Good Job, Brain! - 16: Don't You...Forget About Me

Episode Date: June 18, 2012

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You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Jumpin, generous and jolly geniuses. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 16, and of course, I am your humble host, Karen, and we are your grinning gaggle of guffying geeks and goofballs. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

Thank you, Karen, for reminding us that alliteration is not, in fact, words that begin with the same first letter, but words that begin with the same sound. Yes. So your mixing of J's and G's is perfectly okay. It's assonance. Oh, what's it called? It's called assinence. Asinence.

Because it sounds the same. Pottie mouth. Ass. Put the ass and assinence. That's right. All right. This is our 16th episode, and I believe, Chris, you have a little segment for us. I had a little story to tell you guys, because I went to a friend's birthday party last night, which was at a bar.

And as I went up to the bar in San Francisco's Mission District to get a drink, I actually found, and let me just say, I know we have kids listening to this podcast. So I just want to say, like, kids, drinking is something that adults do to have a really awesome time. Yeah, it's really fun kids. It's super fun. So don't do it. But what they had at the bar, the napkins that they had at the bar, were actually printed full of trivia. What? Printed full of TV and geography trivia.

And I cannot tell a lie, I took two of those napkins. I just walked right off of them without a thought for what might happen to me or my family. So random. So I've taken these napkins, and now I will ask totally random trivia questions that are off of these napkins that I found at a bar. Now, have these answers been verified by the American Napkin Association? I believe the First of all, I think it's called the American Napkin and Paper Towel Associates.

Oh, that's right, they merged. Or, yeah, that's right. Or Napta. And no. Because the organization does not exist. TV trivia, in what ear does Mr. Clean wear his earring? What?

Now, you have to imagine being kind of inebriated at a bar and getting these questions. In what ear does Mr. Clean wear his ear? Oh, ear, not year. Yeah, in what ear does he wear his earring right right in both of them

it is in fact it is in fact his left ear what season of Dallas was only a dream the last one the very final one well I guess the whole thing well yeah technically all of it was it oh right or was it it was like a segment from I forget I forget the answer the answer as printed on the napkin is

the 1984 through 1985 season that's very specific this is it extremely Okay, here's one. What was the fugitives name? This note that all this is like trivia from the 1980s. Right, right. They must have found these napkins in the back somewhere. He was, uh, Dr. Richard Kimball, is that right?

Wow! In fact, the napkin says Dr. Richard Kimball. Yes, that's right. That's right. Who was the first U.S. president to be inaugurated on TV? Oh. That's a good one. Kennedy, I mean, probably too late.

I don't know. Eisenhower? It was in fact, and I know this because I have this napkin, Harry S. Truman, January 1949. Wow. Which city is further east? Reno, Nevada or Los Angeles, California?

This is a classic one. Los Angeles, California. Well, of course, because it's a trick question. Yes, Los Angeles, California is further east than Reno Nevada. Yes. By quite a bit, actually. And finally, what part of New York City was called Broken Land by the Dutch?

Clinton. Indeed, it is broken land. Thank you, napkins. Thanks, napkins. You're the best. Good job, napkins. Good job, napkins. You also keep our tables dry.

Before, you know, we jump into our main topic, I have some interesting things. We had a bit of fun anagramming names and such. And I just want to share some of the notable ones. So if you anagram Britney Spears, you get. Presbyterians One word One whole word Presbyterians is an anagram

of Britney Spears That's good And Clint Eastwood What was his? Oh yeah We got this one off the internet Just now Old West Action

For Clint Eastwood Isn't that great? That's fantastic This proves there is a god Yeah All right And so let's jump into Our non-napkin

General Trivia The non-napkin portion of the show Pop quiz hot shot our Trivial Pursuit card Get your barnyard buzzers ready And here we go Blue Wedge What is the traditional grain

Used in Tabouille? Is it? Is it barley? Incorrect Is it wheat? Specifically. The wheat germ? I don't know.

Couscous? It is Bulger. Bulger. That's right. That's right. That's right. You threw me when you said specifically.

Yeah, yeah. My mind blanked. Pink Wedge pop culture in the Big Lebowski. What is the dude's favorite drink? A white Russian? Correct. Purple Wedge. What 1996 hit song was criticized because its lyrics are examples of simple bad luck rather than the literary device described by the song's title?

Chris. That would be ironic by Alanis Morrison. Correct. Which I prefer to think is her. her elaborate meta statement. It is. It's ironic that her song contains no actual examples of irony. She doesn't get enough credit.

