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453,775 | 11,228,318 | 31,749 | 10 | Porky Pig gets an education in Old Glory | I first saw this Porky Pig educational cartoon short on Buskin Bill's Storyland in the Bicentenial year of 1976 . I later saw it after James Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy on a Saturday night on that same channel of WAFB-9 , Baton Rouge , La . ( possibly on the 4th of July ) . Having recently seen it on YouTube , I must ... |
454,267 | 11,228,318 | 1,279,304 | 10 | Take It to the Limit was an intriguing season finale to " Swingtown " | At the last episode's end , Susan realized Bruce lied about leaving his briefcase at his workplace where he was " going to " when she saw its place at home . So when he returns home and " explains " why he wasn't home past midnight , Susan gives him the keys to the car and doesn't return his kiss . At the Thompsons ' ,... |
454,650 | 11,228,318 | 1,034,410 | 10 | Respect Yourself : The Stax Records Story is one fascinating doc | Quick , what recording studio became known as " Soulsville , U . S . A " ? Stax Records . Founded by Caucasians Jim STewart and Estelle AXton , this Memphis-based company showcased some of the most soulful musicians on the planet and was colorblind concerning equal employment of black executives like Al Bell . Among th... |
454,637 | 11,228,318 | 424,016 | 10 | The Cunning Little Vixen was a wonderfully animated version of Leos Janacek's opera | Just watched this animated featurette of Leos Janacek's opera as directed by Geoff Dunbar on YouTube . It's mainly about a female fox who as a child gets taken from her mother to this man's house . Three months later as an adult , she escapes but not before killing all the chickens that her master and his wife had rais... |
453,789 | 11,228,318 | 60,503 | 10 | John and Faith Hubley's Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature was a pretty humorously entertaining Oscar-winning animated short | Just watched this Oscar-winning John and Faith Hubley-written and produced animated short distributed by Paramount on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . The title's meaning is that two Herb Albert selections - " Spanish Flea " and " Tijuana Taxi " - are illustrated in animated form in their entirety . " Spanish Flea... |
455,017 | 11,228,318 | 613,545 | 10 | Christmas Shopping Show episode of " The Jack Benny Program " is one hilarious holiday entry | Before I watched the Jack Benny holiday episode I'm reviewing here , I listened to a couple of episodes of his radio show that aired consecutive weeks on December 14 and 21 , 1941 . The first of those had Jack and Mary shopping for Christmas presents while Dennis and Rochester waited outside ( or maybe they shopped the... |
454,088 | 11,228,318 | 58,586 | 10 | A Shot in the Dark marked the introduction of Inspector Clouseau's regulars | With Steve Martin's Pink Panther 2 coming a few days away , I thought I'd look back at the previous entries in the movie series before I watched the latest one . I'm now on the second entry , A Shot in the Dark , that was originally a mystery play with different characters . For many , this was probably the true beginn... |
454,920 | 11,228,318 | 113,540 | 10 | Kids would be provocative viewing for the age group depicted here | When I watched the beginning of this movie with Telly ( Leo Fitzpatrick ) deflowering a young girl who we found out later is one of many virgins he has used since they are " clean " , I can now understand why many parents who were members of the MPAA at the time would want to rate this NC-17 . Not that I'd actually sup... |
454,864 | 11,228,318 | 1,136,041 | 10 | The Dumpling Paradox is the first excellent episode of " The Big Bang Theory " | As Leonard , Sheldon , Howard Wolowitz , and Raj Koothrappali play the TV video game Halo , Penny barges in and asks if she could stay for awhile as her cousin from Nebraska , Christi ( Brooke D'Orsay ) , makes herself at home in her apartment there . Turns out she can't stand her as Christi has a slutty reputation , e... |
454,627 | 11,228,318 | 33,356 | 10 | The Art of Skiing is one hilarious Goofy cartoon short | Just watched this very funny Disney Goofy cartoon short on YouTube . In this one-as the narrator instructs on the fine art of dressing and then going skiing ( which he insists is pronounced SHEE-ING ) - the Goof does the opposite in every hilarious way one could think of and more . Director Jack Kinney and his animator... |
454,716 | 11,228,318 | 1,268,071 | 10 | Figure Eight is one of several cherished memories I have of " Schoolhouse Rock " | I just rediscovered this animated musical short-part of the " Schoolhouse Rock ! " series that aired in between the cartoons on ABC Saturday morning-on YouTube . They bring such great memories of watching these educational but entertaining shorts while I was a kid during the ' 70s . This one-with lyrics by Bob Dorough ... |
453,792 | 11,228,318 | 65,901 | 10 | Is It Always Right to Be Right ? is a relevant live-action / animated short even today | Just watched this Steve Bosustow Productions animated short on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . It was the last one to win an Oscar for " Short Subject , Cartoon " before the category was changed to " Short Subject , Animated " . Narrated by Orson Welles , Is It Always Right to Be Right ? addressed the polarizing ... |
