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[succumbing-song]

[a-book-of-creatures]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and his daughter Victoria backstage at a production of Peter Pan (1964)

[thestuffedalligator]

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

[dementian]

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

[impossiblepackage]

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.

[victusinveritas]

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Doesn't help the Devils case that he played with a full band accompanying him.

Whereas Johnny played solo, so you could actually HEAR Johnny's fiddling.

[the-haiku-bot]

Whereas Johnny played

solo, so you could actually

HEAR Johnny’s fiddling.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[dkc-quotes]

:O

[directedbychuckjones]

Character designs by Chuck Jones for a proposed sequel to his 1942 ground-breaking “The Dover Boys,” circa mid-1950s.

[sm64mario]

can we'a skip the impeachment and just shoot him in the head

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[pharohbacon]

FUN FACT: the script originally called for Jason to kick a dog, but Kane Hodder refused, saying that isn't something Jason would do

[nudesornaw]

if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

[kaijusaurus]

All the playable monster skins from War of the Monsters (PlayStation 2, 2003).

[pharohbacon]

I always saw this game as the spiritual successor to the King of the Monsters series

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Boris Karloff -

Red Skelton Hour;

He Who Steals My Robot Steals Trash (1967)

[pharohbacon]

Got ven how Vincent was the bridge between Karloff and Lorre on movies they worked together on, I like to think Vincent and Boris were friends

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Alice Cooper with a dog in 1975

[pharohbacon]

Dr. Phibes, Monster Dog, and dog

[bogleech]

Tim Burton truly does not understand any of the appeal of anything in the addams family, huh. Thing is not a fucking zombie hand. Thing is just Thing. That's the joke. The lack of explanation is literally the character concept. "Oohh what if thing is called that because its an anagram" no tim burton fuck off that's an idiot idea for morons. Thats like some harry potter ass writing for babies. Bad. Wretched.

[modogoblin]

[beemovieerotica]

[wildpeanutpie]

[rongzhi]

A pair of precious shoes

English added by me :)

[frowny-clowny]

It’s labeled mature because a single glance at these heels will kill you

[the-haiku-bot]

It’s labeled mature

because a single glance at

these heels will kill you

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[shamlesspandanerd]

[animentality]

[bogleech]

Phil from what I've seen is kind about everyone, not the kind of christian who thinks everybody else just goes to hell by default, and he tried hard to talk any sense into Doug TenNapel. He was unable to, but that's entirely Doug's failure to find his own decency.

[pharohbacon]

Friendly reminder that a problem people had with working on such a religious show like Veggietales was that everyone involved didn't have the same views, but Phil didn't think it was right to fire people simply because they did or didn't believe in Jesus