The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (261)

ACME would like to wishes all of their friends and family a happy and healthy New Year!

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1962 Shishkabugs, (featuring Yosemite Sam,) directed by Friz Freleng. (With only 5 minutes and 5 seconds of footage (not counting the credits and cards), Shishkabugs is the shortest Bugs Bunny short made in the Golden Age of American animation.)



This is also a rare cartoon where Yosemite Sam is in the role of a victim instead of being the aggressor; in this case the villain/aggressor is the Spoiled King.


In celebration of the Lunar New Year, today's episode of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is sponsored by Watsons (think CVS, only bigger):



Hopefully everyone can embrace each other’s kung fu style and overcome any challenges to make this year’s celebration a great one.


We are just starting the Lunar New Year celebrations and we're sure you may already need a break from your family. Here at ACME, we can think of no better way to relax than watching a classic police thiller. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Andrew Lau's 2002 taut policier, Infernal Affairs, starring Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. (This is original version of Martin Scorsese’s Oscar winning movie The Departed,) So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



The film had been selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Martin Scorsese, director of The Departed, claims he was unaware that his film was a remake of this one during filming (which seems a little suspect, given his encyclopedic knowledge of film.) When referencing this film as the inspiration for the Best Picture-winning The Departed, the announcer at the 79th Academy Awards mistakenly identified the Hong Kong production as Japanese.



Demand Euphoria!