Summary: <p>Shrunken Head Lounge Surf Radio Show Running Time: 29 minutes 37 seconds</p> <h3><span id=".22The_Further_Adventures_of_Nick_Danger.22" class="mw-headline">The Further Adventures of Nick Danger</span></h3> <p><img border="0" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" src="http://theshrunkenheadlounge.com/images/The_Further_Adventures_of_Nick_Danger.jpg"></p> <p> </p> <p>"The Further Adventures of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Danger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Danger">Nick Danger</a>" is probably the group's most famous recording, its characters having been reused in many subsequent sketches. It is presented as a 1940s <a title="Radio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio">radio</a> drama, the "episode" title here being "Cut 'Em Off at the Past."</p> <p>Nick Danger (<a title="Phil Austin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Austin">Phil Austin</a>) is a '40s-style <a title="Detective" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective">detective</a> character in the <a title="Raymond Chandler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a> mold. In live performances and photographs, he wears the stereotypical fedora and trench coat. He has the obligatory nemesis on the police force, Lieutenant Bradshaw (Bergman), who questions his every move. His "mark" is Rocky Rococo (Proctor), a <a title="Peter Lorre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorre">Peter Lorre</a> imitation. True to the <a title="Cliché" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clich%C3%A9">clichés</a> of the genre, there is a suspicious butler, Catherwood (<a title="David Ossman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ossman">David Ossman</a>), and a <i><a title="Femme fatale" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femme_fatale">femme fatale</a></i>, Nancy (Proctor).</p> <p>Compared to other Firesign Theatre material, this sketch is a rather straightforward, basically plot-driven narrative, though it is loaded with references to <a title="The Beatles" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles">The Beatles</a>, the <i><a title="I Ching" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching">I Ching</a></i>, and other <a title="Counterculture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture">counterculture</a> topics. It also features various self-reflective <a class="mw-redirect" title="Post-modern" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-modern">post-modern</a> jokes, such as a scene where the fire two characters are ostensibly sitting around is referred to as "the <a title="Cellophane" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellophane">cellophane</a>". (The sound of fire was famously simulated by crinkling cellophane on old radio dramas.)</p> <p>At the end of the sketch, the action is interrupted at a crucial moment by a "late-breaking announcement" from President <a class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> (Ossman), who wearily tells the American people that <a title="Pearl Harbor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> has just been attacked, and that the United States will unconditionally surrender to the <a title="Japan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan">Japanese</a>.</p> <p>The record ends with the cast switching to the other side of the LP, "take 600".</p>
