7 Great Things About I Love The 70's, Volume 2: 1970 & 1971
Over the summer I watched VH1's I Love The 70's Volume Two. Whether it's I Love the 40's Volume 34 or I Love Tabasco Sauce, God bless the people at VH1 for continually managing to make memory lane entertaining.
At any rate, as people who have read AOGB since it's inception will tell you, this site always posted a top 10 response based out of those shows. It's like the Cliff Notes version of the classics. So needless to say, updates of each episode have been sitting in my drafted posts for sometime now. Why I haven't posted them earlier, I have no idea. But then I thought about it. It's a retake on the 70's, right? So reliving the seventies in August of 2006 or October of 2006 doesn't really make all that much difference. It's still the same dose of nostalgia.
So here's my plan. Everyday this week (guest post Thursday will begin next week) will be a new post devoted to quotes like you see below- except for TITMT which will be seventies themed and my answer to the TITMT on Sunday. I hope you like the plan because it's the one I'm going with. Groovy baby, yeah!
1970
1. "I didn't think people named Norman Greenbaum were allowed to sing songs. They could fill your cavities for ya. If you need your taxes done, no problem. Singing 'Spirit In The Sky'? My hat's off to you, Mr. Jew." (Michael Ian Black)
2. "They're like the equivalent of Hollywood Squares for tv actors. It's where film actors go to die." (French Stewart on disaster films of the seventies)
3. "We are so baked. Joy to the fishes. Joy to you, man! Joy to me." (Michael Ian Black on Three Dog Night's Joy To The World)
4. "The long distance dedications were how I learned about how much difficulty there was in the world." (Joel Stein on Casey Kasem's radio show)
5. "Look, nobody loves Ryan Seacrest more than me. It's documented. But can he replace Casey Kasem? Can a Hyundai replace a Ferrari? Not where I live, chump." (Michael Ian Black)
6. "To me it's just about the music. Not the black people. Not the white people. Unless there's an Asian. Cause I have a thing for those chicks." (Michael Ian Black on Sly and The Family Stone's Music)
7. "Hippie fashion. The idea was that if we dress colorfully enough nobody will notice that we're dirty. Hey, there's a war on. We hate the soldiers. Let's dress like them! In 1970 they discovered irony. It was their way of saying hey man, we're with you, but we're not. It would have been nice if our infantry men started wearing tye dye, but that's not very good camoflauge for Vietnam." (Mo Rocca on hippies and the Vietnam war)
1971
1. "Maybe they had writers. Maybe they didn't. I choose to believe they didn't. I want to preserve the fantasy. And if you tell me otherwise, I can't hear you." (Michael Ian Black on Hollywood Squares)
2. "That's a good song for when you're at summer camp. Winter, spring, summer or fall. Except for winter, spring and fall, I'll be your friend in summer for four weeks and then I'll you'll leave camp and I'll never be your friend again. All you gotta do is call? I don't have your phone number. You didn't give it to me." (Michael Ian Black on James Taylor's You've Got A Friend)
3. "Jerry Garcia is probably the most unlikely rock persona, ever. He looks like if your math teacher was stranded on a desert island for like 20 years and then you rescued him. This is what he'd look like." (Brad Sherwood)
4. "If KTEL never existed we wouldn't have popular albums today like 'NOW That's What I Call A Random Compilation Of Recently Released, Semi Popular Songs That We Can License Cheaply And Get Out In A Hurry!'" (Weird Al Yankovic on record compilations of the 70's)
5. "Gordon Lightfoot was from Canada. Truth is if you could read his mind you'd probably find a tale about Mounties and moose." (Mo Rocca) "It was one of those sogns you would hear on a drizzly day. If that was like the first song they played in the morning you just knew--don't go nowhere." (Luis Guzman) (Talking About the song, If You Could Read My Mind)
6. "She took the women of Malibu and she gave them a voice. Malibu Barbie was really the Rosa Parks of Malibu women." (Mo Rocca)
7. "You just hate to see people die. What is that teaching us about race relations in this country? Come together- one of you is going to drop dead. That's a message I took to heart. It's why I have no black friends." (Michael Ian Black on the film, Brian's Song)
At any rate, as people who have read AOGB since it's inception will tell you, this site always posted a top 10 response based out of those shows. It's like the Cliff Notes version of the classics. So needless to say, updates of each episode have been sitting in my drafted posts for sometime now. Why I haven't posted them earlier, I have no idea. But then I thought about it. It's a retake on the 70's, right? So reliving the seventies in August of 2006 or October of 2006 doesn't really make all that much difference. It's still the same dose of nostalgia.