No, Alanis. So clever. Let's see. Greenwed for science. What two bodily fluids did international space station astronauts start converting into drinkable water in 2009? I'm sorry, two bodily fluids? Two. Two bodily fluids?

Urine. Correct. Right. Spit. I was going to guess saliva as well. I was going to guess tears. No. Oh, oh, oh, oh, sweat?

Correct. Oh, sweat. I'm like, all right. Okay. Sweat and urine. I just like the idea of them having a spit-to-water machine. Yeah. I'm imagine the space spittoon, you know, like the Old West, just updated.

It's like a bucket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With a filter. All right. Lastly, orange wedge. What is both a crochet. tool and a basketball shot a hook correct that's kind of a lame question that was the way that could force it into sports and leisure right all right and we have our kickstarter backer question which is

not lame and this is from mike rissy from san francisco and i kind of retooled this question in 2000 british magazine total guitar name this song performed by jimmy hendron the greatest cover song of all time. The Star Spangled Banner. Incorrect. Was it all along the Watchtower? Correct. Who wrote All Along Watchtower?

Robert Zimmerman, also known as Bob Doe. I was going to be like, in... I was just trying to sneak in some free trivia there for, yeah. Super duper, duper correct. Often appears in popular culture, such as... Battlestar Galactica. And... What?

Watchmen. Oh, very good. We've talked about this before in our previous episode that, you know, when we have our 16th show, it will be something that is connected to 16 and Sweet 16 and John Hughes movies. So today's episode, we're going to talk about teen movies. Yeah, it started as like just kind of an off-end comment. A whole episode about coming-of-age movies and our favorite teen movies and interesting trivia and origin stories. I did want to talk about a John Hughes movie. And, you know, for those of you who may not remember, I mean, he, I would say that he probably produced more iconic 80s teen movies than anyone else.

I mean, either written or usually written and directed, Pretty and Pink and the Breakfast Club and some kind of wonderful and just on. on and on. But my favorite out of his movies was always Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yeah. Which is, you know, some of his other movies were a little more sweet and had kind of a very sweet, earnest core to them. And I think like Ferris Bueller was a little more kind of wink, wink, ironic, detached. See, I would actually disagree. I feel like his other movies are, you deal with more serious matter, right? There's like, in Pretty and Pink, there's kind of the class

difference. And Breakfast Club definitely was kind of heavy. And Ferris Bueller was just like, this is what a cool charismatic slacker guy does. That's true. That's true. I mean, I guess there's so much breaking of the fourth wall in that movie, which I don't usually associate with the other John Hughes movies, you know, where Ferris just kind of talks directly at the audience. I remember when this movie came out, it was such a big deal. Like, it could not have been more of a hip movie at that time.

Like, you had to go see Ferris Bueller's day off. Rather than frame kind of like a quiz around Ferris Bueller, I just, there's so much lore about this movie and just, in case you have been, you know, living on. under a rock for 27 years and have not seen Ferris Bueller's day off. Or if you weren't born, like, that's true. That's true. That's true. Living in your mom for a while.

For 27 years, what are they? No, they're a rock baby. Calsified baby. We're going to get so many angry emails from rock folk. You know what I mean? I only say it lovingly, and I'm trying to be inclusive of the rock people. I do not know how to transition back from that. I'll be honest.

But it's about Ferris Bueller, the titular hero, Matthew Broderic, who decides he's going to take a day off from high school. And so he gets his friend Cameron and his girlfriend, Sloan, and they basically ditch high school and escapades in the city of Chicago. So you guys remember in the movie, like the primary plot device is Ferris convincing Cameron to let him borrow steal their dad's car. Right. And so the whole movie really revolves rather than getting into Chicago in this car. Do you guys know what kind of car that is? Any of you remember any of the details? It was red?

I'll take any details. Red convertible. Yes. Yes. Ferrari mustang. Yeah, Ferrari. There you go. It was.

That's Ferrari. It was a 1961 Ferrari, 250 G. Spider, California edition. Whoa. Yes. And it was already at the time was a pretty collectible car. There were around 100 of the made. So how much are they worth?

At the time they made the movie, the car was worth $300 to $400,000. So that on top of it being a rare car made it pretty good choice. This model car holds the record for the most expensive car ever bought at a vintage car auction. Not that specific car from the movie, which is actually a repo. That model, a 61, 250 GT that was owned by James Coburn, the actor James Coburn, sold in 2008 for just under 11 million. dollars. Oh, my God. So talk about, you know, the value from $300,000 in 1986, yeah, just under $11 million.

