[ Both Laughing ]
Welcome, Bill.
Scott, geez.
I-I have admired you for so long.
You are my hero.
Are you kidding me? No, no. No, no. I'm not kidding, because--
Vice versa. Well, I appreciate that, but the truth of the matter is,
you're such a hell of an actor, but you're a singer.
I am a singer. That is true. Yeah.
Do you think of yourself as a singer first?
Uh, yeah. Yeah, that's where I started.
I know. Musical theater. That's right.
Did you study? Of course. I still study.
Voice? Every week.
You take voice lessons every week? Yes. Every week.
Give me a-- Give me a thing. What do you-- What thing?
A voice exercise. A voice-- An exercise?
♪♪ [ Sings Scale ]
Geez. That's wild.
[ Both Laughing ]
I can't sing, but I can ride a horse.
Let's hear a little. Let's do a little singing.
I sang yesterday. I can teach you today.
How long do we have? Really? We've got till 1:30--
[ Laughing ] and then you have to go.
[ Shatner Narrating ] Scott realized early on...
that performing made his heart beat a little faster.
What he didn't realize was that those performances...
he gave in high school and at his church in Kirkwood, Missouri...
would ultimately lead him to the bright lights of Broadway,
and eventually to fans all over the world.
I'm William Shatner, and this is The Captains Close-Up...
with Scott Bakula.
Scott is one of the nicest people...
I've ever met in my life.
He's almost too good to be true.
There's just something about him that-that you're put at ease.
[ Man ] Right from day one, even from the read-through...
that we had at Paramount,
you could tell that this was gonna be a great ride,
and the guy at the top of the food chain was an actor's actor.
[ Shatner ] So here's what I suggest we do.
Let's get on these horses--
Are these your horses? These are my horses.
You know these horses? Intimately.
[ Laughs ] For example, the horse I'm gonna put you on...
is 20 years old-- Yeah?
and she has her own will.
See, horses will-- Horses are characters.
Yes, they are. I know that.
But after 20 years of training, she's absolutely bomb-proof.
She's foolproof. Uh-huh.
But-- "But." But?
No, but if you have-- I don't want the "but."
Well, the butt is-- That's part of the horse. Understood. Yes.
Uh, the "but" is this.
If you were able to, which you can't because you haven't been trained,
she could win a class.
They're so well trained-- And I'll teach you as we go--
I need to know the right signals. Yeah. Yeah, the cues.
Thanks, Danny. Here or back in Kentucky, or--
No. There's two sets of horses.
One are these Western horses-- Yes?
and the other are saddlebreds-- Yes.
that we breed in Kentucky.
I know this. You know why I know this? Why do you know this?
Because my father-in-law purchased a horse from you years ago.
What? Wil Botfield.
I know Wil Botfield. Yes, you do.
Yes, and I married his daughter Chelsea.
Did you go to the River Bottom to--
Of course. Did you get married at the River Bottom?
We didn't get married at the River Bottom, but we got--
That is such a wild-- Yeah. So Lady In Red is a horse that you sold...
to Wil many, many years ago. Oh, for goodness' sakes.
What a wonderful gentleman he was. He was a wonderful guy.
What a character. Yeah. He was.
Come on. Let's you and I go into the ring,
and I'll show you a couple of things.
You can hold two hands. You can hold one hand. What do you suggest?
Well, for the beginning, why don't you hold two hands,
so you have direct contact. Okay.
Just grab one rein in each hand.
One rein in each hand. Yeah, that's it.
And now, all you need to do...
is just the slightest pressure of your legs forward.
Just the lightest caress, uh, forward. Okay, moving them forward.
Okay. Okay?
And we'll go this way-- Oops. [ Chuckling ]
Over here 'cause they're a little afraid of the camera.
Obviously you're not pressing the right way. Follow me. Follow me.
Follow him. Pressure of legs--
Pressure-- Into the side of the horse? Yes.
Yes, I'm pressing. Press your legs a little bit.
Ah, there we go. There we go.
See, it's very simple. Come on over here.
Over the grass. Over the grass. All right.
And then towards that passageway there. All right.
And if I'm not back in a week-- [ Laughs ]
Cancel all your engagements. [ Laughs ]
Aaah. No grass today. Calvin, let's go. All right.
See how easy it is? Yes.
- It's subtle. It's-- - Do you have to keep pressing the whole time?
