The Snickers commercial featuring the incomparable Betty White and the adorable Abe Vigoda was probably one of the best commercials shown during the 2010 Super Bowl. It really looked like they got tackled pretty hard! Featuring their new tagline, “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry“, I can only hope this is a sign of more commercials featuring Betty White.

Betty White has always been hilarious, from her days on Golden Girls to her various appearances on talk shows and small roles on tv shows. Betty White fans have recently created a Facebook fan page called Betty White to Host SNL (Please?)! which has over 70,000 fans and counting. We at Songspeak agree. She’d be a perfect SNL host.

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David Wallace on The Office is always pure comedy cold. Sure, his comedic stylings are more subtle than say, Michael Scott, but that’s why it makes this clip all the more special. Because David Wallace is now nuts.

In a post-Sabre takeover world (where presumably David Wallace got bought out and is now enjoying his retirement), his grand idea for his next business venture is a shop-vac like vacuum that sucks up toys in messy rooms called “Suck It”.

The theme song he plays with his son (who is AWESOME on the drums btw) pretty much says it all (excerpt):

Lyrics:
Well it’s a mess.
What’choo gonna do?
You’re gonna take out your Suck It and suck it… suck it… suck it.
You’re gonna take out your Suck It and suck it… suck it… suck it.

Tags: andy buckley, david wallace, drums, michael scott, retirement, sabre, shop vac, son on drums, suck it, the office, theme song

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A high school friend of ours, Bill is a regular commenter here on Songspeak, . We’re grateful to Bill for the tip about AC/DC providing the soundtrack to Iron Man 2.

Witness the IM madness:

jamie: it’s all thanks to bill
matt: should have titled it shoot to bill
matt: for those about to bill, we bill
jamie: yeah, I couldn’t think of a good title
matt: I feel safe in bill york bill
matt: bill’s bells
jamie: bill made bill
matt: rock and bill ain’t noise bill

It got me thinking, what might the tracklisting for Iron Man 2 look like if Bill had his way:

1. Shoot to Bill
2. Rock ‘N’ Roll Billnation
3. Guns for Bill
4. Cold Hearted Bill
5. Bill in Black
6. ThunderBill
7. If You Want Bill (You’ve Got It)
8. Evil Bill
9. T.N.B.
10. Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Bill
11. Have a Drink on Bill
12. The Razor’s Bill
13. Let There Be Bill
14. Bill Machine
15. Highway to Bill

Tags: ac/dc, bill, iron man 2, track listing, tracklist

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Thanks to Bill for sending me this link earlier today. It seems that the soundtrack for Iron Man 2 will consist of solely AC/DC songs, and the soundtrack, available April 19, 2010, will be called AC/DC: Iron Man 2. One would think that AC/DC recorded a new track or two for the soundtrack, like Big Gun from Last Action Hero or Who Made Who for Maximum Overdrive, but nope, no new songs…just old stuff. So really, it’s kind of a “greatest hits” package of sorts. Which is fine, I’m sure the music in the movie will be rockin’, but would it have killed them to record a new song for the movie? (As I mentioned to Bill earlier, given their age, it just might). And didn’t Black Sabbath have a song titled Iron Man? Maybe it was in the first movie, who knows…I still haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. It appears as though Jon Favreau is a big AC/DC fan, and that was one of the factors that contributed to this whole scenario. Very reminiscent of how Stephen King wanted AC/DC exclusively for the soundtrack of Maximum Overdrive (based on his short story Trucks) because he’s a fan. Oh, Maximum Overdrive. Emilio Estevez. And remember when that other dude got clobbered by that truck that came to life? That was awesome. Anyway, enough reminiscing.

It looks like the soundtrack does a good job encompassing AC/DC’s whole career with some classic old Bon Scott songs right up to a song off their most recent CD Black Ice. You can see the track listing at the link above, but here it is anyway:

1. Shoot to Thrill
2. Rock ‘N’ Roll Damnation
3. Guns for Hire
4. Cold Hearted Man
5. Back in Black
6. Thunderstruck
7. If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)
8. Evil Walks
9. T.N.T.
10. Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
11. Have a Drink on Me
12. The Razor’s Edge
13. Let There Be Rock
14. War Machine
15. Highway to Hell

And here’s the first video for Shoot to Thrill from the movie:

Keep your eyes on Brian Johnson. There’s something about a 62 year old grinding his hips that isn’t disturbing at all.

NOT.

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In this new spot for T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G Fender Limited Edition smartphone, Eric Clapton brags about being friends with Buddy Guy while getting off on 57 Chevys and screaming guitars. One thing is certainly clear, and that is that Clapton needs to get a haircut.

I get off on ‘57 Chevys;
I get off on screaming guitar.
Like the way it hits me every time it hits me.
I’ve got a rock and roll, I’ve got a rock and roll heart.

Tags: 57 chevy, eric clapton, google android, mobile phone, mytouch, rock and roll heart, screaming guitar, smartphone, t-mobile

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A.B.C

A. ALWAYS

B. BE

C. COBBLING!

Pretty amazing spoof of Alec Baldwin’s Oscar Winning performance in Glengarry Glen Ross if you ask me. I love how he accidentally slips into the original script for a second when he goes through the ABCs.

