20th Century Pop! is a podcast that tries to understand the present by living in the past. Each week hosts Bob and Tim take a sociological look at the pop culture of the '80s and '90s. Its a ruining of their childhood that hopefully explains how they became adults.
BINGE AND PODCAST: “Uncle Buck the series, that’s not right.” (1990) While most of us in this modern age prefer streaming our entertainment at home, there was a time when we looked forward to piling into the family station wagon, stocking up on Kit Kats and checking out the big-screen exploits of John Candy. The 1990s were a big movie-going era and, in an attempt to replicate that endeavor, networks took some of these cinematic hits and transmogrified them into weekly programming. But should they have? Bob and Tim wonder this aloud as this sit through Sandra Bullock in WOKING GIRL, Jennifer Aniston in FERRIS BUELLER and the desire to forcibly stab out their ear-drums with a cereal spoon in UNCLE BUCK. Its big screen comedies as small screen sitcoms and … unfortunately … one of them is Uncle Buck.
00:00:00 PRE-SHOW PRATTLE - and already not liking Uncle Buck
00:00:42 INAUDIBLE DAUGHTERS - and breaking down the Binge And Podcast
00:04:35 NOT QUITE WORKING GIRL - did anyone show Sandra Bullock the movie?
00:12:48 NEWBERN GLORY - and maybe a little too much about Sal
00:21:04 WORKING IN THE 90S - and a Wings reference
00:23:17 FERRIS BUELLER CAN’T LOOSE - and kids say the John Hughest things
00:28:17 TITULAR PROBLEM - liking everyone but the main character
00:41:50 A PRAYER FOR KEVIN MEANEY - if Uncle Buck’s hat fits … wear it?
00:47:12 BUCKING IT UP - and that friend’s name was “Skank”
00:55:14 FAUX SEASON PREMIERES - Bob and Tim pitch a couple shows to no one
01:02:38 CLOSINGS - contacts, plugs and no catch phrase
01:05:50 UNLICENSED AUDIO - So damn scary
Struggle like Bob and Tim did through the topics of today’s episode with WORKING GIRL EPISODE 05: IT’S ONLY LOVE, FERRIS BUELLER EPISODE 08: SLOANE AGAIN, NATURALLY and UNCLE BUCK EPISODE EPISODE 05: BUCK TO SCHOOL (sorry).
Witness why Tim was briefly so excited to see George Newbern in the WOKING GIRL episode with his opening credit lip-synch performance TURN UP THE RADIO (as actually performed by Kip Lennon) in the in the opening credit sequence to the 1988 made-for-tv Disney movie DOUBLE SWITCH.
See how hard it was to watch someone else play Dante with this ORIGINAL UNAIRED 1996 PILOT TO CLERKS.
And finally learn to hate the concept of melodic composition realizing that someone actually took time from their brief existence in reality to compose the UNCLE BUCK OPENING THEME SONG.
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MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:
“Super Poupi ” (opening theme) and "Poupi Great Adventures: The Arcade Game" (closing theme) performed by Komiku from the 2018 album POUPI'S INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES available at Freemusicarchives.org. Cleared for public domain use through Creative Commons under a CCO 1.0 Universal License.
“Uncle Buck” performed by Ronnie Milsap and composed by Steve Dorff and Steve Bettis from the 1990 CBS television series UNCLE BUCK.
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20TH CENTURY POP! will return next week to roast some chestnuts over some Connick-crooning.
