ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (398)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 Mexican Mousepiece, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.



When the short was shown in The Bugs Bunny Show, the title was changed to Mexican Mouse Piece.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you a brief interview with Fran Leborwitz:



The world is always a bit brighter when we get to wait a clip of Fran.


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 1970 western comedy, Little Big Man , directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. The film opened to both critical acclaim and commercial success. Chief Dan George received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, the first Indigenous North American actor to be nominated for an Oscar. It was among AFI's 400 movies nominated to be on their list of America's greatest 100 movies. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Little Big Man.



The role of Old Lodge Skins was initially offered to Marlon Brando, who turned it down. Other sources claim Arthur Penn's first choice for the role was Sir Laurence Olivier. When that didn't work out, Richard Boone was slated for the role. When Boone backed out at the last minute, Chief Dan George was given the part and earned an Oscar nomination



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That was some game of musical chairs -

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Bunkies, I can not emphasize this enough -

Do not attend any sporting event with English soccer fans.


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And you thought writing your dissertation was difficult -

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A random thought at 3 A.M. -

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Guffaw —

- a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter



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You're never too young to learn a trade -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (397)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 Mucho Locos, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.



As opposed to previous "cheater" shorts which use unmodified archive footage from previous cartoons, this short heavily relies on new animation made up of recycled animation from previous shorts, complete with newly recorded dialogue and music. This is due to legal restrictions from DePatie-Freleng Enterprises where the original animation archives couldn't be used, so they were retraced from pre-existing reference material. This short uses clips that are re-animated and re-dubbed from Robin Hood Daffy, Tortilla Flaps, Deduce, You Say, Mexicali Shmoes, and China Jones.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you an episode of the show I Never Liked You with one of our favorite comics, Matteo Lane:



The show may not be to everyone's taste, but Matteo and Nick are very funny together.


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 1970 Czech drama, The Ear , (Ucho, directed by Karel Kachyna, and starring Jirina Bohdalová, and Radoslav Brzobohatý. The Ear was banned by the nation's ruling Communist party (who were supported by the occupying Soviet forces). It wasn't released until the fall of the communist regime in 1989. The film is not only a thriller that explores the paranoia of a country due to the omnipresent nature of its government while also being a compelling domestic drama driven by the strength of its characters. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Ear.



Director's first choice for the part of Ludvík was Vladimír Brabec and Jirina Jirásková was supposed to play Anna, his wife. Finally Karel Kachyna casted Radoslav Brzobohatý and Jirina Bohdalová, who were real-life couple at the time.



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Miss Seborrheic was not the greatest of assistants

This was the result of forgetting to bring Mr. Amblyopia his lunch this past week.


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The take away from this: -

Don't bother mom while she's serving lunch



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If you were on Food Stamps -

Don't bother to apply



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The rantings of a feckless 6 year old

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Gossamer —

— a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in calm weather.



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Hopefully, your weekend hasn't devolved into this -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (396)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Astroduck, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.



This cartoon is a semi-remake of Friz Freleng's The Fair Haired Hare, but with Daffy and Speedy in place of Bugs' and Yosemite Sam's roles.


Back when the earth cooled and formed a hard crust, believe it or not, I was a spry lad at the Academy of Malevolent Miscreants. I had an art teacher named Mrs. LaMarca. Besides giving us an excellent education in the classic arts, she taught us how to use a pallet knife as a lethal weapon. Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you another fine recipe from Mrs. LaMarca's website:



All of her recipes are delicious but I hope you noticed her knife work on those potatoes.


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 1970 made-for-television drama, The Spider's Stratagem , (Strategia del ragno, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, and starring Giulio Brogi, and Alida Valli. The Spider Stratagem is an offbeat political thriller - told mostly through flashbacks in which the son learns that his father was not a hero but a penitent traitor who contrived his own death in order to give the anti-Fascist cause a martyr. What began as a search for truth evolves into a philosophical study of consequences. There are no easy answers in the film; it lull you into a sort of languid torpor, and resists any definitive interpretation. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching The Spider's Stratagem.



The film is based on the short story Tema del traidor y del héroe (Theme of the Traitor and the Hero) by Jorge Luis Borges. The story was set in nineteenth-century Ireland and was only two pages long.



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Another ACME PSA -

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Even if it's on sale,

for God's sake, don't buy this for your kids


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’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves -

If you understand our posting, the job is yours



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Overheard on a crosstown bus -

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Gazebo -

— a freestanding roofed structure usually open on the sides.



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Perfect reading for Career Day -

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (395)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1965 Go Go Amigo, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.




Television was becoming part of American home entertainment, with hi fi stereo consoles a popular must have item of furniture at the time. Transistor radios and record players were also sought after consumer necessity, especially for teenagers.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Puddles released another song and most of us missed it at HQ:



We think Black Sabbath would have been very happy if Puddles sang this for them.


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 1970 drama, Deep End , directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, and starring Jane Asher, John Moulder Brown, and Diana Dors. The film was unreleased for many years due to rights issues. For the critics who did see the film, it received multiple acclaims. Although barely seen by the general public, Andrew Sarris thought it measured up to the best of Godard, Truffaut and Polanski. Although considered a defining British work, as well as one of the most acute screen portraits of London, Deep End is actually a US/German co-production, written and directed by a Pole (Jerzy Skolimowski, best known then for co-scripting Polanski's Knife in the Water), and shot largely in Munich. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Deep End.



Jane Asher recalled that she and John Moulder-Brown would work over their scenes together in an attempt to colloquialise their dialogue to help convince audiences that they were genuinely in the UK. Some scenes were improvised by the actors, such as the "Defacing government property!" section, a line Asher herself contributed.



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The brief moment you achieve happiness -

when you falsely think your cat has fallen asleep



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Whatever you do -

DON'T eat at this restaurant
(Bunkies, this is a rather graphic PSA - those of you with a delicate nature may not want to watch it.)



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If you're not a 10 - don't bother applying

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A random thought at 3 A.M. -

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Gambit -

— a device, action, or opening remark.



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The perfect souvenir from Paris

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ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (394)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Chili Corn Corny, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.



This is one of few cartoons where Daffy gets the better of Speedy, and one of few where they are evenly matched.


Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour once again wanted to share with you another video from the folks at Letters Live - hope you enjoy it:



Woody was very funny and his letter was extremely clever


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 classic 1970 film, Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite. Five Easy Pieces is a touchstone of what was considered the New Hollywood era of the 70s. The film contains one of Jack Nicholson's greatest performances. The film plays as a kind of companion piece to Easy Rider, at least thematically and narratively, although their differences are as instructive as their similarities. Both are essentially road movies featuring disaffected young protagonists searching for some kind of place to call their own, and both convey the same fundamental message that the frontier is closed, there is nowhere left to go, and no place is home. So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching Five Easy Pieces.



The moment at the end of the diner scene where Bobby sweeps all the glasses off the table after arguing with the waitress was inspired by Jack Nicholson doing this himself once at a coffee shop called Poopies up on the Strip, when the manager took his coffee away despite him only having just arrived, because the group of fellow actors he'd joined had been there for hours and were being told to leave.



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Please, do not feed the birds

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A charming tourism commercial

Narrated by Hannibal Lecter



Who apparently was a personal friend of former President Trump.



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