Any Firesign Theater Fans Out There

[Steely_Dan]

Some of the most intelligent humor out there.

Skits like: "Side Five"

"How many are we?"

Great stuff.

-P

[Bennyboy]

1. Reebus Cannibus!

The parody of evel kneivel. "Live or die, I'll make a million".

[Steely_Dan]

7. I think that's...

from "Everything You Know Is Wrong." A great album.

"I ain't no sterno freak."

-P

[leeroysphitz]

2. I came here to see Nancy... nt

[Drum]

3. Sorry I don't know of it.

But I'll give you a cute link to Cat Head Theatre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbK1eCt97ag

:)

[likesmountains 52]

4. oh yes...I have some of their albums...vinyl.. scratchy, but still my favorites.

[bluedigger]

5. "Don't crush that dwarf!"

"Hand me the pliers."

Nope. Never heard of 'em.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I can tell by the pie on your tie

You're an American! Well, so am I!

How y'doin', bub? How are ya? How d'ya do?

And while we're on the subject...

And while we're on the subject...

And while we're on the subject...

How's your old wazoo?









Whew! Defoliating a victory garden certainly works up an appetite!

[bbernardini]

8. Here and there. I'm a big fan of "Nick Danger."

The other material is kind of hit or miss for me, but Nick Danger kills me every time.

"Brouhaha? Ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA HA!"

[Steely_Dan]

11. It was snowing in Santa Barbara...

Are these your knockers?

[Steely_Dan]

9. One of My Favorites Was...

the whole Porgie Tirebiter film thing. Some very funny stuff...

The principal's speech is incredibly funny. Rah Rah...Eat it Raw.

-P

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. He's a spy and a girl delighter!

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. 'C'mon, step on it, Mudhead!'

"Aw, I'd love to, Peorgie, but I've got my two-tones through the floorboard already!"

"Well, okay. Then we could take the shortcut through Frogtown."

"Aw, reet! We can stop off at Pop's and dig some jugs!"

"Some what?"

"That Louise Wong's got a balcony you could do Shakespeare from!"

"Aw, not now, Mudhead. They need me at the last meeting of the Philatelists' Club."

"I didn't know you masturbated."

"Aw, creepies, Mudhead! Where's your school spirit?"

"In the rumble seat. Want a snort?"



:D

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Ah! I feel like I am 18 again!

My sister and I used to recite Firesign Theater at the dinner table. My dad didn't like that too much. LOL

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. That was about when I first heard 'em

My senior year in high school, 1974, a local "underground" radio station played "High School Madness," starting with the Ersatz Brothers Coffee commercial. ("A blend of the finest Brazilian soya beans, Chilean chicory nuts and Spanish flies.")

I was like, "Can they do that on the radio?" :D

[Steely_Dan]

36. Perfect Rex

I had the whole thing memorized myself.

You get this impression of an old b/w film from the 30's - Like the Hardy Boys...

-Paige

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. I must confess

It's in "The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays." :D

I have parts of "High School Madness" committed to memory, but that ain't one of 'em.

This is, though:

"Peorgie! Peorgie Tirebiter!"

"C-c-c-c..... coming, mother!"

"He's so good with the servants, Fred."

"Stop calling me Fred! My name's Adolph!"

"Bombs away, dad! Morning, mom! Hot dog, groat cakes again! Heavy on the 30-weight, mom!"

"Don't eat with your hands, son. Use your entrenching tool."

:rofl:

[Steely_Dan]

44. All This Time...

I thought he was saying "road-cakes" not "groat cakes." What does "groat" mean anyway?

-P

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. I thought it was 'grub cakes' until I read the script

And the only "groat" I know is the old Pirates shortstop. :shrug:

[Kat45]

30. He's just a student like you.

Like me.
He's just a student like you.

I loved that one. Yeah, the principal's speech, with kids yelling "fuck you!" And they got the scratchy sound of the speakers at a high school graduation just right.

[mac56]

10. Where the vegetables are green, and you can pee in the stream!

And that's important!

[Steely_Dan]

12. Or...

Bear Wiz Beer

[MrScorpio]

13. Wow

I haven't heard those guys in YEARS

Are they still around?

[Steely_Dan]

14. Actually They Are...

or at least some of them.

Phil Proctor lives in Santa Barbara. When I lived there he did a play by play of the Fiesta Parade there on radio...I was in tears with laughter.

