Mar 19
Good Show Sir Comments: Boob, boob, boob, butt (sung to the tune of Beethoven’s 5th).
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1982
(Average: 4.17 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Boob, boob, boob, butt (sung to the tune of Beethoven’s 5th).
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1982
(Average: 4.17 out of 10)Loading...
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March 19th, 2024 at 3:12 am
Lips. That’s all that needs to be said.
March 19th, 2024 at 3:29 am
Xena, Sabrina, Steven Tyler and Karina. The least ludicrous cat-people we’ve seen on this site in many a year.
March 19th, 2024 at 11:29 am
The eyes, man. The eyes!
Yeah, and the lips.
March 19th, 2024 at 12:37 pm
The Spice Girls were never the same after Geri left…
March 19th, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Doing an all-female reboot of LOTR is just asking for trouble.
March 19th, 2024 at 5:03 pm
Blurb writer: nudge nudge wink wink!
March 19th, 2024 at 6:50 pm
Whaddya mean we should wear longer skirts? These ARE our long skirts!
March 19th, 2024 at 7:36 pm
I’m thinking this ’87 Orbit reprint has a little more book accurate cover.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115353847274
March 19th, 2024 at 8:37 pm
@fred: that’s some serious 80s hair.
March 19th, 2024 at 9:20 pm
“Boobs and Butt Pose” – the early years…
March 20th, 2024 at 12:43 am
All righty, the comment and mouseover deserve a GSS.
Don’t they all have exactly the same face? Are they clones or at least littermates? Are the lips natural or filler?
I am amused at the proximity of “Cat” and “Coney”.
@Leak: Too right.
March 20th, 2024 at 11:24 am
If Good Show Sir should ever make it to a “filk song” event at skiffy conventions, one chould definitely expand the Beethoven joke into a chorus piece.
EVERYBODY NOW:
Boob, boob, boob, butt…
Boob, boob, boob, butt…
Boob boob boob butt
Boob boob boob butt!
Boob boob boob butt
Boob boob boob butt!
Boob boob boob bu-u-u-tt!
Boob boob boob bu-u-u-tt!
Boob boob boob
Butt
Butt
BUUTT!
Boob boob boob bu-u-u-tt…
March 20th, 2024 at 1:38 pm
The first two women look like they’re ready to kick your ass at any moment. The third woman looks more relaxed, but has her hand on the hilt of her knife, so you know not to mess with her, either. The fourth woman, on the other hand, is…presenting. “Never mind my weapons – here’s my pert little ass.” Some mixed messages going on here…just like any cat, I suppose.
I looked up the author out of curiosity. According to his Wikipedia page (hardly an unimpeachable source, admittedly), he seems to be a fairly well-respected British science fiction author, which makes make wonder if the cover accurately reflects the contents.
March 20th, 2024 at 3:43 pm
@Michael Toland: back in Ye Day, Gollancz used to publish all their hardback SF in identical yellow covers, so kids visiting libraries trusted the brand rather than the artwork or author reputation (such as it was). I had a vague notion back then that any cover where they tried fancy lettering was trying too hard, so I didn’t bother with ‘Ringworld’ for another few years – with the paltry media coverage given over to the elderly dinosaurs I had no yardstick to gauge Gene Wolfe, Larry Niven or John Crowley against John Robert King or Colin Kapp. So a lot of UK readers probably discovered Coney without the rather offputting covers (well-represented on this site, alas*) used by paperback publishers.
But that was half a century ago and the dinosaurs (now long dead) are still choking up the bookshop shelves, alongside TV tie-ins, and you have to look Coney up on wikipedia. That’s a shame as he was one of that generation fo British SF writers who worked out how to give US publishers what they thought would sell but slip in very culturally-specific references and jokes that flew over the heads of Donald Walheim et al.
(*The nearest he came to a breakthrough novel was ‘Hello Summer, Goodbye’, which had a moody Victorian-style shipwreck on the front of the Pan edition but in America got this: https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=13799 )
March 20th, 2024 at 3:49 pm
B’s 5th is now an earworm with boob/butt lyrics… yeah, actually, I find that hilarious.
And my mind went here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD01X8Bh4Ek
March 21st, 2024 at 12:42 am
@Tat Wood
Don’t know if you saw any of them, but Gollancz’s last set of classic SF reprints were all done up as oversized B format paperbacks with those fold around covers that look slightly like a dustjacket, all with flat yellow covers with just a name and a title on them instead of art. I thought that was a really nice tip of the hat to the library books everybody remembers.
March 22nd, 2024 at 6:49 am
@ARY: Now I think our old pal Lee Moyer needs to not only do his bad cover recreations slideshow, but also show a batch of originals with various tunes as a singalong. A multi-media extravaganza!
@Tat: I imagine having all the same simple cover also saved Gollancz a lot of money rather than having to hire artists and cover designers. Must have made it a bit hard to remember which ones you’d read, though.
Don’t be too sure *all* the jokes got past the editors, though; US fen were generally Anglophiles then, and would have understood them, especially the slang terms. I recall catching a few myself as a young’un. Probably more along the lines of Getting Crap Past The Radar. Average readers wouldn’t, but real book nerds would have.
@Michael: And what cat does not present its ass to humans?