OH MY GOD. OH MY DEAR LORD. WHO IS IT BUTCHERING DAVID GATES’ “GOODBYE GIRL” AS RECORDED FOR THE TELEVISED CINEMATIC BUTCHERING OF “GOODBYE GIRL” FOR THE 2K4 ON TNT. My husband wagers it is Hootie and the Blowfish. I did not want to believe it was Hootie and the Blowfish but you know what, he is correct. It is HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH. Butchering DAVID GATES. I AM OUTRAGED.
Oh my God. I have to tell you a long story about this very thing and Atlantic City, but that I have to go to bed. I thought if I put this, I would remember to tell you later. OK.
Ooh! Ooh! Tell me!!!
Oh and P.S. Jane, I’m going to steal your comments usage concept and use them to explain where the post titles came from. This one, surprisingly, is David Gates’ “Goodbye Girl.”
Good idea! OK, so I was in AC in a hotel and there was nothing on TV but 9000 episodes of “Law & Order”, so I was watching TNT, which I rarely do at home. Yes. So they kept having these little behind the scenes-type commercials for some TV movie starring the wife off of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and I am not really paying attention until she says, “This is the most romantic script ever written” and I was like, “Oh my God. This bitch is insane,” thinking it was just some everyday crappy movie-of-the-week nonsense. THEN they showed the VIDEO of Hootie, etc. singing “Goodbye Girl” and I put the whole horrible mess together. Man, I love that song. I got sad.
Oh man, I saw those commercials too when I was in MN but I don’t recall hearing the dastardly GG cover. I swear I was thinking it might have been Staind or something when I heard it, it was that awful. Anyway, when I was in MN, the first time one of those came on my mom was like “No … oh no … oh no they didn’t!!!” The more they revealed and the more she realized that it was a remake of “Goodbye Girl,” she got so wound up, it was hilarious. “HOW DARE THEY!” It was fantastic. Also, who wants to watch the Everybody Loves Raymond woman in anything? Eew, we get enough of her in the Albertson’s supermarket commercials right. P.S., they ended up showing the original on TCM while I was there and Mom and I watched it and all was well until the end when she was like, “Now WHY would anyone DARE mess with THAT?! Oh GOSH!!!” and she got wound up all over again, it was fantastic.