#Gilligan O´ Reilly

[hes-a-rat-whisperer]

I missed Sinday, BUT I NEED TO KNOW; You’re lovers seem pretty attentive to you in bed, do you enjoy the fact that they do their best to make you turn into a puddle of moans?(for Guinness, Alistair, AND THE CUTE BUNNY DOG THINGY) 030

Guinness:

Guinness blushed profusely at the question, reaching up to the brim of his hat to pull in down a bit. "w-well..ah mean.." he didn´t know whether or not he should even answer. "o´ course ah do, ah jus- ah wouldn´t put it like that.." he chuckled a bit, feeling rather embarrassed. "but sure..sure ah enjoy it, who wouldn´t?"

Alistair:

it only took him a single glance to discard the question entirely. "we have nothing to discuss." he said simply. "now leave." the glare that accompanied that demand made it clear that there will be yet another missing person´s case if the asker didn´t do as they were told.

the cute bunny dog thingy:

"huh..?" Gosgo looked confused, blinking as he stared at the asker. "..cute bunny dog..OH!! OH YOU MEAN ME!!" he suddenly shouted with excitement, hopping around in place. "aaw! you think I´m cute? thank you! I think you´re cute too! we even have similar sunglasses!" but before Gosgo could change the topic entirely, he went back on track. "oh! your question! right!" he blushed as he thought about his answer. "of course I enjoy it! I love it!! Felly always knows exactly what to say and do!!" he giggled and grabbed his long ears, pulling them down to his face as his face went more red. "I feel silly talking about it!! but I love it!! I love Felly!!" his tail began to wag as he ended up losing track of the question after all, instead talking about how much he loves the tall wendigo man.

and yes, of course Alistair enjoys it! ;3

he would never so openly admit to anything like that, but yes, he is very thankful that his boyfriends are paying so close attention to him and never go too far! Alistair was borderline sex repulsed before, even going as far as to ignore any and all desires of this kind when they bubble up! but his boyfriends respect his boundaries and allow him to adapt and find enjoyment in these activities, which he can´t thank them enough for.

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"you better be nice to him or so help me.."

( Felonious belongs to my lovey @surprise-sausage-party <3 )

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Sitcom Characters Who Fear They Have Been Cursed With Bad Luck

Arriving on the doorstep yesterday was a small package that looked eerily like the one which had come just a few weeks before. It, too, was addressed to my daughter, so I brought it in and placed it on her bed.

When she arrived home and tore open the package, it revealed a case for her cell phone. I was surprised because she had just ordered one earlier in the month, and she had always been fairly cautious with her money.

After some prompting on my part, she explained that she had experienced nothing but bad luck since purchasing that other case. She described that accessory as being cursed, so it had to go.

Her belief in items causing bad luck reminded me of all of the television shows that have episodes based on a character's belief in a jinx or a curse. Even though I can recall thirteen such shows, it might be safer to stop the counting at seven. Here they are.

Freddie Benson from iCarly

His trouble-laming friend Samantha Puckett played several pranks on Freddie to cause him to believe he was cursed with a run of bad luck, but the boy gets even with her at the end of the episode.

Skipper from Gilligan's Island

After finding the buried head of an ancient  Click Here totem pole, Skipper (played by Alan Hale) experiences several mishaps he blames on that relic.

Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show

After breaking a chain letter sent to him from Goober, Mayberry's fearless deputy (played by Don Knotts) assigns every trivial accident on his disregard of that communication.

Michael Scott from The Office

The manager (played by Steve Carrel) of the Scranton branch of the Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company declares that the office is cursed after he runs over Meredith in the parking lot, Anglea's cat Sprinkles dies, and Pam's computer gets infected with a virus in an episode titled "Fun Run."

Archie Bunker from All In The Family

The head of the house at 304 Hauser Street (played by Carroll O'Connor) fears he has been jinxed after he loses a chain letter without having sent it on, in spite of his daughter and son in law's insistence that there is no such thing as superstition.

Radar O' Reilly from MASH

After Colonel Potter (played by Harry Morgan) orders a reluctant Radar to remove a spirit pole, the medical camp seems to suffer several accidents. Potter refuses to call it a curse until he stabs himself with a scalpel and Hawkeye breaks a mirror.

