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There's a lot of Walken Comma going on in that article.
posted by pxe2000 at 3:46 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by pxe2000 at 3:46 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
"Good night Mr. Walters. " "Hrmmmph."
"This has been a Filmways presentation, dahlingk."
posted by Herodios at 3:58 AM on August 11, 2015 [4 favorites]
"This has been a Filmways presentation, dahlingk."
posted by Herodios at 3:58 AM on August 11, 2015 [4 favorites]
The R&D TV ones are a great example of just how much can be crammed into 5 seconds of airtime.
And the link to Chuck Lore's vanity cards will save me a lot of frenetic searches for "pause".
posted by rongorongo at 4:27 AM on August 11, 2015
And the link to Chuck Lore's vanity cards will save me a lot of frenetic searches for "pause".
posted by rongorongo at 4:27 AM on August 11, 2015
And this might be a good point for a post about silent Slats, Jackie who roared first, Telly, Coffee, full colour Tanner (who sounded particularly pissed off), short lived George and king Leo who has been with us since the 50s with a few tweaks for Dolby and 3D: The MGM Lions.
posted by rongorongo at 4:47 AM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by rongorongo at 4:47 AM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
Guys!
guys.
Ubu never actually sat.
What a bad dog!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 5:04 AM on August 11, 2015 [17 favorites]
guys.
Ubu never actually sat.
What a bad dog!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 5:04 AM on August 11, 2015 [17 favorites]
Well, the Mutant Enemy story was much duller than I expected =(
posted by ominous_paws at 5:20 AM on August 11, 2015
posted by ominous_paws at 5:20 AM on August 11, 2015
"Good night Mr. Walters. " "Hrmmmph."
I always heard it more as, "Uhhn-uhhh."
That was another classic. The article was crammed with enough cool little stories I guess it's not fair to complain about the lack of a few like that one and the MTM kitty cat. (Those are also logos that had their heyday in the late 70s and early 80s, so only the olds are gonna remember 'em.)
This is another one of those little things that makes me appreciate the web. Without it I could have walked around for the rest of my life wondering what the heck "Sit, Ubu, sit" was about. I figured out the Bedford Falls one myself, though. I was watching It's a Wonderful Life one Christmas circa 1995 and got to the scene where they sing, "Aaaaaand dance by the light of the mooooon," and I was like, "Hang on a second! That's the end of Thirtysomething!" I felt like the only person in the world who'd figured out the gag.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:35 AM on August 11, 2015
I always heard it more as, "Uhhn-uhhh."
That was another classic. The article was crammed with enough cool little stories I guess it's not fair to complain about the lack of a few like that one and the MTM kitty cat. (Those are also logos that had their heyday in the late 70s and early 80s, so only the olds are gonna remember 'em.)
This is another one of those little things that makes me appreciate the web. Without it I could have walked around for the rest of my life wondering what the heck "Sit, Ubu, sit" was about. I figured out the Bedford Falls one myself, though. I was watching It's a Wonderful Life one Christmas circa 1995 and got to the scene where they sing, "Aaaaaand dance by the light of the mooooon," and I was like, "Hang on a second! That's the end of Thirtysomething!" I felt like the only person in the world who'd figured out the gag.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:35 AM on August 11, 2015
I know I asked in this previous thread about production logos, but got no takers at the time: Does anyone else remember one from the 1980s that had two cowboys standing on either side of a gong? Like, cartoonish stereotypical cowboys with big ten gallon hats and chaps. One of them swings the mallet, but instead of hitting the gong he hits the other guy in the groin. I've been so unsuccessful at searching for this on Google/YouTube that I wonder whether it's a completely false memory, or from a weird dream I had as a kid, or something.
posted by usonian at 5:55 AM on August 11, 2015
posted by usonian at 5:55 AM on August 11, 2015
So I really am the only person in the world who hears it as 'Sit, Booboo, Sit'? Ever since I first saw it I've been silently raging. "It says UBU but you are saying BOOBOO!!! WHY?!?"
posted by quinndexter at 6:10 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by quinndexter at 6:10 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
So I really am the only person in the world who hears it as 'Sit, Booboo, Sit'?
