So it seems that "Sunshine Superman" isn't the only Donovan song that references Green Lantern:
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The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread
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Well, LBJ, for all the things he accomplished, was not exactly a fine fellow. And Nixon (who, to be fair, accomplished a few worthwhile things as well) had his famous enemies list and tried to eliminate the people who were investigating him (beating President The Donald by half a century).
Actually, it made me think a bit of "Reflections."
That's not unusual.
Well, that was a cheerful ode to ambivalency.
That's not a bad cover. Quite a different tone to it (put me in mind of Fun Boy Three's cover of the Go-Gos' "Our Lips Are Sealed").
Oh, yeah. Practically every line in this movie has entered the lexicon.
I can't think of any specific examples, but I'm sure he's been homaged a few times. References like that come up a lot.
And yet there's also Rick's love for Sam and his line to Ferrari, "I'm not in the business of buying and selling human beings."
Yeah, Bogie was one of the greats.
Interesting. I guess he really was a DC fan. I wonder what he thought of Grant Morrison's Sunshine Superman and Magic Lantern.
Those spacey musical flourishes, yes...I was thinking the melody of the lyric.
Well, that was a cheerful ode to ambivalency.
Herman's Hermits and the Four Seasons are both sort of in their afterlives here for me, as I didn't previously have anything by either that went this far into the decade. In both cases they're the acts' last Top 40 singles of the decade, though the Four Seasons will have some more hits in the mid-'70s. Small world department: Herman's Hermits single prior to this one was a cover of Donovan's "Museum" that barely cracked the Top 40:
Sounds like they replaced "power ring" with something else (1:17+), but I can't tell what. Most lyric search results turn up "parents," but it doesn't sound like that to me at all.
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Historically, Nixon was not the only former president with an enemies' list, whether it was publicized or not. JFK certainly had a number of individuals he either shut out of his inner circle, or fired (e.g. Allen Dulles and considered firing J.Edgar Hoover, no matter what private information Hoover had on the Kennedys).
In addition to Donovan, there's quite a number of recording artists who referred to comic book characters in their songs.
Check out this link...
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...and that's not even getting into all of the covers of Neal Hefti's theme for the Batman TV series.
Ah, okay. I didn't notice that, possibly because I'm musically illiterate.
I like how they're imitating Donovan's unique inflections.
I think they're just mauling "power ring" by imitating Donovan's unique inflections.
I'm sure they all do to some degree, but shutting down somebody's life is carrying it a bit too far.
Very cool, thank you. I'll have to hunt these down over the weekend (and that list is part two, so there's even more).
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for 55 years ago this week:
12 O'Clock High
"Which Way the Wind Blows"
Originally aired January 24, 1966
Naturally there's a romance angle, and our love interest of the week isn't portrayed as terribly professional...after her plane ditches in the ocean, she gets in a tiff with Joe when the first thing he cares about after she's rescued is getting information for the bombing mission he wants to perform the next day.
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51st Anniversary Viewing
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Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for 51 years ago this week:
The Monkees
"Monkee Chow Mein"
Originally aired March 13, 1967
Oh yay, a Fu Manchu stereotype whose main henchman is Gene Dynarski in yellowface.
I didn't catch any Get Smart-specific references. The Inspector was perhaps vaguely Chief-like, but there was nothing particularly distinct.
"Your Auntie Grizelda"
I guess Peter songs are the Monkees equivalent of Ringo songs. This one manages to be a bit of an earworm in spite of itself.
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The Rat Patrol
"The Bring 'Em Back Alive Raid"
Originally aired March 13, 1967
They forgot to mention the part where Dr. Schneidermann (William Schallert) comes with a vial of pure radium, which he lets Troy carry around on his person.
Dietrich allows the rest of the Patrol to escape and tails them to find Troy. It turns out that Troy was suspicious of the doctor's skittishness about the vial and put it in the glove compartment in time to avoid lethal exposure.
Schallert doesn't get a lot to do, but he does have one scene in which he argues to Troy that the Americans must be doing the same sorts of experiments on human subjects that he is.
