It's Thanksgiving 2019! Still here - YAY and Hallelujah!
Here at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, we champion mindless laughs - and lots of 'em - throughout the holidays.
Elmer Fudd re-enacting the Miles Standish story with Edna May Oliver - and Hugh "Woowoo" Herbert? Yes!
Nobody was better at mindless laughs than Moe, Larry and Curly, the poet laureates of nyuk nyuk nyuk woowoowoo.
While our favorite thing about the following Thanksgiving opus de Stooge - even more than the presence of both Bud Jamison and Vernon Dent - is the Big Apple dance number (starting at 4:45), utter ridiculousness remains the order of the day throughout. This includes the would-be Native American braves who look like the cast of Sgt. Bilko or McHale's Navy; no doubt Chief Dan George's agent would never let him work in a cheap 2-reeler. The only disappointment is that Back To The Woods does not have a "topper" involving wild turkeys chasing Moe, Larry and Curly off into the distant horizon.
Back To The Woods was directed by the gentleman on the right in the following photo, Jack "Preston Black" White, here being targeted by silent movie comedian (and most unlikely Puritan) Lloyd "Ham" Hamilton.
Although this isn't in the 20th century pop culture focus of this blog, we recommend the new video The Turkey Strikes Back | GOOD EATS: THE RETURN with Alton Brown. It is sensational, as have been the Good Eats programs going all the way back to the halycon 20th century days of the 1990's. Happy Thanksgiving!
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