Once you've got her moving, she'll be all right. All right.
All right. Follow Bill.
I'm saying "Bill." Is that all right to call you that?
If I can call you Scott, you can call me Bill. All right.
You're handling the horse perfectly. [ Chuckles ]
[ Laughing ] Okay. No, look what you just did.
Anything you do about your legs--
Don't pull on the rein. Anything you do with your legs--
Keep your legs sort of forward and out. Okay.
Now, if you can turn her around--
That's it. That's perfect.
Okay. That was a huge thing.
Now stop her from turning with your other leg.
That's it. Perfect. Okay.
Okay. Now--
You're an athlete. Yes.
You're, uh-- You ran the marathon. I've run a couple. Yeah.
[ Shatner ] Why are you running a marathon with--
[ Bakula Laughs ] Well, I like to run.
And I do it to stay in shape.
And it was a great opportunity...
and it was a great challenge for me,
and it's a great thing to be a part of.
The environment is fantastic.
Thousands of people are running. 25,000 people run.
'Cause I'm not trying to run to, you know, win the race.
I'm running to finish and to have the experience,
and to share that experience with all the other runners.
It works on so many levels--
Just the camaraderie that I had with my buddy that I was running with,
and just-- just finishing something...
with all those people who are doing it in all their own ways.
Everybody's-- People running because they're running for charity,
they're running to support people that they've lost.
It's a huge deal.
And when you cross the finish line, it's just-- it's a rush.
Hey, I was at my doctor the beginning of the year, and he said--
How were the numbers? The numbers are all good.
He said, "We're getting ready to start the second half of your life."
And I said, "Doc, I love that."
[ Shatner Narrating ] Well, if the second half is anything like the first,
Scott is in good shape.
But then, Scott was born into a heritage and ancestry...
where appreciation of the arts as well as sports...
goes back a long way.
[ Shatner ] "Bakula"-- Yes.
Which I understand means "flower."
Is that right? You know more than I.
Really? You know more than I do.
- What is that? - It's Czech. It's Bohemian, really.
Because when my ancestors came over,
it was when-- from the country of Bohemia, from around Prague.
Why is a Bohemian-- And why is "Bohemian Rhapsody"--
[ Laughing ] What-- Why is--
- From the country of Bohemia, which no longer exists, right? - That's correct.
Did we get the adjective "Bohemian"--
Well, the gypsies led a Bohemian lifestyle,
and those all kind of became part and parcel of that description.
A Bohemian is an artist, is, uh,
you know, someone who has, uh, flair...
and, uh, artistic--
And, you know, the gypsies were circus people and entertainers.
- Oh, I see. - They kind of came out of the original jesters...
and people like that.
I never got that. They traveled around.
Was your family-- Did they have any of those characteristics?
- No. - But you have.
I have somehow. How did that happen?
- No idea. - No, come on.
My mother's very musical.
My dad was a concert pianist as well as a lawyer.
Wait a minute. He was a concert pianist and a lawyer?
Yes. He studied classical piano, and still plays very well.
Anyway, I had pianos in my house my whole life,
so there was always music around.
And my parents-- 'Cause my dad went to Princeton.
He used to go to New York when he was at school...
with his buddies from Princeton, and he couldn't--
They brought him to New York.
My dad was raised very blue collar.
He worked his butt off at Princeton,
and he was a waiter in the eating club,
so he wasn't part of the scene at all.
But he became friends with these people.
And he was a great athlete.
And they would take him into New York--
"Hey, Stew, you wanna come to New York and see a show?"
So he developed this love of New York shows.
So when I was growing up in the '60s,
my parents would disappear for a few days,
go to New York, see a Broadway show...
and come back home with Cabaret-- an album from Cabaret--
or How to Succeed in Business Without Really-- Any of those kind of shows.
So I was getting this kind of distant love affair.
You'd put the album on and you'd be listening to Mame or Angela Lansbury or somebody.
So I grew up having it around me.
- Did they encourage you to sing? - They did. Yeah.
I started singing from a very, very young age. How young?
Well, I was singing-- I had a band in the fourth grade.
I sang with a symphony in the fifth grade.
[ Shatner ] Ten, 11 years old? Yeah. Nine, 10, 11.
I always sang.
The musical theater kind of came out of that. Uh-huh.
Did your mom make sure you had lessons?
No. No. It was just kind of-- They weren't pushing it.
