“Watch out for that tree!!!”
I love the old shows. I still watch them.
I even have 3 cd's somewhere of Amos and Andy.![]()
Shamefull to say but I still remember the Super Chicken jingle:
When you find your self in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, when it looks like you will take a licking...cluck cluck cluck cluck...there is someone waiting who will hurry up and rescue you.....just callllll for Super Chicken CLUCK CLUCK
Definitely multi-tiered comedy - silly and banal enough for the childish mind but sarcastic and cutting with the innuendo and social undertones. Kind of a 'Mad Magazine' type show ostensibly masquerading as a kids show - it spawned a lot of other splinter ideas like (I believe) "PeeWee's Playhouse" with Paul Reubens. There were a lot of over-the-heads-of-the-kids gags there, for sure.
Recently I started watching the first season of the old Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose cartoons that were originally broadcast back in the late 50s and early 60s. Even though they were shown 60+ years ago, they are still funny, and maybe even funnier than when I saw them in childhood. Really and truly I have become convinced that a lot of the humor was directed at the parents, because I'm sure the kids wouldn't have understood a lot of the jokes. Kids probably would not have understood the Cold War setting prevalent in the cartoons which is now part of history.
Rocky and Bullwinkle riding on a train. Rocky is half asleep. Boris is trying to sabotage the third rail and gets electrocuted in typical cartoon fashion.
Bullwinkle: Hey Rocky, a feller just went by that was all lit up.
Rocky (sleepily): We must be near the club car.
I watch 'em all as a kid. Rocky and Bullwinkle, Looney Tunes, Merry Melodies,etc and so on. I was up bright and early on Saturday morning and parked in front of the TV.
Sadly, the liberal/woke community has decided that these great old cartoons are too violent and offensive. They'll never be on TV again.![]()
I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle. Two Americans kids from Frostbite Falls MN.
We had a Bosnian gal working a the coffee shop at work. One day I asked her to say moose and squirrel. She didn't understand my "strange" satisfaction and smile when she did. I explained it was an old cartoon. She just smiled and kind of shook her head.
A few items from my desk collection.![]()
I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle. Two Americans kids from Frostbite Falls MN.
We had a Bosnian gal working a the coffee shop at work. One day I asked her to say moose and squirrel. She didn't understand my "strange" satisfaction and smile when she did. I explained it was an old cartoon. She just smiled and kind of shook her head.
A few items from my desk collection.![]()