-Paige

[MrScorpio]

15. I used to listen to them in Detroit

Haven't heard much from them since I left to join the USAF

[Ptah]

16. The Old Same Place?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Bath. Towel. Border.

May I see your passport, please?

[abq e streeter]

29. Ah yes, three new words in Turkish

[triguy46]

18. Marching, Marching to Shibboleth, with the eagle and the cross...

AND THE CROSS!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Love it!!

Sitting in my office, reading my name on my office door: regnad kcin. :rofl:

[Ptah]

21. eighteen steps.

My daughter counted the steps when she was 6 or seven.

She said there were twenty-three!

[Steely_Dan]

23. LOLOLOLOLOL

I remember that...excellent.

-P

[gmoney]

24. The "funny namers" Buzz and Bunny Crumbhunger

from "Everything You Know is Wrong" reminded me a LOT of Buzzie and Cookie Krongard from the Blackwater scandal.

[Gormy Cuss]

27. We're all bozos on this bus. n/t

[abq e streeter]

28. What? you don't want to count the elevator boy?

saw Proctor and Bergman in 78 or 79; about half routines (oil pressure drop...) and half improv.

[grasswire]

31. and what about the Goon Show?

A friend gave me some recordings of Goon Shows. It took me hours and hours of listening to try to decipher words through the accent. Hilarious stuff.

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. That's it

I'm comin' over. :bounce:

[grasswire]

38. I just found all the scripts online

http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts.asp

As well as some free downloads and a lot of stuff!

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. SCORE!

*tink* :toast:

[grasswire]

41. ha!

Now I'll have to get out the tapes to find which ones I have audio for, and then follow along on the script to fill in the holes. I do remember this line: "Quick, nurse, the screens!" (Said whenever a character was about to embarrass himself in some large way.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. All I know is

the Pythons were huge fans of Spike Milligan and "The Goon Show," and there probably wouldn't have been a Monty Python without Milligan's influence.

Ergo, though I've never seen him, he is my god.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

49. He's a pretty good God to have!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbuIREBb8L8

[Amerigo Vespucci]

32. I saw them at Stanford in 1974

One of the smaller auditoriums, don't remember the name of it...nice, intimate, and you've never seen dense, hanging white clouds of reefer like these in your life. I've got to say that at least one third of the audience was toking at any given time throughout the entire show. Anyone who BOUGHT weed for the show that night was a chump. All you had to do was sit there and breathe normally. My friends and I were really close to the stage. There is no Firesign Theater "hype"...these guys were every bit as good as their legend.

I've got all of the albums. My favorite is "Everything You Know Is Wrong," for more reasons than I could possibly list here. It was their "Abbey Road."

:toast:

[Steely_Dan]

39. That Was My Favorite As Well

"Everything You Know Is Wrong" was there best work IMO.

One of my favorite parts was the two anchorman ...one was named Hamburger but pronounced (Hamberjer). They were describing what a cave was..."You know, a cave is just a hole on its side." And..as they were leaving the air...you can hear in the background "Have you ever had to piss fast, Dave?"

I don't know what it was about them. They were so well-read and their humor was like a puzzle. It didn't matter how many times you head it, there was always something new that you hadn't heard before.

Amazing stuff.

-Paige

[kentauros]

34. "It's time to Beat The Reaper!"

"You have...the Plague."

"Who is he talking to?! How does he make his voice do that?!"

Any of y'all see J-Men Forever?

"Where's my springboard? Ah, there it is!"

"Say, aren't you Leonard Nimoy?"

[Steely_Dan]

35. There attention to detail....

was amazing.

[kentauros]

37. That, and being quite well-read in the classics

and esotericism.

W.C.Fields, Forever

"Om.... om.... range...." :)

[Mendocino]

46. "Come on in out of the cold

knock the cornstarch off your mukluks

and warm up by the crackling cellophane"

Or something like that, it's been years since I've listened to them.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

47. Firesign Who?

:rofl:
:hi:

[Tyler Durden]

48. You can bet your roots, Toots! It's Tons of Fun!

I have three of the more obscure ones on CD: Roller Maidens from Outer Space, In the next world you're on your own, and Everything you know is wrong.

Have ALL of them on vinyl.

[kwassa]

50. Papoon for President! Not insane!

[seemunkee]

51. Its back to the Shadows again

[Kashka-Kat]

52. "you broke the President!"

still cracks me up