Pop Culture Minisode (S2, E17 "Dead Uncles and Vegetables")

head with it. I got a helmet on. Let's go all right, Well, first we have Laura Line notices Luke is having trouble the diner. Luke says, yeah, I can't serve in beyond the phone, where he says, we noticed that too, Laura Lee says, but your reenactment of Jerry Lewis and the diner guy is gonna go wow the critics. So this is Jerry Lewis, an actor, comedian, singer, director

who is known as the King of Comedy. When Jerry was nineteen, he met twenty seven year old Dean Martin and teamed up with him for ten years, and it was one of the hottest comedy acts at the time. Loria is referring to the skit where Dean Martin owns a diner and Jerry Lewis takes a job waiting tables and does a horrifically funny job of it. Jerry Lewis didn't have a ton of money growing up and was forced to wear socks with holes in them, so as an adult he never really wore socks more than once.

It was kind of like a one and done throwout sort of situation, like biburn is underwear. I think Biebern his underwear. Do that that Biber throws out his underwear. Some celebrity, like a pop star like Bieber only wears underwear once. I will look it up all you guys. He doesn't believe in wearing it more than once. Remember you were correct, baby sugar man. Wow, justin and mits that he actually gets sent so many pairs of he gets to throw them away after wearing them because he

did a Calvin kleinad right, he did. He was so he must get like thousands of a year, hundreds of year. But how wasteful. But where's it. What's he gonna do is you're gonna have a whole room filled with underwear from like last year. Well, where does he throw them away? Don't they pile up like special trash camp. Maybe he doesn't benefit, Maybe he doesn't, Maybe he donates, Like here's my seven pairs of underwarging in the garbage camp. I mean,

I would imagine there's a big market for that. This is where my juiced to sit right here, Go ahead, bid on that. You know, if people saw their parts, and I wouldn't be surprised if you know, justin Bieber Underwear dark web, it's not even a scratch and sniff, it's just you've been bird, You've been double ba bird. Oh my god, he's not just a fantastic singer with

lots of tattoos you can smell us. Actually deal with Riley trying so hard to figure out how Beaver threw away seven pairs of underwear a week and then it just went Did we go off the rails? It's too much. A couple of bleeps in there. Well, this next one, none of us need loyalized making coffee for the diner after wait, hang on, let's back up the truck here, all right. Jerry Lewis was one of the fell from I only know him from the telephone. Wait a minute. Wait,

this guy was. He was like the greatest physical comedian of all time. He was the funniest comedic actor of all time. You think you think Jim Carrey could twist himself on the knuts this You should have seen Jerry Lewis when he was young. I know, he gives me the willies. Why he's hysterile, I know, but it's not the real Jerry Lewis. But he plays a character that just give me the willie. But you've never seen anybody commit to a character the way Jerry Lewis committed to

his characters. I mean, and he was a really fine actor. To Robert de Niro did a film that was That's not giving you guys the willies? But that was that? What is that? The Nutty Professor? Is that that that's one of the um I mean, what a classic actor. I don't like it. But then the guy he the Poe. Then he drank the potion right because he wanted to be cool and sexy guy. So he the nutty Professor, makes his post, he drinks that, he turns into the smooth, smooth,

cool sexy lounge Delisia. I mean, it was just miracle. And he committed to that Garry like. I mean, listen, de Niro did a film that was universally panned for some reason called Um, oh God, what was it called The uh you know, the Rupert Puplkin character. The Martin Martin Scorsese directed it, I believe, and Robert De Niro played a down and out comedian. Sandra Bernhardt was what

was it called. He played it down and out comedian who lived in his mother's basement in Brooklyn or Queens, and he he would stalk Jerry Lewis, who was the Johnny Carson of his day in the film, and Sandra Bernhardt was his nemesis, and they were always trying to get on the show. And he makes a tape and I mean, it was just wild this and then he ends up kidnapping Jerry Lewis. I think it was called The Comedian No Comedy, The King of Comedy, The King

of Comedy. Brilliant film. And Jerry Lewis was so good in this film. He was so good in this film. God, um and then you know he's like a very nice man. Is he alive? I don't know. I'm looking that up. I don't think so. I'm looking at I hope he is, because what a what a genius, genius performer. This guy is, my god, he could do anything, and he passed away in Oh no, And I apologize that sometimes that is tricky. You're like a lot, a lot. I'll tell you what, man,

