Fan mail from some flounder?
altm...@bcvms.bc.edu
flounder" come from? I've heard it in a number of contexts (including
MST3K), and I can't for the life of me remember its origin. I think
it may be from a Starkist Tuna ad, but I may be totally off base here ...
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Cindy Bell
Lynsa/MrHenry
Yes, absolutely, it is one of the immortal lines spoken by Charlie the
Tuna; he gets a note from Starkist, and says before he reads it, "Say!
Fan mail from some flounder?" I love that.
Lynsa
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Tammy Davis
Ahh sorry, but I don't think thats quite right. "Fan mail from some
flounder" is from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. It's one of those
brief shorts they would run to segway(sp?) into a commercial. I
think Rocky's response was something like "No, this is what I really
call a message."
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>Cindy Bell
Stretching some real dusty synapses here, but I _think_ it's from Rocky
and Bullwinkle. The same possibly defective neurons tell me the quote is
"Fan mail from a flounder" posed in a questioning tone.
Bob
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Bill Schneck
>In article <2g0880$n...@kelly.teleport.com>,
>Lynsa/MrHenry <lyns...@teleport.com> wrote:
>>altm...@bcvms.bc.edu writes:
>>
>>>Hi all. I was wondering - where does the line "Fan mail from some
>>>flounder" come from? I've heard it in a number of contexts (including
>>>MST3K), and I can't for the life of me remember its origin. I think
>>>it may be from a Starkist Tuna ad, but I may be totally off base here ...
>>
>>Yes, absolutely, it is one of the immortal lines spoken by Charlie the
>>Tuna; he gets a note from Starkist, and says before he reads it, "Say!
>>Fan mail from some flounder?" I love that.
>>
>>Lynsa
>>--
>>lyns...@teleport.com: "Then she would let her fingers uncurl one by one, and
>>he would watch like a hypnotized hen, so that there was almost a balloon
>>about his head, funny-paper style, with the words in it, 'Her tiny hand is
>>like a flower, like an unfolding lily bud.' It was ghastly." -- MFK Fischer
>Ahh sorry, but I don't think thats quite right. "Fan mail from some
>flounder" is from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. It's one of those
>brief shorts they would run to segway(sp?) into a commercial. I
>think Rocky's response was something like "No, this is what I really
>call a message."
That's right. The scene: Rocky & Bullwinkle are adrift in a small boat at
sea. Rocky exclaims, "Look, Bullwinkle! A message in a bottle!" Bullwinkle
responds, "Fan mail from some flounder?" Rocky grabs the bottle and
extracts the message, holding a bunch of squiggly lines to the "camera"
and saying, "Now this is what I call a message!" Cut to commercial.
Now, who remembers "Eenie, beenie, chili beany, the spirits are about to
speak!"?
--Bill/NYC | Life is uncertain.
bsch...@panix.com | Eat dessert first.
Robert Church
>altm...@bcvms.bc.edu writes:
>
>>Hi all. I was wondering - where does the line "Fan mail from some
>>flounder" come from? I've heard it in a number of contexts (including
>>MST3K), and I can't for the life of me remember its origin. I think
>>it may be from a Starkist Tuna ad, but I may be totally off base here ...
>
>Yes, absolutely, it is one of the immortal lines spoken by Charlie the
>Tuna; he gets a note from Starkist, and says before he reads it, "Say!
>Fan mail from some flounder?" I love that.
>
>Lynsa
I missed the Starkist ad that uses this. It was also a line from Rocky and
Bullwinkle.
Bob
Robert Church
>
>Now, who remembers "Eenie, beenie, chili beany, the spirits are about to
>speak!"?
Are they friendly spirits?
Erik Kloeppel
<1994Jan1.1...@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
Erik Kloeppel
lyns...@teleport.com (Lynsa/MrHenry) writes:
>altm...@bcvms.bc.edu writes:
>Tuna; he gets a note from Starkist, and says before he reads it, "Say!
>Fan mail from some flounder?" I love that.
"commercial sign" deals... R&B sitting in a small boat fishing, they
pull a bottle out of the water - it has a note in it - Bullwinkle
says "Fan mail from some flounder?" and Rocky says something like
"No, just listen!"
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It's from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. One of Rocky's lines.
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did the Brains. Remember "Eeny meenie chili beeanie, the spirits are about
to speak"? If not, check out Nickelodeon (the kids' channel); they're are
on almost every week night (unless preempted by Rocko or Ren and Stimpy).