http://www.hulu.com/watch/3514/saturday-night-live-fred-garvin-male-prostitute
For some reason I can't get the video to embed, but here's the story anyway...
Apparently my freakish skill at recalling old random TV/movie bits is legendary. Seems I have a shared chromosome or other genetic abnormality somewhere between Dennis Miller and Rainman. Like it or not, I am the King of the Obscure Reference.
Case in point. I ran into an old friend that I hadn't seen in a while at work last week. The first thing he said to me was "I thought about you a few weeks ago. I was talking to someone and we were trying to remember what was that character Dan Akroyd played that time on SNL?"
Immediately, without any further clues I answered "Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute."
Not Elwood Blues, not Julia Child, not Bass-O-Matic... Fred Garvin.
It's freaky.
I did the same thing once when I was working in Addison. My boss asked me about Lou Gherig and I answered with "Today, day, day. I consider myself, elf, elf... the luckiest man, an, an... on the face of the Earth, rth, rth."
It was the echo that sealed the deal.
Like I said, it's freaky. I can't help it.
I promise to use my gift against the forces of evil.
I promise to use my gift against the forces of evil.
I dunno RPM, judging from the looks I get from people, I'm right up there with ya on obscure references.
ReplyDeleteI'm regarded as a great ass..[wait for it]..et when it comes to playing Trivial Pursuit. Probably because most of my stored knowledge is trivial.
OK, here's an idea. Plant a mole inside the Zanuck company, and secretly replace a Boolie Werthan scene from Driving Miss Daisy with Fred Garvin - Male Prostitute, on a batch of rental DVDs.
ReplyDeleteAnd just to poke fun at Chelsea Handler, maybe slip in a Samuel L. Jackson scene in place of Hoke Colburn...
ROFLMAO, you are a sick man.
ReplyDeleteI like it!