The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

[RJDiogenes]

Well known for being the Berlin-hosted Olympics at which Jesse Owens won gold medals.

I know, but it seems arbitrary. You'd think she'd be the result of a special program or experiment or whatever.

There was a particularly sharp and angry emphasis on the word, such that it sounded interchangeable.

Perhaps intentional on the part of the director or the actor. The implied dot dot dot.

The Nazis? They were counting on it. It was all to lure her in.

Ah, okay. Interesting way to bait her.

That's what I always wondered. It does echo the competition on Paradise Island in which Diana won the WW mantle.

Oh, yeah.

I'm not sure about the Golden Age version offhand. In the post-Crisis reboot, it was woven from the girdle of Gaia, IIRC.

Magic then. Her Mjolnir.

IRL, WW's creator, William Moulton Marston, also invented the polygraph.

I guess he had a thing for honesty. And combined it with his thing for bondage.

I think he stayed behind in the States.

Yeah, but I meant what was the outcome of the confrontation. I take it he escaped into obscurity, like an H50 assassin.

It was too dangerous and all of that.

But she was so worth it.

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Wow, he doesn't seem recognizable at all.

After the war, Trevor goes on to found the OSI.

That's a nice little connection. And his son is a friend of Oscar.

I was thinking about that. I'm thinking that it may have been known to lower a rope ladder down, but again I'm not sure.

The rope thing does ring a vague bell.

Eh, she's a no-name.

She's glaring at you with her hands on her hips right now, just so you know.

I think some of them were trying.

That and WW's outfit.

True.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I know, but it seems arbitrary. You'd think she'd be the result of a special program or experiment or whatever.

Guess they didn't want her to be actually superhuman.

Yeah, but I meant what was the outcome of the confrontation. I take it he escaped into obscurity, like an H50 assassin.

Oh, right. Steve beat him, but he managed to delay Steve from getting to the plane; so I assume he ended up in custody.

Wow, he doesn't seem recognizable at all.

How about now?

She's glaring at you with her hands on her hips right now, just so you know.

Just so long as she's not sneaking up behind me with a shovel.

An Invaders guest-starring Richard Anderson is airing May 17, FYI. Separate episodes guesting Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells will be coming up soon.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Guess they didn't want her to be actually superhuman.

Not necessarily superhuman, but just something more specific-- like the top graduate of an elite training program or the culmination of a secret breeding project or something.

Oh, right. Steve beat him, but he managed to delay Steve from getting to the plane; so I assume he ended up in custody.

Ah, okay.

How about now?
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No. Maybe it's the mustache. And I seem to remember him having lighter hair, maybe.

Just so long as she's not sneaking up behind me with a shovel.

An Invaders guest-starring Richard Anderson is airing May 17, FYI. Separate episodes guesting Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells will be coming up soon.

Ah, nice, I'll keep an eye peeled. Russell Johnson has prior experience with aliens from This Island Earth.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Not necessarily superhuman, but just something more specific-- like the top graduate of an elite training program or the culmination of a secret breeding project or something.

The Nazis wouldn't have had a lot of time for breeding programs.

No. Maybe it's the mustache. And I seem to remember him having lighter hair, maybe.

I can tell who he is, but I have to admit that I'm not sure I'd have placed him if I hadn't seen that he was going to be in the episode.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The Nazis wouldn't have had a lot of time for breeding programs.

Well, it's Comic Book Land. It could have been an ancient secret society that was using the Nazis. Or cloning. Or a super soldier serum. It just seems that Wonder Woman's Nazi counterpart should have had more going for her than a Gold Medal.

I can tell who he is, but I have to admit that I'm not sure I'd have placed him if I hadn't seen that he was going to be in the episode.

Come to think of it, I can't really remember seeing him around that much.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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50 Years Ago This Week

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May 10

• Radio news commentator Paul Harvey began the popular daily radio segment The Rest of the Story, consisting of little-known facts about well-known people or events, with a format of not revealing the subject of the script until the very end, and closing with the catchphrase "And now you know...the rest of the story." The series would continue for almost 40 years until Harvey's passing in 2005.
• What two physicists referred to as "the first movie of atoms in action" was shown to reporters at a press conference at the University of Chicago. Albert Crewe and Michael Isaacson showed the 30-second clip, which was made with a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 10,000,000 and photographed "uranium atoms placed on a specimen of carbon one-fifth of a millionth of an inch thick". Crewe said that the motion was unexpected but showed an interaction between the uranium atoms and the carbon.

