Whoever gets that Easter Egg from Woody Woodpecker is gonna really be surprised when it hatches!
Well, at least he's painting it some nice colors!
And doing a better job than MUTT AND JEFF would have done!
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The funny thing about this post is that I was watching some Walter Lantz cartoons earlier today. It’s a shame that Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda and Chilly Willy aren’t as well remembered as Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse. Some of these shorts are just as funny and well-animated (until the late 50’s anyways) as the Warner Bros. and Disney output. I remember watching these cartoons after school alongside the likes of Bugs, Popeye, Tom and Jerry and The Flintstones (although Bugs, Popeye and Fred aren’t doing so well in 2019 either).
Deb:
Honestly, how many of our “traditional favorites” (…in anything resembling their classic, original forms – and not wildly distorted clones based on the latest “ugly character design trends”) ARE actually “doing well in 2019”?
At least they will always have a home – and be respected for the great characters they are – right here!
All theatrical animation output declined – some more dramatically than others, but they ALL did – vs. the heights of the product of the 1940s thru mid-‘50s! By the 1960s, I feel the made for TV material was actually better! With Hanna-Barbera, Jay Ward, and UPA leading the way – and a nod to King Features as well!
Anyway, happy Easter… and don’t accept any overly-large Easter eggs from sly woodpeckers! Ya never know what’s inside ‘em!
Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry still rate a large block of programming on Boomerang, and TCM runs a Max Fleischer Popeye short every Saturday morning as between-movie filler (along with either a M-G-M Harman-Ising or Tex Avery cartoon). It ain't much, but its something.
Happy Easter to you, Esther, and Avery (not the Tex one).
Happy Easter to you, Joe! Now, if you're excuse us, we must be going - we of the Ennead of the Eigengrau Easter Eggs are meeting the Society of the Rhyming Dove for an Easter feast!
EEE Eegs:
Though Eggs and Doves, I’m quick to note/
Might share a common mother/
When you all sit, for your great feast/
Which one will eat the other?
TCJ:
Glad to know the old favorites still live on SOMEWHERE!
As for me, I continue to enjoy them – and most everything else – on DVD and Blu-ray, where no evil media conglomerate can alter the content for fear of changing future social standards… or pull or cancel them from any cable or streaming service. And I will keep on enjoying them in this particular fashion, until the last DVD/Blu-ray player rolls off the assembly line – and I fight hordes of other enthusiasts to the death to claim it! SNORT! SNARL! GNASH!
Good gosh, I sound like a "video survivalist" or something!
Seriously, though… Thank you for the good wishes… and same to you and yours! And WHY NOT include Tex Avery in those wishes? He’s made major contributions to our mutual insanity… and SHOULD be commended for it!
Eat the other!? Oh, no, no, no! We'd never eat our friends at the Society, especially on Easter - and we're sure they'd never eat us.
We hope.
In the spirit of the holiday, I'll join you in that hope.
If I don't hear from you after today, however...
Well, we've survived our feast! It went very well, save for one awkward moment when the Doves began discussing their favorite omelette recipes - they stopped when they realized what they were saying, of course. We hear our friends, the Trio of the Talking Turkeys, weren't so lucky - they met the Gang of the Green Gorilla for dinner and barely escaped being boiled alive!
Eggie-guys:
Whew! You’re okay! And I’m relieved!
It’s so much better, than being bereaved!
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