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Post by iamnotarobot on Oct 31, 2022 16:15:22 GMT
The fill in the blank for the panel was
"Last night my son told me he wanted to rap. So I rapped him in the (blank)"
And the most popular answer was "mouth".
I didn't realize rap music was even around in 1977.
I thought the boyz in the hood heard the song "Rapture" by Blondie around 1980 and picked it up from there.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2022 16:23:19 GMT
I don’t think rap music was around in 1977 either.
Maybe they meant “rap” as in talk or chat.
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Post by iamnotarobot on Oct 31, 2022 16:39:25 GMT
I don’t think rap music was around in 1977 either. Maybe they meant “rap” as in talk or chat. No, I looked into it on wikipedia and it's been around since the early 70s. It turns out (and makes more sense) that the song Rapture was inspired by rap, not the other way around. But I'm still surprised that it was well known enough in 1977 to be mentioned on a gameshow.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2022 17:06:08 GMT
I don’t think rap music was around in 1977 either. Maybe they meant “rap” as in talk or chat. No, I looked into it on wikipedia and it's been around since the early 70s. It turns out (and makes more sense) that the song Rapture was inspired by rap, not the other way around. But I'm still surprised that it was well known enough in 1977 to be mentioned on a gameshow. I suspect it was too underground to be mentioned on a 1977 game show, which is why I think he may have meant rap as in talk or chat.
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Post by iamnotarobot on Oct 31, 2022 17:09:31 GMT
No, I looked into it on wikipedia and it's been around since the early 70s. It turns out (and makes more sense) that the song Rapture was inspired by rap, not the other way around. But I'm still surprised that it was well known enough in 1977 to be mentioned on a gameshow. I suspect it was too underground to be mentioned on a 1977 game show, which is why I think he may have meant rap as in talk or chat. Why would someone want to hit someone in the mouth (or balls) for talking or chatting? Maybe you're right. Maybe not. I don't know.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2022 17:18:15 GMT
I suspect it was too underground to be mentioned on a 1977 game show, which is why I think he may have meant rap as in talk or chat. Why would someone want to hit someone in the mouth (or balls) for talking or chatting? Maybe you're right. Maybe not. I don't know. The term rap had kind of a hippie connotation to it back then, didn’t it? So maybe it was considered an annoying term. ...I guess they could have meant rap music, but it’s just hard for me to believe. It’s a mystery. 
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Post by iamnotarobot on Oct 31, 2022 17:22:58 GMT
Why would someone want to hit someone in the mouth (or balls) for talking or chatting? Maybe you're right. Maybe not. I don't know. The term rap had kind of a hippie connotation to it back then, didn’t it? So maybe it was considered an annoying term. ...I guess they could have meant rap music, but it’s just hard for me to believe. It’s a mystery. That's true. You might be right. Rap as in "rap session".
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 31, 2022 17:34:19 GMT
Rap music had started in the early 70's in NYC and LA. But it was a small Musical genre only popular in inner city small clubs until 1979-80 when the Sugarhill Gang came out with "Rapper's Delight" and Blondie did "Rapture". Even though it was around in 1977, I find it hard to believe that Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly had heard of it.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2022 17:54:22 GMT
Rap music had started in the early 70's in NYC and LA. But it was a small Musical genre only popular in inner city small clubs until 1979-80 when the Sugarhill Gang came out with "Rapper's Delight" and Blondie did "Rapture". Even though it was around in 1977, I find it hard to believe that Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly had heard of it. Don’t forget Richard Dawson or Fannie Flagg.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 31, 2022 18:01:30 GMT
Rap music had started in the early 70's in NYC and LA. But it was a small Musical genre only popular in inner city small clubs until 1979-80 when the Sugarhill Gang came out with "Rapper's Delight" and Blondie did "Rapture". Even though it was around in 1977, I find it hard to believe that Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly had heard of it. Don’t forget Richard Dawson or Fannie Flagg. Of course. But I really can't see Charles Nelson Reilly at a Sugarhill Gang show.
Fun fact about CNR. When he was 13, he was in attendance at the horrific Hartford Circus Fire. 167 people were roasted alive or trampled to death and over 700 were injured. For the rest of his life, Reilly couldn't sit in an audience for anything. It reminded him too much of the fire. He didn't even like applause because it made him think of the screams.
I seen one episode of Match Game where Dawson repeated the supposed fact that Werner Klemperer wore his own Luftwaffe uniform while filming Hogan's Heroes. Dawson had to know that was pure BS. Klemperer fled Germany in 1933 as his family was Jewish. No Jews ever got to be a Colonel in the Luftwaffe.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2022 18:12:01 GMT
Don’t forget Richard Dawson or Fannie Flagg. Of course. But I really can't see Charles Nelson Reilly at a Sugarhill Gang show.
