Oddity Archive: Episode 27 - Bicentennial Fever
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2013
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I had a bicentennial Panasonic tape recorder. It was made in Japan.
Oh, the Irony
No lie, I would buy that vacuum if I saw one. The bag pattern is unique and vacuums of that design deep clean carpets well.
only for the low low low price of $1776
Knowing the prices in that era most likely it was U$177.60 (that'd still be expensive, since that'd be more like U$785 in '18 or more expensive than ANY Dyson model only less expensive than water-based Rainbows).
@@syxepop Blah, all three of those are cheap junk to the Kirby Avalir 2 owner.
That platform they are dancing on is shaking and looks like it is going to collapse.
Here in Canada, we had Olympic fever as Montreal hosted the 1976 21st Olympic games. There were Olympic t shirts, radios, Bic ball point pens,Olympic coins, and Ford built a special edition Olympic Pinto. And for the record, Up With People, did not perform at the 76 Olympic opening ceremony thank goodness.
rEdf196 Even "down" here in Pittsburgh,PA the Olympics were a "thing", In fact ALL I can remember of 1976 was The Montreal Olympics and the Bicentennial! (admittedly, there MAY be other reasons for me not remembering a lot of1976! 😜)
What was that like? Having a case of Olympic fever that is.
America isn't a baby girl, he's a 19 year old nerd with the body of a stereotypical high school jock, you can't just ignore canon things like that!
'Merica! *punches you across the room*
It's July 4th, 2024, and I've returned for my annual viewing of this OA classic. I kinda miss beautiful downtown Aurora.
The USA celebrates 250 years of independence from Britain on July 4, 2026! Six more years!
(I typed this on May 12, 2020)
That's the only celebration I might be around for that I'll remember. lol I was only a year old when the bicentennial happened.
I’m making it a tradition to watch this every 4th of July! Also is it sad that I kinda like the solid color dresses? I’d totally pair them with a different colored pair of leggings and a solid color necklace.
I remember making a break-in track when I was in high school, around the time I had an unhealthy addiction to the Back to the Future trilogy. Very cringe-worthy writing, but it was still fun to put together.
I'm sure we won't be that goofy at the 240th Anniversary of the founding of the United States next year. Now where can i score a near-mint condition copy of that Bicentennial Playboy magazine?
I got a bicentennial 7up bottle!
I'm betting it'll be WORSE.
We're now creeping up on the 250th anniversary.
i wasn't around for the bicentennial, i probably won't be around for the tricentennial...
on a related note, it's still weird that some countries have been around, building a culture and an identity 5, 10 times longer than we have
DrHillbillyShow This country was inhabited for millenia before the white men arrived. ;)
@ My (Pittsburgh,PA,USA) house (1866) is actually older than the country known as "Germany".
hey it's what we do. don't worry though, everyone that did is dead.
I was 1 year old when the bicentennial happened. Unless God wants to punish me, I don't think I'll be around for the tri either, and even if I am, I'll probably not know wtf is going on just like for the bi. lol
i probably will, i'll be 98 years old though but if i'm still alive i'll watch it on tv or something
Loved that 200 animation! When I saw that it was by Vince Collins I had a double take- I wonder if Ben knows he's on UA-cam?
nobuyukinyuu It's out of copyright and I have used it multiple times.
(5:25 & 17:50) Todd in the Shadows sent me here.
In 76 here in Oz the biggest bicentennial impact was the Mad magazine special issue.
you remind me of the neighbor from Home Improvement.
You actually paid to be part of "Up with People" - allegedly $9800 a year. The whole thing was a project of Moral Re-Armament, the people who gave us Alcoholics Anonymous. That version of "Up with People" ended in 2000, then a new version appeared after 2004, and it's still trucking along.
Hey, kids! Take a walk on the WILD SIDE....an' all the races sing SHOOP DAAH DOOP SHOOBYDOOBYDOODOOP DOODOO SHOOBYDOOBYDOO-YEAH!
7:25 Ah yes. The great ancient countries of Asia, Africa and Europe.
"Did you know Africa is a Continent?"
-Ryan Stiles
Man, you've been at this a long time, and somehow I never knew about you, however, this is my cup of tea, and I'm happy to have found it. Good stuff!
10:32 that voice crack
I know my mom was wishing for a July 4th (1976) birth .... I guess I was 22 days late
3:55
Ladies and gentlemen, UA-cam Poop, pre-UA-cam.
Certain Oddity Archive episodes make for good yearly traditions.
Now that I think about it, I haven't seen a Bicentennial Quarter in awhile. I used to get them a lot as change.
Austin1987VCR i have one
@@imrustyokay I get about 1 a month. (at least when I look, Probably more.)
This may be my favorite episode :)
I lived through the bicentennial (I turned 16 2 days after the 4th of July) and I must tell you that that animated film is what it REALLY was all about. Also, you may find this hard to believe, but I am probably the only one in the world who actually likes the song "Afternoon Delight". I would blame the drugs, but I didn't take any until I was 18 (in 1978).
