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Weekend Discussion Thread: Stingers from Shorts that Might Have BeenAlert regular Sitting Duck suggests:
Oh definitely from “Here Comes the Circus”: doin’ it clown style. Your pick? 60 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Stingers from Shorts that Might Have Been”Commenting at Satellite News
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Mr. B Natural –
“Knew your father, I did!”
The cheerleaders from The Home Economics Story: “Look, look, look at my crotch! Looooook at my crotch!”
I always like it in “Posture Pals” when they staighten poor Bombo and he screams out.
Noooo springs! He he.
From Hired Part 2. “Flying elves are back!”
From Speech: Using Your Voice: “Use plenty of lip and tongue action.”
Doh! — I broke the rules (what were the odds?)! Still think it’s the logical alternate choice, though.
The dying fawn from Circus On Ice. Good wholesome fun for the kiddies.
From “Speech: Platform Posture & Appearance”: the knee test.
From X Marks the Spot, the Traffic Angel shows up and helps the ghost of Joe to his feet.
Or “What about Juvenile Delinquency” where the gang is about to attack the dad (where we see his face and it focuses out)
Or “Out of This World” where the female angel sticks her tongue out at the disguised devil. (It’s the Circus of the Devil)
Are we counting the serials? If so, from “Phantom Creeps, Chapter 2: Death Stalks the Highway”:
BELA LUGOSI: How fortunate! This simplifies everything!
Assignment: Venezuela. “The first thing that surprised me on that ride was the.?” Or The anteater with onion ring moment.
Progress Island U.S.A.: one of the acid trips montage, folk dancing, or UFO outside the Digital building.
Chicken of Tomorrow: “That’s what you think Big Boy.”
Uncle Jim’s Dairy farm: Farm boy waving as his city cousins arrive.
Once upon a Honeymoon: Wilbur sprinkling angel dusty.
Suddenly I want to use this Lugosi quote for, well, EVERYTHING.
OK, I thought stingers were always actual lines or shots from the movies and not riffs, so I’m going with that tradition. From the short Century 21 Calling, “Easy as pie, isn’t it?,” spoken by the perky telephone company representative.
From “General Hospital” (I believe it was part 3): dumping the cake in the trash.
Or this one: “Always be pleasing.”
When you consider how bland and forgettable Radar Secret Service was, it’s all the more surprising that they didn’t use, “Why don’t they look?” as the stinger for that episode.
A couple more suggestions. From A Young Man’s Fancy, the kid sister going on about feeling squishy. From Robot Rumpus, Gumbo discovering the benefits of having internal genitalia.
From “Young Man’s Fancy”, when Judy is on the phone talking about feeling squishy.
In A Young Man’s Fancy Alex and Bob’s double-take reaction when Mom tells them not to tease Judy too much or they’ll give her “the reds.”
“Golly Mary! This stuff’s hard!”
A Day at the Fair short (with Codename: Diamondhead):
“Over here Ann is busy grooming her pig.”
“Jimminy,” thinks Jonny. “If only I could get a ride in one of those.”
Wasn’t that the sequel to MacArthur Park? :-D
‘Junior Rodeo Daredevils’: shots of children being violently bucked off of animals and hitting the ground hard. Wheeeeeee!
“Johnny at the Fair” is on my mind after this site pointed me to “Charlie at the Fair” (I’d heard about that follow-up piece a few years ago, living relatively close to the Canadian National Exhibition myself). Therefore, “What? A heelacopter airplane!” came readily to mind. (However, Turner Classic Movies did show a “Disneyland” episode from the 1950s where Walt Disney used that same pronunciation…)
From Design for Dreaming: Nuveena gets lifted by the masked man right before singing, “I want a Corvette!” It’s a great silly moment.
By the way, if Design for Dreaming were done today, I’m sure some mention would be made about Nuveena looking like Sheldon Cooper in drag. Now try getting THAT visual out of your head. ;)
PLEASE BRING BACK THE EDIT BUTTON!!
From What To Do On A Date: “Yeah, that is an old-timer”. It’s just such a perfect understatedly weird and awkward moment .
Mr. B giving her approval of Buzz’s trumpet solo to the camera (it stinks!)
