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Great Moments in Television

by John Cole|  December 11, 200811:12 pm| 36 Comments

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I just watched Hall and Oates serenade Alan Colmes on TDS.

Discuss.

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    December 11, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    Who was the homeless guy in the background? No, not Alan — the other homeless guy.

  2. 2.

    demimondian

    December 11, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    I thought you were referring to the photo op that the Republican Senators had earlier this evening.

  3. 3.

    kwAwk

    December 11, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    What do we call this? Anti-blogging?

  4. 4.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    December 11, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    I thought I felt a great disturbance in the Force.

  5. 5.

    Dusty

    December 11, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    I thought both Hall and Oates butchered the lyrics. I assume the subtitles weren’t planned before that stumbling, awkward performance.

  6. 6.

    Fraud Guy

    December 11, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    Reminded me of when my wife got tickets to Neil Diamond a few years back.

    Songs sung blue, nasally, and flat, with a dry throated waver that made my ears curl.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Stuck

    December 11, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    I didn’t see it, but will imagine what it was like/duh

  8. 8.

    tams

    December 11, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    nothing better than hall and oates… my dad grew up with mr. hall, who might i just say has aged much better than oates! when i saw oates singing during the phillie’s world series, i choked! the face lift and lack of ‘stache is beyond wrong.

  9. 9.

    DougJ

    December 12, 2008 at 12:00 am

    Did you watch the Behind The Music about Hall and Oates? Damn thing made me cry.

    Hall and Oates got their start when "Sarah Smiles" got play on R&B stations. People thought they were black. For white musicians, what higher praise can there be?

    Not that any of that makes up for atrocities like "Method of Modern Love" or "Maneater", but they were better than people remember, on balance.

  10. 10.

    TheFountainHead

    December 12, 2008 at 12:10 am

    /shudder

  11. 11.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 12, 2008 at 12:27 am

    On a different subject, have people noted that when executives get fired from financial companies for driving them into the ground, their golden parachutes are money that they are contractually entitled to, and we can’t just void signed contracts. People who retired from auto company factories and are now on a pension are greedy bastards dragging the companies down, and we need to force them to give up that money.

  12. 12.

    Colonel Danite

    December 12, 2008 at 12:35 am

    Best lyric: "you’re the only non-douchebag on that show". Poetry!

  13. 13.

    Comrade Stuck

    December 12, 2008 at 12:35 am

    clicking and seeing the puppies every time, is turning me into a big bowl of jello. I can’t snark and offend in that condition. The cute is lethal.

  14. 14.

    Zuzu's Petals

    December 12, 2008 at 1:20 am

    Poor Alan. As if the montage of insults in the intro wasn’t enough.

  15. 15.

    Fraud Guy

    December 12, 2008 at 1:33 am

    J. Michael Neal,

    Because we can’t just void the signed contracts that the companies have with their non-executive retirees?

    And remember, the Treasury can’t say that $30,000,000 is too much to pay someone who caused billions in losses, as their bonus formula apparently uses the absolute value of their impact on the company to determine their pay.

  16. 16.

    bago

    December 12, 2008 at 2:28 am

    Woo! it looks like we’re getting a festivus pole in Olympia!

  17. 17.

    burnspbesq

    December 12, 2008 at 2:49 am

    Hall and Oates? I thought their sell-by date was 1981.

  18. 18.

    Pooh

    December 12, 2008 at 3:04 am

    Fraud Guy,

    Methinks you need to recalibrate your ironometer.

  19. 19.

    bago

    December 12, 2008 at 4:28 am

    I guess that’s one positive thing out of the last 8 years. Everyone is so used to things being so surreal that virtualization is often assumed. Spoofing is just a form of prediction.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    December 12, 2008 at 4:55 am

    So, in their foolish insistence on fucking the UAW, the Senate Republicans are going to end up fucking us all.

    Gee, thanks, fellas.

  21. 21.

    bago

    December 12, 2008 at 6:51 am

    So, yeah. The election nights in Seattle. Can we have more people who are so happy to see someone who is remotely competent in power cause a force strong enough to shut down blocks of the city more often?

    I mean sweet titties McChrist., We’re so used to epic fail that billions of dollars barely phase us!

  22. 22.

    Montysano

    December 12, 2008 at 7:46 am

    @Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse:

    Who was the homeless guy in the background? No, not Alan—the other homeless guy.

    That would be T-Bone Wolk, a triple-scale studio musician who used to play in the H&O band.