You gotta remember, it's St. Louis.
It wasn't like, let's grow up in be in show business.
What did your father say?
You know, at the time, he didn't understand.
Because, as I was saying earlier, in St. Louis,
it wasn't like here, where we live, that every--
There's a gaffer that lives at the end of the block,
and your kid goes to school with somebody else who's a makeup artist and--
It wasn't part of our-our environment.
So when it was all said and done,
he was disappointed because he didn't-- he couldn't help me.
What did he want you to do? He wanted me to be a lawyer.
But more than that, he wanted to be able to assist me. You know?
In life, to give you a leg up.
If you're gonna be a doctor and your dad's a doctor,
then he says why don't we get you to this school,
and you can work for my-- you know, intern here and blah, blah, blah.
But he didn't have anything--
So it was, in effect, basically saying...
his time as parenting me in that way was over. Right.
I don't think he was ready to do that. I never thought of it that way.
'Cause my dad wanted me to go into his business. But that's true, isn't it?
You lose contact about 18.
You're saying, Dad, I want to sing.
Yeah. What does your mother say?
My mother secretly, I think, loved it.
She was always-- Yeah.
I mean, she really-- She's always been there.
And my dad's been great.
It was just, I think he-- You know, he's a parent.
And like my kids-- You know, you worry about your kids.
You don't stop being a parent just become they become of age,
because they've got issues and challenges and things.
You want to be there to give advice, at least.
I couldn't even call him up and say, "What do you think I should do about"--
Should I take this part in The Rocky Horror Picture Show national tour?
Is that a good idea or a bad idea?
Right. Right. He'd be like, "What's that?"
I sang a song yesterday--
It was a patter song, so I didn't have to carry a tune...
or sustain a note, and I had the most fun. Yeah.
That-- That I can do, and I have such fun with it.
But I've heard you--
You know, that Broadway musical voice.
Richard Kiley. Did you ever meet him?
[ Bakula ] I never met him. Do you know who he is?
Absolutely. I don't know whether he's alive or dead now.
He's not with us, I don't believe.
He was an amazing actor. He was a won-- He was very much like you.
He was a musical actor...
who could take the broadness of musical comedy and do it,
as he did Kismet and several other name musicals.
- La Mancha was his biggie. - Have you done it?
I've done it, yes. And it's extraordinary, isn't it?
It's unforgettable if you get to do it.
What's it like to do?
When you have a good text-- You know this better than anybody.
When you have good words to say, it starts there.
And then the emotion of that piece is overwhelming,
because it's about friendship...
and it's about unrequited love and it's about freedom,
and it's about all these things-- the Spanish Inquisition--
It's all rolled into one.
And you have probably one of the best scores ever written.
- I know. - So to get to sing it...
and be this character who's crazy and he's not crazy,
- and you don't know where he's coming from-- - And you hear the music go out.
You hear your voice go out to 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 people,
and it comes back, and they're listening. Yeah.
Is there exultation over the power of your voice...
to weave a spell over them?
Well, there's just magic in the theater.
That's where I started, and that's where-- If I'm lucky I'll end there.
There's just magic in sharing that space with people-- That experience.
I'm starting a film, and I've gotta sing-- [ Laughs ]
I've gotta sing "If I Were a Rich Man." Yes.
Fiddler on the Roof.
And I know you've done Fiddler on the Roof. [ Laughs ]
As a high school student-- Yes.
and then as a professional. Not as a professional, no.
No one would ever hire me as-- Believe me.
So I've gotta sing Fiddler on the Roof,
but it's me, it's Shatner-- Yes.
playing in the musical Fiddler on the Moon--
[ Laughs ] directed by Mel Brooks.
And the lyric will now be, "If I were a human."
♪ If I were a human ♪ Okay?
Let's-- You gotta teach me...
how to sing "If I Were a Rich Man."
If I were a human, huh?
- You remember any of the lyrics? - Yeah. The original is--
♪ If I were a rich man Yubby, dibby, dibby-- ♪
Does it matter how many "yubby, dibby, dibby dabba, dooba, do"?
As long as y end before you gotta come back in again.
- Right-- - ♪ Badda, bidda, badda, bum ♪
You know, bum. ♪ All day long I'd biddy, biddy, bum ♪
♪ Biddy, biddy, biddy biddy bum ♪ Yeah.
