# Movie music fail

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 7, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-fail/815591 "2018-06-07T03:12:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-music-fail/815591/37 "2018-06-09T23:00:42Z")

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If you ever saw ABCs Eyewitness news before _Cool Hand Luke_, this segment was made bizarre:

> [@DavidwithanR](#):
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> (BTW, “treacly fluff” is mine, you can’t have it.) 🙂

Of course that made me wonder if “treacly fluff” was a common expression. It only returned 39 hits on Google, but oddly two were from right here:

In 2002

> [@Nixon-Kennedy Rematched With Full Knowledge...who wins?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nixon-kennedy-rematched-with-full-knowledge-who-wins/137245/3):
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> …Nixon was an oily slimeball back in the 1950s. His “Checkers” speech was one of the worst examples of using **treacly fluff** to get what you want.

And in 2012

> [@Did Kenny G respond to Pat Metheny?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-kenny-g-respond-to-pat-metheny/614746/16):
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> …It’s not as if Kenny G took a classic piece of jazz and turned it into mellow pap. It was ALREADY mellow pap when Kenny found it!!! “Wonderful World” was ALWAYS **treacly fluff** , and was therefore a perfect choice for a Kenny G cover.

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