Novelty Records: The Great Grand-Pappy Of Ytp.
..they do look like the Charlie Brown kids..
Happy Birthday, America. (and me, bicentennial baby)
The Peanuts Gang
Subscribed at: "Nothing says patriotism more than Saudi Arabian oil." xD
In 76 i was 12 and i remember my folks remodeling the kitchen with bicentennial paneling .
The "Up with People" theme tune inspires me to drink, really drink, like a lot! 😨🍻🍺🍷
my mom was 10 years old when this happened. I'm going to be 82 when the tricentenial arrives
Awesome WJET channel 24 signoff at the end. I'm from Erie...
I'm also highly surprised you didn't show Richard Pryor's album "Bicentennial N****r" in this, even for a blip.
The bicentennial cartoon I remember is different-- there was a special with several cartoons animated from newspapers, including Broom Hilda. The commercial transition animation had rockets exploding in it. Been looking for that one for years.
Weed was one hell of a drug 40 years ago.
The year 1976 was supposed to have three major World gatherings in the United States.
Denver was supposed to host the Winter, Los Angeles was a contender to land the Summer Olympics, and there was to have been a world's fair in Philadelphia on a 500-acre site along the Delaware River.
But the world's fair got cancelled around 1972 (thankfully, no construction had started). Los Angeles lost out on the Summer Olympics (which went instead to Montreal), and Denver voters rejected using tax dollars to finance the Winter Olympics (which Denver was given but were re-awarded to Innsbruck, which had hosted the 1964 Winter Games, and had all the facilities in place).
As of 1972, the space program was scheduled to have a big day on July 4th, 1976: In the morning, the first manned space shuttle mission was to have been launched, and late that evening, the unmanned Viking 1 was to attempt a soft landing on Mars.
But the maiden orbital flight of the shuttle was delayed almost five years, while Viking 1 didn't land on Mars until a couple of weeks later (the wait was worth it; Viking transmitted pictures and other data back to Earth).
I hit your vid and get treated to the Grateful Dead's US Blues. Nice touch.
Back in '76, my Dad and a group of other men connected with the CETA works program built and sailed a reproduction of an 18th century flatboat down the French Broad and Tennessee River. For America250, I've been trying to get together the people and funding to recreate this event on the same rivers. I've got some people on board, but a really long way to go.
I nearly screamed when Country Roads started playing. Darn memes...
6:31 Exxon and Mobil were two separate companies until their merger in 1999. Really bad with oil companies huh? Shell is from the Netherlands and not Saudi Arabia.
but the Oil comes from Saudi Arabia
I was born just before July 4, 1976.
The Bicentennial Special intro totally ripped off Doctor Who's.
Have you heard anything about CBS-TV doing new versions of what will be renamed "250th Anniversary Minutes" that would run nightly from July 4th, 2024 through July 4th, 2026?
Now that I know that the 250th is the same year we host the FIFA world cup in 26, now we have a reason to worry
Another thing and I let Benny-boy know about this. I literally saw a car on the commute to work this morning (5/9/2023) with a sticker saying "Up With People" on it.
i have that flatware of the 13 colony spoons hanging up in my kitchen
Happy 40th anniversary of the bicentennial!
And just thing, 10 years from now all we'll hear about is the 250th.
Yes lol
I used to think Frank Zappa was paranoid about something that didn't end up happening when he mentioned the bicentennial merchandise on the horizon at the beginning of Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead, as well as the rest of Bongo Fury (200 Years Old)
But no. This episode taught me he was right. Like he was most of the time.
Ah, yes, about the time I went to college. We all wanted some afternoon delight, but mostly we just got the song. Oh, well. And although I might like the sentiment of Up With People....yeah, that song got grating after the first hundred times.
Ben, you should do an Oddity Archive podcast, that would be cool.
I was listening to an oldies station in the car last month; they played 'Afternoon Delight' and I just started laughing.
***** Looking forward to 2016, are we?
I've heard this song on the radio last weekend and it was not that bad. The lyrics are silly and kinda stupid. "Afternoon Delight" by the Starlight Vocal Band hit #1 on the Billboard charts, but WABC in New York City played this song when it was a Top 40 AM radio station. I'm trying to look for a 45 of "Afternoon Delight". Some people thought it was the worst song ever, and as for me, not bad for a lame song.
+LuigiGodzillaGirl Ya, it's a stupid song. I think the only reason people remember it is due to comedy shows
taking the mickey out of it like "Arrested Development" and "Anchorman" and that gives an impression on
the younger audiences who didn't grew up with it, like me! :)
"I'd advise to give yourself a tattoo, so you can relive the memories..Starland Vocal Band?! THEY SUCKED!"
+AtlantaCommercials96 Grandpa Simpson: DEEEEAAATTTHHH!!!!
NoctournalDonut
That's only the Cat, Grandpa!
I can't wait for the tricentennial of 2076.