May 11

• Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act were signed into United States law by President Gerald Ford.

May 12

• U.S. President Gerald Ford and Soviet Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev initialed a treaty that set limits on the size of underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes, but both sides postponed formal ceremonies that had been planned for May 13.
• Keith Relf, 33, English rock musician and the lead vocalist for The Yardbirds, was accidentally electrocuted at his home studio while playing an electric guitar.

May 13

• One of the first popular arcade video games, Breakout, designed by the Atari corporation, was introduced by Namco in Japan.

May 14

• The TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, the first bicycle touring route in the U.S. designated to run from coast to coast, was inaugurated as part of the Bikecentennial celebrations during the 200th year of independence of the United States. The 4,228 mi route runs through ten states from Astoria, Oregon, to Yorktown, Virginia, crossing Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky.
• NASA announced that it would accept applications for 30 additional astronauts to fly on "United States–European space shuttle project involving 200 flights starting in 1980," with eligibility open to women and to foreign scientists, including those from the Soviet Union.

And Wings played in Toronto, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. They may be coming to your town!

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Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "Boogie Fever," The Sylvers
2. "Welcome Back," John Sebastian
3. "Silly Love Songs," Wings
4. "Fooled Around and Fell in Love," Elvin Bishop
5. "Love Hangover," Diana Ross
6. "Show Me the Way," Peter Frampton
7. "Get Up and Boogie (That's Right)," Silver Convention
8. "Right Back Where We Started From," Maxine Nightingale
9. "Happy Days," Pratt & McClain w/ Brother Love
10. "Shannon," Henry Gross
11. "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again," Barry Manilow
12. "Sara Smile," Daryl Hall & John Oates
13. "Fool to Cry," The Rolling Stones
14. "Misty Blue," Dorothy Moore
15. "Strange Magic," Electric Light Orchestra
16. "Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)," Fleetwood Mac
17. "Let Your Love Flow," Bellamy Brothers
18. "Disco Lady," Johnnie Taylor
19. "Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen
20. "Happy Music," The Blackbyrds
21. "Love in the Shadows," Neil Sedaka
22. "Young Blood," Bad Company
23. "Come On Over," Olivia Newton-John
24. "Sweet Love," Commodores

26. "More More More, Pt. 1, " Andrea True Connection
27. "Don't Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," Glen Campbell

29. "I've Got a Feeling (We'll Be Seeing Each Other Again)," Al Wilson
30. "Hurt" / "For the Heart," Elvis Presley
31. "Shop Around," Captain & Tennille
32. "Movin'," Brass Construction

34. "Baretta's Theme (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)," Rhythm Heritage
35. "I Want You," Marvin Gaye

37. "Takin' It to the Streets," The Doobie Brothers
38. "One Piece at a Time," Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Three
39. "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do," ABBA
40. "Love Is Alive," Gary Wright

43. "Only Sixteen," Dr. Hook
44. "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," The Four Seasons

47. "I'll Be Good to You," The Brothers Johnson
48. "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again," Eric Carmen

50. "Crazy on You," Heart
51. "Kiss and Say Goodbye," The Manhattans
52. "Moonlight Feels Right," Starbuck
53. "Dream Weaver," Gary Wright
54. "Still Crazy After All These Years," Paul Simon
55. "Lonely Night (Angel Face)," Captain & Tennille
56. "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)," Carpenters
57. "Livin' for the Weekend," The O'Jays
58. "Get Closer," Seals & Crofts (feat. Carolyn Willis)
59. "Sweet Thing," Rufus feat. Chaka Khan

61. "Turn the Beat Around," Vicki Sue Robinson
62. "Dream On," Aerosmith

75. "Take the Money and Run," Steve Miller Band

77. "Afternoon Delight," Starland Vocal Band
78. "I'm Easy," Keith Carradine
79. "Lorelei," Styx
80. "Making Our Dreams Come True," Cyndi Grecco
81. "Today's the Day," America
82. "Take It to the Limit," Eagles

84. "The Boys Are Back in Town," Thin Lizzy

86. "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)," Parliament
87. "Save Your Kisses for Me," Brotherhood of Man

94. "Let Her In," John Travolta

97. "Deep Purple," Donny & Marie Osmond
98. "Action," Sweet

100. "Money Honey," Bay City Rollers

Recent and new on the chart:

