Handiquacks

[vovat]

Okay, so, this past weekend wasn't all that eventful, but most of them aren't, so why would this one be any different? On Friday night, bethje and I watched Bubba Ho-Tep, which I enjoyed. Bruce Campbell did a good job playing old Elvis. Later that night, I had a dream that I was in high school (I guess it was high school, anyway), and the bathrooms had these weird machines that automatically dispensed soap and water, but also would sometimes play jokes and emit whipped cream or something. Also, I made some quip about zombies that I can't remember (I'm sure it didn't make any sense; dream jokes generally don't), and it ended up on T-shirts.

On Saturday, we met up with Dorothea and her boyfriend for dinner at the Olive Garden. He paid for us, which was very nice of him. And I got to see Dorothea's pets Isabella (a Pomeranian/Toy Eskimo mix who might well also have some Chihuahua ancestry) and Joey (a big gray cat who likes to spin around in an office chair).

Throughout the weekend, I've been listening to the Decemberists' new album, The Hazards of Love. The album is essentially a rock opera, something that's quite suited to the band. I enjoy it, but it'll probably take some time to fully click with me. The Decemberists have had songs that I liked immediately ("Billy Liar" and "The Chimbley Sweep" both fit into that category), but they seem not to have had quite as many in recent years. They certainly haven't lost any of their creativity or skill, though.

The Simpsons episode tonight wasn't bad, but a lot of the humor did strike me as rather juvenile. Very heavy on the bad puns, but fortunately, I tend to enjoy such things. {g} Family Guy was one of the better recent episodes, especially for the Handiquacks plot. It takes some clever writing to come up with something that bad. The Fred Savage bit was also amusing, although it kind of seemed like the show was ripping itself off. Didn't the show already reveal that Ricky Martin and Jewel were the same person? Oh, well. American Dad was also good; I tend to like the episodes where Steve and Roger work together on something.

Comments

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

Practical-joke-playing soap dispensers sounds like something out of the Fools' Guild.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

And just like with things from the Fools' Guild, I don't think anyone in the dream found them at all amusing.

[annamatic.livejournal.com]

My husband still WTFs over a dream joke he made several months ago. He was talking in the dream to someone, and there was some mention of donuts, and he said, "What, are you like a cop from San Francisco or something?" And that was just the biggest ZING! He woke himself up laughing at how clever he was, lol.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Michael Showalter once shared some dream-jokes at a show. I think one of them was something like, "Why are there six players on a hockey team? Because seven would be too many, and five would also be too many."

[revme.livejournal.com]

Wow -- I did not like the Family Guy ep. I liked Handiquacks OK, but the other stuff was sorta blegh. And didn't they use the "Not so fresh/oh god no" joke before? Or was that in a cut scene on the DVD and they finally shoved it in a real episode? And the falling down call back was lame, too, I thought. Huh.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if they used the "not so fresh" joke (which I did enjoy), but the episode did seem to rely pretty heavily on callbacks and the show stealing jokes from itself.