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The Spirit of Freaks and Geeks
Watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall this past weekend and How I Met Your Mother on Monday got me to thinking about Jason Segal’s start on Freaks and Geeks, and some of the more classic moments from that show. Awhile back, Matt posted about Nick serenading Lindsey with the Styx classic Lady.
Well, one of my favorite Nick moments from Freaks and Geeks is when he’s drumming along with Spirit of the Radio by Rush. One would think he’s doing an awesome job, until his dad comes down the stairs and you get the perspective of the outside observer.
This scene is so great because not only is it an awesome song, but who hasn’t been singing along to the car radio, or doing karaoke, and thinking they sound awesome, when, in reality, they’re awful?
(Lostaholics note: John Locke’s dad makes a cameo in this clip!)
Tangential anecdote: Jo and I once shared a flight to Australia with Jason Segal (thankfully, it didn’t crash on a mysterious island). We noticed him waiting in the Auckland, New Zealand airport on our layover along with the rest of the passengers from our plane. Which is funny because the night before we had watched Can’t Hardly Wait in the hotel room, and he has a small cameo in that. And now, thanks to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I’ve seen his penis.
Tags: 00s movies, 80s music, 90s movies, 90s tv, anthony cooper, auckland, australia, can't hardly wait, flight, forgetting sarah marshall, freaks and geeks, how i met your mother, jason segal, jason segal's penis, john locke, john locke's dad, karaoke, kevin tighe, lady, lady of the morning, lindsey, lost, lostaholics, new zealand, nick, rush, singing along to the car radio, spirit of the radio, styx, terry o'quinn
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Cadbury’s gorilla marketing
Cadbury ran an awesome ad campaign in the U.K. in 2007 to promote its Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar. Appropriately titled, “Gorilla”, it features a gorilla listening to Phil Collins‘ song, In The Air Tonight from the Face Value album. It also spawned the website, Glass and a Half Full Productions.
There’s a pivotal moment– wait for it… waaaaaait for it.
Many believed that Phil Collins himself was the drummer, but the gorilla performing the famous drum Phil-in sequence is actor, Garon Michael. Michael had some experience playing a primate having appeared in the movies Congo, and the Planet of the Apes remake.
After its premier week in September of 2007, there was a groundswell of fans clamoring to download the song. In New Zealand for example, it was number 1 on the RIANZ Singles Chart, beating it’s number 6 position when the song was originally released in 1986. In the U.K. Singles Chart it reached number 9. Not bad for a song released in the mid-80s.
Phil Collins has admitted he’s a fan of the ad, joking: “Not only is a better drummer than me, he also has more hair than me. Can he sing too?”
Thanks to Jamie’s wife, Jo for providing the link.
Tags: 00s tv commercials, cadbury, congo, dairy milk chocolate bar, face value, garon michael, gorilla, in the air tonight, new zealand, phil collins, phil-in, planet of the apes, RIANZ singles chart, U.K. singles chart, united kingdom
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