Okay, that could be pretty hilarious.
Did you ever see their movie?
They sit around drinking Yoo Hoo and listening to the Velvet Underground. They do an expose on "psychic surgery" and then they get killed.
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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DavidS - Sep 18, 2009 5:34:06 pm PDT #1521 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Sep 18, 2009 6:20:30 pm PDT #1522 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Did you ever see their movie?
Nope. But I've enjoyed their schtick.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 19, 2009 12:35:23 pm PDT #1523 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
They sit around drinking Yoo Hoo and listening to the Velvet Underground. They do an expose on "psychic surgery" and then they get killed.
Don't forget the "All Shemp" Three Stooges festival.
Saw that movie in a theater with a bunch of like-minded friends (and none of us at the time could afford a ticket to actually see their act) and we were laughing harder than anyone in the theater. Sadly, the movie tanked BO wise.
Hard to believe it's the same Arthur Penn, but I guess he kept his hipster credentials flying in the long run.
megan walker - Sep 22, 2009 5:44:34 am PDT #1524 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So, I missed most of last season of HIMYM, is there a semi-reasonable hand-wavy reason why Ted could possibly be teaching at Columbia?
Jesse - Sep 22, 2009 6:10:40 am PDT #1525 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There actually is! [link]
If you're Ted Mosby, isn't bad enough to be standing there in the rain -- holding a bright yellow umbrella -- the first time you run into the person who left you at the altar. Oh no, if you're Ted, your ex- is going to have her baby-daddy, Tony, with her and he's going to pity you. After their chance encounter, Tony comes to Ted to makes amends. His family is influential, and he wants to set Ted up with a job as an architecture professor at Columbia.
megan walker - Sep 22, 2009 7:23:33 am PDT #1526 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
BTW, is that our Cindy writing that?
megan walker - Sep 22, 2009 7:28:11 am PDT #1527 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Given the number of people that (while I was looking for a tenure-track job) said to me in all honesty "Why don't you just teach at Columbia?", I suppose that explanation seems reasonable enough.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2009 7:28:12 am PDT #1528 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Indeed it is. Edit -- it is our Cindy. It is only a reasonable explanation in TV-land.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 22, 2009 7:49:00 am PDT #1529 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
It is only a reasonable explanation in TV-land.
Quite.
Do Americans really call *all* college teachers 'professor'? Our lecturers don't get that title until they've published ridiculous numbers of books and done a bucketload of other academic stuff over many years. Ted doesn't even have a doctorate, does he?
Yes, that was my only gripe about the episode. Loved the 'having the talk' thing. I continue to be a Robin/Barney 'shipper. I feel like they're going to break my heart with that storyline eventually, but hey ho.
Jesse - Sep 22, 2009 7:54:19 am PDT #1530 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Those conventions depend on the school, in my experience, but it's not crazy that a lecturer without a Ph.D. would call himself "Professor." I don't know how they roll at Columbia.