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"The Honeymoon Apartment"
Originally aired March 16, 1967
Ann's moocher cousin uses never settling for less than the best as an excuse to not explore affordable options. This ultimately leads to a fight with his wife. Meanwhile, Ann has to impose on her Season 1 neighbors, the Bessemers.
Ann's mantra of accusing her cousin of being "Cheap! Cheap! Cheeeeeap!" in the climax was cute.
Sign o' the times: They milk some humor out of Ann and her cousin-in-law checking into a bridal suite.
"Oh, Donald" count: 0
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12 O'Clock High
"Which Way the Wind Blows"
Originally aired January 24, 1966
Xfinity said:
Huh huh, huh huh....Hey, Beavis....Col. Gallagher said:
Naturally there's a romance angle, and our love interest of the week isn't portrayed as terribly professional...after her plane ditches in the ocean, she gets in a tiff with Joe when the first thing he cares about after she's rescued is getting information for the bombing mission he wants to perform the next day.
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51st Anniversary Viewing
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Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for 51 years ago this week:
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The Monkees
"Monkee Chow Mein"
Originally aired March 13, 1967
Wiki said:
Oh yay, a Fu Manchu stereotype whose main henchman is Gene Dynarski in yellowface.
I didn't catch any Get Smart-specific references. The Inspector was perhaps vaguely Chief-like, but there was nothing particularly distinct.
"Your Auntie Grizelda"
I guess Peter songs are the Monkees equivalent of Ringo songs. This one manages to be a bit of an earworm in spite of itself.
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The Rat Patrol
"The Bring 'Em Back Alive Raid"
Originally aired March 13, 1967
H&I said:
They forgot to mention the part where Dr. Schneidermann (William Schallert) comes with a vial of pure radium, which he lets Troy carry around on his person.
Dietrich allows the rest of the Patrol to escape and tails them to find Troy. It turns out that Troy was suspicious of the doctor's skittishness about the vial and put it in the glove compartment in time to avoid lethal exposure.
Schallert doesn't get a lot to do, but he does have one scene in which he argues to Troy that the Americans must be doing the same sorts of experiments on human subjects that he is.
Sgt. Moffitt said:
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"The Honeymoon Apartment"
Originally aired March 16, 1967
Wiki said:
Ann's moocher cousin uses never settling for less than the best as an excuse to not explore affordable options. This ultimately leads to a fight with his wife. Meanwhile, Ann has to impose on her Season 1 neighbors, the Bessemers.
Ann's mantra of accusing her cousin of being "Cheap! Cheap! Cheeeeeap!" in the climax was cute.
Sign o' the times: They milk some humor out of Ann and her cousin-in-law checking into a bridal suite.
"Oh, Donald" count: 0
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It's deja vu all over again.
It is pretty catchy.
Too bad that wasn't setting up a Captain America crossover.
Well, that seems out of character.
The cousin-in-law being the cousin's wife.Well, that seems out of character.
Looks like Honey West is the show I was trying to remember that had people talking into radios in their glasses/sunglasses.
Having grown up in that era, I'm somewhat knowledgeable about events of the late 1960s. But one topical Laugh-In joke had me using the old Google-Fu.
(It's the reference to San Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto and Look magazine at 2:22.)
^^ Even after Googling I don't remember that.
Out of character, but progressive.
Less smelly than a shoe phone.
Well, Dynarski is not in actual yellowface, but he was playing a Chinese character with no make-up appliances.
Actually, there are a couple of Get Smart references here, generally found in the dialogue, such as the "being followed" exchange between Micky & Mike, Dragonman's pronunciation of "clutches" as "crutches" (like The Claw character from Get Smart). Episode 5--"The Spy Who Came In From The Cool"--was the show with more overt Get Smart parodies.
Further, guest star Joey Foreman (Dragonman) portrayed Hawaiian detective Harry Hoo in a couple of Get Smart episodes.
I wouldn't say that, as Peter co-wrote "For Pete's Sake" which is considered a standout in the group's catalog, along with being (as everyone knows) the end credits music of season two.
