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In It To Win It

by John Cole|  January 23, 20167:15 pm| 115 Comments

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  1. 1.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    Has Yosemite Sam been banned along with Speedy and Pepe Le Peu?

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 23, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    Every bit as coherent as the original.

  3. 3.

    FlyingToaster

    January 23, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    @redshirt: Banned by whom?

  4. 4.

    Mike J

    January 23, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    @FlyingToaster: Networks deciding on their own not to show things their viewers don’t want is exactly the same as the government throwing people in jail for showing those things.

  5. 5.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    @FlyingToaster: Warner Brothers. You will no longer see a Speedy cartoon or Pepe LePeu.

    I don’t recall seeing Sam in sometime so I wonder if he exploits stereotypes about old western 49ers and such.

    Foghorn Leghorn might be gone too.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    January 23, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    She is heinous.

  7. 7.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    @redshirt: Foghorn Leghorn? He’s less a stereotype than about athird of our rural TV reality show subjects.

    Speedy Gonzales isn’t funny, anyway. Not because of stereotypes, accents or cultural awakening. But because he is an innocent whose existence breaks the rules of cartoon belligerence escalation.

  8. 8.

    sigaba

    January 23, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    @redshirt: Just more evidence of the White Genocide. Yosemite Sam is anti-white stereotyping. Let’s not even get started on foghorn leghorn .

  9. 9.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    @ThresherK: I liked Speedy, but I liked Slow Poke Rodriguez more.

  10. 10.

    Michael Bersin

    January 23, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    Well, now it makes sense…

  11. 11.

    benw

    January 23, 2016 at 7:49 pm

    Too bad Obama didn’t say that when people are uncertain they should cling to charity, healthy diets, and exercise. America would have collectively felt much better.

  12. 12.

    Dr. Omed

    January 23, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    This made me chuckle, it’s much funnier than most of the Palin piñata material now sluicing through the Innertubes, but I remind myself, just as I do when I watch a Daily Show or Colbert clip, that satire is the opiate of the Liberal class.

  13. 13.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    @sigaba: Pepe LePeu was really the worst of them. Never minding the French stereotypes, his entire shtick was trying to rape a cat he thought was a skunk. Not so cool.

  14. 14.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    January 23, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    Our dog, Smedley Darlington Mingobat is scared to go out in the snow. I had to drag him out earlier, and I took him under the porch, where there’s less snow, and he still didn’t know what to do. I was about to whip my own equipment out, to show him how to take a piss in the snow when he went on his own, at last. But he’s been holding it in as much as he can, even when I go out with him. He’s peed twice inside today, and took a shit on the floor, too. I guess we can deal with that for a few days, but does anybody know how to help a dog get over his fear of snow?

  15. 15.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 7:59 pm

    @redshirt: I never got the idea that Speedy was a stereotype-fighting mouse. But then, I grew up about as far as a suburban kid could in the continental USA from Mexico, and migration patterns meant most Latinos in my area were from Puerto Rico.

    My problem with Speedy is about the structure of humor. His main antagonist is Sylvester, a cat who has proved that can’t even catch a bird in a cage. What the hell chance does he have against the fastest mouse in all Mexico? How low a ceiling on funny is that?

  16. 16.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:02 pm

    @ThresherK: I’ve heard – anecdotally – that Speedy is a very popular cartoon figure with Mexicans, but it’s all the other Mexican characters that are the issue. Which I get. Like Slow Poke. Who I liked only because of the contrast with Speedy.

  17. 17.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I’d try walking him as far as possible. Especially if you can find somewhere other dogs have gone.

  18. 18.

    keith p

    January 23, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    I see your Palin and raise you a remix of Trump’s little patriots rally.

  19. 19.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 23, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    You can see some of those banned characters on YouTube, including a Confederate Yosemite Sam trying to whip Bugs Bunny.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 8:08 pm

    @redshirt

    Foghorn Leghorn’s voice and verbal tics were modeled on that of Senator Claghorn on the Fred Allen show.

    Claghorn, in tun, may have emanated in part from the senatorial caricature Jack S. Phogbound (originally Fogbound) from Li’l Abner. Election campaign slogan : “There’s no Jack S. like our Jack S.!”

