I have seen a bit of movies that feature people blending stuff or making shakes in a blender and quite a few where its some single or average joe guy who adds weird shit to the mix. Some examples
1.)Men At Work: Charlie Sheen adds Ice cream, Jagermeister, Ibuprofen or aspirin, and Beer
2.)The Principal: Jim Belushi Uses some type of instant mix, and adds beer, and coca cola instead of milk
3.)Shakedown: Peter Weller adds a raw egg, coffee grounds and some other crap to his blender
I’ve seen it in more movies, I am just having problems recalling them. Can anyone else recall other movies that they’ve done this? I know there are moreand most of them were from the 1980’s and 1990’s. On a related note, its amazing how many other movies feature someone using a blender… I didn’t think it was that common.
Was there a fad for shakes or something that was out of control in that time period? Did I miss something? Or is it just movies being weird as usual?
There was definitely a fad for health shakes in the 80s. In The NeverEnding Story, there’s an early scene with Bastian and his Dad (played by Gerald McRaney) and he puts a raw egg in his oj smoothie. I don’t know if that’s really all that weird, but it looks revolting.
A lot of people thought that the secret recipe for the “Orange Julius” drink contained egg. Some even thought it contained not only the contents, but the egg shell as well (See William Poundstone’s book Big Secrets). I suspect this is the reason you see them making an orange smoothie with raw egg in the movie.
In Postcards From the Edge, Meryl Streep’s character is living with her mother (Shirley MacLaine) while trying to stay clean, and there’s a scene in the kitchen where Shirley is making what looks like a healthy smoothie. After Meryl walks out of the room, mom dumps a bunch of vodka into the blender.
The Orange Julius food chains used to offer a raw egg as a selection. They stopped sometime in the 80’s I think. I used to order them all the time, super frothy and yummy
Needing more calories in my diet (not the usual problem, I know) I found an energy drink recipe I enjoyed. Just OJ, cream, sugar and a raw egg. Quite tasty.
A rare female example: In Sex and the City (the show, not movie), Samantha gets the flu. She insists Carrie whip up a smoothie for her consisting of Orange Fanta, Cherry Nyquil and perhaps a few other secret ingredients. (There are a few other random bottles of stuff on the table; it’s not entirely explicit what’s in those bottles.)
This really is one of those realizations that the late 80’s/early 90’s were blender/smoothie obsessed and the joke was always the most disgusting ingredients being put together. There was a comedy movie I don’t remember the name of but the guy blended together pizza, Chinese food and cereal for a “Leftover Shake”.
Also the entire plot of the Simpsons episode “Flaming Moe’s” revolves around Homer inventing a new mixed drink in a blender which consists of the leftovers of several highly alcoholic bottles (vodka, tequila, schnapps) and cut with children’s cough syrup.
And wikipedia claims it contained powdered egg whites( among other things ), based on this seemingly unsourced claim. Two to two - we are at an impasse :).
Now that has to be the strangest and most disgusting one ever!
I was figuring it was something about it being obsessed with smoothies or something, I was 2 years old in 1990 so I never really got a chance to notice except for the movies. As sad as it is, I bet there are people that actually do what that simpsons episode did… Must be the best hangover ever.
