Category: Pop Culture

It Always Happens with ‘Sports’

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Fans celebrating with a bonfire in Philadelphia after the Eagles Super Bowl win.

Let’s test your powers of clairvoyance! See if you can complete this chain of events.

!) Philadelphia Eagles win berth in Super Bowl.

2) Eagles win game.

3} ???

If you answered “3) Fans riot,” you saw the future! Oh, I know–fans always riot. Any dummy could’ve guessed it. Only one death, though: a teenager was killed when he climbed up a street pole and fell off. And only 30-odd arrests.

But you see how important “Sports” is to us. The whole country shuts down for Super Bowl. I wonder what would happen if we had five or six of them.

(Watch what you say, boyo!)

 

Oh, Boy! The Stupor Bowl!

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Have I just become better at ignoring it, or is this year’s Stupor Bowl not devouring our culture like it usually does?

Ah! I didn’t get where I am today without knowing that the Addis Ababa Weevils are going to face the Jersey City Scavemgers in Stupor Bowl LXIVI (or whatever it is) at Hotashell Sports Area in Nevada somewhere.

The Weevils had an undefeated season. In fact, most of the teams in the National Football League would rather give up football than ever play the Weevils again.

The Scavengers were only 2-14 on the year, but it’s hard to say “no” to people who will blow up your car–with you in it–if they don’t get what they want.

And don’t forget the Halftime Show! This year’s version, featuring performers you never heard of, is expected to use up 1 hour and 50 minutes of your lives! And then there are the Stupor Bowl commercials. At $70 million for 30 seconds’ air time, push the product like your life depends on it! And who knows, maybe it does.

The broadcast, already in progress, is expected to last till Doomsday.

You Can’t Please These People

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President Trump’s achievements in the first couple weeks of his presidency have brought some of us to the edge of ‘euphoria.

Well, hold on there, kimosabe. The show’s only just started; and if you think Hercules had a challenge, cleaning out the Augean Stables–hey, that was nothing, compared to what has to be done to save Western civilization and culture.

Even from things like this:

London Science Museum Claims LEGOs Are Homophobic Because the Blocks Are Seen as ‘Male and Female’

Really now, people. What do you think would become of the human race if everyone were “gay”?  (Shouldn’t even have to ask that question!)

Oh, but oh! Tragedy! Catastrophe! The Lego Museum, of all places, is guilty of “heteronormativity.” (Quick, we want the smelling salts!) And Homophobia! We need “more visibility” (?!) for (oh, forsooth!) “Pride Month” (!!??).

What in the world do these people have to be Proud of?

 

Byron’s TV Listings, Feb. 8

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Move over, Leester! Byron the Quokka here, with some real TV listings that’ll knock your socks off–courtesy of Quokka University. These are among the greatest TV shows ever! Go ahead, ask anybody.

7 p.m.   Ch. 16  PICASSO DOESN’T SCHLEP HERE ANYMORE–Art history

This is highbrow stuff, no kidding! Tonight: Famous Artists Who Itched All the time and Didn’t Know Why. Host: Simon LeGree. Sponsored by Culver’s Skin Cream (Just wipe it on and wipe it off–hours of fun).

Ch.  25   WORLD NEWS WITH MR. WOODENHEAD–Exactly what you’d expect.

How about a nightly news broadcast in which the entire crew is clumsily painted marionettes? The anchor, Mr. Woodenhead, is also available to children as a sock puppet. Imagine the shock and awe suffered by the experts when this newscast walked off with the coveted Pete Bohunk Prize!

7:15 p.m.   Ch. 31  PUPPETS WHO PULL THE STRINGS–Sci-fi drama

This is why Channel 25 is suing Channel 31 in the Malagasy Republic Supreme Court. “Total rip-off!” cries the plaintiff. Meanwhile, imagine a world ruled by ruthless, all-powerful puppets! Theme song, Who’s Got Strings Attached Now?, earned star Ralph Lickspittle an Ambrose Fong Award.

