Re: Movies, Musicals, and TV - Oh my!

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In a message dated 5/10/2006 9:04:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

eskilvr@... writes:

Of course, I was a bad influence and introduced him to Weird Al

Yankovic

We own every All Yankovic CD ever made ... and have taken the kids to his

concerts. They can sing each of the songs you've mentioned by heart. We also

have loads of Dr Demento and those are my children's favorite Christmas albums.

We Wish You Weren't Living With Us -- to the tune of We Wish You a Merry

Christmas is a favorite, closely followed by Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire

(Alvin, of course).

They can also recite much of the dialogue from Blazing Saddles and Young

enstein, Airplane, and the Princess Bride. Not to mention the Python skit

about the Penguin on the telly ... and we have 2 penguins sitting on our telly

all the time. If anyone asks why ... well, I won't go into the routine, but

they would. Plus I have a Christmas nativity people by penguins, which is

placed reverently onto the telly each year. (where else?!) They vie for the

honor

of unwrapping it and putting it up in its place.

Proof positive that we have corrupted these young minds beyond all hope of

salvation, LOL.

Jill

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In a message dated 5/10/2006 9:40:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

Barbara.T.Mellert@... writes:

But don't start singing Chipmunk songs - see? The " hula hoop " song is

now stuck in my head, thanks to you!

Oh, good, and now I'm humming " why I'd have to go and get myself so

constipated " before that it I was humming " every sperm is sacred " ...

Thankfully the

neighbors can't hear me. LOL

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OMG Kris - my Tom LOVES Weird Al and keeps asking about the songs that

are being parodied.

I loved the movie Sky High - I thought it was hysterical and Kurt

was the dad and lynda was the principal! I was laughing

out loud at that! When she said to one of the kids " Who do you think I

am, Wonder Woman " I nearly lost it!

Barbara

EskiLvr wrote:

> Jill wrote (about " High School Musical " ):

>

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> I have banned that from being watched/played for another month at least. I

> cringe when I hear it starting.

>

> **

>

> Bwahaha!

>

> We won a copy of that CD at a recent fundraiser for my school - my boys have

> absolutely no interest in it.

>

> They do, however, think that the soundtrack to the movie " Sky High " is just

> beyond cool. They're having a hard time understanding that " I Melt With

> You " was *not* originally sung by Bowling for Soup, not to mention that all

> of the songs in the movie were originally made famous back when Mom and Dad

> were teenagers (because the 80's were just so long ago.).

>

>

>

> The funny thing is that could usually give a hoot about songs on the

> radio (we usually can't have it on while he's in the car because then he

> can't hear anything I'm saying up front) - but he just goes nuts for " I Melt

> With You " . Of course, I was a bad influence and introduced him to Weird Al

> Yankovic - just starts giggling whenever he hears Al's odes to

> Spiderman (set to the tune of 's " Piano Man " ) or Star Wars (set to

> the tune of " American Pie " - " My, my, this here Anakin guy - may be Vader

> someday later, now he's just a small fry. " ).

>

> Sometimes I think kids exist just to make us feel old. :-)

>

>

>

> Kris

>

> Mom to (7 y.o., Profound/Complete SNL, Left Ear) and Ethan (6 y.o.,

> hearing)

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>

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Jill - I *knew* i liked you! LOL

But don't start singing Chipmunk songs - see? The " hula hoop " song is

now stuck in my head, thanks to you!

JillcWood@... wrote:

>

> closely followed by Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire

> (Alvin, of course).

>

>

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I'm sure the folks at Netflix think we are schizophrenic. I get stuff like

Blazing Saddles, Airplane, my all time favorite " The Big Bus " , not to mention

the Pink Panther (the old ones.) My husband orders action and suspense stuff.

But we are both particular fans of Monty Python. When we see an accident we say

" Call the church, call the police, call the church police. " And cooking

hamburgers on the grill always propels us to the Cheese Shop dialogue - Do you

in fact, have any actual cheese in this shop?? And my husband was a philosopphy

major so " Baldwin Bruce " and the Philisopher's drinking song (ex Rene

Descartes was a drunken fart, I drink therefore I am) are his personal

favorites. Our kids do not see the humor in Monty Python and they think we are

crazy because we are laughing so hard that tears come out of our eyes.

[Guest guest]

My Tom last year entered the school's talent show with 3 friends doing a

Monty Python routine - it was the one about the old men one-upping each

other and they won! It was hysterical...

pcknott@... wrote:

> I'm sure the folks at Netflix think we are schizophrenic. I get stuff like

Blazing Saddles, Airplane, my all time favorite " The Big Bus " , not to mention

the Pink Panther (the old ones.) My husband orders action and suspense stuff.

But we are both particular fans of Monty Python. When we see an accident we say

" Call the church, call the police, call the church police. " And cooking

hamburgers on the grill always propels us to the Cheese Shop dialogue - Do you

in fact, have any actual cheese in this shop?? And my husband was a philosopphy

major so " Baldwin Bruce " and the Philisopher's drinking song (ex Rene

Descartes was a drunken fart, I drink therefore I am) are his personal

favorites. Our kids do not see the humor in Monty Python and they think we are

crazy because we are laughing so hard that tears come out of our eyes.

