"Electric Company" on DVD today!
leno...@yahoo.com
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art40337.asp
Thought you'd like to know.
*I* certainly look forward to it. However, since there are at least 20
episodes (sources differ), I'm wondering when I'll see it, since new
releases usually have to be returned to the rental store in two days,
which might not be enough time for me, and I won't be buying it. Maybe
I'll just have to wait till it makes it to the libraries.
Someone mentioned the cartoon "The Cat & the Fiddle" - I certainly hope
they have that one! I'm not sure how you'd describe the music in it,
but the characters were a bit eerie. Not to mention Tom Lehrer's songs
"Silent E" & "L-Y," the "2001" monolith cartoons, anything with Rita
Moreno (she was called "Carmela," I think), Morgan Freeman as the
flashy DJ Mel Mounds(?), a few musical numbers by the Short Circus
(Irene Cara had her start in it, as did the little girl who played
Violet in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"), the haunted house
skits, Graubart as chef Julia Grownup, etc.
(I was going to mention Maurice Sendak's "Bumble-Ardy" cartoon, then
remembered that's "Sesame Street.")
Lenona.
Kingo Gondo
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These were on Noggin a few years ago--just awesome. The earlier, the
better--those involved in creating the show were definitely hitting the
bong, if not the blotter acid. I watched these back in the day because my
sister had them on (after Sesame Street). My motive? Rita Moreno was still
HOT (as was Maria on Sesame Street, by the way)--"we got some Puerto Rican
chicks just dying to meet you!"
Fargo North, decoder (how many NSA dweebs were inspired by him?)
Easy Reader (was Morgan Freeman ever cooler?)
Jennifer of the Jungle (with its undertones of hot monkey love)
Love of Chair (and what about Naomi?)
steve
<kingo_nos...@gmail.org> blindly formulated
the following incoherence:
> Fargo North, decoder (how many NSA dweebs were inspired by him?)
FN was awesome.
"A little more off the back?...a little more?... [to camera] Ever get a
haircut by phone? [into phone] Gotta go. Call me back in the morning. I'll
need a shave."
[One medieval guard to another]
"See you later, Leopold, Ive gotta go to my yoga class."
> Love of Chair (and what about Naomi?)
"Be with us next week, when we answer the burning question: Can a blue blood
make it as a white coat in the red cross?"
These guys were all about mixing contexts, comic timing, and phraseology.
I wonder if kids watched that show?
steve
--
"Local firemen improvised."
Benny Hill
Kingo Gondo
"steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote in message
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Where did you go wrong?
David Oberman
>These were on Noggin a few years ago--just awesome. The earlier, the
>better--those involved in creating the show were definitely hitting the
>bong, if not the blotter acid. I watched these back in the day because my
>sister had them on (after Sesame Street).
I can still sing the Electric Company theme, although I usually don't.
David Oberman
>"Be with us next week, when we answer the burning question: Can a blue blood
>make it as a white coat in the red cross?"
>
>These guys were all about mixing contexts, comic timing, and phraseology.
>
>I wonder if kids watched that show?
No, they didn't.
Glitter Ninja
>These were on Noggin a few years ago--just awesome. The earlier, the
>better--those involved in creating the show were definitely hitting the
>bong, if not the blotter acid.
When I was a little kid -- very young, 2-4 years old -- I lived on
"Electric Company", "Match Game", "Hollywood Squares", and a bunch of
Sid & Marty Krofft shows like "Land of the Lost", "Lidsville", and
"Electra Woman and Dyna Girl." I don't do drugs, but thanks to these
shows, I love what drugs can do. Also, it introduced me to Paul Lynde,
Charles Nelson Reilly, and Rip Taylor, three of my favorite insane
personalities.
Is it any wonder I grew up to be what I am today?
>I watched these back in the day because my
>sister had them on (after Sesame Street).
Ha ha you're old.
Stacia
--
"Seriously, does anyone want to "surrender to evil"? 'Cause Bush sez that's
not an option." -- The Rude Pundit, http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
David Oberman
> When I was a little kid -- very young, 2-4 years old -- I lived on
>"Electric Company", "Match Game", "Hollywood Squares", and a bunch of
>Sid & Marty Krofft shows like "Land of the Lost", "Lidsville", and
>"Electra Woman and Dyna Girl."
Do you remember "The New Zoo Revue" with Doug & Mary? What a great
theme song!
Kingo Gondo
> Charles Nelson Reilly, and Rip Taylor, three of my favorite insane
> personalities.
> Is it any wonder I grew up to be what I am today?
Ha ha, you're a fag hag.
