Tiki on television

It looks like The episode of the new Fox show "The Finder" that was filmed
at Don the Beachcomber airs this week Thurs Feb. 2nd 9:oopm westcoast time.

On 2012-01-08 19:31, bigbrotiki wrote:

On 2011-12-25 15:35, Vince Martini wrote:
Has anyone noticed the killer tikis festooning Peter Gunn's pad...when he is home, that is?

Visual depictions of such findings are always appreciated on this forum :)

I just bought the Season 2 set (available in PAL format from Amazon UK), and have really noticed the decor of his pad. Classic 50's tiki culture and Henry Mancini's jazz score seem to go well together. (I'm not into hifi, but it looks like he also had a killer 50's setup.)

Aloha,

On 2012-01-25 20:35, naugatiki wrote:
Here are some stills from the Hawaii Five-0 episode For A Million Why, Why Not? Where a company called Tiki Gods is used for a bank heist, I’ve recognized a few of the tikis in other episodes as props so it’s nice to see them in one place.
Tiki Gods office

The store front

mahalo for those!

Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs.
Available now from Bess Press Hawaii.

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2012-02-01 15:13 ]

At 1:39 of the new Ferris Bueller CR-V commercial...

Right behind Matthew Broderick and the lady who smacks him on the lips, is a guy totally holding a Stockton Islander Hula Girl Mug!!!

http://automobiles.honda.com/leap-list/2012-cr-v-videos/?ef_id=CxpOhARKrnYAAI5W:20120204031114:s

Bbbbut...WHY !!?

On 2012-02-03 19:48, bigbrotiki wrote:
Bbbbut...WHY !!?

Because it's a "Call Back" to Ferris drinking out of the same mug in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and with the same garnish.

Get it together people! :roll:

:D :D :D

Kids, I need some help here: WHICH specific episodes show Peter Gunn's apartment festooned with primitive art!? And if you don't have a screen capture application, can you just snap some photos of your screen?

I just watched the 16 episodes of Peter Gunn Set 2 and there is NOTHING Tiki-esque to be found in his or any of the sets - as a matter of fact, the sets are so stagey and boring, it makes sense that the production company called itself "Spartan"! The episode with the "Bamboo Cafe", the episode with the Beatnik diver babes drinking from pineapples and handing out leis to Peter Gunn:
Embarrassingly cheap B-movie set dressing that would be easily outdone by any real Polynesian joint location.

Naugatiki: Those "Tiki Gods Co." stills from 5.O are amazing, thank you !!!

On 2012-02-01 04:42, Michelle66 wrote:

On 2012-01-08 19:31, bigbrotiki wrote:

On 2011-12-25 15:35, Vince Martini wrote:
Has anyone noticed the killer tikis festooning Peter Gunn's pad...when he is home, that is?

Visual depictions of such findings are always appreciated on this forum :)

I just bought the Season 2 set (available in PAL format from Amazon UK), and have really noticed the decor of his pad. Classic 50's tiki culture and Henry Mancini's jazz score seem to go well together. (I'm not into hifi, but it looks like he also had a killer 50's setup.)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-02-04 10:36 ]

This past week's episode of The Finder on Fox featured the exterior and interior of Don The Beachcomber's in HB.
I cannot get screen shots off the internet as the episode is locked for 8 days after the show airs.

Don's was used as an illegal casino in the episode. The Coconut Bar is featured as well as another back or side room. There are shots from across the street and of a back entrance.

[ Edited by: Lake Surfer 2012-02-04 14:40 ]

On 2012-01-30 18:46, Chuck Tatum is Tiki wrote:
It looks like The episode of the new Fox show "The Finder" that was filmed
at Don the Beachcomber airs this week Thurs Feb. 2nd 9:oopm westcoast time.

I have been saying ,Lake
So did anyone watch it?

I know this has been mentioned on TC before, but thought I'd include some screenshots from the Squidward's Tiki Land episode of Spongebob. Please ignore my kids grubby fingerprints! :D

On 2012-02-04 10:33, bigbrotiki wrote:
Kids, I need some help here: WHICH specific episodes show Peter Gunn's apartment festooned with primitive art!? And if you don't have a screen capture application, can you just snap some photos of your screen?

