August 11, 2010
“Spike TV’s” Scrappers. Like that’s something to be proud of. That’s the kind of television that made Elvis shoot out his TV set.
Scrappers was on again last night so I threw my TV out the window.
At least I would have if I didn’t think one of those guys would troll by and pick it up and sell it.
You ever see the vans they drive? I can’t believe they ever passed inspection. Remember the Star Trek episode The Trouble With Tribbles? That one, in addition to being one of the few episodes where Kirk didn’t get any alien babes, was the one where the Klingons and the Enterprise crew got into a brawl. Why? As the Klingon commander put it, “I didn’t say the Enterprise should be hauling garbage,” he said. “I said it should be hauled away as garbage!”, he clarified. That is the scrap vans, summed up perfectly. If they want to make some money they should first junk their trucks.
But then how would they carry scrap? Who cares? That would end the show, so I’m all for it.
Anyway, as you know if you’ve seen a frame of the show, these jerky junkmen aren’t too smart. Said one (Noots? Was it it Noots? These guys are interchangeably dumb.) “I always wanted to own my own scrap yard.” Yeah, dare to dream, Bababooey. That was the dream of every kindergarten kid who got dropped on his head when he was born. Of course, this guy actually did it- he accomplished his dream! He owned a scrap yard! And he lost it. How hard could it be to run a junkyard? Fred Sanford did it. How pathetic can you be to actually lose your junkyard? I bet it wasn’t one of those cool junkyards like on TLC’s Junkyard Wars. Those places had rocket engines hidden in the trash.
Noots probably had nothing more than a rusty ’79 Impala.
You may have missed it, because normal people who don’t blog about this stuff have better things to do, but Dino and Mimeograph put out a video to advertise their scrap business. Like the ancient heroes of myth, Dino and Mimeograph defy the Gods to stop them, and the Gods send deadly forces of nature to destroy them. Check out this video, and watch closely!- as Drippo and Mippo survive “earthqwakes” and “sunamis.”
Daddy Dino? Or Pappa Mimmo?
A slap fight? A sissy boy slap fight? “Frankie and Darren find porn.” I am sooo not going there. Just remember- if the scrap van is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’.
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
Maybe this is the show for the people who can’t follow Jersey Shore?
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I love the Cliffhanger… Will Darren go back to get the Playboy Magazines from 1993 that he left in the garbage pail?!!
By the way…I took this pic for you on the way back from the Bagel Store the other day…There really is no escape!!!
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That van is a rolling ad for tetanus shots.
As for the Playboys, I was hoping the camera would keep rolling while a ten year old kid from on of the fruit stores picked them out and got the thrill of his life.
And that guy is getting married??? There must be more money in broken toilets than I thought.
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Hah, yeah, definitely a bit of The Brooklyn Brawler in there. It’s been a while since I’ve flipped it over to Spike, I take it they’ve found something to break up the Star Trek: TNG re-runs?
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I didn’t know this show existed until reading your blog. Thank you for exposing this to me. My cultural world is now complete. Hold on, the tears from my laughter are starting to short out my keyboard…
I think it would have been entertaining to have been a fly on the wall during a Spike production meeting, when someone was trying to convince the rest of the room that this show was the “next big thing.”
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My deepest, sincerest apologies for introducing you to that show. I hope you recover soon.
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