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50th Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 20, episode 27
Originally aired March 10, 1968
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
According to tv.com, this is one of three times that the 5th Dimension performed "Up, Up and Away" on the show. I narrowed it down to this date by process of elimination. Confusing the matter is that the same Best of episode included another 5th Dimension performance that would have been from a different date on which they didn't do "Up, Up and Away". I couldn't find a decent-quality video of this performance with the original audio. It's a solid rendition with enough additional vocal flourish to demonstrate that it's not the single.
According to tv.com, they also covered "Monday, Monday" in the original episode. I couldn't find a video of that performance either, but here's a version from their 1971 live album:
From a different Best of installment, we also get trampolinists the Canestrellis...two men, a young boy who somersaults through a hoop that he's holding, and a woman who never gets on the trampoline and only seems to be there to mother the boy.
Also from the same original episode, according to tv.com:
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Mission: Impossible
"Trial by Fury"
Originally aired March 10, 1968
That description gets things a bit mixed up. The guy they're trying to help is accused of being an informant because he needs to be a trustee to serve as a contact with the political prisoner who's being held in isolation.
The other prisoners in our cast include Victor French as Leduc, Sid Haig as Sperizzi, and Paul Winfield as Klaus. Joseph Bernard (Tark, "Wolf in the Fold") plays the Commandante. The prisoners even use the Hogan's Heroes tunnel hatch, though it's not clear where it goes to in this setting...clearly it's not a way out of the camp, just a way of smuggling the trustee into their barracks.
This one puts Jim and Barney in a less controlled situation than usual, having to go in as prisoners and deal with whatever the other prisoners throw at them. It sort of treads the line of being one of those less IMF-y Season 1 plots because it hinges on the team going undercover and gathering intel rather than pulling off a carefully orchestrated scheme.
It doesn't seem like the prisoners would have much reason to take Barney seriously when he claims to have a way of escaping right after getting there. It's also really unconvincing how Jim reveals the true informant's identity. And that Leduc was the informant was made much too obvious by the conspicuously placed detail of his hobby of making animals out of cigarette pack foil.
This one was lacking the panache factor that usually elevates weaker plots for me. It took too long getting to the point and the actual scheme details were a little too simple to the point of seeming simplistic.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 1, episode 8
Originally aired March 11, 1968
Only Sonny is announced, but Cher pops up for some separately shot one-liners.
(Note another quick Eartha Kitt gag at 1:47.)
Arte Johnson's German soldier gets the novelty of sharing some gags with Pat Morita's Japanese soldier.
Alas, I couldn't find a video of Sonny & Seal.
The Mayor of Burbank pops up for a one-liner, too.
Mod, Mod World takes a look at the hereafter:
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Batman
"Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires"
Originally aired March 14, 1968
Series Bat-Finale!
Just before I watched the episode, I reacquainted myself with the Great THE END Butt Gag Debate in the Me thread, which I definitely would have brought up in last week's review. I had to brush up on my Gabor sisters...so Eva's the one who was then co-starring on Green Acres; Zsa Zsa here is the one who slapped a cop in the '80s.
The idea of a spa that uses mind-manipulation on its members reminded me of The Green Hornet's "Beautiful Dreamer" two-parter. It's interesting how Dozier and Horowitz don't just appear in the episode, but play versions of themselves using their own names.
It was pretty stupid of Bruce to talk into his watch right there in front of Minerva. He couldn't have stepped outside first?
Batgirl ends the series with an all-time low in the fighting department...this time, before the two henchmen effortlessly grab her by the arms, she gets into a seemingly skill-free tussle with Minerva.
This was definitely an underwhelming end to the series.
And so ends what may be my first ever complete watch-through of the show that catapulted me into geekdom. Overall, I'd say that it was a Bat-Gas. Or at least a Penguin Gas.
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Ironside
"Officer Bobby"
Originally aired March 14, 1968
You'd think this would be an episode that takes Ironside out of his comfort zone, but it turns out that he knows quite a bit about child care, and proves to be the only one who can get the baby to stop crying or eat.