I just watched the 16 episodes of Peter Gunn Set 2 and there is NOTHING Tiki-esque to be found in his or any of the sets - as a matter of fact, the sets are so stagey and boring, it makes sense that the production company called itself "Spartan"! The episode with the "Bamboo Cafe", the episode with the Beatnik diver babes drinking from pineapples and handing out leis to Peter Gunn:
Embarrassingly cheap B-movie set dressing that would be easily outdone by any real Polynesian joint location.

The US sets (with 16 edited-for-syndication first season episodes each) on A&E are not what you need.

You want the UK collection #2, which contains the entire 38-episode second season of the series. (The UK sets are region-free, but they are in PAL.)

There are at least two episodes that show off Pete's pad. (I'm still only on disc 2, so there are more than 20 episodes left.)

In season 2, episode 5 - "Death Is A Red Rose" - A thug shows up at Pete's place and the two men fight it out. You can see some primitive things on the shelves in the background. (The larger items look more African than Polynesian.)

There is a also a close-up of a wooden head that the camera focuses on as the battle wages in the BG.

A few episodes later (season 2, episode 10 - "The Game"), Pete's friends gather at his place for a party.

The same wooden head is featured again. This time, one of Pete's beatnik friends tries to get friendly with it...

If other examples turn up in future episodes, I'll post them here.

[ Edited by: Michelle66 2012-02-04 23:29 ]

[ Edited by: Michelle66 2012-02-04 23:29 ]

Wow, thank you so much for those great images, Michelle! I can't play PAL on my DVD player in the U.S. And those statues are indeed all African, not Oceanic art. But this finding does support my general "Tiki Modern" theory. :)

That Sponge Bob Tiki Land episode is most unfortunate. Why would a show that was the first to incorporate some really cool Tiki elements, like Squidward's house, and an A-frame movie theater with Tiki bathroom sinks, stoop so low in its Tiki designs with badly-rendered, 2-dimensional Party Store-colored Tikis !!?

This should have been an ode to mod-cartoony Tiki art, and it's not. It might be OK for kids, but where were the adult designers that bought the Book of Tiki multiple times when it came out, at 8-Ball right down the street from Nickelodeon? I can only fathom that, like back ground designs often are, it was farmed out to China. These Tikis bear the hallmark symptoms of non-Amercian, internet-sourced Tiki.

How come no mention of the Mrs being on last weeks "The Layover" Sven?

Do's this count?

a good plug for "Lost in Paradise" for our fellow TC'er Chris

go to youtube and check out his channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/chrisandsarahb

On 2012-02-05 13:52, Chuck Tatum is Tiki wrote:
How come no mention of the Mrs being on last weeks "The Layover" Sven?

It wasn't really Tiki..except for two seconds: Exactly as long as it takes a person to say "Tiki Ti"

On 2012-02-05 17:27, bigbrotiki wrote:

On 2012-02-05 13:52, Chuck Tatum is Tiki wrote:
How come no mention of the Mrs being on last weeks "The Layover" Sven?

It wasn't really Tiki..except for two seconds: Exactly as long as it takes a person to say "Tiki Ti"

And the two seconds of Tiki mugs at Wacko, I wish they went to the Tiki Ti.......

On 2012-01-25 20:35, naugatiki wrote:

Tiki Gods office

The store front

Sure looks like some of Paul Fujimoto's carvings...I wonder if thats from Blairs showroom??

plus, al harrington in that episode.

this was probably mentioned elsewhere, but all seasons of Hawaii Five-O are on Netflix Instant Streaming. it's a great resource imho.

http://youtu.be/wlcXA_iokPc

Superman disguised as Batman beats up Bane and throws an Easter Island statue around with another tiki as decor for the Riddler and Mad Hatter's hideout.

I thought this would best go in this thread:

Found these old TV themes from the early 1960s
First one is from a rare show called "Follow the Sun" it is "full frontal Exotica"

Other shows of note is Jack Lord's pre H50 western "Stoney Burke"
and be sure to check out "The New Breed" also, towards the end!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOil6PhSAzs&feature=related

Here in Japan, the old Mission: Impossible series is now being shown on a cable station called "Super Drama TV".

Last night, a sixth-season episode called "Double Dead" was shown.

