I still haven’t put my brain together after it blew apart learning that Super Dave was Albert Brooks’ brother.  (It was just about there, but then I learned Norm Macdonald was CBC’s Neil Macdonald’s brother and CTV’s Joyce Napier’s brother in law.)

Agreed - The Frantics TV show proved the format viable for CBC. It was thanks to the Frantics migrating from radio to TV that primed my family and more than a few others for CODCO, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, KiTH... I mean, my family still sings “I get around in a brown car” every time we see a brown car, and “Heavy…

Here’s some clips for you.  If you’d told me thirty years ago that Rick Astley would be cooler than GnR:

Any time “Pictures of You” pops up in my playlist or anywhere, really, I have to stop what I’m doing and just listen.

That’s just your suspicious mind.

My siblings and I had first editions of the hardcovers back in the day and the ramshackle illustrations were part of the charm.  

Hank == blond do-gooder with the bow
Eric == snotty douchebag with the shield, appealed most to preteen me because snark, probably (it was the early 80s)
Presto == nerd wizard

Hot take: Eric was the hottest one in the troupe.

As a fan from early on, the list had a lot of my favourites, left out some, and I am not excited by what I’ve heard of “Songs of Surrender” to this point - if I was to pick my favourite stripped-down U2 covers, they’re not even by U2:

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I saw Wayne Shorter live a few years back - with Danilo Perez, Brian Blade and John Patitucci. It was a packed house until about a dozen people walked out less than ten minutes into the set. The rest of us had our minds taken “outside” by some serious artistry.

It’s an homage!

“YeehawTikTok” when “HickTok” is right there...

“HOW AAAARE YAAAAAA” :: jazz hands ::

Denice Kumagai was on “Gilmore Girls” and started a theatre company after IIRC.

Precedent: Tom Waits vs Frito-Lay (Waits won $2.6mil):  https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/when-tom-waits-sued-doritos/

Saw him live once in 2011. Aside from his incredible effortless technique, he had an amazing sense of musicality. Had more skill in his little finger than a roomful of just about every other guitarist ever:

Bah Bodenkirk *and* Diedrich Bader? Yeah, I’m in.

“Plane” starring Gerard Butler and “Taylor”.

My octagenarian mom has a beaded change purse of Cartman’s head, a huge Kyle fridge magnet  and a Mr. Hankey keychain. She hasn’t kept up with the later seasons but once in a while one of us kids will say “oh my God” about something completely unrelated and she’ll chime in, unprompted, “YOU KILLED KENNY” and this ep…