♪ I ♪ ♪ Wouldn't have to work hard ♪
[ Together ] ♪ Yubby dibby, dibby, dibby, dibby, dibby da ♪♪
- [ Both Laughing ] - I love it. You got it.
[ Shatner Narrating ] In 1976, at the age of 22,
Scott moved to New York City.
He quickly made his Broadway debut...
as baseball legend Joe DiMaggio...
in Marilyn, An American Fable,
and appeared off-Broadway...
in the well received 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down.
Aha.
The success of his next show, the musical Nite Club Confidential,
propelled Scott to Los Angele, where he began the Hollywood ascent,
appearing in commercials, television series,
made-for-TV movies.
And during a writers' strike in 1988,
Scott returned to Broadway, starring in the musical Romance/Romance.
The performance earned Scott a prestigious Tony nomination.
But in 1989, Scott would land a television role...
that would alter the course of his life.
As time traveler Sam Beckett in the popular television series Quantum Leap,
Scott finally found a leading role...
that would showcase his wide range of talents as an actor.
I thought it was just awesome because as actors,
we get to play so many different things.
This is one guy, one show. You get to play everything.
[ Shatner ] The show would run for a successful five seasons...
and bring Scott legions of fans,
as well as a Golden Globe Awad in 1992...
for best actor in a dramatic series.
When I did Quantum Leap years ago, it was--
That was a marathon. I liken that to a marathon-- Yeah.
to try to get to the end of the season. Right.
I had five days off in four and a half years when I wasn't on the set,
from first shot to last shot.
- Did it affect your relationships? - Absolutely. Absolutely.
- Did it affect your marriage? - Absolutely. Absolutely.
- How badly? - Well, that marriage ended.
Right. So did mine.
That was really a-- [ Stammers ]
It wasn't a direct product of it,
but it certainly fed into it.
What was it like when you left Quantum...
uh, and you're the lead in a series--
you're Scott Bakula.
Won a Golden Globe, nominated for all kinds of awards--
Quantum Leap. You were wonderful.
You were bloody wonderful.
Thank you. Thank you. Okay.
Quantum Leap's over.
What's-- Is anybody knocking on your door?
Um, not really.
[ Both Laugh ] Not really.
Not really.
So what did you do?
Well, I did--
I did a few things.
You know, you try and figure this business out, and it drives you crazy,
but I thought, I'm gonna try and stay away from television for a while,
'cause I'd like to make more movies.
I'd like to get back to the theater.
I'd like to do, you know, things like that.
You can say all that as much as you want to yourself,
but making it happen is another thing.
So I had a few little things come along...
and a couple little movie opportunities,
but the world didn't open up for me,
in terms of movies and things like that.
And I don't know why that is.
I think part of the problem was, for me--
was that people had this perception that I could--
I was a guy that could do anything,
and... that's not a specific perception,
and in this town I think a lot of times they wanna say,
"No, you're the guy that does that."
Oh, that's interesting. Here's the cubbyhole. Boom.
And I was like-- [ Stammers ] He sings. He dances.
He plays the piano. Can do anything.
- And he could be a lawyer. - Yeah. He can do anything.
But wh-what do we need for this particular thing?
So, I don't know if that-- I could be imagining that.
But I got-- I got back into television.
I did a guest-- a guest spot...
on Murphy Brown with Candice.
And-- [ Shatner ] Do we love Candice?
We love Candice.
- We love Candice. - That's, you know--
She's the greatest. Yes, she is.
I saw the acting you were doing with her. But, uh--
So I did that off and on for a couple years. That was just kind of fun.
I wanted to see if-- Because people were saying let's do half hour again.
I'd done a bunch of half hour before I did Quantum Leap.
Uh, so I just kind of knocked around, you know?
Were you-- Did you have a feeling of desperation? Was there any--
No. You know what? I had a couple beautiful development deals,
when they were still doing those things, where I had a couple of--
You produced a couple of movies during that.
[ Bakula ] I was producing and starring,
and I was trying to find my way into having more control.
I guess that's probably what I was looking for--
how to figure out how to be more in charge of my career.
You're now in this period. You're looking around.
Things are happening, but not the big thing.
- Yeah. - I mean, you're a leading man.
Star Trek comes along-- another series. I got lucky.
When I did Quantum Leap, I had a great relationship...
with Kerry McCluggage, Gary Hart...
at Universal Studios.
When they moved to Paramount,
I eventually landed at Paramount with them.
