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Well it’s a mess, whatcha gonna do?
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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The Office presents: Subtle Sexuality
Here at songspeak, we love The Office and everything Office-related. Today, The Office just released their latest webisodes on the NBC site. This group of webisodes is entitled Subtle Sexuality, and in it, Kelly and new receptionist Erin start a girl-group and shoot a music video for their new song, Male Prima Donna. The entire series is three webisodes, mainly telling the story of the making of the video (during which, it’s not surprisingly revealed that the song is about Ryan), but the last episode contains the actual music video. And without spoiling anything, it. Is. AMAZING. I think what really makes it is Andy’s (a.k.a. Nard Dog) stellar performance. See for yourself!Tags: 00s tv, andy bernard, autotune, erin hannon, kelly kapoor, male prima donna, nard dog, nbc, ryan howard, subtle sexuality, the office, webisode
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It’s a nice day for an Office wedding
Last night marked the biggest television wedding since Monica and Chandler or Luke and Laura when Jim and Pam got married on The Office. The episode actually surpassed my expectations, and the entire cast got some really funny moments. The episode was chock-full of great moments; Dwight hooking up with Pam’s best friend, Andy tearing his scrotum, Michael hooking up with Pam’s mom, Kevin losing his shoes, Oscar getting offended by Pam’s sister thinking Kevin was his boyfriend, Jim’s slip-up during his toast, and Michael’s awkward attempt at a save. And then, of course, there was the wedding party dancing down the aisle to Forever by (Rihanna-beater) Chris Brown, based on a real-life wedding youtube sensation hit. Let’s suspend disbelief for a moment and not question why all of Jim and Pam’s co-workers would, for some reason, be allowed to walk/dance down the aisle in addition to the wedding party, because, well, the show IS called The Office and a moment like this without the cast of the show wouldn’t feel right. Here is it for those who missed it:
And, the original, as performed at Jill and Kevin Heinz’s wedding (and how awesome is it for them that not only did it become such a huge viral hit, but is now also referenced in one of the most iconic moments on one of the best shows on television?):
All in all, the episode wasn’t nearly as sappy as it could have been, and I thought they did a good job balancing the schmaltzy Jim & Pam stuff with the crazy hijinks that the show does so well.
Tags: 00s music, 00s tv, andy bernard, chris brown, crazy hijinks, dwight shrute, forever, Friends, general hospital, jill and kevin heinz, jim and pam, jim and pam wedding, jim halpert, kevin, luke and laura, monica and chandler, nbc, oscar, pam beesly, rihanna, schmaltzy, season 6, the office, torn scrotum, wedding dance
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Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake wants you to chew on life’s big questions
This week, Rainn Wilson, mostly known as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office, helped launch a new website called Soul Pancake. Rainn, a member of the Ba’hai Faith, explains that he wants to “de-lame-ify” talking about God and religion.From SoulPancake:
Hi. I’m Rainn Wilson. I’m an actor. I helped create this here Web site, SoulPancake.
What is SoulPancake? Well, it’s more of a mission than a Web site…
We want to make discussions about Spirituality, Creativity, and Philosophy cool again. Were they ever cool? I have no idea. But it seems like a good idea. We want to engage the user to “Chew on Life’s Big Questions”™. (I was kidding about the ™ symbol; you can use that phrase however you want. Even to sell frozen taquitos.) Where do you go on the Interwebs if you want an irreverent, fun, and profound take on God and Art and the Soul and Faith and Beauty? Fox.com? Maybe. But maybe also here at SoulPancake.com.
Some of the questions include things like:
If you had one hour left on Earth, how would you spend it?
Do the imaginations of adults need a serious kick in the balls?
Also this week, Rainn Wilson also went on Oprah’s Soul Series radio show to discuss the website’s launch and briefly discuss the Baha’i Faith.
You can listen/watch the interview in its entirety here.
Tags: baha'i, chew on life's big questions, creativity, debate, faith, God, oprah, philosophy, rainn wilson, religion, soul pancake, soul series, soulpancake, spirituality, the office, xm
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One, two, three, four Splendas in your coffee Stanley
The Nard Dog is always good for a songspeak on The Office. Last Thursday was no exception.
Andy recently had his heart broken when he found out his fiance Angela had been sleeping with Dwight. He called off the wedding, and has been depressed ever since. So it makes sense that when Stanley brings a cute client into the office for a meeting that he became smitten and had a little crush.
One of his tricks to get to know her was to look in her car and see what kind of music she likes. He saw a Feist CD, so when he went back to the office, he tried to impress her with his own version of Feist’s hit 1234:
Ultimately, it didn’t work. But it works for Feist, whose song first gained recognition in an Apple iPod Nano commercial, then was featured on Sesame Street, and now has been featured on The Office. One more mainstream usage of the song, and we can count to 4 along with her.
Tags: 00s tv, 1 2 3 4, 1234, andy bernard, angela martin, apple, apple ipod nano, coffee, dwight shrute, feist, ipod, ipod nano, nard dog, sesame street, splenda, stanley hudson, the office
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The Office is a highway, I wanna watch it all night long
Last Thursday on The Office, Michael Scott (accompanied by Holly and Darryl) belted out a fabulous rendition of Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane.
