# I'm 26. Explain to me why I don't "get" Alice's Restaurant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895 "2009-05-10T00:45:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/61 "2009-05-11T04:27:37Z")
> [@Mesquite-oh](#): > > My friends and I had Strange Brew memorized. We weren’t like them except we liked to drink- ah classic 80’s movie. My younger friends thought _Fast Times_ was a realistic depiction of their high schools. I wish! Bob and Doug were more like my pals than any of those _Fast Times_ kids were. And **BrotherCadfael**? I was more “early 70s” and the same admonition applies to us. Later 70s were more (what’s that word I’m looking for? Coke?) I, despite a misspent youth, have never even seen cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/62 "2009-05-11T04:37:32Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > I’ve got a recording of him playing it ca. 1997, and he makes a joke about not intending to sing that song that night… Or that decade. I’m sure it’s just his shtick. 🙂 On the one hand, I can see why he’d be sick of it. I heard Al Stewart say that, every tour promoting his latest album, meant _The Year of the Cat_ sold better. Not the new album, but the old one. Heard another interview with Don McLean where he described a similar situation with _American Pie._ but yeah, Arlo has fantastic timing. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/63 "2009-05-11T04:47:47Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Alice’s Restaurant is a true American classic and should be honoured as such. Kid, I have never agreed with you, whether it be politics or hockey, to the same extent that I agree with you on that. To the extent that we should walk into the shrink, wherever we are, just walk in and say, “Shrink, you can get anything you want at Alices’ Restaurant,” and walk out. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/64 "2009-05-12T19:36:56Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Kid, I have never agreed with you, whether it be politics or hockey, to the same extent that I agree with you on that. To the extent that we should walk into the shrink, wherever we are, just walk in and say, “Shrink, you can get anything you want at Alices’ Restaurant,” and walk out. You know what they’ll think… –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/65 "2009-05-12T19:41:36Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > You know what they’ll think… If it’s just the two of them, they’ll think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them. But if THREE people… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/66 "2009-05-12T19:58:39Z")
> [@Mesquite-oh](#): > > My friends and I had Strange Brew memorized. “My brother and I used to say that drownin’ in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he’s not here, and I’ve got two soakers… this isn’t heaven, this sucks.” A very funny, underrated movie. And, an allegory to Hamlet, to boot! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/67 "2009-05-12T21:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=Meeko] So, I am correct in saying that it is a 60 **SECOND** story that takes over 60 **Minutes** to explain? [/QUOTE] There really aren’t too many movies out there where you would need more than 60 secods to explain, so why should this be any different? As for finding it on the air in Boston, WNEW probably still runs it every Thanksgiving. Pretty much every “classic rock” station runs it only on Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/68 "2009-05-12T21:47:28Z")
In case you ever get the munchies while driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains: [Alice’s Restaurant, Woodside, Ca.](http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/) VERY popular with the weekend biking crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/69 "2009-05-13T03:46:50Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > In case you ever get the munchies while driving in the Santa Cruz Mountains: > > [Alice’s Restaurant, Woodside, Ca.](http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/) Oh my God, I’ve been there and didn’t even know it had anything to do with the song! I think I should learn to appreciate the song more, now that it’s so personal to me.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895/70 "2009-05-13T05:21:01Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [Alice’s Restaurant, Woodside, Ca.](http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/) Kind of a ways from Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 🙂 \*\*\* Ponder [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-26-explain-to-me-why-i-dont-get-alices-restaurant/495895.md?page=3)