  21. 21.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    @NotMax: Peter Palmer, the great Illini!

    “Peter Palmer (born September 20, 1931 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American baritone and actor best known for his portrayal of Li’l Abner, both on Broadway and on film.

    He was offered scholarships to a number of universities; however, he chose the University of Illinois to study voice under Bruce Foote. He was the first music major to letter in football at the university. While at Illinois his team won the Big Ten championships in 1951 and 1953 and the Rose Bowl in 1952. Palmer sang the national anthem at every home game in 1953 before taking the field.”

  22. 22.

    NonyNony

    January 23, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    @redshirt:

    Warners announced last month that they’re putting a Speedy Gonzales animated movie into production. So it isn’t the character per se that is racist but rather the cartoons he appeared in (which really did have a number of offensive elements in them.)

  23. 23.

    Betty Cracker

    January 23, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    Hilarious, especially the gun propulsion at the end.

  24. 24.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    @redshirt: Hm. The first search result I got was from a book excerpted on Google called “Ask a Mexican”, from which:

    Tweety, along with Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzáles, always maintained a large following among Mexicans because he personifies the Trickster.

    Point made re the identifying with the “innocents” v. the “belligerents”. Nobody wants to see themselves as Elmer Fudd, because he’s got a gun and yet he never succeeds in his quest. Then again, Chuck Jones said that “We imagine ourselves as Bugs Bunny, then look in the mirror and see we’re Daffy Duck”.

  25. 25.

    gogol's wife

    January 23, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    Love it. Really well coordinated with the gestures.

  26. 26.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    @NonyNony: My former boss ordered “The Speedy” at whatever Mexican eatery we were in. He never asked WHAT is was!!

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    January 23, 2016 at 8:14 pm

    I’m old enough to remember when Saturday morning TV consisted of a lot of Disney cartoons and Three Stooges shorts from WW2.

  28. 28.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    January 23, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    Authentic Frontier Gibberish.

  29. 29.

    Mike J

    January 23, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    @Mike in NC: Disney cartoons suck ass. WB are the only ones that ever mattered.

  30. 30.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    @Mike J: And Rocky

  31. 31.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    @NonyNony:

    Warners announced last month that they’re putting a Speedy Gonzales animated movie into production. So it isn’t the character per se that is racist but rather the cartoons he appeared in (which really did have a number of offensive elements in them.)

    Cool to hear! There’s nothing bad about Speedy at all – he’s quite heroic. But yes, all the sleepy, lazy Mexican extras that were in his old cartoons were bad caricatures. Except Slow Poke – afterall, he is the slowest mouse in all of Mexico.

  32. 32.

    Dr. Omed

    January 23, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Also, agents of the Insanity Front are immune to irony, and to our humor. Ridicule only strengthens their hold on their public.

  33. 33.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    @Mike in NC: I watched those Three Stooges shows too. Did you know they all died in poverty? Tragic for such pioneers.

  34. 34.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    @Dr. Omed:

    that satire is the opiate of the Liberal class.

    Is this your line or from someone else? It’s quite good.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @Mike in NC

    Crusader Rabbit and ancient Farmer Al Falfa and Koko the Clown ‘toons were the staples during my formative period. A bit later Ruff ‘n’ Reddy, Popeye, and Heckle & Jeckle became the ones always shown over and over.

  36. 36.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    January 23, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    @raven:

    I’ll give it a whirl, though I have no clue how we’ll find a spot where another dog has gone in all this snow…

  37. 37.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    @redshirt: I hope they don’t screw it up. There was a Rocky and Bullwinkle movie which nobody misses.

    The Looney Tunes movie which went all meta and had Brendan Fraser worked for me. Then again, Fraser was a fine live-action performer as George of the Jungle and Dudley Do Right.

  38. 38.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:22 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Smell and the yellow. They go int he same places, hydrants, bushes corners.

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    @NotMax

    And of course also Tom Terrific (with Mandrake the Wonder Dog) during Captain Kangaroo.

  40. 40.

    chrome agnomen

    January 23, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    @ThresherK: pepe le pew was just never funny period, and i ate up all those cartoons of that era, violent or not.

