#huell howser

[oldshowbiz]

1993.

Huell Howser interviewing legendary director Delbert Mann at Union Station.

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Joe Rinaudo playing the "American Fotoplayer", on "California's Gold with Huell Howser".

[cristinad61]

The Adventure Continues... Wrigley Botanical Garden

[tofuart]

The California Postal Service?

Start with a stack of old, unused California postcards and then make some artist stamps to add along with the official postage.   And if President Biden doesn’t fire Louis DeJoy soon, we might actually need our own California Postal Service.  If that happens, Huell Howser is going on a stamp!  

[i-am-mr-k]

If you want a treat, and you have any interest in California, the entire archive of Huell Howser programs is hosted by Chapman University

wednesday night mood

[whatisshelties]

I swear I've posted this on my blog before, but heck if I can find it.

[burtlancster]

"burt lancaster’s never been here"

[danteboy]

midnight burger episode 40 spoilers

i fucking love when one of them says something insane and another one just immediately goes with it (mostly) no questions asked

the trust they have in one another!!

caspar (huell howser voice): louie, do we have everything we need?

leif ("louie" the cameraman): we could use some shots of the campaign bus.

caspar: charlotte, we would love to see that wonderful campaign bus of yours, it looks so luxurious!

charlotte: oh, yeah, sure!

caspar: i think that that would just be a fascinating thing to see, could you lead the way?

charlotte: right this way

caspar (whispering): what are we doing?

leif (whispering): stealing mitt romney's campaign bus

caspar (whispering): sure!

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leif: what's up? gloria?

gloria: that thing you have that shocks people, do you have it on you?

leif: the secret handshake?

gloria: yes

leif: yeah? i always have it on me

gloria: ...

leif: gloria?

gloria: go get me the barista.

leif: what?

gloria: go get me. the barista.

leif: we're taking hostages now?

gloria: everyone, on this planet, is a hostage. go get me the barista.

leif: shit. alright. hardcore, let's do this!

these people trust each other so much they are my best friends and i love them with all my heart

[ubersaur]

No one ever asks the important questions. Like, where would california be without huell howser. he was the californias gold we made along the way

[adultswim2021]

Duckworth: “Pilot” | February 18, 2010 (online) | Pilot Aired on television January 18, 2011 @ 4:15AM

Eli Duckworth is a Huell Howser type of investigative journalist. At the not-that-old age of 71, he’s gone completely demented, and forced out by the network. They chose Turk Cinnamon to be his replacement, played by Matt Berry. He has a Kosovan cameraman played by Jason Mantzoukas. Berry flees Kosovo and takes the cameraman with him (also Mantzoukas blackmails Berry with embarrassing footage of him stealing garbage can lids from orphans to protect himself during an air raid). 

Meanwhile, the network throws a bogus retirement party for Duckworth, who is not voluntarily retiring. Duckworth and a newly-arrived Berry clash and have a heated exchange which ends with Duckworth pulling a switchblade. Duckworth is eventually subdued and officially ousted. The show ends with Eli Duckworth watching his own show, now being hosted by the brash Matt Berry, and screaming.

This one’s not so bad, and could easily pass as the “just okay” first episode for a show that’s “actually, pretty good”. There are some pretty decent jokes, and the characters show promise, but I’m not sure they’re written particularly well here. It’s more “adequate” than it is “good”. 

This is maybe notable for the restraint it shows; Adult Swim wouldn’t be one to shy away from dark, violent humor. Here the incriminating tape we see COULD HAVE shown the displaced orphans of war being blown to bits, giving a weightier albatross to hang around Matt Berry’s neck. Here it’s not confirmed they perished, they were just further placed in harm’s way by a selfish dick. I sorta feel like they were trying to make something that could pass as a mainstream product. 

Again, the NBC Thursday Night line-up of Community, Parks and Rec, The Office and 30 Rock really did have influence on Adult Swim. Those shows, to varying degrees, demonstrated an ability to be smarter-than-most, a tad biting, but still acceptable to a prime-time major-network viewing audience for still resembling user-friendly sitcom humor. It also showed in their importing the UK version of The Office. Adult Swim seemed to shoot for their own versions of this sensibility, just a notch darker and weirder, but not as wild as something like Superjail or Metalocalypse. I think Dave Willis and Matt Harrigan wanted their own Delocated.

Plenty of this falls a little flat, even though I admire the production value. I always remembered the gag where they show the pre-mortem memorial video they have prepared for Eli Duckworth, which is hastily edited to be a send-off for his retirement. A lot of it does feel a little bit like they’re spinning their wheels. I’m not sad this didn’t get picked up, but I could see this show working. I can also see it failing. I’m honestly not even sure where they’d take this in episode 2, to be honest.

More names: Jon Wurster contributed to the writing of this episode! Greg Hollimon, whom I know as Principal Blackman from Comedy Central’s Strangers With Candy, plays a (the?) network head. Dana Snyder plays Duckworth’s caretaker. Duckworth himself is character actor Bill Raymond, who I’m sure I’ve seen before but I’m not sure where. And for those of you who want to put faces to your favorite little guys from ATHF: We got Carey “Frylock” Means as the briefly-shown break-dancer and Mike “Emory” Schatz as the security guard who keeps being distracted by cake.

You can find this one on adultswim.com.

I forgot to keep doing this: 

Snake ‘n’ Bacon > Duckworth > Southies > Cheyenne Cinnamon

[oldshowbiz]

Huell Howser: Lost

[dolewhiponfeabie]

Hello everybody I’m Huell Howser and here we are on a beautiful June day in East Los Angeles, during what I’m told is called “Pride” month. If you look at the fine gentlemen behind me you’ll notice that they’re all men of a certain size. Well, that’s because we’re here at the East Los Angeles Bear and Daddy Eat Off. This event’s been running for over seven years now and it features all types of men eating as much as they can, as fast as they can, all in front of an audience of “twinks” Join us today as we enjoy the fun, the food, and the fur and see why the East Longeles Bear and Daddy Eat Off is another great example of California’s Gold.

[cristinad61]

The Adventure Continues... Cornish Christmas

[morally-earl-grey]

Heyyyy so I made a pretty cool killjoys playlist based on my experiences as a stupid little southern Californian punky teenager, including songs from bands in the local scene. I tried to make it lore accurate because media would’ve pretty much stopped when the fires of 2012 happened, so I capped off most of the songs and bands at 2012 (except the local bands).

The cover is a landmark called Salvation Mountain, its pretty cool, I’ve been there, and I think it would be a killjoy hotspot bc look at it. Tell me they wouldn’t make that a zone witch worship site.

I wanted to make the songs like- available to them, knowing the killjoys didn’t have Spotify, so a lot of the songs on there are from albums I commonly see while digging through goodwill cd shelves and yard sale music sections. The idea is that they listen to whatever they get their hands on, so they’d find these physical copies of music and listen to them and make their little mixtapes.

I put in genres that the local scenes love(riot grrl, ska, pop punk) so I HOPE it comes across as genuine.

I think Huell Howser would get a kick out of this playlist, and I’m proud of myself for that.

But it’s really just a playlist so whatever

Keep running xoxo

[sealinne]

Here is the whole episode btw

Also check out Joe’s site about Silent cinema art and technology!

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[pangeasoftware]

Been getting into watching travel vloggers lately (Huell howser)