Any Firesign/MST fans?
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mr...@cas.org (Michael R. Cirivello) writes:
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>This may be pushing it, but....
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>I listened to Firesign Theatre's 'I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus' for the
>first time in 15 years last night. I finally started to understand the computer
>terminology (flip-flop, etc.) that was used during the time that uh..Clem talks
>to the president. But there were several references to Gypsy and the Gypsy Moth
>program.
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>Has anyone postulated on the possibility of Gypsy getting her name from FT, or
>from the term itself?
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>Anyone??
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They seem to be very fond of the FT, especially "Bozos", although Joel has
been known to misquote them ("Fightin's out of style...") I have heard Tom
paraphrase a remark from "Giant rat of Sumatra" vis-a-vis the "prow on that
steamer". Gypsy was undoubtly the first (?) FT reference.
"Another day, another green, blue and electric yellow dollar"...
Jessica Skolnik
You know, the same thing about Gypsy occurred to me while listening to
the FT collection...
Hmmmm...
Maybe?
:)
jessica
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Amanda Lowry French
Amanda "Hell works best when it's subtle" French
Harlan Freilicher
(Amanda Lowry French) writes:
>What is Firesign Theatre?
It's a comedy troupe. They do radio plays. You can find their albums in
most record and tape stores.
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al...@Virginia.EDU (Amanda Lowry French) writes:
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>Amanda "Hell works best when it's subtle" French
troupe from the late sixties-early seventies. For those of us who were
teenagers then, they were THE drug humor folks. Their albums are very
complicated ( unlike the easily accessible humor of Cheech and Chong),
and their humor has many levels. If you wish to listen to some of their
stuff, most people would say go for "I think we`re all Bozos on this bus",
but I would suggest "Waiting for the electrician, or someone like him."
Enjoy!
"Another green, blue, and electric yellow dollar".
Matthias Ferber
PAU...@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu writes:
>but I would suggest "Waiting for the electrician, or someone like him."
"Have you seen the palace?"
"No, I haven't seen it yet."
"Oh, you must, you must! It won't be there much longer. They are cleaning
it."
I know this doesn't belong here, but Firesign-awareness is a rare and
wonderful thing (at least for those of us who missed the drug humor era
itself). A year after I graduated from high school, I was visiting the
school, and a new student who I had only met once went tramping past me
up the stairs. I suddenly realized he was muttering: "It behooves me
'pon this historic occasion to dedicate the Fort Stinkin-Desert National
Monument..."
I stared after him and continued: "...and Cobalt Testing Ground."
He heard me and turned around, and together we finished:
"CIVILIZATION-- HO!!!" It was an instant bonding experience and since
then we've always gotten along just fine.
(This doesn't happen to me that often. I was introduced to the
Firesign Theatre at summer camp by an older counselor, and I never found
out much about them till I got my hands on the FAQ a couple weeks ago.)
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Amanda "read witty.quote.file" French asked:
What's Firesign Theatre?
4 or 5 crazy guys - radio comedians from LA who put out records in the
late 60's to early 70's.
Lots of quotes in MST3k:
"Fightings out of style, fun's where the fair is"
(Misquoted as fear by joel - my guess is Kevin is the big FT fan
In Fear and Hot water, the earth is born
(beginning of Gamera)
Everybody's already mentioned the Gypsy Doctor.
All of these are from "I think We're all Bozos on This Bus"
The most obscure reference has to be during the Robot talk show skit. The
conversation we break into as we come back from commercial is a word for
word copy from the second side of Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the
Pliers".
cf
"I'd rather be preterite"
Mike Cohen
>In article <1994Feb11.1...@Virginia.EDU> al...@Virginia.EDU
>(Amanda Lowry French) writes:
>>What is Firesign Theatre?
>It's a comedy troupe. They do radio plays. You can find their albums in
>most record and tape stores.
Also, look for their video "Hot Shorts".
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and keep up the good work. Try "Giant Rat of Sumatra" if you haven't
already.
"May I see your passport, please?"
Greg Gershowitz
>In article <1994Feb11.1...@Virginia.EDU>
>al...@Virginia.EDU (Amanda Lowry French) writes:
>>What is Firesign Theatre?