454,153 | 11,228,318 | 1,268,073 | 10 | Interjuctions ! is another educational , yet entertaining , animated musical short in the " Schoolhouse Rock ! " series | With lyrics by Lynn Aherne and Essra Mohawk providing the vocal , " Interjections ! " is another great short animated musical for the " Schoolhouse Rock ! " series-the three minute segment that aired after many ABC Saturday morning programs during the ' 70s and ' 80s . When a boy gets a shot in the butt ( yes , that pa... |
454,743 | 11,228,318 | 45,315 | 10 | Water , Water Every Hare is another fine Bugs Bunny cartoon from Chuck Jones | Six years after Hair-Raising Hare , Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese revisit the Bugs-encounters-an-evil scientist ( with neon letters saying " EVIL SCIENTIST " on his castle ) - and his pet monster premise with Water , Water Every Hare . In this one , instead of Peter Lorre , the scientist looks like Boris Karloff with... |
455,069 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,387 | 10 | The Bat Jar Conjecture is another excellent episode of " The Big Bang Theory " | As Leonard , Sheldon , Howard , and Raj prepare for the Physics Bowl with Penny moderating , Sheldon keeps giving the answers even when someone else buzzes first . To make his rejection from the team easier , Leonard gives Sheldon a Batman cookie jar as a gift . In picking a new team member , Leonard reluctantly asks h... |
454,217 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,385 | 10 | The Pancake Batter Anomaly is one of the funniest episodes of " The Big Bang Theory " yet | When Penny returns from her hometown in Nebraska , she tells Leonard and Sheldon that many of her immediate family had the flu . That signals Sheldon to keep away from her since he's a germaphobic . When Sheldon does get sick , Leonard decides to ditch him to watch a Planet of the Apes marathon at a cinema with Howard ... |
454,971 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,390 | 10 | The Coopeer-Hofstadter Polarization is a hilarious comeback for " The Big Bang Theory " | While Sheldon , Leonard , Howard , and Raj are being awestruck at the way they've used the internet to communicate with the world in order to turn on the lamp , stereo , and other electrical appliances , Leonard discovers a letter inviting him and Sheldon to share their scientific knowledge to an audience of fellow col... |
453,933 | 11,228,318 | 390,981 | 10 | Citizen King is essential viewing for anyone studying Dr . Martin Luther King | With today another celebration of the birth of Dr . Martin Luther King , I finally decided to watch the documentary made about his last five years that aired on " American Experience " that I taped four years ago . Following his Birmingham stint to his march in Washington , D . C . to his trips to the Johnson White Hou... |
454,857 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,389 | 10 | The Grasshopper Experiment is another excellent episode of " The Big Bang Theory " | In Sheldon and Leonard's apartment , Raj Koothrappali introduces his parents on his computer screen to them and Howard Wolowitz . The parents tell their son about a grown Indian woman Raj knew previously as a fat child coming over for an arraigned marriage . Her name is Lalita ( Sarayu Rao ) . Penny comes over and asks... |
454,802 | 11,228,318 | 87,150 | 10 | Dim Sum : A Little Bit of Heart is Wayne Wang's slice of life of Chinese widow and her American-raised grown daughter | Dim Sum : A Little Bit of Heart is basically the touching story of a Chinese immigrant widow who becomes sad because she's told by a fortune teller that she would soon die , so she constantly reminds her last single daughter to marry and resolves to visit her homeland one last time . Kim Chew is the widow and her real-... |
454,163 | 11,228,318 | 41,169 | 10 | Begone Dull Care showcases Oscar Peterson jazz over images by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart | With the recent death of jazz great Oscar Peterson , Amid at Cartoon Brew showed his tribute by linking from YouTube two animated shorts scored by him . One was directed by John Hubley . This one , Begone Dull Care , was done by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart with the abstract paint done directly on film . Peterson ... |
453,884 | 11,228,318 | 60,550 | 10 | It's the Great Pumpkin , Charlie Brown is still wonderful after all these years | Today , October 27 , 2006 , ABC showed It's the Great Pumpkin , Charlie Brown , for its 40th anniversary . After all these years , Linus still believes in the Great Pumpkin rising up from the pumpkin patch to give presents to all the boys and girls , Snoopy dresses as a WWI flying ace to battle the Red Baron , Charlie ... |
454,954 | 11,228,318 | 39,700 | 10 | A Pest in the House is another hilarious Daffy Duck cartoon | With this cartoon the second consecutive Daffy Duck one I've seen in which he's in his prime , I've now completely recovered from the mediocre one he made with Speedy in the ' 60s I watched before them . He's a bellhop who unwittingly ( or maybe not ) disturbs a man who just wants quiet while he sleeps but keeps hittin... |
454,727 | 11,228,318 | 28,057 | 10 | The Old Mill Pond is excellent tribute to African-American entertainers of the ' 30s | The Old Mill Pond is more of a tribute to the African-American entertainers of the ' 30s than any denigration of the entire race ( Stepin Fetchit caricature notwithstanding ) . Besides who I just mentioned , there's also frog or fish versions of Cab Calloway , Fats Waller , Joesphine Baker , Bill " Bojangles " Robinson... |
