Hey Dad [8.20.2007]

[milowent]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mnSjoW1Hg

www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/?p=334

What am I supposed to do now? - Jonas

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are those jonas' pants from foosball? i.e., the ones where the rip exposed a watcher symbol so eloquently defended by slainte?

from youtube: OOOOOOOOH. Jonas washes his car with ANGER.

[hyemew]

He's mad. I am quite sure that Jonas's parents are unaware of him being alive or made to forget about him for some reason. Maybe by the Order... but why does LaRezisto know where they are? Presumably they are on the good side, but then why have Jonas's parents held up in a suburban backyard prison somewhere or at least be spying on them to taunt Jonas? I don't think they meant to taunt him, but to show him they're alive and encourage him to join their ranks, but it didn't work out that way. He will come around to realize the truth and not be mad at them anymore sometime.

Lol @ Jonas had a watcher symbol in his pants? I had forgotten about that incident. Pink herrings like that make me mad. See he had absolutely no reason to have a watcher symbol on his person, as he is a 'good guy'. However back then they were trying to make us doubt his goodness, so slipping the enemy's symbol on his leg would help that along. However if this is supposed to be like a real drama, such a blatant herring couldn't exist because it's just too much. It'd be like the people keeping Anne Frank up in their attic walk up one day with a schwastika on their back. This causes Anne to think, oh know, they might be Nazis too! Well turns out they aren't, and they never turn her in, but apparently they just decided to wear a Nazi symbol one day for kicks. It just doesn't work that way.

[spaciegirl]

An angry boy and his hose (someone had to say it). Captivating.

[Alissa Brooke]

God he is so hot. I love those eyes.

[Terryfic]

Am the only one shocked, shocked I say, to see Jonas washing his car and him not taking his shirt off in some slow motion fashion while he used the hose to cool himself off.

I liked this one. It wasn't great and maybe was a little too long and repetitive, but I'm liking how Jonas is reacting to the videos and I've always liked the super angry side of Jonas. I'll just repeat my desire that this character flaw will some day affect him more significantly then just having to buy some more apples. By the end of season 3 I'm expecting him to fall into a volcano and as a result the order makes him don a black metal suit and work for them.

[curiousgeorge]

Young men shaking their hose in defiance of their parents is a time honored dramatic device Spacie. No doubt the lascivious phemale phorumites are swooning en masse at this studly display of male teen bravado. I think the c's left his shirt on so as to not crash the phorum under the weight of "Joan is so Hawwwwt" posts.

Rebel Without a Hose Nozzle.

ETA: Had not been to the phorum in a while, it never fails to provide valuable insight. A crack sleuth posted:

Umm, so I'm not exactly sure why I think this.. but because I read into things too much, I think the dog barking in the background is morse code or something. I'm a freak.. but I don't know.. If anyone wants to look into that..

[ApotheosisAZ]

I'm certainly reading too much into this, but Jonas is bitching all of US out in this vid.

[curiousgeorge]

apotheosisaz said:

I'm certainly reading too much into this, but Jonas is bitching all of US out in this vid.

I am notorious for trying to elicit messages from Mesh's tea leaves Apo. There was a line that caught my attention:

Jonas: And the resistance. I mean, who the- who the hell are you? Who the hell are you?! Hmph, I trust you. No, I do. I- I trust you. 'Cause I think it's obvious everybody knows that all you need is a camera and some snappy editing and you can get anybody to believe you. Well, I don't. I don't buy it. Besides, I failed, remember?

[milowent]

i didn't understand it as the C's bitching us out, but as a comment on how the C's themselves were able to fool people a year ago, with a camera and some snappy editing. but their original plan "failed" in that they were eventually found out before the (1st) ceremony was supposed to happen.

hmm. one year ago today, brian flemming posted his lonelygirl15 jumps the shark blogpost. i also briefly blogged about lg15 for the first time. i posted both links on the very quiet lg15 forum under a thread i called "lonelygirl15 jumps the shark" (referencing the flemming article). the thread got deleted. i never figured out why they did that, but i was intrigued. ancient history.

[spaciegirl]

I can't help thinking that the shirt should have come off and the title should have been "Hey Daddy"....and perhaps a steak sandwich should have been involved.

[elixir]

Did Jonas just conveniently forget the part where they said his parents don't remember him? I really hope they work on the characterisation this series, Jonas with anger issues is pretty cool.

