Mets in the Popular Culture 2021

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The third-season premiere of FXX's mostly animated anthology series Cake (July 9, 2020) had a short showing the Miracle on the Hudson from the perspective of the geese, prominently featuring the soon-to-be demolished Shea Stadium.

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[metsmarathon]

well, duh. if he was a yankee fan, there'd be nothing to make a movie about.

[Edgy MD]

Ouch.

[Edgy MD]

New Jack Swing babies Another Bad Creation hailed from Atlanta and were associated with a Philly based movement, but it when it came to rocking their improvised baseball togs in the "Iesha" video, they knew where it was at.



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[G-Fafif]

Mets recently noticed they're in movies and stuff.



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Strong Mets vibe in Edward Burns's new Epix series Bridge and Tunnel set in 1980 Valley Stream.

Burns, who also plays the father of Jimmy (Sam Vartholomeos), an aspiring photographer, includes plenty of period flourishes. A poster of the Mets fan favorite Rusty Staub can be glimpsed on the wall of Jimmy's childhood room, and Burns lent his own vintage 1960s Mets jersey to Brian Muller, who plays Pags.

A little Bob Murphy play-by-play is audible as well.



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[G-Fafif]

“All right, H.B. If you'll play ball with me, I'll play ball with you.”

—Darrin Stephens (Dick Sargent), “The Phrase is Familiar,” Bewitched, January 15,1970 (S. 6, E. 17) — as soon as he spouts this cliché (per Endora's spell), Darrin and the client to whom he's speaking are suddenly wearing Mets uniforms. Darrin's is No. 9, with the MLB patch from the 1969 season, à la J.C. Martin.

[batmagadanleadoff]

“All right, H.B. If you'll play ball with me, I'll play ball with you.” —Darrin Stephens (Dick Sargent), “The Phrase is Familiar,” Bewitched, January 15,1970 (S. 6, E. 17) — as soon as he spouts this cliché (per Endora's spell), Darrin and the client to whom he's speaking are suddenly wearing Mets uniforms. Darrin's is No. 9, with the MLB patch from the 1969 season, à la J.C. Martin.

That looks like a real-deal authentic uniform, too.



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[Edgy MD]

Sargent even appears to be rocking baseball shoes.



David White as Larry Tate, of course, owns the scene, as he owned any and all scenes, God bless him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's nice to see Larry Tate again! You're right, David White was terrific in that role. Fun fact: the high school principal on Wizards of Waverly Place was named after his character. (The principal's name was "Mr. Laritate")

[G-Fafif]

Strong Mets vibe in Edward Burns's new Epix series Bridge and Tunnel set in 1980 Valley Stream. Burns, who also plays the father of Jimmy (Sam Vartholomeos), an aspiring photographer, includes plenty of period flourishes. A poster of the Mets fan favorite Rusty Staub can be glimpsed on the wall of Jimmy's childhood room, and Burns lent his own vintage 1960s Mets jersey to Brian Muller, who plays Pags. A little Bob Murphy play-by-play is audible as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/arts/television/edward-burns-bridge-and-tunnel.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/arts/television/edward-burns-bridge-and-tunnel.html

In the third episode, Burns as a dad who hasn't given up post-1977 (unlike his apparently valuesless son), says of Tom Seaver, "I swear to Christ, it breaks my heart to see him in that Cincinnati uniform."

[Edgy MD]

I have to admit, as a guy, like many of us, from the world Burny has set his films in, I never really connected with his stuff.



I get him as an actor, not so much as an auteur.

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Keith Hernandez joins David Brenner, who's wearing the same sweatshirt I once had.



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Air date was December 1, 1986, after Monday Night Football — the Giants-Niners game when Bavaro dragged tacklers for like 20 yards. Ron Darling was Brenner's guest the Monday night before, which followed the Jets fiasco at the Orange Bowl. Perhaps ABC figured the New York audience was sure to stay tuned.

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On July 4, 1989, one night before comedian Jerry Seinfeld's pilot aired on NBC, CBS showed Coming to America, the sitcom. It was never made into a series, but it did star Tommy Davidson, who, as Prince Tariq, wore a period-accurate Mets starter jacket.



