The Mets in Popular Culture, 2018

[Zvon]

That is superkool guyz! Kudos for keeping this under your new cool FaFiF caps.

41Forever wrote: Hmmm, maybe Zvon can PhotoShop that.

Zvon can Photoshop anything.

ANYTHING!

[G-Fafif]

From the blink/miss corner of the Mets in Popular Culture:

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And this, which is connected to Faith and Fear's appearance on Madam Secretary:

“They’re winning, 7-2, ninth inning. But watch, they will find a way to blow it. This closer is horrible.”
“Who are they playing?”
“Philly. Remember how you used to hate the Phillies? You went crazy when they traded Dykstra and McDowell for that — what the hell was that guy’s name?”
“Juan Samuel.”
“Juan Samuel. That was a horrible trade.”
—Father (Elliott Gould as Bob Kroll), watching a Mets game on the living room TV, and son (Jemaine Clement as Nate Kroll), coming downstairs for a snack, bonding for an instant over baseball, Humor Me (2017)

Also in Humor Me, among the items Nate finds in his father Bob’s storage locker are “ticket stubs from Mets games”.

As previously noted, the director of Humor Me and the Madam Secretary episode in which Jason and I appeared, Sam Hoffman, is a Mets fan and Faith and Fear reader who alerted me to the inclusion of the infamous 1989 trade in his script. I watched the movie this weekend. Very warm, very funny, very satisfying. He reports that Clement, from New Zealand, "was a sport to say "Juan Samuel" with an American accent in five different takes."

[G-Fafif]

On the Season Two premiere of Brockmire (April 25, 2018), the title character, portrayed by legit MLBS Hank Azaria, hands out gift baskets to his "guests" the morning after. Among them is "the Piazza," which includes a "potty squatty" and olive oil, which his assistant put together because "he's an Italian catcher -- it's so obvious." Brockmire himself prefers to hand out the Jeter because he views the Piazza as "confusing" and "unpopular," adding "there's an element of sadness to them."

[Benjamin Grimm]

On this week's episode of Supergirl, (Season 3, episode 18) Brainiac-5, an alien from the 30th Century, implies that the next 783 seasons won't go so well for the New York Mets.

'Supergirl': Brainiac-5 Throws Shade at the Mets in "Shelter From the Storm" Clip

[Edgy MD]

Brainac is an asshole. MMM.

Meanwhile, happy belated (by two weeks) fiftieth birthday.

[G-Fafif]

Citi Field is the site of much financial action and intrigue not in real life but on the Season Three finale of Billions, aired first June 10, 2018 ("Elmsley Count"). Inside of one of the luxury suites, if you know to look for him, you'll find Keith Hernandez as one of the attendees listening intently to the Axe Capital presentation at this Spartan Ives Capital Introduction Event.

Also on Showtime the same night: the May 12, 2017, front page of the Post, in which Photoshopped Mr. Met is asking, "WHY DOES GOD HATE THE METS?" is visible tacked above the Washington bureau workspace of Times reporter Glenn Thrush on The Fourth Estate. (Thrush recently tweeted his dismay that the Mets don't score for Jacob deGrom.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

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The Mets provide the opposition for the Dodgers in the May 2, 1964, episode of The Joey Bishop Show, a parallel universe version of The Dick Van Dyke Show if you've never seen it (except less warm and charming). The title of the episode is "Joey and the L.A. Dodgers," the premise being there's an exhibition game between the two teams, and Joey Bishop as Joey Barnes needs a guest on his variety series, since Tony Bennett took ill, and Joey did a stage show in Las Vegas with six of the world champs during the offseason...well, there ya go. Since they're in town, arrangements are made and they'll be over to the studio shortly after the game ends this afternoon.

Except the Mets and Dodgers take their exhibition game (I don't know why it had to be an exhibition; the series is based in New York) through the 26th inning. According to the radio voice of Vin Scully, as Joey listens anxiously with time of the essence, Casey Stengel is sending up his final pinch-hitter Duke Snider. Snider whacks one deep to center, and it's about to go out, but Willie Davis makes a sensational catch. Fortunately, Joey's manager Larry Corbett (Corbett Monica) does a rain dance in Joey's apartment and Vin reports rain breaks out "at the ballpark" prior to the 27th inning.

Appearing on the show within a show: Don Drysdale (he sings "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"), Ron Perranoski (he finishes it because Drysdale once again can't go all the way), Moose Skowron, future Met manager Frank Howard and the two Davises: Willie and future Met Tommy. The big number is the sextet and Joey doing a reworking of "High Hopes," that recounts how the Dodgers "embarrassed Maris" and "handled Mantle" in the World Series. Since the show is, as mentioned, New York-situated, it's great that the audience cheers the team that swept the MFYs.

Shea was two weeks old when this episode aired but it is not mentioned by name. Also, Snider had been sold to the Giants prior to Opening Day, but that's showbiz.