453,990 | 11,228,318 | 22,127 | 10 | Mask-A-Raid is another bizarre early Betty Boop cartoon that comes highly recommended | Just discovered this early Betty Boop cartoon on YouTube courtesy of one of various cartoon blogs I've been looking up on . The author of this particular blog thinks the singing voice and mannerisms of Bimbo near the end sound a lot like Louis Prima and I have to heartily agree . This short being made pre-Code , there ... |
454,225 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,349 | 10 | Senor Macho Solo is another excellently funny episode of " 30 Rock " | In this episode , Jenna auditions to be in the Janis Joplin movie Jack is producing , Tracy and Jack gets Tracy's wife Angie to sign a " post-nup " but when Angie says she'll be with her husband till he dies , they make out to everyone's consternation , Liz gets a date with a U . N . representative ( Peter Dinklage ) n... |
454,250 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,348 | 10 | Christmas Special is a most excellent holiday episode of " 30 Rock " | Liz decides to become a secret Santa because her family doesn't want her , Jack makes everyone do a Christmas special because he doesn't want to be with his mother who he accidentally ran over with his car , and that mother , Colleen , is proving to be such a nuisance to her son . . . As in the last episode , someone s... |
454,251 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,347 | 10 | A hilarious Reunion happened on this episode of " 30 Rock " | Liz reluctantly goes to her high school reunion with Jack along with her pretending to be former student Larry who apparently was very popular . It seems Liz was actually a " mean girl " ( nice reference to Ms . Fey's movie from a few years ago ) whom many former classmates ( including one who's gay ) didn't like . Mea... |
454,116 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,341 | 10 | Believe in the Stars is another very funny episode of " 30 Rock " | Jenna and Tracy do a " Freaky Friday " , Jack fakes Synchronized Running during the Summer Olympics , Liz meets " Oprah " on an airplane , Kenneth has a crisis of conscience . . . . Lots of funny stuff are once again happening on " 30 Rock " what with Jenna miffed not getting compensated for her voice work on Tracy's p... |
454,708 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,332 | 10 | St . Valentine's Day was another hilarious episode of " 30 Rock " | What a hilarious episode of " 30 Rock " this one was especially considering the Vanentines Day theme ! Jack wants to take Elisa to his favorite dessert restaurant but has to go to a Catholic church with her first . Liz has a disastrous first date with her doctor neighbor which isn't helped when he also has to look out ... |
454,631 | 11,228,318 | 65,976 | 10 | Very glad to have finally seen Let It Be after so many missed opportunities . . . | Having never seen any VHS copies of this last Beatles movie and since it will probably be a very long time before it gets on DVD , I was stoked when I found out YouTube had this uploaded since the later part of summer 2007 and it was still there . All the things director Michael Lindsay-Hogg filmed were fascinating to ... |
455,247 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,335 | 10 | The Funcooker is another hilariously great episode of " 30 Rock " | In this episode , both Liz and Jack have a bad day . Liz when she has to go to jury duty leaving no one in charge of her show , Jack when he has trouble thinking of a non-offensive name ( in any language ) for a little microwave product he's trying to sell . Oh , and Jenna and Tracy incur the wrath of a St . Patrick's ... |
454,715 | 11,228,318 | 1,268,153 | 10 | A Noun Is a Person , Place or Thing is another excellent entry in the " Schoolhouse Rock ! " series | Written and sung by Lynn Aherns , the ditty " A Noun Is a Person , Place or Thing " is an excellent composition with accompanying animation of a girl demonstrating her adventures via the four verses in a perfect amalgamation of sounds and images . Once again , " Schoolhouse Rock " has presented an entertaining way to m... |
454,628 | 11,228,318 | 57,339 | 10 | My Financial Career is another excellent animated short from the National Film Board of Canada | Just watched on the National Film Board of Canada site , this Oscar-nominated animated short by Gerald Potterton . It's a highly amusing tale of a young man's attempt to deposit some money at a bank for the very first time . The narration and its account of the reactions of many of the bank people provides much of the ... |
454,436 | 11,228,318 | 1,237,286 | 10 | Swingus Interruptus is an excellent episode of " Swingtown " with some much needed humor added | Bruce confesses his kissing Melinda twice to wife Susan . While Susan wishes it hadn't happened , she doesn't yell at him like he wishes she would . In fact , since Brad-who's conducting interviews on open marriages for a book-and Sylvia have invited them to the Pendulum Club-which is basically an orgy place , Susan wa... |
454,438 | 11,228,318 | 1,237,285 | 10 | Puzzlerama was another excellent episode of " Swingtown " | We begin with Susan in the Deckers ' pool . Tom is on one side and Trina , the other as they take turns caressing her . Roger ( ! ) then jumps in . As this happens , both Bruce and Janet-fully clothed , rise up in the water and make negative judgments on their spouses . As Susan calls her husband's name , she wakes up ... |