The episode is set in Hawaii (but filmed on the Paramount lot in LA). There is a scene inside a restaurant, complete with hula dancers and cocktails being served in pineapples.

The best thing about the episode is the main villain's house is actually the Brady Bunch living room :)- all dressed up Polynesian style. (Both Paramount series were sill in production when the show was filmed.)

The whole episode is up at YouTube: http://youtu.be/X7cCZWuB0C0

wow that is pretty funny.

I just got a tape from about 1962 of the Tonight Show with the Mai-Kai Mystery Girl on it. It is incredible stuff! Come to Hukilau and see my presentation and you can see it all, hear the back story of Johnny and how this happened, and meet the man who made it possible. No, not Mr. Carson, but his good friend Jack.

Sounds great Swanky - I don't think I can make it to Hukilau this year, but that presentation sounds really interesting. I saw your presentation at Tiki Oasis, and it was very informative/entertaining... the mystery bowl presentation was a sight to see.

Michelle66 - thanks for those screenshots... that is amazing! The Brady Bunch house all done-up Tiki-style. It's got everything - witco bar stools, rattan bar, carved Tikis, yellow Chinese tiles... sweet!

-Trad'r Bill

I saw this cool Milan Guanko tiki lamp on the M:I episode around 44:48:

Putting 2 + 2 together on TC, we can easily arrive at the source of this episode's decor :) :

On 2011-02-09 07:42, Dustycajun wrote:
Sven,
1986, that was at the very end of the Sea and Jungle. Here is an LA Times article on the closing and history of the store from June of 1986:

"....Sea and Jungle also provided the movie industry with technical information, such as how to rig a sail on a tall ship's mizzenmast, he said. Just recently, Congiardo said, he found a small cannon that he needed at the Glendale store.

Sea and Jungle props decorated Rick's Cafe Americaine in "Casablanca," Achtien said. They carried natives over the waves in "Mutiny on the Bounty." And they adorned countless TV movies..."

We already know that that mini Milan Guanko came from them, the green lamp base one looks like a plaster cast of it.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-02-20 17:57 ]

On 2012-02-05 10:52, bigbrotiki wrote:
Wow, thank you so much for those great images, Michelle! I can't play PAL on my DVD player in the U.S. And those statues are indeed all African, not Oceanic art. But this finding does support my general "Tiki Modern" theory. :)

That Sponge Bob Tiki Land episode is most unfortunate. Why would a show that was the first to incorporate some really cool Tiki elements, like Squidward's house, and an A-frame movie theater with Tiki bathroom sinks, stoop so low in its Tiki designs with badly-rendered, 2-dimensional Party Store-colored Tikis !!?

This should have been an ode to mod-cartoony Tiki art, and it's not. It might be OK for kids, but where were the adult designers that bought the Book of Tiki multiple times when it came out, at 8-Ball right down the street from Nickelodeon? I can only fathom that, like back ground designs often are, it was farmed out to China. These Tikis bear the hallmark symptoms of non-Amercian, internet-sourced Tiki.

New poster on this great forum. Great thread and good point Bigbro we all must beware and learn to distinguish between genuine ancient Tiki, Polynesian Pop Tiki and "Party Store" Tiki which I call Tiky-Tacky(trash/crap) and not to be confused with Kitschy-Catchy(little better with some historic value)or Wiki-Wacky(just plain crazy)

I was going through some old files and found some photos I took of Dr Jacoby's office in the first season of Twin Peaks(1990).

There is a discussion of this here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=9250&forum=1&hilite=twin peaks

Here are some images of the good Doc's office. I apologize for the poor quality photos.

Best single season of TV ever!

[ Edited by: Sofa King 2012-02-23 23:14 ]

Come to Hukilau to see the whole thing. Well worth it!

Mai-Kai Memories Series Custom ceramic mugs!

[ Edited by: Swanky 2012-02-27 20:14 ]

random tiki mug on pan am.

Taki Tikis on The Wheel Of Fortune....Hawaiian theme tonight.

Watchin Donnie Brasco (1997). When they go down to Florida the FBI agent who fakes as owner of the club they want to buy is wearing a cool Tiki shirt. then they hop on a boat and there's a Wayne Coombs Tiki at the dock. On the boat the mafia boss is wearing a cool Aztec Tiki shirt.