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Lucy, the Superwoman

S4;E26 ~ March 21, 1966

Synopsis

When a heavy computer falls on Mr. Mooney's foot, Lucy has a rush of adrenaline to lift it up. From then on, she has super-strength and wreaks havoc with her new-found power. Lucy the superwoman is then brought into a lab to be examined by scientists.  

Directed by Maury Thompson ~ Written by Elroy Schwartz

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis)

Guest Cast

Robert F. Simon (Dr. Robert F. Simon) had a ten year run on Broadway (1942-52), in which he cut his teeth as actor and stage manager in everything from drama to musical comedy. He served as understudy to Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. He was seen with Lucille Ball in the 1960 film The Facts of Life and in a 1963 episode of “The Greatest Show on Earth.”

Parley Baer (Dr. Davis) previously played MGM’s Mr. Reilly in “Ricky Needs an Agent” (ILL S4;E29) and the furniture salesman Mr. Perry in “Lucy Gets Chummy with the Neighbors” (ILL S6;E18). This is the fourth of his five appearances on “The Lucy Show.” He also made two appearances on “Here’s Lucy.” He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles as Mayor Stoner on “The Andy Griffith Show” and Doc Appleby in “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

Herb Vigran (Mr. Vigran) played Jule, Ricky Ricardo’s music agent on two episodes of “I Love Lucy” in addition to playing movie publicist Hal Sparks in “Lucy is Envious” (ILL S3;23). He was seen in the Lucy-Desi film The Long, Long Trailer. He played the role of the baseball umpire (and eye doctor) in two previous episodes. He will be seen in just one more episode of “The Lucy Show.”  

Jack Perkins (Terrible Tony, a Wrestler) was a stuntman and actor often cast for his ability to play drunk. He also has quite a few credits as a brawler and a bartender. This is his last episode of “The Lucy Show.”

Lucy claims to have seen Terrible Tony on television. 

Joel Marston (George Denton, Reporter for the Daily Gazette, above left) previously appeared as the supermarket clerk in “Lucy and Joan” (S4;E4). Marston was an internationally known dog breeder and proprietor of Starcrest Kennels in California. This is his final appearance on the series. He retired to Jacksonville, Florida, where he became a water aerobics instructor.

Eddie, the Daily Gazette photographer, is uncredited.

Robert S. Carson (Coach from the US Women's Olympic Team) played bank employee Mr. Potter in “Lucy Saves Milton Berle” (S4;E13) and “Lucy at Marineland” (S4;E1). He was a busy Canadian-born character actor making the fifth of his six appearances on the series. He also made five appearances on “Here’s Lucy.”

Natalie Masters (Woman from Whamo Breakfast Cereals, below) was seen as a saleswoman in “Lucy Bags a Bargain” (S4;E17). She played private eye “Candy Matson” on the radio series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1949 to 1951. This is her last appearance on “The Lucy Show.” 

John Perri (Man from Full-of-Pep Vitamins, above center) was previously seen as a supermarket checker in “Lucy and Joan” (S4;E4). He was seen on Broadway in The Boy Friend (1954), the musical that introduced Julie Andrews. This is his final appearance on “The Lucy Show.”

Joyce Perry (Lab Secretary) makes the first of two appearances on the series. She was also a screen writer, receiving Emmy nominations for “Days of Our Lives” and winning a WGA (Writers Guild of America) Award in 1975 for “Search for Tomorrow.”  

Sid Gould (Sid, Computer Deliveryman) made more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show,” all as background characters. He also did 40 episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin by marriage to Gary Morton.

Bennett Green (Computer Deliveryman #2) was Desi Arnaz’s stand-in during “I Love Lucy.” He does frequent background work on “The Lucy Show.”

Gould and Green have no lines as the Deliverymen. The two also played Deliverymen in “Lucy the Robot” (S4;E23) delivering the very large box containing Lucy as Major Fun Fun.  

Alberto Morin (Bank Employee, uncredited) was born in Puerto Rico, and appeared in some of Hollywood’s most cherished films: Gone with the Wind (1939), Casablanca (1943), and Key Largo (1948). He was Carlos, one of Ricky’s “Cuban Pals” (ILL S1;E28) and the Robert DuBois in “The French Revue” (ILL S3;E7). His many background appearances on “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy” were all uncredited.

