EPISODE 0.065: CEREAL KILLERS
(25.8 MB; 56:25 MIN)
It's audio adventure from your favorite monster breakfast food stars, both from the seventies and today! Listen to old ads and try to remember if you ever got any of those premiums from the bottom of your box...
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I know you were thinking of going commercial with the podcast, but I had no idea you'd stoop to THIS!
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Incidentally, as a doctor, I have to say that pie makes a far superior breakfast - pizza, quiche, that sort of thing.
Though mince, peach or custard would also be acceptable...
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Would a pie fight work on a ZAFOF podcast? (BTW, Goodnight, Soupy, where-EVER you are). Has a pie ever been flung by anyone on this podcast? Or would that be wasteful?
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As a matter of fact, 2 pies were thrown in "Rugrats In The Rhubarb". Doc did find it wasteful.
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My childhood experience, timewise, is the same as Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story." As a parent in the 70s, I wondered if it was the prizes or the sugar in those increasingly colorful cereal boxes that fueled my children's cries for monster cereals. As for me, I did get a decoder 'something' in the mail and a ray gun/flashlight with a buzzer. Whoop-de-doo!
The three main, inspirational, cereal-box 'horror' characters who stand the test of time are Karlof, Lugosi and Lorre. One doesn't hear much, or any, impersonations of Vincent Price. On one OTR website, I discovered a side of Vincent Price I never heard before in EIGHTY-THREE episodes of "The Saint," who frequently hit on married women whose husbands were missing, but not proven dead. Vincent was a tough character and very naughty. How did it get past that era's uptight sponsors and censors?
Funny, though, the sugar-loaded cereal commercials that made me want to shut down the entire Saturday-morning cartoon fest are very entertaining. And I managed to stay awake most of the podcast, having confessed previously that OTR is a great sleeping pill for me.
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I loved Vincent Price as the Saint too. He was urbane and witty and only resorted to violence when it was absolutely the last resort. If you liked him there check out The Price of Fear where Vincent plays himself involved in a continuing series of strange and uncanny situations.
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I have been a huge OTR fan since i was 12 and found a cassette of The Shadow on the side of the road. I took it home popped it in the old "boom-box" and was hooked like a crackhead!
To this day i go to bed listening to OTR or Audio Shows in general (i do however use headphones for my wifes sanity, lol). I must admit though that i find it hard to sleep lidtening to Frequency Lite, due to it making me laugh.
This episode was also bitter-sweet for me as i have been living in England for about 4 years now, and the cereal here....SUCKS and on my birthday and Christmas i have my mom send me goody boxes from back home. I get some cereal sent to me, including Fruity Pebbles, Count Chocula, and this episode reminded me that i have a 2 month wait for my next Count Chocula fix!
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As I mentioned above, Bubba, there are alternatives to cereal! Pie, my boy, PIE!
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Hubbell Gardner: "What KIND of pie?"
(Jeopardy theme...nuh nuh nuh, nuh nuh nuh........dum da da da DUM...DUM...DUM!)
Doctor Despicable, time's up. What is your answer?
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Jeopardy theme? What the - do I answer in the form of a question? Oh, I have no time for this foolishness! I have MUCH more important foolishness that requires my attention! The answer is, "ANY kind of pie!"
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I'm sorry, but the correct answer was: "What is cantaloupe?" Thanks for playing. All contestants will go home with our wonderful board game and 1lb of hickory-smoked beef jerky!
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Cantaloupe? Bah! But it might interest you to know, Wilheim, that I've been working on a BEEF JERKY PIE! Drat - now you've made me spoil your Christmas surprise...
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