Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon from 1943, the Bob Clampett directed, Tortoise Wins by a Hare, (it's the second appearance of Cecil Turtle in a Warner Bros. short.):
The ending where the gambling ring shoots themselves after realizing that they've been trying to sabotage Bugs throughout the cartoon has been cut from many TV prints of this cartoon, including versions shown on the Turner channels Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour wanted to wish all their listeners Good Pesach and Happy Easter during this holiday season. Since many of you will be spending time with your family, we could think of nothing better than watching movies together and easing the awkward silences. Today's special holiday double feature covers the total gambit of religiosity, the bloated Cecil B. DeMille spectacle, The Ten Commandments, and the spectacularly irreligious, The Life of Brian. So grab the kid's Easter baskets, find the most comfortable place on the couch (because you are going to be rolling around,) and enjoy this evening's entertainment. (May I suggest that you watch the first feature while prepping the holiday dinner. Give everyone a chance to do either their Yul Brenner or Edward G. Robinson impressions during dinner. Then after dinner, dig into the Monty Python and savor it like a chocolate covered crunchy frog.)
According to Hollywood lore, while filming the orgy sequence that precedes Moses' descent from Mount Horeb with the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are engraved, Cecil B. DeMille was perched on top of a ladder delivering his customarily long-winded directions through a megaphone to the hundreds of extras involved in the scene. After droning on to the extras for several minutes, DeMille was distracted by one young woman who was talking to another woman standing next to her. DeMille stopped his speech and directed everyone's attention to the young woman. "Here," DeMille said, "we have a young woman whose conversation with her friend is apparently more important than listening to her instructions from her director while we are all engaged in making motion picture history. Perhaps the young woman would care to enlighten us all, and tell us what the devil is so important that it cannot wait until after we make this shot." After an embarrassed pause, the young woman spoke up and boldly confessed, "I was just saying to my friend here, 'I wonder when that bald-headed old fart is gonna call 'Lunch!'" Nonplussed, DeMille stared at the woman for a moment, paused, then lifted his megaphone and shouted, "Lunch!"
Alright, we here at ACME are not suggesting that you could have bribe the kids in joining to to watch The Ten Commandments by suggesting that it's a video from Shmoop, chiefly used by the cool kids as a cheating guide to the 'four questions" - but you could do worse. Please use this opportunity as a bathroom break. While you're gone, we're going to watch this short.
A bunny licking chocolate off its lips, leaving it in blackface, is usually cut on television.
Welcome back to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour. Our next feature is the 1975 film that John Cleese said brought denominations of Christianity together in condemnation of the film, for the first time in two thousand years, the scandalous Monty Python feature, The Life of Brian.
When Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate addressed the soldiers daring them to laugh, he was truly daring them. The soldier extras were ordered to stand there and not laugh, but not told what Palin was going to do. Palin, in fact, can barely stifle his own laughter when saying "Biggus Dickus" in front of the soldier asked if he finds the name "risible."
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