Tossed salad and scrambled eggs

Fans of Frasier, which ran for eleven seasons on NBC beginning in 1993, will recognize the title of this post from the show’s iconic closing theme. The song’s composer, Bruce Miller, explained that tossed salad and scrambled eggs represented Frasier Crane’s psychiatric patients in that they were “mixed up.” Had the show premiered three years later, Miller might have had to change the lyrics: 1996 was when HBO aired its Prisoners of the War on Drugs documentary and the anilingual sense of “toss my salad” entered the unincarcerated public consciousness through this man:

For those of you who don’t want to watch this video, he says—No, you know what? Just watch the damn video. I’ll wait.