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Feb 17, 2009 20:31:51 GMT -5
Post by Chuck on Feb 17, 2009 20:31:51 GMT -5
I'm trying to find this TV show about some guy and two goofy looking puppets watching a movie. Here's the catch, they were like cracking jokes during the whole thing. Anybody know what that is? (Oh, c'mon, you knew somebody was going to do it sooner or later)It was Captain Kangaroo. The two puppets were Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose.
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Feb 17, 2009 21:22:56 GMT -5
Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Feb 17, 2009 21:22:56 GMT -5
I'm trying to find this TV show about some guy and two goofy looking puppets watching a movie. Here's the catch, they were like cracking jokes during the whole thing. Anybody know what that is? (Oh, c'mon, you knew somebody was going to do it sooner or later)It was Captain Kangaroo. The two puppets were Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose. And the other guy, the one in green, was Mr. Green Jeans.
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Mar 2, 2009 13:02:59 GMT -5
Post by The Mad Plumber on Mar 2, 2009 13:02:59 GMT -5
Har har har. You guys are so funny, you friggin' bunch of ...Well, I'm going to bump this last one that seems to have been unanswered, and Once Upon A Time has been dismissed as being a possible candidate. Okay - here's another one folks: (Guess I could just look it up online myself, but I want to see if anyone knows about it on here): There was some weird TV show with witches and a haunted mansion or something to that effect. My memories are REALLY sketchy on this one. It was kind of a skit show. There was a really old librarian who told stories (he would always blow dust off the books he was reading - a LOT of dust), and there was this witch or warlock chef who kept bumping his head on a pot that was hanging over his cauldron. I wouldn't even know what to type to look this one up. In the meantime, I want to open a new one while this one is waiting. There is another animated show from my youth that I believe was a Nickelodeon program. I think it was something to the effect of miscellaneous short stories. The opening titles had a fantasy world which featured things like elves or fairies leaping on the heads of what first appear to be mushrooms but turn out to be mushroom-headed folks. The one episode from it I can vaguely remember was about a mercenary or a knight who wore a dented helm and was betrayed or disgraced by a pair of snobbish nobles. Ultimately in the story, what goes around comes around for the two snobs and the knight, as the victor, reveals himself to the nobles. The woman remarks, "We're paupers!", and they both leave. If anybody's got an idea of what that was, that would be great.
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Mar 2, 2009 13:26:27 GMT -5
Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Mar 2, 2009 13:26:27 GMT -5
Har har har. You guys are so funny, you friggin' bunch of ...Well, I'm going to bump this last one that seems to have been unanswered, and Once Upon A Time has been dismissed as being a possible candidate. Okay - here's another one folks: (Guess I could just look it up online myself, but I want to see if anyone knows about it on here): There was some weird TV show with witches and a haunted mansion or something to that effect. My memories are REALLY sketchy on this one. It was kind of a skit show. There was a really old librarian who told stories (he would always blow dust off the books he was reading - a LOT of dust), and there was this witch or warlock chef who kept bumping his head on a pot that was hanging over his cauldron. I wouldn't even know what to type to look this one up. In the meantime, I want to open a new one while this one is waiting. There is another animated show from my youth that I believe was a Nickelodeon program. I think it was something to the effect of miscellaneous short stories. The opening titles had a fantasy world which featured things like elves or fairies leaping on the heads of what first appear to be mushrooms but turn out to be mushroom-headed folks. The one episode from it I can vaguely remember was about a mercenary or a knight who wore a dented helm and was betrayed or disgraced by a pair of snobbish nobles. Ultimately in the story, what goes around comes around for the two snobs and the knight, as the victor, reveals himself to the nobles. The woman remarks, "We're paupers!", and they both leave. If anybody's got an idea of what that was, that would be great. Honestly, I have no clue about the old librarian show. And I don't know when your youth was, so identifying the Nickelodeon show is a little tough. Could it have been Eureeka's Castle, though? That was a kids' anthology show on Nickelodeon about 15 years ago. My older daughter watched it.
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Mar 17, 2009 18:06:15 GMT -5
Post by canuckmstie on Mar 17, 2009 18:06:15 GMT -5
There was some weird TV show with witches and a haunted mansion or something to that effect. My memories are REALLY sketchy on this one. It was kind of a skit show. There was a really old librarian who told stories (he would always blow dust off the books he was reading - a LOT of dust), and there was this witch or warlock chef who kept bumping his head on a pot that was hanging over his cauldron. I wouldn't even know what to type to look this one up. The Hilarious House of Frightenstein? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw8T3xycCVw
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Mar 17, 2009 21:14:43 GMT -5
Post by crowschmo on Mar 17, 2009 21:14:43 GMT -5
That's IT!!!! Thank you! It was driving me crazy trying to remember. Wacky stuff. I'd forgotten that one guy played all those characters.