I guess it was bought by Chris Evans, British radio TV personnel. Oh, okay. So. Not Captain America. But the car, you know, again, it was so rare. They didn't want to use any real ones in filming other movie. They had one access to one real one for the tight shots, but all the others were reprosed. Oh, really?

Yeah, they were like fiberglass reproses. Because they destroy one. Right, and they do destroy one. And so the car was. a big part for me. Here's a good trivia question for you guys. What song made famous in many 1980s movies and TV commercials

was first used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? I don't know the name of the song. You have to sing it if you don't name it. Oh yeah. That is right. Du, bop, bong. That's right. The song is called, no, what is it called? It's called, oh, yeah.

So, again, this is a great one for music rounds at trivia and it shows up. These are just Classic One Hit Wonder. What's the artist? Yellow, Y-E-L-O. They were a Swiss synth-pop duo. Without question, that is their most well-known song. But I didn't know this.

I mean, I just associate that song with so many things from the 80s. Yeah. Twix. That's what I remember is Twix. A secret of my success. It was in that movie as well. But this was really where it was first used. John Hughes picked it for the scene where they, Cameron and Ferris are looking at the aforementioned

for our 850 Z-T. Gosh, whatever. You know, we all know, of course, the very famous scene of the teacher joining on about the economics lesson, who is Ben Stein. Right. Bueller, Bueller. So I've read this anecdote before. The entire lecture there was ad-libbed. He did the entire lecture scene on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act off the cuff. He had a background in law and politics. As you guys may or may not know, his first job in politics was... Nixon's speechwriter. Correct. He was a speechwriter and sort of advisory lawyer for Nixon. That's right. So, you know, he was a speechwriter and sort of advisory lawyer for Nixon. That's right. So he got introduced into the world of Hollywood, and basically John Hughes said, you'd be perfect for this teacher scene. And he basically gave them the instructions of, I want you just lecture about something that you know about. Make it boring and talk about something that you know about.

So he extemporaneously is talking about the Smoot-Hawley tarot act. Wow. And it's, you know, one of the best scenes in the movie, of course. I'm a big art lover, and I majored in art history. And so one of my favorite scenes is when they go to the Art Institute of Chicago. Just the great montage of all the great paintings in there. What is the famous, famous painting that ends that great scene with Cameron just transfixed on what famous painting? Oh, is it the scream one?

No, no. It's, I'll take the artist as well. It's a famous, it's Sunday afternoon on the island of the... Oh, Sirrah. Yes, the Siraj. That's right, the George Sorrah. And what style of painting, Karen? Pointalism.

Pointalism, that's right. So if you have... haven't been to see that painting or a reproduction. It's huge. It is amazingly huge. Yeah, that was what blew me away. Even having seen it in the movie, the first time I saw that painting is, yeah, I mean, it's like 8 by 10 feet.

It's just 7 by 10 feet. It's enormous. Made out of dots. It is crazy. And, you know, even knowing ahead of time that it's just made up of individual color dots, you get right up close to it, it blows me away. The biggest visual highlight from the trailer is Ferris Bueller in the parade. He hijacks his way into the parade and is singing.

Shake it up, yeah. Yes. Well, first, first, first, first, uh, first. Because it was like a German. in my cultural That's right. Twist and Shout charted again after the movie primarily because of Ferris Bueller

but it was also in Back to School. Do you guys remember that movie? The Writing Dangerfield came out the same weekend. I didn't remember this. They came at the same weekend also featured a cover of Twist and Shout so the song charted at number 23 again. We had a ferret named Ferrette Bueller. Ferris Bueller. Oh, that's terrible.

So, I want to ask you guys this. Have you guys ever heard the theory? There's an alternate explanation of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination that he's not a real character. The fight club theory. Right, exactly. Yes. I have seen that. I have seen online, of course. This is going to be hard to believe, but on the internet, someone has an alternate explanation for a movie. No. I remember being very taken in in college by the alternate Pulp Fiction explanations of Marcellus Ballas has a band-aid

On the back of his neck And in the Bible That's where the devil takes your soul Yes I remember that All this completely falsifiable information That no one bothered to look up You know Okay, so switching gears

I have a question for you guys Do you know what it's called When somebody's sexually aroused by food Or get sexual gratification with food? Whoa! Okay, let's see Something philia Uh-huh

What's... Can you piece it together? Well there's like New Phage is the root for eating, right? It's going to be a Greek, it's the Greek base. Phelia and phobias are always great things. They're totally on the right track, yeah.

