Thursday 10 May 2018

Ticking over

Another staple from my childhood, always watched however often repeated. This is the episode I remember in adulthood, 40-odd years later, so I was delighted to find it on YouTube. It's like M.C. Escher took a temp job with DePatie-Freleng. And so many sight gags - oh, the bit where he falls down the stairs... Plus that incidental music (unlike the main theme, not the work of Henry Mancini but one Walter Greene)...

Seldom does anything I post here get read or commented on unless it's music-related but humour me, this is worth six minutes of anyone's time. Plus it keeps the blog ticking over, so...

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  1. Had not seen this one before, this is great! It's like the animation took some acid and went to town, thanks for sharing this!

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    1. Isn't it just? And welcome to a new (and superbly named) commenter.

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  2. Very good, a staple of my childhood too - and I used to love that pink Pink Panther chocolate, d'you remember that? Erm, not sugary at all....
    I love the visual tricks in animation and I'm reminded of lovely ancient Felix The Cat cartoons - for example, this one, which is choc full of them:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJtd3egqUng&t=9s

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    1. Yes, great visual comedy in that Felix short.

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