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I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said

One topic that comes up fairly enough is that of quotations that everyone knows, but are wrong in some way. They might be misattributed, or they might be somewhat off. The other day, Beth was reading a Cracked article recently … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Cartoons, Celebrities, Futurama, Historical Personages, History, Humor, Politics, Star Trek, Star Wars, Television, The Simpsons, William Shakespeare | Tagged al gore, blazing saddles, bugs bunny, casablanca, cracked, dan quayle, darth vader, democracy and things like that, dragnet, edward g. robinson, i love lucy, jerry seinfeld, looney tunes, luke skywalker, marx brothers, of mice and men, president george w. bush, quotations, sarah palin, sarah vowell, saturday night live, stan freberg, the empire strikes back, the ten commandments, the treasure of the sierra madre, tina fey |

One True Parody

In a recent NPR interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic, he responds to a question about Cookie Monster‘s parody of “Call Me Maybe” with “Yeah, Cookie Monster is my No. 1 competition right now.” Apparently he’s forgetting that Cookie Monster did … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Art, Beatles, Humor, Muppets, Music, Sesame Street, Television, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged allan sherman, born to add, cookie monster, gilbert and sullivan, parody, salvador dali, spike jones, stan freberg, tom lehrer |

Deck the Halls with Advertising

People have long complained about Christmas being too commercial. Stan Freberg, who did a fair amount of advertising work himself, lampooned the idea in 1958 with his “Green Chri$tma$.” It was also a major theme of A Charlie Brown Christmas … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Music, Television, The Flintstones | Tagged a charlie brown christmas, barney rubble, cereal, coca-cola, commercials, ebenezer scrooge, fred flintstone, fruity pebbles, hess, honey nut cheerios, linus van pelt, mcdonald's, mcdonaldland, peanuts, ronald mcdonald, santa claus, stan freberg |

Don’t Recollect If I’ve Ever Mentioned Old Reliable Before

Lady and the Tramp is actually a Disney animated feature that I saw considerably more recently than some of the others, as Beth’s cousin pretty much forced us to watch it a few years ago. It’s an interesting feature, basically … Continue reading →

Stanley Freberg, the All-American Dog

Stan Freberg, The Tip of the Freberg – My wife Beth recently picked up this 1999 boxed set of Stan’s most famous recordings, in four compact discs and a video tape. I think my own interest in Freberg’s work derived … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Humor, Music | Tagged daws butler, day-o, j.b. toppersmith, joseph mccarthy, june foray, lorenzo music, papa boolie, point of order, rock island line, sh-boom, stan freberg, the great pretender, the lone psychiatrist, tip of the freberg, weird al yankovic |

Beware the Jabberwock, My Son!

Recently, a post on Drew Mackie’s blog featured the appearance of the Jabberwocky from the 1985 made-for-TV Alice in Wonderland. This scene actually ended the first part of the movie, making the creators seem awfully sadistic. I’m not sure if … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Lewis Carroll, Video Games | Tagged alice in wonderland, bandersnatch, cheshire cat, disney, dragons, dungeons & dragons, humpty dumpty, jabberwock, jabberwocky, jubjub, mome raths, monsters, movies, stan freberg, through the looking-glass |