Growing Pains Music
April 29, 2003 · Filed Under Uncategorized
Ok, as long as I am forced to talk about Alan Thicke on my own site, (Thanks Deezo) I might as well create a trivia question.
WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP BECAUSE SADLY I DIDN’T HAVE TO,
What famous male singer sang the opening theme song to Growing Pains?
Seriously, do not look it up, and if you do, please don’t post the answer. This will have to be on the honor system, but I am willing to give it a shot. I want to see if this is in anyone’s common knowledge bank.
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An amusing Allan Thicke anecdote: A few years ago, I was watching a documentary about the paparazzi and tabloid newspapers. It featured a segment which went on at great length about the National Enquirer. One scene featured a meeting about various things that were going to be in the upcoming issue. A feature about Allan Thicke’s impending marriage (an unusual instance, insofar as he actually welcomed the tabloids) was nixed as he was not that big of a celebrity. If he ever saw that documentary, I think Allan Thicke would cry like a baby. And I would laugh at him.
So, there Allan Thicke was, at the County Fair, in the big pie-eating contest finals. Several elimination rounds had taken the many entrants down to an elite few. Thicke, the patriarch on the late 80s family sitcom “Growing Pains” (most notable for launching the careers of megastars Tracey Gold and Kirk Cameron) had been maneuvering through the contest with relative ease, as would be expected from an Allan Thicke of his stature. But he feared that, in this ultimate contest, all of his previous efforts would be for naught.
He faced two worthy adversaries, a man and a woman both named Joyce. Joyce (the man) wore a cape and a monocle, stroked an imaginary beard and frequently made loud outbursts to the effect of “Ga’ah! Fools! Surely you must know that I am the viceroy of baked goods. You mere mortals are doomed! Doomed! Ga’ah!”. And to make matters worse, Joyce the woman had a hook, rumored to help her in her pie eating conquests. The contest was looking to be a heated one, but Thicke had a plan… one of the dastardly persuasion.
Before the contest, Thicke wished both of his opponents good luck. He then quickly went to find his son. Sure enough, Thicke’s lone offspring was waiting in line to have a novelty picture taken of him with the poker-playing dogs. Their conversation went a little something like this. Thicke the elder said hello, to which the younger Thicke said “Cheese it, dad. You’re cramping my style. Can you lend me 5 bucks?”. To which the elder Thicke cleverly retorted, “Okay. Here is 5 bucks for you.”. This pleased the less aged Thicke greatly, and he said “Hey, thanks potna!”. Getting back to the business at hand, the elder Thicke said, “Hey, did you do all that stuff I told you to do to the pies?”, to which the younger Thicke replied “You mean poisoning them to leave you as the winner of this pie extravaganza?” to which Thicke the elder responded, “Uh, yeah”. Then the younger Thicke took a deep breath, and said “Yeah.” Then the older Thicke said “Thanks!” And the younger Thicke said “No problem. Later, sucka.” And then the younger Thicke flew away because Allan Thicke’s son is a bat.
Ten minutes later, Thicke was kicking the royal ass at the pie eating contest. Both Joyces had been falling behind, mostly because of the poison, but also because they felt outshined by the luminary that is Allan Thicke. Making the act of poisoning the pies largely moot. Oh, by the way, just so there’s no plot holes, Allan Thicke is immune to pie poison. So, Thicke was one slice of pie away from winning the contest when all of a sudden, a bear that could talk and was an ordained minister landed on stage, having flown to the county fair with a jetpack. He said “There are pie eating shenanigans afoot!” To which Joyce the man said “Ga’ah! Fools!” and then disappeared in a cloud of smoke. The chemicals in the smoke triggered an allergic reaction in Joyce the woman, and she died. There was a stunned silence. Then the talking bear who was also an ordained minister went “All I meant was that pie eating is great, that’s all. PS Jesus loves you.” And then he flew away. Thicke won the contest by hook and/or crook, and a lot of work was for nothing. But his son enjoyed the novelty picture of him playing poker with dogs, and I think that the message of this story is that “You can’t beat Allan Thicke.”
Was is Rob Halford?
AND we saw him!!!
BJ Thomas
In the opening of the show each week, beginning seasons, there was a quick shot of a piece of renaissance art. Anyone know the name of it? I believe the artist was Van Eyck.