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  • Year of the Weasel Episode 8.5: Totally Pauly Halloweaaaa-sel Spooktaaaa-cular

    Year of the Weasel Episode 8.5: Totally Pauly Halloweaaaa-sel Spooktaaaa-cular

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    Awoooooo! Happy Halloween, buuuu-ddies! We took a slightly longer break than anticipated, but we’re just squeaking this one minisode into the month of October to talk about some of our favorite seasonal episodes of Totally Pauly. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next month with an episode on Pauly’s 1997 return to the small screen, the ill-fated Fox sitcom Pauly!

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    00:03:28 Our last episode on Bio-Dome

    00:10:40 We need someone to make a “Bud and Doyle: Thriving on Chaos” shirt that’s better than this one

    00:11:50 Our last minisode

    00:12:48 Would you believe we’ve been hearing good things about Adopted?

    00:13:33 Our Son in Law episode

    00:15:14 Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf, 2020)

    00:18:33 We discussed Pauly’s Mötley Crüe joke (and Lenny Kravitz) in our May minisode

    00:27:02 Zach still needs to get Pauly’s Record Store Day release

    00:28:17 This upload of the Totally Pauly segment from MTV’s 1990 Shocktober Weekend also includes some interesting non-Pauly content

    00:28:43 If you’re wondering why we consider Jimmy Page an enemy of the podcast, here’s the Led Zeppelin episode of Headbangers Book Club

    00:32:25 We talked about Stoney’s Encino High Journal way back in our April minisode

    00:34:39 Zach actually means Faerie Tale Theatre; Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme was something else

    00:34:48 The last time we mentioned Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme

    00:35:23 The weird Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme clip that’s been making the rounds on Instagram and brought childhood memories flooding back

    00:36:21 So, um, why didn’t anyone tell us about Mick Jagger in Season 2, Episode 2 of Faerie Tale Theatre?

    00:37:34 Who wore it better: Pauly, Mick, or Hammer?

    00:37:50 Totally Pauly Episode 285/286: “Knott’s Scary Farm”

    00:38:40 More about Pauly’s many Prince references

    00:39:43 We were very disappointed that Elizabeth Berkley’s character in Showgirls didn’t have one leg like the poster promised

    00:41:38 Totally Pauly Episode 44: “Costumes Magic World”

    00:43:20 Totally Pauly Episode 45: “Trick or Treat”

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    00:48:18 Shelly Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre Season 2, Episode 2: “The Nightingale“

  • Year of the Weasel Episode 2: Peak Weasel

    Year of the Weasel Episode 2: Peak Weasel

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    When we last left our hero, it was 1989 and the world was teetering on the brink of full-blown Weaselmania; now, we’re picking up for a deep dive into the peak of Pauly Shore‘s pre-movie fame, including his MTV show Totally (Different) Pauly, his two (!) imperial-era standup comedy albums, and his 1992 victory-lap HBO special Pauly Does Dallas. Next time, we’ll finally talk about Encino Man! Sound good, buuu-ddies? Cool.

    Video version (with much better audio syncing than last time) below:

    00:00:00 Pauly’s Totally Buff Special

    00:02:30 A representative example of the Totally Different Pauly opening

    00:07:03 Richard Simmons’ Facebook statement about The Court Jester

    00:07:37 The Court Jester (Jake Lewis, 2024)

    00:08:13 Totally (Different) Pauly Episode 473: “Day 1 L.A. School of Gymnastics”

    00:09:18 “Pauly Shore sued by man for alleged battery and assault at The Comedy Store club” by Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, January 28, 2024

    00:10:58 “Lisa, Lisa (The One I Adore)” Official Music Video by Pauly Shore

    00:13:25 We promise “12 Months of Mike” wasn’t that bad

    00:16:46 “Behind the Weasic” by Greg Beato, SPIN, October 1999

    00:18:25 Another iconic awkward moment involving Buster Poindexter

    00:19:32 The 1988 MTV Spring Break special footage we could find

    00:20:32 Another random Pauly Shore/Corey Feldman moment

    00:26:54 Totally Different Pauly Episode 482: “Day 1 Scuba”

    00:27:52 Totally Pauly Episode 33: “Day 5 Running Mom Errands”

    00:28:26 Totally Pauly Episode 1: “Hollywood”

    00:28:51 Totally Pauly Episode 2: “Business 9 to 5”

    00:30:12 Our episode on David Lee Roth‘s Crazy from the Heat

    00:30:26 Totally Pauly Episode 6: “Working from Home”

    00:31:25 Totally Pauly Episode 11: “Hotel Attendant”

    00:35:11 Totally Pauly Episode 325: “Day 5 Encino Man Filming Sound Stage”

    00:36:16 Ken Tucker’s 1991 Entertainment Weekly review of Totally Pauly

    00:38:46 “Hey dude, the Weasel is, like, the future of America” by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, June 1991

    00:39:47 Chillin’ with the Wiez 1993 Spring Break Special

    00:42:34 Totally Different Pauly Episode 477: “Day 1 Charlie Sheen”

    00:43:37 Chillin’ with the Wiez 1993 Spring Break Special

    00:45:00 Totally Different Pauly Episode 477: “Day 1 Charlie Sheen”

    00:45:59 Totally Different Pauly Episode 483: “Day 4 Scuba”

    00:46:21 Totally Different Pauly Episode 482: “Day 1 Scuba”

    00:48:34 Totally Different Pauly Episode 467: “Day 4 South Padre Island Texas”

    00:50:05 Totally Pauly Episode 71: “Prince’s Paisley Park Studios”

    00:50:22 Zach’s Prince blog

    00:52:53 Callie’s other podcast, Baby Lee Roth

    00:54:44 Totally Pauly Episode 12: “Day 1 At Sam Kinison’s House”

    00:56:52 (This Dipshit)

    00:57:51 Totally Different Pauly Episode 472: “Day 5 Great Expectations”

    01:03:54 “Lisa, Lisa (The One I Adore)” Official Music Video by Pauly Shore

    01:05:47 Pauly’s Totally Buff Special

    01:08:24 Pauly Does Dallas (Joel Gallen, Greg Johnston, and Robert Leacock, 1992)

    01:10:54 Apparently taking bubble baths in front of teenagers was a thing for him?

