I re-earn my pseud
Jan. 22nd, 2004 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amediaI think most of y'all know that "Amedia" is short for "a media slut," right? As in someone with way too many fandoms who can find slash almost anywhere?
So we're watching 77 Sunset Strip, which is a very very cool show but not usually very slashy because the two guys don't work together all that much, which is fine by me because Stu Bailey (Ephraim Zimbalist, Jr. in the prime of life) is suave, suave, ultrasuave (squee) and has cool spy-type episodes, and Jeff Spencer is not only kinda dull, even his episodes tend to be dumb.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes. This particular episode starts with two of the subsidiary characters talking: Roscoe, an informant and occasional helper, and Kookie, the Fonzie of the show - a young guy who parks the cars next to the detective agency and also occasionally helps out. Roscoe is middle-aged and wears bow ties and a hat and speaks racetrack slang all the time. Kookie is cool in a late-1950's way and speaks in a sort of beat poetry. The episode begins at oh-dark-thirty when Kookie bangs on Roscoe's door and wakes him up because he can't get into his own apartment and needs a place to crash.
So Roscoe throws him a pair of pajamas and invites Kookie to join him in bed. Which he does. !!!!
Roscoe/Kookie? I dunno. The mind boggles.
Even better, though, was Kookie's line explaining why he needed to borrow some clothes the next morning. He had to be at work early because Stu Bailey was away and "I need to play boy detective with Jeff."
Oh MY. Hubby and I were goggling at each other. People can you feel it? Slash is everywhere.
So we're watching 77 Sunset Strip, which is a very very cool show but not usually very slashy because the two guys don't work together all that much, which is fine by me because Stu Bailey (Ephraim Zimbalist, Jr. in the prime of life) is suave, suave, ultrasuave (squee) and has cool spy-type episodes, and Jeff Spencer is not only kinda dull, even his episodes tend to be dumb.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes. This particular episode starts with two of the subsidiary characters talking: Roscoe, an informant and occasional helper, and Kookie, the Fonzie of the show - a young guy who parks the cars next to the detective agency and also occasionally helps out. Roscoe is middle-aged and wears bow ties and a hat and speaks racetrack slang all the time. Kookie is cool in a late-1950's way and speaks in a sort of beat poetry. The episode begins at oh-dark-thirty when Kookie bangs on Roscoe's door and wakes him up because he can't get into his own apartment and needs a place to crash.
So Roscoe throws him a pair of pajamas and invites Kookie to join him in bed. Which he does. !!!!
Roscoe/Kookie? I dunno. The mind boggles.
Even better, though, was Kookie's line explaining why he needed to borrow some clothes the next morning. He had to be at work early because Stu Bailey was away and "I need to play boy detective with Jeff."
Oh MY. Hubby and I were goggling at each other. People can you feel it? Slash is everywhere.
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Date: 2004-01-23 05:28 am (UTC)I blame this all on you, you see.
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Date: 2004-01-23 05:46 pm (UTC)Hee hee! I missed what I later heard was a priceless panel at MW*C about five years ago - supposedly the winners of the "most unusual slash pairing" actually performed the staircase scene and got huge laughs... without changing the dialogue!
"But I burn, Mr. A!"
"So do I, Mr. J!"
Apparently the biggest laugh was for the line, "By sheer physical force if necessary." I can no longer watch that movie with a straight (!) face!
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Date: 2004-01-23 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 06:52 am (UTC)Though now I am intrigued by 77 Sunset Strip by sheer description alone.
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Date: 2004-01-23 05:48 pm (UTC)Heh, heh. [pimpmode] Want some episodes? I've been dubbing them off for a friend in Houston, so it's no trouble... [/pimpmode]
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Date: 2004-01-24 07:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 04:43 pm (UTC)