You are not alone!
posted by metaquarry at 6:40 AM on August 11, 2015
You are not alone!
posted by metaquarry at 6:40 AM on August 11, 2015
They mentioned one of the Parks & Rec ones, but not Fremulon, which you can see here. That's the name of a fake insurance company that was a long-running joke on the hilarious baseball blog Fire Joe Morgan (which was mostly written by guys who ended up writing for Parks & Rec), from the time when they were pretending to have incredibly dull day jobs like actuary for a small insurance company based in Partridge, Kansas instead of being successful TV writers (and/or Mose Schrute).
posted by Copronymus at 7:06 AM on August 11, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Copronymus at 7:06 AM on August 11, 2015 [4 favorites]
I know I asked in this previous thread about production logos, but got no takers at the time: Does anyone else remember one from the 1980s that had two cowboys standing on either side of a gong? Like, cartoonish stereotypical cowboys with big ten gallon hats and chaps. One of them swings the mallet, but instead of hitting the gong he hits the other guy in the groin. I've been so unsuccessful at searching for this on Google/YouTube that I wonder whether it's a completely false memory, or from a weird dream I had as a kid, or something.
According to this page, you are thinking about the closing credits for the 1980s show Foul-ups , Bleeps and Blunders. One of many parodies of the Rank Organisation's ident.
posted by rongorongo at 7:30 AM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
According to this page, you are thinking about the closing credits for the 1980s show Foul-ups , Bleeps and Blunders. One of many parodies of the Rank Organisation's ident.
posted by rongorongo at 7:30 AM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
I loved the one from Roundhouse, which I always caught the end of because it came on before Ren and Stimpy. Eh, it's good enough.
posted by Metroid Baby at 7:35 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Metroid Baby at 7:35 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
My favorite is "Bad Robot". My wife would always make us turn it off before it came on; the grass rustling creeped her out.
posted by Brocktoon at 8:00 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Brocktoon at 8:00 AM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
That's some bad hat, Harry.
posted by infinitewindow at 8:07 AM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by infinitewindow at 8:07 AM on August 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
Well, the Mutant Enemy story was much duller than I expected =(
As you dig into these, you'll probably find that many of the recent ones are generational code references.
I've never seen a show produced by Mutant Enemy productions, but the first time I saw those two words together in print, I knew exactly what it was a reference to. Why it's called that, though, I couldn't tell you.
I suppose if you'd never heard of Jarry's Ubu Roi* or even Cleveland's Pere Ubu, you might hear "Ubu" as "Boo boo" and be justified in thinking it's a Hanna Barbera ref.
As to MTM, that's a case of "your name is Mary Tyler Moore. You have to do this."
The J. Arthur Rank gong logo has been parodied a million times from Bugs Bunny to Gilligan's Island.
Ditto, Jack Webb's Mark VII logo. I believe the audio of SGCTC's Ghost Planet Industries / Williams Street Production logo is the thing itself.
Watching Star Trek in syndication in the 1970, we'd sometimes see three of these in a row: Desilu Studios, Paranoid Pictures, and whatever Viacom does.
United Artists shows on ABC used to have an interesting one: The letters would move around, break up, and morph from "ABC" to "UA" (or was it the other way around?). This'd happen while the end theme music rolled, and the letters passed there'd be a little 'hand clap' sound effect. The Patty Duke Show comes to mind as one of these.
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* Don't miss the sequel: Ubu Rio: Brazilian Vacation (aka Ubu Tu)
posted by Herodios at 8:30 AM on August 11, 2015
As you dig into these, you'll probably find that many of the recent ones are generational code references.
I've never seen a show produced by Mutant Enemy productions, but the first time I saw those two words together in print, I knew exactly what it was a reference to. Why it's called that, though, I couldn't tell you.
I suppose if you'd never heard of Jarry's Ubu Roi* or even Cleveland's Pere Ubu, you might hear "Ubu" as "Boo boo" and be justified in thinking it's a Hanna Barbera ref.
As to MTM, that's a case of "your name is Mary Tyler Moore. You have to do this."
The J. Arthur Rank gong logo has been parodied a million times from Bugs Bunny to Gilligan's Island.
Ditto, Jack Webb's Mark VII logo. I believe the audio of SGCTC's Ghost Planet Industries / Williams Street Production logo is the thing itself.
Watching Star Trek in syndication in the 1970, we'd sometimes see three of these in a row: Desilu Studios, Paranoid Pictures, and whatever Viacom does.
