#the great magoo

[thursdaymurderbub]

[onlylonelylatino]

The Black Hood versus the Great Magoo by Don Rico

[howardtuniverse]

Early in the morn, 8:15 Jump in the tub, rub-a-dub, get clean Grab the listine I got from Misdemean 9:15 dressed in all green Dip to the parking lot Look what I got 10:15 meet Tim at the spot

~ Magoo (1973-2023)

#BHM #TheGreatsWeLostThisYear #RIP

[joshuamartian]

I’ve posted before about most of the student body of Clone High outside of the main-cast hardly get a chance to speak in season 2.

Weird (see ‘bad’) choice for a show which is built around gags about historical figures.

But we missed out on the foster parents too!

Why did we get so few new foster parents for the new characters?

The big exception is Topher's mom. I love this blank-eyed 50s housewife who Topher communicates with solely by screaming and using her first name.

The s1 foster parents weren't deep characters but they added to the feeling of a lived in world populated by a whole community. The clones home-lives were another setting the show could use away from the school itself. Sure, some of the foster parents were stereotypes, no point denying that but at least they were lovable wacky stereotypes? You could feel the show was being slightly tongue-in-cheek by choosing as many diverse kinds of parents as possible but as broad as they played, I still thought it was cool that Ghandi's parents were Jewish and JFK had two Dad's.

I think they trusted the audience to know that irl alcholic parents are no laughing matter and that blind people aren't constantly walking into walls but in my mind, I can forgive that because it was funny! Toots is an mvp of season 1 and I miss him so much. Not just for the Mr Magoo shit but he also had a sweet relationship with Joan. Just one of many examples where S1 could have little moments of sincerity without it turning into feel-good treacle.

I think Lord, Miller's and co's hearts were in the right place and sincerely wanted to create a show that felt less edgelordy weith fewer problematic charcters but they nerfed half their cast and replaced them with nothing. The new clones were a great chance to introduce fun new foster parents and they just didn't! The lack of parents compounded the weird empty feeling of the new season, a show about six or seven main cast in a vacuum, surrounded by side-characters who won't be saying anything or doing anything.

[adoristsposts]

false god | nico hischier

author's note; obsessed w that false god edit of him on tiktok by zegraser like i cannot stop watching it summary; christmas has a set-in-stone tradition: going to mass with your grandfather. but this year you and your boyfriend are coming up with your own traditions. word count; 0.9k warnings; reader isn't religious but her grandpa sure is! characters; Reader x Nico Hischier

When you agreed to spend Christmas with Nico's family in Switzerland, you had no idea the uproar it would cause. Namely with your grandfather. The man was so old that he could rival Mr. Magoo for senile shenanigans. You loved him, but the absolute offence he took to your missing Christmas mass was shocking. "You're breaking the old man's heart." Your mother joked. Your father mumbled something about how in all his years of living, he had never been able to escape his father's demands to go to mass. But being in a different country seemed like a great excuse.

"Baby, you ready?" Nico asked, poking his head into the room. "Yeah. I gotta go, guys. Tell Papa I love him." Your mother grimaced. "He says he's not talking to you right now. But he loves you too." You laughed and told your parents you loved them before hanging up the phone. "Okay. I think I'm ready." "It's not that big a deal," Nico told you for the millionth time. His mother had put the two of you in charge of making the Zimtsterne and Mailänderli. Nico had gone on and on about the importance of making Christmas cookies every year in Switzerland. Now you were a part of the tradition and you were determined to prove yourself. "It is to me, Neeks." You got up and kissed his nose. "Need to get it right so we can make them next year." He smiled and flashed those obnoxiously gorgeous dimples at you. "Fine." He sighed, even though the simple mention of there being a next year for the two of you had his heart fluttering.

You had missed Santa's visit that brought nuts and mandarins, which Nico joked he was devastated about. His two older siblings had already eaten the cookies and chocolates he had brought. He was showing them to you now, as you waited for the cookies to bake. "Nuts and mandarins?" You asked, scrunching your nose up. He laughed, "Not a fan?" "Of nuts, no. I've never had a mandarin." "Try one." He offered, handing one to you. You pursed your lips. "What?" "I feel like we need to do something fun with this." You admitted. "I'm missing my traditions. Let's come up with something new." "I have an idea," Nico said. He took the mandarin from your hands and peeled it open. Expertly, he pulled out two slices and set the rest on the table. "Come on, don't want to give my mother a heart attack." He laced his hand in yours and pulled you into your room. "Nico," You laughed, "What on Earth are we about to do?" He stood facing you and grabbed your other hand lightly, careful not to crush the slices. "We," He took a deep breath like he was preparing, "Are going to put a slice in each of our mouths. And we are going to bite down. And whoever's sprays the most juice gets to eat the chocolate from the advent calendar." "Oh you're on, Hischier." You said, even though it would be all luck. He pulled his hand out of yours and opened it to you, letting you pick your slice. You pursed your lips and pretended you were thinking. In all reality, you didn't really know which one to choose. "This one." You grabbed the one on the left. Nico hummed like he was sure you had made the wrong decision. Both of you placed the slices in your teeth. The juice sprayed a little when you bit down and dripped down onto your chin. You couldn't help your laughter as you watched Nico's do the same. You swallowed what was left of your mandarin slice and wiped the juice off your face. "I think mine was definitely juicier." You reached up to cup his face. "Oh really?" He said. You just hummed against his lips as you pulled him into a kiss. You had to admit, this new tradition was a lot better than listening to some priest preach for hours about things you didn't fully understand.

