"Milk Duds"
The running game I have going is for you to try and guess the obscure pop-culture reference of the above title, which I will reveal in the next entry. The title of the last entry ("Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys") is actually a line from a little-known cable show on Comedy Central called The Daily Show. It is a satirical, sarcastic almost always insightful as far as commentary on journalism and the culture in general. In one of the skits this one "reporter" is talking to this one guy about the anti-French rhetoric going on. This was one of the epithets he came up with. He also had one that was something about beday hugging something-something. All right so I didn't actually see the whole skit only bits and pieces of it. But I have noticed the line has sort-of caught on in other pop-culture. And besides...it's accurate :-)
Mentioning little-known cable shows has given me an idea. How about I cover a bunch of hardly-known pop culture. Most to all of these I can guarantee you have never heard of. Or I should say I would be surprised if you have heard of any of them.
First, I will cover Cowboy Bebop. If you've never heard of it try not to feel to bad...few to none have. Currently the only place to can find on TV is the cable channel Cartoon Network, at 1:00 in the morning. It was on at 1:30 but recently got "upgraded" to the this "earlier" time.
First off let me do a little introduction. This is originally a Japanese show, an animated Japanese show. Yes, that is right, I am watching Anime or "Japanimation" whatever you prefer. And no, it's not X-rated or otherwise objectionable. I know for you old people (you've had you're 30th birthday, haven't you?) this may be hard to believe, but it's true.
I'm not sure I can fully describe why it is this show so appeals to me. There's the fantastic artwork, the terrific animation, the soundtrack nothing short of incredible, the amazing story lines and the decent (for once) English acting in the new character voices (called the "English dub" for those into this sort of thing). Ok I guess I was capable of expressing the appeal of the show. Now this isn't to say I loved every single episode. There is at least one or two I didn't like that much. But one or two out of 26 episodes is a pretty good track record. There was this one episode involving a she-male ya see and...lets just say you should skip that one ok? And there's one, which has a really poor dub job for some reason. But good episodes, well like I say. Just fantastic.
The next show is another cable show called Tough Crowd. This one is definitely one-of-a-kind. You can find it on Comedy Central weekdays at 11:30pm. These celebrities, ya see, all sit around on these couches and talk about controversial issues this-and-that. But not the way you're thinking though. Oh don't get me wrong, they still don't know what the fuck the they're talking about. But in this show they all talk as if they were in their private homes in the Bronx or whatever. I get the feeling this show is legit by the number of jokes that completely bomb out. Oh man, the politically incorrect lines those guys come up with. But they always laugh and brush it off. As opposed to jumping over the table and beating the shit out of somebody. Finally a show that really isn't afraid to tell it like it is. Although I should mention I don't watch this show every night. After all that.
I think I actually had more shows in mind but they escape me at the moment. I'm still wondering if this blog is any good. I think my title almost have something to do with the actual content now, which is a plus. I think it's getting better.