454,933 | 11,228,318 | 449,467 | 10 | Babel is one of the most challenging films of the year | First off , I'd like to say that both Rinko Kikuchi and Adriana Barraza deserved their Oscar nominations for their roles in Babel this year . And Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett deserve thanks for lending their star power to this picture . Babel is a mostly compelling film about how four different stories taking place in ... |
454,539 | 11,228,318 | 439,682 | 10 | Lomax the Songhunter is an excellent documentary | For years , I've heard about Alan Lomax and his folk recordings for the Library of Congress but it wasn't until I saw this documentary on the PBS series P . O . V . that I even had an inkling of what he did . This film is as good a start as any to learn about this important researcher and his preservation efforts among... |
453,993 | 11,228,318 | 20,414 | 10 | Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance deserves its scary classic status | Just watched this classic Walt Disney Silly Symphony ( the first ) on the Saturday Morning Blog as linked from YouTube . This was a mostly funny and atmospheric cartoon that must have really made an impact on the movie industry since after this there were a lot of cartoons that involved things that bump in the night . ... |
453,824 | 11,228,318 | 41,142 | 10 | Awful Orphan is a really funny Porky Pig-Charlie Dog cartoon | This is one of several cartoons starring Porky Pig and directed by Chuck Jones that also stars Charlie Dog who is always trying to get Porky to accept him as a pet with the pig always refusing . Love hearing Mel Blanc give Porky a really evil laugh whenever he tries to get rid of Charlie . Also love many of the disguis... |
455,062 | 11,228,318 | 28,156 | 10 | Rainbow Dance is another entertaining experimental Len Lye short | Ranbow Dance is another great abstraction animated short by Len Lye . This time there's a silhouette of Rupert Doone dancing in front of a rainbow in the beginning . Doone plays tennis later on in the short . All this is combined in a collage of images of color and various money bills , coins , and press clippings . At... |
454,429 | 11,228,318 | 1,139,160 | 10 | Carol Burnett : A Woman of Character is another great episode of " American Masters " | A few weeks ago , I watched this wonderful documentary about the life and career of one the most talented comediennes ever : Carol Burnett . From her early life growing up with her grandma watching various movies to her early live performances on " The Garry Moore Show " and Broadway to her defining moments on her 11-y... |
454,755 | 11,228,318 | 985,674 | 10 | Soundies : A Musical History is highly recommend for film and music fans | Singer Michael Feinstein hosts this special about Soundies , three-minute film shorts of the popular songs during the ' 40s that were played in video jukeboxes called the Panorams . We start with what is called the best of the best : Duke Ellington's " Hot Chocolate " which has various gymnastic-style dances of the Jit... |
454,041 | 11,228,318 | 923,975 | 10 | Vau-Vau is one of a few animated shorts I've seen from Zagreb Films | Just discovered on Cartoon Brew linked to YouTube this unique animated short from a company called Zagreb Films . In Vau-Vau , a dog in the forest scares many small creatures like a bird , a snail , and a ball . Then he encounters a cat who tries to scare the dog back . Then they both go at it with smaller versions of ... |
454,582 | 11,228,318 | 902,012 | 10 | Fallout is excellent end-of-the-year episode of Heroes | Peter is in the interrogation room questioned by FBI agent Audrey and mind-reading cop Matt . When Matt tries to read Peter's head , Peter ends up reading Matt's ending with a colliding block effect . Peter mentions that Claire , not the dead Jackie , was who Syler was after so Matt and Audrey leave to get her as Peter... |
455,059 | 11,228,318 | 29,686 | 10 | Trade Tattoo is Len Lye's most entertaining work | Trade Tattoo is one of Len Lye's most entertaining experimental shorts . Placed against documentary footage and silhouettes of various trains and workers quickly mailing various packages , it's a kaleidescope of images with various typed-words printed on screen like : " The rhythm of trade is maintained by the mails " ... |
455,155 | 11,228,318 | 440,963 | 10 | The Bourne Ultimatum is the best in series so far | Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass do it again ! They provide great action while presenting a logical story and beautiful expository dialogue to help explain most of what is going on . Kudos also to returning cast members Joan Allen and , especially , Julia Stiles , who has more to do here and a better reason for her chara... |
455,043 | 11,228,318 | 74,787 | 10 | Leisure is a wonderful Australian animated short that won the Oscar | This most deservedly Oscar-winning animated short from Australia in 1976 starts with a line drawing on white background of a man relaxing by him self . Then we see him working various jobs to achieve his leisure time . Then we go through a history of mixing work and leisure through photographs , paintings , illustratio... |
454,100 | 11,228,318 | 853,635 | 10 | Heroes : Collision moves the series along briskly | One thing I forgot to mention from the last episode , Niki the stripper took her son Micah to his grandmother's house where the grandma believes her son , Niki's ex-husband , is innocent of the charges he is in jail for . In the beginning of this episode , we find Matt the cop , after passing out in the bar after witne... |