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"The Detective Story"
Originally aired March 14, 1968
This is a bottle show with only one guest (Hal Buckley as Detective Sgt. Mandel) and set entirely in Ann's apartment. Mandel raised this viewer's suspicion a bit with his insistence upon staying overnight at Ann's apartment twice, but there's no twist of him being responsible for the calls...just that he managed to arrest the suspect during the day without telling Ann. He definitely makes a play for Ann, but ultimately backs off.
"Oh, Donald" count: 2
"Oh, Sargeant" count: 1
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Tarzan
"Rendezvous for Revenge"
Originally aired March 15, 1968
It's not clear from that sentence construction whether it's the couple or Tarzan who has the hand grenades, particularly after the previous episode's cigar-chomping, dynamite-tossing, parasailing climax. It's not quite as Bonnie & Clyde as it sounds, as Doria (Laraine Stephens) isn't cool with the grenade use, but she does shoot Tarzan after he throws her jungle arsonist / poacher beau Burton (John Vernon, who definitely sounds recognizable as Iron Man here) off a cliff into the ocean.
It takes Tarzan six weeks to recover from his unconsciousness-inducing head wound. Shortly afterward, Doria takes up Burton's asbestos suit and flamethrower to set a trap for the Ape Man so that she can take him to Burton, who we learn survived the fall, though his exact condition is played up as a mystery during the journey. It turns out that he's been living on the cliff, confined to a Gilligan's Island-style wheelchair. Burton's hand grenade fetish comes back into play in the climax, which only sends him back over the cliff, this time not getting a clean drop to the ocean.
One of Burton's cronies is a boomerang-tossing Aussie; the other is a lasso-throwing former rodeo performer.
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Star Trek
"Bread and Circuses"
Originally aired March 15, 1968
Stardate 4040.7
See my post here.
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Get Smart
"Run, Robot, Run"
Originally aired March 16, 1968
An Olympics-themed episode for 1968...and a timely spoof, considering that the US season premiere of The Avengers is next week, which happens to also be the last episode with Emma Peel. Casting Lyn Peters as the Peel character is a nice touch. Apart from sporting the bowler and umbrella, John Orchard isn't doing anything distinctly Patrick Macnee-ish.
The references to the Russian athletes being American spies and vice versa are cute.
On the subject of Max supposedly not being a drinker in spite of the bar in his apartment...here he uses his bar to mix himself a drink...though it turns out that the KAOS/CAD agents switched out his liquor for explosive chemicals.
Hymie competes in the games wearing his suit. Battery-deactivating lipstick seems Batmanesque in it's unlikely randomness.
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50th Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 20, episode 27
Originally aired March 10, 1968
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
According to tv.com, this is one of three times that the 5th Dimension performed "Up, Up and Away" on the show. I narrowed it down to this date by process of elimination. Confusing the matter is that the same Best of episode included another 5th Dimension performance that would have been from a different date on which they didn't do "Up, Up and Away". I couldn't find a decent-quality video of this performance with the original audio. It's a solid rendition with enough additional vocal flourish to demonstrate that it's not the single.
According to tv.com, they also covered "Monday, Monday" in the original episode. I couldn't find a video of that performance either, but here's a version from their 1971 live album:
From a different Best of installment, we also get trampolinists the Canestrellis...two men, a young boy who somersaults through a hoop that he's holding, and a woman who never gets on the trampoline and only seems to be there to mother the boy.
Also from the same original episode, according to tv.com:
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Mission: Impossible
"Trial by Fury"
Originally aired March 10, 1968
Wiki said:
That description gets things a bit mixed up. The guy they're trying to help is accused of being an informant because he needs to be a trustee to serve as a contact with the political prisoner who's being held in isolation.
The LP in a recording studio said:
The other prisoners in our cast include Victor French as Leduc, Sid Haig as Sperizzi, and Paul Winfield as Klaus. Joseph Bernard (Tark, "Wolf in the Fold") plays the Commandante. The prisoners even use the Hogan's Heroes tunnel hatch, though it's not clear where it goes to in this setting...clearly it's not a way out of the camp, just a way of smuggling the trustee into their barracks.
