gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Winslow)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2009-09-07 09:33 am
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"This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you."

Beep!

Not a cultural reference everyone is going to get, but if you're my age, you watched the show just for this moment.

[identity profile] yohannon.livejournal.com 2009-09-08 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn, it's an epidemic -- a swarm? An infestation? -- of ear worms. That theme was a classic, and I LOVED the Files.

Early on in Smallville when the Talon was resurrected, they started changing the marquee with cute messages. You can tell it got old for them fairly quickly, as they started re-using the earlier shots that didn't fully reveal the message (wussies -- Home Improvement used to do custom effects for almost every commercial break, and for some segues).

(ponders a cure for the worm)