what a what a talent? This guy was, What a talent? Oh my goodness, Um, you could do anything anyway. That's it. That's my two cents. I know he's a genius. But back to sniffing, Aware, be be aware? What happened with Laura line? Right? Well, we do love the smell of this. Next one, Lauraa is making coffee for the Shi. After she steps into help, Laura Lee says, I'm catty coffee. Mr. The Bestard, offspring of Mrs Fulger and Juan Veldez. Luke says,

not everybody likes it, that's wrong. So Folger's is the best selling ground coffee in the US, even out selling Starbucks. And Mrs Folger was a made up character who was a spokesperson for the Folders coffee and TV commercials in the seventies and eighties. Um Folders has one of the most recognizable jingles made in for the best part of your kind Yes, look at that harmony. We harmonized on that one. And Benjamin Franklin is related to the folders

creator's grandfather, Peter Folger. Benjamin Franklin, Yes, who did he invent electricity? He did? I think, yeah, Benjamin frank Dude, you guys he had the kite, He had the kite and the cave. He didn't know that's Edison Franklin invented electricity. Benjamin Franklin. And he was and he was quite a party monster too. He was a Francophile. You know who invented e lec tricity? I tell you, I think it

was Elon Musk. No, Jamie James Brown invented electricity the singer, Yes, No, it was Benjamin Franklin, the man the electricity and the United States. Did Benjamin Franklin really discover electricity with a kite and key? Now? It also said Laterno, Wheeler and Smathers also invented with electricity, But I think it was Benjamin whoever heard of them? Step aside on a dorks dark stormy night in seventeen fifty three, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with a key attached to a string, waiting

for lightning. Is there any truth to this tale? What a thing to do? What a thing? Let's see, he was a member of several scientific societies. Keep going, because I'm not or I'm being accurately. Tell you when he when? When he? You know, he negotiated for the for the United States, trying to get the French to join the the war. We needed their navy, the French navy on the hundred dollar bill, I think. And he didn't write the constitution. Yes, I think it was a declaration of independence,

both both but but he was a party animal. He was over in France for a year and a half just partying his brains out. Yeah. Man, he was having affairs. He was he was having affairs with powerful women. And I mean it was just because he had a job to do. He had a job to do. It's a common myth that Franklin discovered electricity. It had already been discovered and used for centuries before Franklin's experiment. Uh. Really, I didn't know. Elon Musk was that old. He's amazing.

Keep going, because this is I'd have to do a real deep dive to figure this out. So I'm olympal. The other reference was Juan Valdez not as interesting. We we looked up, tried to find some fun facts about It's not as interesting as Mrs Folgers. So I'll just move on to the next one. But he but Juan Valdez, you know they the Colombian coffee and all that, those commercials were prevalent, and yeah, I mean that was like a whole thing. Do you any of you drink folders? Obviously,

Scott you don't. You know, all of you drink my coffee, of course, but if some reason he ran out? Does anyone drink folders? I've never had a couple of coffee in my life ran out any cup of coffee. I was introduced to coffee through folders, crystals, the first freeze dried crystals. You just pour some hot water and go to town. Yeah, I remember that. I think I in my first job, I used to have to use those

things to make coffee. That was my job, Like I literally had to make coffee for you know, I don't even have a jingle for my coffee company. I think I need let's you're a musician, right, How lame is that it should honestly be our themes on? Yeah? More, I gotta drink it it. Look at this, that's perfect. More and more more, You're gonna drink it more nice? Is that catchy? I don't know if that's catchy. That's yeah, that's catchy. That's catchy. Yeah yeah. Next of Taylor sees

the market out across from his store. Uh. Second Troupadoor says, that's right, good memory. How are you? Hugs him? Taylor says, let go of me. Second Troubador says, don't like to be touched us school. Got a little David and Lisa thing happening. Maybe mental, no no problem, David and Lisa's nineteen sixty two movie about a guy in a mental institution who falls in love with a girl with schizophrenia. Um. The second Trubodoor is making a reference to Taylor and

