...unite and be arrested by Lieutenant Dangle and Junior of Reno 911!
While Professor Dimendberg has asked for a 2000-word paper tomorrow on the transition from early cinema to narrative cinema as a series of intersecting social, economic, cultural and formal transformations, I'm reading about the next potential Tommy.
So it was brought to my attention I'm not sure how long ago, that there was an episode of Reno 911! where my favorite, Lieutenant Dangle, was
sporting a Morrissey shirt. Coupled with his persistent choice of uniform adjustment in the form of little shorts, he looked like a flaming screamer, if you catch my suggestive drift.
Looking into that a little more I came across some articles and blogs that had some shocking news. While the blogs were a little less trustworthy - having learned from being a fact-checker - I looked towards articles on NME and some videos posted on YouTube.
It seems a Morrissey musical is on the way, one done none other than Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, Lieutenant Dangle and Junior, respectively. This was
pretty bizarre news but coming from NME it made things credible. After all, they spent a large amount of time crawled very far up Morrissey's ass, coddling him and crowning all his achievements with the utmost splendor. For a time, NME was joking thought to stand for New Morrissey Express instead of New Musical Express. Hah, whatever.
These are funny because it's Thomas Lennon still in the Lt. Dangle mode being interviewed on Indie 103.1 and you know, it does shed light the following questions:
1. What's up with the
tailored cut-offs?
2. How would you help yourself to
raspberry bodywash?
Okay so watching those it's clear to see there might be some tongue-in-cheek action going on here. I mean, bridging the gap between mock-reality and improvised slapstick humor is totally evident when Reno 911! is referred to as a reality show, our interviewee in full costume/uniform. Oh, I don't know anymore but hot damn, what a spectacle that would be!