Well, it’s that time again. Time for Ian to post a bunch of links on our Facebook page and time for me to post them here on our website. It’s become a bit of a tradition here at Sneaky Dragon Inc. Like Kwanzaa – only it has more traction.
First up, in this episode I confessed that I had an unfortunate speech impediment involving a certain letter of the alphabet. Can you guess which one?
That’s right! It’s the letter “bad song”. I really don’t remember this song from Sesame Street. Do you know why? I don’t like it! (Actually, the correct answer is all of the letters.)
Now, if you’ll remember a couple of link posts back, I honestly couldn’t remember talking about some of the things Ian had posted. I also admitted in the next post that Ian was right and I was wrong (yes, it was big of me). So when I say that I can’t for the life of me remember what the heck this post has to do with our last show, it doesn’t mean we didn’t talk about it. It means I wasn’t listening to Ian during the show. Anyway, here it is:
According to Ian, that film is very hard to sleep through. And I agree! (I’m just not sure why I agree.)
Radiohead, Ian says, on the other hand, is very easy to sleep through:
“Snoozy!” says Ian. I say, “It’s amazing!”
Here’s a bit of trivia Ian brought up during the show. Watch and learn:
That’s right, Fred and Barney hawked cigarettes. Childhood illusions. Shattered!
Here’s a show Ian thinks I should be on next season:
Well, I am a know-it-all. Unfortunately, I’m not a show off. Also I don’t think there’s going to be a next season of this show.
During the show, Branagh’s Henry V came up in conversation. I mentioned being haunted by the image of a giant door in the film and confessed to a fear of doors. In response, Ian posted many different links to doors. Thanks, Ian.
The terrifying door can be seen at the end of this scene:
Also terrifying:
Terrifyingly pretentious!
This door is also scary:
A scary door!
This movie gets a big thumbs up from me! I’ve seen it more than once. Well, part of it more than once.
Oh, 1990s gun porn.
This movie, however, gets a thumb seriously down.
Seriously, no one needs that. No one.
During the show, Ian and I had a deep, heartfelt discussion about Boba Fett. You remember Boba Fett. The bounty hunter with the cool armour and the space ship that looked like an iron.
Yikes! I’ve never seen that before and didn’t know how lucky I was. Oh, the things I do for this show. My first thought when the clip started was “Who drew this? Druillet?” (That’s a little joke for all you Heavy Metal fans.)
Why Boba Fett was cool:
Nice! And with lots of lose-able parts!
Ian and I talked a little bit about Watchmen during a larger conversation about anticipation and serialization. So Ian perversely linked to a Watchmen cartoon show. Here it is:
Tricked you! It’s a pastiche of Saturday morning cartoons! Both great and stomach hurting at the same time.
Ian! Why are we posting about Puff the Magic Dragon? This has nothing to do with Cerebus!
See? No Cerebus at all! (Burgess Meredith as Puff though.)
This is more Cerebus-sy:
And kooky! Let’s celebrate Dave Sim and Gerhard’s achievement. From its humble beginnings to its more…er…idiosyncratic ending, Cerebus was quite the ride.
We talked, Lord knows why, about Irish Spring commercials. I didn’t realize they were so Irish-Canadian:
Going for that hard to reach women leprechaun demographic.
Ian has posted this tribute to my parenting style. A typical night at home with me starts at 7:25.
That damned piano playing is annoying!
We talked a bit about the Family Circus – one of the truly great newspaper strips – and Ian had a nice story about meeting Jeffy, I mean, Jeff Keane. (Shouldn’t that be Jef?)
Wow, that is the most mournful animation soundtrack I’ve ever heard.
My two-year old daughter was terrified of this film and referred to it ever after as “Winnie the Pooh, scary one”, but still watched it many times after.
Not so scary now, I’ll admit, but I’m not two.
Ian forgot to mention that the Boba Fett cartoon was made in Canada. The crappy animation should have been the first clue. I mean, have you seen Rocket Robin Hood? The camera was more animated than the drawings! Also, Canadian? Winnie the Pooh.
Here’s some more substandard Canadian animation:
Pee-yoo. But I still love it!
From the Book of Genesis, Abacab:
Does anyone deserve that for a silly joke??? I didn’t realize the song was seven minutes long! Yeesh! (I guess compared to Supper’s Ready, it’s a single.)
Oh, what the hell. Here’s a live version of Supper’s Ready. All twenty-six minutes of it!
Come on, you don’t have anything better to do, do you?
More music, please!
Did you know that one is the loneliest number?
Nice pants, Mr. Stripey!
And nine is the naughtiest number?
But twelve will freaking blow your mind???
I still don’t get it, but, boy, do I love Bob Dorough!
Hey, if we’re going to play Naughty Number Nine and Little Twelve Toes, you better believe we’re going to play Figure Eight, baby!
That’s Blossom Dearie singing, folks. She had a beautiful voice.
Okay, let’s finish up with the Banana Splits. Ian isn’t sure why we talked about it and if he isn’t sure, I’m even less the person to ask!
The Banana Splits! Their theme song is about a hundred times better than the stupid show.
And on that note, let’s put this baby to bed. So long and we’ll see you soon!