Oh, what a night,
You know, I didn’t even know her name.
But I was never gonna be the same,
What a lady, what a night!
Boys, you’re both drama queens.
Wow okay. This is the biggest gif I have ever done. It took me ages, but it was fun! I wish I would know how to make a video game out of it. *sigh*
The full version was way too heavy for tumblr, so you can see it in one big gif and full quality here!
Agreed, buzzfeed. But it’s that “ga rhon’ tee’” pronunci-apron that stopped me cold in my tracks with memory.
It’s a reference of course to Justin Wilson, the Cookin’ Cajun, and you can hear him say it HERE, along with a lot of other mouth sounds I don’t have a week to figure out.
Wilson was a Louisiana comedian who found a second career as a kind of proto-Emeril on PBS, cooking and raconteuring and generally riding a distinctly 80s wave of cajun spice all the way to fame and RUFFLES fortune.
But there must be some sort of word, in this language or another, for that apron. None but the most virtuosic costume designer for the Goldbergs would think to dress an 80s character with that particular detail today.
It’s vestigial, a piece of contemporary cultural static, thoughtlessly embedded in a work that will long outlast it. An in-joke scrawled into the base of a pyramid.
There must be a million of these lost references, unseen winks, unheard echoes, in all the old art we love.
And because it is essentially GOOGLE-PROOF, that apron also would have evaporated into pure mystery eventually, I guarantee it.
Were it not for this post, of course, and the gift of tumblr and Buzzfeed and my precious living memory. We truly are the greatest generation. You’re welcome.
That is all.
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