Still watching TV...saw The Simpsons tonight, Sunday, March 4, they had a spoof of Trader Joe's done up with bamboo, a Tiki, Hawaii shirt employees, and in one corner a net full of what appears to be mini Japanese fishing floats and attached to the side of it is a shrunken head!
here is a photo of the net and head:

Hawaiian shirt-clad employees wrap Apoo in a Hawaiian shirt to restrain him

And here is the Tiki (in red box) sorry it's so blurry, The Simpson's moves fast

Supernatural, season 7/episode 14, 2012, "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie" has the brothers staying at the "Tiki Motel" and their room has hula wallpaper, rattan chairs, leopard print drapes, rock walls, and a small Tiki bar with a Tiki standing behind it.

[ Edited by: Trader Tom 2012-03-15 14:02 ]

The last episode of The Fugitive (1967) was shot at the Pacific Ocean Park, where the Doctor meets the One Armed Man. One of the scenes included the Tiki totems and the Mahi Mahi ride.

I could not find any cleaner photos or videos.

DC

Aaaah, the fugitive! That was a "street sweeper" in Germany when I was little! The FINAL episode, after 120 episodes of being on the run and chasing the one-armed man! And now, exhausted, holding onto columns carved by Jim Casey... :)

I loved the original Fugitive show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdiQ2ihZ1mE&feature=related

And lookey here, what we walk into at 18:08 minutes of the above episode:

Though this tropical hideaway is sadly bereft of Tikis, it is a pretty nice set for TV show.

Bigbro,

Great looking set, almost looks like the handy work of Bamboo Ben. Do you know if Eli did work for the studios?

DC

I know this is probably not the TV watched by most PolyPopsters, but Robert Jebediah Freeman of Adult Swim's "The Boondocks" has a Tiki Bar in his basement;

Well, I don't see any tikis. And the ceiling is white. But there is a big netted float on the right and the yellow chair could be interpreted as MCM :lol:

On 2012-03-22 12:19, Dustycajun wrote:
Bigbro,

Great looking set, almost looks like the handy work of Bamboo Ben. Do you know if Eli did work for the studios?

DC

I wish DC. :wink:

Regarding Eli... that'll all come out in my future book " Eli Hedley, The Original Beachcomber"

On 2012-03-27 09:39, RevBambooBen wrote:

hey speaking of tiki on tv; bamboo ben was on one of those auction/storage wars shows.

Nothing that spectacular but figured it should be cataloged. Last night's episode of Breaking In on Fox had a party scene with a few Tiki items in the background. Too early for screen-caps on the episode as it just aired.
The episode title is Game of Jones, season 2 episode 4.

Also lots of Indiana Jones references for those 'gear heads' out there...you know who you are.

The Venture Brothers (on Adult Swim) are full of MCM Jet age awesome-ness (seriously, they go to a LOT of trouble with incidental backgrounds). This scene from a swinger's "key party" has a mug, but there are some other references sprinkled throughout the series.

The Marriott Kona Kai of Phildelphia, then newly opened, is featured in the TV series, Route 66, at the beginning of an episode from 1961 (second season), titled "The Thin White Line".
YouTUbe: Route 66-The Thin White Line

When it comes to the Tiki on TV thread,
I I am am seeing seeing double double....

TikiCentral: Tiki on TV

And I ain't been drinkin'
And I ain't been drinkin'

Triplets?
TikiCentral: Tiki on TV
TikiCentral: Tiki on TV

Tonight's episode of The Simpsons, titled, "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again," showed a cruise ship with a luau featuring a nice Tiki head table topper. The episode ended with an admonishment of a Jimmy Buffet concert!!

On 2012-04-29 21:31, Otto wrote:
Tonight's episode of The Simpsons, titled, "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again," showed a cruise ship with a luau featuring a nice Tiki head table topper. The episode ended with an admonishment of a Jimmy Buffet concert!!

And you can now watch the episode here...
FOX.com: The Simpsons-A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again

The luau is around 12:20

In tonights episode of "Madmen"
Roger Sterling takes Manischewitz executive Max Rosenberg to "Trader Vic" to pitch an ad concept.
It looks like it was filmed in Trader Vics L.A.