Happy Halloween 2025

Time for Halloween!

Halloween means the annual viewing of Alexandre Alexeieff's Night On Bald Mountain (1933)!



Halloween means. . . it's time for Frankie!









The Late Night with Conan O’Brien show created a very funny bit involving Frankenstein, in this case played by Brian Stack - and also featuring Tom Hanks.



Love the idea of Bill Hader as a snarky Frankenstein.



Here's our all-time favorite Frankenstein tune, performed by The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer.



Did Frankie appear in any animated cartoons? Yes, he did! The 1935 Looney Tune HOLLYWOOD CAPERS, directed by Jack King, ran on one of our local television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area all the time back in the early-to-mid 1960’s. It featured the “Our Gang” inspired cast from Friz Freleng’s Merrie Melodie cartoon I Haven't Got A Hat (1935).

HOLLYWOOD CAPERS starred Beans the cat, ersatz but somewhat livelier substitute for Looney Tunes headliner Buddy, otherwise known in Cartoonland as "Mr. Excitement." One would assume that Porky Pig, clearly the standout from the cast of I Haven't Got A Hat, was already renegotiating his contract with Leon Schlesinger.



Most noteworthy, along with the Hollywood star caricatures (Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Oliver Hardy): the appearance by none other than Frankenstein, starting at 4:05.



Among the transitional cartoons between "Buddy" and the beginnings of Termite Terrace sparked by Leon Schlesinger hiring former Lantz animator Tex Avery, is the Jack King Looney Tune A CARTOONISTS NIGHTMARE. Have a hunch the hard-working animator at the drawing board who experiences the nightmare of getting brutalized by multiple bad guys from Warner Bros. cartoons is Robert McKimson!

Before Jack King was hired by Leon Schlesinger to make Looney Tunes, he worked for Walt Disney Productions, who subsequently re-hired Jack to direct Donald Duck cartoons. Taking nothing away from the Silly Symphony The Skeleton Dance, two particularly clever and spooky Mickey Mouse cartoons are The Haunted House (1929) and The Mad Doctor (1933).





Next up: Old Manor House (1948), a terrific and eccentric haunted house cartoon by George Moreno and British Animated Productions, creators of the Bubble & Squeek series.



Finishing this Happy Halloween post: Jay Ward's Tom Slick and a Monte Karloff monster rally straight from Transylvania!

Happy Birthday, Jay Ward

As big fans of Jay Ward and Bill Scott, we've posted about Jay Ward Productions on many occasions.

On the natal anniversary of Jay Ward, we're thrilled and delighted to spotlight his studio's creative, imaginative, satiric and funny animated shows again!

The great Jay Ward was born in San Francisco on September 20, 1920.



First and foremost, the gang here insists that readers purchase The Moose That Roared painstakingly researched and entertainingly written history of Jay Ward Productions by character actor-voice artist-impressionist and film/radio/animation historian Keith Scott.

Here's an interview with Keith.



After reading Keith Scott's book, watch Maurino Amoruso's film Of Moose and Men: The Rocky & Bullwinkle Story, begins with clips from the devastatingly funny "Moosylvania" story.



The Jay Ward Productions legacy of hilarious cartoons began in Berkeley back in the late 1940's with CRUSADER RABBIT, produced by Jay and written in mass quantities by Alex Anderson, nephew of Terrytoons producer Paul Terry.











Alex Anderson, who wrote a gazillion episodes of Crusader Rabbit elaborates:







After a few pilots that didn't sell, most interestingly The Watts Gnu Show, the next Jay Ward series on TV was. . .



Rocky & His Friends!



At first the series was Rocky & His Friends - Adventures of Bullwinkle & Rocky with Fractured Fairy Tales or Aesop & Son and Peabody's Improbable History.





It would subsequently air in the early 1960's on Sunday prime time as The Bullwinkle Show.














Of the Jay Ward Productions, especially love Fractured Fairy Tales and the incredible roster of character actors/voice talents - Bill Scott, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Conrad, Daws Butler, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Tetley, Hal Smith, Chris Allen and more.



Are we fans of Fractured Fairy Tales here? Yes. Let's watch a slew of them!















