Episode Thirty
Episode 30: Special Halloween episode! Shout-outs; Listener Topic of the Week -- Hucklebug Halloween costumes; what we're giving our trick-or-treaters this year; movies; lowlights and highlights; fuck-offs and you-rules; The Twilight Zone; Halloween memories.
posted by stennie @ 11:51 PM
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Damn, Stennie! Great French accent!
Great Halloween show!
I finally got to Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine!!
It sucked!!
I give it ONE STAR. Even as a bad-but-fun movie of that era it was wildly uneven. And talk about an anti-woman message! Women in this movie are just robots to be used to steal men's riches from them. Hell, you'd think Dr. Goldfoot would make more money from licensing the technology used in his Bikini Machine! (See, for anyone who hasn't seen the movie, the catch is that the bikini machine makes bikinis, with robot women in them.)
What is a durndel? (sp?)
I loved your Halloween low/high lights.
My favorite Twilight Zone was (I think) called "Long Distance Call" and it's about a woman who keeps getting phone calls from a creepy voice. I don't want to give away the ending... IT'S TOO SCARY TO RUIN!
While I am a total geek, I cannot claim to have seen EVERY episode of the Twilight Zone--however, I can suggest that perhaps Stennie was thinking of an episode of the color TZ from the early 1980s for her "stop watch that stops time" episode--only it was a housewife frustrated with her ridiculously busy life who finds a strange necklace buried in her garden. It allows her to stop time just by yelling "STOP IT!!" She gets all the housework done, goes around town, kisses the cute grocery bagger guy and then, why time is moving again sees that Soviet missiles are on the way. She rushes outside and yells "STOP IT!!" just as she sees a missile overhead. THE END.
That also might have been a remake of the ep Stennie is thinking of.
My only good Halloween story was when one of my best friends and I dressed as ninjas (it was the 80s!) and we went to the house everyone always said was haunted and rang the bell. The door opened and we came face to face with two very scary-looking ninjas!! Well, actually there was a big mirror directly opposite the door, inside the house. We came face to face with ourselves, but we both nearly jumped out of our costumes.
Yes, we were dumb.
Be we were FIERCE NINJAS!!
OK, I'm done. Great Halloween episode!
Oh my God -- the Halloween Hucklebug killed Stennie and Betster! You Bastards!
So, does the guy in American Movie bake cookies in an ohv-en?
And on the meat thing, it kind of depends. The proper Department of Agriculture answer is "cook it within a few hours or discard", but I've done all kinds of things with meat (my father is a butcher), and I've never gotten sick. That being said, ground hamburger is one of the things most likely to spoil, due to the massive amount of surface area and the relative ease with which bacteria can enter the mix. But some chops or a roast? Probably okay, although the taste may be a bit off.
And okay, you wouldn't sleep with Jason, but which mass murderers would you sleep with? Apparently mass-murderers are chick magnets, if the mail at the prisons are any indication.
I've always sucked at costumes, but the most fun I had at Halloween was in college. The big event on Halloween was the midnight symphony concert. Not only would each section dress up as something different (chain gangs, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, etc), but the audience would come in costume, and some of these people had spent weeks making these things. Some of the better ones were the Wheel of Fortune (people came as Vanna, the tiles, etc), parts of speech, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (I know, they can fuck off), and the British Royal Family, who were piped in by the orchestra. People would impersonate the statues in the rotunda, and you'd have to see which of them were real. The show would always open with Toccata and Fugue, and go from there.
Happy Halloween!
Okay, sorry folks, but my Halloween story tops the charts. It may not have happened in my childhood, but I got engaged on Halloween!!!
HoJew and I are going to be that house that creates memories for kids on H-ween, only we're going to scare the pants off of everyone!
And, yes, we'll have a good lawyer, because no doubt we'll be sued.
Halloweens past:
Fifth grade, I went to school as the Unknown Comic (The Gong Show was big back in the day) and the fat kid who sat behind me came to school dressed as a woman. Sixth grade, our class had a 50s theme going and three of us looked like extras in an old Happy Days episode. Two weeks later I finally had all the vaseline washed out of my hair. That was also the year I stopped trick-or-treating (and it was probably the last time I dressed up for the occasion), so instead I started handing out candy. I was surprised at how many 17 year olds were still at it, yet moreso at how many weren't wearing costumes.
One episode of the 80s Twilight Zone I remember well was with Ron Glass (Barney Miller) and Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons). Sherman was a math professor working on a formula on the chalkboard and accidentally came up with the right combination of numbers and letters to conjure up the devil himself (Ron Glass). Anybody remember that one?
WRONG!
Refrozen meat will NOT make you sick as long as the meat is refrozen before it has a chance to grow bacteria!
It won't taste as good because the cells will be ruptured by the crystallization of the water in the cells, but it WON'T MAKE YOU SICK!
I'll bet you a HUNDRED BUCKS that you can't come up with any authoritative source that says otherwise. (Sorry, but I don't consider grandmothers or meat salesmen authorities.)
Shake?
(Also, the Looney Tunes witch's name was Hazel. Broomhilde was a comic strip witch.)
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