Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1944 Friz Freleng directed, Stage Door Cartoon. This is the first cartoon to feature Bugs' signature song "What's Up Doc?" playing during the title card.:
Look for it: Just before Bugs' second curtain scene, we see a piece of scaffold that says "Clampett Trained Seals", a reference to artist Bob Clampett.
Hey, this has been a rough week. You would be forgiven if you wonder what the heck is going on in the country at the moment. The staff here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour need a break as well. Why don’t we all relax and watch a couple of episodes (Art for Monkees' Sake and The Frodis Caper ) of the fun series from the 60s, The Monkees, in honor of their finishing recording the theme for their self-titled TV show on July 19, 1966. So we would like you to sit back (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa or a spot on the rug,) get a snack and a beverage (smoke ‘em if you got ‘em - we’re not narcs) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching the first episode of the evening - Art for Monkees' Sake.
Look for it - In the scene where Liberace is smashing up the piano, Mike can be seen falling over laughing in the background.
I'm guess we could all use a break, right about know. As you run into the kitchen and get a beverage refill or run into the bathroom and replenish the eco-system, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to recognize the amazing 50th anniversary of Neil and Buzz’s stroll on the lunar surface by watching a favorite of our’s, Wallace and Gromit - A Grand Day Out:
According to the book The World of Wallace and Gromit, the film was originally 40 minutes in length, including a sequence where Wallace and Gromit discover a Fast-food restaurant on the Moon. Nick Park remarked: "Originally, Wallace and Gromit go to the Moon, and there's a whole lot of characters there. One was a parking meter attendant, and the only one that remained - the robot cooker character, but there were also aliens and all sorts. There was even a McDonalds on the Moon, and it was going to be a spoof on Star Wars. Wallace would get thrown in prison and Gromit had to get him out. By the time I came to Aardman, I had just started the Moon sequence and somebody told me, it will take another nine years to do that. I had a reality check and cut the scene. Somehow, I had to tie up the story on the Moon and finish the film."
Our second look today at The Monkees is The Frodis Caper (aka Mijacogeo). So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, relax and enjoy listening to this second episode of the evening.
The first piece of music heard in this episode is a snippet of Good Morning, Good Morning from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles were such fans of the show that when they learned the Monkees wished to use this track, they graciously licensed it free of charge, with no royalties owed. This was the only time the Beatles allowed any of their recordings to be used in a film or TV show royalty-free. This was also the first time a licensed Beatles song was heard on a Prime Time television program.
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