Do you remember the commercials with Arba the Bicentennial Eagle? That thing's given me nightmares for forty years!
8:57. “Leif Garrett, how could you?”
It’s easy, when you’re as strung out as he was then.
Arlo Guthrie actually accepted money for Up with People to cover one of his songs. Check please, Alice.
Man I'm glad I wasn't born anywhere near the 70's
r/lerightgeneration
Closed captioning can be hilarious. Enable it, and check out the time mark 10:26 ...
13:35 From a company whose full name involves the Dutch royal family.
Meh, same flag colors, close enough
Chrnan6710 Didn't know what you were saying at first. Lol
The good old days, when sport was played during the DAY.
This whole time I never FULLY got the Simpsons joke from the Duff Gardens episode... The 'Clean-Shaven Sounds'(c)(R)TM of Hooray-for-Everything were inspired by real life bicentennial half-time show performers Up with People!
Don't forget the Bicentennial half dollar and dollar coins.
3:00 Oddly enough I have that issue and still in mint condition.
So the USA pretty much defines themselves as a cornucopia spewing forth hamburgers, hot dogs and TV; but if *I* say that, it's "disrespectful"...
The animation was commissioned to Vince Collins, who had a history of making pretty weird, edgy animations and is a self-professed countercultural weirdo; I'm inclined to think the baseballs and hotdogs and stuff were kind of tongue in cheek.
Even Colonel Sanders' head shows up in one sequence!
13:46 - You are not alone! Two British guys also took the task of drinking a Bicentennial bottle of 7-Up: ua-cam.com/video/lCmDZl1wtzU/v-deo.html
Elton John retroactively deserves that for defending Eminem.
It was a good thing I wasn't around for the BIcentennial...
SEIZURE WARNING
2:37 Mmmm... Coke!
Well.....70's...
JET 24.... good ole local TV...
TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME
makes me almost afraid for when America gets the taste of Olympic fever in 2028!! I knew they really didn't do much when we hosted the winter games. But it's not as much of a big deal than the summer games. Im especially worried when it hits the 250th.
Other than all the ritual killings, the worst thing about “Afternoon Delight“ is it proved once and for all that Jason Bateman can’t sing.
"Art Buchwald Fingers Our Founding Fathers." Ummmm.
I thought this Pokimon episode was banned for causing cesures.
Funny how celebrating the nation now a days would be seen as racist/nationalist.
Have you ever heard a gay men’s chorus? They make UWP sound like the Temptations.
Anyone kinda wish Ben brought up the American Freedom Train and the various railroads that did Bicentennial paintschemes for their locomotives? Some of the paintjobs are pretty bad...
10:53 at that point, i don't think they even knew he was gay.
Up with Ben❤❤❤
FREEBIRD
PCU reference ?
@13:40; and was a British oil brand. Go figure. lol
I was six. The only thing I got was a little sister!
10:23 City of New Orleans?
Seems odd, given the song is about the slow painful death of the American passenger train.
American Revolution,BABY!!! The British invented railroad train was surpassed by the American invented airplane.
Was everyone in Up With People white except for the two tokens at the Superbowl?
It's called "up with people" and you know how it goes... Undefined defaults to white. At least in the US.
We've gotten better, where instead of tokens we are warming up to shows with more realistic ethnicity proportions, but even today it's still an issue.
+Michael Mangi (theblackdog) "We Got A Black Girl in the chorus already..quit your whinin'" But, seriously,
I noticed that, too. Diversity in these things were very rare back then and you were lucky if you got more than
a few tokens. Especially, something as stereotypical "white" as this.
If you're interested, I have a butt load of tapes you can have
Shell is a Dutch company actually
TheHarbingerOfDeath I don't know much about how oil companies operate, but I think he was insinuating they source their oil from saudi arabia, not that the company itself is saudi arabian.
I wonder if that cartoon was made by the Soviets to induce mass epilepsy in the American people... Certainly reminds me more of their animation techniques than anything America could do...up to and including an 'End' caption.
This technique was invented by communists, specifically Dziga Vertov in *Man with a Movie Camera.* Any film school that continues to show that to its students needs to lose its accreditation.
16:52 LOL
I prefer up with mini skirts.
Thank God that Up (chuck) with People ain't playing the Super Bowl anymore! They were hideous back then and are still awful now.
16:39 Well that and also cheeseburgers and porn
Too bad an episode with OA lore (the transition to HD) is a "lost episode."
Why do I find this all so disturbing ? Possibly due to my being a Native American ? Damn I hate that imposed title !
I was born in 1976, but not in America thank God, what a tacky time to be born, flares, hippies, afros, bad music and cheesy cartoons. No wonder I am so tacky myself. The year of disco duck.
Rockist glibsnark on every non-rock genre of music. I almost thought you were a boomer. Based on that, I must sadly give this video a thumbs down. Thank you for proving yet again why Frank Sinatra was right about schlock ‘n’ roll. It is phony and false and created by cretinous goals, and time has only revealed it as such.