Name the flick. And the actor or character speaking the line…

1. “Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer, before you know it, you life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours.”

2. “I don’t make things difficult. That’s the way they get, all by themselves.”

3. “You’re going to be fertilizer! They’re going to bury you right next to Jimmy Hoffa!”

4. “Well my mother raised me on blackroot. It’s good for you. It puts hair on your chest, doesn’t it, Sticks?”

5. “All cowboys ain’t dumb. Some of’em got smarts real good, like me!”

6. “G@dd#mn it, I knew I should’ve listened to my mother. I could’ve been a cosmetic surgeon, five hundred thou a year, up to my neck in tits and ass.”

7. “You have to purify yourself in Lake Minnetonka.”

8. “Your shower shoes have fungus on them.”

Bonus question: these quotes all have something in common. What is it?

(Oh, and one of these movies was made in 1990. Just to keep things fair.)

Today’s special edition is One-Hit Wonders of the ’80s.

Name the song and the band….

1. No sex, no drugs, no wine,
no women/No fun, no sin, no you

2. If I could fly, I’d pick you up

3. Well, I talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it

4. I know a guy who’s tough but sweet
He’s so fine, he can’t be beat

5. I wish I was in Tijuana,
eating barbequed iguana

6. Can’t you see
What this crazy life is doing to me

7. If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to
why don’t you go where fashion sits

8. ‘Cause me say listen to the drummer, me say listen to the bass
Give me little music make me wind up me waist

9. But that’s when she started talking about true love, started talking
about sin

10. I never needed love…like I need you

…so have at it. Answers posted later today.

Wow. These quotes are from movies that span the entire decade!

Give me the name of the movie, and who’s speaking the line:

1. “You made a woman meow?”

2. “Last night Lord Vader came down from planet Vulcan….”

3. “…You make such beautiful things…You’re so powerful. And purple! Ohhh, I love purple!”

4. She: “I want to spend the night with you.”
He: “You mean, sleep over?”
She: “Well, yeah.”
He: “Well, okay…but I get to be on top.”

5. Girl #1: “This seat’s taken.
Girl #2: “By who?”
#1: “My guardian angel.”
#2: “Well, she’ll have to sit on my lap.”
#1: “She’s a he.”
#2: “Then I’ll have to sit on his lap.”

And, here’s a bonus question: Name this ’80s band.

Have fun! Answers posted later (by the time Janice gets home from work.)

Name the song and the artist! Good luck. Some of these are tough.
(answers posted later today)

1. I used to think maybe you loved me now I know that it’s true
2. Animals strike curious poses
3. Religion is a light in the fog
4. I don’t know where I’m going but I sure know where I’ve been
5. If you want to find all the cops they’re hanging out in the donut shop
6. And there’s a heart that’s breaking down this long distance line tonight
7. I’m always working, slaving every day
8. Feel like I could run away, run away from this empty heart
9. Kick off your Sunday shoes
10. Daddy says she’s too young, but she’s old enough for me
11. He turned to me as if to say, “Hurry boy it’s waiting there for you.”
12. You’re not naive, you must be strong
13. Darken the city night is a wire, steam in the subway the earth is afire
14. She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise

I loved Saturday mornings in the late ’70s and early ’80s. We kids would get up and turn on the TV for an hour or two of uninterrupted watching of Looney Toons, Scooby-Doo, and what I think were the predecessors to the info-mercial: Schoolhouse Rock.

In honor of the talented David McCall, who came up with the idea of using modern music to help teach kids math, science, grammar, and history, today’s Retro Tuesday Lyrics quiz is all about Schoolhouse Rock.

So, here we go….give me the name of the song (and the missing words!):

1. “I got three favorite cars that get most of my job done.”

2. “We hiked along without a care,
then we ran into a bear.
He was a _____ bear.
He was a _____ bear.”

3. “Take your powder, take your gun,
Report to _______ _______.”

4. “A man and a woman had a little baby, yes they did….”

5. “It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It must be a UFO, but it was _____ ______! She’s a _____ girl.”

BONUS POINTS: name the six subjects covered by the Schoolhouse Rock songs.

Does anyone else own the CD released in 1996 with all the cover tunes done by artists of the ’90s: Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks? It’s a great album, and has original songs covered by The Lemonheads, Blind Melon, and others. Great disc. We love it!

And…what’s your favorite Schoolhouse Rock song?