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lislebartman
10-14-2001, 09:07 AM
Nothing to scream about tonight:

"Grin & Share It" - Droopy
"Detouring America" - AAP opening
"Bah, Wilderness" - Barney Bear
"Peep In The Deep" - Popeye (original titles!)
"Bedtime for Sniffles" - 'dubbed'
"The Bear & The Beavers" - Barney Bear
"Popalong Popeye"
"What's Buzzin', Buzzard?"
"The Early Bird Dood It"
"Riot In Rhythm" - Popeye
"Red Hot Riding Hood"
"We're On Our Way To Rio" - Popeye
Jon Cooke
10-14-2001, 10:38 AM
Originally posted by lislebartman
Nothing to scream about tonight:

It was all repeat cartoons from last week's 1am Acme Hours. :( :(


-Jon
PorkyandDaffy
10-14-2001, 03:35 PM
What did ya expect?
Jon Cooke
10-14-2001, 06:36 PM
Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
What did ya expect?


Well, the 2-hour Saturday Acme Hour hasn't been a repeat show in awhile now. I was expecting cartoons that weren't shown during the week...


-Jon
PorkyandDaffy
10-14-2001, 07:07 PM
No, I was just talking about when Lislebartman said "No surprises tonight". You're right, they usually don't repeat stuff that already came on earlier in the week.

I didn't even bother to watch it, because I knew nothing would come on. They only seem to show rare cartoons when you don't expect it.
DR. BELCH
10-14-2001, 08:44 PM
PorkyandDaffy:
They only seem to show rare cartoons when you don't expect it.

Isn't that life! I'm still kicking myself for missing "Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh" last week. I'm hoping it'll be on next month's I'm Popeye!, or at least Acme Hour....

"Peep" seemed to be a colorized/redrawn of an earlier short, recycling an old voice track (note Popeye's froggy voice). I couldn't help but note the topless mermaids in the backgrounds! The scene with Popeye trying to woo the disguised swordfish might well make the "disturbing scenes" thread....


Note also that "Bedtime for Sniffles" seem to be a pivotal one for Jones...it appears he's finding himself humor-wise. Especially watch the scene with Sniffles' spirit trying to entice him to bed...the same fluidity of movement can be seen in Bugs and the big-headed scientist in "Water, Water, Every Hare" (1952), after the ether bottle breaks....
J Lee
10-14-2001, 09:44 PM
"Peep" seemed to be a colorized/redrawn of an earlier short, recycling an old voice track (note Popeye's froggy voice). I couldn't help but note the topless mermaids in the backgrounds! The scene with Popeye trying to woo the disguised swordfish might well make the "disturbing scenes" thread....

"A Peep In the Deep" is just a very dark Cinecolor print, though it was a remake of a 1934 Popeye short, "Dizzy Divers."

Famous started redoing their B&W shorts in color with 1944's "The Anvil Chorus Girl" -- no shame in that, since Warners was doing the same thing with their B&W Looney Tunes -- but at least in 1945 the Famous writers and directors could still rework a B&W cartoon and add a few new twists. By the 1950s, when they redid the plot to a B&W Fleischer Popeye, most of the humor and energy were gone. Warners was able to take old plots and gags a rework them to be as funny or funnier the second time around well into the late 1950s.
Crazy Tom
10-14-2001, 10:26 PM
Originally posted by DR. BELCH
Isn't that life! I'm still kicking myself for missing "Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh" last week. I'm hoping it'll be on next month's I'm Popeye!, or at least Acme Hour....

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh? Isn't that from Big Heel-Watha (Buck Of The Month)...the first Screwball Squirrel film from 1944? I miss that film! We need mroe rare-cartoons...not that John Seely re-run HB stuff!!
Joe Tully
10-14-2001, 10:35 PM
Originally posted by Crazy Tom


Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh? Isn't that from Big Heel-Watha (Buck Of The Month)...the first Screwball Squirrel film from 1944? I miss that film! We need mroe rare-cartoons...not that John Seely re-run HB stuff!!

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-ugh is a Popeye cartoon, rarely shown because of CN's stupid policy regarding Indian cartoons.
Nftnat
10-15-2001, 10:13 AM
Originally posted by Crazy Tom


Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh? Isn't that from Big Heel-Watha (Buck Of The Month)...the first Screwball Squirrel film from 1944? I miss that film! We need mroe rare-cartoons...not that John Seely re-run HB stuff!!

That aired a few Friday nights ago, the same week A&E's Biography was doing that leaders series (Patton, Eisenhower, etc.). It's like I've said before: you gotta tape everything 'cause you never know. And I don't even follow this myself all the time. And I've missed one or two, too; I'm just glad CN showed The Wild Chase again. But just when I was about to give up on Late Night Black & White, for instance, there was last week; need I say more?