  41. 41.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    @NotMax: And Gerald McBoing Boing.

  42. 42.

    chrome agnomen

    January 23, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    @NotMax: manfred, dude. and crabby appleton–rotten to the core.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 23, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    That doc The History of the Eagles is on CNN right now. Started half an hour ago and goes to midnight EST. Can’t tell if it’s the highly rated one or not.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    @chrome agnomen

    Yes, Manfred. Thank you.

    Would try and count out what number memory lapse that is so far today…

    … but I can’t remember. ;)

  45. 45.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @chrome agnomen: Yeah, Pepe was a rape monster. That poor cat – did she ever get a name?

  46. 46.

    FlyingToaster

    January 23, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @Mike J:
    @redshirt:

    Weird. The only one that I (then and now) thought was bad was Pepe Le Peu.

    Though mostly we lived on HannaBarbera and WarnerBrothers cartoons. I bought Rocky&Bullwinkle and Tom&Jerry collections for WarriorGirl. Plus, of course, Roadrunner & WileECoyote.

  47. 47.

    Heliopause

    January 23, 2016 at 8:34 pm

    Somebody must have by now posted a link to the Palin Word Salad Generator and if not, well, here it is.

  48. 48.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:37 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): It’s on again at 10:30 est.

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 8:38 pm

    Second caramel orange upside-down cake out of the oven. Look lights years better than the first (with which I screwed up the recipe).

    Still, taking both the tonight’s weekly gathering.

    Not looking forward to scrubbing baked-on caramel from the non-stick (ha!) springform pan. Gonna soak the bejesus out of that sucker in hot water, sour salt and vinegar.

  50. 50.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    @FlyingToaster: The weirdest thing about Tom & Jerry were the ones made in Czechoslovakia by Gene Deitch. Even as a kid I knew there was something…off about them.

  51. 51.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    January 23, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    @NotMax:
    Citric acid helps take baked on sugar off? I did not know that. I can buy it by the pound at all of the Middle Eastern groceries. Gotta add that to our kitchen arsenal. Probably good for cleaning the coffee maker too.

  52. 52.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    Does anyone remember a 4th of July based Tom and Jerry which had each side using munitions against the other? It was the greatest T&J ever to my young mind.

    Also got to give a shout out to The Simpson’s T&J parody, Itchy and Scratchy. “They fight, and fight, and fight and fight and fight!”

  53. 53.

    SFAW

    January 23, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    Acetic.

    ETA: If we’re talking vinegar. Citric is in citrus fruits.

  54. 54.

    gelfling545

    January 23, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): My pup, Flora has been highly resistant to going out in the snow. She mostly stands there and shakes until I take her back in. She has a sweater but hates it. I am ill equipped to demonstrate the process to her as you were considering. She a vague clue that if she pees pretty quick she’ll get to go back inside right speedily but mostly she sneaks around trying to weasel her way back in. Part of the problem is no visible grass to use.

  55. 55.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    January 23, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    @SFAW:
    Thanks. The only thing we ever used it for was to mix with baking soda, press into balls and make fizzy bath salts bombs. Good to know it has other uses.

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    @Ultraviolet Thunder

    Sour salt aids with anything burnt on. Often have let the bottom of a pot marred with the remains of something that went too far soak overnight.

    Diluted vinegar is standard practice for Mr. Coffee-type machines. Have to run about three pots of plain water through afterwards, though. For aluminum coffee pots, use cream of tartar.

  57. 57.

    SFAW

    January 23, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    make fizzy bath salts bombs.

    Could also use phosphorus for that.

    (No, not really.)

  58. 58.

    Dr. Omed

    January 23, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    @redshirt: My own. Thank you. H/t Karl Marx.

  59. 59.

    SFAW

    January 23, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    @NotMax:

    For aluminum coffee pots, use cream of tartar.

    But wouldn’t you need to brush and floss afterward?

  60. 60.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    @redshirt: Tom and Jerry were the role models for Itchy and Scratchy? Perhaps your childhood broadcasters never had to scrape the barrel of repetitive, violent and banal animation that was HarveyToons, and their stars Herman and Katnip.

