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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: tedfry on December 17, 2012, 07:13:20 PM
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I'd love to be a Spike follower. Does anyone know his handle?
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@soapking1965
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Oh boy. He looked different than I thought he would.
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classic thread
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My request to follow is "Pending." Now I know what I want for Christmas!
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Oh boy. He looked different than I thought he would.
At first I thought it was this guy...
(http://i.imgur.com/4LAzT.jpg)
And then I realized, no, that's just his terrifying obsession.
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John Wesley Shipp!
Amazing.
(Spike's a little Herman Cain-y. And I mean that as a compliment.)
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so wait, is spike the other guy in his twitter pic? i asked to follow him, haven't heard back!
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Yeah, he linked his open Facebook profile on there.
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@soapking1965
"No Tweet results for @soapking1965"
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@soapking1965
"No Tweet results for @soapking1965"
http://twitter.com/soapking1965 (http://twitter.com/soapking1965)
It looks like his tweets are protected though.
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@soapking1965
"No Tweet results for @soapking1965"
http://twitter.com/soapking1965 (http://twitter.com/soapking1965)
It looks like his tweets are protected though.
Nononononono, pet: my tweets aren't protected from you, you're protected from my tweets.
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@soapking1965
"No Tweet results for @soapking1965"
http://twitter.com/soapking1965 (http://twitter.com/soapking1965)
It looks like his tweets are protected though.
Nononononono, pet: my tweets aren't protected from you, you're protected from my tweets.
And for that, I'm grateful.
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Spike, we love ya.
(http://i.imgur.com/Tiox6.jpg)
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John Wesley Shipp!
Amazing.
(Spike's a little Herman Cain-y. And I mean that as a compliment.)
Sorry Pet, but Hoyman Pain is a REPUBLICAN.
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Hoyman? Curb-ban, Merman, Perv-van.
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OK, I can't stop wondering...is Spike black? I know all I'll get is sarcastic non-answers but I gotta have a proper picture of Spike in my mind.
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See studiode's comment above--the red circle contains your answer.
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Wow, OK, thanks cavorting. It really is him...
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Oh boy.
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Just curious! Since I've started bingeing on Best Show after discovering it recently, it's good to have a mental picture to go with the hilarity (though I don't know how Spike keeps coming back for more, some of the ribbing he endures on past shows is pretty harsh!) Anyway, happy holiday, Nowah!
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(though I don't know how Spike keeps coming back for more, some of the ribbing he endures on past shows is pretty harsh!)
Apropos this, am I the only one that has to fast forward over Spike calls sometimes? Some of the teasing of Spike just doesn't sit well with me. Some of it is downright mean, and it makes me feel bad. I don't know anything about Spike and what his situation is in real life, but some of the barbs about him not having any friends and stuff like that comes across as mean-spirited and nasty at times. I don't know, maybe there's some background I'm missing or something.
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Apropos this, am I the only one that has to fast forward over Spike calls sometimes? Some of the teasing of Spike just doesn't sit well with me. Some of it is downright mean, and it makes me feel bad. I don't know anything about Spike and what his situation is in real life, but some of the barbs about him not having any friends and stuff like that comes across as mean-spirited and nasty at times. I don't know, maybe there's some background I'm missing or something.
I appreciate your sensitivity to things like this.
If Spike didn't have such and obviously healthy self-esteem, I'd be more inclined to agree. Also, Spike rides roughshod over entire categories of human beings with wild abandon, so I feel like he's giving as good as he's getting.
Tom has an obvious affection for the guy. And vice-versa. They've hammered out a relationship over the years and calls.
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Yeah, fair enough. It's probably one of those things that have developed over such a long time that it's unfair to judge it after just hearing where it's at and not how it got there. Sorta like the Jackass movies: If you've watched it from the beginning you know everyone is at an equal footing, but if you come it at the wrong time you might think it was bullying.
Thanks, Jason.
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OK, I can't stop wondering...is Spike black? I know all I'll get is sarcastic non-answers but I gotta have a proper picture of Spike in my mind.
