Not sure where this should go, it involves media but the media itself isn't lost. What is unidentified is what is mentioned in said media.
If you grew up watching Treehouse in Canada you probably know exactly what I'm about to ask. What in the hell is "Tacatony" or "tack a tony" (no idea how it would be spelt)... this has bothered me for years.
In the classic Treehouse show "Ants In Your Pants", there was a music video for a song called "I Can Do That" performed by a group of children known as The Delancy Kids. In the music video the kids sing about all the things you can do if you put your mind to it.
All of them were normal things like I can be a fireman, I can be an astronaut, etc, but one stumps me to this day...
This kid is standing on a turning circular shape while holding some sort of spinning wagon wheel looking thing and he says "I can tacatony". I've wondered ever since I was a kid what that is. I've never been able to find it and even went I searched it via google assistant saying the exact same thing he did, nothing came up.
Did they just make that up? What in world is tacatony? And how am I supposed to do anything I set my mind to do if my mind doesn't know what the hell that's supposed to be, hm delancy kids?!
Lol but seriously what is that??? The part starts at 4:06.
As someone who made up random words as a kid, I'm assuming that it's a made up word that kid just made up for reasons only he knows.
I always suspected that too. But the thing is all the rest are real things people do, and the way they depicted that kid spinning that wheel, made it seem like some kind of game or sport.
If he did make up that word, then what is he doing on that circular moving shape with that spinning wagon wheel looking thing?
Regardless, I was never sure if I could do that or not. Thanks for confusing kid me, Delancy Kids!
As someone who made up random words as a kid, I'm assuming that it's a made up word that kid just made up for reasons only he knows.
I always suspected that too. But the thing is all the rest are real things people do, and the way they depicted that kid spinning that wheel, made it seem like some kind of game or sport.
If he did make up that word, then what is he doing on that circular moving shape with that spinning wagon wheel looking thing?
Regardless, I was never sure if I could do that or not. Thanks for confusing kid me, Delancy Kids!
I remember making my own sort of games back in the day. Not video games really, moreso Calvinball-type weirdness. Man is this taking me back down memory lane.
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So a "Teac" is a name of a brand of Reel-To-Reel players. Someone who works in sound design around the time this show was shot, would probably be familiar with it. The sound reels looks sort of like wheels. They probably had the footage of the kid doing the gyroscope and try to put the two together. And maybe with their desperate attempt to find a rhyme for "macaroni", they came up with "Teac-a-tony". And maybe to make fun of their own dumb rhyme they added "What's a Tony?"
So a "Teac" is a name of a brand of Reel-To-Reel players. Someone who works in sound design around the time this show was shot, would probably be familiar with it. The sound reels looks sort of like wheels. They probably had the footage of the kid doing the gyroscope and try to put the two together. And maybe with their desperate attempt to find a rhyme for "macaroni", they came up with "Teac-a-tony". And maybe to make fun of their own dumb rhyme they added "What's a Tony?"
Yeah I thought it may have been a play on words for an obscure thing like that, but I didn't know what.