So here's my plan. Everyday this week (guest post Thursday will begin next week) will be a new post devoted to quotes like you see below- except for TITMT which will be seventies themed and my answer to the TITMT on Sunday. I hope you like the plan because it's the one I'm going with. Groovy baby, yeah!
1970
1. "I didn't think people named Norman Greenbaum were allowed to sing songs. They could fill your cavities for ya. If you need your taxes done, no problem. Singing 'Spirit In The Sky'? My hat's off to you, Mr. Jew." (Michael Ian Black)
2. "They're like the equivalent of Hollywood Squares for tv actors. It's where film actors go to die." (French Stewart on disaster films of the seventies)
3. "We are so baked. Joy to the fishes. Joy to you, man! Joy to me." (Michael Ian Black on Three Dog Night's Joy To The World)
4. "The long distance dedications were how I learned about how much difficulty there was in the world." (Joel Stein on Casey Kasem's radio show)
5. "Look, nobody loves Ryan Seacrest more than me. It's documented. But can he replace Casey Kasem? Can a Hyundai replace a Ferrari? Not where I live, chump." (Michael Ian Black)
6. "To me it's just about the music. Not the black people. Not the white people. Unless there's an Asian. Cause I have a thing for those chicks." (Michael Ian Black on Sly and The Family Stone's Music)
7. "Hippie fashion. The idea was that if we dress colorfully enough nobody will notice that we're dirty. Hey, there's a war on. We hate the soldiers. Let's dress like them! In 1970 they discovered irony. It was their way of saying hey man, we're with you, but we're not. It would have been nice if our infantry men started wearing tye dye, but that's not very good camoflauge for Vietnam." (Mo Rocca on hippies and the Vietnam war)
1971
1. "Maybe they had writers. Maybe they didn't. I choose to believe they didn't. I want to preserve the fantasy. And if you tell me otherwise, I can't hear you." (Michael Ian Black on Hollywood Squares)
2. "That's a good song for when you're at summer camp. Winter, spring, summer or fall. Except for winter, spring and fall, I'll be your friend in summer for four weeks and then I'll you'll leave camp and I'll never be your friend again. All you gotta do is call? I don't have your phone number. You didn't give it to me." (Michael Ian Black on James Taylor's You've Got A Friend)
3. "Jerry Garcia is probably the most unlikely rock persona, ever. He looks like if your math teacher was stranded on a desert island for like 20 years and then you rescued him. This is what he'd look like." (Brad Sherwood)
4. "If KTEL never existed we wouldn't have popular albums today like 'NOW That's What I Call A Random Compilation Of Recently Released, Semi Popular Songs That We Can License Cheaply And Get Out In A Hurry!'" (Weird Al Yankovic on record compilations of the 70's)
5. "Gordon Lightfoot was from Canada. Truth is if you could read his mind you'd probably find a tale about Mounties and moose." (Mo Rocca) "It was one of those sogns you would hear on a drizzly day. If that was like the first song they played in the morning you just knew--don't go nowhere." (Luis Guzman) (Talking About the song, If You Could Read My Mind)
6. "She took the women of Malibu and she gave them a voice. Malibu Barbie was really the Rosa Parks of Malibu women." (Mo Rocca)
7. "You just hate to see people die. What is that teaching us about race relations in this country? Come together- one of you is going to drop dead. That's a message I took to heart. It's why I have no black friends." (Michael Ian Black on the film, Brian's Song)
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