This week terrorists, next week That One. Submit for either at lolterizt@gmail.com
Meanwhile, pass ’em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.
NOTE TO READERS: Hovering your mouse over the picture activates closed captioning for the l33t-speak/txtmsg impaired.
From Arik:
From Kris:
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From Larsinkima:
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From Larsinkima:
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From Larsinkima:
My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
From Arik:
From badmartin:
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From Basil:
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From Bassguy:
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From Charles:
From CrustyB:
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From Les of Brick Moon:
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From Les of Brick Moon:
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From MarkoMancuso:
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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:
Ok, who gets the coveted Obscury this week? Nominees are:
1) Larsinkima for “Limb Kadiddlehopper”
2) Basil for “Daffy Duck”
3) Les for “El Kabong”
4) MarkoMancuso for “Jewskinner Blues”
Pipe up in the comments.
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I vote for El Kabong. That one took a second to get. But it’s great.
Personally I’m torn between Basil & Les.
Basil, because his reference is just a few seconds long, but it’s in one of the more classic Warner Brothers cartoons.
Les, because although his reference encompasses the entire cartoon, it’s in a Hanna-Barbera release, in the Quick Draw franchise, which I’ve always considered pretty fringe.
The other two, I actually knew, but they aren’t necessarily mainstream.
Tough call.
May not have been too obscure but I liked PLO Speedwagon. Good one Crusty.
I must be really obscure because I knew right away who El Kabong was. He was one of my favorites as a kid, but we only had 2 channels. I vote for El Kabong also.
El Kabong is most obscure.
PLO Speedwagon made me LOL big-time!
Obscure? What obscure? I vote zero obscurity. Shame on you culturally deprived kids.
Limb Kadiddlehopper had a Skelton in his closet.
Daffy Duck was ‘drawn’ into an air guitar scene in Duck Amuck.
Who joo calleeng obscure, QueekStraw? KaBonggggg!
And Bill Monroe wailed about skinnin floppy eared critters 50 years afore Merle did.
I don’t consider my reference obscure at all! But I’m a country bumpkin.
True, jj, but Merle’s version is the best I’ve heard – and that includes the original by the Father, Jimmie Rodgers.
I haven’t thought about any of those obscure references in 30 years, but they all came instantly to my mind the second I saw them. (ain’t memory a wonderful thing?)
I like Clem Kaddilhopper best, so I vote for Larsinkima.
I don’t know about obscure references (being marginally cultured), but I do know what I think of Islam:
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Great work everyone! They are all keepers.
Mancuso for maximum Obscurity to all of us city slickers!
And Lars, I love the superglue gag.
#1 El Kabong. The Red Skelton Kadiddlehopper reference #2
Thanks, Kris, but after reading it, Cuba would have read better than hospital.
That my PLO Speedwagon pic required a [reference link] makes me feel old rather than obscure.
Good night and God bless, Clem Kadiddlehopper.
I got El Kabong right away! Oh…that was mine.
Speaking of MST3K and obscure references, I have the dubious distinction of getting 3rd place in a RiffTrax contest, not long after the site got started. I think there are two or three of my lines in the Matrix RiffTrak, in the first Oracle scene.
Ok, Jimmy being the super big brained computer programmer…how did you make the cool middle finger guy?
Yeah. Leaning toward El Kabong. The source material has been obscured for those without Boomarang yet refs to it abide. (Episode of The Critic and other cartoons, stand up comedy routines, etc.)
I liked the “Duck Amuck” ref, but Basil would’ve had me at Roy Orbision or maybe the less notorious Bing Bell. I prolly would’ve been the only one to get it, though, which is why I’m not a bellweather for this sort of thing….
Meanwhile, I have “Ridin’ Jihad Out” stuck in my head….
Apostic – the Bing Bell reference would’ve been a contender, and if you’d given me that link, I probably would’ve used your submission. Wow. A TV movie from 1972. The cast wasn’t exactly nobodies, either.
Crusty – It shouldn’t make you feel THAT old, they’re actually still touring. Saw ’em last year. Still sounding pretty good, too. And they had another studio album out a couple years back. I put the reference link in because the internet is forever, and people in the year 3000 might not know who REO is.
My vote is for Larsinkima for “Limb Kadiddlehopper”. They don’t even have Red’s shows in reruns anymore. 🙁 My kids would get it but that’s because I made them watch some of the show I found on dvd’s and they will actually quote lines from the shows. Disclaimer: Red Skelton is my #1 favorite comedian of all time.
El Kabong would be my second choice for obscure reference.
ussjimmycarter – it’s written in an old code called ‘ASCII.’
Regarding the last photo, “Hamas using Comfy Chair on captive Israeli soldiers.
Caption for the last photo: “Hating Jews? That’s a UNION job!”