Also enjoy the cousin to the Fractured Fairy Tales series, Aesop & Son.





Also incredibly funny: Peabody’s Improbable History!




Another favorite is Dudley Do Right.









Especially love the long unaired "Stokey The Bear" episode.



Even the lesser-known Jay Ward Productions series, such as Hoppity Hooper, are frequently wonderful, in large part due to the incredible voice talents (Bill Scott, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Conrad, Daws Butler, Edward Everett Horton, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Tetley) and the consistently brilliant comedy writing by the talented team of writers: Lloyd Turner, Allen Burns, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkyns, Jim Critchfield and George Atkins.






And then there was Fractured Flickers. . .



Hans Conried, fresh off his stretch as a frequent guest on Ernie Kovacs' surreal take on game shows Take A Good Look, was Fractured Flickers' very reluctant host. Fractured Flickers featured incredibly funny voice acting throughout by Jay Ward regulars Bill Scott, June Foray and Paul Frees.









In this cartoon buff's opinion, the last outstanding animated series made for television until The Simpsons debuted as segments on The Tracey Ullman Show was George Of The Jungle.



The befuddled apeman, Tom Slick and Super Chicken always get this avid Jay Ward aficionado ROFL.

After George Of The Jungle, the Jay Ward Studio made numerous commercials and a few pilots.





The last was RAH RAH WOOZY in 1980. Imagine how much more fun Saturday morning would have been had the networks bought the Jay Ward pilots (especially Fang The Wonder Dog) and they were the rare non-Filmation or non-HB series then.



How do we finish a Jay Ward tribute? Hmmmm . . . with Amber Jones’ documentary on Jay’s co-producer, head writer, colleague and pal Bill Scott, the voice of numerous Jay Ward characters!



Is it great to see blazing animation and film history luminaries from Mark Evanier to Mark Kausler to Keith Scott to Frank Welker to Will Ryan, Corey Burton, Frank Welker, Billy West, June Foray, Daws Butler, Jay Ward, Skip Craig, Jymn Magon, Brian Cummings and more? Yes! Is the writer of this blog pleased to be in the credits? Yes!



Acknowledgments (a.k.a. read these articles and books)
In His Own Words: Bill Scott On Unsold Jay Ward Pilots

A Closer Look at Jay Ward’s Cartoon Cereal Serials

Sneak Peek-At Darrell Van Citters' New Jay Ward Book

The Moose and the Showgirl: The life and times of the Bullwinkle statue, 1961-2021 by Harry McCracken

The Art Of Jay Ward Productions by Darrell Van Citters

And This Blog Loves The Great Bill Scott!

MUST tip a top hat worn by Bullwinkle J. Moose to writer-producer-animator-storyman-actor-voice artist Bill Scott, born on this day in 1920.







With apologies for the even more haphazard than usual makeup of today's post - my excuse is a no-fun, ongoing and derriere-kicking bout with a common cold virus this week - we mention with some sadness how much we miss Bill Scott and that team of amazing voice talents and writers he presided over at Jay Ward Productions, all chronicled expertly in the book The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose by Keith Scott.

Here, Bill, a musical theatre devotee, sings "Glad To Be Bullwinkle."



Among many accomplishments, he was the co-producer and head writer at of Jay Ward Productions.



First and foremost, we are happy to re-present Bill Scott: The Portrait of a Moose, the superlative documentary that British voice-over actress and chronicler of comedians, comediennes and improv aces in animation Amber Jones - whose many interviews with animation voice actors are on her You Tube channel - made, with assistance from film historian Kamden Spies of the Termite Terrace headlines website and The Spies Report on Cartoon Research. Thanks again for your outstanding work, Amber and Kamden!



Is it fun to see Mark Evanier to Mark Kausler to Keith Scott to Frank Welker to Will Ryan, Corey Burton, Frank Welker, Billy West, June Foray, Daws Butler, Jay Ward, Skip Craig, Jymn Magon, Brian Cummings and more? Yes! Is the fellow who writes this blog pleased to be in the credits? Heck, yeah!

Invariably, Jay Ward cartoons will get the writer of this blog ROFL, only every time.

