why does part of this original episode sound like a youtube poop
HEY MOE
on the dvd commentary for this episode the writers said that flea (the guy yelling AYY MOE) literally just yelled that line from like the complete opposite side of the recording booth and they didn’t make him redo it because it was loud enough to use lmao
could you imagine as margaret dumont endures insult after insult by groucho and acts shocked and offended she’s actually internally coming up with a ton of witty comebacks that’d put him right in his place i love this headcanon
The first drawing was something I made as a Father’s Day gift back in 2009 because my Dad is a fan of the Marx Brothers and classic Tex Avery cartoons.
Looking at it now I saw that Screwy Squirrel and the Wolf looked a little stiff, so I decided to do a “digital remake” of it. I left Droopy and the ducks alone because I thought they were fine. (My favorite part of the drawing will always be the showering duck; he just looks so pissed.)
Stan writes about his first meeting with Fred Karno in a letter to Fred Karno Jr. (x)
Apparently, the letter Stan had with him was from his dad, Arthur Jefferson, who was in the theatre business. Which might explain why Stan was hired despite not knowing what “taking the nap” meant. Also, Fred Sr. wasn’t being overly flirty with Stan; only testing what his reaction to a fake punch would be.
My film professor claimed all silent films were shot “flat” and “were basically filmed stage plays.” Not just early stuff, but even ones from the 1920s.
I love the guy but… no. That is like the broadest generalization ever. And a wrong one considering many silent films from the 1920s were the apex of that medium’s art, telling stories that felt like cinema and not theater’s red-headed step-child. I resent the idea that silent films were all primitive shit before we got to “Real movies” in the 1930s and 1940s.
Migratory Cocoanuts 