"Save Your Kisses for Me," Brotherhood of Man

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(May 8; #27 US; #1 AC; #1 UK; 1976 Eurovision Song Contest winner)

"Making Our Dreams Come True," Cyndi Grecco

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(May 8; #25 US; #13 AC)

"Today's the Day," America

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(#23 US; #1 AC)

"Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)," Parliament

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(#15 US; #5 R&B)

"The Boys Are Back in Town," Thin Lizzy

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(#12 US; #8 UK; #499 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

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And new on the boob tube:

• The Bionic Woman, "The Jailing of Jaime"
• NBC's Saturday Night, Season 1, episode 20, hosted by Dyan Cannon

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the month, with editing as needed.

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Well, it's Comic Book Land. It could have been an ancient secret society that was using the Nazis.

Hail Hydra!

 

[Nerys Myk]

"Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)," Parliament

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(#15 US; #5 R&B)

"The Boys Are Back in Town," Thin Lizzy

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(#12 US; #8 UK; #499 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

Know these two. Classics

 

[RJDiogenes]

Radio news commentator Paul Harvey began the popular daily radio segment The Rest of the Story, consisting of little-known facts about well-known people or events, with a format of not revealing the subject of the script until the very end, and closing with the catchphrase "And now you know...the rest of the story." The series would continue for almost 40 years until Harvey's passing in 2005.

He was pretty popular around here, as was that catchphrase. In fact, you still hear it from time to time, probably from me.

Crewe said that the motion was unexpected but showed an interaction between the uranium atoms and the carbon.

There's no such thing as sitting still at the atomic level.

Keith Relf, 33, English rock musician and the lead vocalist for The Yardbirds, was accidentally electrocuted at his home studio while playing an electric guitar.

Ouch. I don't remember that, although it sounds like the plot of a murder mystery.

The TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, the first bicycle touring route in the U.S. designated to run from coast to coast, was inaugurated as part of the Bikecentennial celebrations during the 200th year of independence of the United States.

It would probably take me 200 years to bike that far, if I survived.

And Wings played in Toronto, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. They may be coming to your town!

And I'm sure I knew somebody who went.

"Save Your Kisses for Me," Brotherhood of Man

Very cute. Strong nostalgic value. This was not a song one admitted to liking.

"Making Our Dreams Come True," Cyndi Grecco

Meh. I was never much into the Happydaysverse.

"Today's the Day," America

I'm sure I've heard it, but I don't remember it. Sadly, this band's glory days are now over.

"Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)," Parliament

I remember this one, but it has no anchor in time.

"The Boys Are Back in Town," Thin Lizzy

Now we're talking. Classic Rock. Strong nostalgic value. They barely made that list.

Hail Hydra!

Right, exactly.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Know these two. Classics

Shirley you must be familiar with the TV theme....

He was pretty popular around here, as was that catchphrase. In fact, you still hear it from time to time, probably from me.

I recall how when a mid-80s SNL cast member was doing him as a regular character, he emphasized "it's true" as a catchphrase.

Ouch. I don't remember that, although it sounds like the plot of a murder mystery.

Can't say I'd ever heard about it. A sad end for one of the second-wave pioneers.

It would probably take me 200 years to bike that far, if I survived.

The ex and I are still traumatized from the time we pushed ourselves a little too far on the Cape Cod bike trail.

Very cute. Strong nostalgic value. This was not a song one admitted to liking.

This one is catchy and familiar, though I'm not sure if it's from oldies radio exposure or if it came up somewhere upthread out of chronological context. I want to say that it may have had something to do with somebody in the Beatles' circle who was being discussed, but I may be conflating it with something else.

Meh. I was never much into the Happydaysverse.

It's a catchy number in its own right, though...proving to be quite an earworm for me.

I'm sure I've heard it, but I don't remember it. Sadly, this band's glory days are now over.

This one has a vague familiarity. This will be their last Top 40 single until that late 1982 one.

I remember this one, but it has no anchor in time.

A number that's hard to sit still to.

Now we're talking. Classic Rock. Strong nostalgic value. They barely made that list.

Definitely a classic. I was surprised that it was on the list, I didn't remember that. And in case you're wondering, the song under it is a "More Than a Feeling" by Boston.

Right, exactly.

I remember how people in the AoS thread couldn't wrap their heads around Hydra not considering themselves to be Nazis, even after that reveal.