The guy shutting his eyes and plugging his ears before Joe Doakes’ crash in “X Marks the Spot”. (“Well, guess he can’t be a witness.”)
Cheating: Johnny exits the Ingmar Bergman room of darkness..
Garson Keillor from “Speech: Using Your Voice”: Well, we, were, uh, well…
And A Case of Spring Fever (NO springs!) was shown with Squirm and they chose the movie stinger??
(These being odd out-of-context images, and not squishy high-school huh-huh things somebody said out of context.)
So what’s your point, EricJ? A simple minded reader like me might think you were finding fault with the previous entries. Couldn’t be, right?
From Keeping Clean and Neat: when the narrator orders the kids to clean their rooms RIGHT NOW, and they go into super speeded-up motion and clean them in two seconds flat.
Well, it’s a little too easy to just make any line sound huh-huh out of context…And btw, AREN’T you a little short for a Stormtrooper?
Money Talks: Scarecrow boy is hypnotized by the spinning coin.
Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance – The guy with his hands on his knees practicing his posture exercises. I could watch him doing that on an endless loop.
Robot Rumpus – The “The End” shot with the robot head hanging over the garage door.
Whoops. Just rewatched this and realized the quote should be:
“But golly, Mary! This stuff’s awful. I just don’t get most of it!”
Still works as a stinger, though.
“Boing” from Are You Ready for Marriage?
“All that theoretical stuff gives me a pain” (or whatever the exact quote is) from Is This Love?
Wilbur snaps his fingers in midair from Once Upon a Honeymoon.
Any instance of the pronunciation of “shiing” from Snow Thrills.
From “Robot Rumpus”: Gumby’s dad landing crotch-first on the rooftop.
Either that or Gumby’s shrill, “SUUUrrrRRReee, MOTHER!” line.
Couple of options from Chicken of Tomorrow:
1). The Mae West hen – “That’s what you think, big boy”
2). The flabby faced auctioneer babbling
Date With Your Family: The bit about Dad treating his daughter like she was his best girl. That line sounds so creepy and inappropriate. It didn’t help that when I first watched that episode I’d recently been dating and was still good friends with a woman whose father was, well, a very bad man in some of the worst ways. To quote Tom Servo, “The less said about this the better.”
Commando Cody offered plenty of sting worthy moments. Him launching and flying always had a goofy charm.
“Five pound potty”.
Thinking in terms of images (a fine approach, by the way, although in articulating our preferences there is no need to make people feel bad if they happen to take a different approach), I keep coming back to the kid (in this case, the boy) in KEEPING CLEAN AND NEAT — the image of him starting to get up only to fall back into bed (with his hand over his face), which inspires the line, “what in the hell did I DO last night?”). That’s a funny, stinger-worthy, little moment.
And I would also like to see the return of the edit button!
I hope my post above didn’t come across as criticizing those who for good reason chose riffs as stingers. It’s ALL good!
Another vote for the return of the edit button if possible, because sometimez I cantt spel.
Body Care and Grooming: (pan up on “neat” girl) “Ohhh brother!”
X Marks the Spot: Pedestrian plugging his ears and shutting his eyes.
Days of our Years: Poor schmoe takes a blowtorch to the face.
Catching Trouble: Ross pulling the bear cub off the tree, or one of Ross’ several stilted deliveries.
#43: MSTie — absolutely not (at least not from my perspective)! As you so rightly said, it’s ALL GOOD! :)
EDIT BUTTON, EDIT BUTTON, EDIT BUTTON!!!
I just figured people are using riffs to “mark” the moment in the short.
EDIT BUTTON, EDIT BUTTON, EDIT BUTTON!!!
or at least:
PREVIEW BUTTON, PREVIEW BUTTON, PREVIEW BUTTON!!!
;-)
All the good ones are gone, so……
From the Selling Wizard, “Gentlemen please”, as the scab encrusted legs of the salesgirl go by.
Robot Rumpus: Gumby’s parents sternly watching Gumby mowing the lawn.
I think it was the Posture short that had the line (from the movie, not a riff):”Johnny exposed himself on stage, and Mary helped!” Amazes me that the line went by without any riff or sound.