Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1945 Nasty Quacks, directed by Frank Tashlin.
Daffy packs up his things and announces that he's leaving, then comes back and tells his master that "...the government doesn't want us to do any non-essential traveling," a reference to how travel had to be reserved for WWII soldiers fighting overseas, but by the time the cartoon was released in theaters, World War II had ended.
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 a giant music playing rabbit comes to your home and makes everyone have a Happy Beautiful New Year, (and not murder you all in some weird Donnie Darko-esque way.)
Tonight is the Lunar New Year Eve and 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 comedy. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-chi's 1996 comic take on the TV series Iron Chef, God of Cookery, starring Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Vincent Kok and Richard Ng. (This is also a parody o fthe film The Chinese Feast directed by Tsui Hark,) So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Like another of Chow's films, Shoalin Soccer, where super powered monks used their mystical Shaolin abilities to literally play soccer, The God of Cookery uses a similar style to juxtapose something very real, like cooking, with something very fantastical, like gravity and physics defying martial arts. Only here, that juxtaposition is even more heightened, because this movie is technically set in the real world, with no magic or mysticism on offer.
Demand Euphoria!
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