Amusements

[icepixie]

Best. Sheet Music. EVER. (Link goes to a PDF file.)

Haaaahahahaha.

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Today's edition of "Oh, the Things You Can Find on YouTube":

Someone made a music vid from clips of programs done by Marina and Gwendal. I was at first unsure of how that would work, but whoever made this managed to make 90% of the clips look like they could conceivably come from a routine choreographed to this music. Too bad the music is kind of bleh. Still, though...

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Bwahahaha. I love this episode, and have since high school, when I first watched the reruns. Love the moment when Maurice and Nikolai are about to face off with pistols and Joel comes out and says, "We play to a very sophisticated television audience here..." Love that they stay in character, instead of reverting to actors and actresses; it's kind of like the citizens of Cicely put on a play for us every week. In a way, it makes the town and the people seem even more real, despite being, you know, fictional. Love the fact that it's oh-so-Moonlighting, and that in the extended scene on the DVD, they totally acknowledge it. Hee!

Maggie: He's [Fleischman] breaking the fourth wall!
Marilyn: Moonlighting did it.
Maggie: Yeah, and look what happened to them!
Shelly: No, no, no, no. They folded because of the David/Maddie thing. How long do you think they're going to put up with the unresolved sexual tension between you two? I mean, at least Holling and I get it on.

I got such a kick out of the extended version of this. Not to mention the line in my icon; Shelly responding to Ruth-Anne's suggestion that they go with the fifth draft, where Nikolai suddenly gets a tooth abscess and they call off the duel, with "Glib and textually unwarranted" cracks me up every time.

And then Maggie and Joel discuss stepping out of character in the next scene. Golden.

Ah, metafiction.

Comments

[missizzy]

Actually, there are plenty of figure skating montages. I've made a a playlist of some of the ones I've watched, though I don't think I've found any others on YouTube of Anassina and Pezerat. Most of them appear of Sasha Choen; I think her viddeing fans are organized! I'm even working on a waltz-themed one myself.

[icepixie]

I've made a a playlist of some of the ones I've watched

Ha! The Wicked ones are hilarious, in spite of the dodgy editing. (And wow, that vidder seems to have a major hate-on for F-P&M...not that I can't sympathize a bit...)

I'm even working on a waltz-themed one myself.

Nifty! What music are you using?

[missizzy]

Waltz of the Flowers.
Speaking of music, I finally braved the PDF file(my browser occasionally throws temper tantrums over them, so...) and I should have known. My junior year as an undergrad my music professor had the first page of that number on his office door, and he drew attention to it while we were studying the modern music it makes fun of. My favorite line is still "remove the cattle from the stage"

[icepixie]

My favorite line is still "remove the cattle from the stage"

That one is pretty good, yes. *g*

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

:: dies laughing ::

I can't decide whether "With much passionfruit" or "Hey, look, rainbow slurs!" is my favorite. Thanks for sharing.

[icepixie]

I was amused by "Play this one real zippy-like."

Glad it made you laugh.

[laserhead.livejournal.com]

That sheet music is hysterical! Thanks for the laugh. After my long week (and the fact that Thanksgiving break doesn't start until Wednesday evening) I needed it.

[icepixie]

Hee, sheet music.

Thanksgiving break doesn't start until Wednesday evening

Oooh. Suck. (Although can I just say: OMG, when did it get to be Thanksgiving???)

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

Wow. How did you find this? It used to be posted on the bulletin board in the Storer lounge, and I remember gleefully reading it over and over again. Now, reading it again, I've just laughed harder and longer than I have all week. Yay! That makes my day. Thank you!

[icepixie]

You're welcome!

Now that you mention it, I think I remember it being in Storer. I don't think I ever looked at it closely, though. I found this one...through Google, somehow. I think I was looking up something connected to choir music, but beyond that I don't remember.

[chickwithmonkey.livejournal.com]

That sheet music is PRICELESS. I like "rests are imaginary" and "in spite of the frog."

[icepixie]

Those are good. I like "Like a dirigible" and "Shock therapy may be necessary to finish."

[alorarose.livejournal.com]

Haha!! Awesome sheet music. Dad joked and said I should give it to my brother and ask him to play it, haha.

[icepixie]

I would so love to see someone play this. Particularly the bits with penguins.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Faerie's Aire is on the wall in the choir room of my parents' church in Florida. I made a copy of it last year and scanned it in, but I don't recall ever seeing the second page!

In any case, I think my favorite bit is still "light explosives now...and...now." :)

[icepixie]

I don't know that I can actually choose a favorite bit. Hee!

[elflore.livejournal.com]

That is the greatest sheet music, indeed. That's what music needs--more direction to Release the Penguins!

And the whole 4th-wall-shaking epi sounds brilliant. Love that sort of thing. *g* (There's actually a comic book series which did a whole storyline where the hero's life goes to hell, so he finally seeks out the writer, and they have this big talk about how the writer's cat died and people want drama so he did all these horrible things to the hero. And they argue the morality of this.)

[icepixie]

That's what music needs--more direction to Release the Penguins!

Absolutely! *g*

And the whole 4th-wall-shaking epi sounds brilliant. Love that sort of thing. *g*

Dude. You NEED to see this show. NEED. Do not stop, do not pass go, but find somewhere that has these DVDs for sale/rent and check them out. THIS SHOW IS BRILLIANT.

I love fourth wall-breakage to an unhealthy extent. I think it started with seeing that one Looney Tunes cartoon where Daffy gets erased and redrawn a lot at an impressionable age. That comic sounds great. :)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Old, old reply here finally...

Dunno if you've got access to a library system with a good graphic novel collection, but the Animal Man storyline I was talking about is collected in a paperback called "Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina", by Grant Morrison. I read it at work, of course, so you can also track it down through Borders. It's the fourth collection of the series, but I read it without having read or knowing anything about what came before...it stands alone just fine, and all the good Fourth Wall stuff is in this part of the story. I think you'd like it. *g*

[icepixie]

I'll look for it! My library doesn't have it, but maybe B&N will. (The only Borders in town is waaaaay across town, so hopefully B&N will provide. *g*)