So what's the word for, what's the root for food, basically? Someone's hard. You may as well just tell us. Either you know it or not. So the root for food is CETO, S-I-T-O. So Cetophilia is the word for people who are sexually aroused or get gratification from food. And so Cetophobia is people who are afraid of food or like refuse nourishment, that kind of thing. Okay. So that's question number one, priming this.

All right. Oh. I think I don't know where this is going. Building on our knowledge here. Okay. Question number two is in 1999, Vermont passed a state law making apple pie their state pie. And in that law, there's a provision that one should make a good faith effort to serve three things with apple pie in Vermont when you're serving apple pie. Okay. All right. Yeah. So what are the three things do you think you're supposed to? I would think ice cream. I would guess ice cream. With cream. Not with cream. Cheddar cheese.

A lot of people do the cheddar cheese. Yes. Right. A lot of people do the cheddar cheese. At least half an ounce of cheese. And, uh, gosh. What's the? Cinnamon?

Milk. Yes, milk. Oh, wow. You need milk for dessert, man. Come on. Oh, I was thinking of like more like a topping. Yeah, that's what I was on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, with, oh, with the pie. Got it. Accompanying. Yeah. So combining amorous and tint towards food and apple pie. Okay. I'm going to talk about American pie. 16 candles.

Yes, Mully Ringwald Rebel Without a Kahn There's a deleted scene with her And a American Pie So yeah, I'm going to talk about American Pie My therapist said Not to see you no more She said you're like a disease

Without any cure She said I'm so obsessed That I'm becoming a ball Oh no I think you're so pretty It came out in 1999, which was the same year as The Law in Vermont, probably unconnected. They were trying to get out ahead of the negative PR. American Pie movies spawned three direct sequels and four spinoff movies.

Yes. I think I can name them all. Wow. Oh, can you? Okay, American Pie, American Pie 2, American Wedding. Yes. And then American Pie, Ban, Man. Union, American Pie, colon, Ban Camp, American Pie, Colon, the Naked Mile, American Pie, colon, oh, God.

So they turned it into a franchise, basically. They took unrelated films and gave them the American Pie name. No, I think they did, like, a whole DVD offshoots, so they have the official, yeah. They would find some character to tie it in, so it was all in the same universe, yeah. Missing Beta House and the Book of Love. Oh, okay. And they're all tied, because they're all related to Stifler. And they're all trying to lose their virginity.

That's the point of the movie. It's a raunchy teen movie. Yes. Spoiler alert. So this movie was credited with popularizing a term, and it referred to Stifler's mom, who's played by Jennifer Coolidge. What term is it? Karen. Miltf.

Yes. And it was said by John Cho. Oh. John Cho was the actor who said it. Jennifer Coolidge is one of my favorite people. She's fantastic. I don't know her personally, but I feel like it would be great friends. Mina Savari played Heather in American Pie, and she was actually in three movies in 1999

that had the word American in the title. One was American Pie, one was American Virgin, and then the third one won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. What was the name of, sorry, you have to see all the buzzers in my face right now. What was the name of the third movie with American in the title? Oh, I buzzed early. American Beauty. Yes. Wow, what was the third one?

So wait, American Pie, American Beauty, American Virgin. I've never heard of it. I don't remember that one. One of the cast members had an embarrassing audition tape for Mama Mia that went viral in 2010. And he was also engaged to Katie Holmes. Who was that? Which happened? Chris Klein.

Yes. Isn't that crazy? What was embarrassing about the audition video? So... Is it bad or... He kind of has like this manic energy. when he's doing it and he's like not a singer and it's a singing it's hard that was his job interview and like who would want to show like a bad job interview but it's true that's true

but it's kind of funny anyway and it's on the internet sean william scott played stifler in the movie the year after he started a movie with ashton kutcher what movie was that dude where's my car yes what does mine say sweet this excellent movie it is a movie and then the last question there have been eight movies in the American Pie

franchise only one character had been in all of them is it uh Jim's dad which is played by Eugene Leibis

so I mean American Pie when it came out it was I think the last time a really raunchy teen movie came out was in the 80s was porky

yeah there was the wave of yeah this was kind of the first time in that decade, a really, really raunchy mainstream teen movie came out. Yeah. It was definitely the revival of the raunchy

teen movies. And that for, I mean, for like us in college, that was, oh, we've got to go see American Pie. Everybody would see American Pie. Okay. I've said before in the podcast that I'm a big fan of music soundtrack, and I think that's a really big part of whether or not I

like a movie or not. So one of probably the most memorable team movies growing up for me was Baz Luhrmann's Romeo Plus Julia Is Romeo and Romeo and Juliet? Is Romeo and Juliet? I think it was Romeo and Julia.

