Acme Hour 7-30-01

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Acme Hour 7-30-01

Paying the Piper (WB)
Barney Bear's Polar Pest (MGM) Barney Bear
Cat's A-Weigh (WB)
Big Bad Sindbad (Popeye)
Gallopin' Gals (MGM)
The Hypo-chondri-cat (WB)

[Jon Cooke]

Just a quick note to say that I fixed some minor errors with your post before I copied it to the What Aired Today? board. The Barney Bear cartoon was "Barney Bear's Polar Pest" (not "Polar Bears"). I also fixed the spelling of "Sindbad" (you had "Sindbag"). Hope you don't mind.



-Jon

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Thanks a lot for the fix. My brother gave me the wrong title for the Barney Bear cartoon.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Paying the Piper is one of the Pied Piper spoofs, but you probably knew that from the title.

Cats A-Weigh features Sylvester and his son on a boat.

The Hypo-Chondri-Cat is a little too extreme with the graphics.

[Jack]

I love the abstract dream sequence in Hypochondri-Cat, I think it's the best Jones ever did (he seemed to do the most, two or so, three if you count Hell Bent For Election). Also, I noticed a brown haze in the upper right hand corner of the cartoon that was very noticeable in the darker scenes. This has some great graphics IMO.

Havn't seen Cat Awiegh for a while, so I'll catch it at midnight. It's one of the better Hippety Hoppers (they aren't very repetive, despite their reputation).


Jack:D

[Patrick McCart]

That brown haze is a sign of safety film decomposition. The film gets discolored (yellow-brown) and becomes brittle.

[bushnader666]

I'm surprised that "Gallopin' Girls" was uncut. There's a "dark horse" gag that AwOL-TW may think as un-PC.

[DR. BELCH]

Something I've always wondered: Wouldn't Porky saying his sister smokes hams in "Paying the Piper" technically constitute cannibalism?

The funniest bits in "Cat's A-Weigh" come with Sylvester the logician's skillfully b.s.-ing Junior. "Well, you're a little cat, so you catch the little mice." Then a complete one-eighty: "There's only one great big mouse, so you can try to catch him...while I do al lthe work of rounding up al lthe little mice." It gets him in the end, though.

"Big Bad Sindbad" is pretty good for a cheater cartoon; although I'm sure the opening and closing pieces were redrawnc animation.

Notice that a lot of the mares in "Gallopin' Gals" are voiced after female celebs--I though I heard a Mae West in there somewhere. How the "dark horse" gag (complete with gold tooth!) got past the censors is beyond me. I think someone slipped them another 100 proof bribe, if you catch my drift. ;)

The ending of "The Hypochondri-Cat" is my favorite part...but I wonder what Claude will do when that balloon gives out?