This one puts Jim and Barney in a less controlled situation than usual, having to go in as prisoners and deal with whatever the other prisoners throw at them. It sort of treads the line of being one of those less IMF-y Season 1 plots because it hinges on the team going undercover and gathering intel rather than pulling off a carefully orchestrated scheme.
It doesn't seem like the prisoners would have much reason to take Barney seriously when he claims to have a way of escaping right after getting there. It's also really unconvincing how Jim reveals the true informant's identity. And that Leduc was the informant was made much too obvious by the conspicuously placed detail of his hobby of making animals out of cigarette pack foil.
This one was lacking the panache factor that usually elevates weaker plots for me. It took too long getting to the point and the actual scheme details were a little too simple to the point of seeming simplistic.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 1, episode 8
Originally aired March 11, 1968
The Wiki list of guest appearances said:
Only Sonny is announced, but Cher pops up for some separately shot one-liners.
(Note another quick Eartha Kitt gag at 1:47.)
Arte Johnson's German soldier gets the novelty of sharing some gags with Pat Morita's Japanese soldier.
Cher standing next to Pat Morita said:
Alas, I couldn't find a video of Sonny & Seal.
The Mayor of Burbank pops up for a one-liner, too.
Mod, Mod World takes a look at the hereafter:
Gary Owens said:
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Batman
"Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires"
Originally aired March 14, 1968
Series Bat-Finale!
H&I said:
Just before I watched the episode, I reacquainted myself with the Great THE END Butt Gag Debate in the Me thread, which I definitely would have brought up in last week's review. I had to brush up on my Gabor sisters...so Eva's the one who was then co-starring on Green Acres; Zsa Zsa here is the one who slapped a cop in the '80s.
The idea of a spa that uses mind-manipulation on its members reminded me of The Green Hornet's "Beautiful Dreamer" two-parter. It's interesting how Dozier and Horowitz don't just appear in the episode, but play versions of themselves using their own names.
It was pretty stupid of Bruce to talk into his watch right there in front of Minerva. He couldn't have stepped outside first?
Batgirl ends the series with an all-time low in the fighting department...this time, before the two henchmen effortlessly grab her by the arms, she gets into a seemingly skill-free tussle with Minerva.
This was definitely an underwhelming end to the series.
And so ends what may be my first ever complete watch-through of the show that catapulted me into geekdom. Overall, I'd say that it was a Bat-Gas. Or at least a Penguin Gas.
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Ironside
"Officer Bobby"
Originally aired March 14, 1968
Wiki said:
You'd think this would be an episode that takes Ironside out of his comfort zone, but it turns out that he knows quite a bit about child care, and proves to be the only one who can get the baby to stop crying or eat.
Ironside quickly develops an attachment to little Bobby, such that he decides to retain temporary custody of the child as a "material witness" when he doesn't like the attitude of the Juvenile Hall officer who belatedly comes to pick Bobby up. It turns out that the mother was trying to keep Bobby safe from her mad bomber ex-husband (but not Bobby's father), Paul Carr. Jon Lormer shares a scene with Carr while playing a bellboy.The Chief said:
Mark upon being assigned to makeshift playpen duty said:
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"The Detective Story"
Originally aired March 14, 1968
Wiki said:
This is a bottle show with only one guest (Hal Buckley as Detective Sgt. Mandel) and set entirely in Ann's apartment. Mandel raised this viewer's suspicion a bit with his insistence upon staying overnight at Ann's apartment twice, but there's no twist of him being responsible for the calls...just that he managed to arrest the suspect during the day without telling Ann. He definitely makes a play for Ann, but ultimately backs off.