the character David could not stand to be touched. Janet Margolin showed up to audition for the role of Lisa carrying a doll to show that she was a little crazy. Um. It was later heard of. This was later made into a TV film in starring Britney Murphy and Lucas hoss Um. Sadly iconic Britney Murphy passed in two thousand nine, but she was awesome, you know, iconic and clueless. Jess is watching TV when Roy comes in and Scott you talked

a little bit about this in the episode. When Roy tells him to help Luke and the Diner, Jess says, I'm in the middle of something. Roy says, just assumed that Jennie's gonna get Major Healy out of whatever crap or scrap he's in. I Dream of Jeannie's a TV show that we're in from nineteen seventy about an astronaut Major Nielsen Nelson, sorry Nelson, I caught myself who finds a bottle with a genie and after crash landing on

a desert island. Um. The character Major Healy played by Bill Daily and Jennie's owner is Tony Nelson played by Larry Hagman. Did they get married in it? Eventually? Keep going? I think they maybe did. There's a lot of tension between those two. There sure was. I still prefer to be witched between the two, but I enjoyed both. But I was more bewitched. What about it were you? Did

you have a preference? Mm hmmm, No, I love I love both shows too, love bull shows and Gilligan's Island I did to the Gilligan's I was more Brady Bunch, Brady Bunch's great. Yeah, yeah, all all great stuff. Take them all. Um. What's really cool is the fancy antique bottle that Jeannie called home was actually a decorative jim Bean liquor decanter, which originally contained Beam's choice of Kentucky

straight bourbon whiskey. And according to Barbara Eden, who played Genie, network executives and censors were unconcerned about her navel being seen until someone casually mentioned during the third season that it was occasionally visible when the wastepan of her costume was shift. After that, her navel was required to be covered. See that's the that's the thing that she was very um but besides being perky and beautiful and great and

smart and all that stuff, she was very sexy. And it was a little too much that I guess the network thought it wasn't too much for all of us. Barbie Eten, I think I think Barbara Eaton talks about that, how we're so particular. And in the fifth and final season she did marry her master. She married Larry Hagman. Major Nelson Larry Hagman, who Larry Hagman went on to be an icon to me, as j R. Ewing, what a career? Yeah, Next up, Jackson tells Laura La the

simple wedding he and Suki wanted is no longer. Jackson says, it's the Library of Alexandria, It's the Colossus of Rhodes. It's pop rocks, and so let me just give you a little facts be pop pop rocks is a candy that pops in your mouth. Had given the name um when William Mitchell, creator of pop Rocks, retired, he had over seventy patents to his name. And while pop rocks was the buzziest invention, he also had a hand in cool Whip, Quick Quick set, Jello and Tango Tang Dang Tang.

I think the astronauts, Remember astronauts used to drink tang? Yes, yes, tang was like orange drink. Remember do you remember those things that you did, those those flavored tablets you drop in the water, fizzies or whatever they call what they call those, Those were so good, that were so delicious, like pure sugar bombs. You know. That's for when I turned one and need a different kind of fizzy from Anto. Well, for all of your all enjoyment, we do have a

little experiment in fizzy. But first, before that fairly popular in the eighties, there was eventually an urban myth about how someone who swallowed pop rocks followed by a carbonated beverage died due to gas release causing the purpose in stomach to exp yes. There was a rumor that it was the Mikey from the Life Cereal Ads. Remember the Life Cereal Ads and they Mike. There was like a full fake rumor that he died eating pop rocks with Coca cola. Oh that's a nasty rumor too, that's gonna

that's a lawsuit. So we suggest who who suggested one? We're going to do an experiment. I do this with Mike. I used to do this with my son when he was like three or four. He loved this. I would like to go on record that this was not my google. To make sure she's going to live, but I still wanted to do our driveway are I sold that house? But that our old driveway is just filled with fizzies and coke. So he basically wanted to Dad, can we

go to store and get another bottle? Of coke, and I'm like, okay, so wait, Riley, are you gonna eat the pop rocks and then drink coke and we're gonna see if you live? Yeah, you're going to do this. I'm on the air. Ladies and gentlemen, I've notified my Daniel. Should you maybe like have your phone runing because you have to call like for health it. Can you sign a release real fast? Too much? Yes? I signed my life away too. I mean, let's think about the legal

