Post by Rowsdower on Jan 16, 2004 13:24:53 GMT -5
This is what I've done so far:
Um, I'm stuck on the following riffs:
George Kaplan or Caplan
and
Montclair Momenty? I recognize this phrase but I cannot recall what a Montclair Moment is. Help!
Episode 610:
Short: A Young Man's Fancy (1952)
Movie: The Violent Years (1956)
Opening Host Segment:
Tom Servo's new head: he does look quite a bit like Cary Grant…who was generally known as a heartthrob. I'm not sure about Jerry Seinfeld.
Tom Servo's Theme Song: The music is taken from Carl Orff's "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, known to many as one of the most dramatic classical pieces of all time (hence Mike's saying how understated the intro was sets up the joke).
Mike's theme (as performed by Crow) is loosely based on Maurice Ravel's Bolero, one of the world's most famous classical pieces in which the same melody is played 18 times without major change over 17+ minutes.
TV's Frank while singing 'Mike's Theme' bursts out with, "I love Kramer!". The joke here is that Frank is being absolutely irritating like a small obnoxious child and adds to this with the predictable statement of your average American idiot at the time. Seinfeld was at its peak and almost every moron on Earth was stating that "Kramer was funny" because he was predictable, unsubtle, one-dimensional and 'zany'. This is one of several jabs at Seinfeld, no doubt because Joel Hodgson wrote with Seinfeld and his show was far more popular (i.e. weaker), and these jokes are, for the most part, good natured, but it must have been frustrating to watch Seinfeld go through the roof while you're writing a much better show and struggling to stay on the air.
Dr. Forrester says, "It was directed by Ed Wood, so get out your favourite pair of pumps and have a ball. Director Ed Wood was a transvestite. "Pumps" is a synonym for high-heeled shoes for women, which "pumped up you height"
Young Man's Fancy title card:
Crow: Young Man's Fancy Crinkle Cut Potatoes . "Crinkle Cut" is a style of French fries and many French fry manufactures slap 'fancy' on their products because they are so mundane and common
Mike points to the little drawing of the boy on the left side of the screen and says, "That little character was in Cats wasn't he?". I believe this is a combination of a couple of things. Obviously he's referencing the popular and annoying Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical, but I don't find he looks anything like any of the cats in Cats…I do find him similar to Dr. Seuss' Cat In The Hat with his black body and red tie. I think it's an association thing.
When Judy asks, "Mother…", Tom Servo tags on, "Is space curved?". The joke is based on the theory of curved spacetime which is heavy duty physics…the real joke is that a teenaged girl in a 50s-era short would question anything even remotely intellectual.
"I think they are both trying way too hard". One of many jokes concerning the cheery 'everything is okay' surface of 50s life during the repressive Cold War. Most of the following sex, race, food, and gender jokes fall under this category.
The mother reads the special message from Bob, "And be sure to tell Judy to keep his grimy little paws off of my friend, he's got no time for babies." Tom adds, "He's not Jerry Seinfeld". At the time, Seinfeld (40) was dating Shoshana Lonstein (19).
Short: A Young Man's Fancy (1952)
Movie: The Violent Years (1956)
Opening Host Segment:
Tom Servo's new head: he does look quite a bit like Cary Grant…who was generally known as a heartthrob. I'm not sure about Jerry Seinfeld.
Tom Servo's Theme Song: The music is taken from Carl Orff's "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, known to many as one of the most dramatic classical pieces of all time (hence Mike's saying how understated the intro was sets up the joke).
Mike's theme (as performed by Crow) is loosely based on Maurice Ravel's Bolero, one of the world's most famous classical pieces in which the same melody is played 18 times without major change over 17+ minutes.
TV's Frank while singing 'Mike's Theme' bursts out with, "I love Kramer!". The joke here is that Frank is being absolutely irritating like a small obnoxious child and adds to this with the predictable statement of your average American idiot at the time. Seinfeld was at its peak and almost every moron on Earth was stating that "Kramer was funny" because he was predictable, unsubtle, one-dimensional and 'zany'. This is one of several jabs at Seinfeld, no doubt because Joel Hodgson wrote with Seinfeld and his show was far more popular (i.e. weaker), and these jokes are, for the most part, good natured, but it must have been frustrating to watch Seinfeld go through the roof while you're writing a much better show and struggling to stay on the air.
Dr. Forrester says, "It was directed by Ed Wood, so get out your favourite pair of pumps and have a ball. Director Ed Wood was a transvestite. "Pumps" is a synonym for high-heeled shoes for women, which "pumped up you height"
Young Man's Fancy title card:
Crow: Young Man's Fancy Crinkle Cut Potatoes . "Crinkle Cut" is a style of French fries and many French fry manufactures slap 'fancy' on their products because they are so mundane and common
Mike points to the little drawing of the boy on the left side of the screen and says, "That little character was in Cats wasn't he?". I believe this is a combination of a couple of things. Obviously he's referencing the popular and annoying Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical, but I don't find he looks anything like any of the cats in Cats…I do find him similar to Dr. Seuss' Cat In The Hat with his black body and red tie. I think it's an association thing.
When Judy asks, "Mother…", Tom Servo tags on, "Is space curved?". The joke is based on the theory of curved spacetime which is heavy duty physics…the real joke is that a teenaged girl in a 50s-era short would question anything even remotely intellectual.
"I think they are both trying way too hard". One of many jokes concerning the cheery 'everything is okay' surface of 50s life during the repressive Cold War. Most of the following sex, race, food, and gender jokes fall under this category.
The mother reads the special message from Bob, "And be sure to tell Judy to keep his grimy little paws off of my friend, he's got no time for babies." Tom adds, "He's not Jerry Seinfeld". At the time, Seinfeld (40) was dating Shoshana Lonstein (19).
Um, I'm stuck on the following riffs:
George Kaplan or Caplan
and
Montclair Momenty? I recognize this phrase but I cannot recall what a Montclair Moment is. Help!