"Oh, Donald" count: 2
"Oh, Sargeant" count: 1
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Tarzan
"Rendezvous for Revenge"
Originally aired March 15, 1968
H&I said:
It's not clear from that sentence construction whether it's the couple or Tarzan who has the hand grenades, particularly after the previous episode's cigar-chomping, dynamite-tossing, parasailing climax. It's not quite as Bonnie & Clyde as it sounds, as Doria (Laraine Stephens) isn't cool with the grenade use, but she does shoot Tarzan after he throws her jungle arsonist / poacher beau Burton (John Vernon, who definitely sounds recognizable as Iron Man here) off a cliff into the ocean.
It takes Tarzan six weeks to recover from his unconsciousness-inducing head wound. Shortly afterward, Doria takes up Burton's asbestos suit and flamethrower to set a trap for the Ape Man so that she can take him to Burton, who we learn survived the fall, though his exact condition is played up as a mystery during the journey. It turns out that he's been living on the cliff, confined to a Gilligan's Island-style wheelchair. Burton's hand grenade fetish comes back into play in the climax, which only sends him back over the cliff, this time not getting a clean drop to the ocean.
One of Burton's cronies is a boomerang-tossing Aussie; the other is a lasso-throwing former rodeo performer.
Claude said:
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Star Trek
"Bread and Circuses"
Originally aired March 15, 1968
Stardate 4040.7
MeTV said:
See my post here.
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Get Smart
"Run, Robot, Run"
Originally aired March 16, 1968
Wiki said:
An Olympics-themed episode for 1968...and a timely spoof, considering that the US season premiere of The Avengers is next week, which happens to also be the last episode with Emma Peel. Casting Lyn Peters as the Peel character is a nice touch. Apart from sporting the bowler and umbrella, John Orchard isn't doing anything distinctly Patrick Macnee-ish.
The references to the Russian athletes being American spies and vice versa are cute.
On the subject of Max supposedly not being a drinker in spite of the bar in his apartment...here he uses his bar to mix himself a drink...though it turns out that the KAOS/CAD agents switched out his liquor for explosive chemicals.
Hymie competes in the games wearing his suit. Battery-deactivating lipstick seems Batmanesque in it's unlikely randomness.
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Every time he puts the bottom of his shoe up to his mouth, it strikes me that he must walk into public restrooms wearing those shoes.
That hardly amounts to Get Smart references "throughout"; in the first, there is a quick bit of Micky channeling Don Adams; the second is nothing Get Smart-specific, just two different comedy shows covering the same obvious, racially insensitive ground.
I was referring to Peter's singing ability. Micky sang lead on "For Pete's Sake."
Antenna viewers don't know that.
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50 Years Ago This Week
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"U.S. Male," Elvis Presley
(#28 US; #55 Country; #15 UK)
"The Unicorn," The Irish Rovers
(#7 US; #2 AC; Just in the nick of time for St. Paddy's Day in 1968!)
"Cowboys to Girls," The Intruders
(#6 US; #1 R&B)
"Lady Madonna," The Beatles
(#4 US; #1 UK)
"Honey," Bobby Goldsboro
(#1 US the weeks of Apr. 13 through May 11; #1 AC; #1 Country; #2 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
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50 Years Ago This Week
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Baby, Now That I've Found You," The Foundations
- "Goin' Out of My Head / Can't Take My Eyes Off You," The Lettermen
- "Nobody But Me," The Human Beinz
New on the chart:
"U.S. Male," Elvis Presley
(#28 US; #55 Country; #15 UK)
"The Unicorn," The Irish Rovers
(#7 US; #2 AC; Just in the nick of time for St. Paddy's Day in 1968!)
"Cowboys to Girls," The Intruders
(#6 US; #1 R&B)
"Lady Madonna," The Beatles
(#4 US; #1 UK)
"Honey," Bobby Goldsboro
(#1 US the weeks of Apr. 13 through May 11; #1 AC; #1 Country; #2 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
- Mission: Impossible, "Recovery" (season finale)
- The Monkees, "The Frodis Caper" (series finale) *
- The Rat Patrol, "The Kill at Koorlea Raid" (series finale) *
- The Avengers, "The Forget-Me-Knot" (Diana Rigg's Emma Peel passes the torch to Linda Thorson's Tara King)
- Ironside, "Trip to Hashbury"
- That Girl, "If You Were Almost the Only Man in the World"
- Tarzan, "Trina"
- Get Smart, "The Hot Line"
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Yesterday, we saw an episode of Laugh-In with Three Dog Night. They participated in the jokes, just as a singular guest would, but they also performed "Joy To The World," which was the first musical performance I've seen on the show in a long time. The weird thing is that they performed at the cocktail party, so the music would suddenly stop for the one-liners, which was pretty jarring. Also, in both episodes, one of the background dancers almost had to be Barbi Benton. They didn't make any big deal out of her, so I'm not sure if she was famous at that time.
