Perhaps a few of you also suffer from a “hard drive” cluttered with weird pop culture knowledge gathered from sudden dives into rabbit holes. I forget a lot of important things, I am pretty sure, because my brain retains so much pointless information that only interests me. Here’s the latest case in point.
I was watching this excellent episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show the other night, and in the middle of an already top-shelf episode involving the possible firing Sally or Buddy and Rob getting an offer from a puppet, who should show up but Laugh-In cast member and Philadelphia native Henry Gibson. I always get a kick out of that guy!
At the following point in the show, he stands up and recites a poem. For the next few days, I kept thinking, “Where have I heard that before?” See if it rings a bell for you.
Last night, while washing the dishes, out of nowhere, I finally made the connection…after the jump! It goes without saying that as soon as I finished my chore, I jumped down a rabbit hole and eventually forgot to tell my wife something important.
Man, that is really playing the long game by Gibson and Altman. I usually think of Henry Gibson in Altman’s The Long Goodbye first. Did he do a stint on Laugh In, too? Did they have Arte Johnson and Henry Gibson at the same time? That’s a small man powerhouse duo.
The Long Goodbye is such a great movie – and yes, Gibson and Johnson together on Laugh-In was the beginning of a TV Small Faces.
I hate Illinois nazis.
No, I didn’t make the connection but dear God, I love the Dick van Dyke Show!
Karen Black!
A line from a recent episode I saw that I have to appropriate happens during a party where a woman is flirting with Rob and then moves on to Buddy in expectation of practicing her game for when Alan Brady shows up; she says “What’s Alan Brady really like?”, and Buddy says “ I don’t think Alan Brady really likes anything.”