BEER Ch. 4 Brady Bunch

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

THE TUBE

Oh ... the ... Tube!
It's poi-soning your brain!
Oh, yes....
It's dri-ving you, insane!
It's shoot-ing rays, at you,
Over ev'ry-thing ya do,
It sees you in your bedroom,
And --- on th' toi-let too!
            Yoo Hoo! The
Tube....
It knows, your ev'ry thought,
Hey, Boob, you thought you would-
T'n get caught ---
While you were sittin' there, starin' at "The
Brady Bunch,"
Big fat computer jus'
Had you for lunch, now Th'
Tube ---
It's plugged right in, to you!

(Vineland, pp. 336-337)


One of my favorite Pynchon songs.


On 21.10.2013 21:22, Dave Monroe wrote:
> "'Hope you don't mind if we run a little short today, Brady Bunch
> marathon, you understand ... ?'" (BE, Ch. 4, p. 31)
>
>
> TAG Heuer
>
> http://us.tagheuer.com/
>
>
> "Brady Bunch marathon"
>
> "It seems that Pynchon's sister Judith once taught at Suffolk
> Community College and a colleague of [John Krafft, editor of Pynchon
> Notes]'s actually dated her, and actually asked her, one time, 'What's
> your brother likely to be doing right now?' and she said 'Watching The
> Brady Bunch.' This, I learn, is a wholesome family sitcom which was
> run and rerun throughout the Seventies, and it's Pynchon's favourite
> show. So, Tom is just like you and me! He watches cruddy TV!"
>
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html
>
>
> "the three-part family trip to Hawaii"
>
> The Brady Bunch: Season 4, Episode 1
> Hawaii Bound (22 Sep. 1972)
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531098/
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1JZpWweMQs
>
> The Brady Bunch: Season 4, Episode 2
> Pass the Tabu (29 Sep. 1972)
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531119/
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3y3KFfoaE
>
> The Brady Bunch: Season 4, Episode 3
> The Tiki Caves (6 Oct. 1972)
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531151/
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN19P5XO8dQ
>
> "Vincent Price's cameo"
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bq5oOaaYRc
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0Yf2MpCuA
>
>
> "more of a Jan-gets-a-wig person"
>
> The Brady Bunch: Season 2, Episode 15
> Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up? (15 Jan. 1971)
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531167/
>
> Cf. ...
>
> something about Jan gets a wig [IV, Cg. 17, p. 310]
>
> This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will
> the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on
> January 15, 197
>
> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_310
>
>      "What kind of wig?"
>      "Brunette, I think. She gets tired of being a blonde?"
>      "Tell me about that. Still not the same as changing your politics,
> I guess."
>
> Here's the clip...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lg3OVrytOM
>
> http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_31
>
>      Wig seller (Guest star Marcia Wallace): Ah, that’s our ‘Midnight
> Temptress’ wig.
>      Jan: ‘Midnight Temptress’, huh? Well, I don’t think I’ll be out that late.
>
> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch#Will_the_Real_Jan_Brady_Please_Stand_Up.3F_.5B2.15.5D
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcDZaCeMAA
>
> "'Interesting, Maxine. You want to, like, talk about it?'"
> -
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>
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