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Every new Sneaky Dragon episode brings a flood of video links and picture posts from Ian. He posts those on our Sneaky Dragon Facebook page – head on over if you haven’t been there already (I have!) – and I like to duplicate his efforts here. That’s why I’m changing the name of these posts to the Department of Redundancy Department.

First up, I don’t remember this, but apparently we talked about wishing during the show. So Ian, as he likes to do, dredged up this childhood memory: a little show called “Make A Wish“. Here’s the theme song:

Okay, that was just nuts. First, a kind of folky song, sung by Mr. Moustachio Granola, who seems to have a mouth as big as the sun, sings a bunch of nonsense over stock footage. Then, it turns into a crazy David Lynch cartoon with that weird whooshing noise! Brrr.

During the show we talked a little bit about Noah. Here’s a really good sketch Ian wrote about Noah for a CBC comedy show called The Irrelevant Show. Sorry, this video couldn’t be embedded. Click here for the link.

During the show, Ian and I played a little game called Bible story or Sid and Marty Kroft show. This is not a Bible story.

I faithfully watched the Sid & Marty Krofft Supershow every Saturday morning as a child so I can only say that this is THE GREATEST SHOW EVER MADE!!!!!! Not really. It’s pretty awful. That silent film level acting is something else.

Okay, let’s quietly pass that one. This is also not from the Bible: Freddy the Flute from H.R. Pufnstuf. Actually, three, count ’em, three Freddy the Flutes!

Wow, those were actually replicas made by a *whisper it* nut. Also, I didn’t see much of H.R. Pufnstuf, but was Freddy the Flute evil? ‘Cause that’s one evil looking motherf*****.

Related to Noah is the song The Unicorn by The Irish Rovers. Remember this one?

Quite the toe tapper. Actually I was tapping quite a few things trying to drown the song out. As the cat said, sorry I brought it up.

Since this is Canada, it wasn’t just an Irish band that was a big hit here during the Seventies, there was also the Australian performer, Rolf Harris! Here’s the original version of his hit song, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport:

…what the hell does that even song mean??? (This is a different version than the one Ian posted. I just like to be different.)

Okay, now some controversy. Ian suggested during the show that Rolf Harris was famous for the song Six White Boomers, which I promptly pooh-poohed like a big know-it-all. Well, it turns out…Rolf Harris did sing Six White Boomers! Ian posted this link to rub my nose in it:

Consider nose rubbed, sir! You were right.

Here are some more famous Rolfs:

Okay, I know it’s Rowlf, but close enough.

Oh, Rolf, soon you will grow up and want to kill people. Just like everyone else.

I really don’t think this is related to anything we talked about on the show – unless I’ve forgotten again – but Ian posted this “very odd Superman film”.

It’s a pretty good movie, Godspell, but sort of unbearable with all the hippy/mime stuff. The last gasp of our once upon a time homogenous Christian culture that could have hit songs on the radio like “Day by Day” and “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands”. The ending of the film is really good (and not just because it’s the ending – although that helps). Interesting note: Jesus Christ in the movie is played by Canadian actor Victor Garber, who is probably best known for Alias.

As a tribute to my completely awesome Taxi Driver impersonation, Ian posted this video:

Pretty good, but not a patch on mine.

A cubit is a measurement of length; a Qbert is a measurement of boredom:

Yawn…

During the show I complained about people who can’t put together simple furniture they bought at Ikea. Ian found this little ditty about Ikea:

They may be musicians, but they can put together a damned box and put shelves on it!

During a riveting discussion of screwdrivers, Mickey Dolenz naturally came up. And when you talk about Mickey Dolenz, you talk about Jimmy Cagney impersonations.

And George from the Beatles was at the end! On a related note, I love the Monkees. (In the Sixties, no one could spell.)

As you may know, we record our podcast in Canada. Due to government regulations we have to spend a certain amount of time talking about hockey. On this show, we talked about things thrown on the ice during games. We named hats, rats and octopuses, but apparently there’s more.

I went to a hockey game and a garbage dump broke out.

Ian, who is apparently on some sort of a Green Lantern kick, told us about Thomas Kalmaku, also known as Pieface – the not very racially sensitive Inuit companion of Hal Jordan. Clicking his name will give you enlightenment.

Here’s a more digestable Eskimo Pie.

What is Eskimo Pie anyway? Is it like an ice cream sandwich? This bears further research.

We talked about Harvey Comics on the show. Ian is against Little Dot, but I think she’s kind of cute. A one-note character, but still cute.

Speaking of Harvey Comics, which we were, Ian and I also talked about Casper. I thought the Ghostly Trio was somehow related to Casper, but Ian thought not. However, it turns out that in the movie Casper’s Haunted Christmas, the Ghostly Trio were presented as Casper’s uncles – perhaps for the first time. The funny part is that Ian co-wrote that movie! Here’s the trailer:

A g-g-g-g-ghost! (from Ian’s past)

Further to our Harvey Comics conversation, here is Ian’s theory of Hot Stuff. His morning pee can be witnessed at 1:55.

I still don’t know. Isn’t it more likely to be hot lava than fire?

Did we talk about X-Files in this episode? I thought we talked about it last show. Anyway, here’s the trailer to the X-Files movie.

Hooray for the 1990’s!

Finally, here is what I do at work while using my arm-lifting mechanism to trick my boss into thinking I’m working: watch YouTube videos all day.

The original surprised kitty. Accept no substitutes!

So long, everyone! See you next week!