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Mar 28, 2009 21:36:24 GMT -5
Post by ilmatto on Mar 28, 2009 21:36:24 GMT -5
I must be really slow or something, but in the original Star Trek episode All Our Yesterdays with Mariette Hartley as the cute cave lady - I only just recently realized that the librarian "Mr. Atoz" - his name was derived from "A" to "Z" (a good name for a librarian).
How in the world did I miss figuring that out during the 8-10 times or so that I have watched this episode over the past 30 years.
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Mar 28, 2009 21:44:54 GMT -5
Post by CBG on Mar 28, 2009 21:44:54 GMT -5
It's the pronunciation.
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Apr 1, 2009 12:26:20 GMT -5
Post by Miss Interoceter on Apr 1, 2009 12:26:20 GMT -5
And you'd only really notice it if you had the compendium (as sadly, I did) and read it for the connection to really get made.
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Apr 1, 2009 12:45:04 GMT -5
Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Apr 1, 2009 12:45:04 GMT -5
And you'd only really notice it if you had the compendium (as sadly, I did) and read it for the connection to really get made. Me too, Miss I, me too.
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Apr 14, 2009 16:15:06 GMT -5
Post by The Mad Plumber on Apr 14, 2009 16:15:06 GMT -5
A new one ...
I believe the show was some sort of sketch comedy show. However, this is the only sketch from it I can vaguely remember:
In the sketch, a man with a rich, intellectual English accent would name some sort of object, element, or person. Then, the shot would turn to a group of men who look like the Red Hot Chili Peppers would simultaneously denounce the thing as being, "Lame!" Occasionally, the narrator would throw a curve ball by saying something complicated that would leave the men looking confused and flustered. Then, the narrator would say something else and they would return to their routine of saying, "Lame!" Now, I'm not sure if the men also had a one-word positive response; all I can remember is several long-haired men yelling, "Lame!"
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, that would be great. Thanks!
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May 3, 2009 23:43:27 GMT -5
Post by davidbeegah on May 3, 2009 23:43:27 GMT -5
A new one ... I believe the show was some sort of sketch comedy show. However, this is the only sketch from it I can vaguely remember: In the sketch, a man with a rich, intellectual English accent would name some sort of object, element, or person. Then, the shot would turn to a group of men who look like the Red Hot Chili Peppers would simultaneously denounce the thing as being, "Lame!" all I can remember is several long-haired men yelling, "Lame!" If anyone knows what I'm talking about, that would be great. Thanks! That sounds like Almost Live which was a local Seattle sketch comedy show. But episodes did air on Comedy Central back in the 1990's Here is a quote from the Wikipedia page on Almost Live: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Live!
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May 14, 2009 21:57:51 GMT -5
Post by The Mad Plumber on May 14, 2009 21:57:51 GMT -5
Thanks, Dave! It appears it was in fact "The Lame List". I guess there wasn't an English accent in the narrator's voice.
Here's a quick question for our friends in the UK:
When we get programs like Monty Python's Flying Circus or Are You Being Served? here in the United States to show on PBS, they seem to fill a whole non-stop 25 minute slot. American programs fill 22 minutes, with the remaining 8 designated for commercial time. When British programs run in the UK, do they have commercial breaks within them or do they run front-to-end without breaks?
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Aug 31, 2009 16:42:16 GMT -5
Post by Bix Dugan on Aug 31, 2009 16:42:16 GMT -5
I believe Monty Python was very close to 30 minutes. The BBC didn't show commercials...?
I remember one of MPs skits had a guy (bloke? chap?) complaining about "having to pay 4 quid a year for a television license"...I guess it was something like pay TV before HBO.
I may be completely wrong about all of that.
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Oct 7, 2009 10:22:22 GMT -5
Post by Malek on Oct 7, 2009 10:22:22 GMT -5
Here in the UK, nearly all TV channels except the BBC have ads. The BBC gets some percentage of our TV license fees which is why (I'm guessing) they don't have/need ad breaks. As far as I know, as long as you watch TV here you have to pay the license fee. So yep, Monty Python was on the BBC, and anything made especially for those channels will be nearly thirty minutes long.
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