Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

My favorite checkout line story:

I was in the local grocery store, and I was in line behind a woman who was angry about something--I wasn't really paying attention, I only started listening to her when she started raising her voice. Something about store credit, maybe? It kept escalating until eventually she shouted in defiance, "I AM NOT LEAVING UNTIL I SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!"

The checker smiled, leaned in, and said very quietly, "Wanna bet?" Then he picked up the phone, called security, and had her removed from the building.

 

[Mannahnin]

Related: Making an effective piece of music 30 seconds long is difficult.

I was going to write something like Law & Order bass line has entered the chat, but double-checked and the L&O intro is also just under a minute.

 

[Scribe]

 

[prabe]

I was going to write something like Law & Order bass line has entered the chat, but double-checked and the L&O intro is also just under a minute.

Huh. That was one of the ones I clocked at thirty seconds, when I did. Sixty seconds would be easier.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, that's annoying. I don't need to go through a checker when I'm buying five things.

Return of the "10 Items or Less" checkout lines?

 

[Mannahnin]

Huh. That was one of the ones I clocked at thirty seconds, when I did. Sixty seconds would be easier.

I wonder if it's one which was edited down.

I seem to remember (back when I still regularly watched network TV) that sometimes shows would have a longer theme and later in their run it was truncated/edited down. I assumed because an episode ran a little long or the network was trying to squeeze in more commercials.

When I did a quick search on YT it was coming up at :56 as the top result, with a 1:21 version from 1990-1991. But SVU Season One is showing :47 seconds; both season 1 and season 6. Maybe we're getting different search results.

 

[payn]

I wonder if it's one which was edited down.

I seem to remember (back when I still regularly watched network TV) that sometimes shows would have a longer theme and later in their run it was truncated/edited down. I assumed because an episode ran a little long or the network was trying to squeeze in more commercials.

When I did a quick search on YT it was coming up at :56 as the top result, with a 1:21 version from 1990-1991. But SVU Season One is showing :47 seconds; both season 1 and season 6. Maybe we're getting different search results.

We've come a long way since Too Many Cooks.

 

[Ryujin]

Now it's a surprise when a TV show doesn't have something like a single note intro "theme."

BOOOOOOOOONG.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We've come a long way since Too Many Cooks.

TMC really started going downhill after season 17.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My favorite checkout line story:

I was in the local grocery store, and I was in line behind a woman who was angry about something--I wasn't really paying attention, I only started listening to her when she started raising her voice. Something about store credit, maybe? It kept escalating until eventually she shouted in defiance, "I AM NOT LEAVING UNTIL I SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!"

The checker smiled, leaned in, and said very quietly, "Wanna bet?" Then he picked up the phone, called security, and had her removed from the building.

My aunt used to work customer service at Sam’s. One day, a customer was not pleased with the answers she was giving him, so he asked to see a manager, and “not a black one.”

So she got on the Sam’s PA system and announced, “customer at the service desk would like to speak with a manager…and not a black one.”

You’ve never heard a Sam’s go that quiet! After the initial gasps, you could hear the footsteps of a manager trotting to the CustServ desk.

Dude was clueless that he’d even asked for something controversial.