Watched the Weirdly Cool DVD last night. It is a real treat to watch these guys as they do a lot of the old bits.

I recommend watching this if you can find it. I ended up buying it but it is well worth it!

And now back to the freeway which is already in progress.


Jim

Antelope Freeway 1/2 mile.

Oh' blinding light, oh' light that blinds...

regnad kcin....

Antelope Freeway 1/4 mile.

Antelope Freeway 1/8 mile.


Jim

Just follow the yellow rubber line.

"Living in today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But, there they are."

Shoes for Industry!

Porgie, Tirebiter, he's a boy and a girl delighter....

There's one crawling up my leg !

Sandy, in the DVD they even make reference to the Ford Exploder.

Antlope Freeway 1/16th mile. If you lived here you would be home by now.

Jim

"There's a Seeker born every minute".

With Organ Leroy, at his organ again...

Sandy, in the DVD they even make reference to the Ford Exploder.

Antlope Freeway 1/16th mile. If you lived here you would be home by now.

Jim
One of my favorite single lines from them. :D

...Not too many Firesigners amongst us, are there ? Or Stoogeholics, or Monty Pythoners, Benny Hill freaks...<grin>

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall down." Fudd's First Law of Opposition

One of my favorite single lines from them. :D

Watching them do the entire Ralph Spoilsport bit is a hoot. Ralph is dressed in the plaid jacket and the funking hat that you would expect from a used car salesman of his caliber.


Jim

When I was in college I was in the theater department. After rehearsals we would all pack into someone's room and smoke lots of, "things", drink Boonesfarm Apple Wine and listen to Firesign Theater and recite it word for word for hours on end. Everyone else thought we were nuts and maybe we were, but the memories of those days sticks with me even today. Lines from Firesign are part of my daily routine, including "If you lived here, you'd be home by now" and Nick Danger's name backwards on the door,"regnaD kciN". It does my heart good to know there are at least a few of us left.Thanks for the thread.

Oh, by the way, Antelope Freeway 1/32 mile.

$11.94 with free shipping at Deep Discount DVD, thanks guys, I'll have it in a week.

and oh yeah, "no true Mississippi coward would leave his wine cellar unguarded in such a dangerous time".

I discovered FST one night in the spring of 1968. A friend and I got kind'a drunk sanding his sailboat. Then listened to FST on WREK FM.

I kept asking, "Did they really say that?" He had heard them before, kept saying, "Yes!"

Then I bought about 8 albums (LPs, it was 1968).

Great group, thread of thought follows a winding path. Highly recommended!

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall down." Fudd's First Law of Opposition


I always thought it was Thud's first law........

And the Natural Guard!

"Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down on top of his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! underneath the bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which is the sun, and the other, they called the moon."

"Be warned! Your brain may no longer be the boss. If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating."

"Benjamin Franklin: The only President of the United States, who was never President of the United States."

How can you be in two places at once; when you're really nowhere at all?

Forward into the Past.


Loosna's castor oil Flakes. Like the guys down at the precinct sing. Ohhh, ya ain't got the boost if you ain't got the boost, the boost ya get from Loosna's. Looooosnaaaaa's.

Lt Bradshaw!


Jim

I can tell by the pie on your tie that your an American well so am I.


Jim

AK'ers not into Firesign must be baffled by this thread.

Meanwhile,

"they're in everybodys eggs".

AK'ers not into Firesign must be baffled by this thread.

You're right.

Meanwhile,

"they're in everybodys eggs".

"Pass the syrup General"

Antelope Freeway 1/64th mile.

Jim

"Pass the syrup General"



That's good thinking, but syrup won't stop them".

What's he to do, they think he is insane, his option, take command!


Jim

What to do if an alien appears!

ONE!"

"Drop beneath the seat of your plane and look away."

TWO!

"Avoid eye contact."


Jim

Fixed

"THREE!"

"If there are no eyes, avoid all contact."

Opps.... we screwed up!

Hi! I'm Joe Beets. Say, what chance does a returning deceased war veteran have for that good-paying job, more sugar, and the free mule you've been dreaming of?

You're all Bozos on this bus.

Don't follow de balls when dey make de street.

"There are people that still believe that dogs live in trees!"

I always thought it was Thud's first law........


Could be. I had a C-28 with that smooth (not overly detailed) sound.

But later on in the same skit I thought there is the exclamation: "Holy Fudd!"


BTW, I got to go back to work here at the "Veteran's Tap Dance Administration."

And dont-cha just love those 'Hot Buttered Groat Clusters'

and two tubs of slaw!!

