Dreams don't always come true

No matter how hard he tried, Jim would never be the King of the Wild Frontier.

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Fortuna Snurf

Ms. Snurf is a graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. Foryuna is the head of the Technical Department of ACME. Friends remember her as having an unnatural interest in television.

Here is an unfortunate photograph of her on the day she married her family TV. We never bring it up - please don't when you meet her.



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May I suggest, you just look away

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No truer words ...

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Apple-knocker

an ignorant or unsophisticated person; greenhorn.



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Bet you didn't reallize this was the source

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (220)

Thank you for joining us today.

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1956 Broom-Stick Bunny (featuring Witch Hazel), directed by Chuck Jones.



The short is notable for being June Foray's first project for Warner Bros., which led to her voicing other Looney Tunes characters such as Granny, as well as her first time working with Jones, who she continued to collaborate with after Warners' closed their animation department.


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to join them in watching this short film about how a 71 year old man spends his days during quaratine -



Won't you please join Peter in getting your vaccination.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is the 1953 film The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or), Jean Renoir beautiful tribute to the theatre and acting, statrring Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro and Duncan Lamont. The exact opposite of Neo-Realism, Renior's glories in the bright colored artifice of this Technicolor confection. As with almost all her performances, Magani is a force of nature, here beautifully commenting of the nature of being a performer. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Golden Coach. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



Jean Renoir actually made three versions of this film simultaneously, with dialogue in English, French and Italian respectively. He claimed he liked the English-language version best.



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Regrets

Ernesto realized a little too late, that he should not have eaten those 'magic' mushrooms before he visited his uncle's goat farm.



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Mrs. Brenda Draffen and Mrs. Jill Redcay

Brenda Draffen (nee Brenda Payne,) and Jill Redcay (nee Jill Peterson) are graduates of one of the Seven Sisters schools, Bryn Mahr. Friends since elementary school, the ladies expected to live a life of comfort and community service until their parents lost everything in a bizarre Ponzi scheme involving Rutabagas. Always industrious, they picked themselves up by their sensible shoe straps and went on to start the Custodial Service department at ACME Corp. Before that, the employees were allowed to wallop in their own crapulence, (don't ask.) Here we see the moment Jill discovered what Custodial Services meant.



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Let's not talk about this one

It did not go well.

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O devoutly to be wished

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Moonglade

The track of moonlight on water. Similar to the Turkish word gumusservi, "moonlight shining on water".



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Now comes with every new laptop

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (219)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon (featuring Elmer Fudd,) the 1956 Bugs' Bonnets , directed by Chuck Jones.



Bugs' chastising of Elmer for calling his rifle a gun is a very inside reference to a dirty joke popular among WW2-era soldiers, based on their use of the word "gun" as a slang term for "penis." The entire joke is, "This is my rifle/This is my gun/This one's for fighting/This one's for fun."


Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap who like to share with you a commercial from the Daily Show -



MyVaccine: The Vaccine Made for Conservatives and all your Qanon relatives. So remember, be a hero, get your shot or stay at home!


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is the 1952 controversial (for the time) western film, High Noon starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Considered a fulfillment of a contractual obligation by the studio, almost immediately after it's release, High Noon achieved critical acclaim and box-office success. And yet the screenwriter, Carl Foreman was drawing the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.). An ex-member of the American Communist Party, Foreman, while finishing the High Noon screenplay, was subpoenaed in June 1951 by H.U.A.C. and told he would take the stand three months later — during the middle of the film shoot. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching High Noon. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



John Wayne set up and ran an "anti-Communist" organization for the film industry. He strongly disliked this movie because he knew it was an allegory for blacklisting, which he and his friend Ward Bond had strongly and actively supported. Twenty years later he was still criticizing it, in his controversial May 1971 interview with  Playboy Magazine, during which he claimed that Gary Cooper had thrown his marshal's badge to the ground and stepped on it. He also stated he would never regret having driven blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman out of Hollywood. The fact is that while Kane threw his badge to the ground, he did not step on it.



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Please use your indoor voice

Harry would never go with Janice to the mall again, after she screamed out about whether or not he remembered the anal itch creme coupons.



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Mrs. Edna Mallaise

Edna Mallaise (nee Edna Krabapple,) is a graduate of the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. Quite chummy with Edith Head, back in the day, Mrs. Mallaise has been the head of ourr scenic department since the beginning, She was the artist that developed ACME's patented 3-D painting of a tunnel through a mountain. Here we see Edna indulging in her favorite past time - suggesting the interior lining for the caskets of her friends and neighbors, (some of them in actual need of the caskets at the time.)



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In its defense - it did test well

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Another stray thought on a Tuesday

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Frondescence

The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.



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Don't mess with her periodicals

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (218)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1955 Roman Legion-Hare (featuring Yosemite Sam), directed by Friz Freleng.



The lions in this cartoon previously appeared in 1955's Tweety's Circus, also a Freleng short. Speaking of whom, This was the first cartoon for Freleng to be credited as "Friz Freleng" instead of "Isadore Freleng" or "I. Freleng".


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is the 1952 Vittorio De Sica's neorealism classic Umberto D. starring Carlo Battisti. Mr. Battisti, then 70, was a professor of Linguistics at the Università degli Studi di Firenze, who had never acted before. Once again, a film seen as a masterpiece overseas when released was considered a flop in Italy and condemned for, "washing Italy's dirty linen in public." The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Umberto D. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



Non-actress Maria Pia Casilio, who plays the role of the house maid in the film, got the part when she accompanied a friend to see the real actresses competing for the film's audition. Director Vittorio De Sica spotted her in the balcony and knew she was exactly what he was looking for in the role. Maria went on to work with De Sica in three other films. She continued to work in films until the late 1990s.



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The right gift for the right person

Ah, the untold pleasures Richard achieved with his birthday present

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Vincent 'Yeggs' Scampullo

The 60s were a heady time at ACME. The ACME Corporation was not in the best financial state and the company was desperate for some new financial leadership following Elmer Fudd's nervous breakdown. Mr. Scampullo became the CFO at that time. He often took lunch with with his former associates from the Genco Pura Olive Oil Company in the Corporate cafeteria. Yeggs, as he was not so affectionately known, disappeared shortly after this secret FBI photo was taken in 1969, (Mr. Scampullo, is with his back to the camera.) It soon came out that he had borrowed heavily to cover his skyrocketing professional tiddlywinks gambling debts and couldn't cover his vig. It has been rumored that he was thrown out of a seaplane flying over the Pacific by his former friends.



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Whatever you do, don't look at the other side of the box

You don't want to know why he has such a big smile on his face.

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A Stray Thought on a Tuesday Afternoon

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Yeuk

An unpleasant feeling that makes you want to scratch.



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Just in time for Easter

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (217)

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1955 Knight-mare Hare, directed by Chuck Jones.



Chuck Jones changed his screen credit from 'Charles M. Jones' to 'Chuck Jones' with this cartoon.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider for today's feature. Today's choice is the 1952 Akira Kurosawa classic, Ikiru (To Live) starring Takashi Shimura (who also played Professor Kyohei Yamane in the original Godzilla.) The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. So push away from the table, get comfortable and please join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching Ikiru.



When Takashi Shimura rehearsed his singing of Song of the Gondola, director Akira Kurosawa instructed him to "sing the song as if you are a stranger in a world where nobody believes you exist." Gondola no Uta, (The Gondola Song,) was written in 1915, it is a song about women and how they should find love before their time has run out.



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Lesson learned

The Carbuncles discovered the hard way not to believe everything they read.

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Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann

Graduating from the famous Parisian Cordon Bleu cooking school in 1951 (one of his classmates was the world renown Julia Child, with whom he worked with in the OSS,but that's another story...), Chef Pratsch-Kaufmann is the head dietitian of ACME Corp. He personally developed the line of ACME breakfast cereals come in a wide variety of flavors, including Pop Sniff & Sneezies and packaging, including Six Pac and King Size. Besides being a champion Chicken Whisperer, the Chef loves making wurst, maybe a little too much. Here we have a famous (some say infamous) photograph of Chef Pratsch-Kaufmann showing a stewardess from ACME Air how he likes to grind his own meats for his sausages. The exact whereabouts of the unfortunate Miss Bonaire have never been quite established.



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