Most Yogi Bear references are generally hilarious.
So tonight I was completely engrossed in the brilliant, wonderful B&N Bargain book I'm reading, and I just had to share one of the many quips that made me burst out laughing. Perhaps it's because TV has blessed us with the mentally audible hilarity of cultural references, or because I'm psychotically-gifted. So here's the passage (background: the narrator is a somewhat introverted 10 year old boy, and he's just meeting his uncle's friends, and thinks that Colt sounds exactly like Yogi Bear).
"How come you call him Fuckembabe?" I asked.
"That's all he ever says," Colt explained, "Or I should say, it's the only thing he says that anyone can understand. How'd the Yankees do today? Ah, fuck 'em, babe. How's the world treating you? Ah, fuck 'em, babe, fuck 'em."
I didn't hear the rest of what Colt said. I was too spellbound by his Yogi Bear impression. Every singsong sentence sounded to my ear like, "Hey, Boo Boo, let's go find us some pic-a-nic baskets."
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey boo boo!
"How come you call him Fuckembabe?" I asked.
"That's all he ever says," Colt explained, "Or I should say, it's the only thing he says that anyone can understand. How'd the Yankees do today? Ah, fuck 'em, babe. How's the world treating you? Ah, fuck 'em, babe, fuck 'em."
I didn't hear the rest of what Colt said. I was too spellbound by his Yogi Bear impression. Every singsong sentence sounded to my ear like, "Hey, Boo Boo, let's go find us some pic-a-nic baskets."
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey boo boo!