Sorry, only one tub per family. By the way, They never come up into the hills.

Eat it! Eat it RAW! RAW! RAW!! RAW!! That's the spirit here at More Science High.

Give me immortality or give me death.

"That woman's trying to kill me!"

Follow the Snake, the Snake is a river.

From an ancient wire recording.


Jim

Why, that's nothing but a two bit ring from a cracker back jox.

That's right, and I'll sell it to you for $5000.00.

What kind of chump do you take me for half pint.

First class!

Jim

Ok guys you've peaked my curiosity. I was at the thrift last night and low and behold what do I find. A Firesign Theatre album: I Think We're all Bozozs on the Bus. I haven't spun it yet but it does look interesting.

"Every Thing You Know Is Wrong":yes:

Ok guys you've peaked my curiosity. I was at the thrift last night and low and behold what do I find. A Firesign Theatre album: I Think We're all Bozozs on the Bus. I haven't spun it yet but it does look interesting.

Follow the rubber line to your sanitarty pedestal.

Toad away, Toad away, where do you go when you're toad away.


Jim

I hope you enjoy "Bozo's". The best albums, IMHO, are "How can you be in two Place at Once When You're Not Anywhere At All" and "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers". and remember, I've got an envelope that will wash your car while you're driving it home to work.

I also hope you like We're all bozo's on this Bus, you might need to listen more than once, they plays on words go by so fast it is not alwys easy to catch them. You might even want to indulge in your choice of beverages and such for a really good listen.

"Where's your school spirit Mudhead?"
"It's in the rumble seat, do ya want a snort."


Jim

I hope you enjoy "Bozo's". The best albums, IMHO, are "How can you be in two Place at Once When You're Not Anywhere At All" and "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers". and remember, I've got an envelope that will wash your car while you're driving it home to work.

You either think they're genuis or not. It's comedy that requires effort on the listeners part. Several of us seem to think they are damn funny. But my wife and friends can't stand em. The production values of their albums are amazing, they make a lot of literary references, sometimes current topics, more often world history and culture, their "punch lines" involve saying the thing you least expect to hear.

If you love MST3K and Montly Python, you might love Firesign.

....Oh, and "that's no crazed sterno bum, but a respected law officer, Sheriff Lugar Axehandle.

I thought "The Chinchilla Show" was pee-yer-pants funny back in '71 when I first heard it. Heard it again a few years ago, it STILL is zany-as-all-get-out.

I have to agree, it does take effort on the listeners part, but that is what makes it so good. It is more a comedy of the mind, I wonder if that is why we liked it so much back then? I still listen to my Lp's and hear things that I have missed, even though I have listened to them many times in the past.

"This land is made of mountains, this land is made of mud, this land has lots of everything, for me and Elmer Fudd."

Jim

You either think they're genuis or not. It's comedy that requires effort on the listeners part. Several of us seem to think they are damn funny. But my wife and friends can't stand em. The production values of their albums are amazing, they make a lot of literary references, sometimes current topics, more often world history and culture, their "punch lines" involve saying the thing you least expect to hear.

If you love MST3K and Montly Python, you might love Firesign.

I thought "The Chinchilla Show" was pee-yer-pants funny back in '71 when I first heard it. Heard it again a few years ago, it STILL is zany-as-all-get-out.

I am fond of the 40 Great Unclaimed Melodies, from that same album.

And has anyone else heard Ozzy Goring, or I was a Cock Teaser at Roosterama.

Jim

I have to agree, it does take effort on the listeners part, but that is what makes it so good. It is more a comedy of the mind, I wonder if that is why we liked it so much back then? I still listen to my Lp's and hear things that I have missed, even though I have listened to them many times in the past.

Telling people your into Firesign Threatre is like telling them your into audio gear. We're just different.

I'm back in the saddle again.
Out where an Indian is your friend.
Where the vegitables are green.
..and you can pee in a stream... and that's important.

[QUOTE=Holst]Telling people your into Firesign Threatre is like telling them your into audio gear. We're just different.
QUOTE]

I notice that a lot of us here seem to have some of the same interests and experiences.

"What is this, Danger?"
"It's a brown paper bag."

Jim

"More coffee, Warden?" is the standard question when I serve it to friends. Makes me chuckle and my guests wonder.

I believe the line is "More coffins, warden?" I have the "Big Book" which has the scripts from the 1st 3 Albums on it. I'll look it up if I can find it.

I believe the line is "More coffins, warden?" I have the "Big Book" which has the scripts from the 1st 3 Albums on it. I'll look it up if I can find it.