>Ahhhh... The Firesign Theatre was (and in some ways is) a comedy
>troupe from the late sixties-early seventies. For those of us who were
>teenagers then, they were THE drug humor folks. Their albums are very
>complicated ( unlike the easily accessible humor of Cheech and Chong),
>and their humor has many levels. If you wish to listen to some of their
>stuff, most people would say go for "I think we`re all Bozos on this bus",
>but I would suggest "Waiting for the electrician, or someone like him."
They are actually still doing stuff together. In fact, I just saw
them a few months ago. The above titles are good, but there is a
"Best of" FT called "Shoes for Industry" which should give a nice
cross sections. (cf also the alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre FAQ, it might
help.)
Here's the blurb for "SfI": They once asked the question "Who am
us, anyway?" The answer is that The Firesign Theatre are four of the
funnies, wackiest, most surreal and subversive satirists ever. The
Firesign Theatre didn't simply perform routines, they created their
own zany worls of madness.
-Greg "Nick Danger's Pizza" G
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"No matter who you are, no matter what you look like, deep down in
the gunny sack of your soul, in the top drawer, in the back, on the
bottom, we all have a pair of pants with a pocket full of kryptonite."
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Amanda Lowry French
(BIG SNIP!)
> I was introduced to the
> Firesign Theatre at summer camp by an older counselor, and I never found
> out much about them till I got my hands on the FAQ a couple weeks ago.)
And what is it with radio comedy and summer camp? Harlan
Freilicher over on the tail end of the "Gul's Revenge" thread
writes that he was introduced to the Frantics, some other funny
thing I don't know about, by listening to the Dr. Demento show
at "Camp Laurel" when HE was a kid. Didn't they make you
overprivileged Eastern intellectual types do any CAMPING at
your summer camps? I picture you all huddled around the radio
in the community rec room/cabin, your one link to civilization,
while the beauties of nature go unremarked all around you;
magpies screeching, waves lapping, tall evergreens swaying in
the soft summer breezes, all to no avail. Well, *I* grew up in
Colorado and *we* used to roast marshmallows! Go inner-tubing
down whitewater streams! Take nature hikes in the Rockies!
I'm okay now.
Amanda "It's your helium addiction" French
Dan Bell
gr...@outback.ny.tpc.com (Greg Gershowitz) writes:
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>PAU...@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu writes:
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>>In article <1994Feb11.1...@Virginia.EDU>
>>al...@Virginia.EDU (Amanda Lowry French) writes:
>>>What is Firesign Theatre?
>
>>Ahhhh... The Firesign Theatre was (and in some ways is) a comedy
>>troupe from the late sixties-early seventies. For those of us who were
>>teenagers then, they were THE drug humor folks. Their albums are very
>>complicated ( unlike the easily accessible humor of Cheech and Chong),
>>and their humor has many levels. If you wish to listen to some of their
>>stuff, most people would say go for "I think we`re all Bozos on this bus",
>>but I would suggest "Waiting for the electrician, or someone like him."
>
> They are actually still doing stuff together. In fact, I just saw
>them a few months ago. The above titles are good, but there is a
>"Best of" FT called "Shoes for Industry" which should give a nice
>cross sections. (cf also the alt.comedy.firesgn-thtre FAQ, it might
>help.)
>
> Here's the blurb for "SfI": They once asked the question "Who am
>us, anyway?" The answer is that The Firesign Theatre are four of the
>funnies, wackiest, most surreal and subversive satirists ever. The
>Firesign Theatre didn't simply perform routines, they created their
>own zany worls of madness.
>
>-Greg "Nick Danger's Pizza" G
You must be a friend of Rocky Rococo's !
Dan Bell
Where all Bozo's on this Bus. My mother was a Bozoette in College!!
Jeff Tatarek
"Everything You Know Is Wrong" and "Don't Crush That Dwarf..." while on
the way to Dallas Texas for a convention.
Since then, I've listened to "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once..."
and continuously search libraries and stores for more.
Blue moss, anyone?
Eric M. Rohren
- "Standing erect, he emerged from the slime." - said while the astronaut
climbs out of the sea after the big explosion in Stranded in Space. From
the album "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus"
- "He's not your son, Fred." - when the alien guy asks what is wrong with
his son in Crash of the Moons. From the album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand
Me the Pliers.