side of this, because man, this is getting real. Dicey Riley, I needn't say. You are willing to do this right now? Is Riley Pellis? And I am willing to do this your relion that you have not been influenced in any way by any of us or course whatever. Yeah, okay, so um, we have the paper rocks here. Would you guys like me to die tasting strawberries? Watermelon? Blue? Okay? Blue? Okay? Alrights, I don't want to. I didn't say anything during this part of this. Also that it has been sitting out

since we've been here. So do you drink soda? She gonna drink soda? Els a neat grape nuts. Ladies and gentlemen, what you are witnessing here is called happening. It's just happening. We have nothing to do with it. All right, here we go. Oh God, just train them, train, just train it. Are they popping? Good god? Oh my god, Oh my god. Careful, not too much, Briley, stop, she's kill my god. Call nine one, Call nine one one. What's happening? Okay, I'll

spin it out. What are you doing? Take another ship? Wash it down. No, I didn't say, don't do that, don't do that. Don't listen to me. Oh god, you're good. She's good. We got the thumbs up. What did it do? But like I think my mouth you still hear him, it's still going. It's like when you have too much carbonation in your mouth, like do you want to go get some water? Why don't you want? You know what? We'll all sing song? I think your whole mouth is blue?

Well just the inside. Yeah. The tongue, as one would expect, right, does the does the insurance cover this? What's going on? A bonus a tongue, A restructure on the tongue. Is there a tongue specialist? We could would not have done that. That's that's really amazing, you know, to counteract the all the sugar you're just took and you need to eat about like ninety cucumbers. Cucumbers, Yeah, just to get the

balance back. She's supposed to take a couple. She's not messing around when Riley comes to work, she she comes for keeps. Man, She's really she's not playing. I am sweating. That made me sweat. That was That was the most nerve racking moments of this entire podcast. That was nerve wracking. That was like watching evil kine Evil try to clear eighteen busses on a motorcycle. Did you guys see her mouth went huffy? Yeah, we saw that. We saw that

she bull frogged on us. Fetch that little Mike's stomach actually exclude, Oh my god, that made me feel weird. It is a little mikey stomach as tough as Riley's cheeks. Like, Riley, can you continue? I think I'm good? Yeah? Is your mouth seconds? Is your mouth the first stomach? Wow? Yeah, thank you? Okay. Next, we have Laura lyon Rory in the town Meeting talking about being repetitive, which we've all loved, or says we certainly on in Tainning mac Roy says

indubitable Dosh. Macintosh are goofy Go first from Loney Tunes created seven and they were given names Macintosh and Bugs Bunny Show in nineteen sixties. Um. They are often confused with Disney's characters Chip and Dale. Their characters own a little antique shop called Antiques, and um, since they're part of Looney Tunes, Loney Tunes is iconic. We know this. Even Bugs Bunny has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And there was do we think Steve

Jobs got his Macintosh computer from Macintosh? Oh? H h, I mean would be about right, you know, you know, I don't know. I read the Walter Isaacson book and he went over threw everything and it was not in there. Maybe I missed it a sorry, Riley continued, it's a good question. Macintosh is a type of Apple. Oh god, so Easton, I don't see it. It's actually the only brains we have here. So he just cleared that up.

Apple and a Macintosh is the type of app Okay, look, look, you've you've been Look you know it's not a question of that. You've been grinding away here. The better part of the afternoon. So we're gonna give you you know, you get a chick, you get goodness for east. Okay, sorry, I just have to get a quick dry water. No, No, you sure did, new Leon Rory. You're in tom meeting talking about being repetitive. Steell Taylor says, but you're supposed

to roll thember Punzel and carrying isn't rolling? Is it? I mean, did anyone hear the word rolling come out of his mouth? Check the transcript transcript. Rapunzel is a German fairy tale by the brothers grim and first published in eighteen twelve as part of the children's in Household Tales. Tanner makes this reference because the proprietor second Troubadour has very long hair. I think the most popular version of Rapunzel is the Disney Pixar Tangled in two thousand ten.

Rapunzel is voiced by Mandy Moore, who's all now stars in the hit This Is Us with Milo mm hmm. This was the most expensive Disney film and animated cannon at two sixty million dollars hand David Swimmer and Burt Reynolds were cast in the roles that were eventually deleted in pre production stage. This is super A little Easter eggs dark. That's what was wrong with that film. I knew if something was missing. A fun little Easter egg

in the marketplace. When Rapunzel looks at the mosaic of herself, the camera cuts from her eyes to the title eyes of the picture and then be very briefly there's a clarinet musical motif that is exactly the same motif and Ferris beerless day off. I tho that lors in the Luke's apartment, low license. How's the money Pit coming? Money Pits American comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Shelly Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house.

