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Posted by Daniel Frank at
7:53 AM
The interesting thing to me about this is learning that Jim Henson was the voice of the baker.
Here is a full sequence for the number 9 which also contains a rare Sesame Street appearance by Rolf the Dog.
Allegedly there's a missing counting sequence with the baker singing "ONE WEDDING CAKE" which was pulled because the education folk figured that the kiddies don't need help counting to one. Some folk claim to have seen it. A few years ago, I would have dismissed a claim like that but then they found the Newlywed Game legend turned out to be true.
Speaking of great Sesame Street segments, here's one of that painter who'd paint on inappropriate surfaces. These segments are also no longer part of Sesame Street. Perhaps the kids today can't handle the hilarity our generation could.
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7:58 AM
Their FAQ cops to being a MAD knockoff and uses the "MAD isn't as good as it used to be" argument that a Cracked editor used in an article many years ago when Cracked poached Don Martin.
Speaking of Don Martin, the Wikipedia entry for Fester Bestertester. Nothing for Karbunkle (the Laurel to Fester Bestertester's Hardy).
*UPDATE: My mistake. We have one Summer 2006 blockbusters, two Summer 2005 blockbusters, and a XMas 2005 blockbuster.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at
12:49 PM
Why is that interesting? Whenever Mel Blanc lectured or did a talk show appearance, he'd cite the Jack Benny Show asking him to do an English horse as an assignment that nearly threw him for a loop. So here it is.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at
10:32 AM
I had no idea Israel was trading with Saudi Arabia.
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3:17 PM
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5:43 PM
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5:37 PM
[I]n the theater the second act usually serves as a bridge or transition. The first act establishes the situation and the third act denouement solves or resolves it. It is safe to assume that Fitzgerald was conversant with the theater of his day because one of his works was a play, although not a very good one, called The Vegetable.Could it be that he meant that American lives during the Jazz Age were so frantic and frenetic that they went straight from crisis to resolution because there was not enough time for any transition?
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5:35 PM
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5:34 PM
Definition of steampunk for those unfamiliar with sci-fi sub-genres.
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