    I do remember Jerry using a bra as a parachute once. That may be the same episode.

  61. 61.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    January 23, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    @NotMax:
    Thanks. I just don’t like the smell of aerosolized vinegar fumes from cleaning a coffee maker so I’m looking for an alternative.
    We use highly refined acetic acid (lab grade) for cleaning laser optics. You don’t get that on you.
    We’ll try the sour salt trick. Probably soon, considering our kitchen practices.

  62. 62.

    Ruviana

    January 23, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    @NotMax: Crusader Rabbit! Maybe my most favorite cartoon ever! I can still remember the theme music from sixty years ago!

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 23, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    This is one of those “Whatever-happened-to?) queries.

    There was an American expat living in Britain, mother of a young daughter (Bottle Rocket?). She (the mother, cannot recall her nym) used to come back to the States occasionally to run marathons. Have totally lost track of her, and am embarrassed that so many of her details have gone wandering off.

    Also, years ago, some cookbook had a recipe with an ingredient “finely ground black people.” Of course they meant “finely ground black pepper,” but the “black people” thing became a meme, and we had a frequent BJ commenter who went by that nym for a while. Anyone know whatever happens to him/her?

    Not sure why these two people have popped into my mind after so many years.

  64. 64.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    @ThresherK: Maybe it was Herman and Katnip, but I doubt it. Everyone knows T&J.

    And yes, the bra parachute might be part (I’m foggy on the details). It was a fully militarized episode with planes and artillery and the like.

  65. 65.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 23, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    @raven:

    That’s Part 2, according to my on-screen guide. And it’s shorter.

  66. 66.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    So Emetic Pressburger wrote “Behold a Pale Horse”. I’ll be damned.

  67. 67.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 8:56 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Ah, got it.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 9:01 pm

    @raven

    Emetic Pressburger will now be the name of the fast food empire I’ll build when the lottery comes in.

    :)

  69. 69.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @redshirt: Because the internet was invented for no higher human ambition than this:

    David Silverman, a director and producer for The Simpsons, states that the show is based on Herman and Katnip.

  70. 70.

    raven

    January 23, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @NotMax: And he’s buyinggg a stairway. . .

  71. 71.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    @ThresherK: Indeed. Point, you!

    Now I want to watch Herman and Katnip, who I’ve never heard of until a few minutes ago.

  72. 72.

    p.a.

    January 23, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    The Flintstones was a prime time show:

    The Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960, at 8:30pm, and quickly became a hit. It was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, although Fred and Wilma are sometimes depicted as sleeping in separate beds.

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    @ThresherK

    Gawd, those insipid Little Audrey cartoons from the house of Harvey.

    *shudders*

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    @p.a.

    Yup. Sponsored by a cigarette company. And, to quote Robert Duvall’s character in Network, “a big-titted hit.”

    (Fred lit up and smoked in some ads.)

  75. 75.

    Tracy Ratcliff

    January 23, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    The Tom and Jerry episode is “The Yankee Doodle Mouse” (1943) which won an oscar in ’44.

  76. 76.

    joel hanes

    January 23, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    Popeye and Bluto and Olive and Wimpy and Swea’ Pea, in heavy rotation with Mighty Mouse and an occasional old Fliescher full of stretchy generic mammals.

    The other station did Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker, Heckl and Jeckl, and collateral. Never thought that as good.

    The Flintstones was on in prime time. We liked Yogi & BooBoo for a season, Mr. Jinx and Pixie and Dixie, thought Huckleberry Hound and then Sugar Bear were cool, then Linus The Lionhearted begat George Of The Jungle.

    I love the ones in which they do the classics: Warner Bros doing Wagner, Popeye with Bluto as Sinbad, etc. — a monster with Peer Gynt.

    Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Road Runner age pretty well, I think. So does Bugs.

  77. 77.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    @redshirt: Take it from me: Find any Herman and Katnip on Youtube. Watch one, you’ve seen them all.

    This is the same studio which foisted Casper the Friendly Ghost and Baby Huey on an unsuspecting public. You have been warned.

    Come to think of it, except for the Fleischer stuff (Popeye, the amazing Superman color shorts, etc), Paramount had an amazingly low standard of things they’d show before their movies.