Our favorite? The WOSSAMATTA U story from Rocky & Bullwinkle!



Second favorite? Stokey The Bear!



Must call attention, as we did the last time Jay Ward Productions got covered here, to an outstanding article on the celebrated Rocky and Bullwinkle statue on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood by journalist Harry McCracken. Mark Evanier noted it on his excellent News From Me website.

In this piece, The Moose and the Showgirl: The life and times of the Bullwinkle statue, 1961-2021, Harry, a superb writer, has outdone himself here.

Jay Ward Productions fans at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog recommend Maurino Amoruso's film Of Moose and Men: The Rocky & Bullwinkle Story, which begins with clips from the devastatingly funny "Moosylvania" story.



I'll admit it - I'm a sucker for Jay Ward cartoons, especially Fractured Fairy Tales! Love the incredible roster of character actors/voice talents - Scott, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Conrad, Daws Butler, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Tetley, Hal Smith, Chris Allen and more.







And Bullwinkle's Corner. . .





How much? Actually phoned the brilliant Jay Ward Productions producer, head writer and voice actor and conducted several interviews with him way back in November 1981.

Because we are indeed Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, we won't go into Bill's pre-Jay Ward trajectory, from his time at Warner Bros. Animation writing stories with Lloyd Turner as part of the crew led by veteran animator Art Davis, to a lengthy stretch with UPA, teamed with Phil Eastman on numerous Jolly Frolics, including Gerald and at one point acting and writing for The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show.

Even the lesser-known series (Hoppity Hooper) that Bill presided over at Jay Ward Productions are frequently wonderful, in large part due to all of those incredible voice talents and the consistently brilliant comedy writing by the talented team of writers: Lloyd Turner, Allen Burns, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkyns, Jim Critchfield and George Atkins.

Tomorrow is National Fried Chicken Day

What's the topic for today? How do we end a truly lousy week, notable for unending horrible news? National Fried Chicken Day! Whoopee!

Indeed, National Fried Chicken Day, giving cooks a ready-made excuse to fry or sauté whatever fowl happens to be in the freezer, is this Saturday, July 6.

Sorry, that's the best we have at the moment.



What got this scribe through the too-many months of COVID related lockdown in 2020-2021 and the unending years of pure awfulness that followed? Standup comedy and our pets (a.k.a. official mascots)! One standup comic we like a lot is Patton Oswalt, who links to National Fried Chicken Day as follows.





When it comes to the topics of fried chicken and fast food in general, can't think of anyone funnier than Jim Gaffigan.





Jim is in frequent rotation here, as is Mr. Oswalt.



Just realized that fried chicken is just about the only food that's NOT in the Saturday Night Live Taco Town sketch, which features Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg.



Shifting from comedy to food, the skilled and frequently very funny chefs at Babish Culinary Universe have tried to replicate the epic Taco Town mega-taco-gordita-crepe-pizza, etc.



Tops in the category of the funniest, most informative and most scientific of cooking show hosts? Hands and measuring devices down, that would be Alton Brown of "Good Eats."



How to we top Alton? Chicken-centric tunes from long, long ago.









The British blues band Chicken Shack didn't play Chicken Strut or ChIcken Scratch as part of their repertoire, but there is a familiar face here - singer/songwriter/keyboardist Christine McVie, a year or so prior to her joining Fleetwood Mac to counter the departure of guitarist Peter Green and a few years before the band's pop juggernaut years in the latter 1970's.



So, the official post for National Fried Chicken Day 2024 ends as many Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog posts do, with cartoons from long long ago.

RE: Sudden Fried Chicken (1946), a Famous Studios cartoon directed by the great Bill Tytla, the animation by such talented Fleischer veterans as Orestes Calpini is invariably quite good and the voice work by Sid Raymond, Jack Mercer, Arnold Stang and others is also terrific.



On one hand, the premise of marital abuse as yuk-yuk comedy falls as flat as a poorly cooked pancake. On the other hand, the cartoon becomes quite funny about 4 minutes in, starting with Herman the Mouse smoking cigarettes.



