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Happy and peppy and bursting with love!

posted 11 years ago by LuvvieHowell
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This episode, in which Jaye P. Morgan (a singer who I seem to remember had a REALLY big coke problem in the 70's) is one of my favorites. I love the scene where they are recording the demo tape and Oscar can't figure out how to use the tambourine correctl.

I've seen that episode a dozen times over and that scene still cracks me up.

I was in grade school when The Odd Couple was on tv, but my father never missed an episode. Back then there were only 3 channels (the major networks) so pretty much everyone I knew watched the show.

That song, 'Happy and peppy and busting with love' has stuck with me all these years. I used to sing it all the time...its very catchy! (I wonder if Randall did indeed write it.)

[–] rerunwatcher 11 years ago

I had forgotten about Jaye P Morgan until I saw this show recently. The main thing I remember about her was The Gong Show.

[–] NBVautrain 11 years ago

Cringe worthy song/lyrics.

A shining rewards a small journey backwards in time brings.

[–] brendanchenowith 10 years ago

My thoughts exactly.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

[–] pepperdog61 10 years ago

That's what makes it so funny, is how cringe-worthy it is. Poor Wolfman Jack's reaction was priceless.

[–] hariseldon59 10 years ago

You brought me DOWN!

[–] tmaj48 10 years ago

The song might have been better if Oscar's lyric idea was used:

"Jumping and rolling
Like a frog with a hernia (ribbit, arghhh)...."

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] FedoraDave 10 years ago

It's a catchy song, all right, but not as catchy as "Let's Hit Hitler Where He Lives."

[–] Qanqor 10 years ago

And not nearly as much of a gut-wrenching commentary on the human condition as "Once There Was A Man Named Oscar (Oscar, Oscar, Oscar)."

[–] FedoraDave 10 years ago

Yeah, social commentary in music is pretty much dead, I'm afraid.

[–] BenjiCarver 10 years ago

Jesse Jesse Jesse

Guts: The magazine for real men.

[–] jgroub 10 years ago

Aw, man, Dave, that was EXACTLY what I was going to post!

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

[–] hifijohn 9 years ago

yes decades later when ever Im in a very good mood I will say im happy and peppy and bursting with love and you can image the looks I get from people!!!

[–] beachaleena 9 years ago

Felix also KILLED in the Oscar Saves Felix's Life--He wrote an acrostic poem for OSCAR MADISON {The Big Daddy of Us All}!

[–] pepperdog61 9 years ago

O is for the oldest friend I know
S is for the way he saved my life
C is for courage and
A is the alertness that he showed
R means risk and he took a big one
M-A-D is what he gets at me, but
I feel like an
S-O-N to him
Da da da da da da da, that's Oscar Madison, he's big daddy to us all!

[–] beachaleena 9 years ago

I'm dyin' here I tell ya, DYIN!

[–] macasey66 8 years ago

Oh yeah, when I saw that one I fell on the floor nearly dying from laughing! "You Saved My Life" is one of the funniest episodes.

Why do they call 'em soap operas anyway? Those things are FILTHY!----Fred Sanford

[–] Gothish 8 years ago

I think of that song a lot! I also think of the line Felix says in the episode when he has insomnia: "I'm up! Up as a pup! Arf arf arf!"

"Two gin and Frescas"
"Shaken, not ridiculed"