As we discuss the future (Star Trek 5?), and the past (Zoolander?), we play music by MC Frontalot, Possible Oscar, and Futurama.
We also give the rundown of comments on last episode’s special event, “U Pick Luke’s FuMP”! Did your favorite song parody idea get picked? You’ll have to listen to find out!
As well as the usual News of the Stupid, Carrie talks about drunk freaks on the city bus, and Luke asks the philosophical question, “Is everyone else in the planet an idiot, or is it just me?” I think we all know the answer to that.
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Didn’t get to vote last ep, but “Good to be the King” gets my vote…Serenity/Remedy is a close second, and I laughed at the idea of parodying Funky Cold Medina with Hercules & Xena…but yes, it’s a tad…outdated.
Also…THANK YOU for the very kind words about my ‘Silent Bob/Sabotage” parody…means a lot to me…
Carrie…”Comfortable Vocal Chords for All” should be the title of your next album…it’s already become the name of my Carrie Dahlby cover band…
I ENJOY ELLIPSIS’…and exclamation points!!!
-Insane Ian
Carrie…thanks you also for your support! I appreciate it!
This is what I get for commenting before I finish listening to the entirety of the podcast!
Yay for FuMPs!
-Insane Ian (again)
I still wholeheartedly support Hosers. There’s a whole generation of kids out there who’ve never been exposed to SCTV. To them all there is is SNL, and Monty Python (or as they probably refer to it, that old British show Dad likes). They need to be educated.
Dear Bad Rapport,
It has come to our attention that you have infringed on my client’s intellectual property by using the term “bacon porch” while engaging in activities leading to monetary gain, with out seeking nor receiving permission from the Pod of Destiny. You are asked to cease and desist from its use hence forth, etc, etc,
Duchy Lawyer Guy
Carrie: I think you are a fine story teller
Luke: do not every worry about weather or not some one has heard the original song in considering what songs to parody. Hearing a song for the 1st time as the parody version happens so often in Weird Al fandom, the term “reverse parody” has been coined. Do you know how many songs over the years you have parodied that I didn’t know the original of? just because you think ppl won’t know the denton song is not an excuse not to parody it.
The three I prefer equally are the ones about SCTV, Brooks, and Python.
As far as music, don’t even worry about people knowing the original song. If they know the subject, they will get it. If they don’t, the song being parodied won’t matter.
People on vacations, like us at conventions or concerts, have a tendency to act or say things they would not normally do. I see in the faces of hotel and arena staff the same thing in many your characture stand stories.
What’s wrong with Star Trek V?
If ST:V was the only sequel to ST:TOS and ST:TAS, I would agree. But when you compare it to the earlier movies and ST:TNG, it is lacking. There are rules and conventions that we’ve learn in these other works that it violates.
– It was the only Star Trek movie directed by William Shatner .
– Spock’s mind controlled rocket boots – ’nuff said.
– Uhura and Scotty dating? Um, no. And we’ll never speak of this again in any of the following movies.
– Yet again, Starfleet has only one ship in the vicinity of Earth, it’s the Enterprise, it’s in pieces, and there’s no-one to run it. You’d think they would have learned something from the encounter with V-ger.
– Uhura providing a distraction by stripping? OK, by Nichelle Nichols is an attractive woman, but I don’t buy it.
– How would Scotty know that plan B (as in Barricade) know that they were going to crash the shuttle in to the back of the shuttle bay, or know the exact time when to drop the shields. And wouldn’t Starfleet have some procedure for recovering a shuttle in combat, other than making it up on the fly.
– Wait, the center of the galaxy is only 7 hours away, but in ST.Voyager, it would have taken 80 years to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other???
– Climbing an un-caged ladder up the turbo-lift shaft, with the decks numbered backwards, Spock takes a detour, and just happens to have his rocket boots on the lowest level of the ship? But comes down to pick up Kirk and McCoy them from somewhere above?
– The boots only have three speeds, Off, Medium and Oh My God!!!!
– Then we find a god so powerful that it has trapped its self inside an energy barrier that it isn’t strong enough to break out of, let alone get off the planet. Well it’s a god like creature – maybe, but not the God, and Kirk’s the only one who recognises this.
Over all, there were just too many technical mistakes and lame jokes. Trekkers and Trekkies watched and bought it, but only to complete their collections.
Sean: I think my Dad sums up Star Trek V: The Banal Frontier best; Are we really supposed to believe that the entire crew except Spock and McCoy would betray Kirk because some Vulcan came out of the desert spewing Dianetics?
I can totally get behind and understand the “epiphany” of “when you look for shit you find shit” thing. Good luck, I type entirely without sarcasm. I’ve been trying that, too. The bitter, mean laughs are just so EASY to find.