- "Look at the prow on that steamer. Well, let's climb aboard her." -
Multiple episodes, notably Catalina Caper. From the album The Adventure of
the Giant Rat of Sumatra (or something like that, I have a secondhand
tape). This quote is listed (erroneously, since it is merely a direct
quote from an outside source) in the MST3K Dirty Quote File.
- "Don't crush that dwarf." - From Outlaw, about the little blond guy.
Title of the album mentioned above.
I would really like to put together a list of Firesign quotes used in
MST3K, so if you have some quotes, e-mail them to me I'll put a list
together. Also, there is a newsgroup for Firesign Theatre fans (Fireheads)
called alt.comedy.firesign-thtre that posts the FAQ's. If you can't get
the newsgroup, let me know and I can email the FAQ to you. It is my
feeling that Firesign Theatre should be required listening for any MST3K
fan; the humor is parallel in many respects: pop references, recurring
themes, and even references made to characters and events on other albums.
MST3K is even mentioned in the FT FAQ, so you know it's good!
Again, E-mail with your quotes and/or requests for Firesign Theatre FAQs.
Eric M. Rohren
roh...@harvey.mayo.edu
Harlan Freilicher
(Amanda Lowry French) writes:
>Matthias Ferber writes:
Speaking out for overprivileged Eastern intellectual types, we did
*plenty* of camping at camp. Swimming, archery, playing ball, marshmallow
roasts, s'mores, cook-outs, the whole bit. We listened to the radio
because we didn't have TV's. Late at night, after a day of intensive
nature hikes, marshmallow roasts, canoeing, softball, and of course
remarking at the beauties of nature all around us (it was a co-ed camp),
we sometimes listened to the radio. A crime? I think not. And Dr.Demento,
the comedy show we've been talking about, was only on once a week. So
yeah, maybe we missed a magpie or two in that time, but what the hell; it
was dark out, anyway.
But I digress.
C-12
Hi, everybody. Gee, it sounds like you both had pretty cool camp-outs. I
am a scout (an Eagle scout to be exact) and when we were camping, in West-
Texas, during the summer, out in BFE, we couldn't listen to music, because
there weren't any stations we could pick up in The Devil's Backbone. We had
to bring our own CD's. Up North (where I assume you intellectual liberal
types go to camp) and in the mountains, it's probably a little
cooler (although I've heard these past few years that's not entirely the
case) and a little breezy. Not so down here! Oh well, it's over with.
Now I just freeze in the computer center reading other people's posts.
:)
JPope
Obinvention: OK, here's one. I own a PC and know the pain of having to
install a new piece of hardware: you have to flip switches or toggle modes
or fiddle with jumpers, etc, until, at last, you get the thing to work. Well
I invented parts that *don't* work, at all. Imagine some high school geek
trying to install a floptical drive on his spiffy Pentium <Snicker> machine!
He'll be at it all day until he's ready to throw his machine away! HAHAHAHA
What do your think, sirs?
Jessica Skolnik
"Everything You Know Is Wrong" was my first Firesign record as
well.
Every time a spaceship goes flying by (on MST3K, or any other
bad sci-fi movie) i have to strongly resist the urge to yell
"Dogs flew spaceships!" at the top of my lungs, and then collapse
laughing.
L:)
jessica
Joseph Merlino
>Yo! Another neophyte Firesign fan here... My first exposure was
---> Let me add my voice to the chorus:
"That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good
in sectors R or N)"
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Greg Gershowitz
>In article <1994Feb16.2...@outback.ny.tpc.com>
>gr...@outback.ny.tpc.com (Greg Gershowitz) writes:
[SNIP]
>>-Greg "Nick Danger's Pizza" G
>NO NO Nick Danger 3rd Eye!!
>
>You must be a friend of Rocky Rococo's !
Put down that pickle!
-Greg G
Matthias Ferber
al...@Virginia.EDU writes:
>And what is it with radio comedy and summer camp? Harlan
>Freilicher over on the tail end of the "Gul's Revenge" thread
>writes that he was introduced to the Frantics, some other funny
>thing I don't know about, by listening to the Dr. Demento show
>at "Camp Laurel" when HE was a kid. Didn't they make you
>overprivileged Eastern intellectual types do any CAMPING at
>your summer camps? I picture you all huddled around the radio
Well, I have to plead guilty to the Eastern intellectual stuff (and, I
regret, probably the overprivileged part too) -- it was a music camp.