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/10/2006 8:25:11 A.M. Central Standard Time,

Barbara.T.Mellert@... writes:

I loved the movie Sky High - I thought it was hysterical and Kurt

was the dad and lynda was the principal! I was laughing

out loud at that! When she said to one of the kids " Who do you think I

am, Wonder Woman " I nearly lost it

I haven't seen that one-- it's just in time for my trip to CA so I think

I'll pick that up!

Putz

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EskiLvr eskilvr@...> wrote: The funny thing is that could usually

give a hoot about songs on the

radio (we usually can't have it on while he's in the car because then he

can't hear anything I'm saying up front) - but he just goes nuts for " I Melt

With You " . Of course, I was a bad influence and introduced him to Weird Al

Yankovic - just starts giggling whenever he hears Al's odes to

Spiderman (set to the tune of 's " Piano Man " ) or Star Wars (set to

the tune of " American Pie " - " My, my, this here Anakin guy - may be Vader

someday later, now he's just a small fry. " ).

Well, now that we have satalite TV we also have a few XM stations. My kids

fav is the XM Kids channel. I heard the Weird Al Star Wars song on it the other

day, and although I really know nothing about Star Wars, I found it funny.

favorite song on there is " I Ate Too Many Beans " . I foolishly laughed at

the lyrics one day so I had to explain them to her. Now she laughs too and has

to tell everyone about that song...including our church's religious ed director.

My favorite station is the broadway musical one, so Jill I think your kids

would fit in well here. Mine can't stand it. I have lots of musicals on CD.

One of my current favorites is " Avenue Q " . It's just hard to listen with the

kids around (which they almost always are) because the songs topics are much

more of an adult theme and I do not want to explain those songs just yet (But my

oh my is it funny).

Debbie

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were

and ask why not. G.B Shaw

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Jill wrote:

They can also recite much of the dialogue from Blazing Saddles and Young

enstein, Airplane, and the Princess Bride.

**

The Princess Bride is *the* best date movie ever made.

" My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father - prepare to die! "

Sadly, and Ethan are at the age where any hint of romance produces the

" EWWW " reaction (we get it every time the characters smoochie in Sky High -

but that lets us know how much time is left in the movie!), so they just

don't have a proper appreciation for this wonderful piece of cinematic

history.

Kris

" Have fun storming the castle! "

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wrote:

I haven't seen that one-- it's just in time for my trip to CA so I think

I'll pick that up!

**

I'm telling you - I think my husband and I laughed harder the first time we

saw it than our kids did. The adults they got to participate are just so

wonderfully cast - I just loved the fact that there were *two* actors from

" Kids in the Hall " , not to mention Kurt and Lynda . It's got

a really good message about how to treat people with different strengths and

weaknesses in life, too.

Kris

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/10/2006 10:36:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

eskilvr@... writes:

The Princess Bride is *the* best date movie ever made.

" My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father - prepare to die! "

Ah, but our current favorite line from that movie is a wonderful one to use

with teenagers. When we hear " but I need ... " or I just have to have ... " we

smile and say ...

Learn to live with disappointment. (the sword fighting scene where Inigo

needs to know who the masked man really is).

And our teenagers groan and say " I knew you were going to say that! " as they

stomp or sulk away.

LOL -- Jill

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 5/10/2006 10:39:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

eskilvr@... writes:

I'm telling you - I think my husband and I laughed harder the first time we

saw it than our kids did.

I think we put this one into my husband's Easter basket. Whatever the excuse

was to buy it, it was actually bought for the hubby, not the kids.

We also laughed our way through it, laughing at things our kids didn't get.

We just got the Maguyver (spelling?) series on DVD. Ian likes it, of course,

and now he understands why I always tease my hubby about his pocket knife

and duct tape. (grin)

Jill

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In a message dated 5/11/2006 11:40:24 A.M. Central Standard Time,

JillcWood@... writes:

We just got the Maguyver (spelling?) series on DVD. Ian likes it, of

course,

and now he understands why I always tease my hubby about his pocket knife

and duct tape. (grin)

Oh my gosh, I loved that program! Where did you find the DVD?

Putz

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For work, I carry a pager, a cell phone, my laptop - I swear I'm going

to get a bandolaro to hold them all! I don't have a pocket protector yet!

Parentsofdeafhoh@... wrote:

>

>

> In a message dated 5/11/2006 11:40:24 A.M. Central Standard Time,

> JillcWood@... writes:

>

>

> We just got the Maguyver (spelling?) series on DVD. Ian likes it, of

> course,

> and now he understands why I always tease my hubby about his pocket knife

> and duct tape. (grin)

>

>

> Oh my gosh, I loved that program! Where did you find the DVD?

>

> Putz

> Illinois Families for Hands & Voices

> _www.handsandvoices.org_ (http://www.handsandvoices.org/)

> _www.ilhandsandvoices.org_ (http://www.ilhandsandvoices.org/)

> Email: support@...

>

>

>

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In a message dated 5/12/2006 10:46:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

Parentsofdeafhoh@... writes:

We just got the Maguyver (spelling?) series on DVD....

Oh my gosh, I loved that program! Where did you find the DVD?

I saw it at both BJs and Sam's clubs. It's just the first year of the

series, I think. You could probably get it at Amazom.com as well. I got it at

BJs

-- a place that's like Sam's, but is only in the northeast, I think.

Jill