Not bad, but not a good fit for them, I think.
That must have been weird.
At least until the 21st century.
Something that it has in common with Star Trek. Someday when we have the technology to access parallel universes, I'm going to find a world where shows like this continued strongly for several more years. And Asimov lived to write Foundation Versus Galaxia.
It should have been Donald, or Ann hallucinating. Too much virginity can warp the mind.
Wow. I guess James Bond wasn't enough-- he's gone full Dirty Harry.
Interesting. I wonder how that happened.
Super-spies have to be made of pretty stern stuff.
Sounds more like Johnny Cash. Definitely a song that wouldn't be released today. Imagine the twittering on Twitter.
I love this song. I had no idea that it was a charted single in the Top Ten-- I thought it was just another Irish folk song of the sort that I was exposed to mercilessly as a child.
I never heard this one, I don't think. But maybe I did and forgot, because I've kind of forgotten it already.
Another classic Beatles song. 'nuff said.
Man, this is a heartbreaker. I had a real hard time listening to this one when I was a kid, and yet it held a strong fascination for me. Listening to it now, I suddenly realize how much it taught me about using small, poignant details to bring characters to life.
I have to correct myself on The Avengers...in the US they started playing the short run of episodes that I reviewed this past Fall in Jan. '68 (which are considered part of the previous season in the UK)...looks like in the US airings, they switched to Tara King midstream.
This version uses footage that wasn't in the MMT film, though. Got a good laugh at the bit with the tire...and the bits with the lads tossing around the soccer ball were more entertaining than most of what they actually used.
The next episode gets kind of like that, IIRC.It should have been Donald, or Ann hallucinating. Too much virginity can warp the mind.
It was a two-way struggle...judo throw and--Oops, cliff!Wow. I guess James Bond wasn't enough-- he's gone full Dirty Harry.
The drawback of going Full Top 30...Elvis's lack of chart absence takes a bit away from his big comeback at the end of the year. Don't think I mentioned it before, but setting up the comeback, one of the commentators in that Decades music special said that by 1967, Elvis had become as relevant as Liberace. I thought that was pretty harsh.Sounds more like Johnny Cash. Definitely a song that wouldn't be released today. Imagine the twittering on Twitter.
Sirius plays it, and it grew on me somewhat. Cousin Brucie was playing it last night, along with lots of songs with "Green" in the title. (There's a playlist idea for next year.) The Irish Rovers would be considered one-hit wonders as the Hot 100 goes, though they had a few other singles in the era that did well on the AC/Easy Listening chart...and one I'm not familiar with offhand that just made it into the Top 40 in 1981.
Pretty sure I heard this on oldies radio back in the day. It's not really a standout, but it has a nice, classic groove. The Intruders would also be considered one-hit wonders going by the Hot 100, but had a good string of singles that mostly did pretty well on the R&B/Soul chart, including one more Top 30 song in the Hot 100, which should be coming up in the middle of the year.
Never one of my favorite Beatles singles. In historical context, it can't help feeling like a benchwarmer for the format-redefining monster hit coming our way later in the year.
I've got this one, but I'm still trying to acquire a taste for it. Must be the music vs. lyrics thing...I'll take "Cowboys to Girls".
And...new video on TheBeatlesVEVO! (Published on George's birthday a few weeks back.)
This version uses footage that wasn't in the MMT film, though. Got a good laugh at the bit with the tire...and the bits with the lads tossing around the soccer ball were more entertaining than most of what they actually used.