How storymen Jack Mercer and Carl Meyer missed the opportunity for a hilarious topper gag in which horrific Henrietta Hen, after seeing Henry as an hard drinking ultra-macho tough guy, instantaneously becomes a sex-crazed love machine a la horny hot-to-trot hillbilly Possum Pearl (the star of a very enjoyable Noveltoon cartoon Jack Mercer wrote the story for a decade later), we'll never know. Blame the Hays Office!

Viewing the Noveltoons' Herman & Henry series makes one wonder if someone on the Famous Studios staff in the mid-1940's was stuck in a hideously awful hell on earth marriage. Readers, if you find yourself in a similar situation, GET OUT IMMEDIATELY AND RUN! RUN FAST AND FAR! DON'T TURN BACK!

Closing this National Fried Chicken Day tribute: the Jay Ward Studio's Super Chicken.

Sunday June 12 Means Walter Tetley's Birthday - and Betty Boop at Niles

After one doozy of a week, we at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog were wondering what the next blog post would cover. Thankfully, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum and favorite authors Kliph Nesteroff, Ben Ohmart and Keith Scott have provided said topics for us! Turns out tomorrow is the natal anniversary of comic character actor and all-time great cartoon and radio voice artist Walter Tetley.



Mr. Tetley is best known today as the voice of Mr. Peabody's intrepid boy assistant Sherman.







He's also the voice of Felix The Cat in the Van Beuren Studio's Disney-fied revival in the Rainbow Parade series, the Walter Lantz Studio's Andy Panda, UPA's Dusty of The Circus for The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show and PG&E's energetic singing spokes-electron, the ELECTRIC Reddy Kilowatt, who should have played a solid body electric guitar featuring a bolt-on neck.



It would be a grotesque understatement to state that Walter Tetley was one of the hardest working radio actors not named Mel Blanc. He was a scream appearing with Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Burns & Allen, on satirist Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight, as a key driver of the comedy in The Great Gildersleeve and as the not-so-secret weapon, a cleanup hitting laugh-getter, on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show.

In addition, he has brief but very funny cameos in a gazillion movies, such as this one in the Abbott & Costello vehicle Who Done It.



The aforementioned and formidable Kliph Nesteroff penned, as one of his many excellent articles for WFMU's Beware Of The Blog, Credit Castrated: The Voice of Walter Tetley, a very good overview focusing on Mr. Tetley's numerous hilarious turns as radio's "mean widdle kid" and both varied and prolific work on records. (NOTE: posters on OTRCAT and YouTube have done us comedy and OTR fans a massive favor by compiling devastatingly funny turns in the Walter Tetley Radio Collection, including his memorable appearances on The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show)

Expert on old time radio and mid-20th century pop culture Ben Ohmart, with OTR archivist Charles Stumpf, penned an outstanding book, Walter Tetley: For Corn's Sake on the voice artist's life and times.

The description of Walter Tetley: For Corn's Sake elaborates:
WALTER TETLEY (1915-1975) was the quintessential kid voice of radio. His distinguished voice career began in the early 1930s and lasted until radio s final years in the 1950s. He was also a very private person who never gave interviews, instead choosing to immerse himself in charity and voice work throughout most of his life. For the FIRST time in print finally a complete biography on one of radio s most beloved character actors. Including many RARE PHOTOS and THOUSANDS OF CREDITS, most of which have never been seen or discussed in any article or book. That is because this biography has been written with the aid of Walter s personal scrapbooks! From The Great Gildersleeve to Rocky and Bullwinkle's Peabody and Sherman and beyond. Includes a detailed account of Walter's 1930's public appearances.

It's tough to know where to start or where to end with Walter Tetley's career, given how, in addition to countless radio show roles, his cameos in movies and voice-overs on records are numerous. Among said credits, Walter was a favorite of Stan Freberg's. He's a hoot as the hipster in Yankee Doodle Go Home, from Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America volume 1: The Early Years (1961).



Wikipedia adds: In 1973 Tetley made an appearance on Rod Serling's radio series The Zero Hour. He could be heard in the "Princess Stakes Murder" episodes beginning the week of November 19.

