I thought you were Dale?
Ryan Dewalt
<delurk>
I was watching thru my expanse of Season 8 tapes, and I was wondering about
the "I thought you were Dale" running-gag references that keep popping up.
Can anymstie please tell me what the reference is from? The only occurence
I've found so far, is from "The Kentucky Fried Movie", about 11 minutes into
the film, there's a couple rolling around in bed, the guy looks at the woman,
realizes she's not who she is supposed to be, and says "I thought you were
Dale"
Normally that would be enough for me, but where does the hand reference come
into play?
(from "The Undead")
"Do you see my hand?"
Mike: "Do you think I'm Dale?"
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Ryan Dewalt wrote:
>
> <delurk>
>
> I was watching thru my expanse of Season 8 tapes, and I was wondering about
> the "I thought you were Dale" running-gag references that keep popping up.
> Can anymstie please tell me what the reference is from? The only occurence
> I've found so far, is from "The Kentucky Fried Movie", about 11 minutes into
> the film, there's a couple rolling around in bed, the guy looks at the woman,
> realizes she's not who she is supposed to be, and says "I thought you were
> Dale"
>
> Normally that would be enough for me, but where does the hand reference come
> into play?
>
> (from "The Undead")
> "Do you see my hand?"
> Mike: "Do you think I'm Dale?"
Both the Kentucky Fried Movie referance and the MST one come from an old
TV commercial, where the teenage Dale (a girl) is visited by her
boyfriend, who mistakes her MOTHER for Dale, simply because... her hands
are so YOUNG! (Some soap commercial, I think... Ivory, possibly?)
That's all I know about it.
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JimL2
Well, Ryan, a bunch of us fans were wondering that, but Mary Jo answered that
question in a recent chat (I think it was the Scifi.Con) anyway, it refers to
an old commercial for some dishwashing soap, and this girl's boyfriend comes
over and mistakes the mother for the girl because she doesn't have dishpan
hands. I think. MJ wasn't too sure about that, either.
Jim "I thought I was Dale!" Lauwers
Paul Duca
The Midnight Rambler wrote:
>
> Ryan Dewalt wrote:
> >
> > <delurk>
> >
> > I was watching thru my expanse of Season 8 tapes, and I was wondering about
> > the "I thought you were Dale" running-gag references that keep popping up.
> > Can anymstie please tell me what the reference is from? The only occurence
> > I've found so far, is from "The Kentucky Fried Movie", about 11 minutes into
> > the film, there's a couple rolling around in bed, the guy looks at the woman,
> > realizes she's not who she is supposed to be, and says "I thought you were
> > Dale"
> >
> > Normally that would be enough for me, but where does the hand reference come
> > into play?
> >
> > (from "The Undead")
> > "Do you see my hand?"
> > Mike: "Do you think I'm Dale?"
>
> Both the Kentucky Fried Movie referance and the MST one come from an old
> TV commercial, where the teenage Dale (a girl) is visited by her
> boyfriend, who mistakes her MOTHER for Dale, simply because... her hands
> are so YOUNG! (Some soap commercial, I think... Ivory, possibly?)
>
> That's all I know about it.
>
Yes, Ivory Liquid did commercials with that theme in the 1970s..but I
understand that the "Dale" we know and pass from film to film was in
fact from a spot for Post Grape Nuts cereal, which used the concept of
"this product will help keep Mother looking as young and attractive as
Daughter" during the 1960s.
Paul Duca
#56954
I once saw an an that showed Ivory Liquid being thick enough to be
beaten into a whipped cream-like consistency. Someday I hope to meet
someone I hate enough to try that.
Dennis R. Hughes
There used to be a commercial back in the 70's for a product whose name
I've long since forgotten. A young man sees a womans hand starts to say
something and realizes he's talking to his girlfriend's mother. "People
often mistake me for my teenage daughter Dale."
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Dennis Hughes Drhu...@netwalk.net
"Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dis..."