(http://www.hbshows.com/images/droopy3.jpg)
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Droopy Dawg! So perfect...think I'll use this as my mental image
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From the main blurb I wrote1 for the Spike Best Show trading card2:
Ah, yes, the mystique. Spike initially repulsed and intrigued Tom by promoting pain and barking about fictional colleagues “Debbie the Dominatrix” and “Sexy Sadie.” The baffled host dubbed him a cross between Droopy Dog and elderly outsider poet Bingo Gazingo. But a funny thing happened on the way to the dungeon over the next six years: They became buddies. Spike penciled himself into the leadoff spot—giddily greeting Shop-ling!—and unwittingly became one-half of a modern-day Abbott & Costello. From atop an orange crate in his basement apartment, the lozenge-mouthed raconteur regaled listeners with his favorite talking points: doo-wop, slasher films, The Sims, the joys of public transit, and his daytime “stories.” His ever-growing “don’t-do” list gets equal airtime: reality shows, Staten Island, pop stars (from Puff Dimwit to Jenny from the Bedroom), and a deeply held belief that children under 25 should neither be seen nor heard. The Proud Democrat and devout disciplinarian cemented his legend with Weirdos Exposed, a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents that was in fact a spoken-word memoir of the man himself. Bans are issued, but Spike will be forever humming a girl group classic b/w a spine-tingling cackle that Tom hopes is not the last thing he ever hears. All hail the real King of Queens! Fade to black.
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1Probably my favorite paragraph that I've ever scrivened.
2A Spike card graded a GEM MINT 10 by PSA sold on eBay last week for $127!
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That is really good and really funny, Omar! May I ask, what date is the "Weirdos Exposed" episode? Thanks for sharing that! Very chuckle worthy
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Glad you enjoyed the blurb, sir. The Weirdos Exposed saga spanned many episodes throughout 2009.
The key episodes are 10/27/09, where Spike reads from what he claims is Weirdos Exposed, and the 11/10/09 episode, where Spike delivers one of the great lines of all-time: "For the sake of conversation, let's say this book does not exist."
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The key episodes are 10/27/09, where Spike reads from what he claims is Weirdos Exposed
One of the best calls ever. I need to relisten to it.
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One of the finest phrases I have encountered via the Best Show is "a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents."
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From the main blurb I wrote1 for the Spike Best Show trading card2:
The Proud Democrat and devout disciplinarian cemented his legend with Weirdos Exposed, a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents that was in fact a spoken-word memoir of the man himself Scott.
Probably my favorite thing about that entire call.
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One of the finest phrases I have encountered via the Best Show is "a would-be lidblower on metro area malcontents."
Thanks!
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"For the sake of conversation, let's say this book does not exist."
Oh my god I forgot about that. That is stellar.
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Yeah, fair enough. It's probably one of those things that have developed over such a long time that it's unfair to judge it after just hearing where it's at and not how it got there. Sorta like the Jackass movies: If you've watched it from the beginning you know everyone is at an equal footing, but if you come it at the wrong time you might think it was bullying.
Thanks, Jason.
If you are at all inclined toward completism or are curious about the origins of Spike on the best show it is well worth it (?) to go waaaay back into the archives to before he was the Spike we all know and love today, when he would just call and go "WHERE'S DEBBIE?" and that was it. The Story of Spike has been a beautiful, slow unfurling; a caterpillar climbing into a cocoon and emerging a misogynist, doo-wop/soap-loving, (maybe?) (probably not) dungeonmaster.
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I've back-listened through the whole book thing and into Tom's growing (shrinking?) disenchantment with Spike saying the same thing every time he calls. It's like that last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. "The anomaly is bigger in the päst!"
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I have gone way back but I cannot find the exact first episode that Tom was successful in actually engaging Spike beyond his Debbie & Sadie catch phrases.
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I have gone way back but I cannot find the exact first episode that Tom was successful in actually engaging Spike beyond his Debbie & Sadie catch phrases.
There were a few shows in mid-late 2005 that may qualify. But January 2006 lays the groundwork for soap opera fan, government employee, 4 boroughs, Republicans and 'Oh, it's Spike'.