{"id":5000,"date":"2025-03-09T19:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2025-03-16T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:02:03","slug":"september-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"September in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Remember?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"September in the Rain 1937\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x8u18sc&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Supervision by Isadore Freleng; Story by Tedd Pierce; Animation by Cal Dalton; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Merrie Melody released on December 18, 1937.<\/p>\n<p>How many times have I discussed cartoons about product mascots coming to life? More than you have, I&#8217;ll wager. If I want to keep my lead, I&#8217;ll have to do it again. But doing things you&#8217;ve already done is pointless if you have nothing new to say. Good thing I&#8217;ve never claimed my life as anything but pointless. That means I can reuse text from previous posts if I need to.<\/p>\n<p>During night, when no living person is around, the mascots for products come to life and&#8230; just sing and dance really. A blueing bottles sings &#8220;Am I blue?&#8221;, a disgusting rubber glove inflates itself to bounce to the music, and even some of our real world mascots join in. Like Camel camels and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2018\/10\/07\/how-do-i-know-its-sunday\/\">Morton\u2019s salt girl<\/a>. I gotta admit though, some of the mascots don&#8217;t make sense to me. What do weeds have to do with scotch? If you count thistles as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2024\/06\/30\/flowers-for-madame\/\">weeds<\/a>, that is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a real honor to see this kind of stuff. You really want to know how the icons react to those who find out their living secret? They&#8217;ll try to eat you alive. That\u2019s what the chicks on the \u201cMy am I?\u201d powder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2022\/07\/24\/billboard-frolics\/\">do<\/a>.\u00a0 That worm\/larvae is lucky to escape into some genetically modified apples. You ever been digested in a 2-d body? It hurts. You ever try to eat an apple bigger than your head in one sitting? It&#8217;s filling, but not organic.<\/p>\n<p>Our title song comes from the guy pictured on the &#8220;Dream of Wheat&#8221; box. He sounds a bit like Al Jolson, but it couldn&#8217;t be him. This guy is legitimately black. (Except for his sometimes white chin.) His mother is Aunt Emma of the pancake flour for crying out loud! The only other possibility would be her encouraging her son to paint his skin, and save her the embarrassment of admitting she had to adopt.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like that one as much. More feelings are liable to get hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Two cigarette icons dance together, and I want to ship them, but if they procreate, then there would be more pro-smoking ads in the world. I can&#8217;t allow that. Smoking took my Walt&#8217;s life! I wouldn&#8217;t want anyone else to live through that trauma. I forbid you two from seeing each other after this short ends.<\/p>\n<p>Now then, if you thought this short was getting away with reusing footage from the past, it will be punished by having the upbeat parts stolen from it and reused in a future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2022\/06\/19\/tin-pan-alley-cats\/\">short<\/a> that&#8217;ll leave more of a legacy. The &#8220;Gold Rust twins&#8221;, Armstrong and Cats, I mean-&#8230; actually, let&#8217;s just stick with Cats, start up a lively musical number of &#8220;Nagasaki&#8221;. All the hep cat icons join in, from Aunt Emma to the guys on the &#8220;Yea Man&#8221; hams. And since we don&#8217;t really have a way to end this, we won&#8217;t. We&#8217;ll just stop and hope you won&#8217;t notice. Good night!<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Part: A piper on a coffee can (again with the no sense make) charms some toothpaste out of its tube. I&#8217;ve never seen snake toothpaste before.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 1. There&#8217;s hardly anything here you haven&#8217;t seen before, and won&#8217;t see again. You want grocery gags? That&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2013\/09\/24\/2013-9-24-goofy-groceries-html\/\">Goofy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Remember?&#8221; Supervision by Isadore Freleng; Story by Tedd Pierce; Animation by Cal Dalton; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Merrie Melody released on December 18, 1937. How many times have I discussed cartoons about product mascots coming to life? More than you have, I&#8217;ll wager. 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