In this episode:
- Mike Tyson and Jennifer Connelly growing up in the Catskill Mountains,
- the series finale of MADtv on Fox,
- the season finale of Saturday Night Live featuring Will Ferrell, Norm Macdonald, Tom Hanks, and other celebrities (Celebrity Jeopardy! video),
- the series finale of My Name Is Earl on NBC,
- Norm Macdonald playing Burt Reynolds’s son,
- Dollhouse starring Eliza Dushku,
- Dane Cook’s new comedy special Isolated Incident,
- the commercial for the movie Drag Me to Hell (2009),
- hip hop artist Danger Mouse releasing a CD-R as his new album,
- the horrendous state of rock and pop music,
- Frankie Valli and The Bee Gees singing with weird chicken voices,
- listener mail from Dawn in NJ (Disney eggs),
- children’s food gimmicks (Smurfs SpaghettiOs, Pac-Man cereal, Marshmallow Krispies, Cookie Crisp, etc.),
- Cap’n Crunch cereal melting in milk,
- a celebrity death (Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse),
- What Ever Happened To? (Disney’s classic characters),
- the origin of Baba Booey,
- the new premium movie channel Epix,
- Star Trek (2009) movie reviews by listeners Joe in KY and Dennis in CA,
- and Dennis’s waterboarding contest.
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Rob and Greg,
Thanks very much for taking the time to read my review. Oh and Rob, I must disagree with you on Cap’n Crunch. I remember countless times as a kid literally destroying the roof of my mouth because that damn cereal was so rock hard and jagged. It was like eating gravel.
Joe, you’re welcome, thanks for giving us your review to read!
Regarding Cap’n Crunch, maybe by the time I was eating it, Quaker changed the ingredients, like how General Mills did with its monster cereals several years ago.
Two other cereals that melted instantly in milk were Post’s Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles.
I think the most disgusting-tasting cereal I ever ate was Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch.
Pebbles were completely disgusting. The worst cereal I had was the Nintendo one.
Yeah, the Nintendo cereal by Ralston in the late 80s was pretty gross.
SNL FYI’s to add:
1. Darrell Hammond was a cast member this year, but he has indeed finally left the show.
2. Also leaving the show was long time announcer Don Pardo.
3. Did you know that Norm MacDonald actually created “Celebrity Jeopardy!” He said it was just a way to do the Burt Reynolds impersonation more often.
Mickey Mouse dying at only 62 reminded me that Michael Bell just recently turned 70 last month! A lot of those 70s/80s voice actors are getting up there. I read that at San Diego Comic Con there was a script reading where Greg Berger read alongside June Foray, the lady who did Rocky the flying squirrel’s voice. That lady’s 92 and it will be a sad day when she goes away.
It also got me thinking about how if you go back far enough, all the celebrities from a given decade are dead. Like I don’t think anyone who was famous in the 50s is still alive. The celebrities of the sixties are rare and pretty much half of anyone famous in the seventies is dead. I’ll put a fork in the seventies with Lee Majors’ demise. Can you imagine the jokes when the six million dollar man finally dies?
never thought i’d hear ‘dangermouse’ on the show! the character is voiced by david jason – who is now knighted and something of a british institution thanks to the show ‘only fools and horses’. on the subject of food gimmicks; there were crisps (chips) available here in the mid-80’s. they came in a black packet and had stripe the gremlin on them, the twist being they were fruit flavoured crisps. i’ve been trying to find information on them for years – were they available in the US or do they mean anything to you?