Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon from 1942, the Bob Clampett directed, Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid, (it's the first appearance of Beaky Buzzard in a Warner Bros. short.):
The part where Bugs and Killer are temporarily fooled into thinking that the bones are theirs is a reference to a Harold Lloyd film, The Freshman.
41 years ago yesterday, the seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash made its American debut as a television special on NBC, earning the lowest ratings of any prime-time television show airing on network television that week. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to commemorate the anniversary of the special by asking you to watch this hysterical special today. So get your snacks together, find the most comfortable place on the couch (because you are going to be rolling around,) and enjoy this evening's entertainment. (I won't suggest the you Smoke 'em if you got 'em - that is between you and your Maker.)
Created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes, and using the then-current documentary The Compleat Beatles as a template, Idle and Innes painstakingly created a faux history of The Rutles while also recording an album’s worth of the band’s biggest hits to use as the soundtrack to the program. To make All You Need Is Cash come across as realistic as possible, they also secured a few real rock stars to contribute to the proceedings, with some playing themselves (Mick Jagger and Paul Simon) and others playing bit parts within the course of the mockumentary (George Harrison and Ron Wood). Additionally, the comedic material was aided by the participation of big-time funny folk like Michael Palin, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Bill Murray.
The Rutles originally began as a sketch on Eric Idle's UK show Rutland Weekend Television, showing the band (with Idle as Harrison) playing a slower version I Must Be in Love in their movie A Hard Day's Rut.
Lorne Michaels aired the clip on Saturday Night Live when Eric Idle hosted, which led to a deal for the TV special.
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