United Artists shows on ABC used to have an interesting one: The letters would move around, break up, and morph from "ABC" to "UA" (or was it the other way around?). This'd happen while the end theme music rolled, and the letters passed there'd be a little 'hand clap' sound effect. The Patty Duke Show comes to mind as one of these.
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* Don't miss the sequel: Ubu Rio: Brazilian Vacation (aka Ubu Tu)
posted by Herodios at 8:30 AM on August 11, 2015
Whoh. The Film, Television, and Logo Museum has a whole wiki about every known closing logo (and a list of unknowns, in case you want to contribute!).
Each logo is screen-capped, with description categories for visuals, music, trivia, and several other categories (including "Scare Factor," for how much it creeps people out).
posted by LEGO Damashii at 10:45 AM on August 11, 2015 [3 favorites]
Each logo is screen-capped, with description categories for visuals, music, trivia, and several other categories (including "Scare Factor," for how much it creeps people out).
posted by LEGO Damashii at 10:45 AM on August 11, 2015 [3 favorites]
Sometimes they play around with the closing title card for the last episode of a show:
* With Taxi, on the last episode, the secretary says "Goodbye, Mr. Walters!" instead of "Goodnight". The creators briefly thought about shooting a whole alternate version where Mr. Walters stops and turns around and invites her to dinner or something.
* For Where's Lunch, the team that did Everybody Loves Raymond, the card was usually a different dish placed on a table. For the last episode, it's a very long restaurant bill.
* I think the very last episode of Buffy, the Mutant Enemy monster turned its head and looked at the camera.
....Years ago "what would your production company logo be" was a topic of conversation amongst my friends and I. My roommate said he'd have chosen "Psycho Kitty Productions", and each title card would have featured a short clip of my cat knocking a different thing off the table each week. I'd have gone with "Wrinkly And Her Wombats", and the logo would have been a Terry-Gilliam-esque animation of five wombats bouncing up and down with boingy noises.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:32 AM on August 11, 2015
* With Taxi, on the last episode, the secretary says "Goodbye, Mr. Walters!" instead of "Goodnight". The creators briefly thought about shooting a whole alternate version where Mr. Walters stops and turns around and invites her to dinner or something.
* For Where's Lunch, the team that did Everybody Loves Raymond, the card was usually a different dish placed on a table. For the last episode, it's a very long restaurant bill.
* I think the very last episode of Buffy, the Mutant Enemy monster turned its head and looked at the camera.
....Years ago "what would your production company logo be" was a topic of conversation amongst my friends and I. My roommate said he'd have chosen "Psycho Kitty Productions", and each title card would have featured a short clip of my cat knocking a different thing off the table each week. I'd have gone with "Wrinkly And Her Wombats", and the logo would have been a Terry-Gilliam-esque animation of five wombats bouncing up and down with boingy noises.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:32 AM on August 11, 2015
Screen Gems and Desilu Productions FTW!
posted by Chuffy at 12:52 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Chuffy at 12:52 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
How does licensing work on these? Could I, as the hypothetical head of a production company, put my child son's voice in the vanity clip, there by ensuring him revenue as a "voice actor" for the lifetime of the show?
posted by fragmede at 1:25 PM on August 11, 2015
posted by fragmede at 1:25 PM on August 11, 2015
I feel like these are the memory equivalents of those silent retroviral gene fragments in your DNA. You aren't aware of them, they serve no purpose, but you will carry them with you for the rest of your life, buried somewhere in the cobwebs of your skull.
posted by dephlogisticated at 2:05 PM on August 11, 2015
posted by dephlogisticated at 2:05 PM on August 11, 2015
Tim Heidecker's production company (which does Comedy Bang Bang!, Nathan for You, Eric Andre, and Dr. Steve Brule) has a pretty great tag.
It's an old home movie of Tim's dad responding to the question, "Can you sum up our family vacation in two words?"
posted by joechip at 2:12 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's an old home movie of Tim's dad responding to the question, "Can you sum up our family vacation in two words?"
posted by joechip at 2:12 PM on August 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
TIL about the Walken Comma. Extra: includes the Shatner Comma.
posted by bryon at 10:08 PM on August 11, 2015
posted by bryon at 10:08 PM on August 11, 2015
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