454,097 | 11,228,318 | 853,636 | 10 | Heroes : Hiros is another excellent episode of the best new series | At the end of the last episode , Future Hiro contacted Peter on a subway train with Hiro having stopped time for everything and everyone around them . He instructs Peter , " Save the cheerleader , save the world . " Then he leaves as everything moves again . In Las Vegas , Claire's dad and his black assistant are holdi... |
454,489 | 11,228,318 | 1,401,252 | 10 | Up Is Down is a wonderfully unique animated short from Millie and Morton Goldsholl | Inspired by June Brindel's children's short story " Luap " , designer-writer-director Millie Goldsholl's Up Is Down tells the story of a boy who walks with his hands with the result being his visualizing everything in a more sunny , optimistic view than the more coldly and cynically detached one of many of the adults t... |
454,065 | 11,228,318 | 950,189 | 10 | Company Man is one of the best episodes of Heroes | The last episode ended as the Bennet family was being held hostage by Matt and Ted . This one almost exclusively keeps the focus on them . During the whole hour , Matt reads the minds of Mr . Bennet and Claire and finds out most of their backstories as a result . As a result , Matt shoots Claire , who is indestructible... |
454,737 | 11,228,318 | 42,871 | 10 | Rabbit of Seville is a masterpiece of classical music and animation | When Bugs starts cutting a razor to Elmer's face , I couldn't help but think about the recent movie of Sweeney Todd , in which that character is a barber who literally cuts his customers ' necks . Luckily , the rabbit just gives his nemesis slashes . Loved hearing Mel Blanc as the rascally rabbit sing the altered lyric... |
454,074 | 11,228,318 | 401,997 | 10 | Breach is excellent true-to-life story of Robert Hanssen | Breach is based on the true story of the capture of Robert Hanssen , an FBI agent responsible for many treasonous acts against the United States . Chris Cooper is excellent throughout in portraying a Catholic family man who goes to church constantly with his wife and kids while hiding his sexual perversions . Ryan Phil... |
454,385 | 11,228,318 | 31,502 | 10 | It's the Natural Thing to Do is a hilarious Fleischer Popeye short | This is a Max Fleischer Popeye cartoon . As such , there is a lot more inventive humor than in the more formulaic Famous Studios ones from many of the same animators . I guess the real difference is in the presence of Max and his brother Dave , as usual credited as director . The short begins with Popeye and Bluto figh... |
454,042 | 11,228,318 | 31,509 | 10 | Jitterbug Follies is another funny Milt Gross cartoon from MGM | Jitterbug Follies is one of only two MGM cartoons to star comic strip characters Count Screwloose and J . R . the Wonder Dog as directed by their creator , Milt Gross . The other one was Wanted : No Master . In this one Screwloose and J . R . try to bilk some money out of a bogus talent contest but are forced by a coup... |
454,540 | 11,228,318 | 802,863 | 10 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus has great homecoming on Saturday Night Live | On this May 13 , 2006 broadcast , the cold opening takes us to an alternate universe as we see President Al Gore address the nation on how well our country's been doing . Yes , that's the real Al Gore ! He then says , " Live from New York , it's Saturday Night ! " During the monologue , Julia Louis-Dreyfus mentions bei... |
454,826 | 11,228,318 | 123,297 | 10 | Thundering Fleas is the most hilarious silent " Our Gang " short yet | This Hal Roach comedy short , Thundering Fleas , is the fifty-first in the " Our Gang / Little Rascals " series . Inspired by her older sister's upcoming wedding , Mary stages a mock one with Joe as the groom . He refuses to kiss her since he doesn't want the gang to laugh at him , however . They indeed do when Mary do... |
453,994 | 11,228,318 | 146,309 | 10 | Thirteen Days was a fine dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Earlier this month I visited my sister in Maryland , to see her first-born child , a boy , get baptized . While there , her husband showed this historical drama to me , my mother , and my other brother-in-law . We were all enthralled at the drama of what happened over 40 years ago being played on the just-unwrapped DVD... |
454,183 | 11,228,318 | 1,062 | 10 | Those Awful Hats is amusing early Griffith | A very amusing D . W . Griffith short featuring an appearance by future producer / director Mack Sennett . The entire 3-minute short , Those Awful Hats , takes place in a nickelodeon as we see an audience watching a movie up on the screen ( one of the earliest depictions of a film-within-a-film scene ) . Most of the ac... |
453,917 | 11,228,318 | 40,064 | 10 | 3 Godfathers is underrated John Ford-John Wayne classic | What movie do you think of when you see or hear the names of John Ford and John Wayne ? Stagecoach ? She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ? The Searchers ? The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ? How about 3 Godfathers ? If you haven't heard of the last one , by all means search for it ! This story of three outlaws on the run who accid... |
454,810 | 11,228,318 | 190,435 | 10 | See Greater Tuna for the eccentric characters played by Jaston Williams and Joe Sears | After seeing A Tuna Christmas on a VHS tape I checked from the library several weeks ago , I went back and found that play's predecessor , Greater Tuna , on DVD there . Once again , it was authored by Ed Howard and the show's stars ( and only players ) , Joe Sears and Jaston Williams . And once again , some of the same... |