Bill Anderson
Well I can sing the Mickey Mouse Club themes for all five days of the
week. Nyah.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
Michael O'Connor
The New Zoo Revue was responsible for one of the most bizarre outtakes
I've ever seen, which can be seen here:
Glitter Ninja
>> Also, it introduced me to Paul Lynde,
>> Charles Nelson Reilly, and Rip Taylor, three of my favorite insane
>> personalities.
>Ha ha, you're a fag hag.
You didn't know that already?
Stacia
Glitter Ninja
>The New Zoo Revue was responsible for one of the most bizarre outtakes
>I've ever seen, which can be seen here:
>http://www.tvparty.com/embloutake.html
Holy cow, what the hell was that? The sounds off-stage are scarier
than what's on film.
Stacia
David Oberman
>> Do you remember "The New Zoo Revue" with Doug & Mary? What a great
>> theme song!
>
>The New Zoo Revue was responsible for one of the most bizarre outtakes
>I've ever seen, which can be seen here:
>
>http://www.tvparty.com/embloutake.html
Holy ... crap ...
Forge
sta...@xmission.com (Glitter Ninja) wrote:
> Also, it introduced me to Paul Lynde,
> Charles Nelson Reilly, and Rip Taylor, three of my favorite insane
> personalities.
Oh and Billie Hayes was chopped liver huh? (grin)
mjb...@gmail.com
> http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art40337.asp
>
> Thought you'd like to know.
>
> *I* certainly look forward to it. However, since there are at least 20
> episodes (sources differ), I'm wondering when I'll see it, since new
> releases usually have to be returned to the rental store in two days,
> which might not be enough time for me, and I won't be buying it. Maybe
> I'll just have to wait till it makes it to the libraries.
They'lll be releasing a one-disc collection, "The Best of the Best of
The Electric Company", on March 7th.
Kingo Gondo
"Glitter Ninja" <sta...@xmission.com> wrote in message
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Which means if we just get along famously....
Oh shit!
Richard Schultz
: Easy Reader (was Morgan Freeman ever cooler?)
I've been told that Morgan Freeman refuses to talk about his involvement
with _The Electric Company_. I can't understand why.
: Love of Chair (and what about Naomi?)
Did you ever see the last episode of _The Electric Company_?
Was it _The Electric Company_ that had the song
I love fish food
You do too.
Don't look now --
Your hair is blue.
Come right in
And see the zoo.
Left is right
And I love you.
Does anyone remember the missing lines from the second verse,
-------
And dance a dance
All the way
From here to France.
-----
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Up is down
And I love you.
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Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
"Life is a blur of Republicans and meat." -- Zippy
steve
<kingo_nos...@gmail.org> blindly formulated
the following incoherence:
> Where did you go wrong?
Where didnt I?
You might find this amusing. Via the Netflix Friends feature, I learned
that my mom* (who loved "The Professionals") has just put "The Wild Bunch
(SE)" in her queue. I might warn her about the violence, but wont otherwise
opine about the film. Im curious about her reaction.
steve
*A boys best Netflix Friend is his mother...but she's not herself these
days.
steve
<dobe...@IGNOREsocal.rr.com> blindly formulated
the following incoherence:
> >
> >I wonder if kids watched that show?
>
> No, they didn't.
I suspected as much at the time. It was obvious the cast/writers were
pleasing themselves rather than attempting to appeal to the supposed target
audience. Public TV...what a scam!
David Oberman
>> >I wonder if kids watched that show?
>>
>> No, they didn't.
>
>I suspected as much at the time. It was obvious the cast/writers were
>pleasing themselves rather than attempting to appeal to the supposed target
>audience. Public TV...what a scam!
Public TV programming was always tainted with that do-gooder
liberalism that shouldn't, but often does, infect the arts.
Hey, guess what, steve! I started watching "Testament of Dr. Mabuse"
last night. So far, it's a fun little movie!
Magnus, Robot Fighter.
Can't match Zoom.
steve
On 8-Feb-2006, smacked up and reeling, David Oberman
> Hey, guess what, steve! I started watching "Testament of Dr. Mabuse"
> last night. So far, it's a fun little movie!
Glad you're watching it.
"fun little movie"...I'll assume that's tongue in cheek.
Aside from all the other amazing things about the fiilm, didnt you find the
opening few minutes both compelling and terrifying?
Glitter Ninja
>On 7-Feb-2006, smacked up and reeling, David Oberman wrote:
>> >I wonder if kids watched that show?
>>
>> No, they didn't.
>I suspected as much at the time.
Dudes, did I not just say I grew up on these shows? At least one kid
watched the show, and unless my husband is lying to impress me, he did
as well. There were lots of parents who didn't realize the adult
context in the shows or, like my parents, didn't think the adultness
would harm my fragile widdle mind.
David Oberman
>> Hey, guess what, steve! I started watching "Testament of Dr. Mabuse"
>> last night. So far, it's a fun little movie!
