Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.Quincy takes a look into the world of punk rock, a music that he believes may have contributed to the death of a teenage boy.
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- Vince Lasker
- (as Nick Georgiade)
- Fly Fester
- (as Richard Dano)
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- GoofsWhen Abby is in her room listening to the Mayhem LP, she looks in a mirror and begins to draw an angled vertical line on her face. When there is a cut to close up, the line has become a curved line resembling the number 3 tipped sideways.
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Adrian Mercer: Abby just quoted from the very music you cited as contributing to a brutal murder. Now, you're not really saying that music can kill, are you?
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Yes, I am. I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It's a killer of hope, it's a killer of spirit. The music I heard said that life was cheap, and that murder and suicide was OK.
Dr. Emily Hanover: Music can be a very powerful thing. Nothing galvanises the emotions as quickly.
Adrian Mercer: You wrote the lyrics in question, Fly. You take issue with any of this?
Fly Fester: Hell yes! You know why you people can't stomach our songs? 'Cos they're a mirror, dig? Our music's ugly and violent because that's what's outside my window when I wake up. The world's ugly, the world's violent. All we do is rub your noses in it, you don't like what you see. Well don't lay it on us.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You're right about one thing: there is too much ugliness and violence out there. But if we took your advice we'd never overcome it - all you want us to do is throw up our hands and give up.
Skip: Who got us where we are today? It was your generation. Now you people have your finger on the button, ready to blow the whole joint to bits, and you're telling us to cool it?
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You know, not so many years ago there was a generation of young people who were as mad as you are about the world. Only they worked their tails off to change it. Trying to end a war they didn't believe in, trying to correct injustices that they saw. But all you do is gripe. Has it ever occurred to you to do something else with your anger besides venting it?
Skip: You're the ones who loused everything up - and you expect us to pick up the pieces.
Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: If not you - then who?
- ConnectionsEdited into Cathode Fuck (1986)
I can only compare this episode of the "squares" dealing with a sub-culture that they don't understand and therefore fear to the infamous Dragnet episode known as "Blue Boy" that deals with hippies and LSD. Both have parallels of middle-aged, square white men addressing youth sub-cultures that they can't and won't be able to understand.
The episode starts with a murder at a fictional concert performed by the fictional punk band Mayhem. The writers, performers and director of the show have absolutely no clue of what the punk scene was about. The episode starts off on a bad foot and never, ever goes beyond a hyped-up, sensationalistic and obviously biased view of what the L.A. punk scene was about. Of course Qunicy learns of the horrific goings-on in the punk rock scene that it obviously written by someone who doesn't know any better.
Ironically, the same time that this episode came out, the L.A. police were very busy busting heads, breaking up any and all punk shows in the greater L.A. metro area. Who were the violent ones?
- magrudzinski
- Feb 21, 2014