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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Dan B on June 29, 2007, 01:38:03 PM
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butter swells governor of edit: alabama.
What's the origin of that? and also "tom scharpling, governor of partying,"?
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I thought he was governor of alabama(?). But I never heard that one ever.
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Buddy Swales was how I always heard it. And I am from the South, so deciphering fake Southern accents comes naturally to me.
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I am pretty sure that is from an early episode called "Tom blows the lid off the XFL"
PRETTY SURE.
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I am pretty sure that is from an early episode called "Tom blows the lid off the XFL"
PRETTY SURE.
Yep. 2/27/01 - about 1:10:00 in.
I'd always thought that clip was Wurster, but it ain't!
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and also "tom scharpling, governor of partying"?
So who knows where this one came from? I can't remember at all.
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yeah i mean alabama.
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jouster: same show. As is the Gerald Perlmutter bit.
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Thanks buffcoat, you're right (It's at 1:44 in that show, for the record). Who played Gerald Perlmutter?
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I'm going to need to listen to that whole show some time.
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Thanks buffcoat, you're right (It's at 1:44 in that show, for the record). Who played Gerald Perlmutter?
I believe it's the elusive Jon Glaser.
That show is, in fact, almost entirely composed of the three early contributors to the best show - Wurster, Benjamin and Glaser.
The Glaser bit is excellent, as they all three are. It's funny to hear the three different styles right in a row.
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Thanks buffcoat, you're right (It's at 1:44 in that show, for the record). Who played Gerald Perlmutter?
I believe it's the elusive Jon Glaser.
That show is, in fact, almost entirely composed of the three early contributors to the best show - Wurster, Benjamin and Glaser.
The Glaser bit is excellent, as they all three are. It's funny to hear the three different styles right in a row.
That was my original suspicion, but he sounds a bit like Sam Seder when he's breaking down, so I thought it might've been him. I agree that it's an excellent call.
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While we're discussing the opening, does anyone know the origin of "Thuuuuuuuuhhhh"
Sorry if it's already been posted somewhere. I tried searching for the word "the". I'm an idiot.
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Here's my question on the opening... (maybe previously discussed??)
Does the song intentionally "zing" Petey (by not including him)? Yes, Petey's 'role' in the show has certainly evolved over time, but if I were making a list of voices to include in a BestShow compilation of greetings, Petey would be near the top of the list -- no?
PLUS -- the song includes "Petey from the future", Tom mockingly intoning, "I'm going to bed now Faffer" and even somebody else named Peter. (no speakers here at work -- going from memory -- am I wrong?)
or is he there and I never noticed?
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Gingivitis = Petey (http://www.friendsoftom.com/fotpedia/index.php?title=Petey)
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PD is the true America's Radio Sweetheart. Watch out, Jesse Thorn. He too has a podcast.
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Powerpop pop pop's biggest fan. RIP :'(
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While we're discussing the opening, does anyone know the origin of "Thuuuuuuuuhhhh"
Sorry if it's already been posted somewhere. I tried searching for the word "the". I'm an idiot.
I've always assumed that it clipped from John Sterling's "Ball game over. Yankees win! Theeeeeeee Yankees win!".
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That's what I thought too.
I used to think that giggle in the beginning was Tom until I rented cannonball run and realized that whole beginning part was from that movie.