>
>Glad you're watching it.
>
>"fun little movie"...I'll assume that's tongue in cheek.
Stop assuming my tongue is in my cheek all the time. I mean what I say
& I say what I mean!
>Aside from all the other amazing things about the fiilm, didnt you find the
>opening few minutes both compelling and terrifying?
Absolutely. It was a sweat-inducer. That heartbeat on the soundtrack
was tension incarnate. Dr. Mabuse reminds me of Professor Moriarty, &
Lohmann reminds me of -- not Holmes exactly, but a detective from the
classical tradition, with his timid little assistant.
David Oberman
>>> >I wonder if kids watched that show?
>>>
>>> No, they didn't.
>
>>I suspected as much at the time.
>
> Dudes, did I not just say I grew up on these shows? At least one kid
>watched the show, and unless my husband is lying to impress me, he did
>as well.
You two kids are the first I've heard of. Nobody in my kid circle knew
about this show.
leno...@yahoo.com
> I've been told that Morgan Freeman refuses to talk about his involvement
> with _The Electric Company_. I can't understand why.
Well, *I* can, sort of. You don't get to be an actor with a mature,
dignified, serious image without a lot of hard work - especially if
you're black, of course. That is, he clearly WANTED to do (mostly)
serious roles, as we can see from his more recent years. While Bill
Cosby may have liked working in reasonably good kids' shows, not
everyone likes even watching them, and maybe Freeman just wanted to
abandon all childish parts of his past and have his viewers focus on
his current roles.
Lenona.
Kingo Gondo
"steve" <st...@steve.com> wrote in message
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> On 7-Feb-2006, smacked up and reeling, "Kingo Gondo"
> <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> blindly formulated
> the following incoherence:
>
> > Where did you go wrong?
>
> Where didnt I?
>
> You might find this amusing. Via the Netflix Friends feature, I learned
> that my mom* (who loved "The Professionals") has just put "The Wild Bunch
> (SE)" in her queue. I might warn her about the violence, but wont
otherwise
> opine about the film. Im curious about her reaction.
>
> steve
Peckinpah is not for broads. Or you.
Hmmmmmmmmm....
Kingo Gondo
> context in the shows or, like my parents, didn't think the adultness
> would harm my fragile widdle mind.
But look how you turned out!
steve
<dobe...@IGNOREsocal.rr.com> blindly formulated
the following incoherence:
> >"fun little movie"...I'll assume that's tongue in cheek.
>
> Stop assuming my tongue is in my cheek all the time. I mean what I say
> & I say what I mean!
But it's such a huge film. Big characters, big issues...politically
subversive...shocking...
"fun little film" doesnt come close, and you're no dope, hence... .
> Absolutely. It was a sweat-inducer. That heartbeat on the soundtrack
> was tension incarnate.
Now you're talking.
We'll discuss it when you've seen the rest of the film.
steve
> Peckinpah is not for broads. Or you.
>
> Hmmmmmmmmm....
Careful, Gondo. You're the one who hangs with stacia, the "fruit fly".
Kingo Gondo
> On 8-Feb-2006, smacked up and reeling, "Kingo Gondo"
> <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> blindly formulated
> the following incoherence:
>
> > Peckinpah is not for broads. Or you.
> >
> > Hmmmmmmmmm....
>
> Careful, Gondo. You're the one who hangs with stacia, the "fruit fly".
True, but when I told you take off your skirt last week I THOUGHT I was only
speaking metaphorically.
This is beginning to sound like an old Steve Goodman song....
Glitter Ninja
That's enough logic out of you, young man. Causal relationships have
no place on Usenet.
Stacia
Kingo Gondo
That's OK--I prefer my relationships casual over causal any day.
Brigid Nelson
>On 7-Feb-2006, smacked up and reeling, "Kingo Gondo"
><kingo_nos...@gmail.org> blindly formulated
>the following incoherence:
>
>> Fargo North, decoder (how many NSA dweebs were inspired by him?)
>
>FN was awesome.
>
>"A little more off the back?...a little more?... [to camera] Ever get a
>haircut by phone? [into phone] Gotta go. Call me back in the morning. I'll
>need a shave."
>
>[One medieval guard to another]
>
>"See you later, Leopold, Ive gotta go to my yoga class."
>
>> Love of Chair (and what about Naomi?)
>
>"Be with us next week, when we answer the burning question: Can a blue blood
>make it as a white coat in the red cross?"
>
>These guys were all about mixing contexts, comic timing, and phraseology.
>
>I wonder if kids watched that show?
>
I did. I was 7 when it began.
It's a word, it's a plan, it's Letterman!
brigid
steve
<kingo_nos...@gmail.org> blindly formulated
the following incoherence:
> > > Peckinpah is not for broads. Or you.