They were on a road trip from Scranton, PA to Nashua, NH, and it’s one of those songs that you can’t resist singing along to when it comes on the car radio during a long road trip.
I remember when the song came out when I was in high school, and how catchy it was then. It still gets airplay almost daily to this very day.
And now, the vocal stylings of Michael Scott, Holly, and Darryl:
Tags: 00s tv, 90s music, darryl philbin, employee transfer, holly flax, life is a highway, michael scott, nashua, nbc, new hampshire, pennsylvania, road trip, scranton, singing along to the car radio, the office, tom cochrane
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Love me, love me…say that you’ll love me
Do you ever have a song that gets stuck in your head and eats away at your brain for days on end? We’ve all been there. (I happen to currently be there with both of the literal lyrics videos posted earlier this week).
The Office brilliantly referenced (and utilized) this phenomenon in the season 3 episode The Initiation when Jim starts singing Lovefool by the Cardigans to drill it into Karen’s head. It apparently also works on Andy Bernard as well. Way to go, Big Tuna.
Tags: 00s tv, 90s music, andrew bernard, andy bernard, big tuna, cardigans, catchy songs, jim halpert, karen filippelli, lovefool, nbc, songs stuck in your head, the initiation, the office, the office season 3
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Wazzzzzzzzzzup!
Last Thursday on My Name is Earl, the storyline involved David Arquette as a stuntman who had suffered a brain injury so that every day he woke up and thought it was the same day, and forgot everything from the day before (just like Drew Barrymore’s character in 50 First Dates). His accident happened 10 years ago, and so everytime Earl showed up, he greeted him with a hearty, “Wazzzzzup!” from the old Budweiser commercials. This commercial was also referenced in the pilot episode of The Office (it’s how Michael Scott greets Jim and Dwight, and Jim sarcastically mentions how it’s still funny, all these years later).
This led to us finding the original commercial courtesy of youtube, and we realized what a hoot it really is.
Tags: 00s tv, 00s tv commercials, 50 first dates, budweiser, budweiser commercial, david arquette, drew barrymore, dwight, jim, michael scott, my name is earl, my name is earl season 4, the office, wassup, wazzup
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Comedy Night Done Right
Last night was the Comedy Night Done Right on NBC with season premieres of My Name is Earl, The Office, and ER. And amazingly enough, there were great songspeak moments in each of these episodes!
There was a scene in My Name is Earl
where Earl’s dad (played by Beau Bridges) goes to confront an old neighbor who he had just found out had a fling with his wife years ago. As they’re waiting at the door, Earl starts singing Eye of the Tiger by Survivor. When the dude’s wife (who had taken years of self defense classes) starts pounding the holy hell out of his dad, Earl keeps singing.
The Office was awesome, as always. At the end of last season, Andy Bernard proposed to Angela (who is boffing Dwight Schrute on the side), and she reluctantly accepted. The Angela/Andy wedding plotline was only a small part of last night’s episode, but in one scene where Andy goes to Angela’s desk to talk to her, he references Umbrella by Rihanna by singing, “My Angela..ella…ella”.Finally, on ER, Tony Hale (Buster Bluth from Arrested Development) guest starred as a patient who had broken his leg
saving an old woman. He was a very talkative patient, and would tell anyone who listened how he was injured because he was saving someone. In one of his ramblings, he starts reciting song lyrics. I believe it was Hero by Mariah Carey because he finished with “and there’s a hero inside of you…ha ha, the song was right!”NBC went 3 for 3 last night with the songspeaks. Kudos, National Broadcasting Company. Kudos.
Tags: 00s tv, andy bernard, angela kinsey, arrested development, beau bridges, buster, buster bluth, comedy night done right, dwight schrute, ed helms, ER, ER season 15, ER season premiere, eye of the tiger, hero, jason lee, mariah carey, michael scott, my name is earl, my name is earl season 4, my name is earl season premiere, national broadcasting company, nbc, rainn wilson, rihanna, season premieres, steve carrell, survivor, the office, the office season 5, the office season premiere, Tony Hale, umbrella
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U Can’t Putt This!
We’ve posted here before about the use of songspeak in commercials. However, I don’t know that we’ve ever praised the virtues of the local commercial. The Office even dedicated an episode to the art of the local commercial.
This post is a wonderful example of the local commercial combined with songspeak in advertising. Fenway Golf is a mini-golf/pitch & putt/driving range/par 3 golf course/batting cage all-around activity center located in East Longmeadow, MA. It’s a fun place to spend a Saturday with the family, but more importantly, it has one of the most phenomenal local commercials we’ve ever seen.
It features their own special version of U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer (which itself samples Superfreak by Rick James). There must be something about that catchy bassline, given that numerous commercials have utilized both songs, or alternate versions thereof (Mohegan Sun, for instance, or the many examples here). Well, in Fenway Golf’s version, their adorable golf ball mascot bounces to and fro throughout the grounds, singing his own catchy version of the MC Hammer classic.Words really don’t do it justice, so you’ll just have to see for yourself:
Tags: 00s tv, 00s tv commercials, 70s music, 90s music, east longmeadow, fenway golf, local commercials, mc hammer, rick james, songspeak in advertising, stop hammertime, superfreak, the office, u can't touch this
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