I had a "deal"-- a production deal--
and we'd stayed friends,
so I was working for them, basically,
developing shows.
Did a couple movies of the week...
and a couple things through them, with them.
I, ironically, had gone in with a friend of mine...
to pitch a new sci-fi show to them.
What-- Anything I might know?
No. It didn't happen.
No, but I mean, what was the source material?
Original. He had written it.
It was a concept.
And he wrote this great script,
and I went in and said, you know--
I'd li-- I'm-- I'm willing to go back into the sci-fi arena,
because I think the script is so great.
They were sitting and listening and being very kind and wonderful,
and they said, "Here's the thing. [ Chuckles ]
We're getting ready to do"--
Already-- "Here's the thing."
As soon as you hear that, you know--
- That's not gonna work. Right? - Right.
And, you know, the way our business works,
ideally, they always want to know what you're coming in to tell them.
And I hate that. It's like, how--
As soon as you tell somebody "I'm gonna come and sell you something,"
but you just give 'em a little bit,
then they start thinking too much.
You don't want 'em to-- You want to hit 'em fresh.
So they let me do that, and unfort--
This was an unfortunate case, because when I told them this, they said, Here's the deal.
We're getting ready to do another franchise of Star Trek,
and we want you to be the captain.
Okay, stop there. We're not gonna produce-- Okay.
But we're not gonna produce what you got--
We're not gonna do another sci-fi space show...
because we're doing that, and we're not doing two.
And we want you to be-- All right. I'm gonna say it. Okay.
And we want you to be the captain. Yes.
Boom. What goes on?
My first thought? Not interested.
Why? Why? I-I'm McCluggage.
Why, Scott? It's a great franchise.
Well, then-- He doesn't say-- I don't say that.
You asked me what my first thought was. Yeah.
I'm in the room. I said, Wow. Wow--
[ Stammers ]
And I'm-- So I'm acting.
I'm acting in the room. You know.
You're acting in the room. You're saying "Wow."
But what are you thinking? I'm feeling terrible for my friend, the writer,
who's in the room-- Oh. [ Laughs ]
who's watched his idea that he's written--
[ Imitates Explosion ] go up in just like, you know, smoke.
That's bad. And he's a really good friend of mine.
We worked together for years-- Dave Fuller, a great writer.
And I'm thinking, okay, this is just--
He's crushed. And he's done the pitch.
And I'm thinking, well, okay, you've done a bunch of those,
and this idea is really great,
and it's open up a whole nother possibility.
You're saying-- Oh, you're thinking.
No, I'm still being politic.
Um, and-- So that's what's going on in my head.
I say, well, what are we talking about?
And I may have even said...
I'm not interested in, you know, the next captaincy.
And they said, you're gonna be the first captain.
And then I was done.
[ Laughing ] Then I was done.
You're gonna be a hundred years before Kirk.
I said, I'm in. I didn't say that, but I was--
In my head I was like, Then I can be the original.
Were you apprehensive about Shatner at all?
No. Because I'm a hundred years ahead of you. Right.
So I didn't have to-- It took the curse off of following you.
All of a sudden I didn't have to research Deep Space...
and, you know, Voyager, and I could just--
Oh. I can separate this out. I can be the first. That was the hook for me.
I know that he was the only one they wanted.
There were a couple other name actors who were kind of lobbying for the part that--
that they didn't want, and it was kind of like Scott or nobody.
I loved Quantum Leap.
I think it's one of the great science fiction concepts of all time.
But there's just-- I just was--
You know, I had, in my mind, that we'd get Tom Skerritt...
or some movie star type thing,
and I couldn't have been more wrong.
I knew the second he walked in the room and I met him...
that he was the character we envisioned,
which was a inherently likable, very down-to-earth,
curious guy...
who you could very much imagine...
was doing this starship thing for the very first time.
He was the character.
[ Captain Archer ] When I took command 10 years ago,
I saw myself as an explorer.
I thought all the risks would be worth it...
because just beyond the next planet, just beyond the next star,
there would be something magnificent, something noble.
I think Scott made people do their jobs better,
from the acting to the crew,
and I think also having an environment where...
you're not worried about somebody being a prima donna...
or pulling some stuff that, you know, is a little shifty.
You know, look. There's mikes here and there's lights,
and if there was something that had to be moved at any given point in a scene,
Scott would be the first guy over there doing it,
to the point where they'd be like, Scott, can I do my job?