Edited June 15, 2018 by Guest

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In the TV movie, The Prince of Central Park, aired on CBS, June 17, 1977, T.J. Hargrave as J.J. -- a kid who, with his sister, runs away from home to escape an abusive foster mother -- wears a plastic Mets batting helmet both in the film and on the cover of the video release. No doubt, given the date, he was extra shaken up by the instability in the Mets family that week.

[Edgy MD]

Those helmets make work as a symbol of a kid trying to steel himself against an abusive environment. Maybe. But they had the strange quality of actually making a blow to the head more painful.

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Terry Collins and Tom Hallion are paid homage by Late Night with Seth Meyers.

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[G-Fafif]

Bull Durham has turned thirty, shining a spotlight on Tim Robbins's most admirable affiliation (from Christian Red, who always does good work in the Snooze).

Robbins also had a long-standing passion for baseball, stemming from his Mets rooting interests when he was growing up in New York City. Robbins says he attended both of the franchise's World Series-clinching games at Shea Stadium -- in 1969 and 1986. "My parents had come from Los Angeles, so they had an affinity towards the National League because of the Dodgers. But we became long-suffering Mets fans in the early ‘60 to late ‘60s," says Robbins. "I saw them win the World Series against the Orioles on my 11th birthday (Game 5, Oct. 16, 1969). I was in the stadium, towards the back row, with my grandmother. It gave me a lifelong belief in the concept that anything is possible. And I also saw them win it in 1986. I was shooting “Five Corners” (in New York). Slightly better seats this time. I do (have the ticket stubs from both games) and I also bought the seats when they tore Shea down. I bought my seats that I sat in for both World Series games."

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Those helmets make work as a symbol of a kid trying to steel himself against an abusive environment. Maybe. But they had the strange quality of actually making a blow to the head more painful.

That was because of those things they put inside for head adjustments. Those jutting plastic parts would bore into your brain. I don't know if they still do that.

[Edgy MD]

Sneaky-peaky at the upcoming relaunch of Fantastic Four #1. Check out Johnny Storm.

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[G-Fafif]

Sing us a song, you're on the cover of Parade magazine this weekend wearing a Mets cap.

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In the 2017 film Lost Cat Corona, METS VS CARDINALS appears on the marquee as a viewing choice outside the Mexican restaurant Tortilleria Nixtamal in Corona. Appearing in a non-speaking role: Mookie Wilson as a priest.

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Stephen Colbert livens up the pace of play at Citi Field, July 20, 2018 (segment taped June 8). Mets featured: Todd Frazier, Jerry Blevins, Kevin Plawecki, Seth Lugo, Noah Syndergaard.

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The night before, Cousin Sal appears in a Mets cap on Jimmy Kimmel Live while commiserating with the host over the state of the 2018 Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Blue Bloods: Season 6, Episode 20 — "Your Six"

Scene: Commissioner Frank Reagan sits down to review crime statistics with his two main aides de camp, Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Garrett Moore and Special Assistant to the Commissioner Lieutenant Sid Gormley.

Moore: You see it?

Gormley: Pretty good, right, Boss?

Reagan: Pretty good.

Moore: This is the-Yankees-getting-Stanton good.

Gormley: Ah, I wouldn't go that far.

Reagan: Neither would I.

Gormley: More like the-Mets-re-signing-Bruce good.

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[Lefty Specialist]

A surprising amount of Met content in the new Jack Ryan series on Netflix. Without giving too much away, A Mets-Nats game is featured.

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American Masters’ Itzhak Perlman episode (PBS, October 14, 2018) begins with the subject arriving at Citi Field in his PERLMAN 70 jersey, riding through the Rotunda on his motorized scooter, watching BP, chatting with Neil Walker and playing the national anthem, spliced from two performances: prior to the Subway Series on August 1, 2016, and the NL Wild Card game on October 5, 2016.

[RealityChuck]

In the Netflix animated series, Big Mouth, Andrew says "Let's go, Mets" after he doesn't want to use a Yankee pennant for Jessi to use as an emergency tampon. She replies "Let's go Mets" and a girl in the toilet next door says "Let's go Mets" as she uses it.

(Yes, the show is pretty gross; the basic premise is about teens being visited by the puberty monster and doesn't shirk from dealing with the issues involved. Especially the most embarassing ones.)

Adding:
Watched the third episode. Andrew is definitely identified as a Mets fan.

[Lefty Specialist]

Edited October 21, 2018 by Guest

[TransMonk]

That's pretty cool.

[Edgy MD]

I guess he's succeeded Tim McGraw as the world's biggest Metspring.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Little Mahomes is a fun, fun watch. (Even when not wearing tasteful road grays.)

[Lefty Specialist]

Wore it in the post-game press conference, too.

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[TransMonk]

Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz also flaunting Mets gear pregame:

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His dad is Director of Player Relations & Community Engagement for the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

He pretty much grew up in the house.

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[metirish]

As many on twitter noted his dad works for the #Mets

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't know where to put this but need to pass along the important news that X-Met Marco Scutaro is a co-founder of a brand of peanut butter (along with Josh Beckett, Brooks Keishnick, and other former big-leaguers).

https://homeplatepb.com/about-us/