Feb
10
Episode 5021 – R.A.P.S. (Awesome!)
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Hey, Zoners! What did you think about this episode of ‘The Colbert Report?’ I must admit that I’m so tragically unhip, I didn’t know anything about TV on the Radio before tonight’s show. Because I enjoyed their interview and performance, I’m definitely going to check out more of their music.
Here are a few memorable quotes:
- Did you know that peruse means the opposite of what I think it does?
- This was a Microsoft release. There is no way it didn’t have some virus.
- Irreconcilable sameness.
- Big news nation, my throat is officially golden. Last night, I won a Grammy! … I have always been good at speaking words.
- God meant for divorce to be between a man and a woman. It’s right there in the Bible.
- The Japanese have learned how to poop gold.
- You mean it was one of those loser non-televised categories?
- What? Who won? … GOOOOORE!!!!!
- Al Gore stole my Grammy. Fine. I don’t care. Grammys are stupid!
- Isn’t it funny how the Grammys are so irrelevant now?
- Why would you ever leave cookie mountain? It sounds delicious.
Please feel free to leave a comment or add a write-in vote for something not included in the poll. Also, I didn’t understand the Shadow God reference during the Threat Down. Can someone kindly explain it to me in the comments? Thanks!
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31 Comments
February 10th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Loved the Grammy breakdown. Know what else is MIA? But hey, no glimpse at Sir Paul? Well, I guess the mention is good enough.
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:38 am
threatdown was majorly fun, particularly the number one threat! any sort poetic action is always enjoyable. I don’t even have the least idea what he was blabbering about, but what enthusiasm he put into it!
I also liked the Grammy part with the recording! that was a very nice touch, and although it had words, the emphatic body language made me think of the Word Sigh. it also reminded me of something from SWC (ep was Bully, perhaps? can’t recall.) where Noblet has left the room but there is a cassette tape of his lecture, and even when it is fast-forwarded it keeps on talking, and it snaps at Jerri cuz it just knows. there’s just something silly about a recording jumping in and being logical like that.
I must admit I did not particularly care for the music, but there is no accounting for preferences there, so no big deal. the use of the audience was pretty neat though. that man seemed quite fascinated by the camera near him at the beginning! I also liked the group with the girls holding the record. that must have been very fun! (I am writing this assuming those people were normal audience folks. they very well could have been some special cohort, I don’t know.)
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:49 am
I was thinking of SWC, too! Yes, it was the Bully episode.
I watched the entire horrible pre-televised Grammy show on the Internet yesterday. I was so disappointed when Stephen lost. Gooore!!! Stupid Grammys!
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Loved that one too. He was so excited until he was told that he lost. There was a character break somewhere in there too. I’ll need to review that one. That shall have to wait until after 7pm.
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Please don’t let this particular performance color you opinion of TV on The Radio. They are an amazing band! Whoever was at the mixing desk for this one didn’t do a very good job.
Cute interview!
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February 10th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Mea–tell Pulp to check the colbinista board
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February 10th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Ok. It will be a while before he can check it. What’s wrong with it?
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February 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am
It’s getting spammed in a way that might attract the attention of the authorities.
February 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
LOL! The authorities? This stuff happens all the time, Eris. What happened to Hobobob? Isn’t he an admin there?
Rich works all the time. We won’t have a chance to look at it until sometime this evening…maybe.
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February 10th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I don’t know, I’m not a member at that board. Maybe you can contact hobobob?
February 10th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I voted for the Threat Down! And I have never even heard of TV on the Radio. In fact, when I saw it in the sidebar here at nofactzone, that they were going to be the guest, I was very confused about what “TV on the Radio” was going to be. I didn’t really like the song, but I’ll have to check out some more of their stuff online.
Also, TDS killed me tonight with their segment about Papa Bear and his hypocrisy about the paparazzi. Un-freakin-real. I loved Jon’s reaction right after they showed the clip of O’Reilly’s ridiculous segue into a new (yet, exact same) topic. Haha! Oh man, Papa Bear & Fox as a whole really do make it so easy. Like Jon’s whole “you would know scum! You’re Fox news!… that was too easy.” lol. Sorry, sometimes I really just have to talk about TDS right after the show, same as with TCR in these posts.
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Yes! Jon killed with that on TDS! It was so flippin’ funny and true!
Ok, I voted for the musical performance. Even though I’m an old fart who had heard of them, but hadn’t heard any of their stuff, I really enjoyed it and want to check out more. And I did see people bobbing and dancing along. The Threatdown was really good too! The Grammy bit was funny but what was funniest to me was the way he said, “the Grammys are stupid!” because he sounded exactly like my 3-year-old when she gets frustrated with something. LOL!
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February 10th, 2009 at 3:20 am
I loved watching Stephen enjoy himself as he plunged into poetry during the #1 threat down. The man has such a way with words.
I’ve never heard of TV on the Radio and tried listening to their music online to compare it to their live performance on TCR, but I’m afraid I’m still not much of a fan. However, I enjoyed the interview and I believe at the end of the interview, right befoe the show cut to commercials, Stephen said “Thanks for putting up with the schtick” which I thought was very funny and sweet.
My favorite fangirl moment was when he had all the women from the audience (I’m assuming) surround him as he announced TV on the Radio. Those two girls holding up the album looked so thrilled and honored…and rightfully so!
