![]() ![]() Its wide-ranging characters and sketches - “More cowbell,” anyone? - have cemented themselves into our everyday lexicon, inspiring countless memes, catchphrases, and movies ( Wayne’s World and A Night at the Roxbury both originated with SNL sketches). Our donation will cap at $2000.00.One of the longest-running network TV shows ever, Saturday Night Live has had an undeniable impact on pop culture over the past (nearly) five decades. ~Bob The fine print: Until October 31, 2012, Matchmaker will donate $2 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for every “LIKE” on our company Facebook page. If you’d like to see me wearing pink, help make a $2 donation to a worthy cause, and restore my slighty bruised ego, please “Like” our Matchmaker Logistics page on Facebook by clicking here. “Hear us now und believe us later…you won’t go viral like Arnold!” Well, “Pummela pummela pummela pummela pummela!” and color me pink. In true Hans and Franz fashion, they replied to my visions of grandeur. I’d love to donate as much as $2000 to the cause, but what if half a million people ‘liked’ my photo? Where would I come up with funds to honor my pledge to support breast cancer research? After all, more than 700,000 people had viewed this 13-second clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger with Hans and Franz…. “Should we put a limit on this?”, I asked our team, imagining the photo of me clad in pink creating a viral internet sensation. To prove my manhood, I accepted the challenge on one condition: for every person who likes our Facebook page between now and the end of October, we would donate $2 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. If I didn’t accept her dare, I knew I risked a Hans and Franz-like officewide reputation of “girlie man”. Mary challenged me to change our Matchmaker Logistics Facebook profile to a photo of me, dressed in pink. Not only did she and our newest team member, Jennifer, send a photo from the Alabama office with the two of them both wearing pink hats, they also issued a challenge. ![]() But within minutes of posting my weekly email, our CIO (Chief Instigating Officer), Mary, had thrown down the gauntlet. They finally received their just deserts when Arnold Schwarzenegger himself made a guest appearance on the show, flexing his own steriod enhanced muscles and ridiculing “his cousins” for being girlie and weak.Īs the only male on the Matchmaker Logistics team, I didn’t expect my co-workers would challenge my admission in last week’s Thought for the Weekend: I don’t wear pink. To demonstrate their own incredible manhood, the pair would strike bodybuilder poses to show off their “muscled” bodies, complete with strained facial expressions. “Poor little girlie man alone in his girlie house!!” They referred to non-muscle-bound men as “girlie men”, a phrase that entered the pop culture lexicon thanks to the sketch: With padding for fake muscles, drab gray sweatsuits, weight belts, and hilariously bad Austrian accents, the two SNL comedians denigrated others for not being as strong and physically “fit” as they were. In these popular sketches which spoofed Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carvey and Nealon played a pair of muscle-bound Austrian jocks. “I am Hans.” “Und I am Franz.” “Und ve just vant to pump… (clap) …YOU UP!” ![]() Do you remember that classic Saturday Night Live skit Pumping Up featuring Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon as Hans and Franz? ![]()
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