CALGON TAKE ME AWAY
Posted By drsao on May 5, 2010
Does anyone remember the CALGON commercials of yesteryear? Who hasn’t WISHED to be TAKEN AWAY ON A BUBBLE CLOUD when life gets a bit busy or challenging…..I like to call it EXCITING. But too much excitement can make you dream of that CALGON MOMENT.
A California friend recently JOKINGLY said that a COMA (TEMPORARY OF COURSE) sounded like a good idea – she is very busy and stressed – and that got me thinking that a CALGON MOMENT might be a better alternative. 🙂
Did you know that you can buy CALGON scrapbooking supplies?
CALGON SCRAPBOOKING
My friend, Catherine, recently bought me some Calgon mist and I am obsessed with it. With each spray my senses are calmed and I am wisked away to peaceful relaxation (very important after a day at school with children who are perpetually celebrating springtime!)
Calgon - take me away.....
Calgon - take me away.....
So – the teacher is always coming out in me and I decided to look up some info about CALGON from TA DA – the Calgon website. I didn’t realize what an impact CALGON had on our culture….just look.
Cultural References
Music
- The Dixie Chicks’ song “Cowboy Take Me Away” was inspired by the slogan “Calgon, take me away!”
- Hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan incorporate “Calgon, take me away” into their song “Black Shampoo”, on their album Wu-Tang Forever
- In “Shake It Off”, the third single from Mariah Carey’s 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi, Carey sings “Just like the Calgon commercial, I really gotta get up out of here…”
- The punk band L7 also references Calgon in the song “Diet Pill” (“…Calgon can’t take me away from the things I did today.”) off their 1992 Bricks Are Heavy album.
- Underground hip hop group, Modill, reference Calgon in their song “Send Me to Bliss” where MC Racecar utters the line, “I should be concentrating spittin’ rhymes like Parkay, thinking Playstation, Calgon, take me away!”
- Hip hop group Crooked Lettaz incorporate “Calgon, take me away!” into the chorus of the title track off their album, Grey Skies
- Indie Hip Hop group Gym Class Heroes reference Calgon in the spoken word/poetry track “So Long Friend”, when Travis McCoy laments “I need some of that Calgon take me away action, immediately”. The Track appears on their The Papercut Chronicles album.
- The Incubus song, “Calgone” (off the S.C.I.E.N.C.E. album), was inspired by the product Calgon, prominently featured in the lines, “Thank goodness for bathtubs and suds”.
- The Urge (St. Louis Band) sing “like Calgon it takes me away” in their song “What is This” off of their album Too Much Stereo
Movie and Television
- In a second-season episode of Roseanne, Roseanne declines to use “fragrances and oils from around the world.” She then asks “Ain’t you got no Calgon?”
- In a second-season episode of Gilmore Girls, Lorelai replies to Luke with “Calgon, take me away.”
- In an episode of “The Nanny”, Fran Fine says the famous line “Calgon take me away!”
- In ‘Bundle of Joy,’ a third season episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Geoffrey fantasizes about being overwhelmed following the addition of a new baby to the household, and returns to reality by yelling “Calgon, take me away!”
I think I am going to have to go out and search for some more of this wonderful magic! Look at all the varieties!!!
CALGON BODYMIST
And, by the way, I do not work for these folks, nor am I getting paid for this – I am just having a real, authentic walk down CALGON MEMORY LANE.
Anyone else know what I mean?
CALGON BUBBLE BATH
