We’re finished with the anime series Ergo Proxy. The ending was pretty good, with the usual grand speeches and battles and massive explosions.
One of the change-of-pace Ergo installments had a mocking parody of Walt Disney in a scratchy black and white movie, gesturing like Hitler.
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Long before Ergo Proxy, even before Astro Boy, the first anime to reach America, one of Bob Clampett’s Beany and Cecil cartoons made fun of Disneyland.
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Thanks for the comment! The Beany & Cecil DVD has some of the puppet shows. Unfortunately, it’s out of print, and used copies on Amazon.com start at $70. There’s a copy for auction on eBay right now that ends on 11/3. I’ll post one of the puppet shows as soon as I can get to it.
Beany and Cecil cartoons are the best, but I love the puppet show the most. How can more of the old live TV puppet show episodes be obtained?
Just caught a “goof;” the rocket door wasn’t shut when it blasted off. I believe the term “mhu-ha-ha” used a lot on blogs can be traced back to Dishonest John.
I remember being surprised when I learned, many years after the Beany and Cecil cartoons, that it was first a puppet show. An older guy who I used to work with didn’t know it had been turned into a cartoon!
Gosh, that was swell! Beany and Cecil always made just plain happy. Oh, and I never saw this episode before. Clampett always had a knack for great pacing and unbelievably droll puns.