Fun fact about CNR. When he was 13, he was in attendance at the horrific Hartford Circus Fire. 167 people were roasted alive or trampled to death and over 700 were injured. For the rest of his life, Reilly couldn't sit in an audience for anything. It reminded him too much of the fire. He didn't even like applause because it made him think of the screams.
I seen one episode of Match Game where Dawson repeated the supposed fact that Werner Klemperer wore his own Luftwaffe uniform while filming Hogan's Heroes. Dawson had to know that was pure BS. Klemperer fled Germany in 1933 as his family was Jewish. No Jews ever got to be a Colonel in the Luftwaffe.
Did he escape the fire by turning his top hat into a flying ship? 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 31, 2022 18:42:15 GMT
Of course. But I really can't see Charles Nelson Reilly at a Sugarhill Gang show.
Fun fact about CNR. When he was 13, he was in attendance at the horrific Hartford Circus Fire. 167 people were roasted alive or trampled to death and over 700 were injured. For the rest of his life, Reilly couldn't sit in an audience for anything. It reminded him too much of the fire. He didn't even like applause because it made him think of the screams.
I seen one episode of Match Game where Dawson repeated the supposed fact that Werner Klemperer wore his own Luftwaffe uniform while filming Hogan's Heroes. Dawson had to know that was pure BS. Klemperer fled Germany in 1933 as his family was Jewish. No Jews ever got to be a Colonel in the Luftwaffe.
Did he escape the fire by turning his top hat into a flying ship? Is that Colonel Klink? Wow. He can fly but he can't figure out his coffee pot is a secret microphone.
Klemperer had a rule. He would only play a Nazi if he was a buffoon (Colonel Wilhelm Klink) or a monster (Adolf Eichmann in Operation Eichmann or Judge Emil Hahn in Judgment at Nuremberg).
The Frenchman, Robert Clary, was Jewish and he had been rounded up and sent to Buchenwald. He had the numeric tattoo.
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Post by movielover on Oct 31, 2022 18:57:02 GMT
Did he escape the fire by turning his top hat into a flying ship? Is that Colonel Klink? Wow. He can fly but he can't figure out his coffee pot is a secret microphone.
Klemperer had a rule. He would only play a Nazi if he was a buffoon (Colonel Wilhelm Klink) or a monster (Adolf Eichmann in Operation Eichmann or Judge Emil Hahn in Judgment at Nuremberg).
The Frenchman, Robert Clary, was Jewish and he had been rounded up and sent to Buchenwald. He had the numeric tattoo.
No, it’s Charles Nelson Reilly on Lidsville. It was a Saturday morning TV show for kids in the 70s.
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Post by cypher on Nov 5, 2022 13:22:11 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 5, 2022 22:53:06 GMT
Is that Colonel Klink? Wow. He can fly but he can't figure out his coffee pot is a secret microphone.
Klemperer had a rule. He would only play a Nazi if he was a buffoon (Colonel Wilhelm Klink) or a monster (Adolf Eichmann in Operation Eichmann or Judge Emil Hahn in Judgment at Nuremberg).
The Frenchman, Robert Clary, was Jewish and he had been rounded up and sent to Buchenwald. He had the numeric tattoo.
No, it’s Charles Nelson Reilly on Lidsville. It was a Saturday morning TV show for kids in the 70s. Reilly was damned funny on Match Game. We watch it sometimes. Funny to see how dated the show is now. Dawson got all the love but Chuck was hilarious.
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Post by iamnotarobot on Nov 10, 2022 22:23:02 GMT
No, it’s Charles Nelson Reilly on Lidsville. It was a Saturday morning TV show for kids in the 70s. Reilly was damned funny on Match Game. We watch it sometimes. Funny to see how dated the show is now. Dawson got all the love but Chuck was hilarious.
Ever see the time he pretended to be smoking a joint (that was a rolled up card) just after he took a drag from his pipe?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 10, 2022 22:42:26 GMT
Reilly was damned funny on Match Game. We watch it sometimes. Funny to see how dated the show is now. Dawson got all the love but Chuck was hilarious.
Ever see the time he pretended to be smoking a joint (that was a rolled up card) just after he took in a mouthful from his pipe? Yeah I did. Seen one not long ago where he wore a generic #12 football jersey, pretended to be "Chuck" and talked in a very macho voice. He poked fun at himself a lot of times. Him and Brett Somers back and forth arguments were great also
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