A new episode means new links. Huzzah!
Ian has dug up some interesting videos related to our most recent blab-fest. So here goes:
First, we have a very intricate and entertaining recounting of Watergate, with which younger listeners may not be very familiar, except that it’s the reason that every single recent scandal has the word “-gate” attached to it.
Somehow Nixon’s whole Rainbow Brigade goes unmentioned! Oh well, the video is mostly correct.
Oops! I lied. This is not a video, but a graphic that nerdily details the history of Doctor Who.
Via: CableTV.com
I read it with great interest.
Here’s a video though! A little music video by They Might Be Giants all about the names of the colours of the spectrum of light: ROY G BIV
Great song, eh? It sort of reminds me of Schoolhouse Rock.
Crap! (Ian, I thought these were ALL video links! Geez.) Once again, this is not a video, but a link to an interesting website with further discussion of a book that Ian and I talked about called A Writer’s Tale, that details Russell T. Davies final year on Doctor Who as head writer and producer. Click here for the website.
Ian and I spent some talking about well-known sourpuss, Noah Webster, a word crank and the main reason Americans can’t spell words like colour and neighbour, and also drop letters from words like “kidnapping” making it “kidnaping”. Ridiculous! Unfortunately, Ian couldn’t find any songs or videos about Noah Webster, so here’s the theme song to the popular 80’s sitcom, Webster!
Man, that song is foul!
We spent an awfully long time talking about zombies, so Ian has found the trailer for George Romero’s seminal zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead:
Zombies! (The weird thing is, in my show notes, I’d written down Zumba. Oh well, there’s always next time!)
During the show, I gave some props to Andy Rooney as the first vlogger, but really he was a lot better than these modern mirror gazers. Ian found this clip for us:
That’s really good, of course – like most Andy Rooney pieces – but here’s one that I really like with the staple remover bit that I mentioned during the podcast:
Oh, he was good. There were a lot of people who didn’t like him though, the jerks.
Ian reminisced about a show called The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, that ran on Canadian TV in the early seventies and has lived on in repeats ever since. I’ve never seen it myself, but was amazed to learn that all 130 episodes of the show were filmed in a single nine-month span.
Wow, after seeing that I believe that the show was all filmed in a single nine-month span. Still, it was very charming.
Somehow, The Maltese Bippy, a feature film by Rowan & Martin – probably best known as the hosts of Laugh-In – came up during the show. No better reason than that is needed to show the trailer:
Boy, and people say trailers are bad nowadays! Don’t know what Laugh-In was? You’re lucky!
I think Ian mixed up Billy Van and Bobby Van during the show. Billy Van was the host of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (amongst other things), Bobby Van was host of Make Me Laugh (amongst other things). Still, here’s a clip from Make Me Laugh with celebrity guest, Frank Zappa:
Lucky the show wasn’t Make Me Smirk! Speaking of Bobby Van, he is in one of the greatest clips from a Hollywood musical I’ve ever seen. In fact, I’ve never seen the movie, just this clip in That’s Entertainment III (I think).
That’s a lot of bouncing!
All right, last and certainly least, from Ian’s Unhappy Childhood Memories box comes the K-Tel Mini Ski! A dangerous looking plastic ski that clipped to children’s boots and shoes and almost certainly resulted in a lot of early 1970’s head trauma:
K-Tel is a name that stood for kwality! I don’t remember the Mini Ski. the commercial that often ran during cartoons when I was a child was for the K-Tel Pocket Fisherman!
What did I say? Kwality!
Okay, folks, that’s all for this week’s show – unless Ian thinks of some more links! Bye for now!