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Hope I can contribute to this thread with this. One thing I've been catching on YouTube are old episodes of Late Night with David Letterman -- the NBC era. I just love that old theme song over the shots of grungy New York City with Bill Wendall saying deprecating things about Dave and the city.
"And now...a man who laughs in the face of danger, but, would prefer to do it by phone....Daaaaaaaaaaviiiiiiiid Lettermannnnn!"
"And now...a man who laughs in the face of danger, but, would prefer to do it by phone....Daaaaaaaaaaviiiiiiiid Lettermannnnn!"
...which the media made clear (what the production knew as this episode wrapped in December of 1967) in their cancellation announcement in a circulated January 18, 1968 article.
As mentioned elsewhere, the "THE END" was not a gag, double entendre (and its not referred to in any of the Dozier papers I've seen on this episode), and was certainly never used before in periods where the hypothetical gag would have been more appropriate, but Dozier letting the audience know that it was all over, which he knew when the last couple of episodes were being shot in December of 1967. This is no different than "The Living End?" that closes the 1966 Batman movie.
...and they did that as one last nod to audiences from two of the many people responsible for the series. Thnakfully, Lorenzo Semple had long left the series before it turned into this season 3 travesty.
Henchmen had been easily apprehending her by grabbing her by the arms several times in the season.
Heck, the entire season was one big, final Bat-coffin nail.
Further, Dozier made it clear he did not care, and was more interested in selling it into syndication because that's where the money was.
Proconsul Claudius Marcus was one of TOS' best villains, with his comfort with the abusive system he controlled. Slick, sickening and effective as a villain from start to finish.
Strong coda with the 1701 crew realizing--thanks to Uhura--that the empire's propaganda was not attacking the sun, but the Son of God, who was having the same influence as seen in real world history.
A very fun episode to watch.
...but the always interesting Lyn Peters makes up for any of Orhard's shortcomings.
Talk about Dirty Jobs....
Incorrect, as The Monkees' were specifically doing a send-up of The Claw, who was the only TV character of the period sporting that exaggerated, comedic accent.
"From New York, the city that never sleeps -- just wanders from room to room in its underwear. It's Late Night with David Letterman!"
I remember discovering it in the Summer of '82 when the show was new. Because it was on so late and didn't air on Fridays at the time, it became something that I was only able to catch when school was out.
Yes it was.
It would be no different if "The Living End?" had been superimposed over a character's butt.
I'm aware, I've been commenting on it. I was emphasizing the lame catfight with Gabor as a new low beyond that usual routine.
That's also where I was, or would be in another, oh, five or six years...sitting in front of the TV on weekday afternoons having my impressionable young mind blown by the concept of the super-hero.
As another poster in the TOS 50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread pointed out, the Dark Ages with machine guns may not have been such a wonderful thing to look forward to....
They were both doing Fu Manchu, which was hardly original to Get Smart. In fact, a quick bit of Wiki Fu reveals that Christopher Lee was starring in a series of Fu Manchu films at the time, which may have been an influence on both shows sending up that stereotype.
It was also over Gordon and O'Hara's, and there was no double entendre regarding them--or Gabor. All the record shows is that Dozier knew the series was getting the axe and announced it.
Thankfully, the 26 episode-long nightmare ended that March 14th of 1968.
I watched it in the early syndication years, but I was also fortunate to see Filmation's '68-'70 Batman cartoons at the same time, which was an interesting contrast in how the comic character was handled on screen. In some areas, the cartoon was more like the comic than the Dozier series.
...sure, if that was the point. Christ's message had nothing to do with that, which is the point Uhura and Spock made about the movement of the Son.
The Monkees production--had a running practice of referring to other TV series, and with The Claw being fairly recent in TV history, there's no reason to think The Monkees were not doing a take-off of that, much like the Dolenz impression of Don Adams, Mike using a shoe phone (in "The Monkees Get Out More Dirt"), the "being followed" routine between Mike & Micky (which had been recently used in "Diplomat's Daughter", a 9/25/65 episode of Get Smart), and other nods.