454,134 | 11,228,318 | 875,355 | 10 | Homecoming is another awesome episode of Heroes | All the cheerleaders seem to snub Claire because she injured the quarterback , especially co-captain Jackie . They're all gathered together in assembly outside to find out who the homecoming queen is . To everyone's surprise , it's Claire . Her friend Zack and many of his geeky and freaky friends cheer her on . Meanwhi... |
454,271 | 11,228,318 | 443,706 | 10 | Zodiac was an excellent drama about the search for a real-life serial killer | When my dad decided to watch Zodiac , he asked if I wanted to join him . I agreed to even though the movie was 162 min . I was so enthralled I didn't care about the length after a while . Director David Fincher provides the most compelling drama of this real-life serial killer despite most of the scenes leading to seve... |
453,835 | 11,228,318 | 1,245,104 | 10 | Presto is another excellent Pixar animated short | This is the second of five Oscar-nominated animated shorts I've watched from last year . It's from Pixar and was originally presented before their feature WALL-E which I have yet to see . A magician's bunny just wants a carrot but his master keeps taking it away from him so during the performance with the master on sta... |
454,794 | 11,228,318 | 882,999 | 10 | Jack-Tor is funniest ep of 30 Rock yet | Movie star Tracy Jordan has not gotten used to the constant rehearsals so he skips out whenever he can . In addition , Liz finds that he rarely follows the script or even Emergengy Exit door signs making her think he's illiterate . Meanwhile , the network exec Jack Donaghy has asked for a product placement for GE , the... |
455,052 | 11,228,318 | 25,200 | 10 | The Grasshopper and the Ants was a fine Disney Silly Symphony that starred the voice of Goofy : Pinto Colvig | Just watched this Disney Silly Symphony on YouTube . In this one , a grasshopper fiddles away singing , " The World Owes Us a Living " while the worker ants prepare for the winter storage . The queen of them warns the grasshopper of what will happen if the grasshopper doesn't prepare himself but he pays her no mind . T... |
454,551 | 11,228,318 | 486,655 | 10 | Stardust is an underrated humorous fairy tale of the summer movie season | While I don't consider myself a big fan of fairy tale movies , Stardust intrigued me based on seeing Michelle Pfeiffer in the trailers as a villain ( especially since I was about to see her as the bossy Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray ) . Boy , is she so convincingly evil here as a witch , especially with her age-ugly ma... |
454,468 | 11,228,318 | 824,332 | 10 | 35 Years Later-Freedom River is still relevant today | I just saw on YouTube an interesting animated short called Freedom River which depicts how the people inhabiting near this red , white , and blue sea start planting crops to feed their families and show their pride . Then that pride becomes arrogance as they turn away strangers who look different from them and they sta... |
454,712 | 11,228,318 | 1,375,140 | 10 | This final episode of " Late Night with Conan O'Brien " caps 16 excellent years for the carrot-topped host | With this final " Late Night " episode , Conan O'Brien said goodbye to Studio 6A , Rockefeller Plaza , and New York as he now prepares to go to California and take over " The Tonight Show " on June 1 . During this final original telecast , the tall , pale , red-haired host showed his favorite segment of all : his inter... |
454,994 | 11,228,318 | 1,236,458 | 10 | Do-Over was a more than adequate welcome back for " 30 Rock " s third season | First off , kudos all for Alec Baldwin's Emmy win as well as Tina Fey's 3 . They were all deserved ! Now for the third season premiere , Liz tries to get in good with the adoption representative ( Megan Mullally ) while Jack tries to get his job back as Devin ( Will Arnett ) threatens to shut the network down . With Ms... |
454,612 | 11,228,318 | 1,245,069 | 10 | The Mousetrap is the best " T : TSCC " episode so far this season ! | When I wrote the comment for the last episode , I forgot to mention that Sonya Walger-who is best known to " Lost " fans ( like me ) as Penny there-returned as Charlie's wife Michelle . She gets kidnapped here by Cromartie in order to get to John . This is a very intense episode that's nail-bitingly suspenseful through... |
455,190 | 11,228,318 | 141,924 | 10 | Another Classic Felix Cartoon | This is another Felix cartoon worth preserving that you can see on YouTube . It starts with a mouse about to walk a rope tied to a ship being chased by Felix . After they both get on , a sailor unties the rope leaving them stuck in ! As the ship sails , Felix gets seasick . The ship lands in Holland . Felix flirts with... |
455,061 | 11,228,318 | 51,634 | 10 | Free Radicals is another amazing Len Lye short | Along with A Colour Box and The Peanut Vendor , Free Radicals is another highly exciting experimental animated short by Len Lye . Seeing chalk white lines constantly moving on a black background with African drums playing throughout makes for one of the most unique experiences I've ever seen in animation history . How ... |
454,730 | 11,228,318 | 38,060 | 10 | The Screwy Truant is hilarious Tex Avery cartoon from MGM | When I was a kid watching the Tom and Jerry show on weekday afternoons in the late ' 70s and early ' 80s , I watched most of the cartoons they aired that was from the ' 40s including those starring Droopy or Barney Bear . For some reason , however , they never either showed or I never saw any Screwy Squirrel cartoons m... |
