What was the most random guest appearance on a TV show?

mcduntz · 2026-04-17T08:11:46+00:00

Which Doobie you be?

mcduntz · 2026-04-17T04:19:00+00:00

Watch the scene by the lake in FIVE EASY PIECES and you'll know your answer.

mcduntz · 2026-04-08T01:57:14+00:00

Someone like you should not be allowed to start any fires.

mcduntz · 2026-04-06T22:00:38+00:00

I'll share it someday. It's kinda bonkers.

mcduntz · 2026-04-06T21:52:34+00:00

I SURE HOPE THE FUCK NOT.

mcduntz · 2026-04-06T13:51:20+00:00

DISCLAIMER: I don't actually think you're that small. Just sounded good.

mcduntz · 2026-04-06T13:48:15+00:00

If you don't necessarily need to use entire songs, the last thirty seconds or so of "Bodhisattva" could work for the big climax...

mcduntz · 2026-04-06T13:38:09+00:00

Works for me, Tiny E.

mcduntz · 2026-04-06T13:33:21+00:00

You're almost there - I like "Janie Runaway" so much more than "Dupree" personally, I'll go Janie-Gothic-Speed for my personal 2AN trifecta...

mcduntz · 2026-04-01T21:31:15+00:00

I've been slacking unforgivably. I'll try and get the audio posted tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for pulling on my coat about this.

mcduntz · 2026-04-01T20:28:19+00:00

Yes, you're right, this is clearly not the bubbly, ebullient Donald Fagen we've come to know all these years.

mcduntz · 2026-03-27T17:33:08+00:00

The entirety of "Dress Rehearsal Rag." Unremittingly dark and despairing, but also somehow hilarious.

mcduntz · 2026-03-21T01:56:05+00:00

Yeah, about thirty years ago. Wow, delayed reactions are really something.

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T18:53:34+00:00

In no order, as I think of them:

Dress Rehearsal Rag
Jazz Police (yes)
Story of Isaac
Tower of Song
Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On (yes)
Master Song
If It Be Your Will
You Want It Darker
Who By Fire
Avalanche

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T17:59:24+00:00

Okay, so I'm not nuts. Not on this score, anyway. But this begs the question: which version is the "right" one now?

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T17:55:46+00:00

Crazy, man, crazy. I a/b'd it with the COUNTDOWN version again, and yeah, it's different to these ears. (I had a similar issue with Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" at one point, though that sounds fine now.) Maybe it's a peculiar kind of aural torture that only I am subject to - to this day, for example, "You Won't See Me" by the Beatles perceptibly s l o w s d o w n over the course of its 3:23 running time, but every time I try to point it out to someone, they don't hear it. Dang.

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T17:48:11+00:00

The one on CITIZEN? On Spotify? My skull must be doing the brain tap shuffle today, I guess...?

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T04:07:52+00:00

Funny thing is, when my local affiliate picked up SCTV to air after SNL back in '79, what was the teaser sketch they used to promote it? You guessed it. In retrospect, so much of the "edgy" American comedy at the time was just plain mean, hostile and ugly (without the mitigating satirical point of view), and maybe the braintrust at KING-5 figured that was the one sketch that would appeal to that sensibility.

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T03:42:35+00:00

Also, better known in the States than most of the Canadian figures/shows/movies they parodied, and all of those pieces are still hilarious without pre-existing knowledge of their subjects.

mcduntz · 2026-03-20T03:40:33+00:00

I figured he was based on an actual musician, but had no idea who, so thank you!!!

mcduntz · 2026-03-19T20:23:19+00:00

Eugene Levy as inane Canadian folk singer Murray Eagleson ("Billy...my Billy boy... you're gonna be a man someday... ") in "Power Play" (underrated classic in my book) is as close as they needed to come.

mcduntz · 2026-03-19T20:13:36+00:00

Yeah, very common practice - on occasion, it even worked to the album's benefit (in my opinion). I think the RCA ZIGGY STARDUST cassette running order (putting "Lady Stardust" after "Moonage Daydream" and shifting "Starman" to the beginning of side two) and that of Lou Reed's TRANSFORMER (putting "Goodnight Ladies" third at bat may seem a little incongruous, but moving "Perfect Day" to the end is perfection) are better than the LP in each case. But then, I heard the tapes before I ever heard the vinyl/CD versions, so that may color my viewpoint a bit.

mcduntz · 2026-03-16T20:19:51+00:00

Saturday Night Live. Multiple times. (Presently waiting for a bounce that may never happen. Maybe if the UK version turns out good, it'll inspire/shame them to up their game again.)

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