I think it was Romeo and Julia. He was just, yeah. The plus is. edgy. It was just making it edgy. Romeo's soundtrack is fantastic. I just have some cool trivia nuggets. If you're a big movie Easter Egg Hunter fan, there's so many Easter eggs in that movie. A lot of definitely Shakespeare lines hidden in places and advertisements from other plays, The Tempest and such.

So we know Claire Dane's plays Juliet. Among the other actresses who wanted that part are Sarah Michelle Geller, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kate Winslet, Christina Richie, and notably Natalie Portman. And they almost casted Natalie Portman, but they looked at, you know, the scenes between her and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Baz Luhrman admitted that it looked kind of creepy. Because she was too young? She looked too young. And it seems like Leonardo DiCaprio was like a sexual predator.

That wasn't Juliet, like 13 or 14? Speaking of soundtrack, Baz Luhrman actually commissioned Radiohead, the band, to come up with a song for the end credits. And so Baz Luhrman sent 20 minutes of the movie, whatever they had to Radiohead, and Radiohead made Exit Music for a film. Very, very big single of Radioheads, and it was made specifically for the end credits of Romeo and Juliet. Oh, it's called Exit Music for a film. Yeah, yeah. I just, I always just assumed they were being, you know, just kind of theatrical with the name of the truth and advertising. So this kind of leads to my quiz, I'm going to ask you guys now.

Surprisingly, many teen movies are based on or take inspiration from classic literature. In this case, that's kind of one for one, Romeo and Juliet, based on Romeo and Juliet. Right. So here I have a quiz that requires two-part answers. I will be providing a short plot summary, and you have to match and identify, number one, the name. name of the classic literature book or play that I'm describing. And number two, the teen movie that features the same plot. Oh, okay.

For example, if I say the tragedy about two young lovers from opposing families, it would be Romeo and Juliet. The teen movie, actually, there are many selections. There is Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. Sure. So here we go. A story about a woman's adulterous affair and her struggle to create a new life of forgiveness and dignity.

The Scarlet Letter. Correct. Easy A. Correct. Wow. A tragedy about a man's irrational jealousy, rage, and manipulation that tears a couple apart. Colin. Othello.

Correct. The source material, Shakespeare. And I'm trying to think of the teen movie. Chris. Oh. Correct. Oh, right, right. Which was with Julia Stiles, right?

Josh Hartnett and Mackay Fifee. Mackay Fyfer. Of course, of E.R. You guys as publicists? We just like E.R. Okay, here we go. A man makes a bet that he can turn a woman of low birth to pass for someone of a higher class. Pygmalion.

Correct. Pretty woman. Tea movie. Oh, team movie? Oh, she's all that? Correct. Pig million by George Bernard Chaugh, and she's all that starring Freddie Prince Jr. and Rachel Lee Cook. And we also know My Fair Lady is based on it as well.

Indeed. Don't spam us. Yeah. But that's not a teen. Yes, yes. I think she was looking for Pygmalion over My Fair Lady, but I might have accepted either. I was going the other direction. Pygmalion's the official.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Here we go. The adventure of a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman who decides that she has a talent for matchmaking. You're on a roll, Chris. Um, okay. It's, I believe it's sense and sensibility.

Clueless? Incorrect. It's, oh, no. It is Jane Austen, though. It is Pride and Prejudice? Nope. Oh, what's Emma? What is Clueless?

Is that what it is? Correct. Emma. Clueless is based on Emma. Yeah. Story about the courtship between several suitors and a pair of sisters, one fair and one head strong. The taming of the shrew, ten things I hate about you.

Correct. You're very good. A tale of two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others. I know one side of it. The teen, so cruel intentions. Correct. Cruel intentions starring

Sarah Michelle Geller and Ryan Felipe. Is it Vanity Fair? It's a French. Yeah. Madam Bovary. No. Lady Chatterley's lover. No. Leamy Zerob.

