ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (477)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1939 Looney Tunes It's an Ill Wind directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton



Both Dizzy Duck and Porky's pet dog bear a passing resemblance to animated characters from rival studio Disney.


Hey bunkies, the staff atThe ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to share with you another fantastic mash-up from Bill McClintock -



This one really is amazing! Who would think of Sade and Ratt (and Santana) in the same universe as well as the same song.


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1988 seminal dystopian anime Akira, directed by J Katsuhiro Otomo. A landmark in Japanese animation, Akira is widely cited as an influential work in the development of anime, adult animation, and Japanese cyberpunk. The film is widely credited with breaking anime into mainstream Western audiences. Akira's final budget was $10 million (¥1.1 billion), making it the most expensive Japanese animated film before Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away released in 2001.

Set in a neon-soaked, post-apocalyptic Tokyo in 2019, the story centers on the volatile friendship between Tetsuo Shima and his longtime friend Shotaro Kaneda - a rivalry that escalates from teenage rebellion to psychic catastrophe. While much of the character design and world-building comes directly from Ôtomo’s sprawling 2,182-page manga, the film’s narrative was radically streamlined. Entire arcs were condensed. Characters vanished. The result is leaner, faster, and charged with kinetic intensity.

Katsuhiro Ôtomo initially had no intention of adapting his manga for the screen. But when the opportunity arose, he became “very intrigued.” He agreed - on one non-negotiable condition: complete creative control. (A lesson learned from his earlier work on Harmagedon.) Legend has it he filled roughly 2,000 pages of notebooks with ideas and designs. The final storyboard alone ran 738 pages.

So find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we dive headlong into one of the most influential animated films ever made: Akira.



The iconic shot of Kaneda’s red bike sliding to a stop, sparks flying, framed from behind during the opening chase. It may be the most imitated shot in animation history. Homages have appeared in Teen Titans, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars, Samurai Jack, Batman: The Animated Series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Adventure Time, The Simpsons, and even Pokémon.



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Wow, I've been wrong my whole life

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Many in the Epstein files wish they had this one

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They are quite multi-talented -

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Thoughts of a young man

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Skirmish —

- any brisk conflict or encounter.



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Catchy tune but I hate when that happens

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (476)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 The Lone Stranger and Porky directed by Bob Clampett



This cartoon is a spoof of the only theatrical Lone Ranger cartoon ever made, in which the Lone Ranger and Tonto foil a stagecoach robbery.


Hey Bunkies it's Valentine's Day and maybe you're on your own. The staff at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want you to know that you're never alone when you tune into our show. Get yourself a snack and settle in to watch with us this classic episode of The Bullwinkle & Rocky Show -



Wossamotta U's football coach is named Rocky Knute, a spoof on Knute Rockne, the celebrated football coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1918 to 1930.


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is one of Akira Kurosawa's favorite films, the 1987 period drama The Dead, directed by John Huston (his last), adapted from a James Joyce short story by Tony Huston and starring Anjelica Huston, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Seán McClory, Frank Patterson, and Colm Meaney. The Dead was released several months after John Huston's death and received much critical acclaim. (A personal aside - this film is one of Dr. Caligari's favorites and it is a much watch every holiday season.) 

Huston originally planned to shoot the film entirely on-location in Dublin and Ardmore Studios. However, due to his declining health, the interiors were all shot on a soundstage at the California Institute of the Arts, while a second unit filmed exterior location footage in Dublin. The film was a family affair for the Hustons. John Huston directed the movie, her daughter Anjelica acted and starred in the movie, one son Tony wrote the screenplay for the picture while his other son, Danny was the second unit director.

This was the third collaboration between John Huston and Tony Huston, with their work on this film. Tony previously working on an earlier film of his father, as an uncredited second assistant director on Wise Blood, and as a billed actor on The List of Adrian Messenger. Each of the three films was made in a subsequent decade, one each in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Anjelica Huston worked several times with her father, John Huston. The films include the 1967 film, Casino Royale, A Walk with Love and Death, Sinful Davey, Prizzi's Honor, and today's presentation. John Huston also co-wrote the film, Mr. North, in which Anjelica Huston appeared, making their output six collaborations in total.

Please find a comfy chair and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this very moving film: The Dead



In the early 1950s, director Luchino Visconti and his regular screen writer Suso Cecchi D'Amico collaborated on an adaptation of The Dubliners story to be part of a portmanteau film, but the whole production was canceled. During the mid 70's, Joseph Losey had planned to film The Dubliners from which this story comes, and had hoped for Trevor Howard and Robert Shaw to star.



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This is definitely NOT appropriate for Valentine's Day

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I'm not sure if I'd be upset if I got this card

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More animal scams uncovered -

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Another stray thought on a Tueday afternoon -

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Skedaddle —

- to run away hurriedly.



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I guess you're a lucky man then

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (475)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1938 Porky the Gob directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton



This is the first Looney Tune to have the 1938-41 opening rendition of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,


Hey Bunkies it's very cold outside. HBO Max has now become the home for Looney Tunes cartoons. The staff atThe ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to get very cozy and watch this compilation reel of some Bugs Bunny cartoons:



As some of you may know, I got paid to watch the entire Warner Bros. cartoon library and I never get tired of watching it again.


We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1986 comedy Raising Arizona, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, and Frances McDormand. Raising Arizona received mixed reviews when it first opened but is now considered a comedy classic.

After the success of Blood Simple, the Coen Brothers planned for The Hudsucker Proxy to be their next film. Because the budget for that movie ($40 million) wouldn’t work for their producers at Circle Films, they wrote this instead. They decided that Raising Arizona should be the polar opposite of Blood Simple. As such, they made it more positive and upbeat, with sympathetic characters.

The relationship between Nicolas Cage and the Coen Brothers was respectful but turbulent. When he arrived on set, and at various other points during production, Cage offered suggestions to the Coens, which they largely ignored. Cage said that “Joel and Ethan have a very strong vision, and I’ve learned how difficult it is to accept another artist’s vision. They have an autocratic nature.” Joel replied that he understood why Cage would make that statement, saying that “it was a lot of fun working with Nic,” but that some of his improvisations clashed with their vision and had to be edited. However, the Coens clarified that they would much prefer working with an actor who, like Cage, possessed a “fertile imagination” over one whose performance needed to be “kick-started.”

Please find a comfy chair and join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this very funny movie: Raising Arizona.



The cigar-smoking bird tattoo was originally the logo of Clay Smith Cams in the 1950s, a company that made high-performance engine parts. The logo, with its trademark clenched cigar, represents Smith himself and is known as “Mr. Horsepower.” Smith closed the business in the 1960s, and the logo was later adopted by what is now Tenneco for their Thrush muffler line.



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Hmmmm - interesting Super Bowl connection

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Be thankful it wasn't ICE

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Given how cold it's been - it makes sense

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Overheard during a phone conversation

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Sesquipedalian —

- given to using long words.



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Now I understand why this album was never released

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