Could be, but it is in an Ersatz Brothers Coffee Commercial. The Real One.

I believe the line is "More coffins, warden?" I have the "Big Book" which has the scripts from the 1st 3 Albums on it. I'll look it up if I can find it.

but I remember the line as:
"Another coffin fulla coffee, Warden?"

I was not in error, Robie also had it right. His reference is in the first part. Right near the end she asks "More coffins, Warden", to which he replies, "No thanks, I've seen enough".

Eat it! Eat it RAW! RAW! RAW!! RAW!! That's the spirit here at More Science High.

"Haven't you heard about the death of The Old School?"

"Don't worry about the flies. We won't weigh 'em!"

Let us not forget:
Mark Time, star detective of the circumsolar federation and his sidekick Bob Bunny.
Old Doc Technical
International Youth Sex on Parade
Poop's Principles
Driving for Dopers on the intercourse of Highland and Exterior avenues
and the fact that Deputy Dan has no friends.
W.C. Fields forever
Are you holding, Granny?
10,000 copies of The Naked Lunch
Men throughout the audience are rising to the occassion
Give me some more of that cocoa, Watson
In the Next World You're On Your Own
Take him back for regrooving
and Communist Martyr High School.

Am I a fan?

I believe the line is "More coffins, warden?" I have the "Big Book" which has the scripts from the 1st 3 Albums on it. I'll look it up if I can find it.
There's probably enough there for all us to be right.

Would love to get the book and I think I've seen it on the FST site.

Also used to love listening to National Lampoon's Radio Hour. It was a 1/2 hour show that featured many of those who went on to become SNL stars. Not as free form, train of thought or featuring the great plays on words. My FST faves were "United Snakes of Armenia" and "Napalmolive."

A friend recently gave me CDs of "Bozos", "All Hail" and "Waiting for..." which are still available on Amazon. Have also heard "Give me Liberty..." and IMO it is good too.

However, since we're the only ones in on the joke, I'm preaching to the choir (and Organ Leroy). "You already know that or you wouldn't be here."

That does it! as soon as I finish typing , I am going to find my copy of
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers!

You're all Bozaks on this bus!

And that's the Whole and the Truth of it.

They're like Pink Floyd and Monty Python---good when you were young, smoked pot and were smug about your hipness.

Not so good when you get old, stop getting high and realize you're just one of several billion schmucks.

They're like Pink Floyd and Monty Python---good when you were young, smoked pot and were smug about your hipness.

Not so good when you get old, stop getting high and realize you're just one of several billion schmucks.
In light of this thread (Oh Blinding light, Oh light that blinds...) I have dug out How Can you be in two places at once, Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers, and Waiting for the Electrician or someone like him. They've been cleaned, and listened to for the first time in 15 or more years.

I'm a long way away from that smug young man and his habits, but I still find them very funny and very intelligent. I think I may appreciate them better now than I did back then - one of the reasons is probably that I have more knowledge, and get more out of the scripts.

In light of this thread (Oh Blinding light, Oh light that blinds...) I have dug out How Can you be in two places at once, Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers, and Waiting for the Electrician or someone like him. They've been cleaned, and listened to for the first time in 15 or more years.

I'm a long way away from that smug young man and his habits, but I still find them very funny and very intelligent. I think I may appreciate them better now than I did back then - one of the reasons is probably that I have more knowledge, and get more out of the scripts.

Well stated.:thmbsp:


Jim

I never considered them "drug humor" but then I never though Pink Floyd was a drug band either. Though I did witness about a 1,000 Floyd fans "hit the deck" when the giant Pig flew overhead at the Cedar Rapids Unidome.

i listened to my old Firesigns a while back, and i'm with ozmoid on this-- i actually got more of the breadth and depth of what was going on there than i did when i was 21-- something about not being stoned--

I love Firesign... They make me laugh. A precious commodity in this day and age.

antelope freeway.....1/128th of a mile

Oh....you guys should know: It was "Shadow Valley Condoms, If you lived here, you'd be home by now!"



please don't get me started.....

antelope freeway 1/256th of a mile....

"....now back to our morning concert of afternoon showtime favorites, The Magic Bowl Movement from The Symphony in C Minus by Johann Amadeus Majetsky."

"...and we have FM, over here..."

Antelope Freeway 1/512th mile.


Jim

If you don't answer the question young man, we're going to have to gag you.
("What question?") GAG HIM!

Hello Cox, where did everybody go?


Jim

"....I hope he gets back before all this dry ice melts."