    @burnspbesq:

    So, in their foolish insistence on fucking the UAW, the Senate Republicans are going to end up fucking us all.

    Indeed. A couple $tril large for the banking industry? No problem. Paying banking industry bonuses with taxpayer dollars? As it should be. $14B for the auto industry? Fuck those greedy UAW bastards. And all over this country, poor middle-class schlubs who’ve bought the GOP con are saying "Fuck yeah!". Unbelievable.

  23. 23.

    DrDave

    December 12, 2008 at 8:03 am

    The song was kinda funny but man, have those dudes aged!

  24. 24.

    Brian J

    December 12, 2008 at 8:18 am

    I watched the repeat of that show as I was trying to go to bed last night. Seeing the clips of the assorted Faux News losers made my blood boil. I’m glad I don’t waste my time with them that much any more.

  25. 25.

    Michael D.

    December 12, 2008 at 8:27 am

    When I first saw Hall, he kinda reminded me of Sean Hannity with blond hair and a goatee.

  26. 26.

    djork

    December 12, 2008 at 8:50 am

    Off topic but Bettie Page died yesterday at the age of 85. Rest in peace, pretty lady. May your bangs be immortalized on tattooed, roller-derby honeys nationwide for decades to come.

  27. 27.

    Punchy

    December 12, 2008 at 8:55 am

    /jaw agape at DJIA futures

    These motherfuckin GOPers are really, truly trying to completely fuck Obama and the Dems I just cannot fathom 150 billion for AIG and zilch for 3 of the largest blue-collar companies. Stunning.

  28. 28.

    Comrade Stuck

    December 12, 2008 at 9:07 am

    @Punchy:

    These motherfuckin GOPers are really, truly trying to completely fuck Obama and the Dems I just cannot fathom 150 billion for AIG and zilch for 3 of the largest blue-collar companies. Stunning.

    But that’s not important. What’s important is the shady Obama cover-up of his administrations coverup in the Blago affair. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t even have an administration yet, or that Elliot Ness Fitzmo has expressly stated there is nothing to cover-up. Screw the blue collar jobs, let them eat cake, and all hail our media feeding frenzy overlords. Only in America.

  29. 29.

    *

    December 12, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Great moment in television, or GREATEST moment in television?

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    December 12, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Good news is hard to find these days, so even small nuggets of it are eagerly welcomed.

    Reading Scott Turow’s Op-Ed piece from Wednesday’s NYT, one learns that he is at work on a sequel to "Presumed Innocent."

    Don’t know about anyone else, but that gets my day off to a good start.

  31. 31.

    Wendy

    December 12, 2008 at 9:54 am

    The Hall & Oates performance was not well-rehearsed and disappointing, but I’ve seen them in concert recently and Hall can sing like nobody’s business!! Thankfully they avoided most of the MTV-pop stuff and stuck to their soul-full roots (She’s Gone, Sara Smile, Rich Girl…that stuff). For the encore, they performed a rendition of "Me and Mrs Jones" (not their song) that brought the house down. T-Bone used to be in the Sat NIght Live house band as well. I’m just sayin, if you wan a feel-good concert where everyone is singing along, they are one of the best.

  32. 32.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    December 12, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Look like those GOP cocksuckers were banking on Bush stepping in, as he appears to be. Terrific: they get to look like populists fighting for the little guy, a chunk of the 700 billion is made available by a hated lame duck president, and they get to continue to bitch all the way through Obama’s term.

    Plus those fuckers have me approving of something Bush is probably going to do. I hate them for that, too.

  33. 33.

    shane

    December 12, 2008 at 10:17 am

    The Hall and Oates performance was cringe-inducing. They sounded awful and although Jon tried his best to make them seem welcome and relevant, they could not be bigger has-beens. It was embarrassing, although that one "douchebag" line was clever.

  34. 34.

    Fraud Guy

    December 12, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Pooh,

    I think my second sentence showed that I hit the reset button.

  35. 35.

    DougJ

    December 12, 2008 at 10:42 am

    For the encore, they performed a rendition of "Me and Mrs Jones"

    Great song. They don’t make ’em like that anymore.

  36. 36.

    gil mann

    December 12, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Shane, hate on ’em all you want, but they gave the world "Out of Touch," which means they are at least ten times as awesome as both of us combined, and have earned the right to the occasional off gig.

    I would implore you, sir, to fuckin’ recognize.

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