No you did not just make the brown chicken brown cow joke. I knew a girl who would tell that joke, then giggle endlessly. You now remind me of her.
I’m just a stuck-in-the-70s kinda guy. I think the music was better and the porn was better.
I know exactly what you are talking about. I just can’t think of who it is. I think I saw him on Comic Strip Live. But I agree that this was how the whole joke entered into popular culture.
Got it. Jordan Brady. Definitely the 80’s
No, I heard it a couple of years ago from a friends daughter.
Daddy Dewdrop’s 1971 smash hit Chick A Boom might have something to do with this thread.
Lyrics here.
Is this really such a mystery? Its just a funky guitar riff created by a wah pedal that was used it a lot of 1970s porn. Funk was pretty popular back then and musicians who made music for movies were influenced by it. Im sure it was very modern sounding in 1977.
Rent some non-porn movies, especially actions movies, from the 1970s. You’ll hear a lot of the same riffs.
I’ll say this again: As someone who’s actually seen a lot of '70s porn, that’s just not the way the music sounded. Usually it was some Clarence Clemons wannabe, not the “Theme from Shaft.”
I suspect what happened to make “bow chikka wow wow” a standard reference to pornography is the following: For the past fifteen years or so, it’s been a common claim that the golden age for pornography (at least in the U.S.) was the late 1970’s. See the 1997 movie Boogie Nights (which is set in the late 1970’s) to understand just how much this era is treated as being the classic period for pornography. There’s some truth in this claim. Before the late 1960’s, most pornography was cheap stuff (and frequently illegal). In the 1970’s, it became more common to spend a reasonable amount of money in filming these movies. But in the 1980’s, video cameras became cheap. A lot of amateurs were making their own pornography. There was no point in spending a lot of money in making good professional pornography, so the quality of pornography went down again.
Whether or not this period was really a golden age of pornography or not, this is what was commonly believed. So when comedians made jokes about pornography, they tended to talk about it as being from the late 1970’s. By this time people had begun to forget just what music was like then. They assumed that it was all funk, even though it mostly wasn’t. So it became standard to refer to the music to this pornography as “bow chikka wow wow” stuff.
Maybe it’s just me, but The Match Game theme always sounded to me like porn music.
I came here just to post that joke… and you beat me to it! Argh! I knew a 6 year old who told that joke and didn’t know why it was funny, but knew all the adults laughed hysterically when she told it…
That’s odd. I usually just doze right off afterwards. :o
Did you… notice the dates on these posts?
The guy you quoted last posted almost nine years ago.
And someone made pretty much the same joke 9 years ago to.
(also, this thread appears to be a rare “double zombie”. It got bumped in 2010 and then again today. People apparently like to search for “Porn” as a keyword on the dope. Who would’ve thunk)
Mentioning zombies would have been a joke. I made no such mention. 
The reference is to the reply in post #17. standingwave is the one repeating a joke from 9 years ago.
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I don’t get it.
Ah the 70s…when all the classic porn plots were developed:
Pizza guy delivers more than expected
Pool boy gets a surprise
Teacher keeps Johnny after class
In my memory, if not in actuality, the “bow chikka wow wow” music cued at the exact moment the “plot” ended and the sex commenced.
Both standingwave and Coil are responding to the line “…it keeps me awake at night” with similar, but not identical jokes. Simplicio is pointing out that fact. Basically, that standingwave revived a zombie to riff on a line in the OP that’s already been riffed on.
Ah. I thought Simplicio was talking about my behavior.
I git it now. Thanks!