The project is explored here:



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[Edgy MD]

I watched the Coming to America film last night and man, it was chock full of Mets shit.



The cabby picking them up at the airport has a Mets lid, and when Akeem and Semmi look to dress down, Akeem gets a Mets warmup jacket and poor Semmi gets the Jets.



You can get a loving recreation of https://www.ebay.com/itm/274593822020?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=274593822020&targetid=1068323850470&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9007927&poi=&campaignid=11612431626&mkgroupid=113527555336&rlsatarget=pla-1068323850470&abcId=9300456&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQiApsiBBhCKARIsAN8o_4hi66lRSURsQyC_iUN_iyWdM3EyCvX1GJtcCXmMNgWAtZ1HW3kRbnQaAl3uEALw_wcBAkeem's jacket with all the bling for a cool $1,500.



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[TransMonk]

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[Edgy MD]

HOLY SHIT!

[G-Fafif]

Dillon Gee, not on Sesame Street, but a good bit nonetheless.

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For those who claim Kevin McReynolds lacked moxie.

[Edgy MD]

My wife picked up a new favorite ridiculously hammy actor. She read that he appeared in Avatar, which neither of us had seen, so we tried it on for size. I found it dull and dumb and quit about 50% of the way through.



Wifey subsequently found an https://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/01/13/6-reasons-avatar-sucks/amateur review of it from 2010 which including the following unprovoked but understandable Jerry Manuel-era burn:

[bLOCKQUOTE]Being a human in Avatar is like playing for the New York Mets — no matter how great things seem to be going for you, you are eternally courting improbable and embarassing failure.[/bLOCKQUOTE]

I mean, it'd've landed a little better if he hadn't mis-spelled "embarassing," but touché to him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The only thing I remember about Avatar was thinking that it would have been much better if they had trimmed it by about an hour.

[Willets Point]

That Avatar review needs to be trimmed by about 5000 words.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The only thing I remember about Avatar was thinking that it would have been much better if they had trimmed it by about an hour.

It had so many stretches of nothingness (except scenery), it could have been directed by David Lean.



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Some of the Smurfs were pretty sexy, though.

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On Gilligan's Island The Hunter, loosely based on The Most Dangerous Game (S3E18, original air date 1/16/67), Gilligan, the Professor and Mr. Howell are tuned in to a radio broadcast announcing that the Dodgers shut out the Mets 4-0. Apparently, Gilligan bet Mr. Howell 300,012 bananas that the Mets would win that game.

[G-Fafif]

Thank you for reinjecting this into my Mets popular culture consciousness. I remembered the radio and the 4-0 score (and that the Dodgers were the opponent), but I didn't remember the specific episode nor the content of the bet.



It was the Skipper who lost that wager (that I remembered). He told Mr. Howell he could subtract it from the 960 mangos Howell owed him from playing gin.



Still, I'm touched someone would bet that many bananas on Wes Westrum's Mets.



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[Edgy MD]

In Ben-Hur, the title character, during his Roman galley slave days, is known not by his name, but by the number 41.



Most Mets references are echoes of the past, some (like Gilligan's Island, above) cast an eye at a fictional parallel present, but a small mysterious minority are the product of prescient foreshadowing, as this clearly was.

[Edgy MD]

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Paul Dooley as Casey Stengel in the 1981 production of The Amazin' Casey Stengel, or Can't Anybody Here Speak this Game, which sadly ran for only 13 performances at American Place Theatre on West 46th Street in 1981, before closing on May 3. In response, a few weeks later, baseball itself would close.

[G-Fafif]

So anyway, Vlad, it's 1986, and I'm at Studio 54 with Tommy Lee and Wally Backman. Bad guy, nasty guy, nice to me, though. He was in a platoon with Tim Teufel, do you remember Tim Teufel?

—Seth Meyers, imagining Donald Trump riffing during a previous summit with Vladimir Putin, Late Night, June 17, 2021



About 1:30 in.



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