The "You know what?" thread

[fuzzygobo]

To be honest, I'm not really a big fan of "Valley Girl," despite its success. I much prefer the stuff from the 1970s...speaking of which, I've just discovered the Flo and Eddie band that Zappa assembled. The "Just Another Band from LA" album is incredible. "Hot Rats" is great too...I especially love "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on side 1.

Apparently, Frank Zappa planned a reunion tour for the 25th anniversary of 200 Motels and he wanted to bring back Flo and Eddie, but sadly he passed away before it happened. Read in the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Willis#With_Frank_Zappa

Can you imagine how epic that band would have been? Frank, Ike, George Duke, AND Flo and Eddie! I imagine that he probably would have had Chad Wackerman on drums, Arthur Barrow on bass, Ed Mann on percussion, Robert Martin on vocals/sax/keys, and the Fowler brothers (Bruce and Walt) on brass instruments. Maybe Napoleon Murphy Brock and/or Mike Keneally too? If that isn't an epic lineup, I don't know what is.

Plus the original Flo and Eddie version of the Mothers had Aynsley Dunbar on drums.
Too bad this lineup ended after two disasterous gigs.
First someone in the audience shoots a Roman candle into the ceiling at the Montreux Casino and burns the place down (at least Deep Purple got "Smoke on the Water" out of the deal).
Then a week later at the Rainbow in London, a fan gets onstage, punches Frank into the orchestra pit, almost killing him- but he spends the next year in a wheelchair. At least while he recovered, we got "The Grand Wazoo".

 

[minor muppetz]

The Sesame Street song segment "Proud to Be a Cow" begins with the opening theme music fading. I think I've seen people refer to it as being part of an episode as opposed to an insert, but I felt that was wrong (and figured it just opened one episode which explains the use of the theme there). After all, the only episode I could find on Muppet Wiki to include it is a season 15 episode, and it has a 1981 copyright, in addition to the fact that Old School Volume 3 has it listed as a season 13 classic cut.

But it wasn't until a few days ago that it occurred to me that maybe the season 15 episode to include it was a repeat of a season 13 episode. After all, most instances of episode street scenes being repeated happened two years after the original episode was broadcast. Muppet Wiki doesn't note that episode as being a repeat (yet), but now I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

It's also interesting how when they'd repeat episode street scenes, they'd usually include all of the street scenes that were part of the episode they were taken from, even if the episode itself didn't have a real street plot. If they were doing an episode where they just recycled all the street scenes, why include all from the same episode? Why not repeat some stand-alone street scenes that originated in other episodes? In fact, there are many one-time (unless the episode was repeated later) street scenes that don't relate to any kind of plot, why not have more of them be inserts (and I know there are a lot of inserts that take place on the street)?

 

[minor muppetz]

I recently read that Mel Brooks' first two films were box office bombs (according to TV Tropes), and his third, Blazing Saddles, was among the top five box office hits for the year it came out. I also read that Brooks' was given creative control and final say on how it turned out.

Considering his first two films hadn't done very well, it's a wonder that the studio thought Mel Brooks deserved such a privilege on this film, especially since the executives held meetings with Brooks on changes they wanted (to which Brooks just wrote notes and threw them away after the meetings). Now that's a feat!

I've often thought that The Producers is a bit too straight forward compared to other Mel Brooks movies.Of course it is his first film, and there are some gags that seem to fit the kind of humor he'd be better known for (like when a single audience member applauds the opening song for Springtime for Hitler, before the rest of the audience starts to enjoy it).

I haven't seen The 12 Chairs, but does that one have the kind of humor associated with Mel Brooks movies like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, and Spaceballs? Or was Blazing Saddles his first to have sch humor for the majority of the film and with it being his first real big hit, he decided to use that style for his others?

 

[D'Snowth]

Some dude on YouTube has done a video of a five-bucket fried chicken challenge.

I love fried chicken, but five buckets? No way.

 

[cjd874]

Some dude on YouTube has done a video of a five-bucket fried chicken challenge.

I love fried chicken, but five buckets? No way.

That's Matt Stonie, a professional competitive eater! For some reason I get this awestruck feeling whenever I watch his videos. It's just amazing how Matt eats five buckets of fried chicken, or an entire Thanksgiving meal, or three large pizzas, and still stays thin. I can't even do three pieces of fried chicken in one sitting, and here he is destroying five buckets in under half an hour.

 

[LittleJerry92]

I think the worst challenge I've seen is the gigantic Hershey's candy bar. (All that chocolate, man).

 

[D'Snowth]

You know how @LittleJerry92 likes to talk about weird fetishes and whatnot? There appears to be some weirdo on YouTube who seems to have some kind of a fetish for Snuffy getting stuck in doorways.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Eh?

 

[D'Snowth]

Just search "Snuffy gets stuck," you'll see.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Oh. Well then.....