Hello, Cleveland!
Today's Hi and Lois:
Oh, my brain just turned inside out. Is that a Spinal Tap shout out? Is this a reference to Nigel Tufnel's amp that went to 11???
Here's my problem. The Christopher Guest canon (Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) to me is the epitome, the apex, the height of the humor scale. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. Hi and Lois, on the other hand, is just not funny. But here is H&L giving a shout out to one of my all-time favorite movies. The space time continuum just folded in on itself and shot me out the other side. What's next? A Jon Stewart appearance in Family Circus?
I hope this is another case of the metahumor MaryAnn was talking about. Yeah, that's it. This is just a dumb joke about turning an amp up to 11 (because they normally go to 10). Hee hee. Now I am thinking again about the scene in Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner's saying "Well, why don't you just make 10 louder?" And Nigel is dumbfounded. Hee hee. Please tell me this is Hi and Lois metahumor, because I can't handle H&L alluding to one of my favorite movies.
NOTE: If you haven't seen the Christopher Guest movies -- see them!! Then, you would understand what it means to hate someone's ASS FACE. Heh heh. Or the Jennifer Coolidge character married to the old man in Best in Show: "We can talk or not talk for hours." Or WINC (Witches In Nature's Color). Ha. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.
Oh, my brain just turned inside out. Is that a Spinal Tap shout out? Is this a reference to Nigel Tufnel's amp that went to 11???
Here's my problem. The Christopher Guest canon (Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) to me is the epitome, the apex, the height of the humor scale. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. Hi and Lois, on the other hand, is just not funny. But here is H&L giving a shout out to one of my all-time favorite movies. The space time continuum just folded in on itself and shot me out the other side. What's next? A Jon Stewart appearance in Family Circus?
I hope this is another case of the metahumor MaryAnn was talking about. Yeah, that's it. This is just a dumb joke about turning an amp up to 11 (because they normally go to 10). Hee hee. Now I am thinking again about the scene in Spinal Tap. Rob Reiner's saying "Well, why don't you just make 10 louder?" And Nigel is dumbfounded. Hee hee. Please tell me this is Hi and Lois metahumor, because I can't handle H&L alluding to one of my favorite movies.
NOTE: If you haven't seen the Christopher Guest movies -- see them!! Then, you would understand what it means to hate someone's ASS FACE. Heh heh. Or the Jennifer Coolidge character married to the old man in Best in Show: "We can talk or not talk for hours." Or WINC (Witches In Nature's Color). Ha. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.
posted by big al at 12:30 PM
8 Comments:
Undoubtedly, "Browne" is referring to Spinal Tap. But, I'm not sure a reference to a 20-year-old film necessarily makes this strip "hip."
Though you gotta give them props for the Nirvana/Green Day-style power trio.
Oh yeah, it's not "hip," but it still just befuddles me that something I think is so funny (S.T.) could end up in Hi and Lois. It ain't right!
It woulda been better if his guitar still had the ol' tagger on it.
I *love* Christopher Guest! I've seen all his films, with Spinal Tap being my ultimate favorite (and the main "movie quote" movie for me and my friends) with "A Mighty Wind" coming in a very close second. I saw "A Mighty Wind" about a year and a half ago while in London and it inspired me to take up and learn that much-maligned and misunderstood instrument -- the autoharp! It may be a guitar for the chord-challenged, but I love it.
LC
What's the name of the band? Any takers? Red Crown? Louder Than 10? The Fetching Pricks?
I like Best In Show over the other Guest movies...
John
I think it's funny the most pierced, punked-out one of them is playing the KEYBOARD.
WOW, that was actually funny!!!! Damn!
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