7:30 p.m.  Ch. 14  EXCAULIFLOWER–Historical adventure

This is the story of King Barfur (Juan Valdez) and his Knights of the Craps Table. This week, Sir Pantsalot goes on a quest for the Holy Grail and comes back with the Groly Hail; and Queen Effervessent’s annual ping-pong tournament has to be canceled on account of monkeys.

Well, now, how about that! Are those TV shows or are those TV shows! You wouldn’t believe how much art history I’ve learned, watching Picasso Doesn’t Schlep Here Anymore.

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(I will not steal that bicycle, I will not steal that bicycle…!)

Byron the Quokka, signing off.

 

 

Trying to Restore My Memory

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Duncan Rinaldo (right) and Leo Carillo (left) in The Cisco Kid

I’m trying to kick my memory back into gear. A spotty memory, part of “chemo brain,” is a standard leftover from chemotherapy and radiation. In my own case it’s taking a lot of time to fade away.

Yesterday I was exercising my memory by asking it what TV shows I used to watch with Grandma. I spent a lot of time at her house. I was too young to realize this, but television had only come along later in her life and still seemed a touch miraculous.

When the weather was nice, of course, we were out on the porch–me with my pick-up sticks, Grandma with her Reader’s Digest. When it wasn’t, we resorted to the living room and turned on the TV.

Here are three shows I remember from back them.

*The Cisco Kid (1950-1956). I loved this show! So exotic! Certainly nothing like it in New Jersey. Grandma always tried to please her grandchildren, so we watched The Cisco Kid. I’m not convinced she thought it was so great.

*Arthur Godfrey. Great Caesar’s ghost! Could this guy put you to sleep, or what? Grandma never missed it. He played a big part in early TV history, on air 1949-1959. And it was live TV: sometimes he liked to just throw away the script and wing it.

*Queen for a Day (1956-64). This started out as a radio show in 1949–and who can forget it? Old ladies competed with each other, and whoever could trot out the most abject misery got to be “Queen for a Day.” Really, this was just awful! Grandma lapped it up like chowder.

I want to get my brain back on line. Somewhere out there is Ozias, Prince Enthroned–but where is it? I’ve got the longhand copy, but the finished manuscript is still hiding in the blahsmos.

Come on, memory! No more lolly-gagging!

 

1 Million Subscribers Dump Disney-Plus

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SNOW WHITE – Teaser Trailer (2025) Gal Gadot & Rachel Zegler 'Live Action' Movie | Disney+

Face it, America: DisneyCorp just doesn’t like you.

The headline says it all, but here’s a little more. Following a price hike a few months ago, DisneyCorp has lost $1.1 billion (11% loss) and experienced “an exodus of advertisers” (https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/02/05/disney-streaming-service-sheds-1-million-subscribers-following-price-hike/). And subscriptions are down.

Once again we see a Far Left entity, Disney, taking a beating because it refuses to align itself with the public–its potential customers. Do they make any effort to give the public what it wants? See the Snow White trailers… if they haven’t been yanked and buried already.

Here’s what’s what. The Far Left despises the American people and thinks its barf-baggable spokespersons can somehow shame us into embracing open borders, transgender, defunding the police, and censoring everybody six ways from Sunday.

They couldn’t be more wrong.

Dems Running ‘Hogg-Wild’

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Ooh, don’t he look all mean and serious?

So the Democrats got creamed in the last election and apparently learned nothing from it. “Reject our platform, will you? Well, we’ll double down on it! Take that, you peasants!”

But some Dems are already having second thoughts about this strategy–which took the form, a few days ago, of electing 24-year-old bigmouth David Hogg vice president of the Democrat National Committee (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/some-democrats-are-already-admitting-david-hogg-was/).

Didn’t we last see this Far Left numbskull urging Canadians to cross the border to vote in U.S. national elections? Or at least send campaign contributions across the border. We sure did! And it was left up to Michael Moore, of all people, to remind little Davy that Canadians can’t legally vote in American elections (https://www.thewrap.com/michael-moore-schools-david-hogg-for-urging-canadians-to-donate-to-us-campaigns-video/) and can’t legally donate to American candidates, either.

