Song’s skit: “I DONT HAVE TO TELL YOU THINGS AREN’T GOOD. EVERYBODY KNOWS THINGS AREN’T GOOD! WE KNOW THE AIR’S UNFIT TO BREATHE AND OUR FOOD IS UNFIT OT EAT!... YOUNG PUNKS ARE RUNNING THE STREET NO ONE KNOWS JUST WHAT TO DO AND THERE’S NO END TO IT! (THERE’S NO END TO IT!) THE DOLLAR BUYS A PENNYS WORTH! BANKS ARE GOING UNDER CONGRESS ARE KEEPING A GUN UNDER THE COUNTER! WE SIT WATCHING OUR IDIOT BOXES WHILE SOME LOCAL ANCHOR MAN TELLS US THAT TODAY WE’VE HAD 18 MURDERS AND 80 VIOLENT CRIMES AS IF THAT WAS THE WAY THINGS WAS SUPPOSE TO BE! (be, be,) WE KNOW TIMES ARE BAD! WORSE THAN BAD! PEOPLE ARE CRAZY! (CRAZY, CRAZY) ITS LIKE EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE IS GOING UTTERLY MAD! SO WE NEVER LEAVE OUR HOMES! WE SIT IN OUR COMFY ABODES WHILE THE WORLD IS GETTING SMALLER AND WE SAY COME ON! AT LEAST LEAVE US ALONE IN OUR FAMILY ROOMS LET ME HAVE MY MICROWAVE AND FLATSCREEN AND MY 20 INCH RIMS AND I WON’T SAY ANYTHING! JUST LEAVE US ALONE!! WELL I’M NOT GONNA LEAVE YOU ALONE!!! I WANT YOU TO GET ANGRY!!!! I DON’T WANT YOU TO RIOT, I DON’T WANT YOU TO PROTEST, I DON’T WANT YOU TO WRITE YOUR SENATOR BECAUSE I WON’T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU TO TELL HIM!! I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE RECCESSION AND THE INFLATION, AND THE CRIME IN THE STREET!! ALL I KNOW IS THAT YOU GOT TO GET MAD!!! YOU’VE GOT TO SAY; I’M A HUMAN BEING DAMNIT!!!!! MY LIFE HAS VALUE!!!!!! Mad As Hell by Peter Finch as Howard Beale: “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad” Mad As Hell by Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976).
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