Firesign Theatre Weirdly Cool

[Robie]

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

[KingBubba]

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.

[Robie]

Originally Posted by KingBubba

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.

[doctorbongo]

Originally Posted by KingBubba

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?"

[KingBubba]

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".

[danj]

Originally Posted by BULLWINKLE

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?"

[danj]

"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?

[Robie]

Originally Posted by KingBubba

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."

[Luckyman]

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!

[Aage]

You're all Bozaks on this bus!

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

[Tom Brennan]

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.

[ozmoid]

Originally Posted by Tom Brennan

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.

[Jim Eck]

Originally Posted by ozmoid

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.


Jim

[Holst]

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.

[shrinkboy]

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--