455,132 | 11,228,318 | 496,313 | 10 | Hardrock , Coco , and Joe : The Three Little Dwarfs is a charming stop-motion holiday short | The Hill and Range song publishing company , which also licensed UPA animation to film shorts of songs " Peter Cottontail " and " Frosty the Snowman " that became staples of kids ' shows on Chicago TV , asked a stop-motion company named Centaur Productions to make one of Santa's elves that are the names in the title ab... |
453,982 | 11,228,318 | 1,156,294 | 10 | Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir may be just right for the holiday spirit | With the dearth of Christmas variety specials since the deaths of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope , I have looked more and more at PBS for any Christmas music specials that help me get in the holiday mood . This year was the first I decided to watch one with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in its entirety . It starts with plenty ... |
454,780 | 11,228,318 | 46,811 | 10 | Bugs and Thugs was one of my favorites as a kid | Bugs goes to the bank to get a carrot among many in his deposit box . At the same time , Rocky has robbed it and is about to get in his car with Mugsy as the driver when Bugs comes in first mistaking it for a taxi . When Rocky comes in with his bags of money , the rabbit at first thinks it's laundry . He wises up and a... |
455,054 | 11,228,318 | 60,346 | 10 | The Drag is both entertaining and educational in showing the dangers of smoking | Nominated for the 1966 Oscar , this animated short from the National Film Board of Canada depicts a man on a psychiatrist's couch who's telling him about how he came to start smoking in order to join the " cool " crowd and after finding about the cancer scare has a difficult time stopping . Filled with background colla... |
454,357 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,793 | 10 | Queen's Gambit is the best episode of " Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles " so far | Sarah gets a call from Andy Goode , the guy whose house she blew up when she realized his computer-Turk-would be in Skynet's future , and finds out he made a new one that's being entered in a chess contest with Japan with the winning country getting a contract with the military . With John and Cameron in tow , Sarah wa... |
455,057 | 11,228,318 | 60,345 | 10 | Dr . Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ! is highlight of Chuck Jones ' animation career | Chuck Jones ' animated retelling of Dr . Suess ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ! has been an annual TV holiday staple for the last 40 years despite the recent live-action version starring Jim Carrey and directed by Ron Howard . Anyone who loves Suess and Jones and animation should definitely love this definitive versi... |
454,355 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,794 | 10 | Dungeons & Dragons was another cool episode of " Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles " | This episode begins when the last one ended : With Charley attempting to fix Derek Reese who can't lay still because he thinks Cameron wants to harm him . We then see flash-forwards of the future he came from with Kyle , his brother and the father of John Connor with Sarah , and other rebels trying to avoid the Skynet ... |
454,510 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,797 | 10 | What He Beheld was excellent for what became the season finale of " Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles " | This episode begins sometime in April of 2011 , Judgement Day . We see a teen boy throw a ball for his younger pre-teen brother to hit . They're Derek and Kyle Reese as kids . Then we see nuclear planes fly above . Their world is about to end . Flash to present day as Sarah plans to find Sarkissian , the one who was so... |
454,976 | 11,228,318 | 46,828 | 10 | Carmen Jones was a shining highlight for Oscar-nominated Dorothy Dandridge | In reviewing African-Americans on film and television , in front of and behind the scenes , for Black History Month , I had always intended to start from their earliest available work all the way to their latest by the end of February . We're now at 1954 and the release of Carmen Jones . Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dan... |
454,448 | 11,228,318 | 697,139 | 10 | Midnight Express Special is an excellent episode of SCTV | On Sunrise Semester , Edith Prickly ( Andrea Martin ) plugs her passport photo business with her cousin ( Robin Duke ) the participant . Funniest scene is when Duke gets blown by a giant fan that probably wasn't necessary . Oh , and she's drunk the whole time ! On a Mamorex tape spot , Ella Fitzgerald ( Joe Flaherty ) ... |
454,222 | 11,228,318 | 1,003,116 | 10 | This Pete Seeger documentary is excellent in most every way | Just watched this on " American Masters " and all I've got to say is : What a great documentary on a great man ! What a chronicle of Seeger's journey in music and activism from playing and riding with Woody Guthrie to going overseas to getting married to singing first with the Almanacs and then The Weavers to getting b... |
455,107 | 11,228,318 | 148,507 | 10 | My Daddy the Astronaut is one of the best of the Shamus Culhane-directed cartoons from Paramount cartoon studios | Just watched this Paramount Fractured Fable on YouTube . Made in the waning days of the Famous / Paramount cartoon studios , this Shamus Culhane-directed cartoon was unique in that it was basically done in a style of a child's crayon drawing as animated by Al Eugster . With accompaniment from Winston Sharples ' harmoni... |