So, a day before his birthday, Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog respectfully tips the battered showbiz top hat to the great Walter Tetley. Along with Mel Blanc, Danny Webb, Kent Rogers, June Foray, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Don Messick, Daws Butler and Bill Scott, to name just a few, he is paramount among the ace voice-over artists we LOVE in classic cartoons!

The unparalleled queen of the animated screen - made of pen and ink, she will win you with a wink, ain't she cute, boop-oop-a-doop, sweet Betty - will be back on the big screen tomorrow afternoon, in new restorations of classic cartoons.



Sunday June 2nd at 3:00p.m. PST, our pals at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum present a classic Fleischer cartoon matinee, Betty Boop For President. Purchase tickets here.

Everybody's favorite flapper not named Clara Bow or Colleen Moore shall rock the Edison Theater in a selection of classic Max Fleischer Studio cartoons. Max' granddaughter Jane Fleischer hosts.



The program includes short presentations about the development of the design of Betty Boop and the inventiveness and creativity of Fleischer Studios by Ray Pointer, animation professional and author of The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer, a superlative tome covering the filmmaking career, art and technological innovations of Max.

The cartoon lineup is as follows:
Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934) Music and dance (rotoscoped) performances by the Royal Samoans and Cab Calloway. With Max Fleischer in his only speaking role in a cartoon.
Dizzy Dishes (1930) Betty Boop's debut.
Betty Boop And Grampy (1935) 3-D stereoptical process.
Minnie The Moocher (1932) Song and dance (rotoscoped) performed by Cab Calloway.
Betty In Blunderland (1934)
Betty Boop’s Little Pal (1934)
A Language All My Own (1935) Betty rocks Japan! 3-D stereoptical process.
Betty Boop’s Penthouse (1933)

Poor Cinderella (1934) Max Fleischer Color Classic in two-color Cinecolor, with 3-D stereoptical process and rotoscoped dancing.
Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)

Popular Melodies (1933) Sing-alongs, including the Betty Boop theme song.
Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle (1932) Music and dance (rotoscoped) by the Royal Samoans
Betty Boop for President (1932)

And This Blog Loves June Foray

Today is the natal anniversary of voice artist extraordinaire June Foray, born on September 18 in 1917, the same year that brought John F. Kennedy and Dizzy Gillespie into the world.



Before her plum role as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, June had a myriad of credits. Here she is on The Johnny Carson Show.



Of course, thinking of June Foray gets us thinking of cartoons by Jay Ward Productions, especially Rocky and Bullwinkle!

Am mystified as to why the previous graphic does not include one of June Foray's funniest characters, Nell Fenwick from Dudley Do Right!



June is all over the Jay Ward cartoons, playing numerous and varied roles, especially in the Fractured Fairy Tales.



Her "Marjorie Main" voice is particularly hilarious.



Being, as always, Way Too Damn Lazy To Write a Blog, today we'll post clips, beginning with June's appearance with Darrell Van Citters, author of The Art Of Jay Ward.

June is in a tie with Friz Freleng for the longest career in animation and was still working into her nineties.



The sheer number of credits across genres - radio (The Stan Freberg Show!), feature films, television, animation, recordings - is stunning, akin to opening a Wiki entry for Allan Dwan.



Remain positively floored by both the June Foray IMDB page (which very likely does not feature all of her numerous credits), her entry from Behind The Voice Actors and the extended Television Academy interview.





Must also note that there are numerous terrific posts about her on the Cartoon Research website. Many are from Greg Ehrbar's Animation Spin series, including the following:

• 101st Birthday Salute To June Foray


• Walt Disney's Trick Or Treat With June Foray on Records


• June Foray as Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” & “Ferdinand the Bull”

There’s also a Bullwinkle recordFamoose Moose's Greatest Hits...and Misses! featuring Bill Broughton, Bill Scott and June Foray.

Many of us first became familar with June Foray's ability to ace any role with her contributions to Warner Bros. cartoons.

Check put the bravura performance in Tugboat Granny.

June was extremely active in ASIFA-Hollywood, the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation and in establishing the Annie Awards, as well as the creation of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001.

Recall reading that filmmaker Gavin Frietas was producing a documentary about June a few years ago. Don't know if this film is commercially available for viewing on Blu-ray or DVD. Here is a clip from it which was posted on Gavin's YouTube page.



