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What's Happening!! :: Disco Dollar Disaster (03x01)
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| Title: | Disco Dollar Disaster |
| Episode #: | 03x01 |
| Production Number: | 0304 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday September 21st, 1978 |
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Rerun needs $25 to enter a dance contest.
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Raj is studying Psychology, Geology, Anthropology, Biology, Business, and Sociology in college. In "Basketball Brain" he is also studying Botany and preparing for his first semester finals.
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Dee: "Are you really happy to see me or did somebody jam a coat hanger in your mouth?"
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Roger: "He's the Muhammad Ali of disco!"
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on January 17, 1942) was an American boxer. He is widely regarded to be the greatest heavyweight champion of all time and is one of the most heavily promoted athletes ever. Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after joining the Nation of Islam and converting to orthodox Sunni Islam in 1975.
Disco is a genre of music that originated in entertainment venues or clubs called discothèques. Discos used recorded music, played by disk jockeys, rather than an on-stage band. Generally the term refers to a specific style of music that has influences from funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa.
| Roger: (at Rob's Place as Dee approaches) "Oh, Jaws 3 is coming."
Jaws is a 1975 horror/thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel of the same name. In the film, the police chief of a summer resort town tries to protect beachgoers from the predations of a huge great white shark. Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, as it is the father of the summer blockbuster movie. Jaws 2 debuted in 1978.
| Raj: (indicating Rerun) "He has disco in his soul."
Sign-Up Girl: : "Uh, that's good cuz it looks like he's got a jukebox in his shirt."
A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. The traditional jukebox is rather large with a rounded top and has colored lighting going up the front of the machine on its vertical sides. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when combined, are used to indicate a specific song from a particular record.
The immediate ancestor of the jukebox, called the "Coin-slot phonograph" (1889) was the first medium of sound recording encountered by the general public and used phonograph cylinders for records. The earliest machines played but a single 2 minute record but soon devices were developed that allowed customers to choose between multiple records. In the 1910s the cylinder gradually was superseded by the gramophone record. The term "juke box" came into use in the United States in the 1930s, either derived from African-American slang "jook" meaning "dance", or being a name given to it by critics who said it would encourage criminal behavior, this came from the fake family name Juke. The shellac 78 rpm record dominated jukeboxes until the Seeburg Corporation introduced an all 45 rpm vinyl record jukebox in 1950.
Rock-Ola Jukebox, 1949.
| Rerun: "He look like Saturday Night Fever and I look like Monday morning blues."
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a Brooklyn discotheque. While in the disco, Tony is the king, and the visits help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a dead-beat gang of friends.
The film showcased aspects of the music, the dancing, and the subculture surrounding the disco era: symphony-orchestrated melodies, haute-couture styles of clothing, and graceful choregraphy.
| Dee: "Napoleon had his Waterloo. Muhammad Ali had his Spinks."
Napoleon Bonaparte was a general of the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic, and Emperor of the French under the name Napoleon I. The armies of France under his command fought almost every European power and acquired control of most of continental Europe by conquest or alliance. Following the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812 and the defeat at Leipzig in October 1813, Napoleon abdicated in April 1814. He was exiled to the island of Elba. He staged a comeback but was defeated at Waterloo on 18 June 1815. He spent the remaining six years of his life on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean under British supervision.
The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. After his exile to Elba, he had reinstalled himself on the throne of France. During this time, the forces of the rest of Europe, the United Kingdom, Prussia and the Russian Empire converged on him, commanded by the United Kingdom's Duke of Wellington, and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher. The battlefield is in present day Belgium, about 7.5 miles SSE of Brussels, and 1.2 miles from the town of Waterloo.
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on January 17, 1942) was an American boxer. He is widely regarded to be the greatest heavyweight champion of all time and is one of the most heavily promoted athletes ever. Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after joining the Nation of Islam and converting to orthodox Sunni Islam in 1975.
Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins. Spinks made history on February 15 1978, by beating an aged and out of shape Muhammad Ali in a 15-round decision in Las Vegas to become the fastest man ever to win the world's Heavyweight crown when he became champion in only his eighth fight. Ali, who had not been the same since his last fight with Joe Frazier, expected this to be an easy fight. But, with his skills tarnished from years of fighting, and with his lack of training before the fight, he was out hustled by Spinks who never seemed to tire in the bout. This fight is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.
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