Ryan Dewalt <rde...@erols.com> wrote in article
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> <delurk>
>
> I was watching thru my expanse of Season 8 tapes, and I was wondering
about
> the "I thought you were Dale" running-gag references that keep popping
up.
> Can anymstie please tell me what the reference is from? The only
occurence
> I've found so far, is from "The Kentucky Fried Movie", about 11 minutes
into
> the film, there's a couple rolling around in bed, the guy looks at the
woman,
> realizes she's not who she is supposed to be, and says "I thought you
were
> Dale"
>
> Normally that would be enough for me, but where does the hand reference
come
> into play?
>
> (from "The Undead")
> "Do you see my hand?"
> Mike: "Do you think I'm Dale?"
>
>
shiv...@phoenixdances.org
Adam Burke (brother of Dale, son of Mrs. Burke)
shiv...@phoenixdances.org
George Johnson
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnJSTpHsXc
Maybe it was really Chip all along?
Chip N Dale - Chips Ahoy - Episode 23 (Disney Cartoon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6xqpNA_YI
Doug Elrod
> Maybe it was really Chip all along?
>
> Chip N Dale - Chips Ahoy - Episode 23 (Disney Cartoon)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6xqpNA_YI
If so, we can only salute them for their dedication to all things Tolkien....
-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
George Johnson
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The more you know. The more interesting & annoying you are at parties.
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If the hills have Dales, then who is the Villain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville
Ville (French pronunciation: ?[vil]) is the modern French word of Latin
origin now meaning "city" or "town", but the first meaning in the
middle-ages was "farm" (from Gallo-Romance VILLA < Latin villa rustica) and
then "village". The derivative suffix -ville is commonly used in English in
names of cities, towns and villages.
Derived words
Hooverville - an area where homeless people generally lived during the
Great Depression.
Village - another loanword from French used for a settlement that was
larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town.
villain - feudal serf, peasant cultivator in subjection to a lord.
villein - the same word used by modern historians.
THE FARMER IS THE VILLAIN?
He wasn't in the Dell?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_%28landform%29
In physical geography, a dell is a small wooded valley. Like "dale", the
word "dell" is derived from the Old English word dæl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale
Locations
Dale, or dael, is an Old English word meaning valley
Dale (landform), origin of the word Dale
Dale (place name element), list of place names ending in "-dale"
http://www.houseofnames.com/dale-family-crest
The origins of the Dale name lie with England's ancient Anglo-Saxon culture.
It comes from when the family lived in the area referred to as the daleor a
valley.
Dale Early Origins
Before the last few hundred years, the English language had no fast system
of spelling rules. For that reason, spelling variations are commonly found
in early Anglo-Saxon surnames. Over the years, many variations of the name
Dale were recorded, including Dale, Daile, Dales, Dayle, Daele and others.
First found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient
times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke
William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.
Chris "Sampo" Cornell
Q: In many of the season eight episodes, when a character's hand was
shown or focused on, Mike or one of the bots say "I thought you were
Dale!" or some variation on that phrase. Who is Dale, and what is that a
reference to?
A: Actually, these references are all based on a mistake by Best Brains.
Here's the whole story. Back in the 1970s, there was a series of
commercials for Ivory dishwashing liquid, in which mothers were mistaken
for their daughters--because the Mom used Ivory and so her hands were
young-looking. At around the same time, there was also a commercial for
Grape Nuts, in which a teenage boy mistakes teenage girl Dale's mother
for Dale and utters the deathless line: "I thought you were Dale!" Best
Brains only vaguely remembered these two commericials, and apparently
mixed them up in their minds. There were apparently never any Ivory
Liquid commercials in which a character said "I thought you were Dale!"
And the Grape Nuts commercial in which that line was spoken had nothing
to do with hands. So basically they goofed. But the writers THOUGHT they
were making a reference to the Ivory Liquid commericals.
Sampo (and hello to Adam, hope all is well with you--he really is Dale's
brother, folks.)
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