Dangerous liaison. Which was also a movie. A movie, of course. You know, I've never seen cruel intentions, yeah. This is a case of gender bender misidentity. The main female character masquerades as a man, but falls in love with a guy whose female love interest falls for the male version of the main character. And hilarity ensues.

Was the teen one, are you looking for just one of the guys, just one of the boys? Is that the one that you're looking for? for that that's the plot of that movie there's so many yeah yeah shakespearean it is 12th night and the teen movie officially is she's the man starring amanda binds and uh channing tato my favorite but you're right just one of the guys has the same plot but she's the man officially says that this is a reinterpretation okay okay it probably hues a little more closely to it as well yeah yeah but just one of the guys was fantastic that was one of my favorite teen movies as well yeah all right in the last one.

It's not a story of a love triangle, but more like a love square. Two guys and two girls fawning over each other while manipulated by surrounding characters. Oh, it's, um, oh, is it, uh, much to do about nothing? Incorrect. Summer's Night Dream. Oh, correct. Mid-Summer's Night Dream. And the teen movie, not a big hit starring Kirsten Dunst and Ben Foster and Mr. Thong

song himself, Cisco. Oh, yeah. Get over it. Wow. And here I have a note officially, one of the reviews called it a lobotomized updating of a midsummer's night dream. So I think it was one of the tail end of those movies are like, oh, hey, ten things I hate about you did so well.

Let's keep making. What else can we mind? What else can we reinterpret? What hasn't been done yet? So good job, Brin. That was my classic literature and teen movie quiz. Now you know. No frills.

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Enemy of my dreams is available wherever books are sold. We haven't done a mnemonic for a while. We have a mnemonic that is very random. Yes, and yet inspired by one that. It just happened as publicly as the other night. Yep. So we have a mnemonic for telitubbies. There's four of them. Which ones, which color, which one has the weird thing on their head.

And so actually, officially, the telotubbies, that the creators did say, the names of the telitubbies do give a clue to what shape antenna is on the head. Oh, okay, okay. So we have, so the four telitubbies we have are tinky winky, dipsy, la la, and puffy. Po. And I really, I know them just the colors, right? They're red, yellow, purple. And green. And green. Okay.

Each one of them has a weird head thing. Right. So Tinky, Winky, the T is a clue to triangle. Okay. Got it. And Dipsy, it looks like a dipstick, the one stick. It's just a straight, like an antenna on his head. Lala is Curly, the L and Curly Lala, is a curly antenna.

and Poe, like the letter O, has a circle on antenna. So this is officially said by the creators. This is how, you know, you kind of figure it out. But then, how do you figure out what color is one? You anticipated my concern. So we know Tinky Winky Tinky Winky Triangle, Tinky Winky. So this is stuff I came up with. Hopefully it will kind of make sense.

So Tinky Winky Winky Winky Wine or Parawinkle Winkle leads to purple. Okay. Dipsy, D.I. Dipsy, Dinosaur, green. Okay, okay, okay. I suppose as far as we know, dinosaurs were green. Yeah, as far as we know. If they weren't covered in feathers. La La La, sounds like lemon, and Lala is yellow.

Lemon is yellow. All right. And Poe, like pomegranate, is red. Oh. See, I know my brain is going to want to say Poe is purple, so I need to find a way to override that. Okay, so here's some more backstory. I've done some research. on the backstory of each of the telitubbies.

So they actually have ethnicities assigned to the telitubbies. Oh, right. Po is supposed to be like Chinese, right? Yeah, Paul was actually supposed to be Cantonese. Oh, okay. You know, red being an auspicious color, Poe, kind of a Chinese name. So there you go. Tinky Wiki, who has the triangle head, is purple.

Dipsy, who has the dipstick antenna, is like a dinosaur green. and La La La with the curly antenna, like the lemon is yellow, and Po has an O-shaped antenna, like a circle. Poe for pomegranate is red. All right. All right, let's jump back into movies, and Chris, you got a quiz for us. I decided to start researching the teen movie. The teen movie of all the godfather of teen movie. The er teen movie.

From whence all of these other lesser teen movies have sprung. And that is, of course. What? Greece. No. Rebel with that. American graffiti. Well, sure.

