Disney, SNL, and the weird coincidence
Last week while cleaning up downstairs, I removed all my personal CDs from the entertainment center to make room for my parents' pile from the coffee table. I hadn't really looked at what I'd grabbed until last night. Among my stash are two of the same Christmas CD from college, multiple flute CDs, the original Broadway recording of Rent, and two Disney CDs. One of those Disney CDs was actually one of my first CDs ever. We didn't get a CD player until I graduated from high school, and only because we figured we should play music at my party. My parents picked out several Beatles CDs, and I got the Disney ones. (My first non-Disney CD? Hootie and the Blowfish. Does this date me at all?)
So, anyway, the Disney CDs are interesting. I love Disney songs and showtunes. The CDs encompass some "newer" (well, for 1995) movies and go back to the '30s, maybe earlier. I looked on the back of the first CD and noticed "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South on there. Now, some of you kids may not know of Song of the South, but as a little kid I *loved* the music. I had it on record. Yes, now you're going, "What's a record?" :P When I was little, I carried records around like some people carry blankies. I kid you not. I had these three disco records that I took with me to preschool. I definitely was attached to my records. Seeing that song on the CD made me wonder where my Song of the South record went off to...and if it's worth anything. Not that I would sell it, mind you. (Okay, so apparently I was a little racist. This is slightly disturbing, but realize that I just liked the music. Of course, knowing my mom and my grandfather now, perhaps there was an evil plot, a la "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from South Pacific, but I digress.)
Anyway, I watched SNL last night. Geez, will they make Lindsay Lohan a member of the cast already? I think she's been on more than some cast members ever were. Sheesh. But they had a cartoon, and the cartoon had to deal with the Disney vault. You know, because Disney will only sell movies for a certain amount of time before they take them away for a decade. So there are these two little kids and Mickey Mouse, and Mickey takes them to the vault, and what do they find? Among many other things, Song of the South--and the "first cut" version, which would get Kanye West more hot and bothered than President Bush ever did. As the kids watch this, Mickey is just standing in the back shaking his head and saying that Walt Disney was who he was. Actually, I was more disturbed that Jim Henson was in there tied up in a corner. But weird--I go years without thinking of it, then I get two mentions of Song of the South in an hour's time.
That makes one line during Weekend Update even more hysterical: "Repent, bitches, repent!" (That was from the weatherman predicting the end of the world by Thursday. Hope your affairs are in order!)
So, anyway, the Disney CDs are interesting. I love Disney songs and showtunes. The CDs encompass some "newer" (well, for 1995) movies and go back to the '30s, maybe earlier. I looked on the back of the first CD and noticed "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" from Song of the South on there. Now, some of you kids may not know of Song of the South, but as a little kid I *loved* the music. I had it on record. Yes, now you're going, "What's a record?" :P When I was little, I carried records around like some people carry blankies. I kid you not. I had these three disco records that I took with me to preschool. I definitely was attached to my records. Seeing that song on the CD made me wonder where my Song of the South record went off to...and if it's worth anything. Not that I would sell it, mind you. (Okay, so apparently I was a little racist. This is slightly disturbing, but realize that I just liked the music. Of course, knowing my mom and my grandfather now, perhaps there was an evil plot, a la "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from South Pacific, but I digress.)
Anyway, I watched SNL last night. Geez, will they make Lindsay Lohan a member of the cast already? I think she's been on more than some cast members ever were. Sheesh. But they had a cartoon, and the cartoon had to deal with the Disney vault. You know, because Disney will only sell movies for a certain amount of time before they take them away for a decade. So there are these two little kids and Mickey Mouse, and Mickey takes them to the vault, and what do they find? Among many other things, Song of the South--and the "first cut" version, which would get Kanye West more hot and bothered than President Bush ever did. As the kids watch this, Mickey is just standing in the back shaking his head and saying that Walt Disney was who he was. Actually, I was more disturbed that Jim Henson was in there tied up in a corner. But weird--I go years without thinking of it, then I get two mentions of Song of the South in an hour's time.
That makes one line during Weekend Update even more hysterical: "Repent, bitches, repent!" (That was from the weatherman predicting the end of the world by Thursday. Hope your affairs are in order!)