[net.tv] Hawaii 5-0 and Underdog

turner@randvax.ARPA (08/30/83)

  The Hawaii 5-0 theme was done by the Ventures, who have the distinction
of having sold more albums than any other musical group ever.  Or so I heard
a year ago.

  Laura mentions the villain Simon Bar Sinister from Underdog.  "Bar Sinister"
is a term from heraldry that refers to a bar across the shield from upper
right to lower left, and was used in medieval times as an indication of
bastardry (you took the coat of arms of your father with a bar sinister).
So we can translate Simon Bar Sinister into Simon the Bastard, which I always
thought was a pretty clever thing to slip past the censors.

  Any other examples of "inside" jokes in cartoons/old shows?


					-- Scott Turner
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oz@rlgvax.UUCP (THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ) (09/02/83)

I recall a Rocky and Bullwinkle show where they walked into a castle of
Boris's and it was, of course, a trap.

ROCKY:	Golly Bullwinkle, there are bars on the doors, and the windows
	have grills on them.

BULL:	That's funny, I thought Bars and Grills were Taboo in these kiddy
	shows.

ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE WALK PAST A SIGN IN THE PENTAGON THAT SAYS "MILITARY
INTELLIGENCE"

BULLWINKLE:	Now THAT'S a contradiction of terms.

				OZ
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gm@trsvax.UUCP (09/16/83)

#R:randvax:-150700:trsvax:54900007:000:221
trsvax!gm    Sep 14 17:38:00 1983

Are you sure that the Ventures did the original theme song? They recorded
instrumental versions of the themes of lots of movies & TV shows while they
were big.

				-George Moore
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