But, quid Mamlborg in Plano, consternation turns to lucidation. And thus forth I present my theory to you. *AHEM* quote, If you push something hard enough, it will fall over, end quote. So aroused was poor Bunky by this I was forced to lie upn her........
*ding* If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. How can we illustrate this stubborn problem of eternal consistancy???
By walking down this shaded New England path in 1886. We stop at the wrought iron gates os Dr. Bellows Pneumatic Institute and listen in on two mmembers of the amature electrical league............

all from memory!!! whew!

Antelope Freeway 1024th mile

Odecius, Odecius!!
Cyrus my friend! What has happened to your nose?
I've just returned from Rome!

Live in the future!!! Push buttons for a living!!!
(How prescient!)

"My my my! Your friends at Commie Martyrs must be mighty proud of you!"

"Hey Pablo, he broke the President!"

"Gee You, Are You?"

"Just say the word, and you'll be free..."

Antelope Freeway 1/2048th mile.


Jim

"Is that all you ever think Jughead"

"Well doesn't Louis count?"

"Only to ten Jughead"

Jim

"Mrs. Carolyn Presky, you've SOLD OUT! Now which would you rather do? Hit this J** over the head with a bag of sugar or beat out that rhythm on the drums?"

I'll take the Bag!!!!!!!!

Antelope Freeway 7 inches.

"Why, this is nothing but a bag of SH**!!!"

yes, but it's good shit...!

Louise Wampum's got a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

".....all those curves showing through that flimsy burnoose."

"You ain't got no friends on the left"

"You're Right!"

You don't have to wear a clock around your neck to know what time it is at Bob's. Your car is as welcome as you are. (Bob's Bazerko Lounge that is, under the telephone pole in the exclusive Multi-Mart Shopping Center).

He's coming around folks, he's going to be OK and ready to play another round of......Beat the Reaper...!

From: "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger"

NARRATOR: Los Angeles, he walks again by night. Out of the fog, into the smog. (cough) Relentlessly, ruthlessly (NICK: I wonder where Ruth is), doggedly (woof woof), toward his weekly meeting with the unknown. At Fourth and Drucker he turns left. At Drucker and Fourth he turns right. He crosses MacArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building (NICK: ooh - my nose). Groping for the door (ring) he steps inside (ring) climbs the thirteen steps to his office (ring). He walks in (ring). He's ready for mystery (ring). He's ready for excitement (ring). He's ready for anything (ring). He's... (answers phone)

NICK: "Nick Danger, third eye."

CALLER: "I want to order a pizza to go and no anchovies."

NICK: "No anchovies? You've got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger!" (HANGS UP).

CALLER: "What?"


Jim

From: "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger"

NARRATOR: Los Angeles, he walks again by night. Out of the fog, into the smog. (cough) Relentlessly, ruthlessly (NICK: I wonder where Ruth is), doggedly (woof woof), toward his weekly meeting with the unknown. At Fourth and Drucker he turns left. At Drucker and Fourth he turns right. He crosses MacArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building (NICK: ooh - my nose). Groping for the door (ring) he steps inside (ring) climbs the thirteen steps to his office (ring). He walks in (ring). He's ready for mystery (ring). He's ready for excitement (ring). He's ready for anything (ring). He's... (answers phone)

NICK: "Nick Danger, third eye."

CALLER: "I want to order a pizza to go and no anchovies."

NICK: "No anchovies? You've got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger!" (HANGS UP).

CALLER: "What?"


Jim
IIRC, the phone call he answers is placed from another album. :D

Don't Crush that Dwarf Hand me the Pliers with George Tirebiter isn't it?


Jim

"Our next famous fall guy is still putting his art in cans from Canada to Kashmir. Winner of the Academy's Good Sport Award in 1956 for Excellence in Hollywood, meet George Leroy Tirebiter."

The Howl of the Wolf Movie.


Jim

Stop calling me Fred. My name's Adolph.

Don't Crush that Dwarf Hand me the Pliers with George Tirebiter isn't it?


Jim
That's it.

<rummaging in fridge> No, that's my mescaline...

I even began to hear things......."I'll never forgive you,Nick"......."Keep your nose out of police business Danger",,,,,,,"May I take your hat and goat, sir?"......."What about my pickle!?!?" Aaaaaaaaaaaaggghhhhhhh!

(Strange how I can recite this stuff by heart, but can't remember my own cellphone number.....)

Oh, how can you be in two places at once when your really no where at all? Hmmmm, did we pass a gas station? No, but the fox did, squeeze him again and see if he'll pass another...................Its off to the Winter Palace! Here, let me lay a stick of sandlewood incence on you, made it out of my own sandles, no, no, no, let me light it for you! Wsssssooop! Which way did they go? Anybody know where I am?

