{"id":1720,"date":"2019-09-15T19:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:58:25","slug":"sunday-go-to-meetin-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Go to Meetin&#8217; Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Get your hands off me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Merrie Melodies - Sunday Go To Meetin&#039; Time (1936) DVD Version\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x9cnd6c&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Supervision by Isadore Freleng; Animation by Bob McKimson and Paul Smith; Music by Norman Spencer. A Merrie Melody released on August 8, 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go. The first one of the censored 11 I&#8217;m featuring here. Is it worthy of that title? In some spots, yeah, but there&#8217;s SOME good things in here.<\/p>\n<p>As it is Sunday, (as I type this and in the short) it&#8217;s also time to go to church. Everyone in the community puts on their finest clothes and heads for some sweet, sweet, gospel. (I won&#8217;t lie. I&#8217;m a little uncomfortable seeing young children having their heads shined like shoes. Luckily, that&#8217;s probably the worst this picture has to offer. The big lips hardly phase me after witnessing that.)<\/p>\n<p>One lady is set to go, but has misplaced her husband, (Or he could be her son. It&#8217;s never established.) Nicodemus. Since he&#8217;s black, the cartoon thinks that he&#8217;d most definitely rather be playing craps than going to church. (I&#8217;ll just pretend that it just happens to be his favorite game.) He&#8217;s found and dragged off to the building. (Talking in that kinda dopey tone of voice Hollywood was fond of having black people use. The tone that I doubt was ever THAT noticeable? Okay, okay. I&#8217;ll stop. )<\/p>\n<p>Once there, he of course ducks out. All that talk of the bible can make a guy hungry, and since everybody is at church, nobody can catch him trying to take a chicken. (I love how he tries to prove to the bird that he isn&#8217;t holding anything in his hand. The bird ain&#8217;t fooled.) Giving chase, he hits his head on a fence post and Nicodemus begin to see things that will scare him straight.<\/p>\n<p>Now standing before a judge, he has his life history looked over. Seems he sinned plenty. All stereotypical sins no less. (The craps, and chicken snatching weren&#8217;t obvious enough. That&#8217;s why he was also had to be guilty of watermelon theft.) Fate&#8217;s sealed, he&#8217;s going to hell. Satan and his demon minions are quite happy to have a new soul to torture. (Satan and his followers also have uncomfortably large lips. I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about this. Isn&#8217;t making fun of Satan totally fine? Then again, those lips aren&#8217;t really funny on anybody. I&#8217;m conflicted.)<\/p>\n<p>As the imps began his torture with some pitchfork pokes, he wakes up to find the chickens pecking him. With the threat of hell fresh in his mine, Nicodemus repents and heads back to church without further hesitation. I knew he was a good guy, deep down.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite part: Say what you will about the visuals in this cartoon, but the music is awesome! Very catchy and a treat for the ears.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get your hands off me.&#8221; Supervision by Isadore Freleng; Animation by Bob McKimson and Paul Smith; Music by Norman Spencer. A Merrie Melody released on August 8, 1936. Here we go. The first one of the censored 11 I&#8217;m featuring here. Is it worthy of that title? 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