No doubt more background on June, as well as other Michael Jordans of the voice acting field, will be in Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-70 Vol. 1, the much-awaited book about the greats of voice acting by Keith Scott, character actor-voice artist-impressionist, film and radio historian and author of The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose. It can be pre-ordered now and will be officially out on Tuesday, September 20.

Producer-writer-satirist-voice actor Bill Scott gets his due in new documentary

Jay Ward Productions, as well as the incredible work of comedians and animation voice actors in general, is on our minds here at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog.

We were thrilled and delighted to see the rough cut of a new documentary about the life, times and career of the great Jay Ward Productions producer, head writer and voice actor Bill Scott.

Bill Scott: The Portrait of a Moose is now up on YouTube. The film was put together by Amber Jones, the ultimate Jay Ward Productions aficionado, with assistance from Kamden Spies of the Termite Terrace headlines website and The Spies Report on Cartoon Research. Amber and Kamden have produced something special here.



I loved it and especially love seeing all these great people from animation - from Mark Evanier to Mark Kausler to Keith Scott to Frank Welker to Will Ryan, Corey Burton, Frank Welker, Billy West, June Foray, Daws Butler, Jay Ward, Skip Craig, Jymn Magon, Brian Cummings and more - who have made the world a better place.

Hope this will be merely the first of many documentaries produced and written by Amber Jones, a very talented filmmaker, researcher, historian, narrator and voice over artist from northwest England who has been posting splendid interviews with animation voice actors on her You Tube channel.

Invariably, Jay Ward cartoons will get the writer of this blog ROFL, only every time.



Looks like the Rocket J. Squirrel lovin' rapscallions at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are not the only ones thinking frequently of Bill, Bullwinkle and legendary cartoon voice artists these days.



There's an amazing, beautifully written and exhaustively researched article on the celebrated Rocky and Bullwinkle statue on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood by journalist Harry McCracken.



Mark Evanier noted it on his excellent News From Me website.

In The Moose and the Showgirl: The life and times of the Bullwinkle statue, 1961-2021, Harry has turned up tons of information I was not aware of.







Not to be outdone, Keith Scott, radio and cartoon voices expert, impressionist, Jay Ward Productions historian and author of The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, has penned an outstanding article about voice actors who worked on the cartoons of the Walter Lantz Studio.



Keith has a new book in the works on voice actors in radio and animated cartoons. Since he is the expert on that topic, we can't wait to read it.













The Jay Ward fans at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog recommend Maurino Amoruso's film Of Moose and Men: The Rocky & Bullwinkle Story, which begins with clips from the devastatingly funny "Moosylvania" story.



For more info, in addition to Keith Scott's book, we also highly recommend The Art Of Jay Ward Productions blog, especially the post on the Campaign for Moosylvania; unfortunately, the accompanying book is now out-of-print, so check your local used book stores for a copy.

Here's the one, the only June Foray at Larry Edmunds Bookshop with the author of said book and blog, animator and director Darrell Van Citters.



We respectfully tip a top hat worn by Bullwinkle J. Moose to Bill Scott and the multi-talented artists and actors involved in the Jay Ward shows: June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Conrad, Daws Butler, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Tetley, Hal Smith and Chris Allen.

We'll follow that respectful hat tip by watching a DVD of Fractured Flickers, a creative and HIGHLY irreverent use of public domain "found footage."

Fractured Flickers was hosted by an ever-incredulous Hans Conried and at one point included a 1918 clip in which Tarzan goes out for pizza.



Indeed, it is no great surprise that Lon Chaney Jr. did not see any humor whatsoever in seeing clips of his father's bravura, epic, unbeatable performance in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame entirely recast and featuring the tortured Quasimodo as "Dinky Dunstan, Boy Cheerleader" on Fractured Flickers.

Thanks for the laughs, Bill Scott and the ace writers at Jay Ward Productions: Lloyd Turner, Allen Burns, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkyns, Jim Critchfield and George Atkins! And thanks for your superb documentary, Amber Jones and Kamden Spies!