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Post by Bad Touch on Jun 14, 2016 6:28:48 GMT -5
Yes! Maria Bamford is awesome. I always loved and admired that she remained in that ' comedian's comedian' counterculture (Like the beloved Bill Hicks) I remember rediscovering her when I grabbed this* DVD during a local video store 'Going Out of Business' clearance. Her voice is what brought it all flooding back. That's such a marketable calling card for her. ( Sometimes I wish Patton and Louis C.K. would have stayed in that underground niche) " Stop lurking behind your Jimmy Hendrix font!"  *  Get this woman on Ted Talks! I can appreciate good taste in stand up. Every time I hear someone excitedly recommend Jeff Duham, and attempt to mimic the puppets, the accents and slurs... Ugh. You become highly skilled at smiling and nodding while simultaneously choking back vomit. |
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Post by Frameous on Jun 16, 2016 21:32:39 GMT -5
That Jimmy Hendrix font line busted me up Ok, so I just had to post about this. There was a drunk driving PSA I saw as a kid, and I've never forgotten it. I couldn't have been more than 2-3 years old at the time, and I would be shocked if I ever saw it more than once. But damn if it didn't leave the deepest impression one me. Throughout the years, I've done some searching for it here and there and never had much luck. Along they way I got to watch all my old favorites on YouTube (brain on drugs, 'I learned it from watching you!') but I never found the one I saw about drunk driving...until today. I searched for it just because it popped in my head and there it was. I must have watched it five times in stunned silence. It brought me back to a time when I was just a passive child, sitting on the living room floor soaking in the TV broadcast. I would just watch for extended periods of time, not knowing what I was seeing. And mind you, this would be when my mom or dad was watching TV, not cartoons or kiddie stuff (although I had my share of that too). But when it was night time, and my folks were watching non kiddie stuff, I wanted to see as much as I could. Baseball and hockey games, odd movies, MTV,you name it. We had a HUGE satellite that gave us some sweet pre-cable programming. I remember being told I couldn't watch First Blood or Robocop (in an odd moment of parental awareness) and being so upset I wasn't allowed to see what the adults got to see. Maybe my hunger for the strange and extrem started there. Anyway, here is the ad. What strikes me now as an adult is how it communicates its message both verbally and visually. The tone, context, and subtext of the whole thing was strong enough to penetrate the mind of a 3 year old. I knew the general message was drinking plus driving equals danger. I vaguely remember asking my mom if it was ok for me to drink my sippy cup while in the car because I had heard that 'drinking' and 'driving' was bad. Wow, that was a deeply lodged memory! |
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Post by Bad Touch on Jun 16, 2016 21:45:55 GMT -5
Wow.
I adore sensory memory sh*t.
I remember this. Not the wine glasses, or the cocktail glasses, but the beer mugs.
That's what triggered it.
Certainly does have the visual punch going for it doesn't it?
There's something about that '80's narrator tone' that's SO distinct. This is why I love so may of the Rifftrax shorts.
What a throw-back!
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Post by Crowfan on Jun 17, 2016 5:16:57 GMT -5
Here's a really weird commercial I've been seeing on Comcast Sports Net out of Boston.....
Got to say that I don't get it. Well, I get that smoking is bad, but I mean, is this really going to stop anyone from smoking? At least that drinking and driving commercial made a point.
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Post by Frameous on Jun 18, 2016 13:08:48 GMT -5
I remember this. Not the wine glasses, or the cocktail glasses, but the beer mugs. That's what triggered it. There's something about that '80's narrator tone' that's SO distinct. This is why I love so may of the Rifftrax shorts. What a throw-back! That's eerie, it was the same for me. When I would remember it in my head, all I could see was the beer mugs. Maybe because, as a kid, I only recognized the beer as alcohol, the wine and whiskey could have easily been Kool Aid (when I was a kid I always imagined wine tasting like Kool Aid, boy was I wrong). And the voice...stern warnings issued over the airwaves always unsettled me as a kid. Like Parental Discrestion Advised warnings always scared me and I never knew why. Now that I think about it, it was like getting a harsh warning from my third and unacknowledged parent, the TV. Telling me I shouldn't be watching this, etc. Here's a really weird commercial I've been seeing on Comcast Sports Net out of Boston..... What the hell?  What an odd commercial. |
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Post by Bad Touch on Jul 12, 2016 20:11:26 GMT -5
Here's a good article about the transformation of children's programming during the Reagan administration. Thought you might find it interesting. Dr. Toon: When Reagan Met Optimus Prime"The changes wrought by deregulation did not happen immediately.
The televisions cartoons of 1981-82 were seemingly bound by the old regulations, but it was not long before the barriers came crashing down."
Toy companies had a major role in dictating content.
Eventually, a cookie-cutter mentality set in.
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Post by Frameous on Jul 13, 2016 22:10:00 GMT -5
Can't wait to read this on the clock tomorrow! Thanks!
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Post by Bad Touch on Oct 3, 2016 23:11:20 GMT -5
Good lord your read slow!
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Post by Frameous on Oct 18, 2016 19:49:42 GMT -5
Apologies, I was temporarily ensnared with a local cult who's promises of power in the after life turned out to be indentured servitude and door to door selling. Thankfully, I'm back now.
Great read! It makes me long for all the toys I lost over the years. I had M.A.S.K and He Man figures, and regularly slept on He Man and Gobots bed sheets. I was inextricably enmeshed in The Golden Age of Deregulation and didn't even know it.
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Post by Bad Touch on Oct 26, 2016 21:44:12 GMT -5
Uhhh... yeah. Sorry about that. Your local chapter had a great green stamp incentive for the 'refer a friend' program.
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Post by Frameous on Oct 27, 2016 17:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by Bad Touch on Oct 29, 2016 23:24:15 GMT -5
Happy Halloween my friend
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Post by Frameous on Oct 30, 2016 18:21:32 GMT -5
Wow, it's unbelievable how a little tweak can change the tone of the whole thing. It looked like an outtake from The Stepfather.
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Post by Bad Touch on Nov 14, 2016 23:01:16 GMT -5
Current mood:
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Post by Bad Touch on Dec 22, 2016 22:27:40 GMT -5
This has become my swingin' holiday jam for five years running.
"With the whoop-de-do and hickory dock
And don't forget to hang up your sock"
PRO-TIP: The trick here is to sing it like Sammy Davis with purpose and feeling!
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What an odd commercial. 
