Think Stephen Colbert @ the WHCD ---- then think Facts of Life....

[xultar]

Tell me what you come up with.

My fault for not getting it earlier. I watched the replay and was 1/2 asleep.

[drm604]

1. You mean the TV show "Facts of Life"?

Sorry, but I'm drawing a blank. :shrug:

[kaygore]

2. Me, too. Sorry. Please explain.

[xultar]

3. You're on the right track!!!

[drm604]

6. Okay, sure...

The fact that I don't see a connection means I'm on the right track? :shrug: :shrug:
Xultar, you and I are often on the same wavelength but you've lost me here. Maybe I should just leave this discussion to fans of the show.

[xultar]

7. Think roller skates

[drm604]

8. Sorry.

I guess I just don't remember the show as well as you do. Someone else will probably get it.

[Seabiscuit]

31. Now you've got me thinking of "Roller Girl".

[xultar]

4. Come on DU!!!! Stretch your mind! Think his Press Sec bit.

[readmoreoften]

9. TUTTI!

I gotcha. I'm a 70s baby. I didn't even make that connection, but there may be some truth to it.

[xultar]

10. Why else have a rollerskate in the sketch like that. She'd always leave

her skates around
Only black in a house fulla white folk.

[Duer 157099]

11. I didn't watch that show -- help

But the skate was Condi's -- I thought a reference to her always "skating" through

[xultar]

12. I don't think they meant us to derive the meaning. I think they gave

it to us. Condi is Tutti or Tootie.

[eleny]

5. Well, he did break some ice with a sledgehammer

[Kurovski]

13. I think you may have a "nice catch" moment here.

I'm not closely familiar with the show either, but I also detect many different references in the "press secretary" piece.

Your explanation sounds pretty viable to me.

[xultar]

14. They were pretty straight forward with everything. I don't see why

they'd pick the skate reference to Condi to make a really obscure statement about her.

Pretty much she's the little black girl on skates that's phuckin phunny.

[emulatorloo]

15. Tootie on skates to make her taller, per IMDB

Trivia for
"The Facts of Life" (1979)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078610/trivia

<snip>

Kim Fields was only nine years old when she started playing Tootie, who was supposed to be twelve. In an effort to make her appear taller (and older) her character was always in roller skates for the first year of the show.

<snip>

kinda makes it even funnier to me -- good catch Xultar

[xultar]

17. Thanks. For some reason I watched it on TiVo again and it hit me

When he yelled Condi...Tootie came to mind.

[Kurovski]

16. Agreed. I laughed without even knowing the Tutti deal.

The incongruity in the middle of his terror was enough to set me off.

It triggered a pratfall, which was well-done enough to get a laugh outta me.

The rest is icing on the layer cake.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

18. George Clooney was on "The Facts of Life."

[Orangepeel]

19. I don't think there was hidden meaning (especially that hidden)

Condi ice skated competively as a child.

[xultar]

20. Then why not use and ice skate?

[Orangepeel]

21. it wasn't an ice skate?

I thought it was. :shrug:

If it was a roller blade, I'll say that they used it because it was handy. If it was an actual roller skate, then I guess you've got something because somebody would have had to go out of their way to find one these days.

[xultar]

22. Just checked TiVo again and it is a roller skate with red wheels.

Old school with the ice skating boot. Big ass white stopper @ the front toe.

[Orangepeel]

23. well, then he was either calling her "Tootie"

or making fun of her 70's hair style.

I still don't get it. I'd say Condi is more like Blair than Tootie, even if Blair was the whitest white girl in Poughkeepsie.

[xultar]

24. Her hair isn't so 70s. I had the same style for a while till she wore it

out. I didn't change my style until mid 2005. I looked kute with the flip.

I'm thinking just a reference to Tootie. It is comedy and he's taking digs. Best not make it to complicated or people won't get the joke.

For comedy to be good people need to get it. You don't want them to assume or infer. You simply tell them and let them listen and laugh.
The worse thing for a comedian is to make shit to complicated and people don't get it. Just ask Dennis Miller.

[mdmc]

27. hey!

you spelled Poughkeepsie correctly! :yourock:

[Orangepeel]

30. thanks, but I had to google it.

:blush:

I don't know which to be more embarrassed by -- the fact that I couldn't spell it without Google's handy "did you mean..." feature or that I knew the Facts of Life was set in Poughkeepsie WITHOUT googling!

:blush: :blush:

[mdmc]

32. it was set in peekskill

but, close enough.... peace.

[xultar]

25. Kick.

[mdmc]

26. where have you been?

Thanks for this OP and the jog of the ol' memory! How did you come up with this? I was just in Peekskill the other day! :hi:

[xultar]

28. I watched it late @ night and missed it. A second watch to day

made it clear as a bell.

I was a fan of the show. Never been to Peekskill though.

[mdmc]

29. your OP made me LOL after some reflection.

k/r

peace and low stress