# The stories behind "sit ubu sit", curiosity company, Braniff, "believe it", etc **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455 "2004-03-04T03:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/21 "2004-03-09T00:56:39Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > Anybody know the story on the end cap for Robert Smigel’s cartoons, where he says, “Let go of my shoe” Who is that man supposed to be, anyway? Lorne Michaels? He chases a dog around at the beginning and end of the cartoon, yelling “Come back with my show!” (Not shoe) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/22 "2004-03-09T02:07:41Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > ‘Yukozuna’ is what Jimmy’s…brother, IIRC, calls his oh-so-classy move of dropping his pants, and leaping at an unsuspecting victim so his ass lands in their face. (Jimmy explained this on the show once. Complete with video.) Also, back in the 80’s, there was a professional wrestler named Yokozuna who must have weighed about 800 pounds. That guy was huge. They did a tribute to him on one episode of the Man Show. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/23 "2004-03-09T08:19:17Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Who is that man supposed to be, anyway? Lorne Michaels? He chases a dog around at the beginning and end of the cartoon, yelling “Come back with my show!” (Not shoe) Thanks, I had that kind of messed up. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/24 "2004-03-09T14:27:08Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Also, back in the 80’s, there was a professional wrestler named Yokozuna who must have weighed about 800 pounds. That guy was huge. They did a tribute to him on one episode of the Man Show. _Yokozuna_ is also the highest rank attainable in the Japanese Sumo Federation. At that rank, you can never be demoted, although you may be “compelled” to retire. A variation on Mutant Enemy: At the end of “Once More with Feeling,” the “err, arr” was sung in a faux operatic voice. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/25 "2004-03-09T19:46:54Z")
Originally Posted by mobo85 Who is that man supposed to be, anyway? Lorne Michaels? He chases a dog around at the beginning and end of the cartoon, yelling “Come back with my show!” (Not shoe) I think it was supposed to be Richard Nixon yelling " come back with my show!" ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/26 "2004-03-10T02:12:30Z")
There was also a sitcom during the 80s (damned if I remember which it was) with an end cap featuring a bushy-haired guy sitting in his study, smoking a pipe and typing on a typewriter. He finished a page, grabbed the sheet of paper, and yanked it out of the typewriter, at which point it flew through the air, turned into a cartoon, and landed on a stack of pages, the top few of which curled around with it to make a letter C. No idea what show that was. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/27 "2004-03-10T02:28:11Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > There was also a sitcom during the 80s (damned if I remember which it was) with an end cap featuring a bushy-haired guy sitting in his study, smoking a pipe and typing on a typewriter. He finished a page, grabbed the sheet of paper, and yanked it out of the typewriter, at which point it flew through the air, turned into a cartoon, and landed on a stack of pages, the top few of which curled around with it to make a letter C. > > No idea what show that was. That was Stephen J. Cannell, who had quite the record for decent shows in the '80s: The A-Team Hunter Riptide Wiseguy 21 Jump Street Hardcastle & McCormick et. al. He also was a big guy on The Rockford Files, but I don’t know if that carried his endcap or not. Looking at his bio at [TvTome](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-6923) I’m not sure what sitcom you might be remembering…as you can tell, he was a one hour action/crime-drama type of guy. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/28 "2004-03-10T02:34:24Z")
Thanks, **fiddlesticks**! I guess it wasn’t a sitcom; it was probably The A-Team, Riptide, or the Greatest American Hero, or more likely all of the above. My brother and I loved those shows. ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/29 "2004-03-10T03:56:42Z")
Does anyone remember the interludes from ALF? I’ve been trying to recall them all day. ---
**Author:** ![purplycow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@purplycow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplycow)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/30 "2004-03-11T01:15:53Z")
This is really embarrassing … but until I read this thread I always heard the “Sit, Ubu, sit!” line as “Sit, Boo-boo, sit!” … and so I thought the dog’s name was Boo-boo. :o ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/31 "2004-03-11T07:49:55Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Also, back in the 80’s, there was a professional wrestler named Yokozuna who must have weighed about 800 pounds. That guy was huge. They did a tribute to him on one episode of the Man Show. Actually, I believe Yokozuna (real name Rodney Anoai) didn’t come along until the 90’s. At least not _as_ Yokozuna, he did have prior gimmicks after all. The sticking the butt in the face thing, however, sounds more like what his cousin Rikishi (Solafa Fatu) does. I don’t recall Yokozuna ever doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455/32 "2004-03-11T15:05:26Z")
> [@labtrash](#): > > Originally Posted by mobo85 > Who is that man supposed to be, anyway? Lorne Michaels? He chases a dog around at the beginning and end of the cartoon, yelling “Come back with my show!” (Not shoe) > > I think it was supposed to be Richard Nixon yelling " come back with my show!" Are you talking about Robert Smigel’s intro to (among other things) Saturday TV Funhouse? Because that most certainly **is** Lorne Michaels. That’s what’s supposed to be funny about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stories-behind-sit-ubu-sit-curiosity-company-braniff-believe-it-etc/232455.md?page=1)