I hope the new remake will be as good

Sunday Morning Bullyfilm: Breakfast at Forbidden Planet

It's a great day for a picnic

...which means...

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Wizard Needs Food Badly

"Wizard Needs Food Badly" by Five Iron Frenzy (2004)
Directed by Roque Ballesteros and produced at Ghostbot.com

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Hamm's Beer Bear Commercial

Hamm's Beer commercial, circa 1950s
Read more about Sascha, The Hamm's Beer Bear Also, The Hamm's Beer Bear versus Rocky Marciano!

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Float (My Electric Stargirl)

"Float (My Electric Stargirl)" (2006) by Atomic Swindlers,
directed by Joel Trussell

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Dave Chapelle on Superheroes

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Dave Chapelle on Superheroes
from the episode "Electric Bike" (1997), created by Tom Snyder and Jonathan Katz

Kirsty.

"Terry" (1983)


"A New England" (1984)


"He's on the Beach" (1985)


"Mambo de la Luna" (1999)


"Fairytale of New York" (with the Pogues, 1987)

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Running Down a Dream

"Running Down a Dream" by Tom Petty (1989)

Say, does anyone know who directed this video? (It might list it in the liner notes of the Tom Petty Playback DVD). I do like to credit the director on these things yet I can't find any credit on the internet.

Friday Night Fights: They smile in your face/All the time they wanna take your place

FNF is back, dawg! Are you ready to rummmmmmble? Doc Strange is!


All panels in this post are from Strange Tales #139 (December 1965)
Written by Stan Lee, art by Steve Ditko

What they do!
They smile in your face
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers



All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah
Somebody's out to get your lady
A few of your buddies they sure look shady



Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Aimin' straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss



What they do!
They smile in your face
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers



I keep gettin' all these visits from my friends, yeah,
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah
So are they there to see my woman



I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'
What can I do to get on the right track
I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back



They smile in your face
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers



Low down... dirty...
What they do!
They smile in your face
Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies
Back stabbers



So the morale of the story is...cheaters sometimes win! Thanks, Stan!

(Fire it up and read it again:)


Bahlactus never cheats.

You're hooked, you're cooked, you're caught in the tender trap

You see a pair of laughing eyes


These panels are from Secret Wars #3 (July 1984),
written by Jim Shooter, art by Mike Zeck, John Beatty, and Christie Scheele
And suddenly you're sighing sighs


You're thinking nothing's wrong


You string along, boy, then snap!


Those eyes, those sighs,


They're part of the tender trap.


You're hand-in-hand beneath the trees


And soon there's music in the breeze


You're acting kind of smart,

Until your heart just goes wap!


Those trees, that breeze,


They're part of the tender trap.


Some starry night, when her kisses make you tingle


These panels are from Secret Wars #4 (August 1984),
written by Jim Shooter, art by Bob Layton, John Beatty, and Christie Scheele
She'll hold you tight, and you'lll hate yourself for being single


And all at once it seems so nice


The folks are throwing shoes and rice


You hurry to a spot, that's just a dot on the map


You're hooked, you're cooked,


You're caught in the tender trap.




Song: "(Love is) The Tender Trap," music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The best version of this boppin' ditty is sung by Old Blue Eyes himself, Benjamin J. Gri...no, wait, by the other Old Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board: Mister Frank Sinatra. But since there's not a Sinatra version on YouTube, start up this jazzy cover by Sandra Reemer and re-read the post to get the full multimedia effect!:

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Dance Like a Monkey

"Dance Like a Monkey" by The New York Dolls, directed by Dano Johnson
Here's a less-pixelated version.

Saturday Morning Cartoon (Special BEA Edition): Have You Got Any Castles

"Have You Got Any Castles," directed by Frank Tashlin (1938)
As I'm a great lover of books, this is quite possible my favorite Warner Brothers cartoon of all time. (But warning: some politically incorrect imagery.)
Here's a page on the cartoon's hidden gags and inside jokes.

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Dancing Animals in Love

"Dancing Animals in Love" by Ben Meinhardt (2006)
(Opens in a new window. Short ad precedes film, but it's worth waiting for.)

Pet peeve of the day: folks who post videos to YouTube but can't be bothered to format them in the correct aspect ratio.

Four butlers and a valet

Stevens!

Wadsworth!

Prawn Salad?

Blackadder!

And Jeeves!

Special bonus: a non-embeddable clip of the greatest butler of them all.

Yep, Black Adam's creepy as heck.

From The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! from Filmation, NBC Saturday mornings, 1981

Breakfast at Forbidden Planet

See the original here. Visit Forbidden Planet here.