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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

Hut, hut, hut, hut, hut. Yeah, because they're going up to the Cook County Assessor's office and like there's the entire Chicago Police Department is after them. But they're forced to get on this elevator and the girl from Ipanema is playing.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

There's another scene, too, from around that era, a few years later, from Airplane 2, where it's like Rip Torn โ€“ I believe it's Rip Torn, Artie from the Larry Sanders show. Yeah, yeah.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

There's another scene, too, from around that era, a few years later, from Airplane 2, where it's like Rip Torn โ€“ I believe it's Rip Torn, Artie from the Larry Sanders show. Yeah, yeah.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

There's another scene, too, from around that era, a few years later, from Airplane 2, where it's like Rip Torn โ€“ I believe it's Rip Torn, Artie from the Larry Sanders show. Yeah, yeah.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

And I don't know the other guy he's talking to, but anyway, they're walking and talking, and they have to get on an elevator, and the elevator door opens, and it's just blaring like eardrum-shattering decibel MacArthur Park, and they have to get on. People are coming off the elevator with their hands to their ears with splitting headaches from this, but...

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

And I don't know the other guy he's talking to, but anyway, they're walking and talking, and they have to get on an elevator, and the elevator door opens, and it's just blaring like eardrum-shattering decibel MacArthur Park, and they have to get on. People are coming off the elevator with their hands to their ears with splitting headaches from this, but...

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

And I don't know the other guy he's talking to, but anyway, they're walking and talking, and they have to get on an elevator, and the elevator door opens, and it's just blaring like eardrum-shattering decibel MacArthur Park, and they have to get on. People are coming off the elevator with their hands to their ears with splitting headaches from this, but...

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

It's just completely the opposite of what elevator music is supposed to be like. But it's a good little scene, too, as far as elevator music goes.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

It's just completely the opposite of what elevator music is supposed to be like. But it's a good little scene, too, as far as elevator music goes.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

It's just completely the opposite of what elevator music is supposed to be like. But it's a good little scene, too, as far as elevator music goes.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

Right.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

Right.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

Right.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

But that started, I guess it started with the Blues Brothers, which came out in 1980. But before that, that was like Muzak was not really lampoon. I mean, not everybody liked it. It really kind of started to get a little backlash in the late 60s, early 70s, as we'll see. But there was a very significant chunk of the 20th century, again, from maybe 1950 to 1980, we'll say.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

But that started, I guess it started with the Blues Brothers, which came out in 1980. But before that, that was like Muzak was not really lampoon. I mean, not everybody liked it. It really kind of started to get a little backlash in the late 60s, early 70s, as we'll see. But there was a very significant chunk of the 20th century, again, from maybe 1950 to 1980, we'll say.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

But that started, I guess it started with the Blues Brothers, which came out in 1980. But before that, that was like Muzak was not really lampoon. I mean, not everybody liked it. It really kind of started to get a little backlash in the late 60s, early 70s, as we'll see. But there was a very significant chunk of the 20th century, again, from maybe 1950 to 1980, we'll say.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

where everywhere you went in public, including if you took a Greyhound bus or if you were on a plane or you happened to be in Air Force One or you were at the mall, in an elevator, at your office, everywhere, Muzak was playing. There was Muzak playing everywhere. It was just a part of life that was inescapable, actually. Yeah.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

where everywhere you went in public, including if you took a Greyhound bus or if you were on a plane or you happened to be in Air Force One or you were at the mall, in an elevator, at your office, everywhere, Muzak was playing. There was Muzak playing everywhere. It was just a part of life that was inescapable, actually. Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

where everywhere you went in public, including if you took a Greyhound bus or if you were on a plane or you happened to be in Air Force One or you were at the mall, in an elevator, at your office, everywhere, Muzak was playing. There was Muzak playing everywhere. It was just a part of life that was inescapable, actually. Yeah.

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Selects: Muzak: Easy Listening Goodness

I'm really impressed, man. I had not come up with that one.