453,984 | 11,228,318 | 655,448 | 10 | Santa Claus gets hilarious riffing on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " | Well , this one was even funnier than the Santa Claus Conquers the Martians episode of " MST3K " . Besides Santa , there's also Pitch the Devil ( loved Mike and the ' bots comments on his dancing , " He really seems to enjoy pantaloons too much ! " LOL ) , and Merlin the Magician . This being a Mexican production , the... |
454,732 | 11,228,318 | 141,869 | 10 | Swing You Sinners is one of the most surrealistic Fleischer cartoons ever ! | Bimbo , who gets his comeuppance for stealing chickens , encounters various talking gravestones with faces , many farm animals , a walking barn , and plenty of spooks and ghosts in one of the most musically jazzy surrealistic cartoons I've ever seen . Both the music and the animation makes you wonder how much drugs wer... |
453,794 | 11,228,318 | 1,391,622 | 10 | Pussycat seems to be a unique claymation short by Takena Nagao | This clay animation short by a Japanese artist named Takena Nagao is filled with unsubtle sexuality ( but no nudity ) and plenty of gore involving the female title character in a tight dress , a business pig , and a stalker wolf . This guy Nagao seems to be the Quentin Tarantino of clay animation shorts ! There is anot... |
453,802 | 11,228,318 | 1,035,913 | 10 | Chuck Versus the Nemesis is the funniest action-packed episode of " Chuck " yet ! | This episode takes place on Thanksgiving and Black Friday the next day so I'll just mention some tidbits here : With Bryce now revealed to be alive , Chuck gets in the interrogation room with him and has to prove he's the real one to Bryce by talking in Klingon which he's rusty at . At Ellie's Thanksgiving dinner , Ann... |
472,520 | 11,423,174 | 384,537 | 1 | where the hell am i ? | this movie had two things going for it . the beginning credits was one . can you guess the other ? if you said : the end credits , you win . your prize : the best advice you'll ever receive . wait for it - - avoid this movie . this thing just went on and on and on - - and on . i still don't ' have any clue what the hel... |
472,893 | 11,423,174 | 288,477 | 1 | beyond pointless ( a true crap fest in every way ) | this movie bit the big one , and i mean that in the worst possible way . it starts off really slow and boring . then , they decide to give us a sequence containing buckets of gore , with people dying horrible deaths . bad enough , but . . . the method in which they are dispatched ( pretty much all at the same time ) a ... |
473,566 | 11,423,174 | 120,458 | 1 | had potential , until after the beginning credits rolled | wow , what a mess . bad acting , bad special effects , dumb plot . this one has it all . Donald Sutherland in particular should be ashamed for having the worst fake accent ever . none of the actors seemed to want to be there . maybe they all owed a debt to somebody , and this was the only way to pay it . this thing was... |
472,660 | 11,423,174 | 439,815 | 1 | if you miss one movie this decade-it should be " Slither " | can you smell that ? it's the stench from this so called movie . i realize that this movie is supposed to be a horror comedy . however , it is missing two important elements . horror and comedy . i cannot believe any actor could be convinced by any agent to appear in this bomb . they should all fire their agents . i ne... |
473,813 | 11,423,174 | 433,386 | 1 | pretty much as dreadful as the first one | i was hoping this movie would be better than the first one , which i thought was dreadful . overall , i think it is a bit better , but not very much . the only thing better about it is it has slightly more eerie and creepy , vibe , but just slightly . however , other than that , this movie is dreadfully boring and not ... |
473,126 | 11,423,174 | 104,997 | 1 | AKA Night Caller ( 1992 ) don't bother answering this call | i don't know what they were thinking . by they , i mean anybody even remotely connected to this disaster . i've seen so bad movies , i've seen so really bad movies , and then there's this . but i will say one thing . whoever wrote the script has manged to put what could possibly the most inane dialogue over written , o... |
473,715 | 11,423,174 | 83,530 | 1 | more tedious than the first one , and that's saying something | somehow , i managed to get through all 84 minutes of airplane 2 . however , i found it more tedious than airplane 1 , which i thought was impossible . i think i cracked a smile once during the first one , but not even close in this one . the jokes were even more stale and unfunny . i'm sure there are people who have en... |
473,302 | 11,423,174 | 85,636 | 1 | awful stand alone movie ( and i mean awful ) | on this suckiness scale , this movie ranks right up there . it's a stand alone movie that has nothing to do with the rest of the Halloween series . i didn't like much about this movie . i actually felt dirty after watching it . thankfully , it's not all that memorable . but i remember all i need to about it . it sucked... |
472,859 | 11,423,174 | 367,153 | 1 | unbelievably sick and awful ( in the worst way ) | what a horrible , horrible movie . i thought i was watching a snuff film . you have to be emotionally unhinged to enjoy this piece of excrement . low budget and it shows . the camera lingers for a very long time on all the killing scenes , way too long . the acting is poor , the plot is ridiculous and full of inconsist... |
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