What do you know of him?
BEATNIK MAGOO (1960). I love this short, not just for the UPA minimalism, but also for the extravagant language. Co-opting "hip" lingo and generalizing lifestyles was still a relatively new thing in American media. In many cases it was clunky. Here, it flowed. pic.twitter.com/qb1gAmQwiy— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) March 7, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
I remember that episode vividly -- it's where I heard "swinger" for the first time.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
never knew he was a Rurgers alum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Magoo
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
^Rutgers
I looked around online for his Oscar-winning short a while back and couldn’t find it. I assume the character has been declared “problematic” these days.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
show me the declarer, and i will kick them up the ass
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
Just a hunch; I haven’t actually seen anyone claim this, though I vaguely recall Siskel and Ebert finding the 90s live action remake offensive (though probably it just really sucked).
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
btw TWO of his cartoons won Oscars
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 March 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko),
Leslie Nielsen played him, yet no one sent him to The Hague.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 March 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
Also, I was wrong: S&E did think the movie was crap, but that the PC-disclaimer thrown onto the end of it was a "wet blanket."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksMKDtxdjmI
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
nice, always ffwd to the worst cultural incarnation
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link