Hazel Pierce (Bank Employee, uncredited) was Lucille Ball’s camera and lighting stand-in throughout “I Love Lucy.” She made frequent on-camera appearances on the show. She was also an uncredited extra in the film Forever Darling (1956).

One other uncredited performer plays a bank employee who comes to Mr. Mooney's aid when the computer falls on his foot.

This is the final episode of season 4. Overall, season 4 rated #3 (a 27.7 share) in the Nielsen Ratings, the highest rating of the series thus far. The official DVDs of season 4 (with bonus material) were first released on April 26, 2011.

This is the first of three episodes written by Elroy Schwartz. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1923 and was the brother of Sherwood Schwartz.  As such, he wrote several episodes of his brother's most popular series: “Gilligan's Island” and “The Brady Bunch.”  

Indeed, the premise of this episode was taken from a script of “Gilligan's Island”!  On the series, the castaways discover cans of vegetables that turn out to be radioactive. Gilligan eats the spinach (the same vegetable that gave Popeye strength) and develops super-human strength. It was aired six months after this episode of “The Lucy Show” - September 26, 1966 - also on CBS. 

The idea of a sudden onset of super-human strength (aka ‘Hysterical Strength’) was a familiar trope on television, but based on real-life anecdotes, mostly about parents lifting cars to rescue their children. Comic book artist Jack Kirby claims he saw a woman lift a car off her baby, which inspired him to create the Incredible Hulk, whose first appearance was in 1962.

On the same evening this episode first aired (March 21, 1966), ABC broadcast the last new episode of  “Ben Casey” starring Vince Edwards.  Edwards did a cameo in “Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere” (S4;E20, above). “Ben Casey” was filmed at Desilu Studios. The series finale was directed by Marc Daniels, who had directed 39 episodes of “I Love Lucy” from 1951-53. 

“The Lucy Show” was replaced for the summer (July-September 1966) by the fourth season of “Vacation Playhouse,” an anthology series of unsold TV comedy pilots. One was titled “Where There's Smokey” starring Gale Gordon as a Fire Chief. The pilot was completed in 1959 but not aired until August 1, 1966. When the pilot wasn't picked up, Gordon took the role of Mr. Heckendorn, the landlord on “Make Room for Daddy,” also filmed at Desilu. On August 29, 1966, “Vacation Playhouse” aired “The Two of Us” starring “Lucy Show” cast members Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane) and Barry Livingston (Arnold Mooney).  

When Mr. Mooney is getting a computer in his office, Lucy wants to ask it for dating tips. Mr. Mooney replies that it is a computer, not “Dear Abby.” Dear Abby is an advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name ‘Abigail Van Buren’ and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips. In 1965, CBS aired a radio version of Dear Abby’s column.  Lucille Ball also had a CBS radio series at the time. 

In this episode, Lucille Ball's hairstyle (probably a wig) has longer bangs and sides. This could be to cover the 'lift tape' (a sort of non-surgical face lift) that she wore on camera starting around this time.

To decide where to put the computer in the office, Mr. Vigran feeds it a punch card. Punch cards were widely used through much of the 20th century in the data processing industry. The IBM 12-row / 80-column punched card format came to dominate the industry. Many early digital computers used punched cards as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. While punched cards are now obsolete as a storage medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still used punch cards to record votes. 

When Lucy lifts the computer the second time (just to prove she can), she gets a round of applause from the studio audience!  This happens again when she lifts the desk in her apartment.  Apparently the audience completely invests in the silly premise that Lucy has developed super human strength.  

When Lucy inadvertently crushes the can of tomato juice, she says in a childlike voice: “Boy, it sure doesn't look like tomato juice!”  In the 1960s “Wow, it sure doesn't taste like tomato juice!” was the advertising slogan for V8, a beverage manufactured by Campbells. 

V8 got its name from the fact that it originally contained the juice of eight different vegetables. It was first marketed in 1933 and is still sold today. 

Lucy swats a fly with a rolled up magazine and breaks a support column in half. This is the same column that muscular Frank Winslow broke in half when he was startled awake and went into a karate chop in “Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty” (S4;E9). The column in “Lucy, the Superwoman” is much narrower than the one seen above.