  78. 78.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    January 23, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    On Twitter this evening “Pourmecoffee” posted a picture of a magazine from 1934 talking about a particular body builder of the time. The magazine was called “Physical Culture” with a sub head of “The Personal Problem Magazine” One of the stories made me drop my jaw “When a woman faces 35” with “faces” in italics. Obviously a woman facing 35 in 1934 was basically fucked. How far we have come.

  79. 79.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    @Tracy Ratcliff: Thank you! It really was an incredible cartoon but I’m shocked to learn it won an Oscar.

  80. 80.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @ThresherK: Richie Rich too, I suppose?

  81. 81.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    @ThresherK,/a>

    How times have changed. Today, rather than becoming obsessed with two-dimensional round colored things, the little girl from Harvey would hire a lawyer to sue the pants off her parents for the crime of naming her Dot Polka.

  82. 82.

    PurpleGirl

    January 23, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Get some puppy pads; that way it will be easier to clean up until you get him accustomed to going outside in the snow.

  83. 83.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    @redshirt: If one trusts the wiki, there was never a Richie Rich theatrical cartoon series. The Harvey folks made a comic book in the 50s, also repackaged their theater shorts for TV.

  84. 84.

    Anoniminous

    January 23, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    But in 1915 it ran a three article series on birth control, gutsy for a national magazine.

  85. 85.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    @NotMax: I must cede to your misspent childhood on this subject. Never heard of her. I misspent my formative years with cartoons on TV much more than with comic books.

  86. 86.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    @ThresherK: Once again I defer to your knowledge. I never did see a Richie Rich cartoon now that you’ve corrected me, but I felt like I remembered seeing one. But it was just comic books. I think I had a book with a collection of Richie Rich comics so I read them all.

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    January 23, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @NotMax:

    Better than Lotta Plump.

  88. 88.

    PurpleGirl

    January 23, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I don’t remember the name of the American expat living in Britain but I think she called her baby “Bean”. And yes, she hasn’t commented here in quite a while.

    Also not commenting for some time who I wonder about sometime is Maude. I think she lived in NJ.

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 9:39 pm

    @ThresherK

    Here ya go>

  90. 90.

    p.a.

    January 23, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    A co-worker, slightly older than I, and not Canadian, remembers this show from its original run. I had never even heard of it until he mentioned it.

    Not a cartoon, but does anyone remember this?

    The Littlest Hobo is a Canadian television series based upon a 1958 American film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first aired from 1963 to 1965 in syndication, and was revived for a popular second run on CTV, spanning six seasons, from October 11, 1979 to March 7, 1985. It starred an ownerless dog.

    All three productions revolved around a stray German Shepherd, the titular Hobo, who wanders from town to town, helping people in need. Although the concept (of a dog saving the day) was perhaps similar to that of Lassie, the Littlest Hobo’s destiny was to befriend those who apparently needed help, portrayed by well known actors in celebrity guest appearance roles… Despite the attempts of the many people whom he helped to adopt him, he appeared to prefer to be on his own, and would head off by himself at the end of each episode.

  91. 91.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    @p.a.: Never heard of it. Sounds awesome. Kinda like the Hulk TV show, except for the celebrity and dog parts.

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 23, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @PurpleGirl:

    Yes, “Bean,” of course. “Bottle Rocket” is someone else’s spawn.

  93. 93.

    PurpleGirl

    January 23, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: We also haven’t heard from Redkitten in a long time. Can’t remember what she called her first baby. I think the last time she might have written was when she expecting no. 2. She used to post the best pictures of her little wee one.

  94. 94.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @p.a.

    Title is vaguely familiar, but fairly certain have never seen it. Only series set in Canada I immediately recall was Sgt. Preston of the Yukon.

    At least they had the sense not to name it The Lone Manger.

  95. 95.

    p.a.

    January 23, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @efgoldman: Remember Rex Trailer, Major Mudd, and Salty Brine & Rex? Or were you too old mature by then?

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    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    @NotMax: Wasn’t Dudley Doright a Canadian Mountie? Am I confusing something with something else? Note: I’m not searching the internet, deliberately.

