Jan 23, 2016
Movie Meltdown - Episode 337
This week we talk with an actual Harlem Globetrotter! As we ask "Bull" Bullard what it's like to become part of the tradition and legacy of an organization that has been such a huge part of our pop culture. Plus we discuss our own memories of growing up with the Globetrotters, all before we settle in for our Sofa Theater discussion on the 1981 movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island.
And as we put the finishing touches
on the periodic table of movie elements, we also mention... Scatman
Crothers, being in a basketball town, The Munsters, Triangle, Dawn
Wells, The Equalizer, the colliding of franchises, Wet Hot
American Summer, boiling beakers, Barbara Bain, winks to adults,
dryer tube arms, Natalie Schafer as a cheerleader, American Ninja
Warrior, Supermarket Sweep, Keiko O'Brien, getting a reunion movie
for a TV show, Al Lewis, Jim Backus, calling for fouls, chewing up
the scenery, Avatar, an knock-off R2-D2, Tina Louise, angling in
their playing style, Marques Haynes, growing up tall, Alan
Hale, Jr., Crimes and Misdemeanors, Arrested Development, Cassandra
Peterson, that's an incredibly elaborate prop just to trick a dumb
man into signing a piece of paper, keep the butter off the popcorn,
Russell Johnson, the expanded universe, The Brady Bunch, Martin
Landau, Space Jam, Whitney and the Robot, Meadowlark
Lemon, The Mertzes thrown on an island, Ripley's Odditoriums,
Bob Denver, The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and... you probably
shouldn't think too deeply about Gilligan's Island.
"I'm pretty sure it is... some
special level of hell, where they will just never get off that
island."
To find out where The Harlem Globetrotters are playing near you, go to: http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/