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Friday, June 26, 2009

Music / Chow / Film "Come on fly girls/And wiggle them there bottoms..."

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:43 AM

"Waffles's just pancakes
With little squares on 'em..."

A parody Roscoe's Chicken 'n' Waffles commercial from the movie Tapeheads (from comments over here):

Who among us does not want to hit a gong with a giant drumstick?

Thanks, taco hut!

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and here I thought I was the only one in the world who had ever seen Tapeheads.

Posted by Akbar Fazil on June 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM

This clip has ... production value.

Posted by TheSpellout

on June 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM

YES!!!

Man, I used to frickin' LOVE that movie. And this is what I think of whenever I hear about Chicken and Waffles.

Thank you.

Posted by Levislade

on June 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Tapeheads = awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnTUSgHzZ…

Posted by Trouble on June 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM

OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!

Posted by spoiler alert on June 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM

Trivia for you - John Cusack gets stuck between floors in an elevator, just like in BEING JOHN MALKOVICH.

Posted by vinylsaurus

on June 26, 2009 at 1:18 PM

Roscoe's isn't anything like that set. It's a restaurant and their waitstaff don't wear uniforms. They don't do buckets. They aren't exactly upscale (although they seem to moving in that direction from their late night eatery days of the '70s), but it isn't a fast food joint like, say, Church's or (sigh) KFC - which has really, really lost its way, but then, corporations have a long history and a special way of fucking up food establishments once they're acquired. Here's their website:

http://www.roscoeschickenandwaffles.com/

A warning though....it'll make you hungry!

Posted by Bauhaus I on June 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Correction: I guess Roscoe's started as an all-night takeout in Hollywood in the mid-70s, but by the time I got wind of them in '77 (I was living in WeHo at the time), they had added sit-down service.

Posted by Bauhaus I on June 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM