The same year Warner Bros. released Rhapsody Rabbit, MGM produced a very similar Tom and Jerry cartoon called The Cat Concerto, which features Tom being distracted by Jerry while playing in a concert. Most of the gags are identical to both cartoons, and they used the same music that was played. The Cat Concerto won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
You would be forgiven if at the end of this week, you mind feels like it's been through the mill. The programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour feels your pain. The various revelations coming from Washington hurts everyone brain. The staff has been celebrating National Vodka Day since Wednesday (the official day was October 4th.) From somewhere deep within their alcoholic stupor, they decided, why not celebrate by watching on of the worst films ever produced. On October 5, 1959, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release upon an unsuspecting public, Girls Town, starring, among other people, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé and in his acting debut, Paul Anka.
Now, the Geneva Convention prevents us from showing the actual film; our legal department advised (demanded) that we show the very funny version released by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1994. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is hoping to become a balm to the nation by asking you to watch MST3K skewer this very bad film. So we would like you to sit back (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching Girls Town, with running commentary from Mike, Crow, Gyspy and Tom Servo.
Keep an eye out for Sister Grace, played by gossip columnist and F. Scott Fitzgerald mistress Sheilah Graham. And teen-age delinquent Flo, played by pre- 60s icon Peggy Moffitt, model and muse to designer Rudi Gernreich.
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