  97. 97.

    ThresherK

    January 23, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @NotMax: Why I thought she’d look like Little Lulu is anyone’s guess.

    @efgoldman: “In 1954 Otto Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost) took over. Oriolo struck a deal with Felix’s new owner to begin a new series of Felix cartoons on television.”

    There you go.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    January 23, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @redshirt

    Yup, but that was years later and a segment of a program, not a series in itself.

  99. 99.

    Shana

    January 23, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @joel hanes: My childhood afternoons were spent watching Cap’n Ernie’s Cartoon Showboat on a station, probably Davenport, IA, in the Quad Cities. Cartoons, many of them classics, a Three Stooges short, interspersed with Cap’n Ernie and his audience of kids. You could send in a postcard with your name, etc. and be entered in a drawing for a case of soda. For the life of me I can’t remember the brand but not CocaCola or Pepsi products, something regional. I won, many years after entering, when I was about 15. Yeah!? I also remember having a birthday party with my school chums and friends in the audience. Even at the age of 8 or 9 we were distinctly disappointed by the real experience vs. watching on TV.

    this was sometime in the late 60s. Yes, I’m old. 57 next week.

  100. 100.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    January 23, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    @PurpleGirl: Samkitten, I seem to recall. Cute one.

  101. 101.

    Rand Careaga

    January 23, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    As long as we’re on the subject of cartoons, people who haven’t got round to it already should check out The Triplets of Belleville, which begins with a glorious tribute to the cartoons of eighty years ago. The rest of the movie (also animated) ain’t half-bad either.

  102. 102.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Shana: I can see it all in black and white.

  103. 103.

    PurpleGirl

    January 23, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    @redshirt: Yes, Dudley Doright was a Canadian Mountie.

  104. 104.

    PurpleGirl

    January 23, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Right, Samkitten.

  105. 105.

    Gravenstone

    January 23, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    @redshirt: Yankee Doodle Mouse?

  106. 106.

    Gravenstone

    January 23, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: Glacial acetic (so called because it freezes not too far below room temperature), blech! My senior year in college I went up to do some work on my research project. Opened the door off the stairwell to the chemistry floor and damn near dropped to my knees. The “chemistry for non-science majors” class was doing something with acetic acid that involved boiling it over steam cones – no fume hoods. The entire floor just reeked of vinegar as a result. To this day I still have difficulty cooking with vinegar.

  107. 107.

    redshirt

    January 23, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @Gravenstone: LOL. That’s the one. It’s still quite good.

  108. 108.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 23, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @ThresherK: Hey, I know David.

  109. 109.

    Renie

    January 23, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    some of my favorites at different ages: courageous cat and minute mouse, speed racer and captain scarlet!

  110. 110.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    January 23, 2016 at 11:53 pm

    Tina Fey just recreated this video.

  111. 111.

    Satby

    January 24, 2016 at 12:12 am

    @p.a.: I loved that show.

  112. 112.

    J R in WV

    January 24, 2016 at 10:27 am

    Heckl and Jeckl – the two crows – were probably born of inspiration from Norse Sagas, where Odin had two ravens who kept him informed, named Huginn and Muninn, who flew all over the world each day and returned to tell Odin (aka Wotan) everything they had seen and heard. Every time I look into Norse mythology I get bowled over all over again by how weird it is!

    And how often authors have used bits (or huge portions) of it in other work.

    Does anyone remember the origin of the music used in those cartoons? I barely remember them, but enough to know that Heckel and Jeckel raised hell with every animal that every thought to abuse them, from lions and tigers to elephants.

  113. 113.

    NotMax

    January 24, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    @J R in WV

    Probably modeled more on the team of Wheeler & Woolsey in movies (and similar duos from vaudeville) than from anyone delving into Norse myth. IMHO.

    BTW, the New Zealand TV Series The Almighty Johnsons delves a bit into the byways of Norse mythology and does stay pretty accurate to the source material, all things considered as it takes place present day. Available on Netflix.

  114. 114.

    Sondra

    January 25, 2016 at 8:04 am

    Hurray… looking forward to seeing Tina Fey back on SNL again.

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