I mean, there were movies that came beforehand with similar plot structures, but Greece is like the most popular enduring teenagers watch it today. Most enduring, I agree. More to the point. Chris already has questions about it. Yes, exactly. I've written the quiz and they're still going back. Unfortunately, as I was doing all of the research, I ended up doing all of the research and finding most interesting. facts about Greece, the Broadway musical, as opposed to Greece the movie.

So I veered entirely off topic, but you're stuck with it anyway. The Greece Broadway musical opened originally in 1987. And it was changed quite a bit before its Broadway debut in 172. They actually, like, it was more raunchy. It was very raunchy. Wait, hold on. So, Greece came out first as a musical. Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought dogs played eggs. Yeah, so, yes, Greece was originally a musical. It opened off Broadway, but then it was very quickly touched up and moved to Broadway in 1972. The actor who originated the role of Danny Zuko on Broadway would go on to star also in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Does anybody know who that is?

Not Meatloaf. Tim Curry? No. Barry Bostwick? Indeed. Barry Bostwick originated the role of Danny Zucco on Broadway for the Broadway version. Now, other actors who in the show's very long Broadway run who have played Danny include Patrick Swayze, Peter Gallagher, John Travolta, Richard Gere. Also, here's a tougher one.

The actor who would go on to play in the film, Kenicki. And also, he also co-starred on Welcome Back Cotter with John Revolta. Do we know this actor's name? Yes. Jeff Conway. Yes. Rest in peace. Yes.

And he's on taxi, of course, as well. And Babylon 5. And what do the famous Greece songs, you're the one that I want, hopelessly devoted to you, Sandy, and Greece, all have in common? Was that they were in a movie but not on Broadway? Indeed, they were not in the musical. Would either of you like to hazard a guess as to what the Burger Palace Boys are? Burger Palace Boy. The Burger Palace Boys.

No, I would not like to hazard a guess. That was actually the original name of the T-Birds. T-Birds? They were named ladies and the Burger Pallace Boys. I like T-Birds. T-Birds has a lot more El-On, yes. Another famous change. The female leads name in the movie was Sandy Olson.

Do you guys know what it was in the musical? Oh. Oh. Hmm. Oh. I don't. No, not Sandy Duncan. You're zeroing in on it, though.

Sandy Shores. It started with a D. Sandy D. It's, in fact, Sandy Dumbrovsky was her name. Ah. Yes. When Greece was revived on Broadway in 1994, the producers took what was then a very unique and controversial move to get people to buy tickets or to get people interested in the show.

Do you know what that is? There was a reality show. for it? Um, no. Hmm. Um, it's the 1994. Oh, 94?

Yes. I believe they casted Rosie O'Donnell. Yes. That is exactly what I was I was looking for. In, in, in, in, in fact, they casted celebrities who were not Broadway actors. Uh, a lot of stunt casting. They cast Ricky Paul Golden from the soap opera,

another world, and they cast Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo. Um, and this was very controversial because these people were not Broadway actors, and they were doing it. to, like, raise the visibility level and get people in to see the show. This was basically credited with the trend of cast-ass-ac celebrities, singers who were not Broadway actors in Broadway plays. They do it all the time now. Yeah, they do.

They do it all the time now. The person who replaced Rosie O'Donnell on Broadway was Brooke Shields. The show would later go on to incorporate Lucy Lawless, Maureen McCormick, Sheena Easton, John Sicata, etc. When Greece was revived on Broadway again in 2007, how did they choose the lead actors? Reality show. I'm sorry, you need to buzz in. Yes.

In fact, it was a reality show called Greece. You're the one that I want. That's how they chose. And people voted. And that has become kind of standard too. Legally Blonde also had a search of Elwood. And Oliver. Oliver.

And also in the UK. Sound of music. And I think that was actually prior to the Greece one. Strange world. The interesting thing about that 2007 revival is that they actually reshaped the show to be more like a live version of the movie They added in all those songs that were from the movie

That people wanted to hear They renamed the Burger Pelopolis boys It was like an amalgam of the two It was, yeah Finally, at long last, a question about the Greece film D.D. Khan Yes. Yes.

Eddie Deeson and Dennis C. Stewart were the only original Rydell High School teens to what? They were the only teenage characters from the movie Greece to what? Graduate? They were the only three teenage characters from the first Greece movie. To be in the second. To be in Greece, too.

One of the first major motion pictures, major motion pictures to star Michelle Pfeiffer. A pre-scarface Michelle Pfeiffer. Man, that movie was terrible. Awful movie. Greece too was so bad. I'm sick of talking about teen movies now. All right, well, you're in luck, because I have brought a non-teen movie, non-theme-related quiz along with me. Thank goodness.

