More rantings from a feckless 6 year old -

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Elixir —

— a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing, or used as a vehicle for, medicinal substances



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As we witnessed up in Oneonta

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (381)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1963 Fast Buck Duck, directed by Robert McKimson and Ted Bonnicksen.



This was the only cartoon from Warner Bros. co-directed by Ted Bonnicksen, an animator for the Robert McKimson unit.


The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to have a word from our new sponsor - Montblanc pens -



Moment for moment, Wes Anderson can create the best parody of himself (amd it's a damn funny commercial as well.)


(Most of us are at Olivia's graduation today. Please enjoy this repeat broadcast.)
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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All of a sudden it dawned on them -

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So bunkies remember -

They're not candy, and -



if you can hear them singing, you've probably taken too many



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The beatings will continue until morale improves

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Dumfounded —

— speechless with amazement.



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Just ask Grace Slick -

Nothing good comes from megadosing with a White Rabbit



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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (380)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1962 Good Noose, directed by Robert McKimson.



Due to the scenes of Daffy being strangled on a noose and being locked in a trunk for ten days, this cartoon has seldom aired on network television out of fear of impressionable viewers imitating the dangerous stunts.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found these incredibly charming stop motion videos from the artist, India Rose Crawford. She doesn't have a lot of embeddable videos but we did enjot this one - Frog makes a pie for Toad -



We're amazed and impressed with her meticulous care and attention to details in her videos.


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 1968 political allergory, If ..., directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, David Wood, and Robert Swann, and Linda Harrison. Over the years, critics have stated that If…. reflected the year of its release; after all, 1968 would see youth-led uprisings in both Paris and the USA. However, If…. was, of course, conceived much earlier than 1968. Therefore, one could also argue that its political messages merely arrived at the right time to spark interest among critics and journalists. Much like another film starting Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, the film was the subject of controversy at the time of its release, receiving an X certificate for its depictions of violence. Paramount had deep reservations about the film when they saw it and tried to remove it from screening. However, one of their tentpole films, Barbarella, turned out to be a spectacular flop so they needed to replace it in theatres with something else. Reluctantly, they rolled out If... and were astonished to see it turn into a big critical and commercial success. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch  If... .



Contrary to the story that says some scenes of the film are in black-and-white instead of color because the production company was running short of money and saved money by having some scenes processed in monochrome, according to interviews with Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson and the cameraman, they first shot the scenes in the school chapel in monochrome because they had to use natural light that came in through the big stained-glass window, requiring high-speed film. The high-speed color stock they tested was very grainy and the constantly-shifting color values due to the angle of the light through the stained glass made it impossible to color-correct, as well. So they decided to shoot those scenes in monochrome, and, when he saw the dailies, Anderson liked the way that it "broke up the surface of the film", and decided to insert other monochrome scenes more or less at random, to help disorient the viewer as the film slipped from realism to fantasy.



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Shirley had a stray thought:

That hand goes any lower Buster and I'll shove that Oscar where the sun don't shine

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So many questions:

Did the horse give VD to it's rider or vice versa


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No pay but the experience is everything

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From the desk of C. Brown

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Doohickey —

— a gadget



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Cheque kiting made easy

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (379)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1962 Quackodile Tears, directed by Arthur Davis.



Daffy has been depicted as married in a few cartoons, but his wife is a different rendition in each.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour found a funny video on youtube - The ABC of Hand Tools



Just in case you need a tutorial


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 1968 Sci-Fi classic, Planet of the Apes, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, and Val Avery, and Linda Harrison. All the ape actors and extras were required to wear their masks even during breaks and in between shots because it took so much time to make them up. Because of this, meals were liquified and drunk through straws. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Planet of the Apes.



Roddy McDowall, an experienced actor, recommended to his companions in makeup that they should frequently add tics, blinks and assorted facial gestures to add a sense of realism and keep the makeup from appearing "mask-like". McDowall reportedly became a merry prankster with the makeup, driving home with his make-up on, and shocking some of the other drivers on the freeway.



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Sadly sir

Upon further reflection:-

You were misinformed

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It's even more effective in Japanese

If I'm understanding their point:-



Subscribe to this phone plan or a league of scary ghost girls will explain the savings til you scream.



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If you had all these qualities,

you wouldn't need this job



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