Mr. Peacock

May 7, 2010 3:23 PM

Don Knotts is The Love God?
posted by puny human (28 comments total)

I thought I had kept those voices inside my head. Sorry about that.
posted by Danf at 3:24 PM on May 7, 2010

Yeah, this is one Knotts movie in the pantheon. Probably a good post to be made about it somehow.
posted by hermitosis at 3:29 PM on May 7, 2010

Don Knotts is Dubya.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 3:29 PM on May 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

Own it. Love it. Now want to watch it again.

God, I miss Don Knotts. I think he needs to be forgotten and then rediscovered for people to remember how incredibly funny he was.
posted by Astro Zombie at 3:34 PM on May 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

At least link to the whole thing.
posted by mazola at 3:36 PM on May 7, 2010

And then go ahead and watch The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
posted by mazola at 3:37 PM on May 7, 2010

Clips from this movie are used in one of the Boom-chicka-boom-boom tracks. I'm on a iPod, and it's a major pita to dig up a link, alas.
posted by five fresh fish at 3:41 PM on May 7, 2010

I think the rock band is Orange Colored Sky, which appeared in the movie Ghost World as well.
posted by jonp72 at 4:16 PM on May 7, 2010

I think the 1960s might be the single worst decade in the history of motion picture comedy. Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, that unfuckingbearable first Casino Royale. Relentlessly winking and mugging, broader than the Grand Canyon. The whole decade is like a hack comic blowing a wet raspberry right in your face and firing up his mechanical twirling bow tie.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:21 PM on May 7, 2010 [7 favorites]

The whole decade is like a hack comic blowing a wet raspberry right in your face and firing up his mechanical twirling bow tie.

LIKE A SHINING CITADEL ON THE HILL IT INSPIRES US FOR ALL TIME
posted by GuyZero at 4:32 PM on May 7, 2010 [8 favorites]

I like how in the post-hipster-irony world this concept kind of makes sense.

Also, I'm a sucker for some '56 Telecaster.
posted by Navelgazer at 4:41 PM on May 7, 2010

Three's Company should have named Knott's character Ralph 'Peacock' in honour of this.
posted by bwg at 4:45 PM on May 7, 2010

I've heard the Martinibomb song that takes most of its samples from this film. i was hoping they had just cleverly edited lines from Knott's movies ... but no, now the mystery is gone...
posted by kuppajava at 4:54 PM on May 7, 2010

I wish I were a fish.
posted by not_on_display at 5:04 PM on May 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

I think the 1960s might be the single worst decade in the history of motion picture comedy.

When you're smokin' that Mary Jane, everything seems funny.

Not that weak shit you kids smoke today neither.
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:08 PM on May 7, 2010

That's the one I grew up on not_on_display. I was just thinking that Limpet's call would make a pretty good ringtone :)
posted by puny human at 5:09 PM on May 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

LOL @ the Limpet ringtone. :D
posted by darkstar at 5:13 PM on May 7, 2010

/wavy flashback music
Mr. Limpet!
/wavy flashback music
posted by angrycat at 5:32 PM on May 7, 2010

I thought this might be an outtake from a bio, because I understand that Don Knotts, in real life, had no trouble with the ladies -- married three times, anyway. As hard as that is to believe, I personally have been in love with goofy big-nosed fellas, so I suppose he had his charms if you met him.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:44 PM on May 7, 2010

Don Knotts is the bomb. Also, when I was a kid, I got him confused with Knott's Berry Farm. I thought he ran the place.
posted by DU at 6:55 PM on May 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka, "This CD represents 17 individual artists' interpretations of the 'Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka'; each providing their own unique cultural and geographic spin on the vibe that is "Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka'" — specifically Martini Bomb's The Love God.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:15 PM on May 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

...that unfuckingbearable first Casino Royale...

I have no idea how that movie even got made. And yet, from then until now:
"Hey, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen are in it! This movie should be great!"

EIGHT HOURS LATER

"Oh God. Make it stop. No more psychedelic dance sequences. Is it even half over yet? No? Oh God."
posted by griphus at 7:21 PM on May 7, 2010 [3 favorites]

I saw his Lear at the Old Vic in '68. Ken Berry played Kent. Changed my life.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:22 PM on May 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Also, when I was a kid, I got him confused with Knott's Berry Farm. I thought he ran the place.

Yeah, me too. But at some point in my childhood, I also thought it was Knots Berry Farm, so-named because of roller coasters with twists and turns that kind of looked knot-esque.
posted by treepour at 7:23 PM on May 7, 2010

I ws stunned by the misogyny of Casino Royale. I regret seeing half of it.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:25 PM on May 7, 2010

OMG. Don Knotts invented Bollywood.
posted by squalor at 10:06 PM on May 7, 2010

Atta boy, Luther!
posted by Oriole Adams at 11:37 PM on May 7, 2010 [2 favorites]

Oh, god. Those radio ads. Incessant. Weekly, daily hourly...."Don Knotts...The Love God???!!!!" Over and over and over. It was a horrible time to be a kid stuck in the car with your mom, having to listen to her radio. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
posted by Thorzdad at 5:19 AM on May 8, 2010