{"id":3705,"date":"2022-07-24T21:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T03:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2025-03-16T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:08:27","slug":"billboard-frolics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"Billboard Frolics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;SEE THEM AND HEAR THEM&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LT116: Billboard Frolics\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x2ha5s7&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Supervision by Isadore Freleng; Animation by Cal Dalton and Sandy Walker; Music by Bernard Brown. A Merrie Melody released on November 9, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>We must begin today&#8217;s post with what happened at to me at Comic Con: I had a great time. Twice as many people asked me for photographs than last time, two people asked me to dance and sing, (one of whom filmed me) and I lost count of how many compliments I got on my costume. (My favorite was the guy who said and I quote: &#8220;Hell yeah! Michigan J. Frog!) Apart from that, it&#8217;s a real pleasure in life to see the current voice of Bugs Bunny in person. I can die a happy man, death! Any day now!<\/p>\n<p>Now for today&#8217;s post: A very popular story to tell in animated features anymore is &#8220;What does &#8216;X&#8217; do when I&#8217;m not around.&#8221; It&#8217;s been going on much longer than just lately. Exhibit A is our short today. Today, it&#8217;s what the characters on billboards do at night. (Which is coincidentally the premise for one of Illumination&#8217;s upcoming films. They&#8217;re calling it: &#8220;Billboard Games.&#8221; It will be mediocre but have an impressive box-office return.)<\/p>\n<p>We begin with an advertisement for the musical duo of &#8220;Eddie Camphor&#8221; and &#8220;Rub-em-off&#8221;. They sing a merry melody that I feel should be the theme song to a series of theatrical short films someday. Plenty of ads join in the fun. A cute Cuban dances on her travel ad, Mexican tamales sing along, and Russian rye bread do their expected squat dance. The one I don&#8217;t get is the smoking toy penguins. Is that a reference? I&#8217;ll be very grateful if you educate me.<\/p>\n<p>Since these are living ads, they can do things that our boring reality ones can&#8217;t. Namely, they can hop off of their billboard and traipse around the &#8220;real&#8221; world. That&#8217;s what the chick on the &#8220;My am I?&#8221; billboard does. (Is that one a reference? Is it just a play on Miami?) He has seen a worm and he is eager to be a part of the food chain. But this is one wily worm who doesn&#8217;t want to give up eating crops for being eaten and placed in a crop. (Bird humor.)<\/p>\n<p>Now the funny thing about food chains is that they are almost never are two links long. The local alley cat is happy to take his part in nature&#8217;s grand design. Even if his prey of choice tastes like acryllic paint and advertising. My-am-I decides to make a retreat. (I love his face. Why hasn&#8217;t that been memed? You fools always seem to neglect my best ideas!) Good thing the board members have such a strong union, and begin fighting off the predator. Including sending out the next link in the food chain: a dog.<\/p>\n<p>The cat manages to trap Fido in a pipe, and he continues chasing the chick. The bird finds himself trapped against a dead end. (Which will be literal if a last minute save doesn&#8217;t happen.) The little guy is saved by the baking soda ad on the nearby wall. (Ham and Armour brand, of course.) That chick certainly has something to crow about now.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Part: When chasing the worm, the chick has an adorable angry face. Coupled that with his non-threatening &#8220;cheeps&#8221; makes me just want to fawn over him, cuddle him, and give him that worm. (Cute things always get precedent.)<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;SEE THEM AND HEAR THEM&#8221; Supervision by Isadore Freleng; Animation by Cal Dalton and Sandy Walker; Music by Bernard Brown. A Merrie Melody released on November 9, 1935. We must begin today&#8217;s post with what happened at to me at Comic Con: I had a great time. 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