ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (327)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1948 Riff Raffy Daffy , directed by Arthur Davis.

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Daffy and Porky both admit to being fathers, but their progeny are wind up toys, as are shown. This would have appeased the censors, since no sign of a Mrs. Porky or Mrs. Daffy was in evidence.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw what we thought was the perfect Ted-ED lesson to watch, A Brief History of Popcorn:



Feel free to run into the kitchen and gro make yourself a bag of popcorn, we'll wait.


We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1963 comedy, The Nutty Professor, directed by Jerry Lewis, and starring Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, and Elvia Allman. Many critics consider this film to be Lewis' best work. People have also argued that the character Buddy Love is a thinly layered impersonation of Dean Martin. Lewis hotly denied this for years. (We here believe that a more nuanced interpretation is that Buddy Love is actually a representation of a dark side of Lewis's real personality. The character of Professor Frink from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows many of his mannerisms and technique from Lewis' delivery of the Julius Kelp character, as well as the transition to a Buddy Love version of Frink in several episodes. In one episode, the character of Frink's father was voiced by Lewis. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching The Nutty Professor. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.



According to one of the trailers for this film, "We don't care if you blab about the beginning of this picture; nor do we care if you give away the ending; but we do care if you reveal the middle. In fact, Jerry Lewis urges you to see this picture from the beginning, on penalty of losing your popcorn privileges." This spoofs Alfred Hitchcock's dictum that Psycho had to be seen from the beginning and his insistence that no latecomers be seated ("not even the [theatre] manager's brother").



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