Oh, how can you be in two places at once when your really no where at all? Hmmmm, did we pass a gas station? No, but the fox did, squeeze him again and see if he'll pass another...................Its off to the Winter Palace! Here, let me lay a stick of sandlewood incence on you, made it out of my own sandles, no, no, no, let me light it for you! Wsssssooop! Which way did they go? Anybody know where I am?

"Come in out of the cornstarch..... why don't you put your mucklucks over by the cellophane where they'll dry?"
I thought the coolest thing about them was that nothing was overdubbed, all done in real time, just like live radio used to be. Now let me just flick this little chromium switch........

I love the DVD that started this mess, I have seen a couple of others are avalable, I will probably have to get them also now.


"Why without your clothes Miss Dudely you're naked", "Aaaa Miss Violet Dudely"

Jim

In order for a rat to eat, it must chew..
Geshuntite!
Of course! Geshuntite Dankeshein, the ships Prussian captian!

Papoon, Papoon for President!
There is no one to Blame!
Papoon for our chief President!
You Know He's not Insane


Jim

A picture from the DVD.

Jim

"That's OK, I brought my Erector Set!"

"Throw a towel over it, Pablo."

"Do some push-ups, maybe it'll go away".

"That's OK, I brought my Erector Set!"

"Throw a towel over it, Pablo."

"Do some push-ups, maybe it'll go away".

sorry......I gotta correct you:smoke:

That's Ok, I brought an erector set

Throw a towel over it!

Do some pushups Pablo, Maybe it will go away

sorry......I gotta correct you:smoke:

:o The brain is in low gear this morning. I'm going for more coffee.

"And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut"

Hey Cox, Cox, it's me, Nino, Nino the Mind Boggler.

Where are you Nino?


Jim

Tomorrow, we'll talk about gravity, and it's opposite..... comedy.

Dig a hole big enough......and everybody will want to jump into it.

"I don't care about your private life or what his name is, I've come to see Nanc....uh, Mrs. Haber" ("Mrs. Haber?")

"Audrey Farber?" ("Audrey Farber?")

"Susan Underhill?" ("Susan Underhill?")

"How about Bettyjo Bielofsky?" (Organ sting!)

"Oh! You mean NANCY! She's in the aviairy studding trees. I'll fetch her straight away. You may wait here in the sitting room or sit here in the waiting room."

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink.

One of a couple references to Beatles songs.


Jim

By the same guy in the same scene:

(Catherwood): Googoogajoob, sir.

Also "Say the word, and you'll be free..."

Let's see... Ocelots. Paupers. Pipe-nipples, Polombras, Pizzas!

Armenian Gardens... Hank's Juggernaut... New Leviathan... Nick's Swell...
<dials>

Uh, this is George Tirebiter, Camden N 200 R.

Uh, I want to order a pizza to go, and no anchovies.

<phone disconnects>

What ? Oh, man! Nobody will come up here at all!

More Beatles (also from Nick Danger):
...story has more holes in it than the Albert Hall.

"All of us want to know, just as much as I want to know, who's responsible? And until we do, I must make my duty clean...uh, clear. And annouce the suspendering of the upcoming graduation exercises which can't...willl...which aren't taking place. But don't worry. Don't worry. Your food, housing, and insecurity will be gauranteed by the Department of Redundancy Department and The Natural Guard".

Hey, what about my pickle?
Your lucky you still have your brown paper bag.
You haven't seen the last of me....Danger
No, but the first of you turns my stomach.


Jim

Boy, howdy! grubcakes again! Heavy on the 40 weight, mom! Don't eat with your hands, son, use your entrenching tool!..

My copy arrived yesterday, I watched it last night. I enjoyed it... the suprise was, my kid.

She saw the DVD when she came home from school and decided it didn't look very promising. I made supper for her and told her she could eat at the dinner table or join me. She went for joining me, I thought she would flee the livingromm 30 seconds after woffin' down her dinner, but she stayed.
She just laid down on the couch at an angle where I couldn't see her face as there was a large pillow in the way. And there she stayed.
By the time they got to Nick Danger she was laughing loudly. A bit later she proclaimed she loved these guys.

Glad you liked it, it is always fun when we can find something like this that our children enjoy also.

Where is that boy anyway?

Upstairs helping Porcella make the bed.

Porgie!

Yes, huh, huh, huh, coming Mother.


Jim

Hey! Waddayou guys doing in my car???

Ahhh, the Foxtrot! You can have the next dance!