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Local Color
« on: April 09, 2008, 11:50:11 PM »
Every place has some. It's something we see everyday and take for granted.

For example, a few days before I moved from Chicago I watched a local television show which I've been watching ever since I was a kid despite its many channel and time slot changes. I also watched other shows with the same actor though I was too old for them just because I was such a fangirl.

The show is called Son of Svengoolie. I didn't realize it until that night how much Rich Koz probably molded my sense of humor. The show would play old, campy horror b-movies interspersed with the intentionally cheesy (meta humor) comedic stylings of Mr. Koz before and after commercial breaks.  Many (every?) shows had a musical number, usually a parody of a popular song at the time. This was the parody that was shown that night:

http://www.youtube.com/v/LO1O9za5aDM&hl=en

Here's another about 3-D TV

http://www.youtube.com/v/V132fCYLp70&hl=en

Then there's the commercial for the local grocery store, Moo n Oink. Yes, the rap is funny and they are way too cheerful, but stay tuned til the end for the money shot.

http://www.youtube.com/v/zz8fTbLjo9c&hl=en

...and who can forget those Eagle Insurance ads (This is a serious ad which ran for years before they started parodying it themselves.)

http://www.youtube.com/v/AsJLSdYLq6o&hl=en

Then we moved to Florida. The morning after, I woke up and turned on the television to find blatant abuse of Video Toaster in an infomerical for an appliance wholesaler called Appliance Direct.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Jx7DBlrlzyc&hl=en
0:30 - 0:40

http://www.youtube.com/v/CgxcYz5cLN8&hl=en

...we bought our washer and dryer at Appliance Direct as a result of these ads.
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2008, 11:55:40 PM »
we have a show like that first one here in reno...i think an evil clown does it
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2008, 04:19:35 AM »
Makes me miss USA Up-All-Night with Gilbert Gottfreid
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2008, 06:04:22 AM »
oh man, bad Chicago insurance ads.  i was a little late for Eagle-Man, although my best friend [who has lived all his 25 years in Chicago] remembers them from back in the day.  by the time i lived there, they were showing Lincoln Insurance ads, which are almost as bad:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/jYGvtbriY-M&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/jYGvtbriY-M&rel=1</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JY8fGgQfHeM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/JY8fGgQfHeM&rel=1</a>

here in St. Louis, we have my favourite Bad Locally Produced Ads ever: Dirt Cheap Beer, featuring the Dirt Cheap Chicken:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/OzVzDzDt00Q&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/OzVzDzDt00Q&rel=1</a>

i swear, if i fail out of school, i want to be that silly chicken.  that would be awesome.
« Last Edit: April 10, 2008, 06:56:12 AM by RogueClown »
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2008, 07:30:44 AM »
Here in Tampa Bay we had Dr. Paul Bearer


http://youtube.com/watch?v=i2WJ3sFiDGA
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2008, 07:31:44 AM »
How do I embedded youtube?
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2008, 08:20:43 AM »
Quote from: legend813 on April 10, 2008, 07:31:44 AM
How do I embedded youtube?

i put the link to the YouTube page between URL tags, and the forum is programmed to take the video and post it here.  i tried the YouTube tag, and it did something really weird (and didn't post videos).  i put them in URL tags instead, and they worked just fine.

this makes me wonder about how the YouTube tags work.
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2008, 04:02:49 PM »
Just drop the url into your post (without tags). I believe RBCP has modded the forum to embed video files automatically.
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2008, 02:36:47 AM »
Jenn what happened to your "catch phrase" that made me My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. IRL! :-[
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2008, 09:35:01 AM »
Here we have Billy Fucillo, "ITS GONNA BE HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEE"

[youtube=425,350]<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pQO0v_HEGU0&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pQO0v_HEGU0&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>[/youtube]
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2008, 07:39:47 AM »
Attorney Edgar Snyder:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0jdAi5OVkaM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/0jdAi5OVkaM&rel=1</a>

His commercials, which I remember as far back as my earliest TV memories, aired so often on so many different affiliates that the old 412 area code number for his office was burned into everyone's brain. Paging people with that number was a great form of harassment back in the day...
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2008, 10:29:52 AM »
Rouge, I remember those CHEAP CHEAP FUN FUN commercials very well.  I always wondered why they weren't banned.  Isn't it illegal to market alcohol to kids?  Every kid in the St. Louis area knows that chicken and his catch phrase.
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Re: Local Color
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2008, 10:50:02 AM »
my only guess as to why they're not banned is that they haven't spread past St. Louis, and they're such an institution here...if more people knew about them, they'd probably suffer the same backlash as Joe Camel did.

however, my favourite part (other that the chicken stating "cheap!  cheap!  fun!  fun!, of course!) is when Dirt Cheap Fred says, "the more she drinks, the better you look!  remember to drink responsibly..."  i've never heard such contradictory advice jammed so close together in an advertisement.
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