But we didn't sit around listening to the radio. Besides, I was a CIT
that year, not a camper. The way I found out about Firesign Theatre was
that two other counselors performed the beginning of "The Further
Adventures of Nick Danger" as a skit on the last night of camp, complete
with a keyboard for organ effects. I thought it was absolutely
hilarious; parts of it almost killed me ("We're in the chapel now, Nick.
No one can hear us." "What did you say?"). I also noticed that I was the
only person in the audience who seemed to be laughing. So I figured I
was on to something good...
Matthias Ferber
writes:
> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good
> in sectors R or N)"
Sigh... no one comes up into the hills anymore...
h...@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good
> in sectors R or N)"
>
Or one of my favorites:
"A warm, heapin' bowlful of Loosners Castor-Oil Flakes, with real
glycerine-vibrafoam! It doesn't just wash your mouth out, it cleans
the whole system, right on down the line."
Hop
Jeff Tatarek
-> --->Let me add my voice to the chorus:
->
-> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good in
-> sectors R or N)"
"Oh boy! Groat cakes again! Heavy on the thirty-weight, mom..."
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Joseph Merlino
---> He's *so* good with the servants!
Greg Gershowitz
>-> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good in
>-> sectors R or N)"
>"Oh boy! Groat cakes again! Heavy on the thirty-weight, mom..."
He's so good with the help.
Like it says on my door "regnaD kciN".
-Greg "The Pooper" G
Kim Larsen
>In article <9591.14...@the-matrix.com> jeff.t...@the-matrix.com (Jeff Tatarek) writes:
>>->
>>-> sectors R or N)"
>>"Oh boy! Groat cakes again! Heavy on the thirty-weight, mom..."
>---> He's *so* good with the servants!
"Oh, that son of mine!"
"He's not your son, Fred."
"Stop torturing me, Ethel."
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EeYoRe
>>-> --->Let me add my voice to the chorus:
>>->
>>-> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good in
>>-> sectors R or N)"
>>
>>"Oh boy! Groat cakes again! Heavy on the thirty-weight, mom..."
>>
>
>---> He's *so* good with the servants!
"He's no fun! He fell right over!"
Lost Boy
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hear hear! there there! where where?
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for scale.
>
TV`s Spatch
Greg Gershowitz <gr...@outback.ny.tpc.com> wrote:
>jeff.t...@the-matrix.com (Jeff Tatarek) writes:
>>-> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good in
>>-> sectors R or N)"
>>"Oh boy! Groat cakes again! Heavy on the thirty-weight, mom..."
>
> He's so good with the help.
>
> Like it says on my door "regnaD kciN".
Don't we do it in the road here at Ralph Spoilsport Motors, here in the
beautiful city of... Empheszema.
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1/8 mile.......
Greg Gershowitz
>In article <2kobcd$d...@titan.ucs.umass.edu>
>spa...@titan.ucs.umass.edu (TV`s Spatch) writes:
>>In article <1994Feb22.1...@outback.ny.tpc.com>,
>>Greg Gershowitz <gr...@outback.ny.tpc.com> wrote:
>>>jeff.t...@the-matrix.com (Jeff Tatarek) writes:
>>>>-> "That's Artie's Whole Beef Halves - we deliver. (Offer not good in
>>>>-> sectors R or N)"
>>>>"Oh boy! Groat cakes again! Heavy on the thirty-weight, mom..."
>>> He's so good with the help.
>>> Like it says on my door "regnaD kciN".
>>Don't we do it in the road here at Ralph Spoilsport Motors, here in the
>>beautiful city of... Empheszema.
>Antelope Freeway--1/2 mile...Antelope Freeway--1/4 mile...Antelope Freeway--
>1/8 mile.......
We how join this highway, already in progress.
-Greg "Zippo Lighter" G
Matthias Ferber
>>beautiful city of... Empheszema.
Remember the moment shortly thereafter where they're watching TV in the
car? "There, that's Steve Reeves." "No, that's Agnes Moorhead." Well, I
just saw Hercules Unchained, and now I finally know this Steve Reeves guy
is!! Hallelujah!!!! ("We're hungry!!!")
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