Remember “yanny or laurel?”
Well, my version was “Martin or shabonky-ay-aynyer?”
The Monkees.
“We’re the umpteration”. Or so I thought. Hey, I was young, and it was a crappy TV speaker,
Two pilots were filmed, one with a Calypso theme song and the other with the familiar ballad before it was tweaked to include the Professor and Mary Ann.
Footage from the first pilot was incorporated into the second, but the two girls in it (secretaries on holiday) were, in the words of Sherwood Schwartz, “too much alike,” so they became Ginger and Mary Ann.
Location photography for one of the pilots (I don’t remember which) coincided with the Kennedy assassination, which is why the American flag seen as the Minnow leaves port was flying at half staff.
The rest of the cast didn’t learn about this until years later. Bob didn’t want them to know he had spoken out for the change, and he never told anyone about it.
Flintstones
Meet the Flintstones
They’re a modastoic family…
“Let’s ride with the family down the street, through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet.”
It was years before I was sure I’d heard that last part correctly.
It took five of us riding in a car one evening trying to sound out the lyrics syllable by syllable to figure out it was “we’re the young generation”
And we’ve got something to say!
One day maybe Fred will win the fight
Then that half will stay up for the night
It seems much more “right” for the henpecked-husband dynamic of the 60s. Despite what is going on on the screen during the lyrics,
WIIIIIIILLLLLLLMAAAAAA!
For years I thought it was “through the courtesy of Frank and Pete”. I thought those were the names of the producers or animators or something.
I believe that second line is: Then that cat will stay out for the night. It’s happening as it’s being sung.
Not to speak for @Just_Asking_Questions, but I think the point they were making was that what they heard made more sense to them, despite the visual showing the actuality.
My question as a kid was, what’s the deal with the ‘cat’, anyway? It appears in all of the closing credits, but never in any episode. What happened? Did it have a predator showdown with Dino early on, and Dino won?
Ponder this: when Dino first appeared, he could talk and didn’t make dog noises.
As best as I can recall, from memory:
This is the theme to Gary’s show,
This is the theme to Gary’s show,
Gary called me up and asked if I would write his theme song.
It’s only one more minute,
How do you like it so far?
This is the theme to Gary Shandling’s Show …
Pre-cicely.
And yes, why was there a “cat” in the song and in the credits, when there never* was a cat in the show? It even bugged me as a child. I’m like, did they forget? Change their minds?
*as far as I remember
When I was a kid, I thought the theme to The Jeffersons was “moving on up to the sky”; I didn’t learn that it was “to the East Side” until years later.
I also wasn’t sure what “took a whole lot of to rye inn” meant, but I figured it out after a while.
His name was Baby Puss:
What’s up with that cat, anyway? It appears in the framing sequences but never in the show!
Baby Puss, the Flintstone family’s cat, actually does appear a couple of times in the original series, but is noticeably absent from the vast majority of episodes–surprising, considering that the cat is the only character other than Fred who is singled out in the aired theme song’s lyrics. One possible explanation is that Dino and Baby Puss, judging from what little evidence we have, generally did not get along very well, so the cat didn’t hang around the house much.
There were lyrics to the Bonanza theme. Sung by the Cartwright’s only in the first episode. IIRC
Thanks. I always kinda figured as a kid there must be some ‘lost” Flintstones episodes that actually featured the cat, because I know I never saw one.
I had to hear this for myself, and thanks to YouTube, here it is:
Some day, Davy Crack’ll win the fight,
And the cat will stay out for the night.
Asakid I got the cat part right, probably through contextual clues (viz, Fred putting the cat out). But I was an adult before I stopped wondering who Davy Crack was and what he had to do with any of it.
So gather witch you shawl ‘em,
A roo stick you can call ‘em.
It took a Straight Dope thread for me to get the true lyrics to the Addams Family song.
Leonardo leads Donatello’s dunce machines