Oh and by the way, I know no one here will get this or even really care, but I'm gonna tell you anyway, lol, because it's all I could think when I read the title. The title 'Hey Dad' was the name of this famous, long-running cheesy sitcom here in Australia during the 80s and 90s. It was kind of like Full House or something. There was no Jonas... but there was this bonehead dude named Nudge who was a bit of a blow in like Jonas, lol.

Here's a short clip, believe it or not they even mention goat sacrifices! Hahahaha! ahhh memories...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l7ePalkPHM

[hyemew]

Wow, that's just incredible. Hey Dad looks like the most bland shallow show in history... and makes me realize how similarly trivial most sitcoms are as well. Will Ben pass his exam? Will the girl pass the driving test? Will a goat sacrifice actually be made? What is it about other people's totally regular and boring lives which makes audiences want to watch so much?

And most importantly what the heck is that long-apendaged bird puppet holding court over on that hollywood show?

[flwright]

elixir said:

The title 'Hey Dad' was the name of this famous, long-running cheesy sitcom here in Australia during the 80s and 90s. It was kind of like Full House or something.

Terry, put this song is the "Opening Theme Song" Parody vault.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbNjHBdoViY

Good stuff, E.

milowent said:

hmm. one year ago today, <snip>i posted both links on the very quiet lg15 forum under a thread i called "lonelygirl15 jumps the shark" (referencing the flemming article). the thread got deleted. i never figured out why they did that, but i was intrigued. ancient history.

This is why I don't like the Phorum, it was one thing to manipulate Breality on the YouTube channel and through in-character posts, quite another to manipulate actual fan postings. I've only gone back once to post since Phorum 2 began.

In fairness, they did allow Slainte and CG their Galien thread for while. Oh, wait, and then they killed it. And Bree.

Nevermind,

FLWright

[elixir]

hyemew said:

Wow, that's just incredible. Hey Dad looks like the most bland shallow show in history... and makes me realize how similarly trivial most sitcoms are as well. Will Ben pass his exam? Will the girl pass the driving test? Will a goat sacrifice actually be made? What is it about other people's totally regular and boring lives which makes audiences want to watch so much?

And most importantly what the heck is that long-apendaged bird puppet holding court over on that hollywood show?

Oh my god Hye, it's 3.30am here (I can't sleep), and after reading that... oh geez I just burst out laughing SO HARD... hope I didn't wake anyone up!

Yes I know, sitcoms are really cheesy and mundane. That clip was so lame. I do remember this one fondly though, but after looking at a few clips on YouTube, oh my goodness how lame was it?! Hahaha... seriously though, this was like a staple show that everyone watched in the 80s, and it even had some one liners that made their way into our day to day language.

One thing though, if an actor left, they just replaced them. I remember the kids changing, and hell even the dad changed! I found the finale on YT - all the kids and the dad were different, they were being tied up and there was even a gun and helicopters involved... this is getting hilariously freaky.

Oh geez, I'm still laughing, Hye... I keep repeating that last line in my head about the "long-apendaged bird puppet"... oh god, I can't stop. Of course I know you're all probably thinking the same thing but it's cracking me up!

Okay, now let me explain that last little bit that had nothing to do with 'Hey Dad.' 80s Aussie TV lesson number 2 for shows that start with 'Hey'. It was from a variety show called 'Hey Hey it's Saturday,' and on that show they had a bird (ee-i-ee-i-o). Hehe, actually they had a few characters. The host was named Daryl, and the bird was Aussie Ostrich. The duck at the start was called Plucka Duck, and they also had another little head puppet that would pop up called Dicky Knee, though you never saw his face.

There aren't many good clips on YouTube, but heres one to give you an idea. It's a bit boring though... and I think it's a tad racist! This show was much funnier most of the time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYR1mLPes14

Here's a shorter one, if you can't be bothered with the above:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZE9Nwdttw8

And yes I am still laughing.

[suze900]

curiousgeorge said:

ETA: Had not been to the phorum in a while, it never fails to provide valuable insight. A crack sleuth posted:

Umm, so I'm not exactly sure why I think this.. but because I read into things too much, I think the dog barking in the background is morse code or something. I'm a freak.. but I don't know.. If anyone wants to look into that..

Canine morse code . . . for some reason this brings to my mind The Singing Dogs' version of Jingle Bells.

I probably need to go to bed.