[Old man in a thick southern accent]Oh Belvedere! Come heah boy!: No clue.
[Very gay male accent]Excuse me while I slip into something a little more spectacular!: Sounds very familiar, and I’d know it was a “pop culture reference”, but not where it’s from.
[Old woman]Where’s the beef?!: Uh, the commercials run by the Beef people before “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner” took off?
Just a swangin’…: Huh?
Don’t worry, be happy…: An 80s song by Bobby McFerrin (sp?), better known (to me) as the guy who narrated "How the Elephant got its Trunk."
[Drunk suave accent]How’d all these people get in my room? (This one a lot of people over 30 probably won’t get.): **???
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And that’s the way it was… two hundred years ago today: Means nothing to me.
Gag me with a spoon!: 80s Valley Girl speak for “gross”.
It’s time to put on make-up/It’s time to light the lights…: Zilch.
[Southern female- really drawled]Mel, kiss my grits!: Nada.
Bueller… Bueller…: From Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, incidentally a movie I hate but everyone else my age seems to love.
I’m 21 and I only recognize 5 and 11. 5 has been in relatively recent commercials, but I actually know the song because my dad liked it - and 11 because that’s my dad’s favorite movie.
21, and I don’t recognise most of them. 8 and 11 I’ve heard used before, but I don’t know where they’re from, 1 sounds familiar but I can’t place it. 5 is the only one I actually know (and now I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all night, thank you).
I’m 28. Omitted items=I have no clue or witty comment
[Very gay male accent]Excuse me while I slip into something a little more spectacular!
**Dunno. Guess: Zorro the Gay Blade
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[Old woman]Where’s the beef?!
**Wendy’s commercial, I’m not that young.
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Just a swangin’… I listen to country music, so I’m assuming this is from the John Anderson song.
Don’t worry, be happy…
**Here’s a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note… **
[Drunk suave accent]How’d all these people get in my room? (This one a lot of people over 30 probably won’t get.)
**Not sure. Guess: Arthur
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Gag me with a spoon!
**I’ve definitly heard this, but I don’t know the origin.
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It’s time to put on make-up/It’s time to light the lights…
**The Muppet Show, and now you’ve replaced Ma-na-na-na with the theme song as my current bug-the-wife ear worm you bastard
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[Southern female- really drawled]Mel, kiss my grits!
**I thought this was from Maude, but then I looked it up… wrong one-syllable-woman’s-name '70s sitcom
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24, and I only kinda get 3, 4, 11, and 12. And most of that is because I watch the Simpsons and Family Guy, and Family Guy really uses 80s pop culture. I wind up finding myself going to Wikipedia to figure out what the heck a joke was.
Yup, I remember these commericials vividly. They brough back the “hefty hefty hefty, whimpy, whimpy, whimpy” commericial recently, so I wouldn’t be shocked if others like this one resurface too.
nope
our sixth grade teacher taught us the words and we sang it right before class ended on Fridays.
no…
no
hmm. though familiar with that valley girl-esque expression, I couldn’t pin-point this to a source. I guess there must have been one, though.
I loved that show!
nope.
of course!
I don’t think so. Was it that Val Kilmer movie with the house full of popcorn?
42 here and I only knew 5 of them. I think this may have less to do with age and more to do with what kind of reruns you watch. Especially with all of the retro shows (I love the 80’s) on cable in the past few years.
[Old man in a thick southern accent]Oh Belvedere! Come heah boy! **No clue[/b[
[Very gay male accent]Excuse me while I slip into something a little more spectacular! **Why does this seem like something John Leguizamo would have said in To Wong Foo…? I know it can’t be, though.[/b[
[Old woman]Where’s the beef?!Some burger commercial. I was too young to remember it well. Some old lady bitching about the hamburgers not having enough meat.
Just a swangin’… ** Another vote for no clue**
Don’t worry, be happy… I remember the music video for this Bobby Darin song. It had Robin Williams, Billy Crystal (?), and another popular comedian of the time. MTV played it all the time when I was five.
[Drunk suave accent]How’d all these people get in my room? (This one a lot of people over 30 probably won’t get.) No clue again
And that’s the way it was… two hundred years ago todayNo clue
Gag me with a spoon! This was a popular valley girl saying in the 1980s. I remember it most distinctly in this one Frank Zappa song.
It’s time to put on make-up/It’s time to light the lights…The Muppet Show. Who could forget that? "Why do we always come here? I guess we’ll never know; it’s like a kind of torture to have to watch the show!"
[Southern female- really drawled]Mel, kiss my grits!Steel Magnolias?