When Lucy breaks the blood pressure machine causing a spurt of liquid into the air, Mr. Mooney shouts “Thar she blows!” "Thar she blows" is what the lookout on a whaling ship would shout when seeing a whale surface and blowing air out of its blowhole.

When Lucy sneezes and blows the paperwork off the shelves, Mr. Mooney says “Now I know why they name hurricanes after women.”  In 1953, after a brief two-year period of using the Greek alphabet, meteorologists began using female names for hurricanes. In 1979, after much pressure from women's groups, male names were integrated into the naming. Hurricanes now alternate between male and female names.

Lucy's twenty foot standing broad jump and hurdle stunts were accomplished by speeding up the film and putting Lucy on wires.  

It is likely that most of the lab scenes were shot without a studio audience due to the nature of the stunts involved. Also telling is that after Lucy does her first ‘flight’ the studio audience does not applaud, as they had for the much simpler stunts earlier in the show. 

Examples of Lucy's super human strength:

She lifts Mr. Mooney off his feet into the air when helping him up

She breaks the return carriage off her typewriter

She staples a document and breaks off the end of her desk

She closes a file cabinet drawer which smashes a hole in the wall

She rips the doorknob off Mr. Mooney's office door and then rips the door off as well

She closes her apartment door with a kick and splits it in two

She squeezes her grocery bag and collapses a can of tomato juice and cans of vegetables

She tears the door off her refrigerator

She squeezes 6oz of juice from a 3oz orange

She pulls the bottom off an ice cube tray

She swats a fly and breaks a pillar in half

She empties a full glass of cranberry juice in one sip

She saws through a table when cutting a slice of roast beef

She brings a professional wrestler to his feet with a handshake

She causes paperwork to fly off the shelves with a sneeze

She breaks a blood pressure machine

She kicks a tray into the air when her reflexes are tested

She nearly deafens the doctor when she talks into his stethoscope

She pitches an iron shot put ball through a glass window pane and a brick wall

She jumps twenty feet in her first attempt at the standing broad jump

She hurdles in the air over three men who are bending over

Callbacks!

Mary Jane says that the TV reporters are calling Lucy “Superman with prettier muscles.”  In 1957, Lucy Ricardo pretended to be the man of steel in “Lucy and Superman” (ILL S6;E13).

Lucille Ball also used wires to ‘fly’ as the Witch in “Little Ricky’s School Pageant” (ILL S6;E10). 

And again in “Danny Thomas’s the Wonderful World of Burlesque” aired just a few months before this episode of “Here’s Lucy”. 

Lucy operated a similar massive gray computer that was located in the bank lobby at the start of “Lucy and Bob Crane” (S4;E22), although neither she nor Mr. Mooney mention it in this episode.

Fast Forward!

In 1972, Harry Carter also gets a computer installed in the office to help with the workload in “Lucy’s Replacement” (HL S4;E19). 

Mrs. Carmichael wants to ask the new computer for dating tips like it is a mechanical Dear Abby. Two years later, Lucy Carter consulted a computer for dating tips in “Lucy the Matchmaker” (HL S1;E12).

The desk that Lucy Carmichael lifts with ease will turn up again as set decoration for Harry Carter’s Home in “Lucy’s Wedding Party” (HL S3;E8) in 1970. Lucy Carter dusts it, but doesn’t lift it! 

Blooper Alerts

Keep Jiggling, Viggie! When the computer is first installed, Mr. Vigran has a bit of trouble getting the second dolly out from underneath the computer so it can fall on Mr. Mooney’s foot.  After a few seconds of jiggling, it comes free. 

Desk Work! When Lucy lifts the desk in her apartment, the track for raising it off the ground can be seen underneath, despite being painted the color of the wall.

Super-Strong Sweet Tooth! Lucy comes home from work holding a shopping bag and 5 pink bakery boxes. Why does a woman living alone need five boxes of baked goods?  The boxes were a familiar item on the show and the Desilu props department must have had quite a few in stock!  Also, if Lucy went shopping on her way home, why doesn’t she have any stories of the mayhem she must have caused in the stores to tell Mary Jane when she comes over?  

I’ve Got A Beef! When Lucy picks the roast beef up off the floor, we can see that the roast has been glued to the plate! 

