Wet Water
01-30-2010, 11:24 AM
I've recently been able to see this show for the first time. And I discovered an interesting little nugget:
I remember an episode of "Happy Days" where Richie and the gang meet some Beatniks. One of them reads a ridiculous poem, "Hey little boy, With your nose pressed up against the Bakery window, There ARE no jelly doughnuts for your today ... Only death!"
Well, I was watching an episode of "Peter Gunn" last night in which Gunn was in a Beatnik club. Someone was reading a longer work with the following phrases (in order) "nose pressed up against the window", "no jellydoughnuts" and "only death".
Was "Happy Days" making a conscious allusion to "Peter Gunn"? Or were both borrowing from a "beat" character named Joe Gould, who liked to compose ridiculous poems to mock the serious people at poetry readings?
I wonder if anyone has ever noticed this connection before.
I remember an episode of "Happy Days" where Richie and the gang meet some Beatniks. One of them reads a ridiculous poem, "Hey little boy, With your nose pressed up against the Bakery window, There ARE no jelly doughnuts for your today ... Only death!"
Well, I was watching an episode of "Peter Gunn" last night in which Gunn was in a Beatnik club. Someone was reading a longer work with the following phrases (in order) "nose pressed up against the window", "no jellydoughnuts" and "only death".
Was "Happy Days" making a conscious allusion to "Peter Gunn"? Or were both borrowing from a "beat" character named Joe Gould, who liked to compose ridiculous poems to mock the serious people at poetry readings?
I wonder if anyone has ever noticed this connection before.