"Nick Danger" or "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?"

[kentauros]

Poll question: "Nick Danger" or "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?"

Nick Danger for me, thanks to such memorable quotes as "No! Put down that pickle!" "Who is he talking to? How does he make his voice do that?" "What's all this brouhaha?"

There are too many great quotes from either choice, so give us your favorites, from either side of the CD

[solara]

1. It has been years since I heard them -These phrases come to mind

Ohh Nicky Nicky Nick Nick

A mighty hot dog is our Lord


I can see by the pie on your tie
That you're an American, wellll so am I
With a hey there a hi there a howdo ya do
And while we're on the subject
And while we're on the subject
And while we're on the subject how's
Your ol' wazooooo


Brouhaha? Ha hahahahahahahaha


I remember they blew me away - I gotta get a hold of those disks

Thanks for the memories

[kentauros]

2. I got into them in the late 70s in highschool.

My band friends loved them so much, we could all quote Nick Danger pretty without the need for a script. So, we used it for a talent show, just the first fifteen minutes or so. The few students in attendance loved it, so I guess we were a hit. I played the announcer :D

"Los Angeles... he walks again by night! Out of the fog, into the smog... Relentlessly... ruthlessly... doggedly... towards his weekly meeting with... the unknown. At 4th and Drucker he turns left, at Drucker and 4th he turns right, he crosses MacArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building!"

Happy to be of service! (Oh! That's Hitchhiker's Guide :P) :hi:

[solara]

15. Love it! Thank you

:P

[abq e streeter]

3. You must mean the old same place

Ever hear, see or read the 1st (?) album (damned if I can remember the title though) by the Illinois Speed Press? Liner notes (using the term loosely) by Firesign in which they refer to the Anselmo Pederasty case. Saw Proctor and Bergman in person once . About half improv and half set routines. Funny, funny guys....the only one I still have (on vinyl of course) is Waiting For The Electrician, and that's the one I still , in my aging hippiedom, will on occasion toss out lines from.
You don't want to count the elevator boy?
Let's give him the REALLY BIG DISEASE............

[kentauros]

4. I haven't heard, or heard of, that first album.

It sounds, well, typical of them :D

I do have an mp3 copy of "A Child's Garden of Grass" and I think I need to listen to it again. Here's a blog that may have a copy, if it's still on their RapidShare link:
http://sirpsych.blogspot.com/2007/09/childs-garden-of-grass-1970.html

That's cool you got to meet them. Did anyone ask them about their work on "J-Men Forever" ? I still like watching that one from time to time...

I haven't listened to Waiting for the Electrician enough to quote it, so I'll defer to you :hi:

[abq e streeter]

9. Didn't meet them (sorry if I implied that, and certainly sorry I didn't meet them)

Saw them (the duo of Proctor and Bergman) do a show at Chicagofest in 78 or 79............. Seemed like there was at least a few months of college in '68/'69/ (70 too?) where entire conversations consisted of back and forth lines from Waiting For The Electrician (OR Someone Like Him) as well as the Nick Danger album, which I haven't heard in ages.
Big among the stoner crowd, which was a sizable chunk of my college's population (small college of about 1400) at the time.

Edited to say back at ya: :hi:

[kentauros]

11. Still, seeing them do their act is more than me

;)

I probably misread your post as it's late here. I better git to bed before I get stuck here again :P

Have a good night! :hi:

[nolabear]

5. ...but everyone knew her as Nancy.

Every now and then Phil Proctor pops up on local radio, and once again life is a bus and I'm just a Bozo.

[kentauros]

6. What about Betty-Jo Bialovsky?

Oh you mean Nancy! She in the aviary studying trees. :D

If he has a call-in show, I bet it's like taking Anger-Dream! :P

[MrMickeysMom]

13. You mean...

SUSAN UNDERHILL?

[MrMickeysMom]

7. BrouhaHA?

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[kentauros]

8. Hey! Don't you want your doorknocker?

We already have one!
But this is yours!
You see? I told you. We used to have another one but he vanished mysteriously.


The "brouhaha" one always gets me, too! :rofl:

[MrMickeysMom]

10. I am more proficient in "Don't Step on that Dwarf...

... Hand Me the Pliers"

Oh, that son of mine...
He's not your son, Fred.
Stop torturing me, Ethyl!

[kentauros]

12. Porgy? Porgy Tirebiter!

Eh-eh-eh---coming mother!
He's so good with the servants, Fred.
Stop calling me Fred. My name's Adolph!

[MrMickeysMom]

14. HA!

I'm going to the philatilus club..
I didn't know you MASTERBATED!

Jesus, I should get my vinyl on CD with one of those thingamajigs!

[likesmountains 52]

40. Love!

[csziggy]

16. "He's no fun! He fell right over!"

One of my favorite lines from any where.

[kentauros]

17. It's part of Fudd's Law:

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over." :hi:

[woofless]

29. Why yes,

Testlicle's Deviant to Fudd's Law.

[kentauros]

36. "It goes in. It must come out."