We've actually referenced the money Pit and before in season two, episode six, The Ins and Outs of Inns, but here are a few more fun facts. Filming took place at a real eight bedroom mansion on Long Island, and Roger Ebert, the renowned critic, gave the film one star, calling it a movie that contained one one funny scene and ninety one minutes of running time to kill has actually agreed with it double out smart m HM. That film was taken into the wood Ship. Would you rather watch money

Pit or Um Autumn in New York? Autumn in New York because it's so funny, unintentionally funny. There's nothing better, nothing better. Yeah. Finally, to round out pop culture, the Second Truebadour talks, walks up to Taylor and pokes him a little. Taylor says, well, f y van Halen hair, I'm plenty busy, but a good, well groomed businessman with properly prepared staff can take a break now and then.

Eddie van Halen isn't acclaimed performer. He was the musician and lead guitarist of the American musical Gang van Halen. Eddie had long, whispy hair like the Second True Badoor. Some of Van Halen's biggest hits include Jump Hoford Teacher, and You Really Got Me? Were You more? David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar Van Halen's guy Um, I mean you got I mean Dave. I like Sammy Hagar a lot. I mean he brought a lot. He brings a lot to the table. Uh. I just like that original lineup. Yeah.

I weirdly like the Sammy Hagar songs because they were a bit more like love song. Evan Hammon for me. But I enjoyed the showmanship of David Lee. Yeah, yeah, he just had you know. It was that wild, original teenage energy coming out of Pasadena, California with that crazy great band. You know. But Sammy hagar Man, he's he's

he's amazing, He's an amazing musician. Well, the band's official contract for concerts included a stipulation that the backstage area had to be supplied with bowls of Eminem's, but with absolutely no brown ones. Is that true? I'd like to think it is, yeah, because how could you tell otherwise? I mean, if it's colored, you know, it's not you know what if it's there was always that could be, you know what I mean, there's always that rumor like, oh,

that celebrity doesn't want blue Eminem's. But it's like, was that real? Yeah? Yeah, I think that stuff is. You know, have you ever been on a set where they were like, oh, you're not allowed to give eye contact to so and so. Is that true? I wouldn't allow anybody to look at me, ever, and if they did, I shout German phrases at them. No, I no, I no. I've never been on a set where you couldn't look at anybody, finally anxious to help them get eyes down, eyes down. He's coming through our

eyes down, look down. No, no, no, no, I've I've been on some well listen, I mean, if if you're imagine being a giant movie star, right, and there's a scene that day where there's hundreds of extras and all you know what the extras are doing, they're staring at

the movie star. So the movie star doesn't want to be stared at all day, right, They want to just because it it makes their job harder, uh, to suspend the disbelief of the audience, because the extras keep reminding them that they're this huge star and they're not this character and the thing. So that's there's a there's a real sort of you know, actory technical reason for it.

You know, you want to believe that you're this character and everybody's staring at you, then you're just you have to work so much harder to believe that you're this character because oh, you know, that's going cruiser. You know, it's like, you know, there's a there's a real reason for it. Riley, did you finish? I thought to look at Scott, Wait a minute, have you been looking at me while we were doing these podcasts, because you're not supposed to just looking down to look at round out

pop culture. Anxious to help them get their break, Jeane Simmons suggested the band change their name to Daddy Long Legs. Perhaps wisely, they didn't take that advice, and that's it for your pop culture. Daddy long Legs. Oh yeah, Gene Simmons was very instrumental, and I mean he signed them. I didn't know that. Yeah, Gene Simmons signed them. He saw them, he saw you know, obviously the potential was there. Eddie was fantastic, music was fantas everything was great. He

signed them to a development deal and record deal. Um, but I don't know why it didn't work out. He realized that he couldn't. He lets Sony or whoever came in, Warner Brothers signed them. Whatever, just say just take them because you're you're going to make them a huge star. Because they're gonna be huge stars. And I think he did, like the gentlemanly thing, the right thing by yeah, smart cat Simmons. He really has whole episode of rocks. Whoa wow.

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