Later, you and all the Hischiers were still bundled up in your warm clothes from your walk when Nico's mom happily exclaimed, "You should light the Adventskranz!" And you had no clue what she was talking about. "The candles." Nico's older sister laughed, "We light one a week. Usually, we let Neeks do this one, but we like you more." "Hey!" Nico protested at his sister's teasing jab. He wrapped and arm around you and you leaned against his chest. "I'd be happy to." You told them. You weren't sure if the flush of your cheeks was from the warmth of the house or the absolute joy as you felt yourself slotting into their family activities.

That night Nico traced patterns on your hip. He was propped up on his elbow, watching his finger drawing elaborate swirls as you studied his features. "I love it here." You finally told him. His eyes lit up as he looked at you. "Really?" He said excitedly. "Really. It was worth my grandpa's wrath." He laughed at that. "Tell Papa it's my fault." You waved a hand in the air dismissively, "Please, he loves you." "I'm glad." He dropped his head to nuzzle into your neck. "I'm going to marry you someday." You couldn't stop your grin. "Oh, really?" "Yes." He pulled his face up. His hair was falling every which way and you adored it. You adored him. "Just don't propose on Christmas." "Why not? Overdone?" He asked. "No," You said, "My grandpa will never forgive me for taking attention away from Christmas mass."

[canmom]

Animation Night 190: the UPA

The history of animation is long and many, many different schools and traditions can be found within it. Perhaps you might recall a few we've covered: the Kanada school, the Zagreb school, the 90s realists, not to mention all the different styles that are associated with this or that studio or director.

We could imagine perhaps them all being arranged in a great tree. Something like this, perhaps, but more international. If you were to create such an animation cladogram, one of the most significant speciation events would surely come in the 1940s, when a group of disgrunted Disney animators went off to found United Productions of America.

What made the UPA so unique? One aspect is how they drew: inspired by Soviet animation of the era and contemporary artists they leapt to highly graphical, modernist styles. Big, simple shapes, flat colours and exaggerated proportions, lines blending into shapes and vice versa. All in huge contrast to the strict 'solid drawing' that prevailed at Disney, which took its inspiration from more 18th and 19th century styles.

But more important still, for animation history, was how they moved. 'Limited animation' is an unfortunate term, drawing a circle around anything that isn't Disney or close to it, but it's the term we have: more limited drawing counts, held frames, irregular timings that fit the composition.

And while this no doubt helped save costs, that was not the primary motivation. It was a distinctive style which the studio pursued even when they had animators who could draw in the Disney way, like this example of Art Babbitt's animation actually discarding many of his original drawings.

The UPA was not seeking to create an illusion of life and make you forget that you're looking at drawings - but to compose the movement in time in a new, expressive way.

Equally novel was its subject matter. While Disney had, at the time, mostly created affirming fairy tales or slapstick comedies, the UPA focused largely on modern settings and subjects, with the slightly cynical edge that had largely disappeared from animation since Fleischer went under - as well as a much stronger sense of left-wing politics, producing iconic anti-racist films for the unions and satirising reactionary old dudes in one of their most popular series Mr Magoo.

And this new, radical approach struck a chord. Disney was old hat; the UPA were the new avant-garde, making animation proper to the modern 1950s, or even radicals defying the bourgeois sensibility of Disney. When Richard Williams moved to a more classical full animation style in contrast to his earlier modernist work, he was decried by the young animators in Zagreb as betraying the movement.

In modern times, when the UPA style feels just as dated - something to parody in 50s styled retro art like the Fallout series - this probably all seems a bit wacky. But it is pretty safe to say that modern animation was pretty much made in this conflict. Even if the 'UPA style' itself is old hat, its DNA remains in just about every living style of animation. It's like... the Tiktaalik of animation. (Only the most obscure evolutionary biology analogies here on Animation Night!)

Indeed, the UPA was a huge influence on many parts of the world: early anime in the hands of Osamu Tezuka, whose approach to limited animation would give rise to everything anime; the avant-garde Zagreb school; midcentury British animation like Yellow Submarine; and perhaps more familiar to animation fans today, it continues to influence animators like Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls, Wander Over Yonder) and Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Primal etc. - see AN35) whose approach has been dubbed a UPA revival. In its time, it incubated artists like Faith and John Hubley.

But, in modern times, it's hard to find out a lot about the major works of the UPA... or at least it used to be, until my animation writing senpais at AniObsessive wrote some excellent guides: one on the early UPA work in the 40s and 50s, another on three mid-fifties cartoons, on the 'UPA style', and even on specific pieces. Thanks to them, I don't have to do any homework at all!

I won't list everything here - it would be redundant to the AniObsessive pieces! - but here's the plan tonight. We'll dive into the vaults and explore the defining pieces of the UPA, from the classic Hubley pieces like Gerald McBoing-Boing and Rooty Toot Toot through the 50s developments like Tell-Tale Heart and Mr Magoo. Basically, the program is everything listed in AniObsessive's An Intro to the UPA piece.

I'll go live now and hopefully start rolling the films pretty soon - see you at twitch.tv/canmom!

[therecordchanger62279]

10 GREAT GARAGE ROCK ALBUM CLASSICS

The Garage sub-genre of Rock is one where the 45 RPM single is King. Garage developed in the mid-1960s in the wake of the British Invasion as thousands upon thousands of teenage kids bought musical instruments, and formed bands in a bid for fame, and fortune. Garage Rock fused with Psychedelia as the decade wound to a close, but very few bands from that movement were around long enough, or were fortunate enough to be allowed to make a full-length album. Most - if they recorded at all - cut one or two 45s that were regional hits, and then the bubble burst and the members got married, and found day jobs, or they went to war, or turned to less-legal pursuits.

In the wake of Lenny Kaye's 1972 Nuggets compilation album of the best records of that period, the term Garage Rock was coined, and by the time the CD arrived, the market became flooded with hundreds of various artists collections of 45s from all over the country. But there weren't very many original, noteworthy full-length albums by even the most successful bands of the era. Even today, much of what you'll find in that format are compilations of 45s, demos, and outtakes sourced from studios who were sitting on master tapes for decades before anyone bothered to notice there was money to be made from them.

So, I thought it might be worth taking note of 10 of the best Garage Rock LPs cut by some of the best bands of the genre while they were still together. If you dig deep enough you can probably find original vinyl pressings, reissues, or CDs of them all. (I think some enterprising cassette manufacturer ought to issue them as well since it's likely few, if any of them were ever issued in that format.) Here's my list:

Why Pick On Me? - The Standells

Present Tense - Sagittarius

Here Are The Sonics - The Sonics

The Rationals

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

Back Door Men - The Shadows of Knight

The Remains

Psychedelic Lollipop - Blues Magoos

Just Like Us! - Paul Revere & The Raiders

Raw & Alive - The Seeds

[slopmaster9000]

elise life update post under the cut

FRIDAY 8/30:

went to my old high school's football game because i wanted to see all my band friends and i ended up running into my little tboy polycule and just dicked around with them until after halftime. they all then grabbed my boobs in the parking lot because it was funny and they're all horny trans guys. went home

SATURDAY 8/31:

best friend (rose) came over to spend the night and she brought panera mac and cheese for me because she works there and gets half off. we cuddled and watched wall-e but got distracted halfway through and she fucked me silly. finished the movie, ate some mac and cheese, she fell asleep in my arms

SUNDAY 9/1:

woke up next to my bestie which is a great feeling i believe. we went to dunkin and listened to some fuckass music in the car before she went home. cleaned my room and my bathroom because WIFE came over after rose left. we just cuddled most of the time then we went and got wingstop for dinner then fell asleep. also took my first progesterone this day

MONDAY 9/2:

woke up in my WIFE's arms and then we went to ikea and got blåhajs together it was really really sweet and then we went to disney springs idek why but she had a panic attack so we just went home after :( but anyway we got home and she got right to playing with my synthesizer and making some sick ass patches. then she messed with my guitar pedals too because she's a huge nerd. watched terminator 2 together and it was really cool and sweet. fell asleep together again and also i tried boofing my progesterone instead this day

TUESDAY 9/3:

woke up with my WIFE again and she went home pretty early because she had therapy. went and picked up my other friend (kody) and we hung out at my house, had some mediocre sex and he was a total asshole about it, bought him a slushie and some goldfish at the gas station then took him to another friend (finn)'s house. ended up giving finn a little tdick blowjob then took some edibles. edible happened to REALLY kick in the second time i was sucking him off and it was absolutely ethereal. everything felt like it was vibrating and it was perfectly stimulating. made him cum from a handjob then our other friends (chase and fern) got back from huey magoos with some chicken. now usually im not a huge fan of chicken but having just had insane t4t sex and being high as balls had me RAVENOUS. i wrecked that shit (thank you for the chicken chase) and then we hung out while i waited for my edible to wear off enough for me to drive home. ended up getting home like an hour ago, made some pasta, boofed my prog again, now im cuddling my blåhaj still a little buzzed and really happy. overall great weekend with great sex and great people. life is worth living

[scottbeloved-not-scottlang]

my ships as incorrect quotes

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Peter: Magoo, where's my phone?

Matt: I'll call it for you

*phone plays Careless Whisper*

Matt:

Peter:

Peter: Matt I can explain put tHE CLUB DOWN-

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Will: Jail is no fun. I'll tell you that much.

Hannibal: Oh, in Monopoly?

Will, completely serious: No.

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Fyodor: I went through an entire character arc during quarantine

Fyodor: I became more evil if you’re curious

Dazai: We're still in quarantine, don't worry, there's time for a redemption arc still!

Fyodor: I'm going to get worse on purpose

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Tony: Here's some advice

Stephen: I didn't ask for any

Tony: Too bad. I'm stuck here with my thoughts and you're the only one who talks to me

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Gabriel: *Kicks the door down looking panicked*

Sam: What did you do?

Gabriel:

Sam, kinda panicking: Gabe what did you do?

Gabriel: Nobody died!

Sam: WHAT KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT?!

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Dean: Lol heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring, the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass, and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you'll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this lmfao

Cas: What did you do Dean?

Dean: A MISTAKE

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Sam: Must be hard not being able to laugh

Bucky: I do have a sense of humor you know

Sam: I’ve never heard you laugh before

Bucky: I’ve never heard you say anything funny

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Dick: I’m going to take you out

Roy: great, it’s a date!

Dick: I meant that as a threat.

Roy: See you at five!

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Xavier: Hey, Enid? Can I get some dating advice?

Enid: Just because I’m with Wednesday doesn’t mean I know how I did it.

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Mikey, after visiting Takemichi: I’ve come to a point in my life where I need a stronger word than fuck

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There are some ships that I missed sadly :(

Can't remember them

[twistedtummies2]

Top 12 Ghosts of Christmas Yet to Come

It’s funny how Christmas Eve sees us covering arguably the scariest and most unnerving of the Three Spirits of Christmas, at the end of our journey through some of the side players for Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” The irony is almost hilarious. I speak, of course, of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, a.k.a. The Ghost of Christmas Future. The Third Spirit is interesting in that he’s arguably the most well-remembered and exciting of the three ghosts: he’s the dark and brooding payoff on Scrooge’s journey, and getting through his section of the tale - the most gut-wrenching chapter of the entire story - is a challenge for the audience, especially for younger viewers or readers. While the black cloak the Ghost wears in the book symbolizes the shadow mystery of the future - emphasized by the fact the Spirit never speaks, and only the tiniest gestures and nuances give away any indication of its thoughts or feelings - it has never been lost on anyone that the visual representation very closely resembles the iconography of the Grim Reaper. What’s interesting about the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come is that they have honestly changed the least out of all three Ghosts in how they’ve been visually represented over the years. While there have been some minor changes here and there, most versions of the character stick with the same visual basics of a dark figure in a black hooded robe, with only their hands - or even just one hand - visible. Yet, at the same time, along with Christmas Past, the Spirit of the Future is one that artistic people LOVE to toy with in various ways, from more simplistic to more wild concepts, which creates a sort of paradox. You can always tell which Spirit is meant to be the Future in every good take on the Carol, but it’s always fun to see the little additions and changes each rendition brings to the table. There’s not much more to say (fitting for a typically mute character), so let’s just jump right in: in honor of Christmas Eve (still ironically), these are My Top 12 Favorite Portryals of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come!

12. Charlie B. Barkin, from An All Dogs Christmas Carol. (Purely for the sheer INSANITY of this one. That, and the song he gets is catchy…yes, he sings. I told you it was insane.)

11. Czeslaw Konarski, from Scrooge (1951). (While simplicity can be used to great effect, I feel this one is a little TOO simple, hence why he takes a lower tier. But he’s still quite impactful.)

10. D’Arcy Corrigan, from A Christmas Carol (1938). (This version has such a great entrance, just for a start.)

9. Robert Hammond, from Scrooged. (Further proof this movie is basically “A Ghostbusters Christmas Carol.”)

8. Tim Potter, from A Christmas Carol (1999).

7. Paddy Stone, from Scrooge (1970).

6. Pete, from Mickey’s Christmas Carol.

5. The Version from Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.

4. Jim Carrey, from A Christmas Carol (2009). (Really cool concept having the Spirit act as Scrooge's literal shadow. They did something like that many decades before in the 1935 version, but it's way better here.)

3. The Version from The Muppet Christmas Carol. (Puppeteered by Don Austen and Robert Tygner.)

2. The Version from A Christmas Carol (1971).

1. Michael Carter, from A Christmas Carol (1984). (I love the detail on how, as the sequence goes on, the ghost gets closer and closer to Scrooge, symbolically showing how his future is getting ever nearer.)

[aaliyahunleashed]

#OnThisDay November 17, 1998

Timbaland featuring Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott and Magoo release "Here We Come" via radio airplay. It was not granted a physical release in the United States until March 2, 1999. The music video had premiered on MTV2 mid October 1998.

The music video follows a synopsis loosely based on the early Spider-Man comic series and later in the video features cameo appearances from Ginuwine and Aaliyah. The video was directed by Francis Lawrence.

DID YOU KNOW FUN FACT:

I personally reached out to both Aaliyah's hair stylist at that time (Tre' Major) and Video Photographer (Arnold Turner) and found that the entire Superfriends clique knew the shoot would be using a lot of "red" and wore all red and black to match. However, were not prepared for just how red everything would turn out. The video still turned out VERY great and was a success, however behind the scenes, it was a bit of a nightmare that cost time and money.

Tre' shared that he styled Aaliyah's hair with red highlights and that she looked very good! He shared with me personally that Aaliyah was super excited and loved the look but both her and him were upset when they saw the playback and noticed that they put ALL this work into their outfits and hair that you can't even make out anything.

Turner shared " I was on set. To the best of my recollection, the direction of the video was shot in infrared film and lighting for special effects. 'They' wanted the stills to have the same effect. At the time, not having much experience with infrared... the images came out very red with no room for correction".

If you look very closely at the video, you can see that Aaliyah is indeed wearing highlights. There's just too much red to see the cuteness of it.

[handypolymath]

Friday meme - tagged by @crankygrrl

Last song: currently listening to myNoise, "Sea Organ" (custom settings should be embedded in the link):

Songwise I've been spinning a lot of 70's Dolly Parton these days, but mostly running podcasts and ambient -- music is not running hot for me right now, but I expect in another few months I'll be curious and hungry for it again.

Favorite Color: I love a good phthalo green, but I adore plum purple:

Last Movie Watched: First time watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. This number was the highlight for me -- from her upside down cross looking earrings to the little black cuffs on their wrestling spankies.

An interesting cultural piece that's for sure, and I may revisit it wrt mid-20th-century meditations on mercenary heterosexuality. For example, in all the allusions and homages to That Pink Dress & Tuxedos musical number, I'd never clocked the chandelier giving Legend of the Overfiend vibes:

Currently Watching: 30 Rock, for the quintillionth time, tending my funky little rock garden of headcanons.

[e.g., Floyd DeBarber is the most insidiously terrible guy Liz ever dates -- and the alcoholism is none of it -- I really do worry about Caitlyn's mental health and physical safety, and I'm glad she has the "well fuck you too buddy" example of Liz doing Bible Mad Libs in the midst of her nuptial mass]

[oh he's gonna kill da wabbit alright : / Meanwhile, Liz subverts the genre by sailing through danger like Mr. Magoo]

[the danger in this case being 1. think you're marrying a peer 2. get your dreams sacrificed to resolve the two-body problem 3. sacrifice your body pumping out more student body for St. Prep's or whatever 4. get upgraded when Floyd makes partner]

[least. satisfying. Land of Cleve. montage. ever.]

Sweet, Spicy, or Savory: Savory, yes please.

Relationship Status: is Addams. Best friend, playmate, true co-parent, intellectual equal, and great fun to break a bed with. A few decades ago we met under an ausipicous sign:

Last thing googled: Mechanical keyboards. My typing is self-taught on a '67 Smith Corona electric and I have never been able to retrain my fingers to strike softer. I miss the satisfying typewriter thunk and tactility of Making Words Manifest.

Current Obsession: Exploring life outside of a survivial mindset.

Curent/Last Read: Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant; Doppelganger by Naomi Klein; Feeding the Other: White Privilege and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries by Rebecca de Souza; Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed (rereading); Unmasking Autism by Devon Price; The Will to Change by bell hooks; Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (re-reading); Happiness Becomes You by Tina Turner (read in April, considering re-reading); The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow (rereading); doesn't include the ones I'm truly stalled out on or in queue.

Looking Forward To: being able to hang with friends again; cherry season; fireflies; new glasses; my first tattoo; making more art.

Tagging in all who'd like to play!

[soulaanadelrey]

Vintage cartoons are so great. Pink Panther, Tintin, Tex Avery…you are so awesome 😎

And Betty Boop, Little Lu Lu, Felix the Cat, Mister Magoo. All fun!

[a3cc54]

charlie kelly <3 waitress

mac macdonald bonnie kelly

dennis reynolds

dee reynolds

frank reynolds

season 1

S01E01: the gang gets racist

S01E02: charlie wants an abortion

S01E03: underage drinking: a national concern

S01E04: charlie has cancer

S01E05: gun fever

S01E06: the gang finds a dead guy

S01E07: charlie got molested

season 2

S02E01: charlie gets crippled

S02E02: the gang goes jihad

S02E03: dennis and dee go on welfare

S02E04: mac bangs dennis’ mom

S02E05: hundred dollar baby

S02E06: the gang gives back

S02E07: the gang exploits a miracle

S02E08: the gang runs for office

S02E09: charlie goes america all over everybody’s ass

S02E10: dennis and dee get a new dad

season 3

S03E01: the gang finds a dumpster baby

S03E02: the gang gets invincible

S03E03: dennis and dee’s mom is dead

S03E04: the gang gets held hostage

S03E05: the aluminum monster vs fatty magoo

S03E06: the gang solves the north korea situation

S03E07: the gang sells out

S03E08: frank sets sweet dee on fire

S03E09: sweet dee’s dating a retarded person

S03E10: mac is a serial killer

S03E11: dennis looks like a registered sex offender

S03E12: the gang gets whacked: part 1

S03E13: the gang gets whacked: part 2

S03E14: bums: making a mess all over the city

S03E15: the gang dances their asses off

season 4

S04E01: mac & dennis: manhunters

S04E02: the gang solves the gas crisis

S04E03: america's next top paddy's billboard model contest

S04E04: mac’s banging the waitress

S04E05: mac and charlie die: part 1

S04E06: mac and charlie die: part 2

S04E07: who pooped the bed?

S04E08: paddy’s pub: the worst bar in philadelphia

S04E09: dennis reynolds: an erotic life

S04E10: sweet dee has a heart attack

S04E11: the gang cracks the liberty bell

S04E12: the gang gets extreme: home makeover edition

S04E13: the nightman cometh

season 5

S05E01: the gang exploits the mortgage crisis

S05E02: the gang hits the road

S05E03: the great recession

S05E04: the gang gives frank an intervention

S05E05: the waitress is getting married

S05E06: the world series defense

S05E07: the gang wrestles for the troops

S05E08: paddy’s pub: home of the original kitten mittens

S05E09: mac and dennis break up

S05E10: the d.e.n.n.i.s. system

S05E11: mac and charlie write a movie

S05E12: the gang reignites the rivalry

S05SPC: a very sunny christmas

season 6

S06E01: mac fights gay marriage

S06E02: dennis gets divorced

S06E03: the gang buys a boat

S06E04: mac’s big break

S06E05: mac and charlie: white trash

S06E06: mac’s mom burns her house down

S06E07: who got dee pregnant?

S06E08: the gang gets a new member

S06E09: dee reynolds: shaping america’s youth

S06E10: charlie kelly: king of the rats

S06E11: the gang gets stranded in the woods

S06E12: dee gives birth

season 7

S07E01: frank’s pretty woman

S07E02: the gang goes to the jersey shore

S07E03: frank reynolds’ little beauties

S07E04: sweet dee gets audited

S07E05: frank’s brother

S07E06: the storm of the century

S07E07: chardee macdennis: the game of games

S07E08: the anti social network

S07E09: the gang gets trapped

S07E10: how mac got fat

S07E11: thunder gun express

S07E12: the high school reunion: part 1

S07E13: the high school reunion: part 2

season 8

S08E01: pop-pop: the final solution

S08E02: the gang recycles their trash

S08E03: the maureen ponderosa wedding massacre

S08E04: charlie and dee find love

S08E05: the gang gets analyzed

S08E06: charlie’s mom has cancer

S08E07: frank’s back in business

S08E08: charlie rules the world

S08E09: the gang dines out

S08E10: reynolds vs reynolds: the cereal defense

season 9

S09E01: the gang broke dee

S09E02: gun fever too: still hot

S09E03: the gang tries desperately to win an award

S09E04: mac and dennis buy a timeshare

S09E05: mac day

S09E06: the gang saves the day

S09E07: the gang gets quarantined

S09E08: flowers for charlie

S09E09: the gang makes lethal weapon 6

S09E10: the gang squashes their beefs

season 10

S10E01: the gang beats boggs

S10E02: the gang group dates

S10E03: psycho pete returns

S10E04: charlie work

S10E05: the gang spies like u.s.

S10E06: the gang misses the boat

S10E07: mac kills his dad

S10E08: the gang goes on family fight

S10E09: frank retires

S10E10: ass kickers united: mac and charlie join a cult

season 11

S11E01: chardee macdennis 2: electric boogaloo

S11E02: frank falls out the window

S11E03: the gang hits the slopes

S11E04: dee made a smut film

S11E05: mac and dennis move to the suburbs

S11E06: being frank

S11E07: mcpoyle vs ponderosa: the trial of the century

S11E08: charlie catches a leprechaun

S11E09: the gang goes to hell: part 1

S11E10: the gang goes to hell: part 2

season 12

S12E01: the gang turns black

S12E02: the gang goes to a waterpark

S12E03: old lady house: a situational comedy

S12E04: wolf cola: a public relations nightmare

S12E05: making dennis reynolds a murderer

S12E06: hero or hate crime?

S12E07: ptsdee

S12E08: the gang tends bar

S12E09: a cricket’s tale

S12E10: dennis’ double life

season 13

S13E01: the gang makes paddy’s great again

S13E02: the gang escapes

S13E03: the gang beats boggs: ladies reboot

S13E04: time’s up for the gang

S13E05: the gang gets new wheels

S13E06: the gang solves the bathroom problem

S13E07: the gang does a clip show

S13E08: charlie’s home alone

S13E09: the gang wins the big game

S13E10: mac finds his pride

season 14

S14E01: the gang gets romantic

S14E02: thunder gun 4: maximum cool

S14E03: dee day

S14E04: the gang chokes

S14E05: the gang texts

S14E06: the janitor always mops twice

S14E07: the gang solves global warming

S14E08: paddy’s has a jumper

S14E09: a woman’s right to chop

S14E10: waiting for big mo

season 15

S15E01: 2020: a year in review

S15E02: the gang makes lethal weapon 7

S15E03: the gang buys a roller rink

S15E04: the gang replaces dee with a monkey

S15E05: the gang goes to ireland

S15E06: the gang’s still in ireland

S15E07: dee sinks in a bog

S15E08: the gang carries a corpse up a mountain

season 16

S16E01: the gang inflates

S16E02: frank shoots every member of the gang

S16E03: the gang gets cursed

S16E04: frank vs russia

S16E05: celebrity booze: the ultimate cash grab

S16E06: risk e. rat’s pizza and amusement center

S16E07: the gang goes bowling

S16E08: dennis takes a mental health day

[princesssarisa]

A Christmas Carol Holiday Season: "The Muppet Christmas Carol" (1992 film)

We now reach the Christmas Carol that holds the most nostalgia for me, and for countless other children of the '90s and the 2000s. It was the first Christmas Carol I ever saw, and I've watched it every holiday season since I was five years old. As the Muppets' first feature film after their creator Jim Henson's death in 1990, it was produced with no certainty of success, but it soon established itself as a true Christmas classic.

In a quirky version of Victorian London where humans and Muppets interact freely, Michael Caine stars as a Scrooge surround by familiar Muppet faces. Chief among them are Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as his wife Emily, Statler and Waldorf as ghostly brothers Jacob and Robert Marley (both suffering for their sins as Jacob traditionally does alone), Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as the two charitable gentlemen, Fozzie Bear as "Fozziwig," and Kermit's nephew Robin the Frog as Tiny Tim. Meanwhile, the Great Gonzo appears as Charles Dickens, who narrates the story using much of the text from the original book, with Rizzo the Rat, "as himself," in the role of his beleaguered, sarcastic sidekick.

As for the Ghosts of Christmas, all three are visually striking original puppet figures. The Ghost of Christmas Past (voice of Jessica Fox) is an ethereal little girl who floats in midair, the Ghost of Christmas Present (voice of Jerry Nelson) is a jolly size-shifter with a Muppet-like face, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is an eight-foot tall specter whose hood gapes open to reveal no face inside.

Much like Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol thirty years earlier, this film avoids the temptation to turn the story into a parody just because it stars pre-existing characters. Not that there isn't plenty of hilarious Muppet comedy: there is, especially from Gonzo/Dickens and Rizzo in their slapstick-filled, semi-interactive narrator roles. But the heart of the Carol is taken seriously, and Dickens's scenes of fear, sadness, and heartwarming tenderness are all given their due emotional weight. This is largely thanks to the excellent performance of Michael Caine: he interacts with his puppet co-stars as if they were Shakespearean actors, and his Scrooge is fully human, both in his initial meanness and in his vulnerability and ultimate warmth. The Muppet performers are all outstanding too, in both comic and serious moments, and charming, atmospheric scenery, camerawork, and surprisingly authentic 19th century costumes enhance the film's quality further. Like most Muppet movies, this is also a musical, and the songs by Paul Williams – "Scrooge," "One More Sleep Till Christmas," "Marley and Marley," "When Love is Gone," "It Feels Like Christmas," "Bless Us All" and "Thankful Heart" – and score by Miles Goodman are full of charm and emotion.

The 1951 and 1984 films with Alastair Sim and George C. Scott might be technically the two best screen versions of A Christmas Carol, but this version is closest to my heart, and with very good reason.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @reds-revenge, @thealmightyemprex, @faintingheroine, @thatscarletflycatcher

[thealmightyemprex]

Fairy Tale June:The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

So today we are actually going with a big movie ,a George Pal extraviganza

In this 1962 film we follow Willhem Grimm (Laurance Harvey), a fanciful dreamer,and Jacob Grimm (Karl Bohem ) a down to earth scholar ,as the pair is supposed to write down the family history of a Duke (Oscar Homolka) ,Willhelm gest distracted by fairy tales ,which he realizes no one has written down .....Thats the main story,what makes the film unique....is it also adapts three classic Grimms fairy tales :The dancing Princess follows a woodcutter (Russ Tamblyn) who uses an invisible cloak to discoverthe mystery to why a princess(Yvette Mimeux) always has destroyed shoes ,the Elves and the Shoemakers follows a old cobbler (Also played by Harvey ) who gains the help of some elves (voiced by Stan Freberg,Dallas Mikkinion and Thurl Ravinscroft ) and the Sining Bone where the cowardly and egotistical Sir Ludwig (Terry-Thomas ) tries to take credit for slaying a dragon that was actually slain by his servent Hans (Buddy Hackett )

SO this film is done by George PAl,producer of many Sci Fi and fantasy films ,probabbly best known for his HG Welles adaptations ,War of the Worlds and the Time Machine.In fact I kind of see this film as a spirtual follow up to his musical version of Tom Thumb ,which also had Russ Tmablyn and Terry-Thomas (In fact as well as playing the Woodsman,Tamblyn also plays Tom Thumb in a climatic sequence I will get to later ),and I think oversall,while I enjoy parts of Tom Thumb.....This film is better.HOWEVER it is still uneven to the point I didnt know if I liked or disliked it tillI was near the end,and even then.....I had to think about it

The movie is kind of two movies ,it is a bio pic about the Grimm Brothers AND a anthology of fairy tale ,and at first.....I was kind of wishing it was just the fairy tales ,and even then they arent immune to the big problem of the movie.....IT drags ,the pscing is very slow,I guess to make it 2 hours

We are gonna go by segments :

The main Grimm Brothers story on its own is dull ,it didnt feel substantial to me at first ,just Willhelm messing up and setting up the fact they will eventually write down the fairy tales ....HOwever what made it work was the performances ,LAurance Harvey was really lovable as the dreamer Willhelm,Karl Boehm is believable as the serious Jacob,and Oskar HOmolka is scene chewingly fun as the unpleasent Duke,with other good performances coming from MArtita Hunt ,Barbra Eden,Claire Bloom and Walter Slezak ....What also works is the ending which I will go into later

The Danicng Princess is fun ,showing some great physicality by Russ Tamblyn in both stunts and dancing.Now in the fairy tale its 12 Princesses but for this segment it makes sense to streamline it to one.The Highlight of this one is Jim Bakus as the murderous yet jovial King (Aided by him doing the Mr Magoo voice)

The Elves and the Shoemaker was my least favorite part of the film ,Harvey is good,but the segment was a lil dull and I willl be frank ,while I love stop motion and shall praise some later ....THE ELVES ARE FREAKY AND CREEPED ME OUT (However did notice one of them was the Yawning Man from Tom Thumb that was cute )

The Singing Bone is both the darkest and funniest tale and by far my favorite part of the film .Terry-Thomas was a comedic genius and here is perfectly cast as a villainous knight who lets his servent do all the heavy lifting .Buddy Hackett is also very fun as the unlikely hero ,I never knewI wanted to see Scuttle fight a dragon but I am glad it exists .The best part of the d scene IS the dragon,brought to life through some brillaint cartoony stop mostion,this beastie has a ton of personality,being very bored and hungry,focused on killling the two main characters ,and I love the design which is a mixture of eastern and western dragons with jewl encrusted scales

But the scene that sold me on the movie and why I reccomend the movie is Willhelms dream:Spoilers Willhelm gets very sick and in a fever dream sees Snow White and the seven dwarfs,a Giant,the Frog Prince,Tom Thumb, Rumplestiltskin,and other fairy tale characters ,who convince him to not only lived but write down their stories .Its a very sweet and emotional scene ,and I particularly like comedian Arnonald Stangs take on Rumplestiltskin as a bad tempered mean guy (I kind of wish he got his own segment ).

For all the flaws of the movie,I did enjoy it ,and if you can find it,I reccomend giving it a watch

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