nelson as Michael Feinstein, doing his comically overwrought version in the final Deep 13 segment (is Nelson playing the piano for real there? Sure looks like it.).
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 8, 2012 18:34:58 GMT -5
...I also love Wait'll I Get You Home, Baby from Daddy-O. It's really pretty racy for the time and Dick Contino sings it like he really can't wait to pounce on you the second your front door closes. Rowr! Wait 'til I break your jaw, yeah! Wait 'til I break your jaw!
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Dec 10, 2012 16:33:07 GMT -5
One that gets me every time is in "Final Justice," where Joe Don is chasing Palermo, who is dressed as a priest. The music in the background sounds quite a bit like Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)," so Crow starts singing jauntily, "Hello Major Tom, how's it goin' Tom..." I literally can't hear that song anymore without thinking of that.
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Post by Monophylos on Dec 11, 2012 19:11:20 GMT -5
"He Tried To Kill Me with A Forklift" is the song from the Fugitive Alien episodes that gets all the love, but there are other ones almost as good. "Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die!" is another recurring one, as is the "I Love Ken" tune. Then there's the short verse about Sandy Frank in the big song medley in Fugitive Alien II: "We wanna stick it to Sandy Frank / And sit on his chest and gob on his face / And make him cry-iy!" Even Gypsy's contribution, her tribute to the "boys and girls in shiny red leather," is rather amusing even though you can only make out every third word of so.
Mighty Jack gives us the invaluable "Slow The Plot Down" song. Be lively now, me Bonnie Raitts!
It's short, but I like Crow's singing, "Eight...miles...wrong!" during the song by The Birds (not The Byrds of course) in Deadly Bees, an episode that otherwise put me to sleep.
The frequent references to songs or bands are almost always funny. Being a Rush fan I especially like Rush riffs and there are a lot of them. "'He died listening to Rush.' '2112.'" And there's Mike's somewhat munged rendition of "The Trees" in Touch of Satan.
Also Pink Floyd, notably in the host segment where Crow and Servo, and Gypsy and Magic Voice, swap personalities. "Crazy, toys in the attic, he is crazy..." I also love Servo breaking into "Money" when the rotary phone's being dialed in "One upon A Honeymoon".
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Post by Mr. Atari on Dec 11, 2012 19:37:55 GMT -5
Not really a riff, but the other day I had a snippet of a melody stuck in my head. All day. It was this weird, haunting, tremolo guitar riff that I couldn't place and it was driving me crazy. Everywhere I went, I'd hear it in my head and I'd think, "That's weird. And haunting. Where in Hec Ramsey is it from?"
Then it hit me.
"Teen-age Strangler".
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Post by Bob Boxbody on Dec 11, 2012 23:01:19 GMT -5
"Yipe stripes...get the crap kicked outta ya!" -Teen Age Strangler
"Love is a mask....a tight leather mask." - The Beatniks
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Post by buzzturner on Dec 20, 2012 20:24:49 GMT -5
I like Tom's song fragments:
The song during the opening credits of I Accuse My Parents - "They laughed at me..." "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" near the end of Teenagers From Outer Space The beginning of "Oklahoma" in Space Travelers
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Post by continosbuckle on Dec 20, 2012 21:38:03 GMT -5
I like Tom's song fragments: I enjoyed his borderline incoherent singing about the South doing it again in Laserblast. And even though the other guys got on him about him repeating it constantly, I loved every single one of the Cat Stevens "Where Do the Children Play?" riffs in Space Children.
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