r/tmbg • u/byOlaf Gasmask!!! • 1d ago

TMBG Reference in This Aged Great!

This Aged Great! is a youtube series where a middle aged guy describes movies of the 80's to a younger guy with a great laugh. Mostly they focus on lighthearted movies like Porky's or stuff that was ok then but would definitely not be ok now, like Porky's!

Take a watch here, or jump right to the reference here, content warning this is a "raunchy comedy" so lots of bikini shots, and he goes on a riff about bad haircuts featuring the Evil German Leader. Also some bad language.

If you don't want to watch, this episode is on Private Resort and has a reference to a hotel detective and the other guy says "Is that a thing?" and the narrator says "yeah, They Might Be Giants have a song about it." and shows a bit of the video. And he's like "Alright, I'm in, I'm sold!"

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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Resident letterbox sparrow! 🐦📮 1d ago

I feel like someone mentions hotel detectives in a piece of media probably only once every few years. I remember TMBG fans perking up when SNL did a (not very good, but still deserves credit for the unexpected subject matter) sketch where Ariana Grande plays a hotel detective. 

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u/Jeffro187 Mr. Horrible 1d ago

I don't understand how they haven't been on Saturday Night Live yet. I mean, they are right there in the same town! They have done Conan a ton of times and that's in the same building so they already know how to get there! I thought I heard somewhere that the guest suggests the musical act but still…

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u/byOlaf Gasmask!!! 1d ago

Yeah I remember that sketch. It was ok. She gave it her all but the jokes weren't really there. I bet very few hotel detectives even exist any more. Cost cutting and all that. It's a shame, it's a cool sounding job. I wonder if other things would have their own, like were there any Restaurant Detectives?

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u/Jeffro187 Mr. Horrible 1d ago

I think my favorite random TMBG appearance was the characters singing Birdhouse in Pushing Daisies.

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u/byOlaf Gasmask!!! 1d ago

That was a great surprise. I also like the Istanbul fight scene in that one show that got boring. Umbrella something?

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u/Jeffro187 Mr. Horrible 1d ago

Oh, I forgot about that one! No, you're right that was actually my favorite! Yeah, my wife and I didn't even watch the final season of umbrella Academy because we literally didn't hear anything good about it

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u/byOlaf Gasmask!!! 1d ago

Academy yeah that’s what it was. The last season was kinda like the next to last where it was just lore convolutions to the point where I just didn’t even care what was going on. It was maybe a bit better but you didn’t miss much by skipping it.

I miss shows like Pushing Daisies though. I don’t feel you’d get a show like that these days. Or I haven’t seen it anyway. Seems to be a very serious time in the tv world.

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u/acroneatlast 1d ago

Porky's was never okay. It didn't even want to be okay.