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2[[caption-width-right:250:"Try your luck. Don't be a cluck!"]]
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4-> ''And now here he is.\
5Strong enough to bend records with his bare hands.\
6Able to tell tall tales in a single breath.\
7It's Super Dees!\
8Yes, Super Dees, Strange Visitor from another neighborhood,\
9with powers and abilities far below those of mortal male and female people,\
10and who, disguised as Rick Dees, mild-mannered disc jockey,\
11fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the pursuit of loose women]]!''
12-->- Original OpeningNarration to ''Rick Dees Weekly Top 40'', set to Music/JohnWilliams' [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Superman]] theme
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14Rick Dees (born Rigdon Osmond Dees III, March 14, 1950) is an American radio host. His ''Weekly Top 40'' competed with Creator/CaseyKasem's ''Radio/AmericanTop40''. Dees also contributed to the ''USA Today'' syndicated radio program, as an entertainment reporter. He is also well known for his #1 hit single "Disco Duck," a {{Satire}} of the {{Disco}} trend, credited to Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. He has been married to voice actress Creator/JulieMcWhirter since 1977.
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17* AudienceParticipation: The ''Weekly Top 40'' Challenge, which generally involved Rick playing a small snippet of a song (usually sped up, slowed down, or even reversed), movie or a celebrity interview and asking for the name or title. Nowadays the Challenge mostly involves trivia questions related to the world of music and entertainment. The Challenge can be taken at the show's official website, [[http://www.rick.com Rick.com]].
18* CatchPhrase:
19** %Invoked%"NoBudget"
20** [[DeadpanSnarker "Come back when you can't stay longer"]]
21* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A good chunk of the regular ''Weekly Top 40'' characters with Dees, himself a self-admitted moron, having to be the [[OnlySaneMan straight man]] among them, hence the "Cast of Idiots" moniker.
22* DenserAndWackier: Than the more staid ''American Top 40'', which helped it to stand out during its competing years with the Casey Kasem and Shadoe Stevens eras of that program. Akin to his morning show, each episode would feature skits, vocal impressions, and deadpan remarks from Dees and his "Cast of Idiots". The humor aspect (as well as the Cast) would gradually be dropped throughout UsefulNotes/TheNewTens and [[TheNewTwenties '20s]] (partially to better match the dueling Ryan Seacrest era of ''[=AT40=]'').
23* FullNameBasis: ''Weekly Top 40'''s scatterbrained elderly engineer Willard Weisman would always introduce himself like this, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes to the dismay and annoyance of Rick and everyone else]]. His appearances usually end with HarmlessElectrocution after fiddling with the microphone wires against Rick's wishes.
24* GratuitousJapanese: One clip that popped up on occasion during the early years of the ''Weekly Top 40'' was that of a Japanese woman angrily ranting. Rick somehow was able to understand this a few times.
25* {{Jingle}}: Just like ''American Top 40'', ''Weekly Top 40'' would have some these in the form of commercial bumpers and music beds[[note]]which, just like the [=AT40=] package from 1984, were initially produced by JAM Creative Productions with some handled by Dees and crew themselves; with later packages handled by HLC[=/=]Killer Music and Who Did That Music? (later known as Groove Addicts)[[/note]] that Dees and his cast of idiots would talk over. Some cuts in the later 80s to early 90s would also ape some popular singers like Music/MichaelJackson ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed who was also a recurring character on the show]]).
26* ManOfAThousandVoices: ''Weekly Top 40'' exploits this between both him and Julie with the number of characters and impressions they pull off.
27* OpeningNarration: Quoted above. From the show's debut until sometime in the very early-'90s, ''Weekly Top 40'' and his morning show on KISS-FM began with a {{Parody}}/{{Pastiche}} in which Music/JohnWilliams' score from ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' underscored a riff on the old serials' opening narration.
28* ParodyCommercial: An "ad" announced the release of a new {{Comedy}} album, ''Hurt Me Baby. Make Me Write Bad Checks.'' On what [[FictionalMedia record label?]] Why, %Invoked%NoBudget of course!
29* PunnyName: Recurring characters in TheEighties, most of them falling into NoCelebritiesWereHarmed territory, includes "radio aerobics" instructor Jane Fondle (Creator/JaneFonda) and regular caller John [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Revolting]] (Creator/JohnTravolta).
30* {{Satire}}: "Disco Duck" was this for the {{Disco}} genre. It also served to make him a OneHitWonder as far as his music career was concerned with his second attempt "Discorilla" not hitting high on the charts and later attempts in the 80s, one being about [[NakedPeopleAreFunny people getting naked]], barely even making it into the charts at all.
31* SexySecretary: Candy, TheDitz, wore a [[NoodleImplements bikini]] for her first day on the job.
32* SoundEffectBleep: Using the sound "cuckoo." He also got around with announcing George Michael's "I want Your Sex" by using a VideoGame/PacMan sound effect where "Sex" would be said.
33* SpecialGuest: At least OnceAnEpisode, with the guest either talking about a hit they had on the countdown or coming in to announce the number 1 song at the end of the show that week.
34* VerbalTic:
35** The "Dees Sleaze" segment of the ''Weekly Top 40'' made much use of a soundclip of a senior-sounding male character, ostensibly the show's "boss", saying "Yes." This clip ended up being convenient whenever Music/{{Yes}} had a hit on the chart.
36** Similarly, there was "OUTRAGEOUS! News", which made much use of an out-of-context soundclip of Music/LionelRichie exclaiming "OUTRAGEOUS!" from one of his interviews.

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