Yeah. So the theme of this quiz is Common Thread, covering a little range of trivia. I'm going to read you three things, and you tell me, what do they have in common? And now there may be more than one thing in common, so I'm going to go for what answer matches mine. All right. What do the following have in common? Singapore, Monaco, and Vatican City Dana

Are there city states? They are city states Yes, in fact they're pretty much the only three modern city states There are a lot of semi-autonomous regions But these are really the only three that are proper city states What do the following novelists writers have in common? George Eliot Isaac Denison

George Sand I don't know any of those people They all use pseudonyms Correct Even more specifically Are they women writing as men? They are all women Correct

Yes, that's right What do these animals Have in common If you've been paying attention to past episodes There may be a clue What do these animals have in common Polar Bear The Chow, Chow, Chow, Dog

And the giraffe Karen They all have black time They all have blue black tongues. Yes, yes, yes. I only know the Chow Chow, and I remember we talked about the giraffe a couple of episodes back. Yeah. I didn't know polar bears as well.

Yeah, they vary in intensity, but they're all sort of that really deep, you know, indigo, blue-ish-black. It all seems to be around what Dana had mentioned with giraffes is that their theory is protects against sunburn. Weird. Yeah, I don't know how that explains with the Chow's, but yeah. What do the following historical figures and leaders have in common? President Theodore Roosevelt Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Hannibal

and I'm talking of the Carthaginian Hannibal not A-teamble Or Hannibal Lecter Right and both of them leaders Sound, sound military tacticians Yes So this is Crossing the Alves Hannibal Hannibal Prime Minister Gordon Brown

President Theodore Roosevelt Chris They've all written on elephants Oh you know that's probably true That wasn't what I was going for, but that was good. They're all blind in one eye. I was just scared they all wear glasses. They were all either missing.

So Hannibal lost an eye to conjunctivitis. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been blinded and I, due to a rugged accident when he was a kid. And Theodore Roosevelt, I just learned this. He was blind in his eye from a boxing match when he was already president. It detached his retina. And they kept it secret. They didn't come out with this until years later. Yes.

But he was a badass. on to get a black belt in judo after becoming blind in his left eye. Wow! He was the original presidential badass. He was going to protect the other eye. What do the following planets have in common, aside from having rings? And or in the sun?

And our planets. And to be in the sun. And are in our space. Jupiter, Neptune, and Saturn. Karen. Named after gods. That is true. But they all are, except for Earth. That is true. But they all

are, except for Earth. That is true. That was not what I was looking for, but that, yes. They have moons? Are visible from Earth? No, no. What is it? Jupiter and Neptune and Saturn?

Okay, Jupiter and Neptune. Jupiter and Saturn are very similar. They are all similar in this one regard. The fact that they have rings, it kind of keys into what the other part is. What I was looking for is that they're all gas giants. I was going to say. Yeah, they're all the gas planets. My six-grade teacher would be so mad at you.

And then urine. would be the fourth of the gas planets. What is a gas planet? So the gas giants just in the solar system are those planets that are predominantly gas versus rocky material or solid matter. So they're mostly or possibly almost all, yeah, gas, gaseous. Yes, and they are a giant. They are indeed.

So he can't land on them? We cannot land on them. All right. We'll wrap it up here, last one. What do the following universities have in common? These are American universities. Columbia, Rutgers, and Brown. Okay, Columbia is in New York.

Rutgers is in New Jersey. Are they all Ivy League? No. They are not all Ivy League. Rutgers is not the Ivy League. New Jersey School. You're on the right track. You're on the right track.

Are they all famous for like football or something like that? That's not what I'm looking for. Historically, at one time or another, they've had good teams. So it's Rutgers, Columbia. And Brown. And Brown, which is in Rhode Island. First University. You guys are, I'm going to combine.

both of your guys' answers. They are three of what are referred to as the Colonial Colleges. So they are three of the nine schools that were founded before America was a sovereign nation. So most people know Harvard and Yale and College of William and Mary. But yeah, so Columbia Rutgers-Brown. Of the nine

of them, seven of them are in the Ivy League. So it doesn't exactly overlap. Yep. Awesome. Thanks. Woo. Good palate cleanser. Get that American pie out of my mouth. Cross, gross, gross, gross. I'm putting your mouth fell in.

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