Author Topic: FUN PROJECT  (Read 17730 times)

sonicdork

  • Achilles bursitis
  • Posts: 142
FUN PROJECT
« on: March 14, 2016, 04:07:19 PM »
Hey hey!

Here's something you can help us with!

What are your all time favorite calls (non-Scharpling & Wurster) from both the WFMU & .Net eras?

What I need:
1) Episode date - link if possible
2) Name of caller
3) Timecode of call start if you can!

You can post here OR email me at jason@thebestshow.net.

THANKS!
Dudio

leeharveyosmond

  • Achilles bursitis
  • Posts: 160
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 04:34:04 PM »
From February 20, 2007: A dude who immediately gets GOMP'd for complaining about being on hold. Tom then makes fun of him (listen closely for Mike cracking up in the background).

http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=22150&archive=100777&starttime=2:46:23 (goes on for about a minute)

buffcoat

  • Space Champion!
  • Posts: 6214
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2016, 05:48:18 PM »
Forum participant Wes and I love this guy's call - Wes' writeup below:

"Larry from Newark...CALIFORNIA! The call was on the 9/29/09, starts right before the 1 hour, 9 minute mark. Makes it almost a full three minutes. I'm afraid he won't have a chance in the Caller of the Year category, so I would like to nominate him for Most Delusional Caller as well."
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

Omar

  • A Recapper/A True Star.
  • Space Champion!
  • Posts: 2009
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2016, 06:05:28 PM »
The sequence I've been touting for over a decade:

Tom zings WFMU DJ Hova, followed by his chat with Manny, aka DJ Dragon from Studio 54, and ending with Tom serenading him with B & S's "I Fought in a War" and "The Model".

Originally aired 7/27/2004, but this entire sequence is available via the 12/13/2010 episode of Best Show Gems.

I have a standalone .mp3, if needed.

Another one of my oft-cited calls is the legendary Spike call from 9/5/06, which has a ton of great Abbot & Costello-y stuff, most notably the classic Carroll O'Connor sequence.

The Spike call starts at around 55:53 into the 9/6/06 show. The C O'C riffage (haha!) occurs in the context of his review of Little Miss Sunshine. The key chunk is this:

Spike thought it was a nice, cute movie, and he praised the performance of "the little girl" (Abigail Breslin) and Alan Arkin’s work as her grandfather. Tom hasn’t seen much of Arkin since M*A*S*H ended its run, so he was glad to see him back on the screen. Spike thinks Tom is confusing Alan Arkin with Alan Aldo from President Baseball. Spike reiterates that Alan Arkin is in the film, but Tom doesn't know who that is. Spike is surprised that Tom doesn’t know Arkin from The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming. Tom adds to the confusion by asking Spike if it’s Alan Narkin, so Spike spells his last name: A-R-K-I-N. Now Tom gets it -- it’s the guy who’s in Little Miss Sunshine! Tom agrees that he’s very good. Spike points out that in addition to his acting, Arkin was once a member of The Tarriers, who did "Black Denim Trousers & Motorcycle Boots". Tom thinks this is a clothing company, but Spike says it was actually a song. Spike loses Tom with that one, so it's time to move on. Spike liked the cast across the board -- the mother, played by Jean Colette, Greg Kinnear, and the guy from The Office.

Spike: I always forget his name.
Tom: Ricky Gervais.
Spike: No, the American version of it.
Tom: Oh, okay, yeah, that guy is …
Spike: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, that guy.
Tom: Yeah, Stephen Colbert.
Spike: No. His name is Steve, but that’s not his last name.
Tom: Steve …
Spike: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, but you know who I mean.
Tom: Ah, Steve Richards.
Spike: No.
Tom: No?
Spike: Carol? Carell?
Tom: Carol Stevens?
Spike: No, not Cat Stevens.
Tom: I didn’t say Cat Stevens. I said Carroll Stevens.
Spike: Well, I never heard of her.
Tom: Him. Like Carroll O’Connor.
Spike: I’ve heard of Caroll O’Connor, but I never heard of Carroll …
Tom: He was not in Little Miss Sunshine, Spike. You are mistaken. Carroll O’Connor is in very poor health, and I’m sure could not have done that movie.
Spike: Carroll O’Connor’s deceased.
Tom: Wait, hold on. What?
Spike: Carroll O’Connor has been deceased for a number of years now.
Tom: Oh, good heavens. I didn’t realize. I send my condolences out to the rest of the O’Connor family.

Tom continues to express his sympathy and wants the O’Connor family, in this moment of sadness, to realize that The Best Show is there for them. He welcomes any family members to call and share their stories. As for Little Miss Sunshine, Tom’s only problem was that he didn’t think the family got beaten up enough. He thinks they could have easily had two or three more things flung at them. Tom says the brother who wanted to be a fighter pilot could have also gotten his legs chopped off. Spike laments that it wasn’t that kind of movie. Tom also thinks the family could have been robbed at gunpoint. Spikes point out that [SPOILER] somebody dies in the film. Yes, but Tom thinks it could have been a murder. Tom thought the fact that each family member got completely humiliated at one point was insufficient. If Tom made the film, he would have generated three or four humiliations for each family member. Spike doesn’t like the idea because it doesn’t fit with the film. Tom would have had the family show up at the Little Miss Sunshine pageant and get robbed at gunpoint. When they returned to watch their daughter, they would have been locked out. More tragedy!


There's obviously a lot of Spike calls to pick from, but the above works well as a standalone chunk.