At the lab, Dr. Davis asks Lucy if she’s ever had any accidents. She says that except for fender benders, she hasn’t. She must have forgotten that she suffered a blow to the head and got amnesia just two years earlier! 

“Lucy, the Superwoman” rates 2 Paper Hearts out of 5

[hes-a-rat-whisperer]

Pep: *smoking a cigarette after having massacred five people*

Alistair: "this guy is making me sick.."

Guinness: *looking queazy* "well why didn´t ye stop him?! ye coulda easily done somethin te prevent all o´ this carnage!"

Alistair: "wh-? no you buffoon, I am talking about that disgraceful smoking habit of his!"

Guinness: "..."

Guinness: "ye know, ah really really hate ye both an if it weren´t fer Fel, ah´d ´ave stayed in me forest."

(@surprise-sausage-party )

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just some human Guinness sketch u3u

[hes-a-rat-whisperer]

12 Guinness?

ye done him a spook there, lad! UwO

(expression meme here u3u)

[hes-a-rat-whisperer]

Are you and Guinness excited about your wedding day to Feral?

Alistair: "I assure you, I would much rather choke on a dozen poisonous sea slugs than to have this ginormous pile of chum anywhere near me, let alone bound to me in forced marriage.."

Guinness: "..ah honestly prefer not te think about it.."

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two royal goons in midst of some very serious, very important discussions

no, they´re totally not just hanging out what are you talking about?

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*put meme here*

anyway, anyone order a suggestively lounging lucky boi?? UwO

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Pinocchio!Gosgo, Jiminy!Guinness and Mangiafoco!Alistair concepts UwU

(from this one post I made)

also, bonus angy boi:

[hes-a-rat-whisperer]

“the sweetest grapes make the best wine”

(Godly!au part 4)

RP with my wonderful lovey dovey @surprise-sausage-party ❤

far away from the dark and ominous underworld, the god of wine and merry making himself, Gilligan O´Reilly, or how he prefers to be called, ´Guinness´ was lounging around in the sun, eating some sweet grapes.

he, like many other gods, liked to be away from the other godly entities every now and then and would do so by disguising himself as a human.

he was lying comfortably on a big, grassy field, watching the clouds go by and using his godly powers to his leisure, making wine on the spot.

of course he was careful not to do it when mortals were around, but he didn´t have to worry about that as the only mortal creatures that saw him were birds, squirrels and the occasional rabbit.

he took a deep breath, taking in the fresh air as he, with a snap of his fingers, held a glass of fresh, sweet wine in his hand.

considering he was the god of merry making, he was doing a very swell job, as he was currently quite merry himself.

[hes-a-rat-whisperer]

Guinness looked up, but kept kneeling. “me name is Guin-” he paused, then started again “it´s Gilligan O´Reilly.” he said with a smile. “at yer service.”

“ah´m a man of justice and moral from the kingdom ruled by their highnesses Cornelius and Cornelia Kelly and ah have absolutely no interest in harming ye.”

the royal guardsman drew his sword and laid it flat on the ground in front of him. this was not only a way of showing no desire to harm, but also a sign of respect.

Feral smiled down at the small redhead, his expression more predatory and sinister than friendly and inviting.

"Guinness O'Rielly, captain of the guard to my brother in law's soldiers." His smile widens, allowing Guinness to see that the snow haired wendigo has too many of them, and that they're all far too Sharp.

"A pleasure to meet you. I'm sure you're wondering why I've called you." Thankfully, Feral had no clue od the fact that Ceban was hiding away in the neighborhood kingdom. Nor was he aware of his little husband's.... 'Condition' either.

"As you know, my Omega has decided to risk war upon his kingdom and run away." In the next room one could hear the struggles and muffled cries of someone.0

"Luckily, his younger brother has volunteered in his place."

Guinness was simply standing there and listening carefully. he wasn´t threatened by king Feral´s fangs, nor by the predatory way he was speaking and looming above him.

no, he was a professional.

although..the muffled cries and struggles he could hear, did sent him a wave of worry. he was a man of justice after all. someone calling for help in any way was not easy for him to ignore..

“yer highness, ah will gladly be at yer service.“ he said, bowing his head to the royalty before him like an obedient dog. “jus give me orders an ah will obey.“

truthfully, he would have never gone along with it..if it hadn´t been an ´order´ of sorts, from his actual king and queen..