Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2012

[G-Fafif]

Go to 23:57 of Any Wednesday, the 1966 Manhattan romance romp, to find out where Jane Fonda suggests she and Jason Robards can cheat on his wife.

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[ashie62]

Wow...like a Mad Men prequel..classic.

[G-Fafif]

In the montage of vintage footage it uses to set up every episode, the January 18 episode of ABC's The Middle (the best sitcom you're not watching) featured a clip of Shea Stadium under construction to help evoke the excitement of the Super Bowl coming to Indianapolis (near where the show is set).

[G-Fafif]

HBO's wonderful Namath documentary features ample Shea footage for which to die, or at least pause and linger over.

[Vic Sage]

while watching ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER on Broadway last week, i heard the following lyric during "COME BACK TO ME", which i never noticed in the song before:

Hang a sign on your door
Out to lunch ever more.
Don't get lost at Korvette's
Or get signed by the Mets
Don't give up cigarettes, come back to me!
Come back to me!
Come back -

So, i checked the original lyrics, and there it is in the Finale.

[Edgy MD]

That's great!

(Or bad. I'm not sure.)

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[G-Fafif]

That's three from Broadway that I know of.

"You And I, Love" from 70, Girls, 70:

The Mets are winning three to one
The infield shows a lot of strength


"This Is The Life" from Golden Boy:

Polaroid camera, stereo sets
Season box to see the Mets!

[batmagadanleadoff]

"Anatevka" from Fiddler on the Roof:

Anatevka, Anatevka
It's my tumble home town shtetl
Delivering milk on my gimpy workhorse
Or in a pinch, my mule named Mettle.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Finally saw Bad Lieutenant; along with various sacrilege, defilement, lechery, and gluttony, there's some alternate-universe shit happening there, with that Mets-Dodgers World Series blaring in the background throughout.

[ashie62]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Finally saw Bad Lieutenant; along with various sacrilege, defilement, lechery, and gluttony, there's some alternate-universe shit happening there, with that Mets-Dodgers World Series blaring in the background throughout.

Ya like when Kietel wakes up drunk to see Strawberry crush one and then see its' 11-1 Dodgers and his bet evaporate.

[G-Fafif]

Mr. Met with a cameo on last night's Dark Knight-themed 30 Rock episode, "The Tuxedo Begins".

[Guest themetfairy]

G-Fafif wrote: Mr. Met with a cameo on last night's Dark Knight-themed 30 Rock episode, "The Tuxedo Begins".

That was awesome!

[G-Fafif]

[Guest attgig]

here's the clip in 30 rock:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/wall/article.jsp?content_id=26728416&partnerId=rss_nym

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I just caught up with 30 Rock and can't figure out if Mr. Met's appearance is just random or if there's some inside joke I'm missing.

[G-Fafif]

Mets Rooters! Edsel Owners! Back A REAL Loser! Goldwater!
--Pro-LBJ button, 1964, as noted in Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein

(Published in 2001, being read by me at present.)

[G-Fafif]

"I'm a Mets fan, and I will suffer their fate for as long as they continue to suck."
--Jon Stewart, March 5, 2012

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

G-Fafif wrote: "I'm a Mets fan, and I will suffer their fate for as long as they continue to suck." --Jon Stewart, March 5, 2012

In the face of a highly-assumptive "New York... you're a Yankees fan, right?" from otherwise non-detestable HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.

[Edgy MD]

Mets sucking to the tune of a six-zip lead, Jon.

[G-Fafif]

In the 2011, uh, comedy Friends With Benefits, Justin Timberlake and the impossibly hot (until she speaks the movie's lines, dialogue designed to make the most attractive person repellent) Mila Kunis take a break from having "benefits" during a "wow, they're some 'friends'!" montage to watch Jose Reyes hit one out of Citi Field -- toward the Pepsi Porch -- on TV and high-five. We see Jose round the bases..."he's not the only one scoring!"...and the apple rise..."I'll bet that's not the only thing going up!"

Actually, I would bet those jokes are in the director's cut.

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Citi Field shows up in Morgan Spurlock's Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold as part of a segment on how stadiums and arenas are all sponsored these days (the documentary's conceit is he's making a movie and everything about it is up for sale).

[Ceetar]

wife watched Friends with Benefits the other days. I half watched it while doing other things.

to think I missed the best part of the movie..damn.

[G-Fafif]

In another scene from Friends With Benefits, Mila stands in front of one those phone booth ads (ironically talking on a cell phone) from 2010 that featured "ACE" Johan Santana as something WE BELIEVE in.

[batmagadanleadoff]

British import Lane Pryce is adapting to American culture just fine; he's one proud Mets fan. As Mad Men moves into the Summer of Love, not even the likes of Joe Grzenda and Nick Wilhite can dissuade Lane's rooting interest. Lane and his odd Mets pennant both make the move to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's new digs.

[G-Fafif]

Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2010: Lane's office and Don's insights.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mets Pop Culture Sightings 2010: Lane's office and Don's insights.

Lane and Ken probably sealed the deal over drinks in the Charcoal Room, which, Leonard Koppett wrote in The New York Mets: The Whole Story, was �a nightspot in its own right. After a night game, it became the scene of an impromptu party� for season box holders.

If I had to pick up the Mad Men's bill, it'd be easier on my wallet if that bill were the restaurant instead of the bar tab. Here's Lane and Ken's eating options circa 1964-5, had they sloshed on down to the Diamond Club after festivities at the Charcoal Room. Not that the Diamond Club was a dry club.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm hungry for Ham & Cheese but don't have $1.50, so I'll settle for the Tongue sandwich, $1.15

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm hungry for Ham & Cheese but don't have $1.50, so I'll settle for the Tongue sandwich, $1.15

At 50 cents a serving, may I suggest the Jellied Madrilene? Tracy Stallard and Julie Newmar were nuzzling each other over one of those concoctions.

[Guest themetfairy]

You could have had a V-8, for 45 cents.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice. Speaking of Mad Men, I realized I am the same age as Joan Holloway's baby.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Let's get this party started already.



Dirges for Yogi? I hope Jane didn't forget to gotta believe. (New York magazine, 7/30/73 issue)