    01:12:07 (Actually she didn’t say she had sex with him, Zach just can’t read)

    01:13:15 Follow us on Instagram!

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    01:13:29 Email us! (heybuuuddy@dystopiandanceparty.com)

    01:14:40 We’re back on Spotify

    01:14:56 Pauly’s Totally Buff Special

  • Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: Memorial Day, 2016-2017

    Well, here we are: for the second consecutive year, we’re turning Memorial Day weekend into a time of remembrance for the many great artists we lost since last May. But because this is still Dystopian Dance Party, and we’re constitutionally incapable of being reverent for more than a few minutes at a time, please be aware that the resulting podcast is about 70% wake, 30% roast (well, maybe 60/40). Just believe us when we tell you it’s all coming from a place of love. Hopefully, while everyone good continues to die and leave us trapped on this smoldering husk of a planet, we can at least entertain you (and ourselves) with our impressions of “The Force M.D.’s Meet the Fat Boys”… R.I.P. to Trisco Pearson. Show notes below.

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  • Jheri Curl June: Scritti Politti’s “Boom! There She Was”

    The last post of Jheri Curl June is always a bittersweet one to write. On the one hand, there’s the satisfaction of knowing we have another solid month’s worth of writing about classic 1980s R&B under our belts; but on the other, there’s the sense of emptiness that comes when we realize we have to wait another whole year before we can start the festivities again. Luckily, Scritti Politti’s ebullient 1988 single “Boom! There She Was” is here to take out some of the sting.

    Scritti Politti’s leader, Green Gartside, is a man after my own heart. Like many British art students in 1977, he was inspired to form a band after catching the Sex Pistols on their legendary “Anarchy” tour; the name “Scritti Politti” was chosen as a play on the political writings (“Scritti Politici”) of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, mixed with Little Richard‘s “Tutti Frutti.” So far, so cool, right? Well, in the early ’80s, Gartside went home to Caerleon, Wales, where he started listening to his sister’s R&B records; then, around the same time, he heard Black radio while visiting Florida. “[T]hat’s where I first heard ‘the funk,’” he later told The Quietus. “The System, Zapp… artists like that. There was a rapid change of influences combined with a disgust at big-I ‘Indie’ being born. It didn’t take long to say, ‘Fuck that, let’s do this instead.’” And by “this,” he of course meant this:

    https://youtu.be/6v-sCVhqG5Y

    I know what some of you are thinking: going from hip, underground post-punk rocker to goofball blue-eyed soul singer ain’t exactly everyone’s idea of an enviable career trajectory. But speaking as a fellow overeducated white boy who rejected the “indie” aesthetic in favor of slickly-produced schlock-R&B, I understand exactly where Gartside was coming from. And besides, “Boom! There She Was” has Roger Troutman on it. Roger! Who doesn’t love Roger?

    So yes, Jh3ri Curl Jun3 is over. But before we know it, boom! There June 2017 will be. I hope to see you again then. In the meantime…you know where to find the playlists.

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  • Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: Memorial Day, 2015-2016

    With every passing week, 2016 feels more and more like a never-ending, real-life Grammy Awards tribute montage. We couldn’t even go the six days between recording and posting the podcast without losing another pop music icon: this time, Marshall Jones of the Ohio Players, word of whose death regrettably reached us only after we had finished editing. Clearly, this is a trying time to be a music fan. And, as I’ve found myself saying more than a few times in the past several months, the sheer volume of notable musicians’ deaths starts to feel overwhelming to a small site like ours. I’m not a full-time obituary writer, so even many worthy artists who passed away have inevitably gone unmemorialized.

    That’s why, in the spirit of the real Memorial Day holiday, we’re taking the time to commemorate those the music world has lost since last May. Unfortunately, this will almost certainly be a recurring feature: the cruel realities of the human lifespan, combined with the generational ebb and flow of American popular music, means that things are only going to get worse in the coming years. And sadly, even this tribute isn’t truly exhaustive–even aside from the aforementioned omission of Marshall Jones, we’re only really talking about musicians of whom we have some miniscule level of knowledge, so plenty of important people are still going unmourned (at least by us).  But we did our best, and we at least tried to do everyone justice. Here’s hoping we get a break, at least for a couple more weeks.

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  • Dystopian Listening Party Podcast: The Gospel According to Rock ‘n’ Roll

    In American popular music, there’s always been a fine line between the sacred and the secular. On this episode of the Dystopian Dance Party podcast, we talk about a few of the songs for which that line is finer than most: nominally “secular” songs with the lyrical and/or stylistic underpinnings of gospel music. Just in time for Easter weekend!

    As always, show notes are below, along with a Spotify playlist for those of you who want to hear the songs without our standard jibber-jabber.

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