:hi:

[csziggy]

34. Isn't part of Fudd's Law that the balls go on the other side?

Hubby and I have two standard lines we use - the one above and "It could be worse. It could be raining." The second is not from Firesign.

I need to fill out my Firesign collection. I've never owned "The Great Rat of Sumatra" which is very strange since I love Holmes take offs. And I don't have anything they did after 1977 or so. I do have most of the albums on CD and they are great to listen to while traveling.

[kentauros]

37. I just watched the movie with your second quote.

"He would have an enormous schwanzstucker."
.
.
"That goes without saying."

"Woof!"

:P


Proctor and Bergman did some shorts that were later aired on USA Network's Nightflight program, like "The Case of the Missing Yolk" and "Hot Shorts". They also aired one of my favorite works by those two, "J-Men Forever" which is on YouTube in its entirety if you search for it. If you've never seen it, well, I thought it was brilliant, but I know FT fans that didn't think much of it, so you never know. I saw it several times in the theater when it came out, as it made an excellent midnight movie. They just had to change the name to get the stoner crowd to show up, though most of the time, they didn't last more than half an hour after the main credits rolled, disappointed that it wasn't what was billed: "The Day the World Got Stoned and I Became A Rock'n'Roll Idol". Oh well; their loss! :D

[csziggy]

39. I'll have to look up the J-Man video

Since I have yet to find anything Firesign I don't enjoy. Thanks!

[nolabear]

27. And one of the most useful!

[abq e streeter]

33. +1

[Richardo]

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Let’s just look at the extras on this fabulous car! Wire-wheel spoke fenders, two-way sneeze-through wind vents, star-studded mud guard, sponge-coated edible steering column, chrome fender dents and factory air conditioned air from our fully factory-equipped, air conditioned factory.

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:D

[kentauros]

19. “Wrong Way.”

"Antelope Freeway, 1 mile."
“Entering Freeway.”
“Emergency Parking Only.”
“Merging Buses Ahead.”
“Shadow Valley Condoms - If you lived here you’d be home by now.”

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S06MpsTIxAEJ:www.firesigntheatre.com/albums/album.php%3Falbum%3Dhcyb+%22firesign+theater%22+%22antelope+freeway%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

:D

[Richardo]

22. Antelope Freeway - 1/2 mile

:D

[MrMickeysMom]

20. This has to be bookmarked!

I loved reading that!

[Richardo]

21. The air conditioning part always makes me laugh...

...especially since I hear it in Phil Proctor's voice.

[BillStein]

23. Did I just pass one?

No, but the fox did...

[blogslut]

24. I listened to Nick Danger but

"I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus" is the vinyl I bought:

Go on, squeeze the wheeze.

Back to the shadows again.
Out where an Injun's your friend.
Where the vegetables are green
and you can pee right in the stream.
(and that's important!)
Back to the shadows again.

I say live it or live with it!

I think you broke the president.

[Doc_Technical]

25. "It had been raining in Los Angeles since the top of the page...

and I was sitting in my office listening to the monotonous
staccato of rain on my desk top reading the name in the
glass door, 'regnaD kciN'."

Catherwood: "If you're so smart, why don't
you pick up your cues faster."
Nick Danger: "Are those my cues?"
Catherwood: "Why don't you take them out of
the cellophane before they scorch."

[Kali]

26. I need to get some more "Stinking Desert" bumper stickers made!

I picked Nick Danger, Third Eye

[kentauros]

28. You mean

"Fort Stinking Desert and Cobalt Testing Range" ? :P

[abq e streeter]

30. But that's our sacred mountain...well this is our sacred antenna.

[abq e streeter]

31. Billy's our prize student ; we're giving him away next week.

Got any peyote?

[davsand]

32. Oh, Nick! You're SUCH a tool!

Don't do it, Porgy--then she'll want to see yours!



Laura

[kentauros]

35. More Science High!

It's... disappeared!!!

I've been shooting reds and yellows all day! Boy, am I sleepy!

Yes! A mighty hotdog is our Lord!

:P

[canoeist52]

38. "Now hold it right there!"

"No, I think I'll hold it over here"

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

41. "You can sit here in the waiting room or wait here in the sitting-room."

"We can't talk here, Nick."

"Don't go in there, son! It's full of bees and spiders that will poke your eye out!"
"I'm going in, Mom - there's a vacancy!"

"How did you get in, Rococco? You don't have a key!"
"No, only half a key. I had to split it with the sound effects man."

This land is full of trousers
This land is full of Mausers
And pussycats to eat them when
the
sun
goes
down
.

[kentauros]

42. "And then

this madman drove in, honking wildly, and headed straight for us! At the last moment, he stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococo's pocket."

"Hey, pop! Where am I?"
"You can't get there from here."
"I'm looking for the same old place."
"Oh, you must mean the old Same Place. It's out back. Here's the key."
Four hours later, I parked my car in the carriage house outside the Same Mansion. What was it about this place?!

You're up against the Wall. of. Science!

"This is Worker speaking. Close 'B' Clothes Mode."
"My gosh kid, his pants have disappeared!"

:hi: