And now, back to our (childhood) show

Well, Purim has come and gone, although Adar has a few days left. Last week was hectic preparing for everything, so I want to make it up with a blast from the past with a modern twist.

Of late Hollywood has rediscovered the cartoons of Saturday Morning -- Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, Underdog, Thunderbirds, Bugs Bunny (although its arguable that Bugs has been forgotten). While the big screen versions have not lived up to Hollywood's expectations, the trailers are kinda cute and amusing:

There's no need to fear!

UNDERDOG is here!

Watch out for that tree!

King of jungle, here to help


Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat


Simon! THEODORE! ALLLLLLVIN!!!


You're dethpicable

Another "Twofer"

It's been kinda hectic here with the run up to Purim this week, so I've not been as diligent as I want about the "Be happy it's Adar" series. I'm working on it.

Would you believe it is hard to find examples of Jewish women singing? Perhaps it goes back to the prohibition on Kol Isha, hearing a woman's voice singing, that many observant Jews adhere too. (The prohibition only applies to live works, not recorded ones if I understand things correctly).

Well, past generations had Barbra Streisand and then Bette Midler....

..today we have Paula Abdul

I want to revisit a subject from a few weeks ago, where a beagle named Champion K-Run's Park Me in First (better known as Uno) charmed the audience and judges at the Westminster Dog Show and won Best in Show, a first for a beagle.

Well today, this clip about "Jerry" came across my news feeds. There's something surprisingly relaxing about watching this dachshund amuse himself.

Jerry needs no help to play "Fetch"

There is a reason....

...she is called The Divine Miss M! Ooooooooooo baby! Three today, since I neglected to post before Shabbat...

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy


Kiss My Brass!


Bette and Dolly. Or Dolly and Bette...

Hellllllllllllo

DOLLY!

I lift my lamp...

...beside the golden door.

Two Jews work a Chabad telethon....

Only in America...

Kinky Friedman and Bob Dylan

SCIENCE!

I always did like the Thomas Dolby song, but long before that and the movie Weird Science, there was Math. Or more correctly, New Math. And this possibly recognizable tune.

And you wonder why there is still a Tom Lehrer section in large music stores?

Who is Arthur Orchowsky?

This week I thought I would focus on Jewish musicians, and I want to start with a distant cousin of mine. Orchowsky was a big band leader and oboe player of note in the 30s.

We more commonly know him as Artie Shaw.

And for your listening pleasure...

A Night at the Opera and...


a Day at the Races.

More wordplay...

Or horseplay.

Or you could just play the horn...

You's got nuttin on me!

You're not the law...

Hooray I must be going (oh wait, that was yesterday)

Someone DID call him shnorrer!

Of course he prefers hunting elephants in Alabama...

...because the tusk are loosa...

Inflation explained...

You go uraguay, and I'll go mayaguez....

Did someone call him schnorrer?

Of course by the same token, there is something to be said for reinvention...

It must have been about twenty years ago, a young upstart cable network aimed at, well, young'ems that start up with whomever (presumably their parents mostly) reinvented getting a pie in the face. And thus Nickelodeon begat

GREEN SLIME!

From the Famous

To the Not So Famous

Shabbat Shalom!

Oh watch out where the huskies go; Don't you eat that yellow snow...

Everything old is new again...

Love, as they say, is wasted on the youth. Fortunately, they have enough sense to watch old Three Stooges clips...

How Suite It Is!

TAXI!

Drive me off this picture...

Yankee Bean Soup, Coleslaw, and Tuna Surprise -- Kaching!

Keep your eye on the pie...

I'm amazed they did this shot without Tony Curtis getting hit.

Brandy! More Brandy!

Doin' a what comes naturally.

This is actually part of a set of clips from Moe Howard's 1970's appearance on the Mike Douglas Show, and in one of the earlier clips, he talked about Curly's physical gestures and humor -- the running of his hands over his face, getting down on the floor and spinning in circles for example.

As it turned out, Curly would forget his lines. These acts of his were a way of him buying time to remember them without interrupting the take!

Regardless, even after forty years, Moe still has it. And Ted Knight gets it.

3.14159265

What? You thought I was going to resort to math humor? [Although if anyone can find something funny about 2.71828183, power to 'em!] Regardless, these three did it first, and they did it the best.

Why I oughta...

The Beagle Has Landed

I actually wanted to do this last week, but I preferred Sid Caeser and Milton Berle.

First Charlie Brown wins out over both Underdog and Stewie in Coca Cola's memorable ad from this year's Super Bowl, and now "K-Run's Park Me in First", better known as Uno, has avenged Snoopy after all the losses to the cursed Red Baron -- last week, for the first time, the Westminster Kennel Club awarded "Best In Show" to Uno. Beagles are tremendously popular dogs and in this clip from the Associated Press, the audience certainly affirms this, and Uno seems happy about it as well:

RELEASE THE HOUNDS!

I'd also like to play tribute to what has to be the most famous beagle in the world

CURSE YOU RED BARON!!!

Shabbat Shalom everyone, see you Motzi Shabbat!