Cannot recall/quickly dig up the episode date at this moment, but the Joe Paterno Call is worthy of consideration:

http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php?topic=4587.msg93723#msg93723


"Let's have a device-a-thon, just you and me." -- Montgomery Davies

BadGuyZero

  • Administrator
  • Achilles Tendon Bursitis
  • Posts: 723
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2016, 07:37:13 PM »
December 4, 2007

Tom spends the first part of the show talking about how much he disliked the movie I'm Not There. A caller phones in to tell Tom that she paid $20 to see it at a film festival, has seen it a second time, and wants to see it a third time. She then starts explaining what the film is supposed to be about and asks Tom why he didn't like the movie? Tom gets frustrated because he just spent a half hour talking on-air about why didn't like it. He ends the call by turning the caller into a ghost.

Beginning of the call: http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=25462&archive=100812&starttime=1:02:20
The "YOU'RE A GHOST!" moment: http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=25462&archive=100812&starttime=1:03:58

Spike called earlier in the show and was also turned into a ghost.

WesleyfromLondon

  • Plantar Fasciitis
  • Posts: 19
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2016, 08:40:50 PM »
I need to dig it up but I love when Julie from Cincinnati gets her own show and wants people to call in and talk about sandwiches. Spike calls in and they have a brief disagreement about whether pork is healthy or not and Julie hangs up on him. I think it's in the first 1/3 of the first six hour marathon show.

The whole segment of the Julie show is so wonderfully bizarre that it's like Tom is running an actual nuthouse (in a good way). It's like a sort of heightened reality where you're not really sure if you're really hearing what you're hearing.

leeharveyosmond

  • Achilles bursitis
  • Posts: 160
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2016, 03:17:53 AM »
"The Worst Phone Call in the History of Radio" from November 6, 2001

http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=1332&archive=100574&starttime=1:52:51

Omar

  • A Recapper/A True Star.
  • Space Champion!
  • Posts: 2009
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2016, 06:42:15 AM »
I don't have the timestamp, but the "more pizza, slave!" call from 5/13/2008 is a fun one with a great reaction from Tom.

- Brian, 17, calls from Long Island to recount a story from the trenches of a kid's birthday party place. He says that his main duties involve serving pizza and drink refreshments to the hyper kids after they are done with their Moon Bounce session. As he attended to about 30 6- to 7-year-olds during one event, two kids started yelling for more pizza. Brian says he started playing around by ignoring the requests to make his job more entertaining. The kids noticed the poor service and added a zinger to their demands: "More pizza, slave." Tom is very amused by this. Brian says he stared at them without offering any retort. He does give their mothers credit for yelling at the kids and apologizing to him, even though he did think it was funny. Tom warns the kids that they will be serving a lot of pizza with that kind of attitude. Tom remembers that he locked eyes with the Panera troublemaker. He wanted to hold Junior's gaze, and the monster challenged him. He knew that the game was afoot. Tom says he Junior did look away first, but he was about to break it off to avoid looking like a psycho.
"Let's have a device-a-thon, just you and me." -- Montgomery Davies

Chas

  • Policemans heel
  • Posts: 55
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2016, 09:10:13 AM »
Tom's rope-a-dope gomp of Hesh was one of the interactions that made me fall in love with the show.  That with the repeated references to Hesh "doing a little dance" every time something would go wrong over the next few episodes just killed me.

Original airdate was 5/8/2007.  Updated with link.  This is when Hesh calls in first.  First Hesh call here:   https://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=23004&archive=100785&starttime=2:49:30

Followed by the 2nd featuring GOMP:  https://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=23004&archive=100785&starttime=2:56:11

buffcoat

  • Space Champion!
  • Posts: 6214
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2016, 09:22:56 AM »
Perhaps someone else could find one of these, but there were a couple of shows where Tom reached an extraordinarily low point at the end of a show and the Mr T guy called in at exactly that moment.
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

buffcoat

  • Space Champion!
  • Posts: 6214
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2016, 09:23:25 AM »
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

JonFromMaplewood

  • Space Champion!
  • Posts: 2372
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2016, 02:16:38 PM »

The "YOU'RE A GHOST!" moment: http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=25462&archive=100812&starttime=1:03:58


He specifically turns the Bob Dylan caller into a ghost at the 1:24:30 moment. I take personal pride in knowing that I played a role in creating the "You're a ghost" thing.
"I'm riding the silence like John Cage up in this piece." -Tom Scharpling

Mike Desert

  • Achilles Tendon Bursitis
  • Posts: 653
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2016, 02:57:39 PM »
I really liked the call about American Dream Meadowlands / Xanadu. From 2013 I believe.  Just Tom talking about the craziness of it.  The one where he talks about the Boardwalk was great too. Work blocks WFMU so I can't look anything up...
Another San Fransisco Toilet Person

JesseFromVegas

  • Achilles bursitis
  • Posts: 247
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2016, 04:02:42 PM »
May 30, 2006: Comedy Master Zach Galifianakis Calls In! Philly Boy Roy Talks About Memorial Day! An Argument About CNN Crawls, Your Lowest Moment And More. In Tribute To Gleason Jones... RIP.

Any of the Gleason Jones stuff, particularly Tom arguing with callers trying to correct him.

BadGuyZero

  • Administrator
  • Achilles Tendon Bursitis
  • Posts: 723
Re: FUN PROJECT
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2016, 06:47:50 PM »

The "YOU'RE A GHOST!" moment: http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=25462&archive=100812&starttime=1:03:58


He specifically turns the Bob Dylan caller into a ghost at the 1:24:30 moment. I take personal pride in knowing that I played a role in creating the "You're a ghost" thing.

She called back in because apparently she's a glutton for punishment, hence why she keeps going to that Bob Dylan movie.