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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