1974 Tube

Ah, 1974. A lot of stuff happened that year, stuff of importance, and those numbers probably ooze significance as well. The only thing I know for sure about 1974 off the top of my head was that I was born in November of that year, though I don't remember it. Darrell recently wrote a feature in which he searched his birth year in YouTube and posted some of the videos that resulted. Let's see what my birth year brings us:



Pink Floyd's Money is a great song from the early ‘70s, though I was in high school before I discovered the group. The video that resulted from my birth year certainly looks scrambled, but maybe you have to be on drugs to appreciate it? (I'm kidding; it is scrambled. Stay in school kids. Winners don't do drugs.)



Zardoz is a weird, weird, weird classic science fiction movie that I hadn't heard of until I saw the trailer on another DVD. Of course, I had to see it immediately. It's really hard to describe it, or what Sean Connery was thinking, and it has a pretty interesting revelation about the title. I'm guessing he was watching Pink Floyd videos between takes, but somehow running around in a red diaper with a receding hairline didn't hurt his career. I'm convinced that the trailer had subliminal messages. Zardoz.... ZARDOZ.... ZARDOZ...



What's this? A clip of Japanese superhero Ultraman? This looks like the kind of show MCF at any age might watch. I can't read most of those credits, so from what I can read I can only deduce that the hero flies a Honda and that the effects on the show were done by a very, very prototypical Mac.



This is a great find: a classic appearance by Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson on What's My Line? in which Henson announces an upcoming puppet show for grown-ups. (I almost posted a trailer for 1974's campy and hilarious Deadly Weapons, starring the aptly named ”Chesty Morgan”, instead of this one before I noticed the amount of nudity.)



A parade of beautiful women is a natural segue to...



...a video of Mr. Happy. I never knew those were cartoons before they were collectible plastic figurines in my Roy Rogers happy meals.

Wow, I guess a lot of other things happened in 1974 after all!