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February 10th, 2009 at 4:02 am
i have never seen TCR go this all out for a musical act. i thought i was watching jimmy kimmel for a while there!
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February 10th, 2009 at 4:29 am
“Jimmy, please put it up there!! GOOOOORE!!!!!”
Love the recording! :)
The TDS segment on the paparazzi was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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February 10th, 2009 at 5:10 am
It sounds to me like Micheal Steele could use a lot of lessons from Marina Orlova since she is too HotForWords and would make a lot better Word Czar (or more accurately Czarina) since she is Russian.
She was Twittering from the Grammys so she could’ve said a few words on Stephen’s behalf
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February 10th, 2009 at 6:45 am
O, that I were a TiVo remote in that hand, that I might touch that cheek… :)
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February 10th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Great show tonight
Jenny – I think the Shadow God is from D&D – I couldn’t figure out exactly what he was saying (Telebrion??) but there is a Tenebrion from Inzeladun (oh, that I were that geeky – it’s all google, you know).
Didn’t recognize the image, though.
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February 10th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Thanks, Jennie! I googled Telebrion but didn’t find anything that was helpful. I wasn’t sure I got the name correct though. If nobody else knows the reference, I’ll do some more research. I enjoyed it even though I didn’t understand it. :-)
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February 10th, 2009 at 10:33 am
There was a very brief clip shown during the latter part of the Threat Down from Hellboy. I’m guessing it’s related to that somehow, but I couldn’t say with 100% certainty.
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February 10th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I have an Encyclopedia of World Religions…I’ll look up Telebrion today.
Boy the music show was quite a production. Everything seemed so much more expansive. Was that supposed to be a Soul Train kind of thing? I thought it was kind of funny that no one in the audience was enjoying the music enough to dance even in the slightest. Very stagnant, they were.
Though, true, the music did suck.
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February 10th, 2009 at 10:36 am
The Threat Down was totally on fire last night! And I really enjoyed the TiVO character break too. I have to note here how very cool the opening camera shot was that panned all the way around Stephen’s desk at the very beginning of the show. And how crazy was the rearrangement of the entire studio for the band? And how incredibly lucky are those girls who got to hold the album to introduce the band? Fantastic show!
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February 10th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I love the emotion Stephen used during the Grammy segment–giddy with excitement and rage. It was comical and fun! I love it when the joke cracks him up, as with the Alison Kraus/pasta comment.
The best part of the interview was when he asked to stroke the man’s beard [and the made up band names]. Anyone else think the girls in the audience looked a little younger than the 18 year old requirement? I could just be getting old!
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February 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
You’re right! They were rather young…maybe around 15 or 16. Well, they looked really sweet and well-behaved so I guess it’s ok:)
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February 10th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Nope, I’d say they’re 18 – it looks younger and younger the farther away you get from it, I’m sorry to say. I feel this way every August when the new students show up. *sigh* (no offense to any teens among us, though!)
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Loved the show last night. The Grammy freakout was wonderful (and Stephen’s facial gymnastics were a treat!), but the ThreatDown was the best. I always particularly love the ThreatDowns when I’ve read about at least a few of the “threats” before Stephen and his gang get their hands on them; last night’s was a hoot because I’d read about the gold sewage and Bill Gates mosquito stunt ahead of time (Phelps, too, but who hasn’t read that?). Sidenote on that gold story: the article I read about it pointed out that the ratio of gold to poop was actually better than what traditional miners can hope to achieve in their efforts.
I’m grateful to one of the TWoP posters for mentioning that Tunde Adebimpe played the bridegroom in Rachel Getting Married. I didn’t really love that movie when I initially saw it (I liked it, just didn’t love it), but it has stuck with me in a very good way since then. I thought Adebimpe did well in it, but I’m not sure I would have remembered where I’d seen him before had it not been pointed out, and that would have driven me nuts. His version of “Unknown Legend” was very nice; between that and the performance last night I’m definitely interested in hearing more of TV On the Radio’s stuff now (and — bonus! — I can contribute to their Colbert Bump).
A very nice start to the week. Here’s me expressing a hope that Stephen and the writers will give us a WØRD this week on Obama’s abysmal decision yesterday to embrace the Bush “state secrets” rationale in the Mohamed v. Jeppesen case. It would be gratifying to see what the show could do with that one, which ought to be on the lips of everyone who cares about transparency, accountability, civil rights and civil liberties. [climbs off of soapbox]
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February 10th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
i voted threatdown, but i personally thought phelps should have been threat #1. hope there’s no hard feelings here when i say i didn’t care too much for TV on the Radio, although the way TCR totally reorganized the place to accommodate them was very cool to say the least.
and yes, jon stewart was on fire last night.
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February 10th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I forgot to ask this earlier, but did anyone catch exactly what it was he said about Robert Plant? “fettucine-covered” something. It obviously was very funny to him, but I didn’t catch it and I want in on the joke. :-)
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February 10th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I think it was supposed to be “fettucine carbonara”, but he slightly stumbled on the word. :)
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February 11th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Thank you! :-)
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February 10th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Awww…he’s such a boy when he loses. :)
And even though I’m a Windows user, I had to laugh at Bill Gates and that bit about Microsoft somehow almost always infected by one virus or another.
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