Started to doubt my memory but, wow, the episode is online and is crazier than I remembered. The Yogurt wasn’t crying because you ate it; it was crying because you ate a different jar of yogurt. The Yogurt stuff is at around 19 minutes.
Still, I love this show anyway.
The 70s were a weird and wonderful time.
Thanks for that info. This episode is on YouTube, and my memory of it is about right. The show does present it as though it were a controversial hypothesis at the time.
In Search Of… Big Tush!
Good heavens! Such a lascivious obsession for a…a Franciscan Friar!
Aren’t you supposed to be celibate and chaste and all that?
I didn’t watch the show frequently but I vaguely recall one that was In Search Of…*Atlantis *that caught my interest at the time. They dragged it out for an hour, talking about the legends and their sources (Greece, Rome, Egypt, et cetera) and supposed characteristics and imputed location (somewhere west-ish across a huge body of water). And then they wrapped up by claiming some Egyptian leader-type had an artifact in his collection from trade with Atlantis. It was analyzed to be a tobacco-stained corn-cob pipe and Mr. Nimoy speculated (but refused to firmly establish) that the source was a tribe of pre-Columbian America.
I basically stopped watching after that; there was too much background-and-speculation and not enough firm conclusion in the show.
I remember Tom Hanks referencing the show, maybe in the movie-ization of DragNet with Dan Akroyd.
“Friday! You were gone so long I was about to send Leonard Nimoy out In Search Of you!”
–G!
I remember Nimoy’s straight-faced promo for the show: “I think you’ll find it … fascinating.”
There have numerous **other **claims about Viking exploration in North America that are less than credible The Vikings are known to have visited Newfoundland and Labrador; there has being speculation they made it as far south on the Atlantic as Cape Cod. For decades, people thought that the Newport Tower in Rhode Island was of Viking origin but it’s now believed to be of early Colonial origin. The Kensington Runestone alleges the Vikings made it as far inland as Minnesota but it is now believed to be a hoax. It’s highly unlikely the Vikings made it that far into North America.
One of my pet peeves.
All the “Searching For Atlantis”-genre programs that we seem to have been inundated with in the last 20 years drives me absolutely NUTS. The connection between Atlantis and Thera was suggested 50 years ago, soon after Dr Marinatos started excavating the Akrotiri site. And the excellent book Atlantis by Galanapoulos and Bacon published in 1969 did a very good job of connecting the dots with Plato’s original writings.
Why do all these shows and “investigators” spend their money and waste their time looking for something that was found 50 years ago? There has been new geological evidence found recently but that only added additional backup to the evidence of where and what Atlantis actually was and what happened to it, not to mention that it’s the only place where ruins showing a highly civilzed culture like Plato described actually have been found.
There’s nothing mysterious about it. And the truth behind the legend is a lot more fascinating than all the turgid fiction espoused by so many bogus “Search Of” or “Finding…” or “Mystery of…” programs that keep looking for something that was right in plain sight all the time.
Ratings, I assume.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BrotherCadfael
In Search Of… Big Tush!
I believe our dear Brother Cadfael is a Benedictine - whose vow of chastity wasn’t spoken until after leaving his lover and, unbeknowst to him, unborn son, back in the Holy Land. She must have had a very nice tush too. 
(Hope a spoiler alert wasn’t neccessary there)
There is no supernatural stuff. Not so sure his response was a smackdown, more of a this is how it is.
Big Tush (a takeoff on Bigfoot) was the search object in Mad Magazine’s takeoff of *In Search Of…
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A bit too obscure, I guess.
This brings back a fond memory from college. Late one afternoon a bunch of us were in the common room in the dorm watching the In Search Of … The Swamp Monster episode. There were several football players there, and every time someone in the show talked about hearing “strange noises”, there’e be an exchange like “Man, I’d be outta there so fast you’d think I’d disappeared.” “Nuh-Uh! You’d be eating MY dust.”
Afterwards we were laughing about how these big macho football players were bragging about who was the biggest chicken.
Sorry, I haven’t read Mad for probably 50 years. So maybe a bit too recent?
Now if it had been a reference from “Star Bleech” or “Grim Pix” I might have caught it.
Leonard Nimoy: “Hello. I’m Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It’s all lies. But they’re entertaining lies. And in the end, isn’t that the real truth? The answer is - No.”
Of course that Simpson’s episode also featured one of my favorite quotes of the series, so although it’s unrelated I have to include it:
Mr. Burns: “A lifetime of working with nuclear power has left me with a healthy green glow… [mutters under breath] and left me as impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner.”
Uh, yeah. And I notice nobody since has contradicted that answer.
BTW, there never was a Noah or an ark or a worldwide flood and nothing ever landed on the top of Mt. Ararat either.
Back in the '80s, I wrote a parody of the show called In Quest Of. The opening went “This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. Where there was no evidence, it was fabricated.”
Must link to this!
(From “Amazon Women on the Moon”)
my favorite episode creeped me out as a kid it was the one of the full moon and its effects and was talking about how the alleged effects of violent incidents spiked during the full moon… bu showing two people well shadowed fighting …. I think one “killed” the other …. but they had the creepiest music and drums for that show …