Tags: A.B.C., alec baldwin, always be closing, always be cobbling, christmas, glen, glengarry, put that cocoa down, ross, saturday night live, snl, spoof, tools

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The other day I got home from work to find my daughter Quinn dancing around in the living room singing, “I like to move it, move it! I like to move it, move it!” I was taken aback, and discovered that her friend was singing it at school. I never really expected to hear her singing I Like to Move It by Reel 2 Real, but I’m sure the version her friend had heard was will.i.am’s version from Madagascar 2. She must have really had that song stuck in her head, because she was singing it all night. My favorite part, by far, was when we were playing cards and she was watching her last cartoon before bed (that night’s pick was Batman), and she told me she had to go to the bathroom. So she ran in, and I asked her if she wanted me to pause her show. She replied in the affirmative, and then I heard her singing while on the toilet, “I like to pause it, pause it! I like to pause it, pause it! I like to…PAUSE IT!” I was almost literally ROTFLOLing. I love it when 4 year-olds songspeak. For those of you who have forgotten the original classic:

Songspeak bonus story: Back when I was at WPI when this song first came out, a group of us had become obsessed with playing Tetris, and my roommate used to sing, “I like to Tetris, smetris!” Yes, we were losers, I know.

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I forgot to post this last week, but on NBC on Thursday night, Parks and Recreation illustrated a great example of songspeak. While much of songspeak consists of using song lyrics in everyday situations, a lot of it comes from making up lyrics on the fly to songs, usually involving the situation you’re currently in. Well, on Thursday’s episode, when most of the office was out on a hunting trip, Andy and April the intern stay in the office, because April needs to call the State Parks Department to give a tracking number. However, in a standard sitcom scenario, she’s on hold throughout most of the episode. When she leaves Andy there to listen in case anyone picks up while she’s in the bathroom, he starts making up lyrics to the song playing on hold. The song? A muzak version of the classic Air Supply hit All Out of Love. Andy sings his lyrics for April, and they are AMAZING. It sounds like something Matt and I would have sang back in the day. Songspeaks are best when the lyrics are made ludicrously dirty. And now, without further ado…Andy’s classic:

Tags: 00s tv, air supply, all out of love, andy, april, muzak, nbc, parks and recreation, state parks department

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Ken Ober, comedian best known as the host of MTV’s Remote Control, was found dead in his L.A. home on Sunday. He was found by his son Jason, according to his agent. Born in the Boston, MA suburb of Brookline in 1957, he spent most of his childhood growing up in Hartford, CT. He was a 1980 graduate of UMASS Amherst.

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Ken Ober, whose MTV game show “Remote Control” was among the network’s first forays into non-music programming, has died at age 52, his agent said Monday. Ober hosted five seasons of “Remote Control,” a pop-culture quiz show that featured contestants strapped into easy chairs to answer questions from categories such as “Dead or Canadian?” The show first aired in 1987 and helped launch the careers of comedians Adam Sandler, Denis Leary and Colin Quinn, who was the program’s announcer. Ober later moved behind the camera as a producer of the Comedy Central program “Mind of Mencia” and the CBS comedy “The New Adventures of Old Christine.”

He was apparently complaining of flu-like symptoms, headaches, and chest pain when he was last heard from days earlier, and some reports suggest that he died of a heart attack.

Ken Ober, I watched your show a lot in the late 80s. I thought it was so so cool how you proved that MTV was more than just music videos.

Here’s a great clip of Remote Control featuring Colin Quinn singing some CCR:

Also, I don’t know if youze guys remember this, but he was the guy on the couch in the Blues Traveler video for Hook, back when John Popper was fat. Towards the end of the video, every time he uses his remote control to try and change the channel, it keeps switching back to Blues Traveler. That sounds like a living nightmare.

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I’ve been quite enjoying this song called Effington, off Ben Folds’ latest disc, Way To Normal.

Lyrics to Effington :
If there’s a god,
he’s laughing at us
And our football team.

Effington could be a wonderful effing place
I can see it from the highway
And I’m wondering
Are they effing in their yards
effing in their cars
effing in the trailers and the backroads and the parking lots of Effington
Making my way to Normal, Illinois.

Maybe I should ditch this little white rental on the interstate
And start a new effing life…in effington
I could change my name, grow a beard, start a family
Or I could just keep moving on, moving on, moving on, moving on
Not stop ’til I get to Normal.

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too.
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington
In Effington
Oh

I’ve got this movie in my mind of Effington
And the soundtrack to it sounds like this

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there too.
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington
In Effington
Oh

If there’s a god,
he’s laughing at us
And our football team.

And then the people who live in Normal
Can buy the movies that I’ll make in Effinghton
That’s what normal people do
Normal people do it too
Normal people do it too
Normal people do it
People do it
People do it
People do it

I want to live in Effington
I want to die there to.
Please bury me in Effington
In Effington
In Effington
In Effington
In Effington

Tags: ben folds, effington, illinois, normal, way to normal

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