16th
October
2007
Nations Of The World
The nations of the world, by Yakko Warner:
Think the voice actor was doing it in multiple takes? Think he was reading the lyrics from from a cheat sheet? Think again!
The nations of the world, by Yakko Warner:
Think the voice actor was doing it in multiple takes? Think he was reading the lyrics from from a cheat sheet? Think again!
Here’s one of my favorite Halloween memories of all time: the Halloween Toys R Us commercial. I love the moody music, the animation style, and the top-shelf voiceover. Watching it makes me feel like a kid again. I know it’s a blatant rip off of the It’s Halloween Charlie Brown! “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”* opening credits, which is even more of a favorite of mine … but I can’t find a clip of that on Youtube. Happy Halloween everybody!
*OMG I Got the title of the Charlie Brown special wrong. GREAT PUMPKIN WILL YOU FORGIVE ME? … I’m doomed …
Neato Coolville has done it again with another amazing post. This time it is a collection of giant advertising characters, including several Paul Bunyons, a couple of Big Texs, a spaceman, and even a lumbering Alfred E. Newman. Be sure to check them all out.
Everyone here at the Junkyard Clubhouse love a good flapjack. So I was quite thrilled to see Neato Coolville’s post about the Perkins Pancake House menu. It’s a great example of the wonderful design sensibilities of the the midcentury. The colors work well with our blog, too. Neato Coolville has full scans on the inside menu as, well.
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Gwen Verdon was ahead of her time: here she is with two dancers, performing a Bob Fosse-choreographed routine on the Ed Sullivan show, to Unk’s 2006 crunkular odyssey, “Walk it Out.”
Okay, okay, the original song was “Mexican Breakfast,” and is equally awesome. But it’s uncanny, no?
It took me well into my second viewing to realize she has sunglasses lurking deep in that ‘fro.
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And you’re a lifeline of wonder on this Planet Earth! Here is Disney World’s O Canada! movie in astounding Circlevision, brought to you by Chreestopher straight from the Canada pavilion at Epcot:
Don’t want to sit through the whole film? Philistine! Alright, here’s what you really want: pure, uncut Canadian idolatry, in glorious musical form:
Canada, we salute you!
A 7-Eleven right here in our stomping grounds has been transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart. Twelve 7-Elevens in total got this treatment, and this is the only one here in the Bay Area (View location on Google Maps):
I was a little disappointed to see Bart & Milhouse flanking the Kwik-E-Mart logo, it kind of took away from any authenticity, but it’s a silly quibble, really. They did a better and more thorough job than I was expecting. One nice touch is that a bunch of paper signs have been hung up all over the store using scraps of duct tape. I have no idea if the haphazard appearance was intentional, I prefer to think it was not.
Another nice touch — pink frosted donuts with sprinkles, watched over by Chief Wiggum:
And of course, Comic Book Guy at the porn stand:
Ralph at the popsicle case:
There was no shortage of Buzz Cola, Krusty-Os or Squishees, but sadly Duff Beer was nowhere to be found (nor the German import, Düff).
There are a number of other strange Simpson products as part of the tie-in, including a Turkish Bathhouse Homer Simpson doll, and a Homer Simpson cookie that was baked in China and looks utterly inedible. I’ll try to add pics of those later.
This soda fountain was extra fancy — each spigot had an option to add a dollop of cherry, vanilla or lemon flavoring to the soda. Snazzy!
Apu says “Please loiter again soon!”
You can see the complete photo tour at Humuhumu’s Life in Photos.
Milk comes out of my nose whenever I listen to this song … even when I’m not drinking milk. http://fullualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/
The other day as I was doing some dishes, I was wondering if anyone actually still soaks their hands in Palmolive. When I was a kid, it made me feel so very elegant and grown up. And then, as often happens, my thoughts turned to YouTube.
YouTube also has the original Madge commercial — the quality on that one is pretty poor, though.
from Wikipedia:
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo,” is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.
It means:
Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.
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