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07/06/2005: "Brain Train"
Just a peek into the warped world of the neurons in my brain...
For absolutely no reason, just now, Guy Smiley popped into my head. That's right, Guy Smiley, the Sesame Street game show host.
Sure, that makes no sense, but neither does the immediate connection in my head to Smiley Jones, the trademark doodle of my sixth grade class. Smiley Jones was a smiley face, next to which would always be written "SMILEY JONES!" in two lines, with SMILEY over JONES.
This, of course, immediately sent me to thinking about Smarty Jones, the racehorse.
And from there, I went to Smarty Marty, a guy at the Daily News who has a Smarty Jones placard on his desk that says "Go Smarty Go!"
That led to Farty Marty, who likes to party. At least, that's what we thought was a funny joke in third grade. In third grade, pretty much anything involving the buzzwords "Burp," "Fart" and "Poop" would be guaranteed laughs. Very mature.
Then my brain jumped back to Guy Smiley, and TV game shows, and Press Your Luck, whose theme song is running through my head at this very minute. Which I can't say is a bad thing. The themes to Press Your Luck and The $25,000 Pyramid might be the best in history, followed closely by the theme to the all-but-forgotten Scrabble TV show.
So, Peter Tomarken, Dick Clark and Chuck Woolery, here's to you and your brilliant shows. They're never on TV (except, thankfully, for Press Your Luck, whose two weekend episodes on the Game Show Network are fake TiVo staples) but they're not forgotten. Thanks to the random firing of my brain to let Guy Smiley pop into my head.
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