Ch 15, pages 367/368

[Mark Kohut]

A--and, Gilligan's Island has been said to be an American pop cutural
spin on ....................O Brave New [TV] World!---, The Tempest!



----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:29:17 AM
Subject: Re: Ch 15, pages 367/368

It's a jump ahead, but wotthehell wotthehell:

    "Hnof ikh, Angh-ah!"

    "My own adorable grandchild," slinging the girl's head gently away
    at last. "I want you to sing the 'Gilligan's Island' theme for your
    mother," she commanded.
    
    "Grandma!"

    "First time she ever noticed the Tube, remember, Frenesi? A tiny
    thing, less than four months old—Gilligan's Island' was on,
    Prairie, and your eyes may've been a little unfocused yet, but you
    sat there, so serious, and watched the whole thing—"

    "Stop, I-don't-want-to-hear-this—"

    "—after that, whenever the show came on, you'd smile and gurgle
    and rock back and forth, so cute, like you wanted to climb inside
    the television set, and right onto that Island—"

    "Please—" She looked to Frenesi for help, but her mother looked
    as bewildered as she felt.

My first words were "Hamms" followed by "Beer,"—that "from the land of sky-blue waters" jingle burning its way into my consciousness right from the start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o83xxWCel8g

On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> A cousin of mine and I both remember pretty much every jingle that we heard
> as children, which is not altogether pleasant.  Neither one of us made any
> attempt to memorize them.
> 
> In retrospect, my favorite jingle campaign was "You can take Salem out of
> the country, but... you can't take the country out of Salem."  After
> everyone had heard it enough times that they knew it well, they sang "You
> can take Salem out of the country, but..." paused, and then rang a bell,
> ding!  That made the internal singing of the jingle even stronger!
> Brilliant!
> 
> When you say "Bud..."
> 
> Henry Musikar