So now this kank–who advocates open borders, gun control, defund the police, etc., etc., the whole Far Left Crazy Fun-Pak–is the official No. 2 face of the Democrat Party. He’s not just an idiot anymore. He is an idiot who speaks for the Democrat Party.

Does this mean its end is near?

How Far Will They Go to Keep ‘Transgender’?

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Transgender Pride flag! That’s how it’s done, son!

Now it looks like hospitals might have to stop providing “gender-affirming care”–in plain English, so-called “sex-change” operations (https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/new-york-ag-tells-hospitals-continue-trans-care-trumps-executive-order-rcna190589).

President Donald Trump’s executive order is meant to “end chemical and surgical mutilation of children”–no more federal funds for that.

Democrat politicians, heavily invested in all things “transgender,” are going to resist this. Well, if they really, truly, want to be The Transgender Party, I say let ’em do it. See how far that takes them in the next election. Think of all the nice slogans they could have. “Puberty blockers forever!” “Lop if off!” “You are what you think you are!”

Yeah, Democrats: nail your flag to the main-mast and see how many voters salute it.

Byron’s TV Listings, Feb. 1

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G’day, boys ‘n’ gulls! Happy February Fools Day!  Here at Quokka University, we’re celebrating it with a solid weekend of fabulous TV. We’ve got shows and movies that you never dreamed existed! Like these:

6:48 p.m.   Ch. 96   MOVIE–Unbearable suspense

A world-class pianist (Marjorie Main) thinks her bra is imbued with a sinister intelligence, in The Bra (1951, 14 minutes). Prof. Sahib Gupta (himself). Hapless victim stalked by bra: Jill St. John. Pretentious German novelist (Don Knotts).

7 p.m.   Ch. 09   Evening News With Soupy Sales–Old news

Way back in 1969, Uruguayan guerrillas kidnapped comedian Soupy Sales, mistaking him for Walter Cronkite and forcing him to anchor newscasts favorable to their cause. When they finally realized their mistake, they offered to trade Soupy for Warner Wolf. Tune in to get the whole story!

Ch. 22   I BUSTED MY COCCYX, MAN!–Dramatic sitcom

It isn’t every TV sitcom that has beavers in it (no, we are not counting Leave It to Beaver!); but Coccyx not only has beavers: it started out as a nitty-gritty detective series starring Fong Hsueh-ding. They kept Fong, the beavers Pat and Mike, and the Coccyx but chucked the rest. Special guest star: Roy Rogers. Not-so-special star: Some Mameluke caught loitering in the alley next to the studio.

7:30   Ch. 42  MRS. MAGOO–Adult cartoons

Mr. Magoo may be very nearly blind, but Mrs. Magoo sees things that nobody else sees because there’s nothing there! By the same animators who brought you Joe Biden, Mrs. Magoo has been hailed as positively the greatest TV show ever! This week: Mrs. Magoo tries to catch the scorpions crawling all over her breakfast table and into Mr. Magoo’s soup.

Well, folks, that should hold you for a weekend!

What Makes Quokkas So Happy?!? — Well/Beings

You can see Mrs. Magoo has already put me in a good mood. Byron the Quokka, signing off!

Hollywood Losing Its Mojo?

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We can here the crickets chirping in the aisles…

[I’ve spent most of today just resting, and I believe it does me good. I finished yesterday feeling like I’d fallen down the stairs. Meanwhile, here’s a piece of good news.]

Hollywood was all in for Kamalalala Harris on Election Day: said a leading talent agent, “The biggest stars in the world endorsed her” (https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/01/25/hollywood-reeling-after-kamalas-loss-biggest-stars-in-the-world-losing-relevance-industry-wont-repeat-trump-resistance-playbook/).

Are you as tired of Far Left motormouth celebrities as I am? The agent lamented, “Hollywood no longer drives the culture.” I call that good news!

George Clooney, Taylor Swift, Beyonce–who still cares what these dindles say? They threw everything they had at Donald Trump and he still won, big-time.

And we won, too. America won, Hollywood lost.