I think I mentioned before that I'm part of a team that's entering the World Series of Pop Culture. Why am I doing this? Well, the whole thing is groupie-driven, I'd say. I had a short-lived campus tv show in college and I got absolutely no groupies. It was not due to a lack of effort, either; I was putting out the vibe pretty good, let me tell you. I just don't think the show reached enough people. Vh1 reaches at least 3 times as many people as Trinity's campus channel so I should get three times as many groupies. And as we all know, three times zero is... damn it.
Our audition is this Friday. We have a great team name; we have a killer team shirt; we have fighting spirit; we have, most importantly, burlap sacks heavily laden with dubloons for the judges. The only thing that we may not be totally set on is the actual pop culture knowledge. We will fix that the only way I know how: through shoddy, last minute preparation.
Tonight, teammate Dean Zyvarb and I are getting together, and we're going to whip each other into shape. I don't know how that works. I suspect that we'll mine Wikipedia, quiz each other, and then try out our Tom Selleck impersonations. Optimistically, the end result will be a second-to-last finish instead of a last place finish. And yes, groupies out the wazoo.
Posted by Cody at February 7, 2007 06:18 PMMy favorite factoid from my studies thus far: George Michael is the first white guy to do a duet with Aretha Franklin.
Posted by: Cody at February 7, 2007 06:19 PMWe had groupies in A&M quizbowl. Shit man, we had a 3 page application they had to fill out. What can I say, hot girls love the dorks. You've got to get on that, Cody.
Idea: Let Trucky be the Groupie President. That way she can't be too upset when your fame goes to your head and there are "incidents."
Also: Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
Posted by: Danza at February 7, 2007 11:02 PMRemember your nicknamed characters. What are the real names of your Radars, Reruns, and Boners.
Also don't forget your TV bible, Genesis 1.1 In the beginning there were Happy Days and All in the Family, and Network said let there be peripheral characters who are willing to defect from prior series commitments to form watered down new shows that we can use to fill gaps in our faltering lineup. And there were Spinoffs, and Network saw that it was good.
Obscure Spinoffs 20-17: And Cheers begat the Tortellis, and Soap begat Benson, and Golden Girls begat Nurses with Loni Anderson.
Remember your lesser known celebrity marriages. Example: Laura Innes (Dr. Weaver from ER) is married to David Brisbin (Mr. Ernst from Hey Dude).
Posted by: Boj at February 8, 2007 02:08 PMDude,
Even though I found out you had a WSOPC team post-facto, yall are fucked without me for rap lyrics and black culture. Plus I do nothing but watch tv and read obscure books all day and I used to read encyclopedias for fun as a kid. I find the ends of wikipedia for fun these days. Aberdeen is fucking boring, what can I say.
I've got to say I'm incredibly relieved that you're in Scotland, Jess, because you would probably chew us up and spit us out. Instead, we're whoopin' up on hipsters and you're spitting up haggis.
Last night, I was actually studying the Benson wikipedia entry to get ready for this test.
Posted by: Cody at February 8, 2007 08:33 PMI was about to call Danza's advice into serious question, but then he redeemed himself. Also, I love Hey Dude.
Posted by: Trucky at February 8, 2007 09:40 PM