> > >
> > > Hmmmmmmmmm....
> >
> > Careful, Gondo. You're the one who hangs with stacia, the "fruit fly".
>
> True, but when I told you take off your skirt last week I THOUGHT I was
> only
> speaking metaphorically.
I think if you examine my film preferences youll find lots of
testosterone...until we get into the poetic realism. Then, for some reason,
I guess I go a bit girlie....but, you know, in a macho, tough guy sort of
way. Dont forget the "realism" part.
But just because Peckinpah aint for broads (and, of course, like most real
men I prefer to have my mother referred to as a "broad") dont mean he aint
for back tickling nancy boys. That slo-mo erotic violence shit sure seems
perverted to me. What's up with that?
> This is beginning to sound like an old Steve Goodman song....
Who?
David Oberman
>are you serious Dave? you aren't joking even a little bit?
>
>Does the term Media Illiteracy ring a bell?
Wait a second. Are you talking about "Electric Company" or the other
one that was mentioned? "Electric Company" was hugely popular with
kiddies back in my day. But I had never heard of the other one.
Chris Tsao
I had the hots for her as a little kid. I saw her in a deli in
Greenwhich Village in 1976 (or '75 or '77) and got all excited (in
every sense of the word).
TBerk
Yes. We did.
TBerk
TBerk
And how about
"...send them to Z*O*O*M!, Boston Mass, 0213Fooooour!..."
TBerk
kids these days don't know what they're missin'
Richard Schultz
: sta...@xmission.com (Glitter Ninja) wrote:
:>>> No, they didn't.
Well, kids in my kid circle certainly did, even if we didn't get all of
the adult references, or any of the old movie references.
-----
Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
"Where's the Kaboom? There's supposed to be a big Kaboom!"
Richard Schultz
:> I've been told that Morgan Freeman refuses to talk about his involvement
:> with _The Electric Company_. I can't understand why.
: . . . maybe Freeman just wanted to
: abandon all childish parts of his past and have his viewers focus on
: his current roles.
Yes, but Easy Reader was so totally cool! And what is wrong with wanting
to help children learn how to read and write?
-----
Richard Schultz sch...@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
-----
"an optimist is a guy/ that has never had/ much experience"
leno...@yahoo.com
>Schultz
Most adults might want to be popular, but they do not care about being
"cool." Especially those desperate to be taken seriously as soon as
possible.
And while EC (which, as I said, I've always loved, but I already knew
how to read by then) might have benefitted the poorest kids with no
at-home support at all with regard to their literacy, media critic Neil
Postman had a point, I think, when he wrote in his fascinating book,
"Amusing Ourselves to Death": "Children who watch 'Sesame Street' will
like school if school is like 'Sesame Street'........We would all be
better off if TV got worse, not better."
Or, in the words of the humorist Fran Lebowitz (1970s):
"Educational television should be absolutely forbidden.
It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and
eventual disappointment when your child discovers that
the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of
books and dance around the room with royal blue
chickens."
Lenona.
leno...@yahoo.com
"Climb up ladders never will I dare,
Just call me Fiddler on the Chair!"
Lenona.
Howard Brazee
>Most adults might want to be popular, but they do not care about being
>"cool." Especially those desperate to be taken seriously as soon as
>possible.
We too much want to be seen as cool - especially those desperate to be
taken seriously.
Stephen Cooke
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Glitter Ninja wrote:
> "Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nos...@gmail.org> writes:
>
> >These were on Noggin a few years ago--just awesome. The earlier, the
> >better--those involved in creating the show were definitely hitting the
> >bong, if not the blotter acid.
>
> When I was a little kid -- very young, 2-4 years old -- I lived on
> "Electric Company", "Match Game", "Hollywood Squares", and a bunch of
> Sid & Marty Krofft shows like "Land of the Lost", "Lidsville", and
> "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl." I don't do drugs, but thanks to these
> shows, I love what drugs can do. Also, it introduced me to Paul Lynde,
> Charles Nelson Reilly, and Rip Taylor, three of my favorite insane
> personalities.
> Is it any wonder I grew up to be what I am today?
I think you grew up to be me. Seriously, I click with all of the above
touchstones.
I always wondered if I had a female doppleganger...
swac
Stephen Cooke
On 7 Feb 2006, Michael O'Connor wrote:
> The New Zoo Revue was responsible for one of the most bizarre outtakes
> I've ever seen, which can be seen here:
>
> http://www.tvparty.com/embloutake.html
I wondered when someone would post that. I think it's a new record!
swac
Stephen Cooke
I loved Electric Company. I even bought the Spidey Super Stories comic
books. I'd love to get Morgan Freeman to sign one...
And I have the soundtrack LP around here somewhere....not to mention the
ZOOM album.
swac