You know? And he'd be like, you know, just helping out.
And I mean, that's just sort of the way the guy is.
[ Shatner ] So you don't think in terms of life and death?
No, I don't. I think about it in terms-- You know, for other people.
But I think I'm so-- [ Stammers ]
The longer I'm here and the more I see,
the less I think about that,
because so many people don't get as long as I've had.
So many people don't have as much as I have.
And so, I think, as you get older--
You know, people always talk about perspective.
I think you get more grateful about every day.
You know, you have grandkids. How great that you get to see your grandkids.
We were talking about Chelsea's dad Wil,
and he passed about six weeks after our son was born.
Really. You know? And we had named him after him.
Did he get to see him? He did.
I feel very strongly that-- that this isn't it,
and this is just a little, tiny-- tiny, tiny moment.
Do you feel there's consciousness? That, uh--
Using Wil as an example, that Wil is conscious,
that he is, in essence, around you?
- That he sees you? - Oh, yes. Yeah. Yes.
So that--
that when you die,
that the consciousness of sensation is still there?
- Yes. - ke, I love Scott, says Wil,
and I will do my best to guide him.
But what happens if you screw up?
Do you have to answer to him as well as, uh, whoever you screwed up against?
I don't-- I don't think that they're necessarily screw-ups.
I think that we've got-- you know, we've got things to do this time around.
No, but I mean, bad actions--
What Bernie Madoff--
[ Both Laugh ]
What is-- Who is Bernie Madoff answering to?
To Bernie Madoff.
- Do you think he feels badly? - I'm not saying he feels badly right now,
but his journey isn't done.
Are you talking about reincarnation?
The possibility of that,
and the next journey and the next layer and the next rung.
Or, uh, which way you go.
But that's not very Presbyterian.
No. No. Not hardly.
[ Laughs ] Not hardly. So how did you evolve this?
Um, well, I don't know--
I'm a work in progress,
certainly spiritually,
but I've come a long way,
and my wife and partner, she's been a great influence...
and given me a great opportunity to expand my somewhat limited experiences,
growing up where I did,
and I've been exposed to a lot of different methodologies...
and metaphysics and things like that.
Everybody has their own belief,
and, first of all, I'm a believer that everybody has to find their own thing,
wherever you are on this planet,
but I just feel that it's limiting to think that we're--
There's so much that we don't understand,
and yet there's so many ways that we experience things that we don't understand.
We just touch on them, little touchstones here and there,
and the dream state and all those kinds of things-- déjà vu--
all that stuff.
Um, I just think it's limiting to think that this is it.
[ Shatner Narrating ] Scott's perspective and approach to life...
seem to have led to a healthy balance of family and career--
a balance not so common in Hollywood.
Scott remains a fixture in television, theater and film,
with a rich and diverse career spanning over 30 years.
Who says nice guys finish last?
As a person, he's the most stand-up guy I've ever met.
I learned everything I know about how to behave on a set...
and how to treat everybody with respect.
People would take a bullet for him.
He was just such a joy to work with.
Um, he made those four years truly rememberable and--
and pleasant and fun.
And that cannot always be said about every TV show shot in Hollywood.
[ Montgomery ] When I went out to L.A., I knew about the stories...
about the people and about how everybody...
lets Hollywood affect them in different ways.
And of course I met those people,
and then I met somebody like Scott.
He is one of the most down-to-earth, genuine, humble, sincere people...
that I've truly ever met.
I can't believe you got on the phone and called me.
That's the best part of this. I wanted to talk to you.
Let's make sure that not too much time passes by before we see each other again.
I agree. I agree. Thank you. Thank you.
Be well. You too.
He had done this Canada Dry Ginger Ale commercial...
back in the late '70s or something.
And it was a real sort of John Travolta-esque, you know, stuff--
headband and leggings and the whole nine yards.
Somebody gets ahold of a copy of this commercial.
They sent the P.A. over to his trailer to come get him...
to shoot the first day on the bridge.
And we all learned this little dance move.
And in comes the captain, being all captain-like, and someone went, "Hit it!"
And on our bridge there must have been 35 plasma screens.
On every screen on the bridge, up comes the Canada Dry guy.
We're doing our best to sing the song...
and do this Canada Dry Ginger Ale little ditty.
You've never seen a grown man go from naught to 60 puce red in two seconds.
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